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Contents
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Welcome
here's always something about
the arrival of a new companion
into the Doctor's life that
allows us to see a now-familiar
incarnation in fresh ways. Bill
Potts is no exception, and in this volume of Doctor Who - The Complete History, we get to know her - and her Time Lord mentor ~ a little better.
Across the three adventures presented here, the student/tutor relationship between Bill and the Doctor develops. For Bill, she has the chance to better herself through the Doctor's guidance, while being introduced to a life of adventure in the TARDIS. For the Doctor, he has a new friend to show the wonders of the universe - and an excuse to dodge the self-imposed exile he finds himself in thanks to the mysterious vault in the university cellar.
In Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Smile [2017 - see page 6], the writer took a different direction from the glut of dystopian fiction that had proliferated on screens and in bookshops. Bill’s first alien world presents a utopian ideal, human and machine working in apparent harmony - but there's always a dark underside in Doctor Who.
Bill’s delight at seeing her first robots, in being given the full package of what life with the Doctor entails, is wonderfully played by Pearl Mackie. That contrasts with her realisation that there is danger and death just around the corner - a theme that will be returned to in later stories such as Oxygen [2017 - see Volume 87].
After a trip to the future, it’s back into history with Thin Ice [2017 - see page 48], a personal favourite from the 2017 series. It’s a sumptuous production with a fantastic script from Sarah Dollard packed with scares, jokes, excitement and one of Peter Capaldi’s best-ever moments as the Doctor. You'll know which bit I mean... Thin Ice is also blessed with a great villai Lord Sutcliffe isn’t misunderstood, he’s a proper moustache-twirling bad 'un who rightly gets his comeuppance ina very satisfying manner.
Finally with Knock Knock [2017 - see page 86] we see Doctor Who's unerring ability to attract major guest stars. David Suchet is rightly considered one of this country’s leading actors, and watching this episode, he clearly relished every second of playing the sinister Landlord. Mike Bartlett's script is in the grand tradition of the series taking
something mundane like finding a house bats Suchet to rent and rendering it utterly terrifying. relishing his It isn’t exactly Jon Pertwee’s Yeti on the aati es loo in Tooting Bec, more like insects in the rock Raock
woodwork in Bristol...
Now that Bill has been inducted into the Doctor's world, she knows what to expect. But just what is hiding in that mysterious vault beneath the university?
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aving settled on a bounteous, idyllic alien world, the colonists of Gliese 581 D discovered that they had to be happy - on pain of death! At face value, Smile seems to be telling a new generation a variation of the story seen in The Happiness Patrol [1988 - see Volume 44] - where happiness was enforced by an oppressive regime. The face on this occasion, however, is an emoji displayed on the head of the colony's worker robots.
In his first script, In the Forest of the Night [2014 - see Volume 79], Frank Cottrell-Boyce considered communication problems between humanity and nature. In Smile, he imagined a breakdown in our dialogue with technology: how the different languages we speak, and the different scope of understanding we have, might result in deadly consequences.
The idea of ‘killer emojis’ is central to this episode. Firstly, this modern means of communication compartmentalises emotions, and often lacks the nuance that more verbose communication conveys.
Perhaps it is considered in poor taste
for this arguably frivolous lexicon to
have an icon for grief. And so, the robots misinterpret a perfectly healthy expression of emotion, and start killing in a misguided attempt to keep everyone happy.
Emojis are also memes - symbols that have spread through being copied. This transmission of ideas and behaviour also seems to be at work in Smile.
These utilitarian machines exhibit awesome practical abilities ~ and yet they're not programmed for imagination or empathy. The idea of advanced technology becoming dangerous - having too much power with not enough understanding - was a recurring theme nce the nanogenes that accidentally turned people into gas mask zombies in The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances [2005 ~ see Volume 50}.
In the end it was capitalism that came to the rescue - amusingly represented by the appropriate emoji - when the Doctor suggested that the robots could profit by co-operating with the humans. This is a different perspective to the darker side of that ideology presented later in the 2017 series in Thin Ice [see page 48] and Oxygen [see Volume 87].
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had met. In retrospect, it’s grimly ironic that her introduction to the world of anthropomorphic robots centred on a new form of sentient life with limited emotional reach - as, by the end of the 2017 series, she became a Cyberman [World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls - see Volume 89].
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Ina futuristic city on a pastoral world, one of the colonists, Kezzia, is informed by her sister Goodthing that their mother is dead - but that she must keep smiling! [1] The city is patrolled by robots that register people’s emotions. Seeing Kezzia is upset, one grabs her, and then a swarm of microscopic robots called Vardy attacks and reduces her to a pile of bones.
Sometime later, the TARDIS lands in a nearby wheat field. The Doctor and Bill enter the city, which is now des save for the Vardy and the ‘Emojibots’, One Emojibot offers the Doctor and Bill
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boy, Praiseworthy, who has been revived. “Are we there yet?”
The Doctor is attacked by an Emojibot, but sends it plunging into the depths of the spaceship. Bill and Praiseworthy join him just as he sets the engine to blow up. Seeing the boy, the Doctor realises the spaceship is the colonists’ ship and that it contains the surviving population of Earth. [8] He speaks to another newly woken colonist, Steadfast, and tells him that nobody is to leave the ship.
Bill takes the Doctor to the museum with the corpse. The Doctor deduces that the woman's death created a chain of grief that “went viral”. The Vardy had never encountered grief before and thought it was a problem preventing happiness, so they slaughtered anyone who was grieving. [3]
Meanwhile, Praiseworthy leaves the spaceship and emerges into the city.
The Doctor briefs the newly woken colonists on what has happened.
Steadfast thinks the solution is to destroy the Vardy but the Doctor says the microbots are not the enemy.
Bill notices that Praiseworthy is missing. She finds him in a hall in the city with two Emojibots preparing to kill him, Steadfast shoots one of the robots, but then a swarm of Vardy streams in. [10] The Doctor has an idea, uses his sonic screwdriver on the shot robot, and there is a blinding flash..
Steadfast wakes up in the hall. The Emojibots are registering question marks, as the Doctor has pressed the city’s reset button and wiped their memories. He explains that the Vardy are, as of now, the indigenous life form and the colonists should negotiate with them if they want to live in the city. [11]
The Doctor and Bill depart in the TARDIS, planning to return to the Doctor’s office. Instead, they find themselves on the frozen Thames... with an elephant! [12]
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The Doctor the BBC’s Doctor Who website. meets an “We really want to cement Emojibot.
that relationship.” Following a formula established in Rose [2005 - see Volume 48], the plan was to inaugurate the new companion into time travel by taking her into the far future for her second episode and then back into the past for the third.
Episode 2 was written by screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce who had previously contributed In the Forest of the Night [2014 - see Volume 79] for the 2014 series, since when he had written the feature film Goodbye Christopher Robin as well as books such as Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth. Following his first episode’s
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broadcast, Cottrell-Boyce received a phone call from executive producer Brian Minchin who asked him if he had any further ideas suitable for the series.
Cottrell-Boyce had begun talking to Professor Tim O'Brien who worked at the Lovell Telescope at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Observatory. In the 2009 collection When It Changed - short science-fiction stories derived from - Cottrell-Boyce’s Temporary about the intersection of astronomy and astrology had an afterword by O’Brien. Considering a story about future humanity colonising the stars, the writer discussed practicalities with O’Brien who indicated that humanity would probably send robots ahead to prepare potential colony worlds.
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of a happy, utopian society regulated for humanity by robots and artificial intelligence ~ a contrast to present society which he felt had low levels of acceptance. He had done a lot of reading about the development of artificial intelligence | and was interested in how rights should possibly be assigned to self-aware, thinking _ technology. Minchin welcomed the writer’s desire to tackle issues surrounding robots and artificial intelligence, while Moffat was very impressed with the novelist's ferocity | and density of ideas.
“The brief was to write Bill's first big adventure in space,” Cottrell-Boyce told Doctor Who Magazine, The bulk of the episode was to feature just the Doctor and Bill exploring their new surroundings, interacting through their contrasting | reactions as Bill explored who the Doctor was. Briefed initially with Bill's audition scripts, the writer was very impressed with Pearl Mackie’s audition tapes after her casting was confirmed in March.
recognisable image which Cottrell- A Boyce wanted to use was the emoji ~ symbols seen in electronic messages and web pages since the 1990s which had been growing increasingly sophisticated. He felt these were a utopian concept, being creative and funny as well as akin to an emergent language. This intrigued Moffat who had felt that social media depersonalised human interaction; he did not use emojis but recalled that Jenna Coleman, who had played Clara, used them all the time. Naming the colony planet as Erehwon, Cottrell-Boyce referenced the 1872 novel Erewhon: or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler ~ a satire on a perfect fictional country as an anagram of the
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word ‘nowhere’. Erewhon commented
on Victorian society with its different approached to crime and punishment, such as branding the ill as law-breakers. The writer approach his script in the same manner as In the Forest of the Night, placing the Doctor and his companion in a form of labyrinth which they needed to navigate to solve a mystery.
Naming the nanobots, Cottrell-Boyce paid tribute to Dr Andrew Vardy, an associate professor working in swarm robotics in the Department of Computer Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. In September 2013, Vardy had attended the 12th
| European Conference on Artificial Life
at Taormina, Italy where one of the aims had been to hook up researchers with authors, Vardy submitted an idea which -a year later - brought him into contact with Cottrell-Boyce. The resultant short story Bruno Wins! appeared with Vardy’s afterword, The Hope Cycle, in the collection Beta-Life: Stories From an A-Life Future in June 2014. The men remained in touch, and Vardy was amazed to receive an email from the author explaining that he had
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an awayday to Wiltshire and offering glimpses of the building of Stonehenge and the court of King Henry VIII; however, she realised that history was a “rubbish place to be” and opted for the future. “Is
it all like Hunger Games and Mad Max asked Bill with reference to two popular dystopian franchises, the novels/movies of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy published since 2008 and the action film franchise established in 1979. Bill wanted to know if her robotic idea of utopia
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beautiful beast. A kind of streamlined, sci- fi hedgehog. Its huge windows glow with warmth.’ Working in the fields with Kezzia was ‘a very basic, square robot with an upturned work surface/digital interface. There's nothing endearing or human about it, except that it has arms. Its upturned “face” is an interface - like that of a tablet computer. It’s called an EmojiBot. The EmojiBot shoots a beam of light across the field, illuminating a flock of little, spiky hedgehog working robots (Vardy) which look a bit like miniature versions of the beautiful building.’ Kezzia got a call from her mum who seemed to think that she
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|| was far away, until Kezzia reminded her that she too was on Erehwon and had been since they arrived when she was small. Finishing work, the Emojibot whistled to round up the Vardy robots. Kezzia returned to the city and Morris Hall where she was
called by her sister, Sam, and summoned to the bedroom where their elderly mother was dying - the first to die on Erehwon - and an Emojibot attended with a Vardy entourage. Kezzia was upset by her mother’s death, but Sam indicated that her Emojibot had all the best memories of her. Displaying a sad face, the Emojibot played back footage of the lady’s life, then came to hug Kezzia but tightened its grip as the Vardy moved in: ‘They land on her body like birds’ The Vardy stabbed into Kezzia’s flesh as the Emojibot’s interface changed to an icicle, with Kezzia’s body freeze-dried, desiccated and collapsing to bones. Horrified, Sam ran to the main hall where she suffered the same fate from an attendant Vardy...
The Doctor and Bill emerged from the
TARDIS to see the ‘beautiful building and
high above it in the sky, a pair of suns’ of Gliese 581 D; the Doctor told Bill that she needed to WhatsApp any new solar system. Their ears were transformed on arrival in the city as wall units illuminated, and a gliding Vardy broke free of the wall, leading to the Emojibot. This took them to a clothing store where the mirror’s reflection of Bill changed to show her wearing different outfits. The Emojibot was delighted with Bill's selection of new clothes which it seemed were a present; she responded with a heart emoji on her phone. Bill then heard the Doctor saying “Rubatosis” (the condition of hearing
one’s own heartbeat) although he had only |
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thought rather than spoken the word. Comparing the city to the Mary Celeste, the Doctor and Bill were taken to Morris Hall where the Doctor pondered, “What was the glory of Rome to the slave in the Colosseum?” explaining to Bill that GK Chesterton was “just another Time Lord”.
she could talk to the Emjobot all day (“I can say things with my emojis than I can’t
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with my actual face”) while the Doctor told her they were a “few hundred years” in the future. On the wall, Bill saw ‘stenciled on the wall, the Banksy image of the little girl on the swing (the swing
is attached to two red balloons)’ and recognised this as being from Bristol, round the corner from where she lived; this work had appeared in May 2013
on Park Row. Having found the human remains, Bill used all the photos she had taken on her phone to guide them back
to the TARDIS, but they were confronted by more Emojibots with icicle emojis. The Doctor realised that they could get past by smiling at the robots (the mood discs not
their heartbeats tap out a happy tune.
merging from the building, as the E@: prepared to send Bill back to
the TARDIS, he spotted the meteor damage to the wall, deducing that this was a spaceship entrance. Inside the spaceship, the pair entered a storeroom of clothes and shoes. The Doctor then stepped through a door into the next room... -
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| the wall, the Doctor realised ® Noting that the it was full of Vardy; Bill TARDIS seats are along heard him think the word way from the controls, Bill “labyrinth” to indicate that asks the Doctor if he has
she needed to navigate "stretchy arms" like Mister around the spaceship which Fantastic, the superhero was defending itself. As name of Reed Richards, a the Doctor and Bill moved founding member of the along both sides of the same Fantastic Four in Marvel wall, she heard a rhythmic Comics who first appeared banging, while he could no in the début issue of The longer hear her in one area. Fantastic Four dated Bill watched the wall buckle November 1961, and form an Emojibot.
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| Bill held off the clothes store Emojibot by saying that she loved clothes and kids. The Doctor watched Vardy attach themselves to the corpse’s bed while more massed in | the ceiling above him, pursuing him as a flock along the corridors. Studying the clothes, Bill realised that the faces shown on the displays were those of the people who had once worn them; she gabbled on about her nan loving car boot sales and how her nan met her husband. The | Doctor's voice then told her how the little robots became the city with the Emojibots as shepherds; the robots she wanted to see had now swallowed her! The Doctor realised that the Vardy were protecting the engine room which he planned to blow up. ‘Trapped in the clothes store, Bill got a phone call on the emoji’s face from ‘a group of eager people waving into camera.., more like a good-natured party than a rocketship crew’; the speaker was a Shang Du pilot, while others asked how old Bill was and if she was a first-generation native Erehwon. A spaceship hovered over the building as the passengers aboard continued to ask questions about their relatives (such as the pilot's father, Fortune Davis). Bill attempted to delay the Shang Du vessel’s arrival with its eager crew; the Doctor realised that he could not blow up the city with the spaceship about to land since it has no excess fuel after its 20-year journey. Seeing pictures of the dead, Bill shed a tear... and the
Connections: Niched
® The Doctor admits to Bill that he stole the TARDIS; in Frontier in Space [1973 - see Volume 19] and Logopolis [1981 - see Volume 33], the Doctor claimed that he had “borrowed” rather than stolen it, which the War Chief had accused him of doing in The War Games [1969 - see Volume 14], but was happy to admit his theft to Christina in Planet of the Dead (2009 - see Volume 61)
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Vardy closed in on her. Smashing the engine with an axe and releasing smoke to distract the Vardy which needed to repair
the damage, the Doctor escaped the engine room and tried to use his sonic screwdriver to rescue Bill from the storeroom Vardy. Bill realised that the Emojibot was
holding her hand as it thought she was going to die, while the Shang Du flight disembarked. Rearranging the timeline of the images of the dead, the Doctor realised that the fatal virus was grief, triggered by the old lady’s death... and that the relatives now arriving would generate more grief. With the broken engine pipe repaired, the Vardy flocked to meet the new arrivals in the great hall. Comparing the Vardy to a flock of starlings, Bill wondered if there was a way to scare some of them and make the others follow in a different direction. Still gripped by the Emojibot, Bill urged the Doctor to save the others. Using his psychic paper to pose as a quarantine officer, he found the group in the hall as
the icicle Emojibots approached. Billused | orange juice to disable the storeroom Emojibot and the walls fragmented into Vardy. In the hall, a little boy was embraced by an Emojibot as the Doctor urged the new arrivals to flee the city. Watching the roof turn into Vardy, the Doctor explained: “Your house just started to learn about grief. You're going to need to help it move on...” As the Vardy reformed back into
the building, Bill arrived and told the new arrivals that they were all lovely; she then followed the Doctor back to the TARDIS, knowing utopia could not exist. Recalling her nan’s death, Bill realised that the Doctor's people were not immortal; he confirmed nearly all of them were dead as } he opened the TARDIS door to reveal mist, an ice sheet and an elephant.
he ‘1st chunk’ of The News from T ivi Draft Four was dated Tuesday 17 May. This now opened with Kezzia talking to Goodthing while returning to the domed city with ‘a flock of what looks like starlings [which] suddenly swarms into a block beside her. The block takes the form of a robot, with an
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At the moment they are both happy emojis.’ As the robot followed Kezzia inside, it } was shown that ‘Kezzia has a digital badge between her shoulder blades. It too is an emoji. At the moment it’s showing a blandly smiley face’ Goodthing was present with other woman including in line with his comments Fortunate in the great
hall to meet Kezzia; when
in Deep Breath [2014 - see | Volume 76]. Kezzia did not smile ‘the q
spines on the back of the robot's hands
extracting moisture from Kezzia’s body. Kezzia seems to be evaporating before our eyes. On emerging from the TARDIS,
the Doctor told Bill that they were at one of Earth’s first colonies in “the year 5000 ish” (although he later said that Bill was about a thousand years in the future); Bill suggested that the Doctor must come here a lot as this is where humanity had cracked the secret of happiness. Entering the city, the pair was checked by the Vardy robots before receiving the ear implants, while some of the tiny robots formed smiley badge mood indicators on their backs.
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longer used her phone to communicate by emoji, with the telepathic nature of the implants and Banksy image omitted. When leaving the city, the Doctor and Bill returned to the TARDIS with a flock of little robots following them like a plague of locusts. Inside his ship, the Doctor consulted the Observer Book of Colonial Era Spacecraft (referring to the Observer's series of pocket books published in the UK between 1937 and 2003) and left Bill behind while he returned to blow
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up the building, entering
the corridors alone and encountering an Emojibot before blasting the emoji badge from his back with
connection with the vault tiecenieu Me chen heard at St Luke's University, and breathing and thought it how he was not supposed
was another human... before hearing Bill’s voice. The two needed to find each other in the maze of corridors, with the Doctor telling Bill to place her finger on the wall to create a neurological map. A new batch of Vardy formed a fresh emoji badge on his back towards the end of this section of the draft.
23 May; there were minor changes
to the first part, with the Doctor now commenting that the tiny robots seemed to have decided that the humans were spoiling the fun in their paradise. In the new material, the Doctor discovered that the wall was made of tiny robots and discovered the meteor damaged part of the real spaceship which he entered via the door; by breaking the seal, he attracted the Emojibots which ignored Bill who came to join him in the ancient vessel. The Doctor's experiences with the Fleishman cold fusion engine - apparently named after the twentieth-century British chemist Martin Fleischmann who conducted research into cold fusion - were closer to the finished episode. The spaceship housed a museum chamber in which Bill found a Benin head (a bronze sculpture associated with the Edo people of the thirteenth century), a totem pole, a Ming vase (from the Chinese dynasty of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), the illuminated
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gospel manuscript the Book of Kells (dating from around 800 AD) and a jar of the food spread Marmite... as well as the dead woman. When Bill realised that she was wearing the corpse's dress, the Emojibot, which had joined her, registered sorrow and grabbed her hand, whereupon she recalled her nan’s death.
After the Doctor overpowered the Emojibot he encountered Praiseworthy (‘a boy in his early teens’), the first sleeper to awake who was offered a plate of food (‘Goodness Boosts’) by an Emojibot. Explaining that he and the others were “the first million”, the boy
took the Doctor to the dormitory where
his mother had also woken; they believed that the Doctor had built the robots. The boy’s father, Steadfast, was the son of Goodthing, Loudspeaker announcements indicated that the colonists were about
to disembark. The Doctor used his sonic
to detach the badge from Bill’s back and deduced what had happened; he attempted to explain about the development of the Vardy to the colonists. On learning that the shepherds who should have woken them
had been killed by the Vardy, Steadfast and
the others took up arms. Praiseworthy and his litel er Peaceable wandered out into the Erehwon gardens, encountering Emojibots in the main hall. When the colonists entered to find the children,
the Doctor used his sonic to disable the emoji badges. He explained to the colonists that they needed to take off the badges and work alongside Vardy in a life of co-operation. Nate and Steadfast opened fire on the Emojibots, but eventually the colonists accepted the Doctor's advice. When Bill checked her phone, all her photos had vanished; the Doctor explained that they were saved in her timeline hundreds of years in the future now that she was back in “twenty-first century Bristol”, with the TARDIS door opening to reveal mist, ice and an elephant.
Draft Five of The News from Nowhere was dated Friday 3 June. This relocated Kezzia’s opening scene back to the cultivated field, while Fortunate was omitted and her dialogue given to Goodthing who tried to hide from the Emojibots in the corridors. When Bill asked why the Doctor had not
visited this place of happiness before, the as Time Lord explained that he was busy ane fs with “the Giant Space Rabbit of Sumatra wheat field, and after that the whole business of the
great intergalactic gravity shortage”. The clothing store was omitted, with the
Emojibot taking the travellers to the dining area. The Doctor found Goodthing’s locket
in the greenhouse and saw Bill back to
the TARDIS, but did not go in himself. Drawing upon the script for the series’
opening episode, A Star in Her Eye (latterly
The Pilot), Bill watched him
depart on the scanner, and _ Connections: again compared the Doctor's — Chameleon
gait to “a penguin with its ® Bill describes the ; arse on fire”. Returning to TARDIS' appearance as i’ the city, Bill quickly met up being generated by a on with the Doctor, entering the cloaking device, using the ‘Erehwon’ spaceship where terminology “cloaking
Bill guided the Doctor from device” as per the Doctor i a map. The Doctor entered a in The Pilot (2017 - see
museum chamber containing Volume 85] and the Doctor ‘cultural bric-a-brac (a Benin Who TV Movie [1996 - see
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in Spearhead from \ Space [1970 - see
a model of Apollo 11 [the NASA mission which landed on the moon in 1969]). The Emojibot which arrived at the door of the spaceship disassembled itself into tiny robots which passed through a grille and along a pipe into the ship, reforming to attack the Doctor.
Bill discovered a book ‘so beautiful it could be a digital Book of Kells, gorgeously worked cover, inlaid with illuminated letters... Its pages come to life - they are flickering screens telling a story. A flicker of still images of works of art that takes us through human history... in much the manner of Chuck Braverman’s opening montage for [the 1973 dystopian movie] Soylent Green (or [the 1962 French post- apocalypse featurette] La Jetée?). At first it’s just a cascade of beauty - cave paintings, classical murals, portraits from Pompeii and China... but pretty soon we clock that we are running forward through time... [seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes] Vermeer’s domestic interiors give way to [eighteenth-century landscape painter] Joseph Wright of Derby and suddenly we're in the world of photography - overcrowded Victorian cities, [Brazilian photojournalist] Sebastiao Salgado images of people at work... and from photographs we move to newsreels of riots, people begging the camera for food... a huge spaceship being built... There were also photographs by the old woman’s corpse showing Kezzia and Goodthing. Bill encountered the waking Praiseworthy, the boy in the locket. Realising the colonists were waking, the Doctor's attempts to reverse his explosive sabotage were hindered by the Emojibot which climbed 1) back up to the gantry; the robots’ arm was used to
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jam the wheel. Steadfast asked the “Good Woman” and “Good Man” if they had built the robots. When the Doctor unravelled the idea of the grief virus, Bill recalled her nan dying. Praiseworthy alone ventured out into the city, upset because he could not find his mother. In the stand-off in the hemispheric hall, the Doctor urged the colonists to work with the Vardy to create a new future without slaves.
ated Sunday 12 June, Draft Six was D entitled Smile and featured a new
opening TARDIS scene featuring Nardole linking back to The Pilot; ‘The Doctor and Bill, facing each other across the console. Seconds have passed since the end of episode 1.’ Kezzia was described as ‘pleasant, a cheerful cynic’ and was with ‘a sweet little robot... with an upturned face. The “eyes” of the face are a pair of emojis. At the moment they are both happy emojis. This is an Emojibot... The Emojibot looks up, chirrups a little -
and the flock swirls for a moment, then starts flying towards the city.’ In the
city, the Vardy ‘fly straight into Kezzia, disappearing, as if they've gone right inside her... She starts to glow a fiery red, a heat
shimmer all round her [and] seems just to burst into a blast of steam - like she’s spontaneously evaporated. There's nothing left but a shower of bones, clattering to the floor. The last thing to fall: the emoji badge. It has a skull face. Finished. The room silent. Full of fixed, faltering smiles! Bill asked the Doctor more about the TARDIS’ shape, the oath which Nardole had referred to, and the vault she had seen earlier. The Doctor and Bill were given badges by the Emojibot rather than having them form from the Vardy, and the mood state indicators were developed further. The GK Chesterton reference was omitted, while the Doctor and Bill now suggested Wiltshire and Aberdeen as places to go. In this draft, Bill studied the words on the TARDIS door panel, catching up with the Doctor in
| took place in the dining area rather than
the city immediately, and asking why he was Scottish. She realised that she could have photographed the map and joined the Doctor, and the Emojibots were no longer formed from Vardy, meaning that one could not disassemble and enter the spaceship via the grille; the Emojibots no longer had spikes on their hands either. The Doctor commented
on other Earth evacuation ships which
he had encountered and a second attack on the Doctor alongside the engines was removed, MedTech One Steadfast was described as ‘a young man. Sweatshirt, joggers, couldn’t look more ordinary,
Nate was ‘an eager young man’ and all the material with Bill recalling her nan was omitted. The colonist/Vardy confrontation
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turn to gun symbols. The climax of the episode
was different; the Doctor used his sonic to reset the Emojibots and Vardy via an electromagnetic pulse before offering to negotiate between the two parties. Discussing his killer chess move, the Doctor explained:
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“[Twentieth-century Russian chess grandmaster Garry] Kasparov himself never saw it coming. Of course, then he got cross, and it all went a bit martial arts, but there was a moment | was ahead.”
The readthrough draft for Smile was issued on Monday 13 June. This was effectively the same as Draft Six, apart from aspects of the climax as the Doctor completed the tale of the magic haddock and explained how he had wiped the machines’ memories and removing the Kasparov reference.
With the Doctor Who Interactive team present to record Frank Cottrell-Boyce's reactions, the readthrough for Smile and The Pilot (still titled A Star in Her Eye at this stage) took
Security settings 2» When telling Bill to enjoy ‘the TARDIS' broadband, the Doctor instructs her Not to look at his browser history in the same guilty manner that he adopted when Osgood used his sonic shades in The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion [2015 - see Volume 82].
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Penarth place at 11am on Tuesday 14 played by June at the London Welsh Kaizer Akhtar.
Centre on Gray’s Inn Road in London, The same day, the BBC announced that Cottrell- Boyce was writing the second episode of the new series. Peter Capaldi had very much enjoyed In the Forest of the Night and welcomed another contribution from the writer, while Pearl Mackie was impressed \ with the developing Doctor/Bill relationship ; and the tale’s extreme iA perspective on the future. =» The opening block of the ~ series was to be directed by Lawrence Gough and ~ like The Pilot - Smile had a minimal cast. Appearing as Goodthing was Mina Anwar, a Lancashire-born
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{| actor who had found fame in the BBC1 sitcom The Thin Blue Line and whose subsequent television career included regular appearances in The Invisibles, Scoop, House of Anubis, Rocket's Island and In the
Club; she had also appeared regularly as Gita Chandra in the Doctor Who CBBC spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures from 2008 to 2011. Brian Minchin had produced The Sarah Jane Adventures and knew that Anwar was keen to appear in Doctor Who.
teadfast was played by actor/writer Ralf Little for whom Gough had
directed in Space Age for Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents in 2014; Little came to prominence in the BBC1 comedy The Royle Family followed by appearances in Sloggers, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and The Café, which he also wrote. A Doctor Who devotee, he had recorded Guy Fawkes’ voice for the online game The Gunpowder Plot in July 2011. Praiseworthy was played by 11-year-old Kaizer Akhtar who had appeared in the mini-series Tut and provided voices for the cartoon Baby Jake. Iwo Emojibots were built by Millennium FX and replicated by means of camera yy), angles and greenscreen i post-production work; these )\\ were operated by two stunt performers of small stature, the Kenyan-born Kiran Shah (who had worked on Listen in 2014) and Craig Garner. The Millennium FX team attempted to break up the _ human shape so as not to suggest that the robots could
house a performer; originally they had suggested corrugated arms with pincers, and although these were used for some gardening sequences, something more dexterous was required for other scenes. The shooting script dated Friday 17 June included a chronology. The Doctor and Bill began the adventure in the TARDIS at 22.15 of Night 14, while Kezzia returned to the city at 16.45 on Day Y, with Goodthing meeting her fate at 17.05. The TARDIS arrived at 12.55 on Day 14 with the travellers meeting the Emojibot at 13.05, being served food at 13.20, entering the conservatory at 13,34 and making their rapid departure by 13.55 to arrive at the TARDIS at 14.00. The Doctor encountered an Emojibot at 14.15 and was joined by Bill at 14.20. They entered the ship at 14.30 with the Doctor finding the engine room at 14.42 and being attacked at 14.57. The sleepers awoke from 15.10 and the Doctor figured out what had happened at 15.25, giving his lecture at 15.45, but not preventing the colonists from taking
up arms at 16.00 for the confrontation at 16.15. After reset, the colonists recovered at 16.50, with the Doctor and Bill back aboard the TARDIS by 22.17, landing a minute later. Other changes were generally minor. Goodthing told Kezzia that Hopeful, Sunshine and Eliza were also dead while the dating of “5000 ish” was omitted. Of the name ‘Erehwon’ on the ancient spaceship: ‘There's a giant letter E - the rest of the name is obscured by bits of new building.
