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attended a Doctor Who addressing the attendees from the stage. convention in Bournemouth “You're all aficionados,” he exclaimed. back in the 1990s. During those “That’s a new word for you, so I'll say it twilight years, when the TV again - aficionados.” He was having a little series was no longer being made, fun, of course, but I really liked the term the regular conventions across ‘aficionado’, which the dictionary defines the country (and indeed the world) helped as ‘a person who is very knowledgeable and keep Doctor Who alive. enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or At this particular convention, one pastime’. There’s nothing wrong with the of the guests was John Woodnutt, a more commonly used term ‘fan’, of course, seasoned actor who had played no less but aficionado seems to carry more weight than four roles in Doctor Who over the and respectability to it. years, including the dual role of the As has become well-known, David Duke of Forgill and Broton, warlord of Tennant is also a Doctor Who aficionado, the Zygons in Terror of the Zygons [1975 and the first to be cast as the Doctor. To - see Volume 23]. I was fortunate to have such a comprehensive awareness have lunch with John and, as we finished of the history of the series and to be so our meal, I asked him what it was that well acquainted with the performances of made him want to attend a Doctor Who the previous actors to play the part must convention. He immediately replied, “It’s have weighed heavily on him when he was the enthusiasm!” and went on to explain offered the role. The fact that he did not what a great pleasure it was for him to immediately accept, would suggest that he meet people who had such a passion for thought carefully about becoming part of the series. He later expanded on this when something that had been such an integral

part of his childhood.

Of course, how could he say ‘no’? He would never have forgiven himself. And that he went on to be such a huge success in the role, cementing Doctor Who as one of the BBC’s top shows, could have left him in no doubt that he made the right decision.

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or many centuries, Christmas basis. He kept returning them to their passed the Doctor by. In fact, own time and inevitably they shared a when the TARDIS happened few Christmases with him along the way. to land at Christmas time - in Since then, Clara Oswald has split her the epic The Daleks’ Master Plan time between travelling in the TARDIS [1965/6 - see Volume 6] - he and teaching. She’s also no stranger to insisted on taking time out to mark the having the Doctor pop by at Christmas occasion, along with everyone watching - helping her cook the turkey, offering to at home! play Twister with her gran, or dreaming of In recent times, however, he’s engaged Santa Claus. in seasonal festivities rather more often. The Christmas Invasion marked the start If we need to find a reason to celebrate of this trend. Rose Tyler, whom the Doctor Christmas, then perhaps these regular recruited in the episode Rose [2005 - see specials can be explained away by the Volume 48], was a much more committed Doctor’s increased involvement in the _ traveller. But with greater control over the Below: — lives of his companions. Amy and Rory _ TARDIS than had previously been the case, Rose's Christmas : 4 etuined by the eventually found themselves travelling the Doctor was able to return Rose to her Sycoraxinvasion. with the Eleventh Doctor on a part-time own time for occasional visits. One such

visit, in the immediate aftermath of his ninth regeneration, just happened to be at Christmas. Of course it also just happened to be the time the Sycorax chose to invade. In much the same coincidental way that aliens seem to make Britain the focus of any incursion, many have chosen Christmas as a time to cause trouble for the Doctor: the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride [2006 - see Volume 54], Max Capricorn in Voyage of the Damned [2007 - see Volume 57], the Cybermen in The Next Doctor [2008 - see Volume 60], the Master in The End of Time [2009/10 - see Volume 62], Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol [2010 - see Volume 66] and the Great Intelligence in The Snowmen [2012 - see Volume 72]. And no doubt many others as well, long into the future. After all, if you're going to invade Earth, you might as well do it when there’s something good onthe telly. Ml

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materialising. He and Jackie watch as it tumbles to Earth. The newly regenerated Doctor emerges, wishes them a merry Christmas, and collapses. [1]

Rose and Jackie put the Doctor to bed, giving him a pair of pyjamas belonging to Howard from the market.

