Doctor Who: Shada (2024): Cast, Story & Where to Watch in Persian

Where can I watch Doctor Who: Shada in Persian?

Doctor Who: Shada streams on Ktime, the Persian streaming service built for the Iranian diaspora. It carries Persian subtitles or dub, as listed in the app. You can watch it in any browser at ktime.app/app, on the native Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV app, on the Android phone app, in any IPTV player using your Xtream login, and on a Samsung or LG smart TV through Media Station X. No VPN is needed anywhere, including from inside Iran, and there is no geo-block to work around. Viewers inside Iran pay in USDT through the Telegram desk at t.me/KtimeSaleBot?start=film_page, and the /fa/iran page walks through every step. A paid plan covers one device at a time — a single stream — and you can switch between your TV, phone and laptop as often as you like at no extra cost. You can cancel at any time. It is a 2024 sci-fi film from United Kingdom. The film is served from Ktime's own library rather than linked out to another service. Availability checked as of September 2026.

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A lost Doctor Who serial finally gets its finish: "Shada" brings Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor into a story built around a Time Lord prison planet, decades after the original production was abandoned partway through filming.

What is Doctor Who: Shada about?

Shada is a prison world, engineered by the Time Lords to hold some of the universe's most dangerous criminals in stasis. When a scheming genius named Skagra sets his sights on the planet, the Doctor and his companion are pulled into a chase that spans a sleepy Cambridge setting and the depths of space. What begins as a quiet errand for an old friend of the Doctor's turns into a race to stop Skagra from getting his hands on a weapon of unimaginable reach, with the fate of Shada's prisoners hanging on the outcome. The 2024 version reassembles this story for Gatwa's incarnation of the Doctor, with Millie Gibson's companion along for the ride, giving a script long treated as unfinished business a proper, full telling.

About the cast

Ncuti Gatwa leads as the Doctor, with Millie Gibson as his companion; the production is directed by Julie Anne Robinson, working from material with an unusually long history behind the cameras.

Context & significance

The original Shada was shot in the late 1970s and shelved before completion after a production strike, leaving it as one of the most talked-about "lost" stories in the show's history. Fans and archivists returned to it repeatedly over the following decades, in audio form, animated form, and now this 2024 iteration, which gives the story a full production with a current-era Doctor. That layered history is part of what makes this version notable: it is less a remake than the completion of something the show never got to finish the first time.

Watching Doctor Who: Shada on Ktime

Shada is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login. The K-Time interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, so browsing, titles, and navigation are comfortable in Persian even while the programme itself plays in its original English.

Cast & crew

Doctor Who: Shada is a 2024 sci-fi film from United Kingdom. It was directed by Julie Anne Robinson. The cast is led by Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson. It runs 138 minutes. These credits come from this title's own record in the Ktime catalogue, refreshed with every six-hour catalogue sync.

Director

Julie Anne Robinson

Cast

Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson

Country

United Kingdom

Year

2024

Runtime

138 min

Genre

Sci-Fi

Frequently asked questions

When was Shada released?

This version of Shada is a 2024 production, though the story itself traces back to an unfinished 1970s Doctor Who serial.

Who plays the Doctor in this version?

Ncuti Gatwa stars as the Doctor, with Millie Gibson as his companion.

Is Shada part of the main Doctor Who continuity?

It is presented as a full Doctor Who story with the current era's Doctor, built from a script originally written for the show decades earlier.

How can I watch Shada?

Shada streams on K-Time with a free account login, in its original English.

What year was Doctor Who: Shada made?

Doctor Who: Shada was released in 2024 and is available to stream in Persian on Ktime.