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Contents
THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
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INTRODUCTION STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION POST-PRODUCTION
PUBLICITY BROADCAST MERCHANDISE CAST ANDCREDITS PROFILE
OVERVIEW
NEW EARTH
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INTRODUCTION STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION POST-PRODUCTION
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PUBLICITY BROADCAST MERCHANDISE CAST AND CREDITS PROFILE
TOOTH AND CLAW
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INTRODUCTION STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION POST-PRODUCTION
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attended a Doctor Who addressing the attendees from the stage.
convention in Bournemouth “You're all aficionados,” he exclaimed.
back in the 1990s. During those “That’s a new word for you, so I'll say it
twilight years, when the TV again - aficionados.” He was having a little
series was no longer being made, fun, of course, but I really liked the term
the regular conventions across ‘aficionado’, which the dictionary defines
the country (and indeed the world) helped as ‘a person who is very knowledgeable and
keep Doctor Who alive. enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or
At this particular convention, one pastime’. There’s nothing wrong with the
of the guests was John Woodnutt, a more commonly used term ‘fan’, of course,
seasoned actor who had played no less but aficionado seems to carry more weight
than four roles in Doctor Who over the and respectability to it.
years, including the dual role of the As has become well-known, David
Duke of Forgill and Broton, warlord of Tennant is also a Doctor Who aficionado,
the Zygons in Terror of the Zygons [1975 and the first to be cast as the Doctor. To
- see Volume 23]. I was fortunate to have such a comprehensive awareness
have lunch with John and, as we finished of the history of the series and to be so
our meal, I asked him what it was that well acquainted with the performances of
made him want to attend a Doctor Who the previous actors to play the part must
convention. He immediately replied, “It’s have weighed heavily on him when he was
the enthusiasm!” and went on to explain offered the role. The fact that he did not
what a great pleasure it was for him to immediately accept, would suggest that he
meet people who had such a passion for thought carefully about becoming part of
the series. He later expanded on this when something that had been such an integral
part of his childhood.
Of course, how could he say ‘no’? He
would never have forgiven himself. And
that he went on to be such a huge success
in the role, cementing Doctor Who as one of
the BBC’s top shows, could have left him in
no doubt that he made the right decision.
David’s aficionado status meant he
was well qualified to provide input into
elements of the show, not least of all his
own costume. That smart pinstripe suit
and that cloak-like coat invoke echoes of
Right: the attire of previous Doctors, while being
John Woodnutt unique to David’s own interpretation.
as the Duke in
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or many centuries, Christmas basis. He kept returning them to their
passed the Doctor by. In fact, own time and inevitably they shared a
when the TARDIS happened few Christmases with him along the way.
to land at Christmas time - in Since then, Clara Oswald has split her
the epic The Daleks’ Master Plan time between travelling in the TARDIS
[1965/6 - see Volume 6] - he and teaching. She’s also no stranger to
insisted on taking time out to mark the having the Doctor pop by at Christmas
occasion, along with everyone watching - helping her cook the turkey, offering to
at home! play Twister with her gran, or dreaming of
In recent times, however, he’s engaged Santa Claus.
in seasonal festivities rather more often. The Christmas Invasion marked the start
If we need to find a reason to celebrate of this trend. Rose Tyler, whom the Doctor
Christmas, then perhaps these regular recruited in the episode Rose [2005 - see
specials can be explained away by the Volume 48], was a much more committed
Doctor’s increased involvement in the _ traveller. But with greater control over the
Below: — lives of his companions. Amy and Rory _ TARDIS than had previously been the case,
Rose's Christmas : 4
etuined by the eventually found themselves travelling the Doctor was able to return Rose to her
Sycoraxinvasion. with the Eleventh Doctor on a part-time own time for occasional visits. One such
visit, in the immediate aftermath of his
ninth regeneration, just happened to be at
Christmas. Of course it also just happened
to be the time the Sycorax chose to invade.
In much the same coincidental way
that aliens seem to make Britain the
focus of any incursion, many have chosen
Christmas as a time to cause trouble for
the Doctor: the Empress of the Racnoss
in The Runaway Bride [2006 - see Volume
54], Max Capricorn in Voyage of the Damned
[2007 - see Volume 57], the Cybermen in
The Next Doctor [2008 - see Volume 60], the
Master in The End of Time [2009/10 - see
Volume 62], Kazran Sardick in A Christmas
Carol [2010 - see Volume 66] and the Great
Intelligence in The Snowmen [2012 - see
Volume 72]. And no doubt many others
as well, long into the future. After all, if
you're going to invade Earth, you might
as well do it when there’s something good
onthe telly. Ml
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ickey is working at a garage
rl when he hears the TARDIS
materialising. He and Jackie
watch as it tumbles to Earth. The newly
regenerated Doctor emerges, wishes them
a merry Christmas, and collapses. [1]
Rose and Jackie put the Doctor to bed,
giving him a pair of pyjamas belonging to
Howard from the market.
Prime Minister Harriet Jones gives a
press conference about the Guinevere
One Space Probe. The probe is due to
land on Mars but instead it is captured by
a rock-like spaceship. [2]
Rose and Mickey are doing some
late-night shopping when a brass
band wearing Santa Claus masks starts
shooting at them. They return to the
flat, where a Christmas tree has been :
unexpectedly delivered. It starts revolving
like a circular saw, slicing through
the furniture. [3]
The Doctor wakes up and destroys
the tree with the sonic screwdriver, then
goes outside in time to see the Santas
beam away. The Doctor finds an apple
in his pocket left there by Howard, then
loses consciousness. [4]
The Mars mission re-establishes
contact with the probe and its
transmission is broadcast live on the
TV news - revealing a growling,
skull-faced alien! [5]
Harriet, her right-hand man Alex, and
the head of the Mars mission, Llewellyn,
are taken to UNIT’s base beneath the
Tower of London and told that the
transmission originated from a spaceship
approaching Earth. The aliens make
contact but nobody can understand
them - not even Rose. She infers that
the TARDIS can’t translate because the
Doctor is “broken”.
Harriet orders Major Blake to get
Torchwood ready. UNIT’s translation
software deciphers the aliens’
transmission. They are Sycorax; they are
mighty, they are strong, and they rock!