Prime Minister Harriet Jones gives a press conference about the Guinevere One Space Probe. The probe is due to land on Mars but instead it is captured by a rock-like spaceship. [2]

Rose and Mickey are doing some late-night shopping when a brass band wearing Santa Claus masks starts shooting at them. They return to the flat, where a Christmas tree has been :

unexpectedly delivered. It starts revolving like a circular saw, slicing through the furniture. [3]

The Doctor wakes up and destroys the tree with the sonic screwdriver, then goes outside in time to see the Santas beam away. The Doctor finds an apple in his pocket left there by Howard, then loses consciousness. [4]

The Mars mission re-establishes contact with the probe and its transmission is broadcast live on the TV news - revealing a growling, skull-faced alien! [5]

Harriet, her right-hand man Alex, and the head of the Mars mission, Llewellyn, are taken to UNIT’s base beneath the Tower of London and told that the transmission originated from a spaceship approaching Earth. The aliens make contact but nobody can understand them - not even Rose. She infers that the TARDIS can’t translate because the Doctor is “broken”.

Harriet orders Major Blake to get Torchwood ready. UNIT’s translation software deciphers the aliens’ transmission. They are Sycorax; they are

mighty, they are strong, and they rock! [6] The Sycorax activate a device and one third of the world’s population falls into a trance and climbs to the top of a high building, ready to jump. [7] Harriet goes

on TV to appeal for help from the Doctor.

The Sycorax ship enters the Earth’s atmosphere and they beam Harriet, Alex, Llewellyn and Blake on board. Llewellyn appeals to them for compassion and is killed, along with Blake. The Sycorax’s ultimatum is for half of humanity to be sold into slavery. [8]

Rose and Mickey carry the Doctor into the TARDIS while Jackie brings a flask of tea. After Jackie steps outside to get food, the Sycorax teleport the TARDIS up to their ship. Rose emerges - and is grabbed by the Sycorax. Mickey joins her outside, while inside the flask of tea starts to leak...

Rose commands the Sycorax to leave Earth. The Sycorax mock her. She can understand them, which means the Doctor is back! He emerges, having been

restored to health by the tea. [9]

The Doctor deduces that the Sycorax are using blood control to possess everyone in the world who is blood type A positive. He presses a control button and all over the world the people on the buildings wake up.

The Doctor grabs a sword and challenges the Sycorax leader to a duel. The fight takes them outside onto a ledge. The leader severs the Doctor’s hand - but he grows a new one. [10] The Doctor overpowers the leader - but as he turns his back, it charges at him. The Doctor throws a satsuma from his pocket at the ledge control. The ledge slides away and the leader plummets to its death.

The Doctor orders the Sycorax to leave and they beam him and his friends down to Earth, along with the TARDIS. Harriet orders them to fire, and a laser beam destroys the departing Sycorax ship. [11]

Later, the Doctor selects a new outfit and joins Rose, Jackie and Mickey for Christmas dinner. [12]

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Casanova in early 2005, even before Doctor

Who had returned to BBC One...

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fact was kept a closely guarded secret as preparations were made for a surprise regeneration to be recorded at the end of the final story of the series, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways [2005 - see Volume 50]. Due to the secrecy, no casting calls were put out to agents inviting them to suggest clients. Instead the show’s producers had a replacement in mind whom they would approach directly. The actor chosen to play the new Doctor was David Tennant, the star of Davies’ three-part drama about the life of Casanova made for BBC Three the previous autumn.

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‘David Tennant’ at the age of 16 after seeing Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant in a copy of the pop magazine, Smash Hits. The Scots actor was quite a Doctor Who fan who had watched the show throughout the Fourth Doctor’s era after seeing the regeneration in Planet of the Spiders [1974

- see Volume 21]; aged 13, he had written a school essay called Intergalactic Overdose about his love for the show. Studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music

and Drama, Tennant’s early television appearances included Rab C Nesbitt, Dramarama and Taking Over the Asylum.

On the Doctor Who front, he had played roles in several Big Finish CD plays such as Colditz in 2001, Sympathy for the Devil and Exile in 2003 - both for the Doctor Who Unbound series - Medicinal Purposes in 2004, and had starred the same year as Galanar in the Dalek Empire III series. He had also provided the voice of a caretaker in the BBC online animated adventure Scream

of the Shalka in June 2003. On his first morning rehearsing Casanova in Soho

in October 2004, Tennant had asked Davies for a part in Doctor Who which was then in production. The two men had quickly struck up a friendship during the shoot, partly bonding over their love of Doctor Who.

ennant had in fact been considered T by the production team as a potential Doctor in early 2004, but the feeling at the BBC was that he wasn't quite a big enough name yet. Since making Casanova, the actor had returned to the stage, starring in a production of Look Back in Anger in Edinburgh and Bath from Friday 14 January to Saturday 19 February. He then met up with Davies for a pre-transmission viewing

of Casanova at the writer’s Manchester Above:

