VIDEO: Watch the DOCTOR WHO Season 9 Prologue Now!

Dark Horizons reports that BBC One has released an almost two-minute long prologue for the highly anticipated ninth season of DOCTOR WHO. The season will premiere on September 19th.

This is not the first time the network has released a prologue before the premiere of a new season or episode of DOCTOR WHO: two years ago, a seven-minute long clip was released titled "The Night of the Doctor". This clip was a prologue to "The Day of the Doctor", the 50th anniversary special episode.

The Season 9 prologue takes place on the planet, Karn, where Ohila, the High Priestess of the Sisterhood of Karn, played by Clare Higgins, is consulting with Peter Capaldi's Doctor about an enemy of his that has called upon him. It is assumed this enemy is The Master, played by Michelle Gomez, but it is never said aloud. The Doctor also hands Ohila his Last Will and Testament.

The hit time travel series returns with a two-parter, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar, written by lead writer and showrunner Steven Moffat and directed by Hettie Macdonald (director of award-winning DOCTOR WHO episode Blink with Carey Mulligan).

In Peter Capaldi's second season at the helm of the TARDIS, the series sees the Doctor and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) going on a journey that takes them to deadly alien planets, creepy underwater bases, Viking villages, a global Zygon uprising, and through hidden alien dens, to the very end of time itself.

Meeting monsters old and new, the Doctor will come face to face with Missy (Michelle Gomez), a city of Daleks, deadly mercenaries called the Mire, terrifying ghosts and more.

Previously announced and taking up a guest role in the new season will be Maisie Williams, having already achieved global success for her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones. Michelle Gomez (Missy) returns to plague the Doctor and Clara in the season opener, and UNIT are back with Jemma Redgrave (Kate Stewart) and Ingrid Oliver (Osgood) returning following their popular entrance last season. Also confirmed as guest cast in the new season are Reece Shearsmith, Rebecca Front, Rufus Hound, Paul Kaye, Elaine Tan, Neet Mohan, Bethany Black, Paul Courtenay Hyu, Joivan Wade and Sophie Stone.

The new season has been written by lead writer Steven Moffat, Toby Whithouse, Jamie Mathieson, Peter Harness, Mark Gatiss, and new writers to DOCTOR WHO - Sarah Dollard and Catherine Tregenna; directed by Hettie Macdonald, Daniel O'Hara, Ed Bazalgette, Daniel Nettheim, Justin Molotnikov, Rachel Talalay; and produced by Tracie Simpson, Derek Ritchie, Nikki Wilson and Peter Bennett. DOCTOR WHO is a BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC One, co-produced with BBC AMERICA.

Watch the prologue below!

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