[6] The Sycorax activate a device and one
third of the world’s population falls into
a trance and climbs to the top of a high
building, ready to jump. [7] Harriet goes
on TV to appeal for help from the Doctor.
The Sycorax ship enters the Earth’s
atmosphere and they beam Harriet, Alex,
Llewellyn and Blake on board. Llewellyn
appeals to them for compassion and is
killed, along with Blake. The Sycorax’s
ultimatum is for half of humanity to be
sold into slavery. [8]
Rose and Mickey carry the Doctor into
the TARDIS while Jackie brings a flask
of tea. After Jackie steps outside to get
food, the Sycorax teleport the TARDIS
up to their ship. Rose emerges - and is
grabbed by the Sycorax. Mickey joins her
outside, while inside the flask of tea starts
to leak...
Rose commands the Sycorax to leave
Earth. The Sycorax mock her. She can
understand them, which means the
Doctor is back! He emerges, having been
restored to health by the tea. [9]
The Doctor deduces that the Sycorax
are using blood control to possess
everyone in the world who is blood type
A positive. He presses a control button
and all over the world the people on the
buildings wake up.
The Doctor grabs a sword and
challenges the Sycorax leader to a duel.
The fight takes them outside onto a ledge.
The leader severs the Doctor’s hand - but
he grows a new one. [10] The Doctor
overpowers the leader - but as he turns
his back, it charges at him. The Doctor
throws a satsuma from his pocket at the
ledge control. The ledge slides away and
the leader plummets to its death.
The Doctor orders the Sycorax to leave
and they beam him and his friends down
to Earth, along with the TARDIS. Harriet
orders them to fire, and a laser beam
destroys the departing Sycorax ship. [11]
Later, the Doctor selects a new outfit
and joins Rose, Jackie and Mickey for
Christmas dinner. [12]
| was being offered a job that
may not exist,” recalled
David Tennant in the video
documentary Doctor Who:
The Ultimate Time Lord as he
remembered a conversation
which arose during a viewing of his series
Casanova in early 2005, even before Doctor
Who had returned to BBC One...
By January 2005, Russell T Davies,
head writer and executive producer of
the forthcoming new series of Doctor
Who, was already aware that the show’s
star, Christopher Eccleston, would not
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Pre-production
fact was kept a closely guarded secret as
preparations were made for a surprise
regeneration to be recorded at the end of
the final story of the series, Bad Wolf/The
Parting of the Ways [2005 - see Volume 50].
Due to the secrecy, no casting calls were
put out to agents inviting them to suggest
clients. Instead the show’s producers had
a replacement in mind whom they would
approach directly. The actor chosen to play
the new Doctor was David Tennant, the
star of Davies’ three-part drama about the
life of Casanova made for BBC Three the
previous autumn.
Born David McDonald in April 1971,
Tennant had selected the stage name
AXA ARERR
‘David Tennant’ at the age of 16 after
seeing Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant
in a copy of the pop magazine, Smash Hits.
The Scots actor was quite a Doctor Who fan
who had watched the show throughout
the Fourth Doctor’s era after seeing the
regeneration in Planet of the Spiders [1974
- see Volume 21]; aged 13, he had written
a school essay called Intergalactic Overdose
about his love for the show. Studying at
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music
and Drama, Tennant’s early television
appearances included Rab C Nesbitt,
Dramarama and Taking Over the Asylum.
On the Doctor Who front, he had played
roles in several Big Finish CD plays such
as Colditz in 2001, Sympathy for the Devil
and Exile in 2003 - both for the Doctor Who
Unbound series - Medicinal Purposes in 2004,
and had starred the same year as Galanar
in the Dalek Empire III series. He had also
provided the voice of a caretaker in the
BBC online animated adventure Scream
of the Shalka in June 2003. On his first
morning rehearsing Casanova in Soho
in October 2004, Tennant had asked
Davies for a part in Doctor Who which was
then in production. The two men had
quickly struck up a friendship during the
shoot, partly bonding over their love of
Doctor Who.
ennant had in fact been considered
T by the production team as a
potential Doctor in early 2004,
but the feeling at the BBC was that he
wasn't quite a big enough name yet. Since
making Casanova, the actor had returned
to the stage, starring in a production
of Look Back in Anger in Edinburgh and
Bath from Friday 14 January to Saturday
19 February. He then met up with
Davies for a pre-transmission viewing
of Casanova at the writer’s Manchester Above:
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home along with the executive producer, conten i
Julie Gardner, who worked with Davies with Mickey
on both Doctor Who and Casanova. When following
Gardner asked Tennant if he would like
closely behind.
to play the Doctor, Tennant laughed as
he felt it was an impossible notion... and
then asked, “Can I have a long coat?”
The actor also asked if Billie Piper, who
played Rose, would be staying on and was
assured by the executives that this was
the case. Understanding how strange the
situation was, Davies told Tennant simply
to consider the proposal. After a couple
of days, Tennant realised that he would
never forgive himself if he turned down the
opportunity - in the meantime he could
not discuss the project with anyone. At an
early stage, Tennant and Davies agreed that
after Eccleston’s northern accent, Tennant
would not use his native Paisley dialect as
the Doctor; Davies favoured a London/
Estuary accent for the new incarnation.
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to discuss their outline for
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controller of BBC Drama,
at the BBC’s Centre House,
hoping that a second series
would be commissioned
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The outcome of the
meeting was that Tranter
on Wednesday 2 February
commissioned 13 new episodes, five of
which were to be written by Davies, plus
a one-hour Christmas Special, also from
Davies, which the team had known was a
possibility. The Special was unexpected,
and for a while the production team
assumed that this was also one of the 13
episodes, which meant a later rescheduling
and the creation of an episode which
barely featured the Doctor and Rose. For
the proposed first episode of the second
series, Davies had envisaged an invasion
of Earth narrative to establish the new
Doctor, and so brought this forward into
the Special.