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to play the Doctor, Tennant laughed as he felt it was an impossible notion... and then asked, “Can I have a long coat?” The actor also asked if Billie Piper, who played Rose, would be staying on and was assured by the executives that this was the case. Understanding how strange the situation was, Davies told Tennant simply to consider the proposal. After a couple of days, Tennant realised that he would never forgive himself if he turned down the opportunity - in the meantime he could not discuss the project with anyone. At an early stage, Tennant and Davies agreed that after Eccleston’s northern accent, Tennant would not use his native Paisley dialect as the Doctor; Davies favoured a London/ Estuary accent for the new incarnation. On Tuesday 1 February 2005, Davies —

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The outcome of the meeting was that Tranter on Wednesday 2 February commissioned 13 new episodes, five of which were to be written by Davies, plus a one-hour Christmas Special, also from Davies, which the team had known was a possibility. The Special was unexpected, and for a while the production team assumed that this was also one of the 13 episodes, which meant a later rescheduling and the creation of an episode which barely featured the Doctor and Rose. For the proposed first episode of the second series, Davies had envisaged an invasion of Earth narrative to establish the new Doctor, and so brought this forward into the Special.

Davies loved Christmas television specials and had long wanted to write one; he strongly believed that these should be set at Christmas, involving festive elements. Davies immediately came up with a title The Christmas Invasion, a title suggesting traditional Christmas feel-good programming with Doctor Who’s special thrill. Aware of the previous Christmas . an Day Doctor Who episode The Feast of Steven, Ti ___ part of The Daleks’ Master Plan (1965/6 - ae i see Volume 6], where the Doctor wished a ___ viewers at home a “merry Christmas’,

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but wanted a worldwide threat to Earth for the Doctor to counter. With Christmas being a family time, he also wanted to emphasise the lonely Doctor finding a new family to join for the festivities, sitting down with the Tylers’ Christmas dinner on the Powell Estate. The script was to focus on a theme of the Doctor’s rebirth, allowing Rose to recover from losing her best friend and build up a new trust with his new incarnation. Rose would in fact take centre stage for the first two-thirds of the Special, during which the legendary and heroic quality of the Doctor would

be established through his absence, allowing him a big entrance at the climax. Davies also wanted to include very British elements, such as the Doctor being revived by a nice cup of tea.

Some of the ideas for the special were ones that Davies had originally had in mind for the first episode of the new series; he wanted the Doctor and Rose to start on Earth and travel onwards.

He had always found the concept of Santa Claus - an old man who sneaks into children’s rooms at night - creepy, but

was careful to clarify that the Santas that attacked Rose were purely monsters; their appearance as a brass band came when Davies recalled such a group playing in St Anne’s Square in Manchester in December 2004. or the Doctor’s adversary, Davies are a monster with a convincing prosthetic face using the actor’s eyes and mouth, as this had not been attempted in the previous series. He took the name Sycorax from the name of Caliban’s mother, an exiled African witch, in William Shakespeare’s 1611 play The Tempest, and saw the aliens having an almost supernatural feel. Davies wanted a tough broadsword fight to entertain the younger viewers, while for the adults he added the Doctor’s subtle toppling of Harriet Jones. Following her work in Aliens of London/ World War Three {2005 - see Volume 49], Davies wanted to use Penelope Wilton as Harriet Jones again, and planned to use familiar elements to help younger viewers get used to the change to the new Doctor. At the end of Aliens of London/World War Three, the Doctor had said that Harriet would become Prime Minister. Davies and producer Phil Collinson took Wilton out to Sheekey, a West End restaurant, and found that she would be delighted to appear in Doctor Who again. When Harriet ordered the Sycorax ship to be destroyed, the script’s aim was to show that neither the Doctor nor Harriet were totally right - indeed it was the Doctor’s own words that initiated her action. Harriet’s decision to have the departing vessel annihilated harked back to Doctor Who and the Silurians [1970 - see Volume 15], where Brigadier Lethbridge- Stewart of UNIT destroyed the dormant

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Left: Harriet Jones captured by a Sycorax,

Silurians behind the Doctor’s back. Davies similarly drew upon his disappointment with the Labour government of Tony