Early on, an overseas shoot was planned for the city exteriors. Brian Minchin recalled the Valencia’s Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciéncies (City of Arts and Sciences), a Spanish entertainment-
based cultural complex designed by Left: Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela and An Emojibot leads the way.
inaugurated in 1998; this had been noticed by the BBC Cymru in 2015 and kept in mind, having been used in 2013 for the science-fiction movie Tomorrowland. After scouting English equivalents, Gough's team cast its net across Europe, with Gough and producer Peter Bennett flying out to Valencia for a recce. The venue seemed ideal, enabling impressive shots
to be achieved ‘in camera’ without CGI
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storyboarded the episode with particular attention for the Spanish shoot where the BBC would again work with Sur Films following collaborations in the Canary | Islands on episodes such | as Kill the Moon [2014 - see Volume 78], The Magician’s
_ Connections: | To the stars | ® The Doctor comments on having “bumped into" a few Earth evacuation ships over the years, including the space ark in The Ark [1966 - see Volume 7],
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Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar [2015 - see Volume 80], The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion [2015 - see Volume 82] and Hell Bent [2015 -
see Volume 84]. i
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Space Station Nervain The Ark in Space [1975 - see Volume 22] and the colony ship in Frontios [19B4 - see Volume 38].
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Below: Preparing for an Emojibot attack.
cheduling the opening recording block for the 2017 series of Doctor Who, Lawrence Gough aimed to tell Bill's story in chronological sequence as far as possible, allowing Pearl Mackie to channel her own reactions of confronting new things into her performance. The Pilot was largely recorded first over the three weeks before Smile. Kalungi Ssebandeke and Kiran L Dadlani attended costume fittings as Nate and Kezzia on Friday 1 July, followed by Kaizer Akhtar on Monday 4 July. There was a show-and-tell of the Emojibots scheduled at 3pm on Wednesday 6 July during recording at Ffilm Factory 35 for The Pilot. Kiran Shah and Craig Garner spent the day rehearsing with movement expert Ailsa Berk from 10.30am, with the Millennium FX team supervising the costumes
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comprising Gary Pollard, Fiona Cazaly,
Jamie Campbell, Jo Glover and Kate Walshe.
Crafted in fibreglass with rubber gloves for hands and bolted onto the performers, the Emojibots had been made in six weeks, built around a body cast of Shah.
Pink revisions to the script were issued on Thursday 7 July. The confrontation with the Emojibots in the greenhouse was extended with minor changes to the Doctor's struggle with the robot; grabbing a loose pipe, the Doctor blasted the Emojibot with steam, causing it to fall from the gantry rather than the machine falling when the Doctor yanked the ladder it was climbing clear of the engine's wheel.
ecording on Smile began on Friday R 8 July with work scheduled from
7.30am to 6.40pm at Flemingston Court Farm near St Athan, which offered a suitable greenhouse. The Doctor Who Interactive team was present, and recording was scheduled around the working hours of Akhtar from 11.50am to 7pm. The emoji badge prop worn by Peter Capaldi was highly magnetic, and the cast and crew were warned that phones, cameras and other equipment could be wiped if brought into close proximity to it. The Doctor and Bill learning the truth about the fertiliser was recorded first, with Capaldi and Mackie joined by Shah and Garner as the two Emojibots, with the costumes supervised by Glover, Cazaly and Campbell while Berk choreographed their movements. Praiseworthy’s encounter with the robots was performed next, after which
a shot of an old lady being attacked was recorded for the pre-credits; photographs were also taken of the workers building the spaceship for the image montage.
TARDIS scenes for The Pilot were recorded on Monday 11 July, with work scheduled for standard hours of 7.30am to 7pm on Studio 4’s standing set at Roath Lock for Smile on Tuesday 12. Matt Lucas concluded his work on the first block, ad-libbing his character moaning about being determined not to make tea for Bill in his single scene. In addition to the four TARDIS scenes, visual effects inserts were recorded of the greenhouse sprinkler system. Mina Anwar attended a fitting during the afternoon, while senior brand assistant Edward Russell guided visitors from the Barnardo's children’s charity.
The crew spent Wednesday 13 at the familiar venue of Uskmouth Power Station at Newport, recording from 7.30am to 6.40pm; this had first been visited in November 2005 for work on Rise of the
Cybermen/The Age of Steel [2006 - see Above:
Volume 52] and had most recently played Recording host to The Girl Who Died [2015 - see Valencia
Volume 81] in May 2015. As well as the Interactive team, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and his family were present to see Capaldi, Mackie and Akhtar record the scenes in the spaceship’s map area, entrance and the Doctor being guided by Bill along a narrow staircase. The power station was usually dormant, but the crew was informed
that if demand from the National Grid was sufficient then the turbines could be activated, whereupon safety precautions such as ear defenders and goggles would be employed. “The perfect location for
a spaceship,” was how Cottrell-Boyce described the venue to the BBC Interactive team; later that day, he and his family visited the TARDIS set. “The power station was very noisy!” recalled Capaldi in The Finale Countdown brochure, noting that much of the venue's dialogue had to be redubbed subsequently.
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Recording continued in the coal- fired B Station at Uskmouth over the same hours on Thursday 14, including further photocalls of workers building the spaceship alongside sequences in the museum chamber and its adjacent curtained area. The Doctor and Bill passing through the area - with the latter meeting Praiseworthy - were recorded first, followed by the solo scenes of Bill with the old woman's body, and finally a start was made on the Doctor deducing the grief virus. The week concluded at Uskmouth on Friday 15 when the key scene was concluded with the Doctor's realisation, followed by the armoury sequence with Ralf Little and Kalungi Ssebandeke joining the shoot. The Doctor and Bill
Right: deducing the change in the corridor wall Peter Capaldts texture came next, followed by the Doctor ‘thinking’ emoji
heading down the ladder. Meanwhile, a Press Association story about Ralf Little appearing in Doctor Who appeared.
Back at Uskmouth after the weekend, most of the engine room scenes were scheduled for 8am to 6.10pm on Monday 18 July. Fiona Cazaly, Jo Glover and Gerard Moore were present to supervise the Emojibots, with the sound team providing Kiran Shah and Craig Garner with earpieces so that they could hear clearly inside the costumes. Stunt co-ordinator Dani Biernat supervised the Doctor's scuffle with the Emojibot on the gantry, and the Interactive team was
the second unit - attempting to stop the engine with Bill’s help. Meanwhile, the second unit recorded Praiseworthy walking through the city and the inserts of him required for his mother’s locket. Akhtar then rejoined the main unit to record Bill and Praiseworthy descending the ladder, while the second unit took over in the engine room, recording inserts with Gareth Weekley doubling for Peter Capaldi. The main unit then continued work, recording the dormitory scenes and an Emojibot entering the spaceship.
Recording on Wednesday 20 July was
again present.
‘Two units were at work on Tuesday 19. The main unit were at Uskmouth from 8am to 6.10pm, starting with the Doctor overcoming the Emojibot (again supervised by Dani Biernat) and then - after Akhtar and the Emojibots had joined
scheduled for 7.30am to 5.50pm at Gileston Farm, again near St Athan which offered an expansive wheat field... where it was difficult for the BBC to get the police box prop into the crops with minimal damage. A drone camera was used for high-angle shots of the landscape, starting with the Doctor and Bill’s arrival in the TARDIS and their later return, after which the opening with Kezzia and the Emojibots
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One; the character Vira aboard Space Station
Nerva had been a First MedTech in The Arkin Space [1975 -see Volume 22].
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was recorded. The Interactive team was
present, while white background shots were taken of Kezzia, Goodthing,
the old woman and the Emojibots, in addition to the photoshoots needed for the programme of the woman and her two daughters, plus the workers waving upon departure for Erehwon and other group shots of the colonists (all of which were performed against a bluescreen so
that different backgrounds could be added
in). This day was an extremely hot one
with the crew liable to get sunburnt when
standing in the exposed area
Greenhouse and engine room
oath Lock’s Studio 3 was used for
great hall scenes from 7.30am to
6pm on Thursday 21. A start was made on the episode's climax ~ again scheduled around Akhtar’s availability until Spm - and another shot of three workers constructing the spaceship was
also taken. The week concluded to the same schedule on Friday 22 when the climax was completed, after which the main unit moved to Studio 4 to record scenes set in the corridors and their intersection, while a B camera remained on the hall set to record pick-up: with greenscreen) such as the poss opening fire. This concluded work for Kaizer Akhtar, Ralf Little and Kalungi Ssebandeke with white background photos taken of their characters. Akhtar undertook an interview with the Interactive team while Little recorded a video denying
his involvement with Doctor Who on the TARDIS set. Pick-up shots then continued in Studio 4 with Gareth Weekley again standing in as the Doctor for material in the greenhouse and engine room. Pearl Mackie later joined the unit to record the shot of Bill watching the Doctor on the TARDIS monitor (with playback of the location material) and a shot of the emoji
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The minimal cast of Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Kiran Shah and Craig Garner and a reduced crew flew out to Valencia on Sunday 24 July, with Gough’s team performing a location recce on arrival at 1.30pm, The team was based at the NH Las Artes, a two-minute walk from the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciéncies located on the Avenue del Professor Lopez Pifiero.
Work from 7.30am to 6.30pm (the standard time for the Spanish shoot) on Monday 25 was scheduled to include the Doctor and Bill’s arrival (alongside the science museum El Museu de les Ciéncies Principe Felipe) and their first encounter with the Emojibots (in L’Hemisféric, housing an IMAX screen and planetarium), with the Interactive team covering the
Right: impressive location work. The BBC team
cis wt crew was reminded that the location would ‘on location in einraveienca be very hot and that they should use sun
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screen and remain well hydrated. “Valencia was quite challenging because it was very hot,” Peter Capaldi told the BBC website. With the crew working in a 34-degree heat, for Kiran Shah and Craig Garner, the temperatures were even worse; Garner described the Emojibot costume to the Interactive team as “like being inside a greenhouse”, ‘Peter Capaldi and @Pearlie_ mack on location TODAY in Valencia, Spain - filming for ep 2 of #DoctorWho series 10!’ tweeted the official Doctor Who feed at 11.49am. Even with the tourist attraction open, progress was good; a splinter crew recorded shots of the Emojibots at L’Hemisféric and in the corridors, some of which employed a greenscreen so that their number could be multiplied in post-production. Back at Roath Lock, Frazer Hines - who had appeared regularly
city to Utopia, the term for an imaginary, near-
perfect community coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 satire Utopia about a fictional island society.
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in Doctor Who as the Doctor's companion Jamie from 1966 to 1969 - visited the TARDIS set.
alencia’s local press covered Doctor Yr presence on Tuesday 26 July,
the day on which the Doctor and Bill’s arrival was completed along with their meal in the dining area and their escape along the walkways - making extensive use of the opera house, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. The unit moved to another area for the Doctor's cheery greeting to an Emojibot and his reunion with Bill; Capaldi ad-libbed from David Bowie's 1980 song Ashes to Ashes (‘I'm happy, hope you're happy too”). Finally, the team moved outside for part of the low-speed chase, Meanwhile, the B camera recorded the Emojibots’ pre-credits attack in the hemispheric hall. In the UK, a 1’08”
video was released featuring Ralf Little;
“T thought I should address the rumours that have been going around online about whether or not I'm going to be in Doctor Who,” the actor explained as he walked onto the standing TARDIS set, claiming never even to have seen the series, and concluding categorically: “Doctor Who. Nothing to do with me.”
Mina Anwar and Kiran L Dadlani joined the cast on Wednesday 27. Goodthing’s demise in the conservatory was recorded first in L Umbracle, while Capaldi and Mackie attended an ‘iconic’ photoshoot; the Doctor then made his discovery of the locket. Local doubles for characters such as Praiseworthy, Steadfast and Nate were used for sequences of the boy and the posse in the city. The Doctor and Bill finding the spaceship door was completed as was the scene of them receiving their audio upgrades and being led to the hemispheric hall. Meanwhile, a B camera recorded various shots of the emojibots attacking and pick-ups with Kezzia. By
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Fri 8 Jul 16 Flemingston Court Farm,
UK on Friday 29.
(Ancient Spaceship - Engine Room) Tue 19 Jul 16 Uskmouth Power Station
now, news had spread of Doctor Who | recording in Valencia; hundreds of people turned up to get a glimpse of Peter Capaldi and his new co-star. The final Valencia day was Thursday 28, with the Doctor and Bill attempting to evade the Emojibots by smiling completed first to release Capaldi and _ Mackie as early as possible to record material with the Interactive team. The bulk of the day was then spent on Kezzia's fate in the hemispheric hall. ‘jAdiés, Valencia, y gracias por los recuerdos!’ tweeted the official Doctor Who account at 5.30pm; the team then flew back to the
The concluding material featuring the elephant from Episode 3, Thin Ice, was recorded in Studio 4 from 7.30am on Thursday 1 September by director Bill Anderson as part of the second block.
A pick-up shot of Bill touching the sign on the TARDIS doorway was recorded by a B camera during Block 3 shortly before 1pm on Thursday 15 September. ll
Walkway/Hemispheric HalCorcors)
Flemingstone, near St Athan
(Erehwon - Greenhouse)
Tue 12 Jul 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studlo 4 (The TARDIS; Erehwhon - Greenhouse)
Wed 13 Jul 16 Uskmouth Power Station, West Nash Road, Uskmouth (Ancient Spaceship - Map Area/Entrance/Entrance Corridor/Narrow Corridor)
Thu 14 Jul 16 Uskmouth Power Station (Ancient Spaceship - Museum Chamber/ Curtained Area)
Fri 15 Jul 16 Uskmouth Power Station (Ancient Spaceship - Curtained Area/ Armoury/Corridor/Ladder to Engine Room) Mon 18 Jul 16 Uskmouth Power Station
(Ancient Spaceship - Engine Room/Ladder to Engine Room/Dormitory/Entrance; Erehwon; Insert for locket)
Wed 20Jul 16 Gileston Farm, Gileston, near St Athan (Erehwon - Cultivated Field; TARDIS - Cultivated Field)
Thu 21 Jul 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3 (Erehwon - Great Hall)
Fri 22 Jul 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3 (Erehwon - Great Hall); Studio
4 (Erehwon - Cross Corridars/Corridors/ Greenhouse; Ancient Spaceship - Engine Room/Museum Chamber; The TARDIS) Mon 25 Jul 16 Avda del Professor Lopaz Pifiero/Pont de Montolivet (Erehwon
- Lower Spine Corridor/Hemispheric
Tita bt wel
Pifera/Pont de Montolivet (Erehwon - Dining Area/ Hemispheric Walkway/Top. Floor Corridor/Stairs off Top Floor Corridor/ Step Corridor/Hemispheric Hall)
Wed 27 Jul 16 Avda del Professor Lopaz Pifiero/Pont de Montolivet (Erehwon - Conservatory/Hemispheric Hall/Entrance to Ancient Spaceship/ Hemispheric Walkway)
Thu 28 Jul 16 Avda del Professor Lopéz Pifero/Pont de Montolivet (Erehwon - Upper Spine Corridor/Hemispheric Hall) Thu 1 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 4 (The Thames Frost Fair)
Thu 15 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Ext Studio (The TARDIS)
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Right: Steadfast prepares toshoot
ost-production elements on
Smile, such as CGI, included
the shots where Gileston’s
wheat field was combined
with Valencia’s architecture,
plus material with the Vardy, the demise of characters such as Kezzia, Emojibot replication shots, Praiseworthy’s hologram, the images in the book found by Bill, and the rows of cryogenic pods. Tourists and cars were also removed from some of the Valencia shots, while the TARDIS travelling through space was a reversed version of a sequence from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [2012 - see Volume 71].
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uts had to be made to bring the c episode down to its 50-minute
slot. Dubbing made small changes to Kezzia in the field; originally Kezzia initiated the call, telling Goodthing that she was coming back in. “Hey, it’s sooo nice to hear from you,” responded Goodthing, causing Kezzia to comment: “No. It's really ordinary to hear from me.” When Goodthing told Kezzia not to come in because of the “tiny” Vardy problem, her sister responded: “Of course I’m coming in. I'm tired. I'm hungry.” After Kezzia responded to the strange request to keep smiling, she asked: “Okay, who is this, and what have you done with my real sister?” “No seriously. You have to keep smiling. When you come in, no matter what you find, keep smiling,” insisted Goodthing, “You sound like Mum. Did somebody hit you with a spanner?” asked Kazzia. When
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Kezzia met her sister in the city, Goodthing quickly took her arm and led her away from the Emojibot. “I just tried to earwig Mum and nothing. Where is she?” asked Kezzia. “Please, you will remember to look happy,” responded her sister before explaining about the Vardy. “Something is wrong. Something is very wrong indeed. But it’s important to keep smiling,” insisted Goodthing after Kezzia remarked on her smile. “What's happened? Is it Mum?” asked Kezzia. “Smile, please smile...” pleaded Goodthing, causing her sister to insist: “Just tell me!” “I don’t know where to begin - OK,” said Goodthing as she told Kezzia to brace herself. After Goodthing realised that she should not have told
her sister what happened, Kezzia angrily said: “Where is she? I want to see her...” As her badge registered anger, Goodthing promised: “I'll take you to her. I'll tell you everything but...” and then noticed that Kezzia was on two tears. As Kezzia showed fear - echoed on her badge - she asked, “What is this?” After Goodthing told
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asked of the Emojibot that had grabbed her: “What's it doing? Get off me. What's happening?” “Smile! There might still be a chance,” said her sister. “What are they doing?” asked Kezzia as the Vardy buzzed around her. As the Vardy attacked, Goodthing cheerfully called: “Keep trying, Kezzia! Smiling, smiling, smiling.” After Goodthing insisted that she was smiling the room erupted into panic as people were grabbed or confronted by Emojibots. Goodthing hid in the conservatory, but parted the branches to see two Emojibots in front of her... sealing her fate, her skull falling to the ground along with her locket After the opening titles, as Bill emerged from the TARDIS to see the two suns, she
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After the Doctor chided Bill for her typical wet brain chauvinism, she asked: “What's a wet brain?” “Organic animals ~ like you - have wet brains,” explained the Doctor. “Robots have dry brains. It doesn’t mean they don't have feelings.” “Doesn't it?” asked Bill. “Maybe save the bio-philosophical discussions till later,” suggested her tutor. When Bill wondered if everyone had gone out in the deserted city, the Doctor told her: “Twenty lights years isn’t the other side of the universe. Twenty light years is practically next door.”
Looking at the badge given to her by the Emojibot, Bill commented: “Bit big to swallow.” As the travellers followed the Emojibot into the hall, Bill called: “Hello? Hello? Is it a bit nuts that I'm
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not scared, just very excited?” After the Doctor's comment about the place being the Utopia for vacuous teens, Bill asked: “What's Utopia?” “An imaginary perfect place,’ answered her mentor. “This isn’t imaginary,” pointed out the student. “I bet it isn't perfect either,” said the Doctor, his emoji badge looking puzzled as they entered the dining area.
hile Bill sat down to eat, the Doctor puzzled on the missing colonists. “Why are you pacing
around like that?” asked Bill. “Like what?” asked the Doctor. “Like you want to poke everything with a stick,” said his student. “1 do,” admitted the Doctor. “Why?” asked Bill. “To see what bites,” said the Doctor, to which Bill observed: “We're in a dining room.” “Things get bitten in dining rooms ~ ask the food,” noted the Doctor. “Actually, the food made a noise,” commented Bill, “Like the sea.” “The sound's just there to add a bit of seaside atmosphere to the fish flavour. Like a sonic sauce,” explained the
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Doctor. “So if we had bacon sandwiches they would oink? You're not loving this place are you?” responded Bill as the Doctor commented on the absence of livestock. When Bill asked her tutor why he was not loving their surroundings, she continued: “I’m loving it. Is that the problem with Utopia? One person imagines it and the rest of us just have to live in it? Why have you got two portions?” Originally when the Doctor and Bill entered the greenhouse, he said: “So the little robots are the flocks. And the big ones are the shepherds the interface,” said Bill. “It's a cool word, interface, I was trying to sound clever,” admitted the Doctor before discussing the crops; this was changed in ADR (additional dialogue recording). After the Doctor told Bill that he found the city loveable, she observed: “You're not smiling. I don’t mean with your face, I wouldn't expect that. But the thing... the badge thing...” “What's it say?” asked the Doctor. “It looks... dunno... thousands of years in the future, the emojis are getting
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subtle,” replied Bill, “I’m going to say confused. Are you confused?” “I’m never confused. I’m sometimes thinking in an indirect way,” claimed the Doctor. “What does that mean?” asked his student, to which her tutor admitted: “It means I’m confused.” When the Doctor told Bill that he was thinking about a magic haddock, he then related the story to her, while she interjected: “Hey. If there’s no one here, why are they bothering to harvest the crops? I mean robots don’t eat tomatoes do they?” As the Doctor got to the end
of his story (which was transferred to a voice-over later in the episode), Bill said: “So, careful what you wish for, is that what you're saying?” After asking if the spray was of snow, she then asked: “What did he do with the third wish? Did he wish for loads more wishes? Why do they never just wish for more wishes?” “Probably best not to wish at all,” said the Doctor, “Especially if the thing granting the wishes doesn’t have the same kind of brain that you have. If it’s a fish say, or a robot.” The flashback to Goodthing’s death was an
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addition during editing. As the Doctor propelled Bill from the greenhouse, they heard music and laughter. “What's that?” “It’s nothing. The building’s memory banks,” explained the Doctor. “This is their voices?” exclaimed Bill. “They like to put sounds with food. Like the algae and the sea. This is plant food and these...” began the Doctor. “OK. I get it,” agreed Bill, with the Doctor saying: “Good. This way!” Cornered in the corridor, when the Doctor mentioned the magic haddock and continued: “It got the wrong end of the stick but it wanted you to be happy”; this was changed in ADR. Later, back in the city, when Bill returned and said she was not leaving the Doctor, he replied: “I'd tell you to wipe that smile off your face, but possibly it would be counter-productive.” “This smile's going nowhere,” said Bill, with the Doctor turning to the wall and saying: “Let's test that theory.” As the Doctor aimed his sonic at the wall, he told Bill: “Don't be frightened.” “Okay,” she agreed. “No, really, don't,” said the
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Doctor. After Bill told the Doctor that he was an awesome tutor, he said: “Time for a lesson then.” When the Doctor found the real section of wall with the letter E at the start, he added: “Oh yes... And look - a name.” “The Viking longboat,” ruminated Bill, adding, “and every boat needs a gangplank”; this was changed in ADR. Studying the map showing the engine area, Bill pondered: “The whole rocket is nearly all space.” At this point, there was rumble and some muzak came on; the loudspeaker announcement was a later addition. “What? What happened? Are you...” asked the Doctor, hearing her reaction. “Music,” said Bill, as the Doctor explained about the ship's systems. The cutaway of the two Emojibots reacting as the Doctor entered the engine room was added in editing. When Bill told the Doctor to stop keeping her out of trouble, he replied: “Nope.” When Bill tearfully asked if the people in the ship were humanity’s last hope, she continued: “Am I the only human being alive in the universe now? Doctor?”
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When the Doctor was confronted by Praiseworthy, the boy asked: “Are we there yet?” The intercutting of the Doctor and Bill with Praiseworthy leaving the ship was added during editing; originally after the Doctor feared the end of the human race, his student asked: “That kid. Where did he go?” As they left the engine room and entered the dormitory they met Steadfast. As the Doctor prepared to give a lecture, Praiseworthy encountered an Emojibot which offered him a badge. In the dormitory, the Doctor told the newly woken: “Your robots have built a place for you to live.” “Let’s go and see it,’ said Nate, eagerly, but the Doctor calmed the group down: “Okay, me talking, not you. It’s the best way, trust me. The place is beautiful but it has a problem. The worst problem in the universe... you.” After the Doctor's explanation that the Vardy were having ideas of their own, his comments about the monitor badges were added in post-production, Originally, the scene continued with Steadfast asking: “If there were problems with the Vardy, why didn’t
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the shepherds take care of it?” “Possibly they tried, But the Vardy took care of them,” replied the Doctor. “What the hell are you talking about?” asked Nate, “What the hell has happened here?” “I’m sorry. I'm terribly sorry,” replied the Doctor.
As Steadfast and the others stormed out of the armoury, the Doctor observed: “Human beings. Awake for less than an
hour, and it’s war already.”
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entering the great hall, Steadfast gasped: “Tr’s beautiful.” “Yes, it’s beautiful. And it’s ours,” said Nate. The conclusion of events in the city was redubbed partially with the inclusion of the Doctor's tale of the magic haddock, omitting the Doctor's comment: “Bill thought he should have asked for an infinite series of wishes.” When the Doctor told the humans that the Vardy had forgotten who made them in the first place, he added: “Kids, eh?”
Bill and the Doctor's comments as the TARDIS travelled on through space were added in post-production. After
_ the Doctor commented on doing dirty
jobs, Bill asked: “Before you took your oath, and got stuck...” “Iam not stuck,” said the Doctor as she asked how he used to fly around sorting things out.
“Is this it? We're home?” asked Bill as the ship stopped.
Murray Gold’s score used some existing melodies such as They Are Everywhere (from Asylum of the Daleks [2012 - see Volume 70]) and Double Doctor (first heard in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People {2011 - see Volume 67]).
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» Mark Wright interviewed Frank
Cottrell-Boyce in a two-page preview appearing in Doctor Who Magazine
issue 511 on Thursday 6 April 2017
A 20” trailer was shown on BBC One immediately after the broadcast of
The Pilot on Saturday 15 April. The following day, Bill meeting an Emojibot featured in the 37” preview clip.
® Radio Times published on Tuesday 18
April carried coverage of the BFI & Radio Times Festival including picture
of Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie and Steven Moffat at their various panels. Alongside a photo of Bill taking a selfie
with the Doctor and an Emojibot, Patrick Mulkern nominated Smile as a Pick of the Day, commenting that it was ‘packed with clever ideas and beautiful
yet it lacks energy’, Elsewhere in the issue, the two-page feature Your RT ravel — City of Dreams saw Claire Webb ng at Valencia and its appearance 1 D. There was also more publicity for the educational lectur
forming Doctor Who and the micro:bit with a 12” video featuring Capaldi as the Doctor, and that evening the Doctor's regeneration from Planet of the Spiders [1974 - see Volume 21] appeared in How to Live Longer, an edition of BBC Four's The Big Think.
® Steven Moffat’s 31” introduction to Smile appeared on Wednesday 19 with the executive producer emphasising the relationship forming between the
Doctor and Bill. The same day, former
Doctor David Tennant played himself in the Radio 4 comedy Believe It! as friend actor Richard Wilson recalled a time when Tennant had believed that he was the Doctor and needed to defeat the Daleks in 1930s New York (ie Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks [2007 - see Volume 55}) in his unreliable autobiography.
® Another 59” video saw Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie introducing the friendly robots of Smile on Thursday
20, and that evening Mackie was present at the British Academy Television and Craft Awards nominees party in London, Friday 21 offered another 36” preview clip in which
the Doctor and Bill encountered
an Emojibot in the greenhouse, In Canada, CBC carried an interview with Andrew Vardy about his robotics work. “Although I'm a geek and I love all Star Trek and Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, T haven't tuned in to Doctor Who until just recently and now, of course, I’m
a huge fan,” he told CBC News.
¥ On Saturday 22 April, the Doctor Who
Experience in Cardiff staged Doctor Who Meets the World of Hargreaves with Luke Spillane of Doctor Who: The Fan Show doing a Q&A with artist and writer Adam Hargreaves whose first Mr Men/Doctor Who books were about to be published. In London, Peter Capaldi joined the March for Science event in the city, raising awareness
of scientific discovery and defending scientific integrity.
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® Scheduled for 7.20pm to 8.10pm, Smile’s BBC One broadcast was preceded by the skaters from Southwark ‘Oneness’ ident and the continuity announcer saying: “Saturday night for a smiley face now”; the ‘Pure Drama’ branding began the broadcast, while the closing announcement emphasised that the next episode would air in the same slot the following week.
® Broadcast opposite the end of dating show Take Me Out and the start of the popular Britain's Got Talent on ITV, Doctor Who still attracted a sizeable audience, if not as large as the talent show. Although outside the weekly top 20, Doctor Who remained BBC One's top-rated Saturday night programme with an audience of just under six million.
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® Discussion of Smile featured on The Fan Show, which went online immediately after the episode's transmission. The 15'52” edition included an interview with Brian Minchin recorded during the series press launch at the Ham Yard Hotel on Tuesday 4 April and a chat with Peter Capaldi recorded at the Marriott County Hall Hotel on Wednesday 12 April. Other videos available on Saturday 22 April were Pearl Mackie’s tour of the Valencia locations (1'25”) while Kaizer Akhtar discussed his “amazing experience” of working on Doctor Who (41”), Food from Another Planet! was then the title of a 45” video on Sunday 23 in which Mackie recalled having to consume the blue jelly in the eating sequence.