Davies loved Christmas television
specials and had long wanted to write one;
he strongly believed that these should
be set at Christmas, involving festive
elements. Davies immediately came up
with a title The Christmas Invasion, a title
suggesting traditional Christmas feel-good
programming with Doctor Who’s special
thrill. Aware of the previous Christmas
. an Day Doctor Who episode The Feast of Steven,
Ti ___ part of The Daleks’ Master Plan (1965/6 -
ae i see Volume 6], where the Doctor wished
a ___ viewers at home a “merry Christmas’,
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but wanted a worldwide threat to Earth
for the Doctor to counter. With Christmas
being a family time, he also wanted to
emphasise the lonely Doctor finding a new
family to join for the festivities, sitting
down with the Tylers’ Christmas dinner
on the Powell Estate. The script was to
focus on a theme of the Doctor’s rebirth,
allowing Rose to recover from losing her
best friend and build up a new trust with
his new incarnation. Rose would in fact
take centre stage for the first two-thirds of
the Special, during which the legendary
and heroic quality of the Doctor would
be established through his absence,
allowing him a big entrance at the climax.
Davies also wanted to include very British
elements, such as the Doctor being revived
by a nice cup of tea.
Some of the ideas for the special were
ones that Davies had originally had in
mind for the first episode of the new series;
he wanted the Doctor and Rose to start on
Earth and travel onwards.
He had always found the concept of
Santa Claus - an old man who sneaks into
children’s rooms at night - creepy, but
was careful to clarify that the Santas that
attacked Rose were purely monsters; their
appearance as a brass band came when
Davies recalled such a group playing in
St Anne’s Square in Manchester in
December 2004.
or the Doctor’s adversary, Davies
are a monster with a convincing
prosthetic face using the actor’s eyes
and mouth, as this had not been attempted
in the previous series. He took the name
Sycorax from the name of Caliban’s
mother, an exiled African witch, in William
Shakespeare’s 1611 play The Tempest,
and saw the aliens having an almost
supernatural feel. Davies wanted a tough
broadsword fight to entertain the younger
viewers, while for the adults he added the
Doctor’s subtle toppling of Harriet Jones.
Following her work in Aliens of London/
World War Three {2005 - see Volume 49],
Davies wanted to use Penelope Wilton as
Harriet Jones again, and planned to use
familiar elements to help younger viewers
get used to the change to the new Doctor.
At the end of Aliens of London/World War
Three, the Doctor had said that Harriet
would become Prime Minister. Davies and
producer Phil Collinson took Wilton out to
Sheekey, a West End restaurant, and found
that she would be delighted to appear in
Doctor Who again.
When Harriet ordered the Sycorax
ship to be destroyed, the script’s aim
was to show that neither the Doctor nor
Harriet were totally right - indeed it was
the Doctor’s own words that initiated
her action. Harriet’s decision to have the
departing vessel annihilated harked back
to Doctor Who and the Silurians [1970 - see
Volume 15], where Brigadier Lethbridge-
Stewart of UNIT destroyed the dormant
Pre-production
Left:
Harriet Jones
captured by
a Sycorax,
Silurians behind the Doctor’s back. Davies
similarly drew upon his disappointment
with the Labour government of Tony
Blair in shaping the Doctor’s attitudes
towards Harriet, writing her out in a
political downfall, even though Collinson,
who greatly liked the character, pleaded
for her to be given a second
chance. At this point, Davies
was thinking vaguely that
Harriet’s replacement as
Prime Minister would be
the Doctor’s old Time Lord
enemy the Master so as to
alter his predictions from
World War Three. Early ideas
included Harriet Jones
opening the rebuilt Big
Ben (damaged in Aliens of
London/World War Three) in
a Christmas Day ceremony
with the event organised
by a civil servant (possibly
called Sir Aubrey) who was
making a secret deal with
Connections:
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confronted by the new
Doctor and doesn't know
who he is, she exclaims
‘Doctor who?, being one of
several characters in the
programme's history to
echo the title of the series.
The first character to do
this was lan Chesterton,
who asked the same
question in the very first
story, 100,000 BC [1963 -
see Volume 1].
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London, slicing through it, with the falling
debris killing the treacherous civil servant.
The Guinevere probe was inspired
by Beagle II, a British project to land a
probe on Mars which entered the Martian
atmosphere on Christmas morning 2003
and then lost contact with Earth. Davies
recalled his disappointment when the first
pictures of the barren Martian surface
were transmitted by the Viking One lander
in July 1976, and so spiced up his version
with the image of an alien sent back
to Earth.
David Tennant had not yet been
contracted when Christopher Eccleston
recorded his regeneration on Friday
4 March; when the BBC did contract
him it was for a projected three-year
period. In the meantime, he was hired,
at short notice, to narrate the BBC One
programme Doctor Who: A New Dimension,
assembled by BBC Three’s Doctor Who
Confidential behind-the-scenes team, for
broadcast on Saturday 26 March just
before the debut of Rose [2005 - see
Volume 48]. Meanwhile, Casanova began
its BBC Three run on Sunday 13 March.
On Saturday 19 March 2005,
Tennant watched the ITV1
chat show Parkinson on which
Billie Piper was promoting
the début of Doctor Who and
was impressed with the look
of her fellow guest, celebrity
chef Jamie Oliver, who
sported a suit and trainers.
The actor phoned Davies to
ask: “Are you watching this?
Still beating
Doctor has two hearts,
checking that they are both
Still beating and becoming
concerned when one stops.
[twas first established that
the Doctor has two hearts
immediately after he
regenerated into his third Could we do this for
body in Spearhead the Doctor?”
from Space [1970 - At a Press Guild lunch
see Volume 15]. on Wednesday 30 March,
Tranter announced
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the 14 new episodes... the same day press
rumours began to circulate that Eccleston
was leaving and that the BBC was in
discussions with Tennant, who simply told
the Daily Mirror that the Doctor would be
“a great role to play”. This media coverage
was a blow to Davies who had hoped the
Doctor’s regeneration at the end of Bad
Wolf/The Parting of the Ways would be a
major surprise for the viewing public.
uring rehearsals for the live BBC
D Four production of The Quatermass
Experiment on Saturday 2 April,
Tennant started to receive calls from
the BBC about his new role. In the
final run-through for the play, Tennant
approached cast member Mark Gatiss - a
fellow Doctor Who fan who was writing
for the new series - and told him: “Chris
isn’t coming back. They’ve asked me.” On
broadcast of the play, actor Jason Flemyng
changed one of his lines addressed to
Tennant’s character, Dr Gordon Briscoe,
from “nice to have you back, Gordon” to
“nice to have you back, Doctor”.