Blair in shaping the Doctor’s attitudes towards Harriet, writing her out in a political downfall, even though Collinson, who greatly liked the character, pleaded for her to be given a second chance. At this point, Davies was thinking vaguely that Harriet’s replacement as Prime Minister would be

the Doctor’s old Time Lord enemy the Master so as to alter his predictions from World War Three. Early ideas included Harriet Jones opening the rebuilt Big

Ben (damaged in Aliens of London/World War Three) in a Christmas Day ceremony with the event organised

by a civil servant (possibly called Sir Aubrey) who was making a secret deal with

Connections: Doctor Who? » When Jackie is confronted by the new Doctor and doesn't know who he is, she exclaims ‘Doctor who?, being one of several characters in the programme's history to echo the title of the series. The first character to do this was lan Chesterton, who asked the same question in the very first story, 100,000 BC [1963 - see Volume 1].

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The Guinevere probe was inspired by Beagle II, a British project to land a probe on Mars which entered the Martian atmosphere on Christmas morning 2003 and then lost contact with Earth. Davies recalled his disappointment when the first pictures of the barren Martian surface were transmitted by the Viking One lander in July 1976, and so spiced up his version with the image of an alien sent back to Earth.

David Tennant had not yet been contracted when Christopher Eccleston recorded his regeneration on Friday 4 March; when the BBC did contract him it was for a projected three-year period. In the meantime, he was hired, at short notice, to narrate the BBC One programme Doctor Who: A New Dimension, assembled by BBC Three’s Doctor Who Confidential behind-the-scenes team, for broadcast on Saturday 26 March just before the debut of Rose [2005 - see Volume 48]. Meanwhile, Casanova began its BBC Three run on Sunday 13 March. On Saturday 19 March 2005, Tennant watched the ITV1 chat show Parkinson on which Billie Piper was promoting the début of Doctor Who and was impressed with the look of her fellow guest, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who sported a suit and trainers. The actor phoned Davies to ask: “Are you watching this?

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Doctor has two hearts, checking that they are both Still beating and becoming concerned when one stops. [twas first established that the Doctor has two hearts immediately after he

regenerated into his third Could we do this for body in Spearhead the Doctor?” from Space [1970 - At a Press Guild lunch

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the 14 new episodes... the same day press rumours began to circulate that Eccleston was leaving and that the BBC was in discussions with Tennant, who simply told the Daily Mirror that the Doctor would be “a great role to play”. This media coverage was a blow to Davies who had hoped the Doctor’s regeneration at the end of Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways would be a major surprise for the viewing public.

uring rehearsals for the live BBC D Four production of The Quatermass Experiment on Saturday 2 April, Tennant started to receive calls from the BBC about his new role. In the final run-through for the play, Tennant approached cast member Mark Gatiss - a fellow Doctor Who fan who was writing for the new series - and told him: “Chris isn’t coming back. They’ve asked me.” On broadcast of the play, actor Jason Flemyng changed one of his lines addressed to Tennant’s character, Dr Gordon Briscoe, from “nice to have you back, Gordon” to “nice to have you back, Doctor”.

Casanova was now given a screening on BBC One from Monday 4 April. Finally, the BBC confirmed David Tennant’s casting at midnight on Friday 15 April, with the actor quoted as being honoured and daunted, but delighted to work with Davies again. It had been agreed that Tennant would not give interviews about Doctor Who while Eccleston’s episodes were on air. Most newspapers covered the story the next day, with Scotland’s Daily Record giving good coverage.

Attending the BAFTA ceremony at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sunday 17, the kilt-wearing Tennant joked with journalists that he would use his own accent as the Doctor and liked the

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of a magic kilt. Next day, the actor celebrated his 34th birthday.

On the morning of Thursday 21 April, Tennant played the Doctor for the first time, recording his regeneration on the TARDIS set at the production base of Unit Q2 in Newport; the shots took a couple of hours, with the actor looking at some gaffer tape to get the eyeline for where Billie Piper would be standing. These would be edited into Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways. On Sunday 24 April, the Sunday Mail claimed that the new Doctor would indeed wear a kilt.

Tennant’s next projects were recording a BBC radio version of Dixon of Dock Green as PC Andy Crawford from Friday 29 April to Wednesday 4 May (broadcast from Wednesday 15 June to 20 July) and then playing psychotic entrepreneur Brendan Block in ITV1’s drama Secret Smile during May. Talking to the Daily Express on Wednesday 4 May, Tennant explained about his role as the Doctor: “I’ve known for ages but wasn’t allowed to tell anyone.”