® Doctor Who was discussed on BBC One's viewer feedback programme Points of View at 4.30pm on Sunday 23 April. Host Jeremy Vine screened a clip from The Pilot and commented on the “rave reviews”. Video contributor Tim Burchell thought Bill and the Doctor were “absolutely fantastic”, Louise Cannon felt the new series had “a new freshness about it” and ‘pilsoriginal’ indicated that it was ‘already far better than the last series’ with Bill compared to the Doctor's former companion, Ace. That evening, Mackie presented the award for Special, Visual Effects and Graphic Effects to the team of the Netflix series The Crown at the British Academy Television Craft Awards at The Brewery in London.
» On Australia’s ABC2 that evening, host Rove McManus was joined on Whovians by Tegan Higginbottom, Adam Richard, Steven ‘Bajo’ O'Donnell and Jordan Raskopoulos and auditioned Charlie Pickering and Kitty Flanagan plus Tom Gleeson from The Weekly as the new Doctor.
® The BBC released a 57” video entitled Hola! on Monday 24 in which Peter Capaldi commented on his astonishment at fans attending the Valencia shoot while Andrew Vardy was interviewed over the phone by Leigh Anne Power on CBC’s Central Morning. A 1'15” video of Ralf Little discussing his appearance was released
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® With signing, the episode was repeated on BBC Two at 1.55am on the morning of Saturday 29 April to an audience of around 300,000. A deleted scene was then screened by BBC America as part of Doctor Who Finale Day on Saturday 1 July; entitled Smile this showed the demise of Goodthing.
® Reviewing Smile in Doctor Who Magazine, Graham Kibble-White felt that the episode was enjoyable with ‘sufficient to ruminate on, and very little to confound’ which made for ‘straight ahead entertainment’.
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the 2’13” Inside Look — Smile with comments from Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie and Steven Moffat. It also featured on Doctor Who: The Complete Series 10 released on Monday 13 November which also included the Inside Look item, the deleted scene of Goodthing’s demise in the greenhouse, the aftershow edition
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the making of the episode with contributions from Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Steven or Moffat, Peter Capaldi and _ Pearl Mackie. The Blu-ray Y) | version of the set came with three lenticular art cards \< A Steelbook edition was also available, exclusive to Amazon, with artwork by Alice J X Zhang. Who Dares’ 2018 Retro Visions A4 wirebound calendar featured 12 pieces of Stuart Manning's retro artwork. The artwork for September was from Smile. A figurine of an Emojibot came with issue 119 of the Doctor Who Figurine Collection, published by Eaglemoss in March 2018.
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Choreographer: Ailsa Berk Ist Assistant Director: Fletcher Rodley uncredited: Sarah Davies} 2nd Assistant Director: James DeHaviland 3rd Assistant Director; Christopher | Thomas Assistant Directors; Rhun Llewelyn, Lauren Pate uncredited; James King, Anwar Fayrouz, Sade Akin, Rosie Brown) Unit Drivers: Sean Evans, Kyle Davies uncredited; Jolyon Davey, Dan Mazhar, Tony McCormack, Darren Davies, Montile jalile, Ashad Mohammed, Brian Simpkins, Kevin Tucker, Paul Watkins, Ashley] Location Manager: Iwan Roberts uncredited; Nicky James] init Manager: Nick Clark [uncredited: Beccy Jones] Production Manager; Medyr Llewelyn uncredited: Adam Knopf] Production Coordinator; Sandra Cosfeld Assistant Production Coordinator: Nicola Chance Production Assistants: Virginia Bonet, Jamie Shaw Assistant Accountant: Justine Wooff Art Department Accountant: Alison Harvey Script Supervisor; Nicki Coles
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Script Executive: Lindsey Alford
Script Editor: Nick Lambon
Assistant Script Editor: Emma Genders
Camera Operator: Mark McQuoid [Steadicam: Alf Tramontin, Dave Morgan; 2nd unit: Martin Stephens]
Focus Pullers: Jonathan Vidgen, Elhein De Wet [uncredited: Matt Hillier]
Camera Assistants: Gethin Williams, Drew Marsden, Dan Patounas [uncredited: Cai Thompson, Leighton Spence, Drew Marsden)
Grip: John Robinson [uncredited Martyn Jones, Ben Moseley]
Assistant Grip: Sean Cronin
Sound Maintenance Engineers: Tam Shoring, Christopher Goding
Gaffer; Mark Hutchings (uncredited: Andy Gardiner]
Best Boy: Andy Gardiner (uncredited; Gawain Nash]
Electricians: Gawain Nash, Gareth Sheldon, Bob Milton, Sion Davies
Supervising Art Director; Henry Jaworski
Art Director: Tim Overson
Standby Art Director; Christina Tom
Set Decorator: Adrian Anscombe
Production Buyer: Sarah Frere
Prop Buyers; Jen Saguaro, Jo Pearce
Draughtpersons: Kartik Nagar, Julia Jones
Storyboard Artist: Adam Pescott
Prop Master: Paul Smith
Props Chargehand; Kyle Belmont
Standby Props: Matt Ireland, Jonathan Barclay
Prop Hands: Scott Howe, Nigel Magni, Matt Watts
Storeman: Jamie Southcott
Concept Artist; Darren Fereday
Graphic Artist: Matt Clark
Graphics Assistant: Jack Bowes
Standby Carpenter: Paul Jones
Rigging: Shadow Scaffolding
Standby Rigger: Colin Toms
Practical Electricians: Callum Alexander, Austin Curtis
Props Driver: Gareth Fox
Construction Manager: Terry Horle
Construction Chargehand: Dean Tucker
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Chargehand Carpenter: John Sinnott Sound Recordist: Delian Ligr Humphreys Carpenters: Tim Burke, Keith Richards, Matt Ferry, uncredited; Tim Surrey]
Campbell Frazer, Chris Daniels, Joe Painter, Costume Designer: Hayley Nebauer
George Rees, Alan Jones, Dan Berrow, Make-up Designer: Barbara Southcott
Mike Venables Music: Murray Gold Construction Driver: jonathan Tylke Visual Effects: Milk, BBC Wales VFX Construction Labourer: Jason Tylke Special Effects: Real SFX in Head Scenic Artist: Clive Clarke Special Creature Effects & Prosthetics:
Painters: Steve Nelms, John Nelms, Paul Murray, Millennium FX
Debby McShane Editor: Will Oswald Assistant Costume Designer; Zoe Howerska Production Designer: Michael Pickwoad oo Costume Supervisor: Kat Willis Director of Photography: Ashley Rowe Costume Assistants: Rebecca Cunningham, (uncredited; Martin Stephens, Damian Bromley]
Leila Headon, Jenny Tindle Line Producer: Steffan Morris « Make-up Supervisor: James Spinks Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin ; Make-up Artists: Megan Bowes, Lolly Goodship BBC Studios eelote:
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Business Affairs Executive: Carol Griggs
Assistant Editors; Becky Trotman, David Davies 1 VFX Editor: Dan Rawlings
Post Production Coordinator; Hannah Jones Dubbing Mixer; Mark Ferda
ADR Editor: Matthew Cox
Dialogue Editor: Darran Clement
Effects Editor; Harry Barnes Foley Editor; Simon Clement
Foley Artist: Meltem Baytok
Titles: BBC Wales Graphics
Title Concept: Billy Hanshaw
Online Editors: Geraint Pari Huws, Mark Hardyman. Assistant Online Editor: Christine Kelly
Colourist: Gareth Spensley
Music Conducted & Orchestrated By Alastair King Music Mixed By Jake Jackson
Music Recorded By Gerry O'Riordan
Music Score Assistant: Jack Sugden
Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG
Head of Production: Gordon Ronald
Production Executive; Tracie Simpson
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Elder brother Robert, much
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and the Terror of the Autons. He later attended the local comprehensive Ysgol Penglais School, Aberystwyth.
Minchin made inroads into media production, co-writing the short amateur horror film Down (2003), using actors from Bridgend Youth Theatre, south Wales, and part-funded by an Arts Council
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Eventually he joined BBC Wales in Cardiff as a script editor, working on the seventh series of Belonging (2006), a long-running family saga starring Eve Myles.
He entered the Doctor Who univers
script- editing on the first two series of spin-off Torchwood (2006-8). His first script-editing duties on Doctor Who were for Children in Need special minisode Time Crash [2007 - see Appendix], before moving onto its dovetailing Christmas Special Voyage of the Damned (2007 - see Volume 57]. The Fires of Pompeii [2008 - see Volume 57] and Turn Left [2008 - see Volume 59] quickly followed. Among other responsibilities at BBC Wales, he would later script-edit several stories for the 2010 series: The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks [see Volume 63], The Vampires of Venice, Amy’s Choice [see Volume 64] and Vincent and the Doctor [see Volume 65].
As well as script-editing, Minchin had a handful of original writing credits for
Torchwood tie-ins: BBC audio The Sin Eaters (2009), online comic strip The Return of the Vostok (2009) and a print comic strip for Torchwood Official Magazine titled Fated to Pretend (2010). He also wrote the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Doctor Who novel The Forgotten Army (2010).
Gradually Minchin stepped up to producing, being made assistant producer on the third series of Torchwood - the successful mini-series Children of Earth (2009) - and also producing a handful of ancillary Who-related documentaries including Inside the TARDIS (2009) and The David Tennant Special (2010).
He was a full series producer on the fourth | and fifth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures (2010/11); he and executive producer Nikki Wilson later collected a BAFTA Cymru 2011 for Best Children's Programme,
Minchin produced the UK end of Torchwood: Miracle Day (2011), which was } a co-production between BBC Wales and the US Starz network.
Promoted to executive producer level at BBC Wales, he oversaw the British BBC adaptation of Dirk Gently (2012), Russell T Davies’ successor to The Sarah Jane Adventures, Wizards vs Aliens (2012/13), and
two Toby Whithouse series Being Human (2013) and The Game (2014).
On 30 April 2013 Minchin was announced as the new executive producer on Doctor Who, replacing Caroline Skinner with immediate effect.
Having returned to the show after three years away, Minchin assumed executive producer duties for the latter Matt Smith days, and oversaw all manner of associated promotional events and tie-ins to The Day of the Doctor [2013 - see Volume 75], though not involved with the story itself. His first official executive screen credit came with Christmas Special The Time of the Doctor [2013 - see Volume 75].
Involved in the casting of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Minchin would oversee all three of the Twelfth Doctor's series.
He summed up his role to The Fan Show in 2017: “It’s my job to work with the producers and all the departments to make all the fantastic ideas and dreams all our writers have into the episodes.”
During his time on Doctor Who he was also exec on Russell T Davies’ production of
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) and on
Doctor Who teen spin-off Class (2016). In July 2016 it was announced well in
' advance that Minchin would leave after the
2017 series of Doctor Who, to be replaced in due course by Matt Strevens at the right hand of new showrunner Chris Chibnall. A year later, Minchin completed his Doctor Who stint, departing with Steven Moffat after finishing Capaldi swansong Twice Upon a Time [2017 - see Volume 89]. It was announced in July 2017 that Minchin was to head drama development at Hartswood West, the Cardiff office of Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue’s Hartswood production company, from September. Married to longstanding Doctor Who script executive Lindsey Alford since May 2010, he lives in Cardiff and has two children.
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Introduction
he way in which the passage of a river erodes its banks, moving material from one side to the other, forms meanders. A winding, repeating, S-shaped path is forged as the river makes its way to the sea. But what if, instead of this prosaic explanation, the sinuous route of the Thames through London, was actually the imprint of a giant, serpentine monster?
Just as Smile [2017 - see page 6] retold the story of enforced happiness in a human colony, Thin Ice also returned to an old idea. The notion of a giant - and ultimately, forgiving - creature held captive was the twist ending to The Beast Below [2010 - see Volume 63]. Seven years later, with a new audience coming to the series, writer Sarah Dollard brought this idea down to Earth, replacing the Star Whale that was instrumental in saving Starship UK with a creature shackled under the Thames.
The Beast Below presented us with a view of humanity unable to live with the knowledge of exploiting another sentient creature (or, less charitably, unwilling to allow the populace to remember for fear of dissent). Thin Ice, meanwhile, gave us an out-and-out villain - Sutcliffe - who is profiting by keeping the creature enslaved. Like the Star Whale, this new leviathan also provided power, on this occasion in the form of super-combustible monster droppings, that burn a hundred times hotter than coal.
Most of the action took place at the last great frost fair - a series of stalls and attractions - that took place on the frozen-over Thames in 1814. The Doctor
mentioned that he'd visited the frost fair before. River Song remembered the Doctor taking her (and Stevie Wonder) there in A Good Man Goes to War [2011 - see Volume 68].
Thin Ice allowed the Doctor's new companion Bill to experience a trip into the past. She also discovered a few uncomfortable truths about the Doctor. Whatever dark secrets the Doctor might have, she soon learned that the important thing is that he is willing to stand up for his beliefs - when he adopted a very hands- on approach to dealing with Sutcliffe.
In the end, echoing sentiments expressed to Clara in Kill the Moon [2014 - see Volume 78] he made it Bill’s responsibility to decide what to do about the creature... Similar to the way Amy set the Star Whale free, it’s up to Bill to do the right thing on behalf of her own kind.
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he TARDIS has landed on the
frozen river Thames during the
last great frost fair of 1814. The Doctor moves it to a “more reliable parking spot” and Bill changes into a suitable outfit, then they visit the frost fair, [1
Bill notices some green lights beneath the ice and a young girl, Kitty, approaches them asking if they have seen her lost dog - which is a distraction while a young boy tries to steal the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. The children run and the Doctor and Bill give chase. Then the boy, Spid lights - and falls through the ice. [2] The Doctor recovers his screwdriver but is unable to save the boy.
Bill is shaken by the boy’s death and accuses the Doctor of not caring. He says that he cares, but that he has to “move on” or more children will die. [3]
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Kitty overhears this conversation and takes them to a hovel she shares with some other children.
The Doctor surmises that there is something under the Thames that’s eating people. He acquires a pair of diving suits and, that night, he and Bill venture out onto the ice. Bill falls through and the Doctor follows her. They discover an enormous fish held captive in chains. [4]
They emerge to the surface, surprising a Pie-Man who is fishing for angler fish. The Doctor guesses that the angler fish are co-operating with the enchained fish, providing it with food. He asks the Pie-Man if he has seen anyone acting suspiciously, which leads the Doctor to investigate some dredgers working upriver. Speaking to the Overseer, the Doctor learns they are working for Lord Sutcliffe and that they have been dredging “mud” from the river created by the giant fish. [5] The overseer believes it is a type of
uel, which is rumoured to
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burn a thousand times longer than coal, and even burns under water.
The Doctor and Bill call on Sutcliffe The Doctor says that diplomacy and tact are required but when Sutcliffe is racist towards Bill, the Doctor punches him on the jaw. [6] The Doctor is restrained, and Sutcliffe explains that the creature has been in the Thames for as far back as records go, passed down as a family secret. [7]
The Doctor and Bill are bundled into a carriage and driven to the Thames, where they are tied up in a tent alongside some explosives. Bill helps the Doctor reach his sonic screwdriver which he uses to summon the angler fish, which makes their guard fall through the ice. [8]
The Doctor thinks the only solution is to set the creature free. He will do that, while Bill gets everyone off the ice. She recruits Kitty and the other children to help her and they start a panic, claiming that the ice is melting. [9]
Seeing the people flee, Sutcliffe gives the order to detonate the explosives - unaware that the Doctor has attached them to the creature’s chains. When they explode, they free the creature.
Sutcliffe goes to the tent to investigate the explosives. [10] The ice breaks, and he falls into the freezing depths.
The Doctor emerges onto the riverside wearing a diving suit and watches with Bill as the creature swims away. [11] They then go to Sutcliffe’s house, where the Doctor arranges for Perry, one of Kitty’s gang, to inherit his wealth.
The Doctor and Bill return in the TARDIS to the Doctor's office in time for some of Nardole’s tea. Nardole is infuriated that the Doctor has been going off-world, reminding him of his oath. [12]
Nardole goes down to the crypt-like chamber, where something is knocking on the vault door...
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The Doctor and Bill dress for Regency London.
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ne of the biggest production
challenges we've ever faced,”
was how executive producer
Steven Moffat described the
recreation of Regency London
for Thin Ice to the Doctor Who Interactive team. This ambitious adventure was Bill's first trip into Earth’s past, and firmly linked to a real event.
In autumn 2015, Steven Moffat had rewatched Face the Raven [2015 - see Volume 83]; impressed by the story, he emailed writer Sarah Dollard and indicated that he very much wanted her to contribute one or two episodes to the next series. On Saturday 14 November, Dollard took part in a Meet the Writers panel at the Doctor Who Festival staged at the ExCeL in
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London, appearing alongside Moffat and Peter Harness. Afterwards, Moffat asked Dollard if she had any new story ideas. Considering a setting to test the Doctor’ new companion, she replied: “Frost fair.” Dollard had been fascinated by research that her friend, journalist and novelist Lili Wilkinson, had undertaken about London's frost fairs for her 2007 historical fantasy Scatterheart. Frost fairs had been staged on the River Thames on various winters between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries; the river froze over for 23 winters from 1309, although such accounts went back to 250 AD. The first frost fair was recorded in 16| and the final one lasted for four days from Tuesday 1 February 1814, with
an elephant led across the river below Blackfriars Bridge. Dollard conceived a story revealing why the 1814 fair was the final such freeze...
As an Australian, Dollard was fascinated by London's culture and history, notably that the fair was a great leveller of British society; according to River Song in A Good Man Goes to War [2011 - see Volume 68] the Doctor had taken her there in 1814 for her birthday, a reference repeated in The Caretaker [2014 - see Volume 78]. Thus, when the Doctor attended again, he would know which were the best pies.
As Moffat and Dollard chatted at the ExCeL, the story took shape. Moffat was intrigued by exploring the unknown oceans of Earth, adding the element of a deep-sea monster supposedly existing in the Thames. Recalling the opening titles of the BBC One soap EastEnders which showed an aerial view of London with the Thames, Moffat felt that the river resembled a vast serpent... “Why is the Thames shaped like it is?” he asked Dollard, suggesting the idea of a monster shaped like the river, Thus the historical setting was fused with monster B-movies such as 1959's The Giant Behemoth, and an idea for a scene in which somebody was pulled down into the Thames through the ice.
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Dollard was then writing for ITV’s new wartime drama The Halcyon and the Starz series The White Princess. The process for writing her new Doctor Who script was swifter following her experience on Face the Raven; without the demise of the Doctor’s companion, the writer saw her second script as “more of a fun episode”. During the story's development, Dollard considered the practical notion of whatever was creating the freeze inhibiting the cold air which caused breath to appear from the mouths of the actors - a recurrent problem in faking cold environments on TV.
he writer was briefed about Bill Ts the Doctor being her tutor via
the audition scenes, with Moffat emphasising that Bill needed to discover new things about the Doctor in each episode as their relationship developed. Dollard’s original idea was that Bill had seen some woodblock prints of the last frost fair, and so wanted to visit it, Being instrumental in writing out Clara, Dollard was excited at writing for a new companion, and was delighted that her episode would be Bill’s first trip to the past, allowing her to shape the character's reactions and having the Doctor react to Bill's experiences; she found Bill to be more excitable and child-like compared to her world-weary, unshockable predecessor.
Considering the idea of Bill, a person
of colour, wanting to travel into the past, Dollard discussed this with the production office and how it may be handled appropriately in the narrative; it was agreed that the 1814 landing would be a random decision taken by the TARDIS. London's street children were another vital element as the writer wanted to involve
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Pre-production
Left: The frost fair’s Pie-Man,
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was my idea, but Frank stole my elephant!” Dollard told Doctor Who Magazine.
When Bill asked why the TARDIS didn’t get back to the university, the Doctor commented: “It’s possible she's grumpy with me. She was cooped up in the office for quite a while there.”
The Doctor and Bill went through the streets ‘in warm, era-appropriate clothes. Bill wears a bonnet, the Doctor a hat. When Bill worried about altering time
by stepping on a butterfly, the Doctor commented: “It’s below freezing. If you're determined to stomp on one we'll have
to consult the Zoological Society.” Bill
Above: generally unseen figures from history, realised that the Doctor wouldn't let her epee and liked the idea of the Doctor and Bill wander around in the past if she could making friends with the local people, with damage the timeline: “You're a history Bill improving the children’s lives and teacher. You're more responsible than giving them a future. that.” The pair passed some protestors During the story’s development, Sarah distributing pamphlets condemning the Dollard attended the Gallifrey One Station fair as vice and sin. Bill was sure that 27 convention in Los Angeles from Friday nothing terrible was going to happen 12 to Sunday 14 February 2016. As a fan because she would have known about of Doctor Who, she enthusiastically joined it from history books. in by cosplaying the Doctor’s companion Donna Noble and also spoke to Christel ‘atthe frost fair Dee of Doctor Who: The Fan Show who was recording a report at the event. s the Doctor and Bill entered the Draft One of ‘Doctor Who Series 10 A frost fair and stepped onto the Episode 3’ did not carry a title beyond hessian pathway across the ice, the the placehold ‘X’ when it was issued on scene was watched from the riverbank Friday 25 March; it was defined as part of by Lord Sutcliffe (‘30s, snooty, pampered Shooting Block 2 to be made with the sixth and rather dim’) who directed his servants episode, Knock Knock [2017 to deal with the protestors. Bill saw the Connections: - see page 86] (which would sword-swallower and wrestlers and played More than a machine ultimately be scheduled as skittles before they met Eric; it was after »® Echoing his comments fourth in the new run). The they were thrown out of his tent that the about piloting his TARDIS opening scene picked up Doctor told Bill that he had been here in Smile (2017 - see page directly from Smile [2017 - see before with his wife and Stevie Wonder. 6], the Doctor reminds Bill page 6] as the Doctor and Bill After the drunk was sucked down into the thathereasonedwith emerged from the TARDIS: ice, the travellers met Kitty (‘an urchin rather than steered ‘Blackfriars Bridge is in front girl... 14ish but looks much younger with his vessel, of them, St Paul’s on the big sad eyes’) who was working with Spider
skyline, through the fog’ “It (‘a skinny boy in a red cap... 13ish’); when
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Spider was sucked down after fleeing
with the sonic, the Doctor looked at
the pamphlet he had been given earlier with the image of the devil under the ice, yanking a man’s ankle. Determining that the fair had to be shut down, the Doctor went to see the waterman in charge. At the riverside, Kitty asked Bill if they had to wait before she was taken to the Old Bailey; Kitty tried to run, but Bill asked her about the lights under the ice. Kitty asked Bill who she was, amazed that the Doctor didn’t talk to her like a servant: “You dress like quality but you don’t sound like it. You don't sound like anything.” Exasperated that the waterman would not close the fair because of the loss of income, the Doctor rejoined them; they couldn't go to the authorities because the police force as Bill knew them hadn't been invented yet. Kitty took the travellers to the condemned building where she lived with Harriet, Perry and Tish. That evening, Bill and the Doctor pondered why tomorrow would be the last time that the Thames ever froze... suggesting that they would resolve the mystery, The Doctor was unsure: “We don't know that we're the ones who make the difference. Someone else could be off defeating it right now, while we sit here. Maybe the real reason the river never freezes again is because in a few years’ time
they demolish old London Bridge and the water starts flowing too fast for ice to form. Or maybe we do win. But in doing so, we don’t make it out alive.” Resolving to investigate that night, the Doctor and Bill collected ‘a heavy cart full of old-school diving equipment’ from a smiling manata warehouse; the Doctor claimed that although technically these items belonged to the man, he invented them, On the ice, the pair wore ‘huge old bubble-headed diving suits, connected to an air unit via two long coils of tubing’. Falling beneath the ice, the pair saw ‘a school of a dozen creepy-looking deep-sea fish nearby, minding their own business. The species looks like a cross between a fleshy blob-fish and an anglerfish, only without the big toothy mouth. Similar to the anglerfish, the most prominent feature is a long growth stemming from the head like a fishing lure, bulbous at the end... a couple of the bulbous ends glow faintly, and then fade to dark again’ Hearing the | deep, strange sound, Bill was affected emotionally and shed a tear, seeing ‘a huge great metal chain, running bank to bank. It’s old: rusted... we see multiple chains crisscrossing the river... The chains jerk and strain to their limits, like something is pushing up against them... _ Beneath the chains, a tectonic movement _ in the riverbed! There’s a great burst of __air bubbles as a crack ruptures open. It stretches and widens, like a great gaping mouth in the ground itself. Within:
Connections:
Sartorial
directions
® The Doctor gives Bill directions to the TARDIS wardrobe, first seen in The Space Museum (1965 - see Volume 5] and then mentioned in Pyramids of Mars [1975 - see Volume 24] before being seen in various forms in stories such as The Androids of Tara (1978 - see Volume 29], The Twin Dilemma [1984 - see Volume 40], Time and the Rani (1987 -see Volume 43] and The Christmas Invasion [2005 ~see Volume 51]. The Doctor's directions echo those he gave Rose in The Unquiet Dead [2005 - see Volume 48).
Left: On thinice.
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; a fathomless blackness... Connections: From the depths comes a Temparal ah) fresh eruption of bubbles and Taupe OE apse: lump of. Sere t floats up from the crevice By venturing nea the in the rough shape of a ball, pestchtiog the effect ot then begins to break apart Stepping of a butterfly Big lumps and tiny particl this Wes.areferencete Odd shoes. A boot. A fob Ray Bradbury's short watch. A crushed pair of story A Sound of Thunder Bpecarieetand Spider's red first published in Colliers SeeUUMey ier sde’a Luge great big eye. Ancient and knowing and desperately sad, The Doctor and a shaken Bill emerged from the water in an abandoned, flooded tunnel where the Pie-Man was fishing. They returned to Kitty’s home with Spider's cap where Harriet told them that the people who spent a lot of time at Blackfriars Bridge were the
magazine in June 1952
in which a party from 2055 travelling back to the time of the dinosaurs killed a butterfly which altered their present when they returned to their own time. Martha Jon had previously alluded to this situation in The Shakespeare Code [2007 - see
‘volumies4) workhouse dredgers,
At the workhouse entrance, the Doctor confronted an Overseer (‘a hardworking chap who hates his job’). Inside, the pair observed operations
and learned that the dried sludge was transported to the steel mill furnaces
as fuel. At Sutcliffe's residence, Bill was unsure about just walking in. “What were you hoping for? Parachutes? A Trojan horse?” asked the Doctor as the door
2d by Canning (‘a supremely deadpan butler’). When Sutcliffe entered and saw “Miss Potts”, he was thrown
but desperately wanted to impress the Doctor and join the Fairford Club; the Doctor claimed that Miss Potts approved new members. While the Doctor scanned him with his sonic, Sutcliffe explained that he became a lord when his father died the summer before last. The Lord
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was questioned about his workhouse and “Tiny”; Sutcliffe said he simply inherited the workhouse which had been in the
family for generations. The creature's restraints were replaced whenever possible as he took his responsibilities seriously;
the beast only fed once a decade, and
the Sutcliffes performed a service to
the country by preventing it feeding on house and mill profits fed and homed thousands. A furious Bill told Sutcliff punching you right now is ‘cause I know way too much about your legal system.” The Doctor and Bill departed, with the Doctor playing devil’s advocate and attempting
to justify Sutcliffe’s stance, provoking Bill into determining to free Tiny. Inside the mansion, Sutcliffe told Canning his doubts about his Fairford visitors...
At the river, Bill considered changing the timeline. “I've had a bit of experience in these matters and I still don’t understand the timeline,’ explained the Doctor.
“You and | are irrelevant to the timeline. You and J are critical to the timeline. The timeline is a can of silly string. The timeline makes its own rules and then
Londoners while wor!
“The only reason I'm not
keeps changing them so you can never keep up.’ At the workhouse, Bill addressed the workers about the missing people,
the creature’s sound of despair, and how Sutcliffe exploited their work... until guilt overcame the Overseer and his workers.
Sonicing the ice
arriet and Tish were working the
dog con on the ice when the Doctor
employed their “theatre troupe”. Bill donned her diving suit to descend via the flooded tunnel, while the workers levered out the bolts holding the chains at the workhouse tunnel. Bill swam alongside the creature to soothe it. While the children created panic on the ice to clear the visitors, Sutcliffe arrived at the workhouse to see his workers departing. The creature was freed, but did not depart. Bill broke the surface and informed the Doctor, “Maybe it’s forgotten,” pondered the Doctor, “how to do anything. How to look after itself. How to be free. All it’s known for centuries is...” He told the children to continue the evacuation, while heading downstream and sonicing the ice, knowing that fish
had been the creature’s only companions. Sutcliffe arrived at the fair, brandishing his rifle. Using his sonic to attract the fish, the Doctor led them to the thin ice area... with the creature slowly following. The Doctor confronted Sutcliffe and warned him of the danger he was in, but Sutcliffe opened fire... and the ice sheet cracked. “That creature is my property. Those tunnels you trespassed upon are my property,” declared Sutcliffe seconds before being sucked down. The Doctor and Bill ran for the shore as the creature appeared through the ice: ‘Its head resembles that of a monkfish, s wide as the river itself and covered in plant-life’ The behemoth departed, its cry now full of hope and beauty.
The Doctor forged documents for Perry to inherit Sutcliffe’s residence as ‘Peregrine’. The children couldn't understand why the travellers were helping them, so Bill explained: “When I was little, I was - well, | wasn’t exactly like you guys - but I was on my own, and this other family took me in. A foster family. You don't have that kind of thing here, not yet, so we're giving you the next best thing.” “A crumbling mansion and a butler,” said the Doctor, eyeing Canning happily serving Tish. The | Doctor told Bill not to call him “Doc”. Back in the | university, Bill looked at the historical news report and the Doctor was horrified to find that they were back in “office hours”... opening his door to see students waiting; he started to deal with them (‘Yes, I failed you. | What's your question?”) while congratulating Bill on saving the children with her idea. i
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Connection
I just called...