Casanova was now given a screening on
BBC One from Monday 4 April. Finally,
the BBC confirmed David Tennant’s
casting at midnight on Friday 15 April,
with the actor quoted as being honoured
and daunted, but delighted to work with
Davies again. It had been agreed that
Tennant would not give interviews about
Doctor Who while Eccleston’s episodes were
on air. Most newspapers covered the story
the next day, with Scotland’s Daily Record
giving good coverage.
Attending the BAFTA ceremony at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sunday
17, the kilt-wearing Tennant joked with
journalists that he would use his own
accent as the Doctor and liked the
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of a magic kilt. Next day, the actor
celebrated his 34th birthday.
On the morning of Thursday 21 April,
Tennant played the Doctor for the first
time, recording his regeneration on the
TARDIS set at the production base of Unit
Q2 in Newport; the shots took a couple
of hours, with the actor looking at some
gaffer tape to get the eyeline for where
Billie Piper would be standing. These
would be edited into Bad Wolf/The Parting
of the Ways. On Sunday 24 April, the
Sunday Mail claimed that the new Doctor
would indeed wear a kilt.
Tennant’s next projects were recording
a BBC radio version of Dixon of Dock
Green as PC Andy Crawford from Friday
29 April to Wednesday 4 May (broadcast
from Wednesday 15 June to 20 July) and
then playing psychotic entrepreneur
Brendan Block in ITV1’s drama Secret Smile
during May. Talking to the Daily Express
on Wednesday 4 May, Tennant explained
about his role as the Doctor: “I’ve known
for ages but wasn’t allowed to tell anyone.”
Also during May, Billie Piper played
Hero in BBC One’s updated version of
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About
Nothing. On Friday 20 May, a news story
appeared that Piper was
to leave Doctor Who, based
on alleged comments from
her agent. The BBC quickly
issued a statement saying
be Martians, Major Blake that Piper would be in the
confirms that he is correct, new series, but not stating for
saying that Martians “look how many episodes. The News
completely different” - a
possible reference to
the Ice Warriors who
Mars and first
appeared in The Ice
Warriors [1967 -
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see Vol
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of the World proclaimed that
the actress would be in seven
episodes on Sunday 29 May.
The Christmas episode
of Doctor Who II (as the
series was referred to in
production) was described as
‘Episode X (Xmas Special)’. It
ume 11],
COMPLETE HISTORY
formed part of Block One, the first three
episodes in production, alongside the
first story, New Earth [2006 - see page 62]
and the third, School Reunion {2006 - see
Volume 52], work on which would take
place from Monday 25 July to Wednesday
21 September. The director for this
block was James Hawes who had been
responsible for The Empty Child/The Doctor
Dances [2005 - see Volume 50]. Hawes had
previously worked with Tennant in 1999
on The Mrs Bradley Mysteries.
A tone meeting at which a consistent
look and approach for the episode was
agreed by all the design and production
departments was held for the first
recording block (Block One) at BBC
Broadcasting House in Cardiff on Friday
27 May, attended by Benjamin Cook of
Doctor Who Magazine. For the design of
the Sycorax ship, production designer
Edward Thomas put forward a seashell
which he had acquired while visiting his
partner’s mother who was from Mauritius.
Thomas proposed the ship’s interior could
therefore be recorded in a quarry or a cave.
At a second tone meeting held at BBC
Centre House in London on Wednesday
15 June, Davies indicated that he saw the
story as “epic”, and also dark and scary.
Unlike previous invasions, the scope of
the story would be global rather than
parochial; Hawes equated it to the 1996
movie Independence Day. The director was
initially a little worried about the amount
of the episode which the new Doctor spent
in bed... while David Tennant was amazed
to find out how little action he had in the
first half of the script!
ollowing trying-on sessions at
[e costumiers such as Angels and shops
including Selfridges, it was agreed
that the new Doctor’s costume could be
lighter and more casual, akin to the garb
of a student. Avoiding the image of a frock
coat, the basic costume evolved early on as
a narrow-shaped, thin cotton pinstripe suit
with a four-button jacket; Tennant felt that
brown suited him well. While plenty of
trousers in the selected style were available,
jackets were not available... resulting in
many pairs of trousers being purchased,
picked apart and resewn into new jackets.
Although incoming costume designer
Louise Page had seen some interesting
Japanese army boots, Tennant favoured
old battered shoes to take the edge off the
suit; he eventually wore a pair of his own
Converse plimsolls which he had worn all
summer and had sported at his costume
fitting. Because he liked “pocket acting”,
the coat - made from upholstery material
- had lots of pockets, and originally had
a larger collar and cuffs. The shirt and tie
were a late addition during fitting. Tennant
was keen for the Doctor to wear glasses as
: e, a°
part of the ‘geek chic’ image, though fe.
the time, and liked the idea of the Doctor
being a bit scruffy. The actor also decided
to change the combinations of buttons
which he fastened on the Doctor’s suit
from story to story to give the character a
haphazard feel.
At the Critics Award for Theatre
in Scotland, Tennant won Best Male
Performer for Look Back in Anger on
Sunday 5 June. The following Sunday, the
Sunday Mail saw Tom Baker commenting
his approval of Tennant’s casting. At the
BAFTA preview of Bad Wolf/The Parting
of the Ways on Wednesday 15 June, it was
confirmed that Piper would be in all 14 of
the new episodes. Bad Wolf/The Parting of
the Ways closed promising that the Doctor
would return in The Christmas Invasion,
and hours after its broadcast on Saturday
18, the Special was promoted on BBC One
with a trailer of exciting moments from
the 2005 series while proclaiming that
“the countdown to The Christmas Invasion
starts now...” Davies was interviewed
by Lizo Mzimba on CBBC Newsround
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Pre-production
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The new
TARDIS team,
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Showbiz for broadcast that day in which he
declared the special would be Chrismassy
with reindeers and sleigh bells, as well as
observing “every planet has a Scotland”
(to misquote the Doctor from Rose) when
asked about the new Doctor’s accent.
Tennant attended the Glastonbury music
festival where, on Saturday 25 June, he
was interviewed by BBC Three, saying
that his accent would be explained
in the Special. On Monday 27 and Tuesday
28, Tennant gave a telephone interview
Right: to Doctor Who Magazine editor Clayton
Eve's Hickman, and on Sunday 3 July it was
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about Rose's confirmed that the Canadian broadcaster
dangerous life CBC would be a co-producer on the
__with the Doctor.
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new series.