Also during May, Billie Piper played Hero in BBC One’s updated version of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. On Friday 20 May, a news story appeared that Piper was to leave Doctor Who, based on alleged comments from her agent. The BBC quickly issued a statement saying

be Martians, Major Blake that Piper would be in the confirms that he is correct, new series, but not stating for saying that Martians “look how many episodes. The News

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first story, New Earth [2006 - see page 62] and the third, School Reunion {2006 - see Volume 52], work on which would take place from Monday 25 July to Wednesday 21 September. The director for this

block was James Hawes who had been responsible for The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances [2005 - see Volume 50]. Hawes had previously worked with Tennant in 1999 on The Mrs Bradley Mysteries.

A tone meeting at which a consistent look and approach for the episode was agreed by all the design and production departments was held for the first recording block (Block One) at BBC Broadcasting House in Cardiff on Friday 27 May, attended by Benjamin Cook of Doctor Who Magazine. For the design of the Sycorax ship, production designer Edward Thomas put forward a seashell which he had acquired while visiting his partner’s mother who was from Mauritius.

Thomas proposed the ship’s interior could therefore be recorded in a quarry or a cave. At a second tone meeting held at BBC Centre House in London on Wednesday

15 June, Davies indicated that he saw the story as “epic”, and also dark and scary. Unlike previous invasions, the scope of

the story would be global rather than parochial; Hawes equated it to the 1996 movie Independence Day. The director was initially a little worried about the amount of the episode which the new Doctor spent in bed... while David Tennant was amazed to find out how little action he had in the first half of the script!

ollowing trying-on sessions at [e costumiers such as Angels and shops

including Selfridges, it was agreed that the new Doctor’s costume could be lighter and more casual, akin to the garb of a student. Avoiding the image of a frock coat, the basic costume evolved early on as a narrow-shaped, thin cotton pinstripe suit with a four-button jacket; Tennant felt that brown suited him well. While plenty of trousers in the selected style were available, jackets were not available... resulting in many pairs of trousers being purchased, picked apart and resewn into new jackets. Although incoming costume designer Louise Page had seen some interesting Japanese army boots, Tennant favoured old battered shoes to take the edge off the suit; he eventually wore a pair of his own Converse plimsolls which he had worn all summer and had sported at his costume fitting. Because he liked “pocket acting”, the coat - made from upholstery material - had lots of pockets, and originally had a larger collar and cuffs. The shirt and tie were a late addition during fitting. Tennant was keen for the Doctor to wear glasses as

: e, a° part of the ‘geek chic’ image, though fe. the time, and liked the idea of the Doctor being a bit scruffy. The actor also decided to change the combinations of buttons which he fastened on the Doctor’s suit from story to story to give the character a haphazard feel.

At the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Tennant won Best Male Performer for Look Back in Anger on Sunday 5 June. The following Sunday, the Sunday Mail saw Tom Baker commenting his approval of Tennant’s casting. At the BAFTA preview of Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways on Wednesday 15 June, it was confirmed that Piper would be in all 14 of the new episodes. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways closed promising that the Doctor would return in The Christmas Invasion, and hours after its broadcast on Saturday 18, the Special was promoted on BBC One with a trailer of exciting moments from the 2005 series while proclaiming that “the countdown to The Christmas Invasion starts now...” Davies was interviewed by Lizo Mzimba on CBBC Newsround

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Showbiz for broadcast that day in which he declared the special would be Chrismassy with reindeers and sleigh bells, as well as observing “every planet has a Scotland” (to misquote the Doctor from Rose) when asked about the new Doctor’s accent. Tennant attended the Glastonbury music festival where, on Saturday 25 June, he was interviewed by BBC Three, saying that his accent would be explained

in the Special. On Monday 27 and Tuesday 28, Tennant gave a telephone interview

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In earlier drafts of the script, Jackie dashed to a chemist for things to cure the Doctor, including shampoo; hence he recovered and emerged from the TARDIS with the taste of “blood and shampoo”. Echoing the ‘Bad Wolf’ motif of the previous series, Davies settled on a similar element with ‘Torchwood’ (an anagram of ‘Doctor Who’), an old Earth institute referred to in Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways which Davies was also planning as an adult spin-off series, featuring Captain Jack from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, for BBC Three. This was largely established in the scenes with Harriet. Another tone meeting for Block One was held in London on Thursday 7 July with Doctor Who

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humans are only

able to understand the Sycorax language once the Doctor wakes up. It had been established in The Masque of Mandragora [1976 - see Volume 25] that the Doctor is able

to share his “Time Lord gift” which automatically translates languages.