® In A Good Man Goes to War [2011 - see Volume 68), River Song told Rory that for her birthday the Doctor had taken her skating on the Thames at the last of the great frost fairs in 1814 as well as getting popular American musician and songwriter Stevie Wonder to sing for her under London Bridge. The Doctor had offered to take Clara to a frost fair on the frozen Thames in The Caretaker [2014 - see Volume 78].
Left: Hanging out at Lord Sutcliffe's house.
“apne On receiving the draft, Steven Moffat onthegent _ Was delighted that Sarah Dollard had not sea creature, taken up time explaining the creature's background as it was irrelevant to Bill’s experience. In the coming weeks, Dollard saw Pearl Mackie’s audition. Draft Two ~ dated Wednesday 4 May - was entitled Thin Ice; deriving in part from the phrase ‘on thin ice’ indicating peril, often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay Prudence. On leaving the TARDIS, Bill wanted to shop for a dress (‘the full Jane Austen”) but the Doctor indicated that his ship would have her size. The viewer was then taken from the bridge ——— down under the ice: ‘There's
Connections: a twitch of movement. Light Smiley glints off something big and ® The Doctor reminds round and black. The murk Bill that a few hours ago clears a little, and we realise they had been standing that what we’re looking at in a garden where humans is looking right back at of the future had been us. It’s an eye! A huge eye. turned to compost In A fish's eye.... And the Smile (2017 - see fish it belongs to must be W page 6]. enormous, because the eye
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diameter... This was where the opening titles (absent from Draft One) were now placed. The protestors were omitted, with Kitty and the children introduced earlier, employed by Dowell (‘huge and shady-looking, a wall of muscle’) to get people on to the ice; Harriet (‘9’), Spider (‘13’) and Perry (‘10’) handed out flyers watched by Kitty and Dot (‘a tiny urchin girl... 6’). Receiving a flyer from Dot, Bill remarked: “I’m in a [Charles] Dickens novel!”; her comments about recorded history and Sutcliffe’s first appear. omitted, and Bill was left affected by the creature’s moans.
Escaping from the ice, the Doctor and Bill returned to Kitty who told them about the tattooed Dowell. The workhouse Overseer now told the Doctor that production had slowed in recent years. Sutcliffe (‘30ish, posh, oily, grasping’) was introduced when visited by the Doctor and Bill, commenting that his father passed on before Christmas. When the Doctor told the Lord that he knew about the creature, Sutcliffe remarked: “Thank God! Can you help me? Can you do something with it?
nce were
Father died and it all came to me and
I- I've been beside myself. A secret like that! Lord. It’s no wonder he drank.” Learning that the creature was eating people, the Lord exclaimed: “If word
gets out... No one will buy Sutcliffe steel ever again. I'll be ruined.” Disgusted, the Doctor and Bill departed, leaving Sutcliffe pleading for help.
At the door, the Doctor asked Canning if he knew of a man with a ship tattooed on his hand; the butler indicated that the man entered via the servants’ entrance earlier and warned the Time Lord that Sutcliffe could be “unpredictable”. Re-entering
the house, the Doctor burst in
on Sutcliffe plotting with Dowell and two heavies; exposed, the Lord had his thugs subdue the travellers, having them tied up in the carriage by Canning. Inside the carriage, Sutcliffe admitted to promoting the fair and that there was
something wrong with the beast; a lack of recent freezes meant a drop in production, which he hoped to reverse by feeding it. The travellers were taken to the barrel- packed tent; the episode's climax closely resembled the broadcast programme, with the Doctor si
Connections: Age appropriate ® The Doctor gives his age as 2,000 years old as he had in Smile [2017 - see page 6] and Deep Breath [2014 - see Volume 76]
I discussing the random
nature of the timeline. Bill found the kids to evacuate the people while the Doctor used the explosives to break the chains. Kitty saw Sutcliffe making for the tent
and attempted to warn him of the danger. When the creature departed, the Pie-Man was soaked along with the Doctor and Bill; the Doctor's sonic was thrown up from the
waves, bouncing off the Pie-Man’s head.
Altering the future
Left: Racist businessman Lord Sutcliffe.
for The Pilot {2018 - see Volume 85]
D uring May, Dollard was given a script
which introduced Bill; learning that Bill was gay, she enthusiastically emailed Moffat to congratulate him on this move. Draft Three, dated Tuesday 7 June, saw the pair discuss their recent escapade and the Time Lord’s responsibility, with the Doctor commenting: “You wanted an adventure and we had one... Sure, it was a bit murder-y. But I should get back to the vault and there are papers
to mark.” Considering the danger of altering the future, Bill asked the Doctor: “Is this Prisoner of Azkaban or Back to
the Future?” in reference to the third book of the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling published in 1999 and the 1985 science-fiction comedy film, both of which
featured time-travel into the past. She also specified her present as being 2017, while the Doctor no longer explained to Bill about the absence of police. The pair no
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Hip to be square
® The Doctor attempts to speak as if he is “down with the kids", having made asimilar attempt to use
fashionable youth lingo while working asa teacher min School Reunion [2006 - see Volume 52]
Right: "Oh, hello. Aren't you
magnificent?”
longer acquired the diving gear from the smiling man at the warehouse.
The sequence at Sutcliffe’s was substantially revised; Canning’s role was reduced, while Dowell and his thugs were departing when the travellers were shown in to Sutcliffe (now 31 rather than 29). The Doctor asked the Lord if he was “definitely the Sutcliffe who owns the dredging house on the Thames?” “I am. What of it?” replied Sutcliffe... whereupon the Doctor, who had earlier told Bill not to lose her cool, punched him. This rare act of physical violence from the Doctor was a specific moment which would be refined; Sarah Dollard told Doctor Who Magazine: “To get the Doctor to a place where he could punch someone, you need to go to a bleak place as well.” The writer saw the Doctor as very emotional and on a hair- trigger, taking his duty of care towards those around him very seriously.
Sutcliffe sent Canning to find his thugs. as the Doctor angrily demanded that the Lord explain about the creature before being tied up in the carriage. Getting free from the tent, a short additional scene had the Doctor and Bill dividing their efforts. Sutcliffe’s arrival was amended and Bill tried to warn the Lord of the danger.
Sarah Dollard’s new script was confirmed by the BBC on Tuesday 14 June; she was present at the readthrough for The Pilot and Smile in London. ‘Was lucky enough to be at the first readthrough for #doctorwho s10 today. SPOILER: @Pearlie_ mack is brilliant. <3’ tweeted the writer.
The second block's director was Doctor Who newcomer Bill Anderson. A writer/ director since the early 1990s, Anderson had his break with Channel 4’s Melissa in
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1997 since when he had worked on series such as Silent Witness, The Lakes, Lewis, Taggart and Mr Selfridge. The producer was Nikki Wilson, alternating with Peter Bennett on the different production blocks. For the tone draft on Friday 17 June, the Doctor and Bill’s discussion of her ethnicity was altered. “That said, there's a lot more melanin down there than. period films would have you believe,” the Doctor told his pupil. “Ships dock in London from all over the world. For the first time since the Vikings, immigration’s finally getting interesting again.” Visiting the urchins’ hovel, the Doctor asked the youngsters who paid them to promote the fair, while Bill’s extended discussion with Kitty was added, as Dot mentioned the tattooed man. The discussion about the sonic working underwater was
| removed, and they surfaced in the tunnel
where the Pie-Man told them about the dredgers. The encounter with the Overseer was moved out to the work yard, some elements of the confrontation
with Sutcliffe were changed, and there was an increased emphasis on Bill making the decisions.
‘T'm in Cardiff today and just saw a #doctorwho set that might be my new favourite set ever; tweeted Dollard after seeing the Doctor's office on Wednesday 29 June. The readthrough draft was issued on Sunday 17 July, altering dialogue about the ship being unhappy stuck in the corner of the office, the discussion about Bill fitting into society and the directions to the wardrobe. The Doctor’s comments about ‘Pete’ were added, and Bill no longer felt that she was in a Dickens novel. The Doctor’s comment about history being a whitewash was added along with his explanation of why the sonic was sonic; the lights under the ice were specified as green, burning white as they intensified, Bill’s shock at Spider’s death and the Doctor's attitude was added, with the Doctor making reference to Smile and saying that in 2,000 years he never had time for the luxury of outrage; this replaced the
scene with the waterman who was now
a non-speaking character. The Sutcliffe confrontation was again reworked, with Canning now reduced to a non-speaking character, and the Doctor punching the Lord because of his prejudiced reaction towards Bill. “It’s centuries of rage spilling out,” Dollard commented in Doctor Who Magazine; the Doctor's act of physical violence needed to be carefully framed, demonstrating his anger at the abuse he witnessed. A scene of the Doctor preparing to dive was dropped and elements of
the climax were omitted, such as the Pie-Man being soaked.
ER
ee location work on Smile,
Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie
were back at Roath Lock by 7pm on Monday 18 July for the readthrough of Thin Ice and Knock Knock. Capaldi was intrigued by the real historical event, while Mackie was taken with Bill confronting the Doctor's attitude to death. At the readthrough, Sarah Dollard was told that Nardole would be inserted at a later juncture and likely appear in other new episodes.
Playing Lord Sutcliffe was Nicholas Burns whose television credits included BBC2’s Absolute Power, the title role of Channel 4's satire Nathan
—— ———, Barley, ITV's Benidorm and Connections: ITV2's superhero sitcom Funky name
No Heroics; he had also recorded the Big Finish audio Torchwood: Moving Target.
The Pie-Man was played by Peter Singh who had featured in the BBC drama In the
Club while the Overseer was writer/actor Simon Ludders who had appeared in CBBC’s
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® Posing as amember of the Fairford Club, the Doctor gives the alias of ‘Doctor Disco, aname he had previously used in The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion [2015 - see Volume 82].
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Right: Street children Spider
and kitty.
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Young Dracula as well as Scoop, Gigglebiz, Becoming Human and Broadchurch; Ludders had also recorded the Torchwood audio drama Outbreak for Big Finish in May 2016. Dowell was played by Tomi May, seen in the BBC drama Line of Duty.
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he shooting script was issued on Ties 28 July. The Doctor and
Bill now struggled ashore on the riverbank rather than the tunnel and “code” was introduced to the conversation with the Overseer. Dialogue with the Doctor asking Bill for orders was expanded as was Sutcliffe’s demise, and the butler was now nameless. Bill’s speech about her foster family was dropped, and the new closing scene with Nardole added as he backed ‘in through the office door with a tray of tea things, just minutes after we left him at the start of ep2’. Smile’s sequence of Nardole going to make tea had been added during early June. The script also gained a chronology. The opening scene was set at 14.30 on Day 15 (a change from the original landing at 22.17 on Day 14 in Smile's shooting script), with Kitty meeting Dowell at 14.45 and the Doctor and Bill approaching the fair at 15.07. The Doctor recalled his last visit at 15.25, Bill won at skittles at 15.52 and the drunken man was taken at 16.00. The travellers met Kitty at 16.06 and Spider was taken at 16.10. The pair entered the condemned building at 17.00,
with Bill talking to Kitty at 19.30 before leaving at 19.35 and returning with diving equipment at 20.20 to go onto the ice at 20.40. After struggling back to the riverside at 20.45, they interrogated the Pie-Man at 20.48. Day 16 began at the workhouse at 08.30, with the visit to Sutcliffe at 09.30, the travellers bound at 09.45 and bundled into the coach at 09.47. The captives
were taken into the tent at 11.40, Dowell met his fate at 11.53, Sutcliffe ordered detonation at 11.55 and Tiny was freed
at 11.58, The urchins arrived at Sutcliffe’s at 15.30, and the TARDIS returned to the study at 22.18 on Night 14 (Smile's opening scene having been specified as 22.15 on Night 14).
Costume designer Hayley Nebauer’s historical research included contacting the Company of Watermen and Lightermen in London to recreate the exact sleeve badges that would have been sported by the Thames watermen. Ml
ecording on Monday 1 August
2016 was scheduled for the
standard hours of 7.30am
to 7pm, starting with the
Doctor's study from The Pilot
in Studio 2 with Luke Baker and Holly Stott-Penna from Doctor Who Interactive present. The episode’s final scene was recorded first, clearing Matt Lucas’ work on the block so he could return to Los Angeles; Lucas ad-libbed Nardole adding coffee to the tea. The unit headed out to the premises of the management consultancy firm Business in Focus at Enterprise House on Cardiff's Bute Street which provided the yard of the dredger’s workhouse. Although its numerous layers made it awkward to don, Pearl Mackie loved her period costume which made her feel like Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, while Peter Capaldi
enjoyed the addition of a navy blue top hat to the Doctor's usual ensemble. After recording the travellers’ approach and meeting with the Overseer (completing Simon Ludders’ contribution), Capaldi changed costume to emerge from the well in a diving suit. Simulated snow and frost caused complications throughout the shoot, as Capaldi recalled in The Finale Countdown programme: “My wonderful costume lady, Leila, had to brush me all the time, and was very patient - whereas I wasn't.” “The snow wasn’t great. It gets everywhere. In your eyes. In your nose,” Mackie told the Interactive team, relieved that Bill did not sport her afro for the bulk of the adventure. Rain plagued the shoot, and the leads discovered that the diving suits (based on an 1837 design) were very heavy, being made in copper and brass with a waxed double-layer body
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Cast and crew on the vast frost fair set.
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® Referring to the creature as the “loch-less monster” and "not-so-little mermaid’, the Doctor cited both the strange being which supposedly lives in Loch Ness in Scotland (which he had encountered versions of in Terror of the Zygons [1975 - see Volume 23] and Timelash [1985 - see Volume 41]) and had been the subject of media sightings since 1933 and the heroine of the Danish fairytale The
Little Mermaid by Hans Christlan Andersen published in 1837,
Right: Regency meets the twenty- first century.
and rubber seals. The glass helmets were claustrophobic and difficult to hear in.
Recording from 7.30am to 5.30pm on Tuesday 2 took place at Bute Street’s Custom House, a former customs and immigration building dating from 1898. The initial exterior scene of Kitty leading the way to the condemned building was dropped as unnecessary; instead work focused on the interior material with the urchins, planned carefully around the working hours of 15-year-old Asiatu Koroma, 10-year-old Kishaina Thiruselvan and 12-year-old Badger Skelton (available to Spm) and six-year-old Ellie Shenker (available to 3.30pm). Unspecified in the script, the Doctor's story for the children was the cautionary tale The Story of the Thumb- Sucker (Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher) from the 1845 children’s book later known as Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann. With the children’s sequences completed, the Doctor telling Bill they needed to get eaten concluded work.
Wednesday 3 August found the team on the standing TARDIS set in Studio 4, first recording the travellers’ return to 2017 and then - after a costume change - all their arrival scenes in the Regency era, before moving onto scenes for Knock Knock.
The team remained in studio on Thursday 4 where Asiatu Koroma was available from 11am. Studio 3 had been transformed into part of the vast frost fair with the Thames’ banks and ice sheet. Work began with Bill leaping off the ice to be grabbed by the Doctor;
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Troy Kenchington doubled for Capaldi with Crispin Layfield acting as stunt co-ordinator, assisted by Belinda McGinley. Kitty being given the flyers by Dowell was recorded next; work was swift, and the drunken man scene wrapped early at 6.30pm.
Writers Mark Gatiss and Rona Munro dropped in on recording on Friday 5 during work in Studio 3. Scenes with the children were cleared first, starting with Kitty and Spider fleeing the fair, followed by Spider’s demise, with Jo McLaren as stunt co-ordinator. Next came scenes in Sutcliffe’s tent of Dowell binding his captives and the Lord finding the tent empty.
‘On my way to Cardiff to the #DoctorWho set to see them filming my ep,’ tweeted Sarah Dollard on Monday 8 August. Pink script revisions made changes to Sutcliffe’s outburst in his house and elements of the subsequent scene, while the Interactive team accompanied Pearl Mackie on a tour of the vast frost fair set. Bill’s win at skittles and the Doctor’s delight over
pies were recorded in their respective
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and Bill; originally, the Doctor retrieved the fallen sonic with his feet, but this was given to Pearl Mackie. Outside the tent was recorded the pair’s escape, the carriage’s arrival and Dowell standing guard, while set visitors included former EastEnders star Shaun Williamson and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher who were touring in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; a cast and crew night out was then held at The Dock in Cardiff Bay
from 8pm.
Left:
diving suits,
he coming weeks were largely tents, and Crispin Layfield supervised the Teves to Knock Knock; Pearl Mackie Pie-Man's manhandling of the Doctor. The had a diving suit fitting on Tuesday
day concluded in ‘Tent 1’ where Spider and | 23 August while on location, and a camera
Kitty examined the sonic and from which test for the diving helmet on Wednesday Bill and Perry cleared the public. Again, 24, Work resumed on Thin Ice on Monday work was swift; an unscheduled shot of the | 29 August in Studio 3 with the Doctor fair seen during Bill’s screams was achieved | and Bill preparing to dive, after which before the 7pm wrap. ‘Spoiler-free report Capaldi and Mackie donned diving suits from the #DoctorWho set: PCap & PMack and ventured out onto the ice before
are a phenomenal duo, the sets & costumes | emerging from the Thames and meeting are breathtaking, commented Dollard the Pie-Man. Cutaways of the Doctor who had been deeply impressed with the appearing in the ‘eskimo hole’ were
large Blackfriars Bridge being constructed recorded, and the strange fish were props
in Studio 4; this was so large that part of made by Millennium FX and supervised by
the TARDIS wall had been temporarily Darren Robinson. —
removed to make room. On Tuesday 30 August, - Connections: Seventy supporting artists (including the unit travelled to Bristol's | Decisions,
10 children) brought the fair to life on conference and wedding decisions
Tuesday 9. The Doctor's marital admission ! venue Kings Weston House | a Aswith previous decisions
was recorded first before the Time Lord to work from 7.30am to where humanity had
noticed the sword-swallower played by 6.30pm; the Grade 1 listed to weigh its own needs
professional contortionist Bendini who building completed in 1719 against those of a single
then recorded inserts for the episode's became Sutcliffe’s lavish alien creature, the Doctor
climax. After the wrestling sequence, Jo home. The urchins’ arrival asks for a decision from
McLaren supervised Spider's theft of the at their new home as they his human companion...
sonic before the Doctor and Bill’s pursuit, entered the hallway (the as he previously had with
crowd shots establishing Sutcliffe’s tent portrait gallery) came first; Clara Oswald in Killthe
and Kitty attempting to evacuate the fair. | a carriage and two horses Moon [2014 - see Wednesday 10 focused on Sutcliffe’s were supplied by Steve Q Volume 78]
tent, starting with the imprisoned Doctor Dent’s Rickmansworth firm
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Connections:
Heads up
® Nardole bemoans the fact ‘that he had never asked to be reassembled following his decapitation in The Husbands of River Song [2015 - see Volume 84]
and having been made whole again priorto The Return of Doctor Mysterio [2016 - see Volume 85) after his head had been placed in King Hydroflax.
Right: Peter Capaldi suits up,
and supervised by Haydn Webb, Billie White and Vince Aves (who played Sutcliffe’s coachman). The carriage was then used for the Doctor and Bill scenes, after which Capaldi and Mackie donned diving suits again and performed parts of their underwater encounter against a greenscreen on which crosses indicated the creature's eye and mouth. The Bristol Report ran a story about the shoot later that day.
Working the same hours at Kings Weston the following day, the team used the Oak Room as Sutcliffe’s drawing room, Stunt co-ordinator Dani Biernat supervised the Time Lord’s punch, and the scheduled scenes were completed by 5.50pm along with pick-up shots of the objects coming from the monster's mouth (against greenscreen) and Bill's phone depicted in the final scene. Location work was covered in the MailOnline report Peter Capaldi enjoys an animated conversation as he welcomes young fans after filming new scenes on set of Doctor Who by Jason Chester.
Back at Roath Lock on Thursday 1 September, frost fair crowd sequences were staged, starting with Smile’s conclusion with the elephant (actually the assistant director making elephant noises) on the New Lime Wharf/Blackfriars Bridge set constructed in Studio 4. Early scenes of the new arrivals surveying London 1814 were recorded, along with part of the Blackfriars Bridge scene after the relocation of the 2013 police box prop. Capaldi and Mackie had costume changes before their encounter with Dot and descent to the fair. That evening, Block 2’s wrap party was held at The Dock.
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After recording Bill paying the waterman, Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie undertook a photoshoot in Studio 3 during work on Friday 2. Further Studio 4 work included the student’s horror at the food on offer, and her confronting the realities of death. Capaldi then departed for a costume fitting for a later story while Sutcliffe trying to send people back to the ice was recorded. The star then returned to record elements of the Doctor declaring that he and Bill should get themselves eaten and the TARDIS’ departure, plus pick-ups of the pair staggering ashore.
“rene
he third recording block of the
new series started on Monday 5
September while the Thin Ice unit had a couple of days to complete its work. Capaldi’s work on Thin Ice - the Doctor and Bill returning to the riverbank after cleared first in Studio
their dive - was
3 so that he could be released for the Christmas Special. Mackie removed her diving suit while the unit recorded the urchins attempting to evacuate the crowds in Studio 4. Other scenes with Bill and the children were recorded for the climax in Studio 3, along with Sutcliffe’s demise and a pick-up of Dottie wearing the top hat Tuesday 6 began with Sutcliffe attempting to detonate the explosive and continued with the ice parting beneath him - supervised by Crispin Layfield in Studio 3. A shot of the lights gathering around Bill’s feet was recorded with a foot double for Pearl Mackie. Meanwhile in Studio 4, a splinter unit recorded Gareth Weekley doubling for the Doctor and stunt performer Belinda McGinley standing in for Bill in the greenscreen shot of the travellers looking at the creature's eye. Recording then continued in Studio 9 - normally used by Casualty - for various shots from the Thames, Spider’s hand (performed by Tegan Foley), Bill’s tube, the Doctor's feet penetrating the ice, and Bill’s fall into the Thames, again performed by McGinley. Work wrapped early at 5.40pm, leaving only the underwater elements outstanding.
During August, it had been
that additional underwater shots were required. Line producer Steffan Morris contacted the Model Unit visual effects
Above: The cameramen take their positions.
decided
team run by Mike Tucker which had handled miniature work on episodes such as The Day of the Doctor [2013 - see Volume 75]. To augment the Doctor sinking through the ice, Tucker recalled that in the film The Abyss miniatures had been used to achieve a similar effect. Studying this puppet sequence via Berton Pierce's 2012 documentary Sense of Scale, Tucker
was able to demonstrate
to Nikki Wilson and Bill Anderson that the shot could be achieved using a one-third scale puppet of the Doctor and a breakaway section
of ice, filmed as part of the scheduled tank shoot in
late September.
With reference material from Hayley Nebauer, Alan ‘Rocky’ Marshall crafted the puppet’s body and internal mechanism; sculpted in clay, a plaster mould was taken to create the latex and
Connections:
Look away
® The Doctor indicates to Bill that humanity can overlook the inexplicable as he had done when talking to Acein Remembrance of the Daleks [1988 - see Volume 44]. He had also told Clara in In the Forest of the Night [2014 - see Volume 79] that humanity had the superpower of forgetting such events.
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polyfoam prop which was weighted with lead. Tucker fashioned the diving helmet from plaster, and this was moulded in silicone to create a fibreglass version; the airline was extruded Plastazote rope. Inside this was placed a miniature of Capaldi’s head, moulded in silicone and cast in polyurethane resin by Madame Tussauds
sculptor Stephen Mansfield.
T he underwater shoot was scheduled
for the Real SFX tank at Pinewood
Studios Wales, Rumney from 7.30am to 7pm on Thursday 22 September. Nicholas Burns was the only cast member required for Sutcliffe’s fall into the water, doubled by Andrew Buford under Dean Forster's supervision. Shots of the Doctor's
5c, a, a,
feet seen through the ice were recorded before the Model Unit team comprising Tucker, Alan “Rocky” Marshall and Colin Mapson (visual effects designer on serials such as The Hand of Fear [1976 - see Volume 25) performed their shots. The ice was a textured acrylic sheet with multiple wax breakaway sections through which the puppet was dropped.
In early 2017, extra scenes featuring Nardole and the vault were written by Steven Moffat for Thin Ice, Knock Knock and Oxygen [2017 - see Volume 87]. Shooting scripts were issued on Thursday 26 January 2017, with the scenes recorded by a second unit on Wednesday 22 February. Bill Anderson and Charles Palmer returned to direct the material for their respective episodes, with the Thin Ice sequence starting recording at 7,30am in Studio 1. i
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Mon 1 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 2 (The Doctor's Office); Business InFocus, 127-129 Bute Street, Cardiff (Dredger’s Workhouse; Dredger's
Work Yard)
Tue 2 Aug 16 Custom House Bute Street,
Cardiff (Kitty's House; London Street) Wed 3 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 4 (The TARDIS) Thu 4 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 3 (Outer Edges - The Thames Frost } Fair; Thames Riverbank - Down Stream; The Frozen Thames) FriS Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3 (Outer Edges - The Thames Frost Fair; The Frozen Fair; The Thames Frost Fair-Sutcliffe’s Tent) Mon 8 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3 (Tent 2 - The Thames Frost Fair; The Thames Frost Fair; Tent 3 - The Thames Frost Fair; Tent1-The Thames Frost Fair)
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Tue 9 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 3(The Thames Frost Fair; The Thames Frost Fair - Sutcliffe’s Tent)
Wed 10 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 3 (The Thames Frost Fair - Sutcliffe's Tent)
Mon 29 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3(The Thames Riverbank; The Frozen Thames; The Thames Riverbank ~ Downstream; Element of Eskimo Hole) Tue 30 Aug 16 Kings Weston House, Avonmouth, Bristol (Lord's Residence; Lord's Residence - Hallway; Carriage; Underwater - The Thames Riverbed) Wed 31 Aug 16 Kings Weston House (Lord's Residence - Drawing Room)
Thu 1 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 4 (The Thames Frost Fair; Blackfriars Bridge; London Street; Thames Riverbank)
Fri 2 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 4 (Thames Riverbank; The Thames Frost Fair; London Street; Blackfriars
Bridge; Thames Riverbank - Downstream)
Mon 5 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 4 (The Thames Riverbank - Downstream; The Thames Frost Fair;
The Thames Frost Fair - Area 1/Area 2/ Sutcliffe's Tent - Area 2/Area 3; Thames Riverbank - Area 2; Kitty's House); Studio 3 (The Thames Frost Fair)
Tue 6 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 3 (Thames Riverbank; The Thames Riverbank - Downstream; The Thames Frost Fair- Sutcliffe's Tent; SFX Ice Rig; The Frozen Thames); Studio 4 (Green Screen); Studio 9 (Element of Eskimo Hole; Trap Door on Greenscreen; Ice Rostra) Thu 22 Sep 16 Pinewood Wales, Pinewood Studio Wales, Wentloog Environmental Centre, Wentloag Ave, Rumney (The Thames Frost Fair; The Frozen Thames)
Wed 22 Feb 17 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 1 (The Vault Chamber)
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J MM ost-production elements added to the recorded material
be sick of here by now,” the Doctor said Above: The time
to his vessel as Bill re-entered and began
3 travellers land included the elephant, the to say: “The Thames froze over and they in Regency London 1814 vista, the creature __ walked an elephant across it? No wonder England.
and its departure, lights beneath the ice, the closing ice holes and some of those who fell through them (although some shots simply had the performer fall out of frame), and the TARDIS trip from Blackfriars Bridge to St Luke's. As usual, a music score for the serial was composed by Murray Gold Cuts were made to fit the episode into a 50-minute slot. After the Doctor told Bill the date on which they had landed, Bill went back to the doors and looked outside at the frozen nineteenth-century London. “Why here? You know here. You ought to
people died so young in the past, they’re a bunch of...” After the Doctor relocated the TARDIS and commented about her being a “bad girl’, he added: “Being stuck in the corner of my office isn’t her idea of a party and she doesn’t want to go back.” “Wait, hang on - the TARDIS is a living thing?” asked Bill as the craft powered down. “Don't call her that,” said her tutor. “Why not?” asked the student. “She's a machine. She finds it offensive,’ explained the Doctor as he made for the doors. Considering the potentially dangerous situation confronting her outside the
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TARDIS, Bill asked the Doctor: “But do we just go like this? Don't you have, I dunno, equipment, weapons - okay not weapons.”
The first scene after the opening titles was set in the quiet, dark corner of a back alley where Kitty heard footsteps and asked: “Who's there?” The large figure of Dowell loomed over her, a tattoo of a ship on the back of his hand. “You're late,” said Kitty, unscared, holding her hand out for the coins which Dowell dropped into it, before asking: “And? Where's the rest?” “Get the numbers up by sunset tomorrow, you earn the other half” replied the man, giving her a stack of flyers. “Why do you care about the frost fair? You let your pockets to the watermen or summat?” asked the girl. “You want the rest? You get people out on the ice and you don't ask questions,” he told her, causing her to scowl but then back off. In the next sequence at the bridge, Harriet pushed a flyer into the hands of a passing lady, saying: “Come to the frost fair, Miss!” Spider and Perry also handed out the advertisements watched from nearby by Kitty and Dot; “A real live elephant, Sir! You won't believe your eyes!” proclaimed Spider. The material of Bill asking the Doctor if people didn’t notice the TARDIS and the vessel’s detection of a life form in the Thames were added later in dubbing and editing; originally during this sequence, Kitty and Dot were to be shown spotting the Doctor and sizing him up.