In earlier drafts of the script, Jackie
dashed to a chemist for things to cure
the Doctor, including shampoo; hence he
recovered and emerged from
the TARDIS with the taste
of “blood and shampoo”.
Echoing the ‘Bad Wolf’
motif of the previous series,
Davies settled on a similar
element with ‘Torchwood’ (an
anagram of ‘Doctor Who’),
an old Earth institute referred
to in Bad Wolf/Parting of the
Ways which Davies was
also planning as an adult
spin-off series, featuring
Captain Jack from The Empty
Child/The Doctor Dances, for
BBC Three. This was largely
established in the scenes
with Harriet. Another tone
meeting for Block One was
held in London on Thursday
7 July with Doctor Who
Pardon my Sycoraxic
humans are only
able to understand the
Sycorax language once the
Doctor wakes up. It had
been established in The
Masque of Mandragora
[1976 - see Volume 25]
that the Doctor is able
to share his “Time Lord
gift” which automatically
translates languages.
In The End of the World
[2005 - see Volume 48]
the Doctor explained to
Rose that the TARDIS was
part of the process, telling
her that “the telepathic
field gets inside
your brain and
translates’
Confidential in attendance.
The shooting script
dated Monday 11 July 2005
specified that the episode
should begin exactly the same ‘as Series 1’
with a zoom through space to the Tylers’
flat, reusing the shot from Rose. In the
kitchen, Rose eagerly grabbed a pork pie
because Piper was fond of these.
Harriet’s press conference speech referred
to the New Cottage Hospital Scheme,
a reference to her original concerns in
Aliens of London/World War Three. Danny
Llewellyn was described as ‘30, Welsh,
clever, a media-savvy boffin’; Davies wanted
the Cardiff-based series to feature strong
roles for Welsh characters. It was specified
that his press conference was being held
at the British Rocket Group, a reference to
the 1950s BBC television serials featuring
Professor Bernard Quatermass. For the
flight of Guinevere One, Davies specified
‘music, faint and tinny, Khachaturian,
the Spartacus ballet (ie The Onedin Line)’ ,
a reference to the 1955 piece by Russian
composer Aram Khachaturian which had
been the theme tune to the BBC1 period
seafaring drama from 1971 to 1980. As
Guinevere is sucked inside the alien vessel,
‘Khachaturian stops dead’.
The Santa brass band was described as
‘wearing Santa masks. But they’re metal.
eNO
Coloured - rosy cheeks, white beard - but
clearly, cold, glinting metal. The fixed
smile. The sinister jollity’ Boarding a taxi,
Rose originally said, “Powell Estate, end
of Jordan Road.” Jackie was talking to
Bev - who had appeared in Father’s Day
[2005 - see Volume 49] - on the phone.
When the tree started playing music, the
script described it as ‘like those musical
Christmas toys. Here Comes Santa Claus,
Bob B Soxx, from the Phil Spector
Christmas Album; there’s no sound more
sinister, a reference to the 1953 song by
Gene Autrey and Oakley Haldeman which
featured on Phil Spector’s 1963 LP A
Christmas Gift For You by Bob B Soxx and
the Blue Jeans.
The Sycorax leader has ‘a face like a
horse’s skull, jagged, broken bones, but
with ‘real’ red eyes and mouth; jagged
broken bone-teeth... just a hint of clothing
- a big, bulky creature, dark-red robes and
tribal necklace’ When the aliens appeared
on the scanner, ‘Four of them stand in
an upright diamond shape, like Queen
singing Bohemian Rhapsody’ - a reference to
the landmark 1975 pop video. They were
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‘clearer now... arms clattering with bone Pee
jewellery. Leather straps and belts, holding ~
broadswords and whips. The Leader...
talks, gnarled wooden staff in hand, voice
savage, vicious, a warrior’ Davies devised
an alien language for the Sycorax, eg “Gatz
tak ka thaa! Ka soo me fadroc, ka soo me
Sycorax!” Rose referred to the fact that
the TARDIS normally translated alien
languages as the Doctor had explained in
The End of the World, and Mickey recalled
the scanner getting TV in Aliens of London/
World War Three.
Landmaris) (QS
ajor Blake was ‘30s, smart, in
ivi uniform’ and as Llewellyn arrived
at the base the script suggested a
‘big music sequence, all epic and military,
if not James Bond’. Originally, Llewellyn
and Blake were driven by guards along
subterranean corridors on buggies.
Mission Control was described as ‘a big
space, Houston-like’; Alex Klein was ‘25,
suit, sleek comms headset, black briefcase,
while Sally Jacobs was ‘25, clever’.
On the estate, Jason was described as
‘a 25 y/o lad’ with Sandra ‘his wife’. The "Gate tak ka
suburban family comprised a ‘Dad, 8 y/o thaalKasoome
Son [and] 10 y/o Daughter’; the children fadroc Kaeo
me Sycorax! is
were named Catrin and Jonathan by
Davies after his niece and nephew. As well
as the Paris skyline, the script suggested
‘Sydney... people standing on the Harbour
Bridge. Beyond and below them: the Opera
House... Egypt... people standing on the
edge of a hotel. In the distance:
the pyramids.’
The Sycorax ship’s arrival shattered
‘the Gherkin Tower’, the nickname for the
striking Swiss Re building designed by
Sir Norman Foster which opened at 30 St
Mary Axe in April 2004; this destruction of
3° (hee
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Big Ben in Aliens of London/
World War Three. The ship
itself was ‘massive. Miles in
diameter. Circular. It’s not
sleek and hardwareish, it’s
more medieval; dark, twisted
metal, curves and spikes,
like something forged in
Hell.’ Davies’ script specified
‘Big Ben surrounded by
Posaitent Raarge ets scaffolding, recalling the
™ We mnister damage caused in Aliens of
is Blgratd London/World War Three.
ii Inside the ship, ‘The space is
immense. Like a dark, Gothic
amphitheatre, no techno-spaceship-stuff.
Much in darkness, with burning torches on
the walls. Huge, torn, red banners hanging
down. The amphitheatre benches - on
which scattered groups of Sycorax sit... like
Roman senators.’ When the leader’s helmet
was removed, it revealed ‘the bony, savage
Sycorax face’.
Connections:
This means war!