In The End of the World [2005 - see Volume 48] the Doctor explained to Rose that the TARDIS was part of the process, telling her that “the telepathic

field gets inside your brain and translates’

Confidential in attendance. The shooting script

dated Monday 11 July 2005

specified that the episode

should begin exactly the same ‘as Series 1’ with a zoom through space to the Tylers’ flat, reusing the shot from Rose. In the kitchen, Rose eagerly grabbed a pork pie because Piper was fond of these.

Harriet’s press conference speech referred to the New Cottage Hospital Scheme, a reference to her original concerns in Aliens of London/World War Three. Danny Llewellyn was described as ‘30, Welsh, clever, a media-savvy boffin’; Davies wanted the Cardiff-based series to feature strong roles for Welsh characters. It was specified that his press conference was being held at the British Rocket Group, a reference to the 1950s BBC television serials featuring Professor Bernard Quatermass. For the flight of Guinevere One, Davies specified ‘music, faint and tinny, Khachaturian, the Spartacus ballet (ie The Onedin Line)’ , a reference to the 1955 piece by Russian composer Aram Khachaturian which had been the theme tune to the BBC1 period seafaring drama from 1971 to 1980. As Guinevere is sucked inside the alien vessel, ‘Khachaturian stops dead’.

The Santa brass band was described as ‘wearing Santa masks. But they’re metal.

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Coloured - rosy cheeks, white beard - but clearly, cold, glinting metal. The fixed smile. The sinister jollity’ Boarding a taxi, Rose originally said, “Powell Estate, end of Jordan Road.” Jackie was talking to

Bev - who had appeared in Father’s Day [2005 - see Volume 49] - on the phone. When the tree started playing music, the script described it as ‘like those musical Christmas toys. Here Comes Santa Claus, Bob B Soxx, from the Phil Spector Christmas Album; there’s no sound more sinister, a reference to the 1953 song by Gene Autrey and Oakley Haldeman which featured on Phil Spector’s 1963 LP A Christmas Gift For You by Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans.

The Sycorax leader has ‘a face like a horse’s skull, jagged, broken bones, but with ‘real’ red eyes and mouth; jagged broken bone-teeth... just a hint of clothing - a big, bulky creature, dark-red robes and tribal necklace’ When the aliens appeared on the scanner, ‘Four of them stand in an upright diamond shape, like Queen singing Bohemian Rhapsody’ - a reference to the landmark 1975 pop video. They were

Pre-production

i. . os ‘clearer now... arms clattering with bone Pee jewellery. Leather straps and belts, holding ~ broadswords and whips. The Leader... talks, gnarled wooden staff in hand, voice savage, vicious, a warrior’ Davies devised an alien language for the Sycorax, eg “Gatz tak ka thaa! Ka soo me fadroc, ka soo me Sycorax!” Rose referred to the fact that the TARDIS normally translated alien languages as the Doctor had explained in The End of the World, and Mickey recalled the scanner getting TV in Aliens of London/ World War Three.

Landmaris) (QS ajor Blake was ‘30s, smart, in ivi uniform’ and as Llewellyn arrived at the base the script suggested a ‘big music sequence, all epic and military, if not James Bond’. Originally, Llewellyn and Blake were driven by guards along subterranean corridors on buggies. Mission Control was described as ‘a big space, Houston-like’; Alex Klein was ‘25, suit, sleek comms headset, black briefcase, while Sally Jacobs was ‘25, clever’. On the estate, Jason was described as

‘a 25 y/o lad’ with Sandra ‘his wife’. The "Gate tak ka suburban family comprised a ‘Dad, 8 y/o thaalKasoome Son [and] 10 y/o Daughter’; the children fadroc Kaeo

me Sycorax! is

were named Catrin and Jonathan by Davies after his niece and nephew. As well as the Paris skyline, the script suggested ‘Sydney... people standing on the Harbour Bridge. Beyond and below them: the Opera House... Egypt... people standing on the edge of a hotel. In the distance: the pyramids.’

The Sycorax ship’s arrival shattered ‘the Gherkin Tower’, the nickname for the striking Swiss Re building designed by Sir Norman Foster which opened at 30 St Mary Axe in April 2004; this destruction of