After the Doctor commented that he had been to the fair a few times, the next scene found him and Bill exiting a tent with steaming coffees in cups bearing the hand-painted legend ‘Bought upon the River Thames, 1814’. “So, you had to find a piano?” asked Bill. “Yes,” replied the
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Time Lord. “And get it down onto the ice?” continued his student. “Yes, right under the bridge there, right there, yeah,” agreed her mentor. “Why?” exclaimed Bill. “Well, my wife wanted to see Stevie Wonder,
and it seemed like a romantic spot,” recalled the Doctor as they spotted the sword-swallower. “Wait. You're married?” exclaimed Bill. “I know - the good ones are always taken,” agreed the Doctor.
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the Doctor was distracted by the hat of a gentleman who had just entered: “Ooh. I like that.” When he returned to her side with the stolen hat, he asked: “What's wrong?” Having seen the green lights in the ice, Bill sniffed her cup and remarked: “I’m not entirely sure this is just coffee.” Inside the pie tent, the Pie-Man initially told Bill: “Heads the pie is yours, no charge.”
After the drunken man vanished beneath
the ice, the Doctor and Bill walked along
studying the frozen river as the student asked: “Is this why the TARDIS brought you back here? Because you missed something last time?” “Wouldn't surprise me,” replied her mentor as he asked her opinion on the nature of the lights. After the Doctor explained that his screwdriver was sonic because it made a noise, he continued: “Chase now, criticise later?” “Got it,” agreed Bill as they spotted Kitty and Spider.
Bill asking Kitty if the condemned building was where she and the others lived was added in dubbing. When Kitty spotted Dot's feet, Perry’s voice said: “Told you!” Later when Kitty noted that Bill was staring at her, the student apologised: “Sorry... how old are you?” The girl shrugged to Bill’s horror: “You don’t know how old you are?” “Why'd you care? You want to send me to the workhouse?” asked the girl. “Course not, it’s just...” began Bill, “Where I'm from, if kids don't have families, they're not left on their own. Not for long.” “Not on my own, am I,” said Kitty. “No, you're not. All 1 mean is... Isn't there anyone who can help?” asked the
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young woman. “Help how?” replied the urchin, “I put my hand out, they'd have me locked up before they took my name. What'd happen to this lot then?” She glanced at the other children listening to the Doctor’s story and added: “They need me... Spider needed me.” “Kitty, that wasn't your fault,” insisted Bill as she knelt down to reassure the girl. When Dot explained about the ship on the man’s hand, the Doctor confirmed: “A tattoo? He has a tattoo of a ship?” The children nodded.
Out on the frozen river at night, Bill's question about needing a diving suit on top of the ice was added in dubbing. When the Doctor pondered how the lights tracked Spider, he considered: “I wonder if it’s sound. Vibrations through the ice.” Having fallen through the ice, when the Doctor saw Bill gesticulating, he originally said inside his helmet: “I can’t hear you! Slow down.” There was further dialogue during this scene. “Bioluminescence! But not only that. Calefaction too, to melt the ice. Fascinating,” said the Doctor as he looked at the fish. “Why aren't they trying to eat us?” asked Bill. “WHAT?” asked the Doctor until Bill did a little mime with her fingers of a big creature eating a person followed by a shrug. “Good point!” agreed the Doctor. “They don’t have the jaws for a carnivore. So why get us down here if not for food? What do they want?” They then heard the moaning which vibrated the water. “What's that?” asked Bill as the Doctor located the chain. “What the...?” exclaimed Bill as the chains shifted. When the red cap came from the creature's jaws, Bill gasped: “Spider... It’s... it’s a mouth... What are you?”
Back on the surface, the Doctor's comment that the —
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Left:
Peter Singh the Pie-Man with Peter Capaldi
Connections:
® Nardole reminds the Doctor of his oath to guard the vault and that he should not go off world as established in The Pilot [2017 - see Volume 85) and reiterated in Smile
[2017 - see page 6].
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creature was a prisoner in chains was added during ADR. When Bill assumed that the creature was alien, as she and the Doctor started to move back upstream, the Time Lord remarked: “Plenty of Earth creatures look alien the first time you see them. The platypus, for instance. The yeti- crab. 7 “The pangolin 1 love pangolins,” enthused Bill. “Actually, pangolins are alien,” commented her tutor “No way!” exclaimed Bill. “Point is, this planet's surface is 70 per cent water and humans have explored a tenth of it at most. You lot have no idea what's down there in the dar “Cool. Thanks for that. Never going swimming again,” said Bill.
When Bill asked the Pie-Man if he had seen anyone acting suspiciously since the freeze, he pointed at the Doctor: “Yes. Him.” “Hah! Very good. This is why I like you,” said the Doctor. “What about up where the ice is thicker? Anyone, I don’t
he star-nosed mole.”
continued the Doctor.
know, keeping an eye on things?” asked Bill. The end of the scene with the Pie- Man's comments and Bill asking what the dredgers were dredging for were overlaid over the start of the next scene; shrugging, the Pie-Man originally observed, “Don’t
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like anyone fishing round here. Gotta be careful.”
When Sutcliffe arrogantly explained to Bill about how men would die in the coal mines working to fuel his mills, he continued to the Doctor: “I realise you're Scottish but nevertheless you're clearly educated - you know we live in an age of industry, an age of progress. Progress requires fuel, and acquiring it s.” After the Lord claimed to move the country and empire forward, the Doctor told him: “You are one single solitary human. The young boy who died on the river was the same. One single solitary human. Oh don’t worry, I know it’s not just you. There’s no way that creature has gone undiscovered this long. Someone must know. Someone knows and they turn
is a dangerous busines:
a blind eye because you pay your taxes and you ‘move the Empire forward’” When Sutcliffe told Dowell that the plan would proceed immediately in daylight, he added “And they’re coming with us.”
Placed inside the carriage, Bill told her tutor: “So I’ve thought about it and I reckon it’s probably a good thing you don’t carry a weapon.” “Yeah, well Maybe that’s the reason I don't,” replied
the Doctor. In the tent, after the Doctor smelt the homemade rocket fuel used as explosive, Bill remarked: “I’m thinking of a very appropriate expletive.” “Me too,” agreed the Doctor as the two were pushed down on the ice. Sutcliffe’s comment that the creature would be fed was added in dubbing. As the Doctor manipulated the sonic screwdriver despite his bonds, Bill suggested resorting to her former tactic of yelling: “We're too quiet, he'll think we're up to something. Maybe I should keep...” “No! No, please don't,” pleaded the Doctor, as she smirked at him, teasingly.
aving got free, when Bill pondered [Hl the fate of “Tiny”, after the Doctor
reminded her of the risk posed by the creature, she said: “This is more than stepping on a butterfly. This could change the whole future...” “Everything does that, every day of your life. We're not here to preserve the timeline, we're here to make history,” said her tutor, asking for
_ ripples.” “Maybe,” agreed the Doctor as
her decision. At the end of the scene, the Doctor's instruction to Bill to get everyone off the ice was added in ADR. This covered the omission of the next scene as the pair burst from the tent. “What? What is it?” asked Bill of the detonation cable in the Doctor's hands. “If we stop the explosion at noon, he'll just blow it some other time,” reasoned the Time Lord, “As long as the ice is still here, the crowds aren't safe.” “So what do we do?” asked Bill. “We clear the ice. Go. Quick. You don't have long,” said the Doctor grimly, “Me? What are you going to do?” asked his student. Thinking fast, the Doctor said: “You gave me an order, boss. I’m going to do as I’m told. Now hurry.” In the subsequent sequence, Sutcliffe’s orders to blow the explosives now were added in dubbing from a later scene where the Lord spoke to his minions on the riverbank, and as Bill got the children off the ice, she looked at Sutcliffe’s tent and said quietly: “Whatever you're doing, please be ready...”
Hauling himself from the water into the yard, the Doctor looked back at the river and said with reference to the directions to
q Left: Neverland in JM Barrie’s 1911 novel Peter The Doctor and Wendy: “Sea's that way - straight on till and Bill geta morning. You go, girl!” Back on the ice, Bill $02king for
: their troubles, urged the last stallholders to flee: “Don't
make me pick you up and carry you!” As his Lordship made for his tent, she called out: “Sutcliffe! Get off the ice, you idiot!” After the Doctor adjusted the document about Sutcliffe’s heir, when the TARDIS departed Bill commented: “So I get that the timeline makes its own rules and a all... but we must’ve changed something, right? I mean, people saw a monster in the Thames. That’s gonna cause some
they travelled inside his vessel. Part of this dialogue was used over the subsequent scene in the study. i
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® Thin Ice was previewed in Doctor Who Magazine issue 511 on Thursday 6
April; Peter Griffiths’ three-page article
featured a discussion with Sarah Dollard. On Wednesday 19, Sarah Dollard and Hayley Nebauer joined Christel Dee to record the episode's aftershow for Doctor Who: The Fan Show at Multichannel Studios and interviews with Rove McManus for ABC2's Whovians.
3A 10" transmission on Saturday 22 April, followed on Sunday 23 by a 42” preview clip of Bill being sucked into the Thames. The first Doctor Who and the BBC micro:bit lesson went live for school children aged 11 to 13 on Monday 24 April, featuring specially recorded material of Peter Capaldi as
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railer was released after Smile’s
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the Doctor. On Tuesday 25, Patrick Mulkern heralded the ‘superb episode’ as the Pick of the Day in his Radio Times preview alongside a shot of the TARDIS duo in period garb while a shot of the Doctor in diving apparel emphasised the billing.
's 26” introduction was released on Wednesday 26, while a similar 58” video saw Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie filling in historical context on Thursday 27. Bill’ in 1814 formed another 57” preview on Friday 28, the same day that Dan Wootton of The Sun reported that Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave
was close to landing ‘a starring role’
in Doctor Who. By Friday 28 April, Capaldi was in Alberta, Canada, taking part in a panel at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo.
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Above: production in which Peter Capaldi and of the Radio Times found Paul Reynard ee Pearl Mackie recalled their costumed of Manchester describing Thin Ice as dilemma. experiences and the 17’41” edition of ‘a wonderfully scripted, beautifully Doctor Who: The Fan Show. On Sunday realised and superbly acted story’. 30 April, a 1'26” of Pearl Mackie on the frost fair set was released, while BBC ® The deleted scene of the Doctor telling America offered a 1'00" Doctor Who Bill about previous visits to the Frost Closer Look video featuring the stars’ Fair (Bill Finds Out the Doctor’s Married) comments on the historical setting. was aired by BBC America during I Didn’t Order Fish Fingers was the Doctor Who Finale Day on Saturday title of a 2’03” discussion about the 1 July. ‘I lack the space to fully Doctor's violent streak with reference communicate my enthusiasm for this to the Third Doctor's abilities with adventure, was Graham Kibble-White's aikido, as discussed by Steven Moffat verdict on Thin Ice when he reviewed it and Peter Capaldi on Monday 1 May, for Doctor Who Magazine. ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION EPISODE DATE TIME CHANNEL DURATION —_RATINGICHART APPRECIATION INDEX Thinice Saturday 29 April 2017 7.20pm-8.10pm BBC One 44'13" 5,61M (25th) 84 REPEAT TRANSMISSION Thin ice Saturday 6 May 2017 2.05am-2.55am' BBC Two 44'13" 0,32M (-) ] A BBC Two. Signed repeat. Scheduled for 1,50am-2.40am |
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UNCREDITED Sunny Ghosh... »wElephant Handler Katherine Saunders, Jade Hayestn i Female Acrobats ee lnmocent. Kevin O'Brien, Grenville Barker, Simon Challis, Richard Michael, Guillaume Rivaud, Martyn Jackson, David Kelly ww Middle-Class Men Helena Dennis, Trish Dichler, Rachel Husband, Yuan Huang, Ying Quin, Ayaisha Griffith... .Middle-Class Women Garry George, Bern Collaco, Steven Malcolm, Mark Games, Ozzy Diakiesse, Josh Whitton, David Cromarty, Pete Greenfield . Soldiers Alistair Cope... ww Rich Gentleman with Hat Maurice Spring, Kurt James, Clem So, Hunter Bradford, Courtney Taylor, Marcel Carrier, Joe THOMIINSON |... ww Rich Men Karen Murphy, Anne Lyken-Garner, Meg Abernethy-Hope, Makeba Nicholls, Marnie Delroy-Buelles, Shyama Norton, Jo Langhelt «Rich Women .« Strong Man
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«« Swing Boat Workers Rogers, Liam Hobbs, David Ayinde, Jason Powell. Working-Class Men Funminiyi Obilanade, Maggie Baiton, Joanna Cooney... Working-Class Women David Holness. .Cobbler Alison Lenihan, David Morgan, Kitty Moran, «Stall Holders. Peter Ashworth, Michael Bernard, Leon Charles, Christos Gauci, Joseph Kelly, Leroy Rahman, Jack Anderson, Thomas Taylor, James Briggs, Chris Goldhawk, Henry Russell, Peter Westaway...............Male Workers
Claudine Whyte «Cake Stall Worker Sophie Moore............ Candle Stall Worker Cheyenne Barbara............,....Coffee Tent Worker
Michael Bal ‘ottery Stall Worker Katie Patterson, Cerys Selby, Jason Deyi,
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CREDITS Written by Sarah Dollard Produced by Nikki Wilson Directed by Bill Anderson Stunt Co-ordinators: Crispin Layfield, jo McLaren, Dani Biernat, Dean Forster Stunt Performers: Troy Kenchington, Belinda McGinley, Andrew Burford
Ast Assistant Director; Sarah Davies splinter unit: Bryan Moses} 2nd Assistant Director: James DeHaviland 2nd unit: Delmi Thomas} 3rd Assistant Director; Christopher | Thomas | uncredited; Rhun Llewelyn; 2nd unit: Danielle Richards] Assistant Directors: Rhun Llewelyn, Lauren Pate uncredited; Rosie Brown, Charlie Campbell, Bedwyr Gullidge, Sade Akin; underwater: Gwilym Jenner; 2nd unit: Kieran Hayhow) Unit Drivers: Sean Evans, Kyle Davies uncredited: Jolyon Davey, Kevin Tucker, Darren Davies, Paul Watkins, Montile Jalile, Karl Sullivan, Tony McCormack; 2nd unit: Graham Huxtable] Location Manager: Nicky James uncredited: Iwan Robers]
Unit Manager: Beccy Jones
Production Manager: Adam Knopf
Production Coordinator: Sandra Cosfeld | Assistant Production Coordinator; Nicola Chance 1 Production Assistants: Virginia Bonet, Jamie Shaw
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Above: Recording frosty scenes,
Above: The Doctor Who crew is on thin ice,
Assistant Accountant: Justine Wooff
Art Department Accountant: Alison Harvey
Script Supervisor: Nicki Coles (uncredited: Lucy Dews, Lucy Noble; 2nd unit; Heulwen jones}
Script Executive: Lindsey Alford
Script Editor: Nick Lambon
Assistant Script Editor: Emma Genders
Camera Operator; Mark McQuoid {uncredited: Martin Stephens;
Steadicam: Paul Edwards}
Focus Pullers: Jonathan Vidgen, Elhein De Wet {uncredited: Andy Gardner, Gabriel Hyman; splinter unit: Paul Andrew; topside: Cameron Axel; 2nd unit: Elliot Hale]
Camera Assistants: Gethin Williams, Drew Marsden, Dan Patounas [uncredited: Kristian Roosemalen, Chris Jacobi, Scott Waller; 2nd unit: Cai Thompson]
Grip: John Robinson [uncredited: Martyn Jones, Sam Reeves; 2nd unit: Gary Sheppeard}
Assistant Grip: Sean Cronin {uncredited: Matt Hains; 2nd unit: Sion Woodman]
Sound Maintenance Engineers: Tam Shoring, Christopher Goding [uncredited; Joe Malone,
Joss Colin; 2nd unit: Mark Elson]
Gaffer: Mark Hutchings
Best Boy: Andy Gardiner
Electricians: Gawain Nash, Gareth Sheldon,
Bob Milton, Sion Davies
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Supervising Art Director; Henry Jaworski Art Director: Tim Overson underwater: Paul Spriggs; 2nd unit: Dafydd Shurmer] Standby Art Director; Nick Murray [2nd unit: Anwen Haf] Set Decorator: Adrian Anscombe Production Buyer: Jen Saguaro Prop Buyers: Jo Pearce, Charlotte Lailey de Ville Draughtperson: Kartik Nagar Storyboard Artist: Mike Collins Prop Master; Paul Smith Props Chargehand: Kyle Belmont Standby Props: Matt Ireland, Jonathan Barclay [uncredited: Matt Watts, James Kelleher] Prop Hands: Scott Howe, Nigel Magni, Matt Watts. Storeman: Jamie Southcott Concept Artist: Darren Fereday Graphic Artist: Matt Clark Graphics Assistant: Jack Bowes. Standby Carpenter: Paul Jones [2nd unit: Phil Pritchard] Rigging: Shadow Scaffolding Standby Rigger: Colin Toms [2nd unit: Martyn Morgan] Practical Electricians: Callum Alexander, Austin Curtis Props Driver; Gareth Fox Construction Manager: Terry Horle
. Cast and credits
Construction Chargehand: Dean Tucker
Chargehand Carpenter; John Sinnott
Carpenters: Tim Burke, Keith Richards, Matt Ferry, Campbell Frazer, Chris Daniels, Joe Painter, George Rees, Alan Jones, Dan Berrow, Mike Venables, Tom Berrow
Construction Driver: Jonathan Tylke
Construction Labourer: Jason Tylke
Head Scenic Artist: Clive Clarke
Painters: Steve Nelms, John Nelms, Paul Murray, Debby McShane
Assistant Costume Designer: Zoe Howerska
Costume Supervisor: Kat Willis
Costume Assistants: Rebecca Cunningham, Leila Headon, Jenny Tindle [uncredited; Anita Lad, Ali Kedge, Angela McKenna, Sara Morgan]
Make-up Supervisor: James Spinks
Make-up Artists: Megan Bowes, Lolly Goodship {uncredited: Cathy Davies, Sara Angharad, Linda Corr, Katie Dear, Emily Curtis]
Unit Medic: Glyn Evans [uncredited; Rob Bevan]
Casting Associate: Ri McDaid-Wren
Casting Assistant: Louis Constantine
Business Affairs Executive: Carol Griggs.
Assistant Editors; Becky Trotman, David Davies
VFX Editor: Dan Rawlings
Post Production Coordinator; Hannah Jones.
Dubbing Mixer; Mark Ferda
ADR Editor: Matthew Cox
Dialogue Editor; Darran Clement
Effects Editor: Harry Barnes.
Foley Editor: Simon Clement
Foley Artist: Meltem Baytok
Titles: BBC Wales Graphics.
Title Concept: Billy Hanshaw
Online Editors: Geraint Pari Huws, Mark Hardyman,
Assistant Online Editor: Christine Kelly
Colourist: Gareth Spensley
Music Conducted & Orchestrated By Alastair King
Music Mixed By Jake Jackson
Music Recorded By Gerry O'Riordan
Music Score Assistant: Jack Sugden
Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
With Thanks to National Orchestra of Wales
Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG.
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Head of Production: Gordon Ronald
Production Executive: Tracie Simpson
Post Production Supervisor; Samantha Price
Production Accountant: Simon Wheeler
Sound Recordist: Deian Llyr Humphreys (uncredited: Bryn Thomas; 2nd unit: Richie Brooks]
Costume Designer: Hayley Nebauer
Make-up Designer: Barbara Southcott
Music: Murray Gold
Visual Effects: Milk, BBC Wales VFX
Special Effects: Real SFX
Special Creature Effects & Prosthetics: Millennium FX
Miniature Effects: The Model Unit
Editor: Adam Trotman
Production Designer: Michael Pickwoad
Director of Photography: Damian Bromley (underwater: Rob Franklin; splinter unit: Ali Asad; 2nd unit: Mark Waters)
Line Producer: Steffan Morris
Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin
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Profile
Writer
orn in Australia on 21 January
1980, Sarah Dollard grew up
watching ABC's daily Doctor Who
reruns after school, Into her
teens she built up a collection
of off-air videotapes of her favourite TV shows including The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Red Dwarf and Northern Exposure. Watching and rewatching them taught her story craft.
Growing up in the Melbourne suburb of McKinnon, she attended McKinnon Secondary College, graduating as the top of her year in 1997. At the Victorian College of the Arts, a faculty of the University of
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Melbourne, she studied film and TV among other subjects, before going on to earn a diploma in professional screenwriting from Melbourne’s RMIT University.
She was initially unsure of pursuing a writing career, as she recalled to Insha Fitzpatrick of website Rogues Portal in 2017: “T only realised I might be able to write for a living once I'd finished uni and seen a bit of the world and the penny finally dropped that no other career would fulfil me.”
She gained a traineeship in the story room of Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2005, taking posts as a storyliner, script editor and story editor, with a handful of writing credits to 2007.
Becoming involved with the Australian Children’s to writing for animated series Li'l Larikkins (2009) and working as story developer on Canadian/ Australian children’s co-production The Saddle Club (2008).
Dollard left for the UK in 2008, partly inspired by the revived Doctor Who. Though
Television Foundation, this led
not necessarily hoping or expecting to work on it, she was nonetheless impressed by its ambition and realised Australian TV could not financially support a genre show like this, Despite leaving Australia she continued to write freelance for Neighbours until 2013.
In Britain she found storylining work on Casualty before becoming an assistant script editor on Merlin during 2009. Being on set every day provided an invaluable education into how the different departments came together to make a fantasy TV show.
She next moved to ITV's dinosaur fantasy series Primeval, initially writing a series of webisodes in 2010 before becoming a script editor on the TV show’s fourth and fifth series (both aired 2011).
After Being Human showrunner Toby Whithouse read a spec script of Dollard’s, she provided one episode of the show in 2013 plus a series of web minisodes.
She would later write an episode for Whithouse’s spy thriller The Game (2014). Outside of genre television, she was < development script editor on Ruth Jones’ Welsh sitcom Stella (2012), before going on to create and executive-produce her
own Welsh language romcom Cara Fi (Love Me) (2014) for Touchpaper Television, broadcast on S4C. This concerned a Welsh village running low on single women, forcing local men to advertise themselves on milk cartons. She also contributed
an episode to You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), a US/UK comedy drama made for Sky/NBC.
After an interview with Doctor Who script executive Lindsey Alford, in which Dollard, to her later embarrassment, became overly emotional about Donna's character, she landed her first scriptwriting commission Face the Raven [2015 - see Volume 83]. This made her the third Australian to write for the TV series, after Anthony Coburn and Bill Strutton.
Dollard described winning this Doctor Who commission to the BBC’s YouTube channel as “a complete dream come true,
completely terrifying, really, really exciting...
All blank pages are scary for a writer but a blank page for Doctor Who where you have to type ‘Interior: TARDIS Day’ is absolutely terrifying!”
In 2017, her second episode Thin Ice brought an Aftershow interview on webcast The Fan Show.
Identifying as a fan herself, Dollard cosplayed as Donna Noble in wedding dress while guesting at Gallifrey One in 2017.
She confirmed to the Rogues Portal website that she was not writing for Doctor Who's 2018 season due to scheduling clashes but hoped to contribute again in the future: “Thad a really great chat with Chris [Chibnall, executive producer] about his plans... So hopefully, I've left the door open for a possible return in the future. It would be an honour to work with him and write for [Doctor] Thirteen.”
Later credits included an episode apiece for period hotel drama The Halcyon (2017) and Starz network's romantic costume drama The White Princess (2017).
2018 brought two novel adaptations; Cuckoo Song from Frances Hardinge’s young adult horror novel, and Sky’s A Discovery of Witches, starring Alex Kingston, taken from Deborah Harkness’ All Souls books. fil
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Sarah Dollard wrote the 2015 Doctor Who episode Face the Raven.
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Bill rents a house with some friends, but on their first evening there, strange noises are heard. The house harbours a dark secret, and the Doctor would like a word with the eccentric old Landlord...
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Below: Haunted- house story Ghost Light.
ne of the things that we discovered in The Pilot [2017 ~see Volume 85], at the start of this series, was that the Doctor was enduring a self- imposed exile. Of course, as soon as he met Bill he wanted to get out and show her the universe. But there may have been a slight echo of his first exile to Earth in some of the early adventures of the 2017 series, Back in 1970, when trying not to make every story an Earth invasion, writer Malcolm Hulke came up with the idea of ‘monsters’ that were already here ~ millions of years before the human race dominated the Earth... Both the sea creature trapped at the bottom of the Thames in Thin Ice [2017 -
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see page 48] and the woodlice with a taste for students seen in Knock Knock, might be alien... but it's possible that they are native to Earth. Perhaps, over the 70 years he'd been guarding Missy at St Luke’s University, the Doctor had got used to encountering homegrown threats to humanity.
This isn’t the only echo of an earlier approach to the series. Having to explain her friendship with the Doctor, Bill tried to pass him off as her grandfather to her new housemates. Again, it was in The Pilot that we were reminded of the Doctor's actual granddaughter who he travelled with when the series began back in 1963.
The most conspicuous influence from the past, however, was Ghost Light (1989 - see Volume 46]. Like Knock Knock it was a haunted house story, Ghost Light also contained themes of evolution, transformation from one kind of life to another and, at one point, a drawer full of bugs!
Like Smile [2017 - see page 6] however, Knock Knock blends this late 1980s influence with the kind of ideas seen in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances {2005 - see Volume 50]. Like the Nanogenes, the Dryads (as the Doctor calls these mysterious woodlice) restored their patient but not quite as she should be. In the end, it’s a mother-son relationship that sets things right. Once again, everybody lives!
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ill, her friend Shireen, and Shireen’s friends Harry, Pavel, Paul and Felicity are looking for a house to share They are approached by a kindly Landlord, who has rooms to let in a Gothic mansion (1) They eagerly sign the contracts.
Having moved in, Pavel puts on a record of a violin sonata. He hears some creaking outside and investigates but there is nothing there. But when he returns to his room, something makes him scream... [2]
The Doctor uses the TARDIS to help move Bill’s belongings to her new accommodation, Bill explains to her new housemates that the Doctor is her
grandad, [3] then heads upstairs with Paul. They pass Pavel's room and hear the sound ofa violin.
That night, all the flatmates apart from Pavel gather in the lounge. [4] Oddly, there is no landline or phone reception.
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They hear some banging coming from the kitchen but there is no-one there. Then Bill opens a door to reveal the Doctor, who has discovered that there is no central heating and the power sockets are out of date
They all return to the lounge, where the Landlord is waiting. [5] Harry asks about the mansion’s tower and the Landlord says it is excluded from their agreement. He then bids his tenants to sleep well and exits, disappearing mysteriously into the darkness
Paul goes to his room and moments later Bill and Shireen hear him scream They ask him if he's okay, and there are two knocks in reply... then more knocks, from all around them. [6]
The Doctor, Harry and Felicity discover that the front door will not open, and is completely sealed. Felicity has an attack of claustrophobia and climbs out of the kitchen window - but then she backs into a tree and there is a creaking, roaring sound, She screams.
Bill and Shireen enter Pavel’s room to discover that he has been almost entirely absorbed into a wall, [7] his stuck record repeating the violin music. The Landlord enters and lifts the needle and the wall absorbs the rest of Pavel. Bill and Shireen run, and find a secret door leading into the tower.
The Doctor tells Harry he thinks something has got into the wood. He discovers what it is - a kind of giant woodlouse, which the Doctor decides to call Dryads. [8] More of the creatures stream out and the Doctor and Harry retreat into the cellar.
Bill and Shireen come to a bedroom, where they hear a young girl’s voice. “Father? Is that you?”
The Doctor and Bill discover tenancy agreements of former residents; students who went missing, every 20 years. [9] ‘The Landlord appears and sets the Dryads on Harry, who proceed to devour him.
Bill and Shireen meet the Landlord’s daughter, Eliza, who has turned to
wood. [10] The Dryads devour Shireen, then the with the Doctor. The Doctor explains that the Landlord has been keeping Eliza alive with the Dryads, using people for food. He must have brought the insects into the house to show to his dying daughter. Bill points out that doesn’t make sense, and the Doctor realises that the Landlord isn’t Eliza’s father ~ he is Eliza's son!
The Doctor tells Eliza that more people will continue to die unless she chooses to prevent it. Eliza summons the Dryads, which devour her and the Landlord. [11]
Eliza's parting gift is to restore Shireen and the others, and the Doctor and Bill lead them out of the house before it is destroyed.
Later, the Doctor meets Nardole in the crypt-like chamber. Inside the vault, someone is playing piano. The Doctor has brought Mexican food, and goes inside... [12]
andlord arrives
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Whethniden happen when your door | executive producer Brian Minchin ecrets does. lowly shut?” Doctor Foster received much acclaim. the tenclord asked playwright Mike When a second run was commissioned, away? Bartlett in ...Who’s there?, the behind-the- Doctor Who executive producer Steven scenes featurette about the making of his Moffat assumed that Bartlett would script Knock Knock. be too busy to consider writing for his On Thursday 17 September 2015, the ies. However, when Minchin contac BBC Writersroom website released an the writer, Bartlett confirmed that he interview with Olivier-award-winning would find time to undertake such writer Mike Bartlett whose first broadcast an opportunity. commission ~ Radio 3’s Not Talking in 2007 Born in ord in 1980, Mike Bartlett - came via the Writersroom. This interview became a Doctor Who fan during childhood. promoting his new BBC One drama Doctor Reading English and theatre studies at Foster saw Bartlett mentioning that he was the University of Leeds, his career as a
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playwright won acclaim with My Child in 2007, followed by the Olivier-winning Cock in 2009 plus subsequent accolades for Bull and King Charles III as well as ITV’s 2012 crime serial The Town. Bartlett had been deeply impressed by Doctor Who's 2005 revival and had previously attempted to write for the show, although not having the experience at this juncture.