® Harriet Jones’ message to
the American President
that, “he’s not my boss. And
he's certainly not turning
this into a war,” referenced
the March 2003 invasion
of Iraq into which American
Below: On returning to Earth from the ship,
a Mickey originally exclaimed, “It’s Bloxham
octor
Bendsfor Road.” The Doctor’s speech about Earth
no nonsense,
drawing attention to itself echoed dialogue
a a Beg Se
from the Brigadier in the 1970 serial
Spearhead from Space. The rays which
destroyed the Sycorax ship were ‘like the
Death Star firing’ from the 1977 film Star
Wars. The Doctor’s six words that brought
down Harriet echoed the whispers around
Whitehall about how Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher looked tired at the end
of her tenure in 1990.
As the Doctor selected his clothes,
Davies suggested music where ‘the tolling
bell is the opening to = The Bells of St
Mary (Bob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans)’,
another track from A Christmas Gift For
You composed by A Emmett Adams
and Douglas Furber in 1917. The script
had the Doctor briefly consider ‘a red
hussar’s jacket’. The TARDIS wardrobe
was described as ‘a different Tardis room,
same shape, same walls, no central console
& column... a 360 degree rack of clothes
circled around the central platform; above
that, another hooped rail of clothes; above
that, another, then another, the rails
shrinking in circumference as they stack
all the way up to the ceiling. The biggest
wardrobe in the world’ The script did not
describe the Doctor’s new costume, or his
character. Davies effectively wrote as for
the previous incarnation, giving Tennant
latitude to create his own characterisation.
However, he wanted to develop aspects
from Eccleston’s interpretation by having
the new Doctor stand for no nonsense.
The narrative began at 10.00 on Day
1 (ie Christmas Eve) with Jackie dressing
the tree. The action resumed at 14.00
in the Tylers’ flat, with Mickey and Rose
shopping at 19.30, and returning to
the estate at 20.00. Mickey arrived with
his laptop at 23.59, and the motorcade
reached the Tower of London at 01.52
on Night 1 (ie Christmas Day). Mickey
tracked the ship at 02.37, Harriet sent a
message to the President at 03.00. Rose
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looked in on the Doctor at 05.00, Harriet
discussed Torchwood at 07.00 and people
were on the roofs by 07.10, Llewellyn
realised the blood link at 07.30, Harriet’s
broadcast was at 07.41, and her group
was teleported at 07.48. Blood control
was broken at 08.06 (so despite his “first
15 hours of my regeneration cycle” claim,
the Doctor had been on Earth for around
22 hours during his sword fight), and the
Doctor’s party arrived back in London
at 08.13. The closing scenes intercut the
Doctor choosing his new outfit from 10.00
to 10.15 with Christmas dinner at the flat
meetings. The read-through took place on
from 19.00 to 19.16. News coverage of Tuesday 19; this was attended by writers eee
Harriet Jones had been at 14.00, and the for the new series such as Steven Moffat, of Christmas
‘snow’ fell at 19.20. Stephen Fry and Toby Whithouse so they shopping.
octor Who Confidential interviewed
i) Hawes and Collinson at a production
meeting for the recording block
on Friday 15 July. In mid-July, Tennant
promoted his BBC One drama Blackpool
in Los Angeles and was growing back
the sideburns which he had sported in
April. As preparations began for the new
series of Doctor Who, BBC Three repeated
the previous series from Sunday 17 July.
Rehearsals for Block One began in Cardiff
on Monday 18 July. This was a relief for
Tennant who had been waiting such a
long time amid press speculation and who
commented, “It’s been such a long build
up. Felt like it was never going to happen,”
as he started to record a video diary of the
series’ production for BBC Worldwide.
The actor had arranged accommodation
in Cardiff, but liked to travel home to
London at weekends. The first day was
spent purely with the two stars establishing
the Doctor/Rose relationship with Davies
and Hawes; during the spring, Tennant
had got to know his co-star over several
could become familiar with Tennant’s
performance. When she received the
script, Piper was amazed and delighted
that Rose carried most of the episode and
made key decisions. Camille Coduri was
pleased that the script made Jackie Tyler
more concerned and nurturing, while Noel
Clarke was happy that Mickey was braver,
tackling the killer Christmas tree. “Pretty
terrifying... I feel up for it now. I feel ready
to go,” commented Tennant in his video
diary that night.
Script revisions on Wednesday 20 July
applied to Harriet’s first press conference,
the taxi back to the estate, from Llewellyn’s
entry to Mission Control through to the
Sycorax’s threat, Harriet’s party being
teleported to the Sycorax ship, the Doctor
asking Rose about his new appearance, the
Doctor defining his new character, and the
Doctor challenging the Sycorax leader plus
the creature’s demise. These were referred
to as ‘pink revisions’ as they were issued on
pink pages; to enable the cast and crew to
keep track of rewrites, each new batch of
changes were issued on different coloured
paper (blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod,
salmon, cherry, etc.) @ i
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television screens; Harriet’s broadcast
plea was recorded first at the museum of
Tredegar House, the seventeenth-century
~~ ancestral home of the Morgan family near
Newport. Work moved back to Unit Q2
for scenes including the Sycorax broadcast
which was recorded against black. For
; the aliens, Page was inspired by a book of
Hawes’ about Masai warriors, suggesting
pl
a regal red velvet for their robes. Neill
Gorton of Millennium FX produced the
Sycorax helmets in fibreglass; sculpted
by Martin Rezard, these were based
on Kurgan’s helmet in the 1986 film
Highlander. Earlier designs for the Sycorax
helmets which had a wider, more medieval
look to match the spaceship design from
Matt Savage were dropped when Russell T
Davies re-iterated that he wanted viewers
to assume that the helmets were the aliens’
faces, to greaten the impact when they
were opened to reveal the bone-like face.
This first day did not require any of the
regular cast. As with the previous year, the
ied
DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY © -
Monday 25 on some waste ground in
Brentford - a derelict car park found at
short notice next to an empty Beecham’s
Pharmaceuticals factory - with the crew
travelling to London that morning.
Tennant had received good luck messages
via the crew from both Tom Baker on
Monarch of the Glen and Peter Davison, who
had played the Fifth Doctor, on Distant
Shores. He donned his new costume for a
press photocall at 11.45am, posing with
Piper (who had had her hair cut short over
the summer and so wore hair extensions
for the episode), Gardner and Collinson.
This BBC shoot was specifically scheduled
Above: production was recorded on DigiBeta after so that the best images of the new Doctor
a a Hi-Def was considered but rejected. could be released to the press as quickly
Of the guest cast, Cathy Murphy had as possible; Gardner recalled how the
been in The House of Elliot, and a 12-year- previous year, poor mobile phone shots of
old Daniel Evans had been the new Doctor taken on location had been
Connections: cast in Why Don’t You..? some of the first to appear in the media.
Fighting talk by Russell T Davies. Sean
® Rose's brave speech to the
Sycorax was a mish-mash
Carlsen, playing a policeman,
had featured in numerous Big
Recording underway
of elements from the Finish CD adventures since Mg ennant then changed into pyjamas
previous series including The Natural History of Fear as to record the confrontation with
the invocation of “Article well as the Gallifrey series. Harriet, with Hawes calling out
Fifteen of the Shadow Playing Major Blake, Chu “beam!” to cue the cast for the digital
Proclamation” (which Omambala had auditioned effects to be added later. “You can send wee
the Doctor mentioned in as the Sycorax leader and Jimmy Krankie home! She’s not needed!
Rose [2005 - see Volume had also been considered for You can't get rid of me now!” quipped
48]), the Slitheen and Mr Wagner in School Reunion. Tennant after his first take. Recording was
Raxacoricofallapatorious Another actress seen for the followed by Doctor Who Confidential, and
(Aliens of London/World part of Sally was Freema at the end his first day, Tennant cheerfully
War Three [2005 - see Agyeman, auditioned on commented, “Can't get rid of me now!”
Volume 49]), the “Gelth Friday 24 June, but felt to and went home exhausted after the
Confederacy” (The have potential for a larger nervous energy keyed up inside him over
Unquiet Dead [2005 - role later in the run... the previous months. In the meantime,
see Volume 48]), the Over the weekend, Noel BBC Cymru’s Wales Today had run a short
Jagrafess (The Long Game Clarke attended the Invasion item on the latest Doctor’s new image.
[2005 - see Volume 49]) V convention in Barking Tuesday 26 July saw recording on the
wm andthe Daleks (Dalek ff on Saturday 23 July, but Brandon Estate in Kennington, which since
[2005 - see was unable to comment on July 2004 had been used as the Powell
Volume 49]) . ee agicom ne episodes. Estate where the Tylers lived; liaising
between residents and the BBC were local _
65-year-olds Dot Smith and Gwen Smith.
In comparison to the previous summer’s
visit where nobody had showed particular
interest, Doctor Who was now big news
and word about recording quickly spread,
attracting fans and the paparazzi. Over
lunch, Tennant recorded a voice-over in
his trailer and recording ran from 2pm
to lam including the TARDIS’ arrival in
the afternoon, with a crane swinging a
dummy half-police-box base over Coduri
and Clarke’s heads, and wires pulling over
the bins. That night, the ‘vanishing Santas’
scene was a special sequence for Tennant
as it was the first scene with all four regular
cast members. Doctor Who Confidential and
Ben Cook from Doctor Who Magazine were
present, while the newspapers revealed
the Doctor’s new look in pieces such
as the Daily Express’ Geek Chic for Doctor
Who. Camera flashes from the press and
watching fans delayed production that
week. “Corrie bosses are planning to zap
Dr Who this Christmas” announced the
Daily Star on Wednesday 27, indicating
that a special Coronation Street pantomime
was being planned to combat the BBC
One festive special. Work from 2pm to ¢
lam on Wednesday 27 was hampered by
rain and disruption from an awkward
local, although the TARDIS arrival was
completed. Tennant recorded more of his
video diary, and the rain stopped allowing
a snow machine to generate a fine foam for
the closing scene, while some scenes had to
be deferred to Friday.
Thursday 28 July was spent in central
London without the regulars from 1pm
to midnight. Clean plate shots of the city
- showing landmarks such as Trafalgar
STMAS INVASION
left unfinished and were scheduled to be
completed the following week. The same
day, blue rewrites covered Mickey telling
Square, Westminster Bridge
and the Gherkin - were taken
for CGI work by The Mill,
Connections:
Roar!
» The Doctor attributed
and evening recording took
place at the Tower of London
which, in an unprecedented
move, allowed the BBC crew
access to the White Tower
and the roof where taping
was covered by Doctor Who
Confidential. Mission Control
was linked to UNIT, the
United Nations Intelligence
Taskforce organisation introduced in 1968
and seen in Aliens of London/World War
Three. Only the UNIT acronym was used
after complaints from the United Nations
over a spoof UNIT website produced by
the BBC earlier in the year. Weather was
poor on the shoot and some of the planned
exterior shots had to be abandoned.
Meanwhile, Tennant was at the BBC’s
Centre House being rehearsed with Sean
Gilder by fight arranger Kevin McCurdy for
the broadsword fight between the Doctor
his speech “from the day
they arrive on the planet,
and blinking step into the
sun..." to the 1994 Disney
feature The Lion King, a
quote from Elton John
and Tim Rice's song
Circle of Life.
Rose how he wanted a simple Christmas,
the Doctor discussing blood control, and
the climactic fight. That evening, Tennant
ruminated on his first week at his London
flat before returning to Cardiff on Monday
for “the best job in the world”.
Over the weekend, on Saturday 30 July,
The Sun ran a short item about the London
work on the special. Back in Cardiff, the
morning of Monday 1 August was spent
on New Earth, after which deferred estate
sequences were completed through to
9pm for The Christmas Invasion at Loudoun
Square in Gabalfa, as seen in Bad Wolf/The
Parting of the Ways. It had been planned
to record the TARDIS interior scenes at
Unit Q2 (where the console itself had
been rebuilt over the summer to replace
lights and switches that burnt out in
the heat) that evening, but these were
deferred to the next day. The schedule
ht :
Se evison and the Sycorax leader. The expensive
visits the set. 440 ‘tank armour’ weapons were made
by Lancasters Armourie from chrome
nickel molybdenum steel; the prototype,
autographed by Tennant and Gilder, would
be auctioned for £920.51 in June 2006 to
raise funds for the Great Ormond Street
Hospital Children’s Charity.