Invited in to talk to Moffat and Minchin, Bartlett had a couple of weeks to formulate a pitch. Two days beforehand, his thoughts about making the everyday and domestic strange turned to creaking floorboards; he postulated a haunted house with moving walls, things trapped in the building's fabric, and something strange in the attic. The creaks and noises of a normal house would be explained as unearthly phenomena akin to a horror movie, but in domestic terms suiting Doctor Who. Knowing haunted house stories to be a potent source of unease, Moffat loved the idea, asking Bartlett for “the ultimate
haunted house”. Aware of the current housing crisis, Bartlett proposed housemates brought together in a shared living space and being picked off one by one by a strange force. Discovering that Bill was a university
student suited his concept perfectly, with her moving into shared digs drawing upon his student excitement of leaving halls to move into run-down Victorian houses around Headingley... one of which had a dungeon basement with meat hooks, Bartlett knew splitting up the Doctor and Bill allowed cross-cutting action, and that he needed to introduce Bill’s housemates quickly and clearly. He also played with the expectations of horror movies by using humour to give audiences relief and to heighten fear. Naming the lice in his scripts, Bartlett settled on Dryads, a tree nymph or spirit in Greek mythology. The property’s Landlord was inspired by Bartlett's childhood memory of an unsettling man in a suit who once visited his parents at their home. The Landlord's wooden daughter was inspired by the 1985 children’s book The Sandalwood Girl by Sheila K McCullagh in the Puddle Lane series which Bartlett had read as a child and recently read to his three- year-old son. Recalling the backstories in the US science-fiction series The X-Files which originally ran from 1993 to 2002, Bartlett added a similar history element for the strange events.
The Landlord's mansion
ssued on Friday 4 March 2016, Draft I One of Knock Knock was scheduled as
‘Series 10 Episode 6’ to be made as part of the 2017 series second recording block. Bill, Shireen, Felicity, Harry, Pavel and Paul visited an office with ‘a slick estate agent’; their second viewing was ‘right by a large, fast, motorway’. They were approached by a man in his ‘late 50s, in a suit, dark coat, a neckerchief, with a parting in his hair, He has a light voice (Mark Rylance, Stephen Rae?). As he looks up there's a slight creak.’ The Landlord's
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hill, surrounded by trees. Steps up to it. Big windows, and at the back, a tower... The drawing room's connected to the hall by a large arch. On the left, is a dining room. There’s wood everywhere - walls, floor, ceilings. Old furniture.’ One hallway door led to the stairs. That night, Pavel played ‘a violin concerto’ when he heard a creaking noise from the hall: ‘The open door ripples, things crawling under the surface - faster and faster, then suddenly, it slams shut,’
TARDIS removals
fter the opening titles, in her bedroom Bill packed ‘books, DVDs, a toys, a photo as a child with her parents, a swimming certificate’ watched by ‘Mrs Lumb, Bill’s guardian since she was sixteen... She’s 68, a widow, small, formidable.’ Inside the TARDIS, when the Doctor said he didn’t use money or need to get it doing removals, she asked: “How do you get stuff then? Favours? Freeloader. Yeah, you dress like a chancer.” When Bill asked how many rooms the TARDIS had, the Doctor replied: “Eighty three. Wait.. Who needs a conservatory? Eighty two.” Bill asked if the TARDIS had a “time toilet” to which the Doctor explained: “The bathroom in the TARDIS adapts to your expectations and biology. When you go in, it provides precisely the facilities you need.” Paul told Bill that they had two rooms each, and when Bill unpacked she placed the framed photo of her parents on a nail in the wall, ‘the wall creaks - sort of groans. She pushes again. Again the sound.
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“ruuuuu”, ike something crawling
Almost a voice. across the wall... underneath it.’ That evening, Paul said of the Doctor’s lectures: “Told this one story about tl aliens in the shape of question ma “Twas there for that one! What was it? Sea horses, but floating and forty feet high!” added Felicity. When the students met the Doctor in the kitchen he was curious as to why none of the wood was rotting, noting the 1940s hob and 60-year-old power sockets, The Landlord appeared, understanding the Doctor’s “heartbreaking experience” of leaving “one's granddaughter behind”. The property owner coughed, looked pained, then took out a tuning fork, ‘knocks it twice against the wall, then places it onto his head... As the sound resonates in the Landlord's head, he seems to relax. He turns back to the group, focusing again’ Of the creaks the Landlord remarked: “That’s its charm... The nature of something old. Its aches, and pains.”
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When the Doctor asked about the Prime
Minister, he suggested, “Gladstone? Disraeli? Margaret Thatcher? Harriet Jones?” referencing William Gladstone (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94), Benjamin Disraeli (1868, 1974-1880), the Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and the fictional Prime Minister of The Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume 51]. When the Landlord left, there was ‘a faint creaking sound’. The students turned in, but the Doctor wanted to “chillax” with “Simon” and “Florence”. The music on Bill’s phone was ‘Black Magic by Little Mix’, a number one tune written by Ed Drewett and Camille Purcell, and produced by Electric, released by the British female group in May 2015. Bill asked the Doctor: “Are you really a grandad? Just cos when he said about your granddaughter ~ you looked really sad.” “Me? Sad? No,” replied the Doctor, quickly changing the subject. The Doctor's comment to Bill about going “up
the wooden hill” to bed deliberately echoed
his words in Ghost Light [1989 - see Volume
46] because Bartlett recalled the Doctor allowing his companion Ace to confront danger in a strange house. On the landing, Bill told Paul that he was not her type (“Bit cheesy for me”) while Shireen’s excuse for not getting a room next to Bill was that she was scared of heights. When Paul made the floorboard creak, a creature
Connections:
Get me out.. Wanting to flee the premises, the terrified Shireen employed the title of ITV reality game show I'ma Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which had proved successful since its August 2002 début
appeared: ‘Like a woodlouse only the size of a fist. Two antennae, and slightly large pincers at the front.’ Paul dismissed this
as a cockroach and stamped on it... only
to find something in his shoe, working its way up his leg under his skin, As the young women watched there was a sound ‘like breaking twigs’ as around 20 lice appeared about his feet, with more crawling from the ceiling into his hands and feet, trapping him against the wall: ‘His skin
is bubbling... developing knots, like on wood... Paul's body starts to warp - more it bulges with the lice. He starts to scream but the swarm’s
The Landlord isstrict with his tenants,
and more knot marks
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Connections:
Where are you?
»} Shireen describes the property the students have rented as “freaky Scooby: Doo house" in reference to the animated canine character Scooby-Doo who had found himself
in numerous supposedly
haunted buildings since his début in the 1969 series Scooby-Doo Where Are You! In Blink [2007 - see Volume 56),
> Drumlins as “Scooby
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everywhere ~ just a mass of insects - it peaks - the noise and the movement - then quickly disappears, absorbed into the wood...’ Unable to go down because of the creaking stairs, Bill and Shireen went up, whereupon the landing shutter swung itself shut.
Bill’s phone played Sax (Fleur East’s début single released November 2015) while the Doctor examined the front door. The group was drawn to the dining room by a slamming shutter which sealed itself, and Felicity managed to escape via a kitchen window before realising that there was something on her back.
A louse dropped into her hair and more poured down from a tree into her arm.
On the upper landing, Bill found the shutter sealed as if it had never opened. Shireen berated Bill for apparently not caring about other people, cross that although they had been best friends since school Bill now seemed remote and did not even meet her fellow housemates until the previous day. They found Pavel ‘half in the wall, the lice crawling through him but... it's like the whole process is in slow motion! Pavel told them how the creatures pulled him into the wall, saying: “Stop! Always laughing... Laughing at us. But so many screams in here.’ The Landlord entered to stop the stuck record; realising sound kept the creatures at bay, Bill tried to grab the record as Pavel was absorbed. Saying they needed to give themselves to the “greater power", the Landlord coughed and a louse crawled from his ear, across his face and into his skin. Striking his tuning fork, he said: “I must have control... allow
Larry had described the creepy Wester
-Doo's house"
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me now!” Bill and Shireen fled as the Landlord staggered after them and lice poured from the wooden wall which he touched, They made for the tower, hidden behind a stone section of wall that secreted a door, Striking the fork, the Landlord seemed to receive a message and calmed. In the brick cellar, the Doctor and Harry found a portrait smashed in two; one half depicted the Landlord in a Victorian suit. Wooden crates contained an Amiga computer (launched by Commodore in 1985) and a soft toy SuperTed (a popular cartoon character on the BBC from 1983) plus a 1987 tenancy agreement. Other boxes contained the 1956 single Rip it Up by Bill Haley and His Comets and a 1957 agreement, and then items for 1937. very 30 years,” noted the Doctor. When the Landlord arrived, Harry was engulfed in the stai Bill and Shireen entered the tower: ‘A large hexagonal room... windows, all shuttered closed. On the side wall... is a dark curtain... In the centre, an empty, single wooden bed, without a mattress ~ just slats across
se.
. ona dressing table,
’ Shireen explained that she had hoped to help Bill
a small ornate wooden bo;
by getting her to live with “real people” as she found Victorian clothes in a wardrobe. The music box jammed open when Shireen examined it, attracting a swarm of lice from the bed which built into ‘a girl - about eighteen... made of wood’
Wooden Eliza
ice ran through the Landlord's body
as - in his room ~ he explained to the Doctor the creatures which thrived on the electrical energy of the young caused the creaks, cracks in the woods and shutting doors, The older man seldom ventured out these days, finding the world “even more debauched, corrupted, than I remember”, Looking at the man’s coat, the Doctor guessed that the events began in 1907 when the Landlord's wife died in childbirth and his daughter then fell ill. “T lost my family, all of them, because the alternative was worse,” said the Doctor, The wooden girl breathed out sawdust particles, explaining to her visitors how she was ill as a child: “My father trapped me here. Made these creatures take me over, to keep me... like this.” Eliza asked Shireen to
be her friend: “I haven't held another hand in a hundred years.” Shireen noted that Bill had never bothered to hold her hand. Meanwhile, the Landlord told the “old” Doctor to indulge him or become fodder, using the tuning fork to summon a louse from the chair and into the Doctor In the attic, the lice moved from Eliza into Shireen and absorbed her before advancing on Bill. Suddenly the Doctor = a louse beneath his skin - entered with the saddened Landlord and a pile of paper. He
arm.
knew the lonely Eliza, trapped since she Lett: was five, had made friends with the lice “That's your house?”
which preserved her and kept her father midway between wood and flesh so that he could periodically go out to find new ‘friends’ for her to play with. The Doctor explained that because of his Time Lord
energy, it would take the lice a long time to feed on him, The Landlord and Eliza used the tuning fork and music box to control the lice. Activating his sonic, the Doctor brought “them” out; Bill read the names on the tenancy agreements and wooden hands burst from the wall: “Jake Christie... Annie Wren!. Jonathan Frost, Sarah Tiller, Mark Hopethorne, Carl Richards... Evan Jacobs, Julie Francis, Wesley Dean... Wanda McNeil, Austin Marks, Lee H. Yolanda Fee, Harold Farley, Daniel Tan, Michael McQueen, Angela Pale, Timothy Sand: She continued with the class of 2017; “Shireen Verjee! Paul Jones! Felicity Agar! Pavel Ivanov! Harty... er. Bill could not recall Harry’s surname, and then said: “Oh, Sullivan!” “Harry Sullivan?” exclaimed the Doctor on hearing the name of a former
Connections:
We know...
} The Doctor mentions Harriet Jones who had first been seen as an MP in Aliens of London/World War Three (2005 - see Volume 49], her bravery leading to her becoming Prime Minister by The Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume 51] after which she fell from grace and perished at the hands of the Daleks in The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End (2008 - see Volume 60].
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companion (one of Bartlett “We should talk about that.” Lice appeared and flowed into the Doctor while Bill
The TARDIS removal service,
favourites),
prised a window open, telling Eliza to look
at the
Now prepared to die. Bill who hugged her.
streets of people making friends.
E “he lice fell from
iza motioned to
Eliza, her father and the Doctor while
Connections: Handy trick The TARDIS is able to materialise around Bill
ins inthe
as Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways [2005 - see Volume 50], Blink [2007 - see Volume 56] and Hell Bent [2015 -
see Volume 84]
the missing students from 2017, 1987, 1957 and 1937 emerged from the walls. Knowing a century of rot was about to set in, the Doctor urged evacuation as the Landlord and Eliza became wooden statues... Outside, the Doctor offered to take those freed from the house back to their respective times in the TARDIS while Bill and her friends saw a new, clean version of their house left
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behind. A week later as Fleur East’s 2015 song Breakfast played, the Doctor joined Bill and her friends for a housewarming party, revealing he was their new landlord (having amended legal papers as he had
in Thin Ice [2017 ). The Doctor asked Harry what he was studying, “Medicine. My grandad used to talk about how important doctors were,” said the youth. “Grandfathers know things,” smiled the Doctor. “Yes. Well gosh, yes I suppose they do really,” said Harry, his voice ‘posh - very Harry Sullivan’ On the wall was the repaired picture of the reunited Landlord
see page 48
and his daughter.
Impressed by the script’s atmosphere, Steven Moffat was amused by Bill having the Doctor use the fantastic TARDIS in a mundane manner of a removal van Before the next draft, Mike Bartlett saw Pearl Mackie playing Bill in her reveal clip, Friend from the Future. It was also felt that 2017 audiences would not readily recall
a Na Presroduction
Harry Sullivan who had travelled with the Doctor during 1975 and the reference was dropped.
In Draft Two - dated Friday 29 April - when the Landlord moved his neck it sounded ‘like bone cracking’ and he rolled his wedding ring around his fingers. Things no longer rippled under Pavel’s door in the pre-credits. The dialogue in the TARDIS was altered with Bill telling the Doctor: “You must sleep! Bet you get really bad anxiety dreams. In mine all my teeth fall out or I have to do physics,” Harry discussed his grandad’s visit to China, and heard strange footsteps in upstairs rooms, while the Landlord commented that his daughter was under his “protection”. Bill asking the Doctor about being a grandad was dropped while the landing material was amended so Paul vanished inside his room. Felicity was no longer attacked by the lice on leaving the house. Inside Pavel’s room, Bill and Shireen found an arm sticking out of the wall, flailing around trying to warn them of something. By texting on Bill’s phone, the hand warned:
‘Pulled into wall. Record jazzed’ (which Bill realised meant ‘jammed’). When
the Landlord turned off the record, the arm was absorbed into the wall. Rather than
a louse coming from his
ear, the Landlord controlled something under his skin with the tuning fork. The
lice now first appeared in the kitchen, and the broken painting depicted the Victorian garbed Landlord and ‘a girl, about 16
years old - long dark hair, in a Victorian dress’. The earliest box in the cellar now dated from 1927 while the tower room scenes were revised. Emerging from behind
Connections: Culinary delight ® The Doctor says he loves Chinese food, and had previously been seeing enjoying similar cuisine in The Power of Three (2012 -see Volume 71]
the dressing screen was ‘a girl [who]
has long dark hair, in a white Victorian nightdress’ with skin which was ‘knotted and wooden.., There's a bulge under the girl’s skin, and then a louse comes out of her mouth and scuttles over her face, disappearing into her ear’
‘space tees
Left: alking to the Landlord, the Doctor The mysterious believed events began in 1897 when Landlord,
the owner preserved his daughter by “conversion to wood which [the creatures] can replenish”, The Doctor voiced the sentiment that he hoped somebody would stop him before he took such drastic action to sustain his granddaughter. When Eliza asked Shireen to be her friend, the approaching student stepped ona “cockroach” and the lice buried into her feet. “Love you mate,” Shireen told Bill as she was consumed. When one louse entered the Doctor, the Time Lord explained that he studied with Thomas Chippendale who made chairs in the eighteenth century, Entering the tower, the Doctor could hear those who had been
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consumed as part of the hive mind. Bill summoned those previous victims (including Timothy Lyons) from the contracts, with Harry's name being Mackelvie... which the Doctor had heard before (a placeholder name which Bartlett intended to replace later with a name from The News from Nowhere ~ latterly Smile [2017 - see page 6]). The Doctor opened the tower’s shuttered window, while Harry told the Doctor he was studying: “Electrical engineering. Micro- and nano-technology actually. It’s fascinating. Like those creatures, they can build, destroy, inhabit. Imagine if you could make tiny nanobots like that, they could do whatever you wanted!” “Imagine...” said the Doctor, recalling the events of Smile,
Mike Bartlett was announced as a writer for the second block
Connections:
Big collars
» When telling Bill about the Time Lords, the Doctor makes reference to the
high ceremonial collars first seenin The Deadly Assassin [1976 - see Volume 26]
Right: : x
David suchet directed by Bill Anderson and plays the produced by Nikki Wilson - on Landlord.
Tuesday 14 June. The tone draft dated Monday 20 June was now specified as ‘Episode 4’. Mrs Lumb became Moira from the series opener (A Star in Her Eye, latterly The Pilot {2017 - see Volume 85]), and Bill now recalled her recent adventures with the Doctor. The sound of the walls cracking on the landing was changed to knocking on the doors around Bill
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and Shireen. The Doctor discussing the sonic screwdriver with Harry Mackelvie was added, while Bill and Shireen found Pavel ‘half-absorbed in the wall. The wood around the edge of his body is rippling Fist-sized bumps are moving under his skin. His mouth is already absorbed into the wall, but his nose and eyes are still clear’ Pavel communicated by blinking The Doctor's discussion about the strange woodlice with the electronic engineer was added, Shireen recalled to Eliza how she befriended Bill back in school, while the Landlord suggested that he and the “like- minded” Doctor discussed literature as he was well-versed in the classics. As lice appeared from the Landlord's skin, the Doctor bolted out of the room, pursued by the lice and running up the steps which consumed Harry as quickly as he could, before being confronted by the Landlord in the hallway where he discussed Chippendale. In the tower, the Doctor realised that
there was something under Bill’s
skin after taking Eliza's hand in friendship — Eliza would keep Bill alive to play games with, the student’s hand becoming wooden. Bill was able to summon the missing students out of the wall as she was part of the hive mind. In the closing scene, Harry wanted to make world-changing nano-bots: “Utopia.”
In Draft Four - dated Tuesday 5 July - the Landlord was ‘late 70s’,
oS
a a Pre-nroriuction
without neckerchief or bone-cracking
sound, The supposed sound of the trees in the wind was emphasised, and Bill had a ‘photo as a child with her mum (see Ep 1). In addition to Margaret Thatcher and Harriet Jones, the Doctor now mentioned Prime Ministers Harold Wilson (1964- 1970, 1974-1976) and Anthony Eden (1955-1957). The music played on Bill’s phone was Little Mix’s October 2015 release Weird People rather than Sax. When Bill and Shireen found Pavel, ‘his skin and clothes {were] blended with the wood’ and the portrait now only showed ‘a young woman with long dark hair, It’s not clear when it’s from as she’s in a conservative dress. The first box in the cellar contained a Nokia phone and a DVD collection of the US sitcom Friends (running from 1994 to 2004); the contract was dated 1997. The next box offered torn jeans and David Bowie's October 1977 single Heroes; the remaining agreements were dated 1977 and 1957, giving a 20-year frequency. The Doctor and Landlord's discussion in the latter’s room was heavily revised as the owner recalled Eliza becoming ill before the war, recovering when a vagrant broke
in and was consumed. It was now revealed that the Landlord - John - was Eliza’s son, eight years old when she was taken ill. The Doctor and Bill climbed on a table to evade the lice. Realising the truth, Eliza took control of the bugs, opening the shutters. Only the 2017 students were restored. At the party, Weird People replaced Breakfast while Harry’s closing scene was omitted. The portrait now showed ‘an eight-year- old boy, John, standing next to his mother. We might notice the woman's expression, She's happy. They’te both happy’ The readthrough for Thin Ice and Knock Knock was scheduled for 7pm at BBC Roath Left: Lock on Monday 18 July, Peter Capaldi Pavel explores ; his new house. very much enjoyed the script’s cleverness and the picked off one by one, while Pearl Mackie
lements of the students being
admired it as thriller.
SN major casting coup was award- winning actor David Suchet playing the Landlord. With a television
career spanning Oppenheimer, Blott on the
Landscape and NCS Manhunt, Suchet was
best known for playing detective Hercule
Poirot on television. “My agent rang and
said, ‘You've been asked to guest in Doctor
Who... I said, ‘Say yes!” recalled the actor
in Radio Times. “She replied,
‘Lhaven’t told you what the
part is or what the episode is
about... I said, ‘Just say yes.’
The rule is always says yes
to Doctor Who!” Suchet was
delighted to appear in the
iconic series, and even more
pleased to discover that the
script was by Mike Bartlett. Eliza was played by Mariah
Gale whose TV credits
included The Diary of Anne
Connections: Grandaddy Who? } The Doctor reluctantly poses as Bill's grandfather, having travelled with
his own granddaughter, Susan, in the stories from 100,000 BC [1963 - see Volume 1] to The Dalek Invasion of Earth [1964 - see Volume 4].
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Frank and Broadchurch, and on stage had played Ophelia to David Tennant’s Hamlet at the RSC in 2008. Mandeep Dhillon - who had featured in Some Girls, 24: Live Another Day and Wolfblood - was cast as Shireen, with Harry played by Colin Ryan who had appeared in CBBC’s Hounded and Leonardo. Paul was played by Ben Presley who had worked on Galavant, while Alice Hewkin - playing Felicity - featured in Stella and Cuckoo, and Bart Suavek, cast as Pavel, appeared in New Blood.
n the shooting script, issued on [ies 28 July, the hallway and
drawing room were now separate rooms and Bill had the ‘photo of her mum (the same as in Ep 1). The discussion of Time Lords was added in the TARDIS along with the concept of regeneration. Dialogue between Shireen and Bill about their relationship was changed, while the Doctor deducing what had happened to Eliza and John expanded with more flashbacks featuring the ‘seven-year-old boy’. A chronology was also added, with the housemates calling on Bill at 10.00 on Day 1, visiting the estate agent at 10,30, the tiny terraced house at 11.15, the concrete house at 12.05 and meeting the Landlord at 13.30 to be shown the house at 15.00. Pavel listened to his music at 22.00 on Night 1. Bill packed at 14.00 on Day 2, arriving at her new digs at 14.02 and unpacking at 14.07. The students ate at 20.00 on Night 2, with the Landlord appearing at 20.04 and leaving at 20.08. Bill, Shireen and Paul
KAAS
turned in at 20.12 with the Doctor finding the door sealed at 20.20 and Felicity’s escape attempt at 20.23. Bill and Shireen discovered the secret door at 20.33 and entered the tower at 20.37. The Doctor spoke to the Landlord in his room at 20.45. The landlord recalled finding the bugs on Day X in 1937. The occupants fled the house at 20.58, holding a party at 15.00 on Day 3.
Pink script revisions on Monday 1 August covered Paul emphasising the fre: party, minor changes to Eliza's dialogue and the 1937 flashbacks plus Bill’s reasoning that the Landlord was Eliza’s son (his age given in stage directions as 78).
Production
esting new technology as with
the 3D production of of the 75], Knock Knock was made with binaural 31
he Day Doctor [2013 - see Volume
sound mix option since more people were consuming media via headphones, Having d the technique on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in late Brian Minchin felt that the sparseness of Knock Knock would be effective for this episode of Doctor Who to be experienced in imm« via iPlayer after BBC One’s transmission.
emplo
ive sound
Above:
The recording block initially focused on Wood work,
Thin Ice apart from the end of Wednesday 3 Augu enes were recorded in the standing TARDIS set of Roath Lock’s Studio 4 before a move to the Pobol y Cwm set used for The Pilot; here, Bill’s bedroom scene was recorded with the 2013 police box prop through to 7pm with y reappearing as Moira. for Eliza and the young Landlord as seen in paintings and photos w nducted in Studio 2 on the morning of Friday 5 August with Mariah Gale and
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10-year-old Tate Pitchie- Cooper, followed by costume fittings for Colin Ryan, Alice Hewkin, Bart Suavek and Ben Presley on Monday 8.
‘The morning thar the work really began on Knock Knock - Thursday 11 August - blue script revisions were issued; the Landlord emphasised the housemates’ contract, while Bill told the Doctor about Pavel’s record, Recording began work at Fields House on Fields Park Avenue, Newport selected as the setting of the story, offering large gates, lots of rooms and surrounding trees. building - an entertainment extension to an adjoining property ~ had featured in Blink {2007 - see Volume 56] (the other half of the connected property) in November 2006, and The Snowmen [2012 ~ see Volume 72] in August 2012, since when it had been refurbished as self-catering holiday flats
The night-time setting meant a shoot was scheduled from 12.30pm to midnight, planned around the availability of Tate Pitchie-Cooper whose working hours as a minor were 1.30pm to 10pm. The Doctor approaching the house was recorded first, followed by a photoshoot and costume change while the 1937 flashbacks were recorded with Pitchie-Cooper, Polaroid photos of the 1997 students were taken with six supporting artists who had been passers-by in the earlier scene. The housewarming party was recorded next, and the final scene of the night was Felicity's abortive escape attempt.
The Doctor Who Interactive team was on location for recording from noon to 11.30pm on Friday 12. Pearl Mackie and the young cast quickly bonded, calling themselves “the Scooby Gang”. During the
Ve vault tless, a
heard in Thin Ice
The Grade II-listed
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day, Peter Capaldi posed for a photograph with a young fan in her TARDIS wardrobe with the video of this trending online the next day. Blackout curtains erected around some of Fields House simulated night for interior scenes, starting with the students’ meal in the drawing room and the discovery of the sealed shutters. Harry and the Doctor in the stone corridor and cellar was then recorded in the other half of
the semi-detached property. The tenancy agreement dated 2 September 1997 the address as ‘11 Cardinal Road, Bristol while other agreements were dated May 1977 and 1 on Friday by the South Wales Argus.
David Suchet joined the unit at Fields House on Monday 15 August where work was scheduled for 11.30am to 11pm. Bill Anderson worked closely with Suchet on his performance, with the pair agreeing that the Landlord should act as if what he was doing was entirely reasonable to save his mother’s life the Landlord in the cellar corridor and Harry’s demise were recorded first, followed the conversation in the Landlord’s
pave
Location work was covered
The Doctor confronting
room. Suchet very much enjoyed working again with Peter Capaldi whom he had met on the Wasps’ Nest episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot and The Secret Agent
some years earlier; the two spent much spare time discussing their passion for photography. After darkness, the group escaping from the house was recorded, followed by night-time establishing shots.
Spooky house
n Tuesday 16, a green script amendment added Bill’s comments to her mum’s photo. Recording from 11am to 10.30pm commenced with the Landlord showing the students the property; Suchet posed for publicity photographs, one of which was issued later that day when his casting in Mike Bartlett's episode was made public. While posing for the shots at the entrance, Suchet was greeted by the owner who seemed to know him. He suddenly realised that he had in fact been to Fields House before, his brother having hired it for a family break the previous Christmas (during which
time he had used another entrance). “I completely freaked,” he recalled on Doctor Who: The Fan Show. Moving inside, the discovery of the Landlord in the drawing room (with the Doctor’s prawn crackers an unscripted element) was recorded, with the Doctor’s desire to hear Little Mix. The team picked up the shot of Shireen looking out of the front door, and Mike Bartlett was present during the day to see his script brought to life. Cefn Tilla Court at Llandenny near Usk took over as the spooky house on Wednesday 17, The privately owned Grade UL-listed building had been built from 1616 erg; and was hired out for weddings, Nikki Wilson had the design team prepare a map of the hous clear for the cast and crew the structure of the composite property. Recording from 10am to 9pm, blackouts were again used for the morning recording of the pre- credits with Pavel emerging from his room to join his fellow escapees. Bart Suavek joined the Millennium FX team of Steve Painter and Rhiannon Morrell to test out the wall effect planned for the following day; the actor had previously had a head cast taken at Millennium FX and would have his face made up with prosthetics to fit into a hole in a wooden panelled wall. Recording continued with Bill and Shireen on the upper landing; a sliding bookcase had replaced the scripted stone wall. Recording without Capaldi was scheduled at Cefn Tilla from 9am to 8pm on Thursday 18, completing Bill and Shireen’s escape onto the tower stairs and Paul helping Bill to her room with her stuff, After a couple of hours of prosthetics application, Suavek started on the scene with Pavel fused into the
Cast and crew members share smiles on set
s interior layout to make it
Connections: Sleepy
® The Doctor tells Bill that "sleep is for tortoises’, the same remark that he made to Professor Litefoot in Part Three of The Talons of Weng-Chiang [1977 - see Volume 26)
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wall, chatting to the Interactive team about his complex make-up.
Some dialogue about the sonic between the Doctor and Harry was dropped in yellow revisions on Friday 19 August, while Shireen was ommited from the closing party scene. Pearl Mackie’s mum dropped in to see her daughter working at Cefn Tilla, with recording from 8am to 7pm starting by completing the scene in Pavel’s room, Paul entering his creaking room was recorded next on the first landing (with Bill Anderson supplying the knocks to make Pearl Mackie and Mandeep Dhillon jump when they least expected it), along with Paul helping Bill carry her boxes upstairs. The Doctor being discovered in the pantry concluded the week’s work
Work resumed at Cefn Tilla on Monday 22 with recording from 8am to 7pm, starting with the rest of Friday’s kitchen scene. Pearl Mackie, Mandeep Dhillon and Ben Presley joined a splinter unit, leaving the main unit to record the other kitchen scenes; Crispin Layfield acted as stunt supervisor for Felicity’s escape with
Karen Teoch doubling for Alice Hewkin. Meanwhile, the splinter unit moved to the hallway (dressed with animal heads to suggest creatures emerging from the walls) to record Pavel moving in, then shots of Shireen at the front door (her point of view having been recorded at Fields House). Finally the rest of Paul helping Bill with her boxes was recorded, Purple revisions on Tuesday 23 August expanded the Doctor's dialogue about the lice looking elsewhere for food. With work scheduled at Cefn Tilla from 8am to 7pm, guest cast photographs were taken during the day, Recording started with Bill being hesitant to sign the contract in the hallway, followed - after costume changes ~ with hall scenes of the Doctor bringing boxes in and suggesting Bill check on Pavel. Mackie then departed for a diving suit fitting while the Doctor discovering the sealed hall door was
Connections:
Running
® The Doctor explains to Bill that he ran away from the Time Lords, as he had commented on previous occasions such as to Jamie and Zoe in The War Games (1969 - see Volume 14], Amy in The Big Bang (2010 -see Volume 66], Davros in The Witch's Familiar [2015 - see Volume 80] and Ashildr in Hell Bent [2015 - see Volume 84]
a , Left: recorded, and the evening concluded with Mariah Gale's the group evacuating via the first landing wood-effect
lus some kitchen pick-ups. makecuats P ebsrigs applied
wo units were at work on Wednesday
24, Nikki Wilson directed the main
unit at various locations around Cardiff from 10.10am to 8pm with Mackie and the student cast (on their final day), The house beside an industrial estate was on Percy Street, while the tiny terraced house was on Fairwater Grove West (along the road from the blue plaque former home of Dalek creator Terty Nation), with the entrance to Moira’s home on Fairwater Grove East.
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Connections:
Hands up
® While in earlier incarnations the Doctor had been happy to high-five - asin The Hungry Earth [2010 - see
volume 65] -heignored Harry's action here as he had done with Clara in Under the Lake (2015 Volume 81]
Far right: Pavel hears
Bach's Sonata No 1 played by Itzhak Perlman,
Right: Director Bill Anderson, chats to Peter Capaldi,
Meanwhile, Bill Anderson helmed a second unit back at Roath Lock Studio 2 where the tower room set had been constructed. Silent recording took place of the flashback sequences, starting with the young Landlord finding his mother, her arm now turned to wood. For this, Mariah Gale sported a prosthetic on her right arm applied by Steve Painter, Rhiannon Morrell and Rachel Gannon of Millennium FX. This was then removed for the remaining scenes which showed the adult Landlord in the fake flashback opening the music box, and finally the young Landlord leaving the lice at his mother’s bedside, David Suchet was required in studio, but found time to join the Interactive team on the TARDIS set, commenting: “I have enjoyed the whole character... I'm really going to miss everybody and in particular I’m going to miss Peter Capaldi who is the most fantastic Doctor.” Soon after Spm, Suchet met the main unit at Moginie James, an estate agents’ on Sneyd Street in Pontcanna which appeared as Redcliffe Lettings. Capaldi spent the morning recording promotional material for the spin-off Class in Studio 2 at Pinewood Wales, while Mackie and the students talked to BBC interactive.
Minor changes were made to have Bill hugging the restored Shireen in salmon script pages on Thursday 25. Work resumed in Studio 2 from 8.30am to 8pm, starting with intensive rehearsal for the tower room scenes. Gale was now in full prosthetics as the wooden Eliza; these had been made more human when it was felt that the original designs had been more akin to a log. Recording ran
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from Shireen’s demise to the realisation of the Landlord's true identity. Marketing executives from BBC America, BBC Three and BBC Worldwide visited the set, with the Interactive team again in attendance. Suchet was astounded by the Millennium FX team’s work; when the Landlord interacted with the lice, he recalled an occasion in 1969 where he had woken up covered by woodlice in a rented room in Liverpool Work on Friday 8am to 7.30pm, continuing in the tower
26 was scheduled for
room with the climax, then doubling
back for Bill and Shireen's arrival and meeting Eliza on Gale's second day in
full prosthetic. At the end of the day, greenscreen element shots of Shireen’s arm
were recorded.
‘Nardoleandthe vault
hile work got underway on the next recording block, which comprised the Christmas episode, additional work on Knock Knock took place on Tuesday 6 September. Lice shots
of Eliza's feet were recorded with a foot
double in Studio 3 along with shots of
her hand. A pick-up unit recorded the Doctor’s hand operating the lift control with Gareth Weekley standing in for
Peter Capaldi (who was with the Block 3 team). Shireen looking through the curtain into the tiny bedroom was recorded in Studio 9 with Tamina Ali standing in for Mandeep Dhillon.
New scenes featuring Nardole and the vault were written by Steven Moffat for insertion into Thin Ice, Knock Knock and Oxygen [2017 - see Volume 87] and issued on Thursday 26 January 2017. The final
scenes of Knock Knock with the restored house were omitted; instead the house
was destroyed. In the vault it was noted that Nardole could hear ‘piano music. A sweet, sad song is being played, somewhere beyond the vault doors.’ When the Doctor told the being inside the vault of the story he had in store, the stage directions noted ‘The piano starts playing a joyous version of Food, Glorious Food,’ one of the songs written by Lionel Bart for the 1960 musical Oliver! This new scene was directed by Bill Anderson's second unit in Studio 1 on Wednesday 22 February.
Wed 3 Aug 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 4 (The TARDIS); Pobol y Cwm lot (Moira’s House - Bedroom)
Thu 11 Aug 16 Fields House, Fields Park Avenue, Newport (Street; Flashback - Victorian House - Garden; Victorian Gothic House - Drawing Room/Front Garden) Fri 12 Aug 16 Fields House (Victorian Gothic House - Drawing Room/Cellar Corridor/Cellar)
Mon 15 Aug 16 Fields House (Victorian Gothic House - Cellar Corridor/Landlord's Room; Ext Victorian Gothic House)
Tue 16 Aug 16 Fields House (Ext Victorian Gothic House; Victorian Gothic
House - Drawing Room)
Wed 17 Aug 16 Cefn Tilla Court, Llandenny, Usk (Victorian Gothic House - Upper Landing/Pavel’s Room)
Thu 18 Aug 16 Cefn Tilla Court (Victorian Gothic House - Upper Landing/Stairs/Bill’s Room/Pavel's Room)
Fri 19 Aug 16 Cefn Tilla Court (Victorian Gothic House - Pavel's Room/First Landing/kitchen)
Mon 22 Aug 16 Cefn Tilla Court (Victorian Gothic House - Kitchen/Hall/ Stairs/Downstairs Landing)
Tue 23 Aug 16 Cefn Tilla Court (Victorian Gothic House - Hall/First Landing/Kitchen) Wed 24 Aug 16 Percy Street, Off Penarth
Road, Cardiff (Concrete House); Fairwater Grove West, Fairwater, Cardiff (Tiny Terraced House); Fairwater Grove East, Fairwater, Cardiff (Bill’s House), Moginie James Estate Agents, 12 Sneyd Street, Pontcanna (Estate Agents); BBC Roath Lock Studios; Studio 2 (Tower Room) Thu 25-Fri26 Aug 16 BEC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 2 (Victorian Gothic House - Tower Room) Tue 6 Sep 16 BBC Roath Lock Studios: Studio 3 (Victorian Gothic House - Tower Room); Studio 4 (Victorian Gothic House - Kitchen); Studio 9 (Tiny Terraced House) Wed 22 Feb 17 BBC Roath Lock Studios: studio 1 (The Vault Chamber)
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a
Post-production
ost-production and CGI
Above: Edits were made to fit the 45-minute
materialisation, the lice
creatures and the demise/ restoration of their victims, whitening Pavel’s eyes when he was trapped in the wall, the stairs trapping Harry’s foot, the sepia flashbacks, the firework party and the house's destruction. On the soundtrack, there were originally more creaks heard over the opening sequences, but Bill Anderson decided that these were overdone.
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Hae octal elements for Knock Knock transmission slot. The dialogue about the is suspicious : S = : ’
of Bill's new included the lightning storm, unsafe tower as the students approached house. the tower, the TARDIS the house for the first time was added in
dubbing. The start of the first scene in Bill’s bedroom was cut after the opening titles. As Bill packed up her possessions, Moira came in and said: “Didn't even know you had friends. You never bring them round here.” Seeing the boxes, she asked her foster daughter: “Why have you put them like that? It could fall. You could die. In pain.” “You gonna miss me Moira?” asked Bill. “Looked after you cos I liked your mum, rest her soul, but there’s no
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pretending it’s about time you moved on,” replied Moira. “Out by two please. Got someone for the room.” As such, Jennifer Hennessy was omitted from the episode. At the start of the scene where the Doctor and Bill brought the last of the boxes into the hallway, both were exhausted and the Doctor leant against a wall. “So you don't have super strength or anything?” said his student, to which the Time Lord shook his head. When Shireen asked about the Doctor “helping” with the move, she originally continued: “Oh, Okay. Why?... Are you two...” “No,” said Bill quickly, repeating - as Shireen raised her eyebrows - “No!” “Why’s he helping then?” asked Shireen, causing the Doctor and Bill to concoct an explanation. When Bill defined the Doctor as her grandad, the Time Lord exclaimed: “I beg your pardon?” “What? You always said you didn’t have any family!” said Shireen. “Didn't I mention him?” asked Bill, as the Doctor began to claim that he wasn’t old enough.
s Bill's possessions were carried Bess: to the first landing, Paul commented: “Me, Shireen, Harry and Felicity are here.” “Shireen’s here? Thought we'd be next to each other,” said Bill. “Did you? Oh. It’s okay.. There’s a whole other floor!” replied Paul, awkwardly. This was changed in additional dialogue recording (ADR). The scene in Bill’s new bedroom had comments about Paul wanting the tower added in ADR. After Paul mentioned the freshers’ party, Bill looked out at the tower as her new housemate asked: “Need help with the other boxes?” “Nah you're alright,” said Bill as he hung around awkwardly. The start of the scene in the drawing room where the housemates finished
their Chinese meal originally began with Harry telling Bill: “Can’t believe he’s your grandad! Everyone loves him! He did this lecture about the nature of matter.” “I was there for that one! Didn't understand it but it was really funny,” said Felicity, adding when she saw the look on Bill’s face, “in a good way.” “Made sense to me,” added Harry.
Back in the drawing room, after the Landlord said that he was content as long as his daughter remained under his “protection”, Shireen giggled: “You been reading Dickens lately?” When the Landlord addressed Shireen’s comment about the creaks saying “my dear", she responded: “Er. ‘My dear’ Bit sexist?” “Many young people fail to appreciate the positive effects of time. Comforting aches and pains,” said the Landlord.
When Bill told Paul that he was not her type, her flatmate asked: “Is it the hair?” “What?” asked Bill. “My hair puts
some people off apparently,” explained ati i “It’s nt peo ‘oung john
the youth, “It’s not the hair,” affirmed discovers Gente
Shireen. “The legs then?” asked Paul. “No,” _ odd insects,
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Above:
The Doctor resolves the situation between John and Eliza,
Connections:
Space/Time
® The TARDIS uses multidimensional space
tim
space-time being referred to by the Doctor with regards his ship in Invasion of the
Dinosaurs (1974 - see Volume 21], Genesis of the Daleks (1 23], The Pirate Planet [1978 - see Volume 29] and by Romanain
Ribos Operation
ordinates, with
replied Bill, while Shireen asked, “What's up with your legs?” After Bill explainied to him, Paul originally responded with relief: “I was worried for a moment there was something wrong with me”; this was changed in dubbing. After Paul went into his room and Shireen told Bill that Paul and the others were her mates too, Bill said: “I get that you have other friends it’s just I don’t know any of them...” “Well you haven't really made an effort...” but then called out to Paul who was still making silly noises, “Cut it out!” before continuing: “You've known we're moving in together for weeks but you didn’t bother meeting them til we were looking for a house.” “I was working,” said Bill. “They were like, ‘Is she real?” said Shireen before Bill asked if she fancied Paul.
Hearing Felicity’s scream, in the kitchen the Doctor got
co-ordinates
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his sonic screwdriver out and attempted to use it on the shutters. “What's that?” asked Harry. “Sonic screwdriver. It doesn't work
on wood,” fumed the Doctor,
On the upper landing, Bill was examining one of the doors behind them on the stairs, noting: “It’s wood straight across. Like they never opened.” “What happened to Paul?” said Shireen in panic, “He was screaming then it just stopped? And that knocking was everywhere! Bill? Why aren't you panicking? The house is haunted! Don't you care about what just happened?” “Yeah I do, and I don't want it to happen to us so we need to find a way out,” replied her friend. “You need to start communicating better,” said Shireen, “I’m supposed to be your best friend, but since we left school it’s always me calling you.” “What? We should check on Pavel...” said Bill, ignoring her and walking towards Pavel’s door. “Are you bored of me?” asked Shirteen, “Always about new stuff with you, isn’t it? But then the one time I have new friends you take offence...” “I just thought it would be fun to be next to each other, I didn't...” began Bill as her footstep
caused a creak. “Paul was creaking the floorboards when it happened,” noted Shireen. Bill lifted her foot carefully and nothing happened: “Tread carefully yeah?” Bill knocked twice on Pavel’s door, with her friend saying: “It'll probably be sealed shut too.”
Inside the room, when the young women saw Pavel fused into the wall, Bill asked: “Pavel can you hear us?” “He can’t talk. His mouth is covered up...” said Shireen as Pavel blinked. As Bill tried to reassure Pavel, she added: “You're in pain.” As Shireen went to touch the wall, Pavel sniffed suddenly and blinked; Bill snatched her friend’s hand back: “Don't!... He doesn’t want us to touch him.” Pavel blinked again. “One blink for yes. Two for no,” instructed Bill, “Okay?” The face blinked. “Are you in pain?” asked Bill, and Pavel blinked once before Bill asked Shireen to sort the record, When Pavel
started blinking rapidly at this instruction, Bill asked him: “Pavel, why not?” When the Landlord entered, Shireen said: “Our friend. Look! We have to get him out!” The Landlord's comments about hope being a form of cruelty were added in
Post-production
dubbing, replacing Bill saying, “Shireen, we need
to get out of here!” and the Landlord commenting on
“a diversion for the mind, from the task in hand”, With Pavel released to be preserved in the building forever, Bill exclaimed: “Preserved?
What do you mean? Is that what's happened to Paul
as well?” “A similar fate indeed,” agreed the Landlord. When Shireen asked if the house was eating people, the Landlord replied: “The house? No. A greater power. Waking now. Stronger every moment. I apologise for the inconvenience, girls...” “Not girls to you mate,” remonstrated Bill, “full blown, not very happy, adult women.” “Girls, boys, women, men,’ replied the Landlord, saying that all had to pay their dues,
Cred RIESE
hen the bookcase revealed the hidden passage, Bill originally exclaimed: “Stone! Yes!” “What?
Why’s stone good?” asked Shireen on
Connections:
All change
® The Doctor mentions to Bill that Time Lords can regenerate, something he did for the first time in The Tenth Planet [1966 - see Volume 8], with the process
later named as such in
Planet of the Spiders [1974
~see Volume 21]
“ 1 » Left: seeing the steps. “It doesn’t creak! “You should explained Bill. At the start of the next hire this out, scene in the kitchen, Harry was trying to tke! a emnrie
service,
get reception on his phone while asking: “What about the others?” “I don’t know,” replied the Doctor, then continued;
“Let's experiment. Aim: we need to get out. Theory: something's trapping us. Something that can shut shutters on their own, something that can control objects, trees, yes - wood. As your friend Charlotte said...” “Shireen,” corrected Harry. “It’s everywhere. The creaking. Why?” pondered the lecturer. “It’s old? Or something
could be behind it, pushing on it...” said Harry. As the pair tried to escape from the
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Connections:
Past events
Recalling recent events, Bill to herself of “living puddles" (The Pilo - see Volume 85)), “weird robots" (Smile [2017 - see Page 6) and “big fish” (Thin Ice page 48).
Applying a stitf upper lip
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creatures in the kitchen, the Doctor pondered: “What's so important about a cupboard?” Telling Harry to come inside the larder with him, he explained: “This is a Victorian house... Neo- Gothic mansion. Beautiful building. But what do they almost always have? That won't be made of wood?” “What?” asked the student, to which the Doctor declared: “A cellar!” Emerging from the lift, the Doctor commented: “Good. All brick. Stone. No wood, plaster, wallpaper. Should stop them for a while.” After the Doctor told the student that he couldn't just call the creatures “lice”, he continued: “Yes, there’s stories on other planets. The Deathtrees of Souta Four, the C on Enflusis ~ maybe it’s these creatures. Underneath...” It was at this juncture that the Doctor and Harry saw the portrait.
On entering the tower room, as Bill tried the shutters, Shireen said: “What are you doing? We must be really high, we couldn't get down.” After opening the music box,
(2017
17 - see
rnivorous Forest
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she added: “Is literally everything here really spooky?” “Yeah maybe close it?” suggested Bill. When they heard movement behind the screen, the woman's voice originally told them: “I'll be with you in a minute.” “Okay... no problem...” young tenants, looking at each other; this was changed in ADR.
said the
Parent trap
onfronted by the Doctor and Harry,
when the Landlord said he had
considered the consequences, he continued: “Parents whose loved ones never return home. They suffer a tragedy Lhave been blessed to avoid.” When asked by the Doctor why he was doing this, the Landlord originally replied: “I suppose I’m selfish, Doctor. But then, aren't we all?” After Harry asked what he was talking about, the Doctor originally declared: “This is a trap.” “And never more selfish than when it comes to the people we love,” continued the property owner as he looked at the portrait. With Harry’s foot trapped,
the Doctor told the Landlord to free the youth. “It’s the natural process...” said the Landlord. “You don’t want to upset me,” warned the Time Lord. “One can't fight nature,” insisted the old man, “Doctor I can't move my foot! Help me,” pleaded the student, with the tutor reassuring
the boy and then telling the Landlord: “Please. I’ll do anything.” “So quickly you prove my point...” began the strange man, “Would you really do anything Doctor? ‘To save him... Let me reassure you... It’s very quick.” After Harry’s demise, when the Doctor asked if Bill was all right, the Landlord replied: “She won't be for long.” When the Landlord said the creatures would take whatever they could, the Doctor said: “Alright, so the lice absorb these people to sustain your daughter...” “L have no desire to talk,” said the old man, “Oh I think you do!” continued the Doctor, “Must be lonely here on your own. I presume the lice need this sustenance refreshed? Six students, every 20 years. The insects are in your house. Also,
I presume, in your daughter. They're what?
Keeping her alive? How does that work? Tell me I’m right. I’m doing all the work here...” “How could you know?” asked the Landlord. “I’m very clever. But why? What happened?” asked the Time Lord as the lice closed in. Asking for the lice , to be called off and offering help, the Doctor continued: “We could chat properly? Your daughter’s kept alive by lice. That can’t be good.” “We'll talk. But not here. Come with me,” agreed the Landlord, disappearing into a room and telling the Mind your feet...”
When the voice behind the screen told Bill and Shireen that she hadn’t had inally As the
“1
Doctor,
visitors for a long time, she orig
The Doctor gets down with the kids
added: “I must look my best. figure emerged, creaking, Bill said: “Oo! Ouch. That sounds painful... Need a bit of physio.”
Meanwhile, the Landlord had lit a fire in his room, “Can you help her?” asked the old man, “Tell me what happened,” said the Doctor as the Landlord began his story: “It was just before the war. Eliza was dying. Nothing could be done. Until these creatures saved her, At first it “And then, they needed food,” stated the Doctor. “Twenty years later, the creatures grew dormant,” continued the landlord, “Eliza was fading. Then a vagrant broke into the house, fell asleep. And the lice absorbed him. I was horrified... but Eliza grew stronger, and I realised what had to do, It is regrettable, but nobody really misses the students. They're simply assumed to have run away.” “And you think your daughter is more important than all of them,” stated the
was a miracle.”
Connections: Walled up
Harry's grandad went greypacking on the Great Wall of China, the stone and rock fortification stretching from Dandong to Lop Lake first constructed as early as the seventh century BC and then enhanced through the dynasties, notably in the Ming Dynasty. It had been referred to by Marco Polo as part of the route his caravan took in Marco Polo [1964 - see Volume 2]
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What's that nolse?
Time Lord. “Yes of course,” replied the man, “at this moment you're concerned about your granddaughter, and you would do whatever it took to keep the person you love from death, wouldn't you?” “Yes I would,” admitted the Doctor. “Then you understand why I must take this course of action,” said the owner. “Oh I do,” agreed the Doctor, “I would tear the sky apart. I would reduce the solar system to the tiniest cinder for anyone I loved. But if 1 was about to do that,
if it got to that point of desperation then I would have one hope, one desire... that someone would stop me.” At this point, more lice appeared from the bookcase on the wall. “You said you could help her? Well? Is that true? Or are you just another so-called doctor with false
Connections: — Streaming service
Bill mentions that her Little Mix tracks on her phone were randomised
by Spotify, a music streaming service
launched in October 2008.
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promises?” asked the Landlord, walking towards the Doctor.
Confronting the two students in the tower room, ill. My father grew better. I haven't had a visitor. Not for so long.” As lice moved across the figure, Shireen said; “Thing is, we need to... head off yeah? Sorry! Bill come on...” “We can’t just leave her,” said Bill. “I think we can?” said her friend. “I see you both. Your
liza explained: “I was very
‘ound the creatures and I
lothes, the way you are with each other. You must be excellent friends,” observed Eliza. “Yeah we are,” agreed Bill. “First day going to school, met her at the bus stop, she didn’t have enough money,” recalled Shireen, “I helped her out. Since then. Yeah. Mates.” “I don’t remember having friends,” said Eliza to Shireen, who responded: “Well. No offence but the insect things?” This was when Shireen suggested making a run for it, but her
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footstep disturbed the lice, which swarmed over her. “Eliza, can’t you do anything?” asked Bill, to which the wooden woman replied, “No. | am sorry.” “Love you mate,” said Shireen before she died. After Eliza said that she had to survive, Bill told her: “T have a friend. He can help you to get
rid of them. He can stop this.” “My father wouldn't approve,” said the woman. “Don't you want to escape? Aren't there things you want to do?” asked Bill. “Like what?” asked Eliza. “Go out, have a laugh, I don’t know, dance, make friends?” suggested the
said urgently: “Eliza, these creatures have been trained to hunt. At the moment they're contained around you, and satisfied by the people your son brings in. But when that stops...” “Why would it stop?” interrupted the woman. “Your son's an old man!” continued the Doctor, “When he dies, there'll be no more food coming in, the lice will look
Connections: Music mogul ® The Doctor recalls
stepping in for American record producer, composer and conductor Quincy
Jones on an occasion when his bassist had been a Klarj neon death Voc bot... possibly related to the Voc robots featured in The Robots of Death [1977 - see Volume 26].
student. “My father knows what's best,” explained Eliza, adding, “he is here.”
~Louse-Yand ratte)
hen the Doctor confronted Eliza, Wi: pun about feeling “rotten” was
followed by his quip: “Bit louse-y 1 expect.” As the landlord told him to administer his treatment, the Time Lord said: “Give me a minute! I need to examine her first...” “Well here she is, and as you can see, I'm holding them at bay but the creatures are hungry...” said the old man. “Yes, you are. Somehow you control them,” observed the Doctor before establishing the medical history: “Conjecture: you were close to death.”
During the flashback to 1937, the Doctor’s narration considered that the young boy was “distraught... Seeking distraction...” as he collected the lice in the garden, “He's a son, about to lose the only family he has... He would do anything to save her, and now he's got a chance.” After the Landlord took the silence of the Doctor and Bill as confirmation of his question, he continued to Eliza: “They liked the music box, the tuning fork, a high sound. They respected me. I helped them to never let you die.” When Bill told the Doctor to start busking, the Doctor originally
elsewhere, In fact the lice will look everywhere! Every staircase in every house, every wardrobe door and squeaking chair. No escape! In bed, in the dark, you won't move a muscle because if you hear that creak, even once, then they'll get you! But you can stop it! You can stop all of that now!” “How can
I stop it?” asked Eliza, “My father controls the lice, he controls the house, he controls me!” “But Eliza, remember he’s not your father,’ insisted the Doctor. When Eliza realised that she controlled the creatures, the Doctor told her: “Eliza, exactly! The lice do what he says because you're part of them, and they think he’s the father, But you're in charge. That's why they didn’t absorb you in the first place. They needed a leader. You're the queen bee. The mother ant. They'll listen to you. And you can stop this! Enter the house yourself. Become the house. Don't trap people here, welcome them! Let it all change!” “No...” said the Landlord.
As Eliza recalled what it was like to live outside with other people, she walked towards her son: “You've been here all this time?” “We've been together, and we can. stay together!” insisted the Landlord, “It’s not too late to go now,” said his mother, while her son said, “We'll stay just as we are.” As son and mother were consumed,
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Above: Recording exterior shots on location at Fields House in Newport,
the Doctor said they needed to get out, adding: “Now he's part of the system, he’s fighting for control!” When Shireen’s hand appeared, he continued: “Distracted from their meal. She's only just been taken, maybe we can...”
riginally when the lice fell away from the house and the students believed
it to be gone, the Doctor asked: “Are you sure about that?” Something was left behind, Following a caption reading ‘A Week Later’, Weird People was playing as Bill knocked on the door of the TARDIS and the Doctor emerged. The pair looked at the house, now clean and repainted with a party going on inside. In the drawing room full of students, Bill told the Doctor: “So... The kitchen was in a state a couple
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of nights ago, but when we came down the next morning it was all sorted. Then, Paul lost his keys but an hour later they turn up, just there on the shelf. Like it’s looking after us. You know what's really different? Just feels warmer.” “She won,” observed the Doctor of Eliza, “got him under control. Some houses feel friendly and some
don’t. Maybe now we know why.” “What do you mean?” asked Bill. “I assumed these Dryads were alien,’ explained her tutor. “Maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re everywhere. Every creak - every wall... for better or worse. Oh - I changed the title deeds. Getting rather good at that. Guess who owns the house now?” “Me?” asked Bill, hopefully. “Better! Me,” beamed the Doctor. “Time Lord and landlord, yeah?” said the disappointed tenant. “Yeah,” agreed the Doctor, “isn’t that awesome?” “Thanks,” said Bill, hugging him. “For what?” asked the Doctor. “Never knew
my grandad,’ she explained, running off to join the others. The Doctor looked up
at the wall on which was hung the picture from the basement... but now showing John as an eight-year-old boy standing next to his mother, holding her hand... As specified in the script, Weird People and Black Magic by Little Mix were both used, the former played across the opening sequence and the latter for when the Doctor stayed up with Harry and Felicity. The violin concert which Pavel listened to was Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1720 adagio from Sonata No 1 in G Minor; this recording by Itzhak Perlman came from a German 1988 EMI double LP, Sonaten und Partiten (EX 7494831). The two piano pieces emanating from the vault were the 1810 solo Bagatelle No 25 in A minor (Fir Elise) by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, and the English nursery rhyme Pop! Goes the Weasel first published in 1853. Ml
ON.
Publicity
® Talking to Kristy Puchko of CBR at New York Comic Con on Saturday 8 October 2016, Steven Moffat praised “a brilliant script from Mike Bartlett” which was reported as erroneously being called The Haunted Hub,
® “I think that you should be very careful when you hear a creak, when you step on a floorboard,” Peter
Capaldi told the audience attending a preview of The Return of Doctor Mysterio [2016 - see Volume 85 Wednesday 14 December, David Suchet enthusiastically threw himself into promotion for his episode of Doctor Who, explaining how quickly he
on
m | Publicit
accepted the role to Angela Scanlon and Richard Osman on BBC One's The One Show on Friday 31 March 2017. “T've fulfilled a lifelong ambition as an actor,” he explained. Suchet also recorded a chat with Christel Dee for Doctor Who: The Fan Show at Blundell Street Studios on Thursday 6 April amidst other press items such as an interview with Rove McManus in Sydney for Whovians.
® “Watch out when you stand ona floorboard and it creaks,” tantalised Peter Capaldi again to the audience at the BFI & Radio Times Festival on Sunday 9 April. Mike Bartlett spoke
ristel Dee for Doctor Who: The
7 C Left: Fan Show at Multichannel Studios on Knadkknodk Thursday 20 April. Who's there?
® On Sunday 30 April, it was announced that Knock Knock could be enjoyed in binaural after transmission. The BBC released a 1'14” video What Is Binaural? as scientist Chris Pike explained the process with sound mixer Darran Clement and audio supervisor Catherine Robinson, along with a 42” preview of Bill and Shireen on the landing which demonstrated the different sources of the knocking sound.
® Suchet spent part of the morning of his 71st birthday - Tuesday 2 May - guesting on ITV's Lorraine. Chatting to Lorraine Kelly in the London
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Above:
Bill makes
the most of the TARDIS' transportation service.
studio from 9am to 9.10am, he again enthused about the project and the scene in which the Doctor ate prawn crackers was shown, The BBC released a 20” trailer for the show the same day, and the second of the Doctor Who and the micro:bit Live Lessons was staged
in the BBC's Make It Digital initiative. In Radio Times, Suchet was the subject of Stephen Armstrong's two-page article Hercule who?, expressing delight at Bartlett's script. Patrick Mulkern promised ‘plenty of flesh-crawling thrills’ when he made the programme the Pick of the Day, the binaural version emphasised by a shot of the wooden Eliza; a picture of the Doctor and Bill
appeared atop the evening's listings. To preserve the surprise of the Landlord's identity, Tate Pitchie-Cooper was not credited as the younger version of
the character,
A special binaural preview screening for local students was conducted a Fields House on Wednesday 3, with the TARDIS parked outside and the Doctor Who Interactive team present
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with Nikki Wilson. A 17” introduction by Steven Moffat was released the same day, while Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie discussed what made
the episode so scary in a similar 37” Jay 4 when Doctor Who Magazine issue 512 was published with a five-page preview in which Benjamin Cook spoke to Mike Bartlett
item on Thur:
A 101” video of Nikki Wilson at the preview appeared on Friday 5 May
along with the eating sequence. By now, the television
prawn cracker-
trailers for the episode carried recent
quotes from The Times and Heat about Doctor Who being back and at the ‘top of its game’.
On broadcast day, Knock Knock was
the subject of a four-minute item on BBC News’ technology show Click
Kate Russell's preview screening report aired at 12.50pm, including various clips, behind-the-scenes footage and from Nikki Wilson and Catherine Robinson emphasising the binaural version available from 8.10pm that night
comment
3 The week before transmission, Pearl
Mackie had been in Los Angeles; on the Saturday, she tweeted a picture taken during its recording: ‘Happy Doctor Who day! can't wait to spook you all out with this episode.. Meanwhile, Peter Capaldi was reunited with former Doctor Who
ved this c
co-star Jenna Coleman for a panel at Wizard World Minneapolis held at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minnesota, USA, having attended the event the previous day as well.
» “Now nobody likes creaky floorboards, but nobody's scared of them... that was until now,” said the BBC One
continuity announcer over the
Southwark skaters ‘Oneness’ ident
before the début of Knock Knock at
gain, the ‘Pure Drama’ branding commenced the broadcast
At the end of the show, a voice-over
announced that the next episod
would air in the earlier 7.15pm slot
because of the Eurovision Song
Contest, and noted that the BBC book
Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time Lords
was available for pre-order prior to
publication on Thursday 18 May.
Publicity | Broadcast
® With an increased audience for Thin Ice, Knock Knock was the highest-rated BBC show of the day with an audience approaching six million. While Doctor Who confidently won the first part of its time slot against ITV's Take Me Out, its last five minutes lost out to the highly rated Britain’s Got Talent
® Following transmission, the 3D mix of Knock Knock was available on iPlayer,
s was the 18'35” edition of Doctor Who: The Fan Show. On Sunday 7 May, the BBC released a 1'23” video of B Suavek discussing Pavel’s prosthetic:
In Australia, ABC2's Whovians saw
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Above:
The Doctor offersahand of support.
Rove McManus joined by comedians Tegan Higginbotham, Adam Richard, Steven ‘Bajo’ O'Donnell and Alice Fraser and also the recorded chat with Suchet, plus Jimmy Giggle and Hoot the Owl from ABC Kids’ Giggle and Hoot auditioning to be the new Doctor (Doctor Hoot). BBC America offered
a 58” Doctor Who Closer Look at the episode on Sunday 7 with comments from Steven Moffat and Pearl Mackie.
® Two more videos followed from the BBC on Monday 8. Pearl Mackie
ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
EPISODE
Knock Knock
DATE TIME CHANNEL
720pm-8.05pm — BBCOne
Saturday 6 May 2017
REPEAT TRANSMISSION
Knock Knock
Saturday 13 May 2017 2,55am-3,40am!
Signed repeat. Scheduled for 2.50am-3.35am
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chatted to Colin Ryan, Mandeep Dhillon and Sam Benjamin in a 56" item, and a 2’01” video saw David Suchet discussing his enjoyment of working on the series. A signed repeat of Knock Knock aired to an audience of around 250,000 at 2.5Sam (originally scheduled for 2.50am and marginally delayed by Later... with Jools Holland) on BBC Two on the morning of Saturday 13 May. Radio Times for 20-26 May carried a letter from Ian Hamer of Brighouse in the Feedback section which applauded the enhanced iPlayer sound and recalled the BBC's earlier experiments with ‘ambisonics’ in the 1970s
® Two deleted scenes were screened by BBC America on Saturday 1 July during Doctor Who Finale Day; these were the landlord explaining about his daughter to the Doctor in his room (‘One Hope, One Desire’) and the original closing scene of the Doctor telling Bill that he now owned the house (Time Lord to Landlord).
® In Doctor Who Magazine, Graham Kibble-White felt that Knock Knock ‘continues this series’ incredibly strong run’ and offered ‘a new clarity, and therefore strength in the storytelling’
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nock Knock formed part of the DVD/Blu-ray set Doctor Who: Series 10: Part 1 issued by BBC Worldwide on Monday 29 May 2017; this also included the Inside Look — Knock Knock with comments from Steven Moffat, Peter
Capaldi and Pearl Mackie. The episode
was also included on the DVD/Blu-ray
Doctor Who: The Complete Series 10 released
on November; this offered the binaural
soundtrack to Knock Knock, a commentary ™, by Bill Anderson and Mike ) Bartlett, the Inside Look, deleted
"} scenes, the aftershow edition of
=), Doctor Who: The Fan Show and
the feature ...Who’s There? which featured interviews
| with Steven Moffat,
Peter Capaldi, Pearl
Mackie, Mike Bartlett,
David Suchet, location manager Nicky James,
} Bill Anderson and sound FX editor Harry Barnes. Three lenticular art cards were
available with the
Blu-ray version and a
Steelbook edition was also
available, exclusive to
Amazon, with artwork by
Alice X Zhang.
| Issue 123 of
), Eaglemoss’ Doctor
Who Figurine Collection
featured a
figurine of
the wooden Eliza, with a magazine.
Behind the scenes on the DVD extras.
-
Eaglemoss figurine of Eliza,
OAVID SUCHET The Landlord
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Cast and credits
Below: Students Felicity and Paul,
The Doctor
Pearl Mackie. » Bile Matt Lucas iscsi Nardole with David Suchet... Landlord Mariah Gale........ Eliza Mandeep Dhillon... wunshireen Colin Ryan., Harry Ben Presley Paul Alice Hewkin.. Felicity Bart Suavek., Pavel
Sam Benjamin ,......00. Estate Agent Tate Pitchie-Cooper sssane YOUN Landlord’ Jennifer Hennessy Moira?
+ Credited in Radio Times as Bill Potts *Not credited in Radio Times *Uncredited; omitted from finished programme
XCAAABS
UNCREDITED
Jade Robinson Estate Agent David Coleman, Louise Franklin.. Couple Tamina Ali. Double for Shireen
Rebekah Price, Joshua Masini
Better Dressed Students Samuel Grashoff, Liam Casey, Robert Penny, Kelsie Reardon, Chetna Upadhyay, Tito
Ogedengbe..., 7 swe» Passers-by Karen Teoch Stunt Double for Felicity Gareth Weekley, Hand Double for The Doctor
Samuel Grashoff, Liam Casey, Robert Penny, Kelsie Reardon, Chetna Upadhyay, Tito
Ogedengbe. Friends In Photos [Jake Christie, Annie Wren, Jonathan Frost, Sarah Tiller, Mark Hopethorne, Carl Richards} Unknown... Double for Eliza
Syed Tarek Ahmed, Thomas Burris, Ollie
Douglas, Danielle Evans, Jordan Gitahi,
Ashleigh Stevens, Buhlebenkosi Sigogo Students*
* Not in finished programme
CREDITS
Written by Mike Bartlett
Produced by Nikki Wilson
Directed by Bill Anderson (uncredited: Nikki Wilson}
Stunt Coordinator; Crispin Layfield
Stunt Performer: Karen Teoh
Ist Assistant Director: Sarah Davies {splinter: Chris Thomas, Bryan Moses]
2nd Assistant Director: James DeHaviland [2nd unit: Delmi Thomas]
3rd Assistant Director: Christopher | Thomas (uncredited: Rhun Llewelyn; 2nd unit; Danielle Richards]
Assistant Directors: Rhun Llewelyn, Lauren Pate [uncredited: Cian Williams,
Rosie Brown, Charlie Campbell, Omid Souhrabi, Kieran Hayhow]
Unit Drivers: Sean Evans, Kyle Davies (uncredited: Jolyon Davey, Paul Watkins, Kevin Tucker, Darren Davies, John Bush, Montil Jalile, Ashley Brown, Karl Sullivan, Steve Darwent, Beverley Spinola]
Location Manager: Nicky James
Unit Manager: Beccy Jones
Production Manager: Adam Knopf
Production Coordinator: Sandra Cosfeld
Assistant Production Coordinator: Nicola Chance
Production Assistants: Virginia Bonet, Jamie Shaw
Assistant Accountant: Justine Wooff
Art Department Accountant; Alison Harvey
Script Supervisor: Nicki Coles [uncredited: Lucy Noble; 2nd unit: Heulwen Jones]
Script Executive: Lindsey Alford
Script Editor: Nick Lambon
Castandcredits
Assistant Script Editor; Emma Genders Camera Operator: Mark McQuoid [uncredited: Martin Stephens; Steadicam: Derek Walker; s| Robert Shacklady] Focus Pullers: Jonathan Vidgen, Elhein De Wet [uncredited: Andy Gardner, Paul Andrew; 2nd unit: Elliot Hale] Camera Assistants: Gethin Williams, Drew Marsden, Dan Patounas [uncredited: Max Friswell, Scott Waller, Chris Jacobi; 2nd unit: Cai Thompson} Grip: John Robinson [uncredited; Sam Reeves, Martyn Jones; 2nd unit: Gary Sheppeard] Assistant Grip; Sean Cronin {uncredited; Matt Gains; 2nd unit: Sion Woodman] Sound Maintenance Engineers: Tam Shoring, Christopher Goding [uncredited: Joe Malone, Joss Colins, 2nd unit: Mark Elson] Gaffer; Mark Hutchings Best Boy: Andy Gardiner
Mariah Gale sits stiff as a board.
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Electricians: Gawain Nash, Gareth Sheldon, Bob Milton, Sion Davies
Supervising Art Director; Henry Jaworski
Art Director; Tim Overson [2nd unit: Dafydd Shurmer]
Standby Art Director; Nick Murray [2nd unit: Anwen Haf]
Set Decorator; Adrian Anscombe
Production Buyer: Jen Saguaro
Prop Buyers: Jo Pearce, Charlotte Lailey de Ville
Draughtperson; Kartik Nagar
Storyboard Artist Mike Collins
Prop Master: Paul Smith
Props Chargehand: Kyle Belmont
Standby Props: Matt Ireland, Jonathan Barclay uncredited; James Kelleher]
Prop Hands! Scott Howe, Nigel Magni, Matt Watts
Storeman: Jamie Southcott
Concept Artist; Darren Fereday
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Graphic Artist: Matt Clark
Graphics
sistant: Jack Bowes Standby Carpenter; Paul Jones [2nd unit; Phil Pritchard] Rigging: Shadow Scaffolding Standby Rigger: Colin Toms [2nd unit; Martyn Morgan] Practical Electricians: Callum Alexander, Austin Curtis Props Driver: Gareth Fox Construction Manager: Terry Horle Construction Chargehand: Dean Tucker Chargehand Carpenter: John Sinnott Carpenters: Tim Burke, Keith Richards, Matt Ferry, Campbell Frazer, Chris Daniels, Joe Painter, George Rees, Alan Jones, Dan Berrow, Mike Venables, Tom Berrow Construction Driver; jonathan Tylke Construction Labourer: Jason Tylke
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Head Scenic Artist: Clive Clarke
Painters: Steve Nelms, John Nelms, Paul Murray, Debby McShane
Assistant Costume Designer: Zoe Howerska
Costume Supervisor: Kat Willis
Costume Assistants: Rebecca Cunningham, Leila Headon, Jenny Tindle
Make-up Supervisor: james Spinks
Make-up Artists: Megan Bowes, Lolly Goodship (uncredited: Cathy Davies, Linda Corr]
Unit Medic: Glyn Evans
Casting Associate: Ri McDaid-Wren
Casting Assistant: Louis Constantine
Business Affairs Executive: Carol Griggs
Assistant Editors: Becky Trotman, David Davies
VFX Editor: Dan Rawlings
Post Production Coordinator; Hannah Jones
Dubbing Mixer: Mark Ferda
ADR Editor: Matthew Cox
Dialogue Editor; Darran Clement
Effects Editor; Harry Barnes
Foley Editor; Simon Clement
Foley Artist: Julie Ankerson
Titles: BBC Wales Graphics
Title Concept: Billy Hanshaw
Online Editor: Mark Hardyman
Assistant Online Editor: Christine Kelly
Colourist; Gareth Spensley
Music Conducted & Orchestrated By Alastair King
Music Mixed By Jake Jackson
Music Recorded By Gerry O'Riordan
Music Score Assistant: Jack Sugden
Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
With Thanks to National Orchestra of Wales
Casting Director; Andy Pryor CDG
Head of Production: Gordon Ronald
Production Executive: Tracie Simpson
Post Production Supervisor: Samantha Price
Production Accountant; Simon Wheeler
Sound Recordist: Deian Ligr Humphreys [uncredited; Bryn Thomas; 2nd unit Richie Books; splinter: John Rodda]
Costume Designer; Hayley Nebauer
Make-up Designer; Barbara Southcott
Music: Murray Gold
Visual Effects: Milk, BBC Wales VFX Special Effects: Real SFX Special Creature Effects & Prosthetics: Millennium FX Editor: Adam Trotman Production Designer: Michael Pickwoad Director of Photography: Damian Bromley [2nd unit: Mark Waters; splinter: Robert Shacklady, Ali Asad] Line Producer: Steffan Morris Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin BBC Studios
Cymru Wales bbc.co.uk/doctorwho © BBC 2017
albert+ sustainable production
Left: The Landlord cracks a smile,
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DAVID SUCHET
The Landlord
he actor was born David Courtney Suchet on 2 May 1946 in London. His mother Joan was a former actress, daughter to Daily Mail photographer Jimmy Jarché. David's father Jack ~ descended from the Lithuanian-Jewish Suchedowitz family - came to England from South Afri and gynaecologist. Eld became an ITN news: Peter an advertising executive. All boarded at Grenham House School, Kent, then David went to Wellington School, Somerset. Finding acting an escape from school discipline, young David's stage début came as an oyster in a school production of Alice Through the Looking Glass, and by 17 he was playing Macbeth. He joined the National Youth Theatre at 18.
During three years training at LAMDA he appeared in several productions with fellow student Colin Baker.
His professional début came at Chester Gateway (1969), before further Rep stints at Northcott, Exeter (1970), Worthing Connaught (1971), the Watermill, Bagnor, Berkshire (1971) and Liverpool Playhouse (1972). At the Belgrade, Coventry he met actress Sheila Ferris while appearing in Dracula (1972); soon they were living together on a narrow boat, before marrying in June 1976. Progressing to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973 to understudy Bernard Lloyd, Suchet stepped in with just days notice when Lloyd developed back trouble,
to become a noted obstetrician brother John ‘ader, younger brother
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playing Orlando in As You Like it and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (both 1973). He never looked back, building an enviable classical CV that included the Fool in King Lear (1974/5), Ferdinand in Love's Labour's Lost (1975), Lucio in Measure for Measure (1977), Caliban in The Tempest (1978), Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew (1978/9), Angelo in Measure for Measure (1979), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1981) and Iago in Othello (1985/6).
Alhough TV was secondary, his screen début came in comedy The Mating Machine (broadcast 16 October 1970). Later popular television included Public Eye (1971), The Protectors (1973), The Professionals (1978), Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983), Jackanory (1987) and Tales of the Unexpected (1988).
Small-ser
in Oppenheimer (1980) and Sigmund Freud in BBC serial Freud (1984). BBC single plays and films included Play for Today: The Cause (1981), Being Normal (1983), Oxbridge Blues (1984), Mussolini (1987), Cause Célébre (1987) and Separation (1990). Film on Four TV movie A Song for Europe (1985) won him an RTS award. His title role as an eccentric groundsman in satire Blott on the Landscape (1985) proved a TV breakthrough. The same year, he played Inspector Japp opposite Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in US/UK TV movie 13 at Dinner (1985). The Agatha Christie Es d, offering him the role of Poirot in a new ITV si 5.
Starring in Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2013), he was BAFTA-nominated for his performance in 1991, while the series won global audiences of 750 million. On saying farewell in 2013 he received an RTS Lifetime Achievement Award.
Later TV included a BAFTA-nomination for The Way We Live Now (2001), DI John Borne in NCS: Manhunt (2002), George Carman in Get Carman (2002) and as Van
was impr
n leads included Edward Teller
Helsing opposite Marc Warren as Dracula (2006). As media tycoon Robert Maxwell in Maxwell (2007), he won an Emmy.
His movie career encompassed character roles in A Tale of Two Cities (1980), The Missionary (1982), Disney's Trenchcoat (1983), The Little Drummer Girl (1984), Greystoke (1984), The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), To Kill a Priest (1988) and Flood (2007).
Suchet's CV in fantasy stretches to voice credits as both the Phoenix in BBC serial The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997) and lion Aslan in a stage production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2012).
Delighted to appear in Doctor Who, Suchet had worked with Peter Capaldi twice before, when Capaldi guested in a Poirot in 1991, and in Victorian espionage drama The Secret Agent (1992). Suchet guested on webcast The Fan Show to promote Knock Knock.
Recent theatre has included the Old Vic's Broadway revival of Amadeus (1998-2000), bringing a Tony nomination for his role as Salieri, and as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (2015).
Suchet and wife Sheila live in Pinner, Harrow and have grown-up children Robert and Katherine.
Suchet has featured on Who Do You Think You Ave? (2008) and Desert Island Discs (2009). In 2009 he received the Freedom of the City of London and in 2011 a CBE.
Profile
Left:
In Blott on
the Landscape in 1985,
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Index
Page numbers In italic type refer to pictures,
100,000 BC...
Ace. Age of Steel, The. Akhtar, Kaizer.
ww lOL
22, 24,25, 26, 27,38
Alford, Lindsey Ali, Tamina wus. Aliens of Londar Almost People, The. Amy's Choice, Anderson, Bil
46
29, 62,69, 70, 100, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 123 “or 53,54, 57 22, 25,29 23,26 3
Androids of Tara, The. angler fish.. Anwar, Min Ark in Space, The. Ark, The
Asylum of the Daleks
Aves, Vince.
Bad Wolf, 98
Baker, Coli 130
Bartlett, Mike 5,92, 93,95,98, 100, 101, 115, 119, 120, 123
BBC Roath Lock 5,27, 28, 63,
BBC website. Beast Below, The, Bendini., Bennett, Peter Berk, Ailsa, Biernat, Dani,
Burns, Nicholas...
Campbell, Jamie Canning.
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5,12, 22,24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43,
47, 50, 54, 60,63, 65,
66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73,
%, 76,78, 79, 83,101, 104,105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 116,119, 120, 123, 131
Capaldi, Peter ,
Caretaker, The Cazaly, Fiona col 23, 30,110 Chibnall, Chri Children in Need Christmas Invasion, The. Class (BBC Three) Coleman, Jenna, commentaries, Cook, Benjamin. Cottrell-Boyce, Frank.
5/9; 12,13,
Cybermen,
Dadiani, Kiran L.... Dalek Invasion of Earth, The. Daleks in Manhattan. Daleks. Davies, Russell T Davison, Peter. DaVr0S ws Day of the Doctor, The Deadly Assassin, The Dee, Christel Deep Breath Dent, Steve. Dhillon, Mandeep, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Doctor Dances, The. Doctor Falls, The, Doctor Who Closer ( Doctor Who Experience, the. Doctor Who Festival Doctor Who Interactive
wns 22, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29,54, 65, 104, 107, 108, 120 13, 36, 39, 42, 56, 62, 63, 76, 78, 120,122 iat) 7, 38, 40, 47, 78, 79, 85, 105, 119, 121, 123, 131 5,51, 54,55, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66,67, 76, 78, 84-85
60, 62, 68, 69, 72, 73 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 72, 74 8, 91, 93, 110 40, 79,123
Doctor Who Magazine,
Doctor Who TV Movie... Doctor Who: The Fan Show...
Dollard, Sarah...
Dot ws Dowell.
Dryads (see also Lice). DVD Extras...
Eaglemoss Doctor Who Figurine Collectior 40,123 Eliza... 89, 91, 93, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 108, 112, 115,
116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123,125, 126
8,9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
Emojibots..,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40
Empty Child, The... End of the World, Th Erewhon. Evolution of the Daleks
Face the Raven, Felicity...
54,55, 85 10, 93, 94, 96, 97,99, 102, 104, 107,
111, Ne, 118, 124
Fires of Pompeii, Th 46 Foley, Tegai 69 Foreman, Susai 88, 101
Forster, Dean. Fortunate... Frontier in Space. Frontios
70
Frost Fair, the 48,51, 52,54, 55, 56, 59, 62, 66, 67, 68, 70, 78
GLE) Mariah vasiiidaisiunienmenenseeneiisnaniisinisinanen » 101, 103, 107,108,125
Gannon, Rachel 110
Garner, Crai 28 Gatiss, Mart 66 Genesis of the Dalek: 2
Ghost Ligh 8,95 Girl Who Died, 25 Gliese S61 15,31, 36
Gold, Murray 35,71 Good Man Goes to War, A 51, 55,59 Goodthing,, 0, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23,
27,29, 30, 31, 33, 39, 40 2; 23, 24, 28
Gough, Lawrence Griffiths, Peter
Hand of Fear, The... Happiness Patrol, The, Harness, Pete
90, 91, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99,100, 101, 102, 104, 107, 108, 120, 111, 11e, 12, 113, 114,115, 116
107 102,104,107
Hulke, Malcolm
Hungry Earth, The. Husbands of River Song, The
In the Forest of the Nigh
9,12, 13, 22,69 40, 79, 123
Invasion of the Dinosaurs ..
John (see also the Landlord), Jones, Harriet Jones, Marth Journey's Eni
Kenchington, Troy.
Kezzia.. 17,19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26,27,
29, 30, 31
Kibble-white, Graham 9, 42, 78, 122
Kill the Moon, Kingston, Alex. Kitty.
23, 51,68 85 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 60,61, 62, 64, 66,67, 72,73
Knock Knock 5,56, 66, 67, 70, 77, 86-87, 88, 89, 90-91,
92, 93-97, 98, 99, 100, 101,
102-103, 104-105, 106, 107-108,
109-110, 111, 112, 113-115, 116,
117-120, 121, 122-124, 125-128,
129, 130, 131
broadcast. 121-122 castand credits. 124-129 draft scripts ,, 93-101 editin 110-118
pre-credits sequence. pre-production.
Koroma, Asiatu
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Landlord, the (see also John) . «5,86, 90, 91, 92, 93,
94,95,96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113,114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 129
Layfield, Crispin Lice (see also Dryads) ..
96, 97,98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 108, 110, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 22
Listen, Little Mi Little, Ralf, Location Filminy Cefn Tilla Court, Llandenny, Us| Ciutat de les Arts | les Ciéncies, Valencia 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 36, 38, 39, 45
Custom House, Bute Street, Cardiff 6 Enterprise House, Bute Street, Cardi Fairwater Grove West, Cardiff, Fields Hause, Fields Park Avenue, Newpor 104, 105, 107, 118, 120
Flemingston Court Farm, St Atha A
Gileston Farm, St Athan Kings Weston House, Bristol Percy Street, Cardiff. Uskmouth Power Station, Logopolis.. Lorraine (ITV1) Lucas, Matt... Ludders, Simon
Mackie, Pearl
95, 101, 105, 116, 118 22, 26, 27, 29, 39 2
25,65 63, 64,65
5,13, 22,24, 37,38, 40, 60, 63, Sot 66, 67, 68, 69, 76, 78, 79,
80, 98, 101, 104, 107, 108, 120, 122,123
Magician's Apprentice, The, Manning, Stuart... Mansfield, Stephen .. Mapson, Colin Marco Polo, Marshall, Alan ‘Rock May, Tomi... McCrimmon, Jamie. McGinley, Belinda. McLaren, Jo, Millennium Minchin, Briat
12, 13, 22, 23,38, 46-47, 92,93,103
Missy, Model Unit... Moffat, Steven. 47, 54,55, 60, 61, 70, 76, 78, 79, 93, 98, 109, 119, 120, 122,123 Moira,
00, 103, 107, 110, 111
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Morrell, Rhiannot Morris, Steffan.
Munro, Rona 66 music ... .35,71, 18 Nardole..... .10, 18, 20, 21, 53,
63,64, 65, 68, 70, 73,
91,104, 108, 109 9, 21, 24, 29, 35 107
Nebauer, Hayley. Noble, Donni
O'Brien, Professor Tim... old woman... One Show, The (BBC One) Osgood... Oswald, Clar Overseer, th Oxygen,
Painter, Steve... Palmer, Charles Parting of the Ways, The Paul
10, 11, 18,20, 26, 27 19
22 3, 51,55, 59, 68, 69, 108 2,58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64,65 5,9, 70, 109
90, 93, 94,95, 957, 99, 102, 105, 107, 111,
12, 113, 118, 124
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97, 98, 101, 102, 104, 105,
107, 108, 110, 112, 113, 114, 121 53, 57,59, 60, 67, 72, 4
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Pertwee, Jon. Pie-Man, the
52,55, 56, 58, én 62,63, 64, 67, 72, 74 14,18, 19, 20, 22, 23,24, 25, 36, 61, 62,65,
73,88, 100, 103, 104, 114
A Star in Her Eye (working title). 19, 22,100 Pirate Planet, Th Pitchie-Cooper, Tat Planet of the Dead, Planet of the Spiders.
Pilot, The,
Points of View (BBC One} 38 Pollard, Gary, 24 Pond, Am! 51,107 Potts, Bill. 4,5,6,9,10, 11, 12, 13,
14,15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 48, 50,51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,65, 66,67,
68,69, 70, 71,72, 73, 74, 75,76, 78, 80, 86, 88, 90, 91,93, 94, 95,
96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108,110, 111, Ne, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122
i)
.11, 18, 19, 20, 26, 29, 30, 35 102,104,107
Power of Three, Th Praiseworth
Presley, Ben.
Rebel Flesh, The. regeneration... Remembrance of the Dalek: Return of Doctor Mysterio, Ribos Operation, The Rise of the Cybermen.. Robinson, Darren. Robots of Death, The.
Russell, Edwar Ryan, Colin...
Sarah Jane Adventures, The School Reunion Shah, Kiran, Shakespeare Code, The Shenker, Elli Shireen
102,104, 122
22,47 62 22,24, 26,28 58 0 66 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113,
114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 63,73 6 47 1 6-8, 9-11, 12, 13-18, ) 21, 22-24, 25, 26-30,
Singh, Peter Skelton, Badger Skinner, Caroline , Smile.
31, 32, 33, 34-35, 36, 37-38, 39, 40-41, 42-43, 44-47, 51, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 73,
76, 88, 100, 114
broadca cast and credits draft script editing... merchandise. post-production, pre-credits sequenc pre-production.
ratings .. readthrough .. story... The News from Nowhere (working title) 14, 17, 19, 100 Smith, Matt... Snowmen, The, Song, River... sonic screwdriver
11,16, 18,19, 21,
34, 52, 53, 57, 59, 67, 75,97, 100,112
sonic sunglasses.
South Wales Argus.. 104 Spearhead from Spa 20 Spider... 2, 56, 57, 58, 60, 63,
64, 66, 67, 69, 72, 73, 76 24, 26, 27 8, 71, 88, 104 11, 18,19, 20, 26, 29, 30, 35
97
Ssebandeke, Kalung! St Luke's University Steadfast
Stolen Earth, The Suavek, Bart: Suchet, Davi
102,104, 105, 121 5, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 108, 119, 120, 122, 123, 130-131 17,98, 99 vA) 51, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63,64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74,75, 77
Sullivan, Harry,, Sun, The.. Sutcliffe, Lord.
T
Talons of Weng-Chiang, Th TARDIS:
5,10, 11, 14, 15, 16,
17, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 47,52, 53,
55, 56, 57,60, 64, 66, 67, 68, 71,
72, 73,75, 76, 85, 90, 94, 98, 99, 102, 103, 104, 108, 110, 112, 118, 120
Tennant, David Tenth Planet, Th Teoch, Karen...
Terror of the Zygon
Thinice 48-50, }, 55-59, -63, 64-65, 69,70, 71, 72-73, 74, 75-76, 77- 78,
79-80, 81-82, 83-85, 88, 98, 103,
104,109, 114, 121
broadcast... cast and credits, costumes... draft script: editing .. merchandise. post-production, pre-production.
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Thiruselvan, Kishain: Time and the Rani Time Crash Time Lords Time of the Doctor, Th Timelash Times, The,
Twice Upon a Time Twin Dilemma, The... Twitter... Tyler, Rose.
Under the Lake. Unquiet Dead, Thi
Vampires of Venice, The. Vardy
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The Doctor whisks Bill off to the far future to one of the first human colonies, but all they find are empty corridors and robots that communicate in ‘emoji’. As the travellers delve into the mystery, they discover their only hope of survival is to smile.
London, 1814, The Doctor and Bill arrive by accident at the last of the great frost fairs on the River Thames, Before Bill can enjoy the past, revellers are pulled beneath the ice and the Doctor must find out what lurks in the dark depths of the river...
Bill rents a house with some friends, but on their first evening there, strange noises are heard, The house harbours a dark secret, and the Doctor would like a word with the
eccentric old Landlord...