Friday 29 was the final day of recording
in London from noon to 6pm with Hawes
attempting to complete as many shots as
possible on the Brandon Estate before the
crew left for Cardiff. Tennant continued
fight rehearsals, joining the crew in the
afternoon to discover Peter Davison
visiting the shoot. Tennant continued to
record his video diary chatting to both
_ Hawes and Piper (the latter of whom also
spent a couple of days recording her own
uring the shoot). Some shots were
had been to record from 10am to 9pm
on Tuesday 2 at the overspill studios of
HTV in Cardiff for scenes in the Tylers’
Flat, now repainted a warmer shade of
red; one Christmas card of a Victorian
street scene was a photograph from The
Unquiet Dead. This was scheduled as the
venue for the rest of the week. Wednesday
3 was planned to include the Christmas
tree attack, supervised by stunt expert
Peter Brayham and covered by Doctor Who
Confidential who interviewed Tennant,
Clarke and visual effects producer Will
Cohen. The complexity of this scene - with
two rotating blades representing the tree
in close-up - meant that it took a long time
to complete, with recording for the day
from 10am to 9pm. As with many effects
shots on the series, this used a green screen
which created a solid area of colour which
the artistes stood against and into which
CGI elements could later be added; in this
case Clarke wielded a prop chair, the legs
of which were blown off with detonators to
simulate the tree’s blades which were later
added using CGI. The same day, the Daily
Mirror alleged that Piper was too busy on
Doctor Who to attend the premiere of the
horror film Spirit Trap which she had made
in early 2004. Work on the Christmas tree
scenes continued from 9am to 8pm on
Thursday 4, while work between 8am and
7pm on Friday 5 saw a visit from a GMTV
camera crew.
n Monday 8 August Tennant and
0 Gilder had more fight rehearsals at
Unit Q2, with Gilder also doing foam
latex make-up tests with Millennium that
morning. From Spm in the afternoon, the
crew recorded scenes of the controlled
crowds on fire escapes in Cardiff, after
which Brayham supervised the stunts
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The Hayes, where Mickey and Rose were Santas fe
attacked; the venue was selected as not brass band,
looking too ‘green’ for the Christmas time
setting; in keeping with the continuity
established in Rose, Howells department
store was again dressed as Henrik’s. Cardiff
Council agreed to erect their Christmas
lights, and a market from Cornwall
was set up to obscure the
nonfestive shop windows Connections:
(the Santa attack on a market What to wear?
had been deemed cheaper to ® The Doctor chooses
stage than the original idea his suit and long coat
of the sequence being staged from the many outfits to
with shops which would be found in the TARDIS'
require breaking windows). extensive wardrobe. This
Doctor Who Confidential vast repository of clothes
covered similar work from rom many different eras
and worlds had often been
eferred to and previously
seen in The Androids of
Tara [1978 - see Volume
29], The Twin Dilemma
[1984 - see Volume 40],
and Time and the Rani
[1987 - see Volume 43].
4pm to 3am on Tuesday
9 - talking to Hawes, Clarke
and Collinson among others
- but the evening work was
disrupted by drunks, yelling
until they were removed by
the police. The effect of the
falling tree (a prop which was
simply erected to pivot over
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Doctor commented on
Arthur Dent being a nice
man, a reference to the
character from The Hitch-
Douglas Adams) who
had worn pyjamas
inthe 1981 BBC
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at pavement level) was finally
achieved just before 3am the
next morning and work was
covered by the Western Mail
on Thursday 11. Meanwhile,
Tennant continued his video
diary, with fight rehearsals
at Unit Q2 and an abortive
ne Gui = om trip to their next location,
Ga ee ly arin Gleareclli@ aves.
Doctor Who script editor
Clearwell Caves in
Gloucestershire was the
venue from Wednesday
10 to Saturday 13 August;
this tourist attraction had
once been an ochre mine,
and was recalled by Ed Thomas from his
work on the 1995 horror film Grim. The
location was difficult to move equipment
into, so plans to use a motion control rig
to follow a shot into the TARDIS set had
to be abandoned. Gilder was now in full
make-up, and with Elaine Renshaw of the
Real Eye Company supervising application
of his red contact lenses; the actor was
interviewed by Nick Griffiths of the Radio
Times and BBC publicity was in attendance
along with Ben Cook. While recording the
Doctor’s appearance from the TARDIS,
Tennant suddenly realised that he was
now a part of the show’s history, and his
work would be documented in this very
manner. BBC Gloucestershire and the
Western Mail carried items about the shoot,
which ran from 3pm to 12.30am on the
first night and 2pm to 11.30pm on the
second. By Thursday 11 August - when
the Daily Star ran a piece on the late night
schedule - the team was being hampered
by factors such as Gilder only being able to
wear his contact lenses for three hours at a
time, and radios and phones not working
in the caves. Doctor Who Confidential was
present for the 1pm to 10.30pm shoot on
Friday 12 August, with the fight sequence
taking a lot of time because of Gilder’s
tunnel vision. Recording his video diary
after the third day in the caves, Tennant
commented: “We are miles behind on
this. It’s not that we’re going particularly
slowly.” Some shots were left to complete
after recording from noon to 8.30pm
on Saturday 13, during which time a
photograph taken by a fan of a Sycorax
had been sold via a photographic agency
for £2,000.
Although Monday 15 August was
planned for scenes around Cardiff, only the
garage sequence was recorded following
the completion of the Sycorax ship scenes
at Clearwell, and Piper had the day off;
work took place from 10am to 7.30pm.
Barry Island, as used by Hawes in The
Doctor Dances, was chosen for work from
9am to 8pm on Tuesday 16 since the docks
gave an infinite horizon with the view out
to sea, ideal for CGI work; the crew had
been unable to find a high building from
which Cardiff could not be seen. While the
fight on the spaceship wing was completed
on the burning hot day, a second unit
worked nearby from 11am to 10pm,
recording green screen shots of people
standing on the edge of buildings (really
a raised rostrum) and taxi scenes deferred
from the previous day. Again present were
Ben Cook and Doctor Who Confidential, and
for the shot where the Doctor’s hand was
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cut off, Tennant sported a green glove for
the CGI effect while the prop hand which
tumbled away was a cast of Gorton’s.
Following this, the whole regular cast was
released for the remainder of the week.
Wednesday 17 August saw the crew
return to Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium
where Dalek had been recorded the
previous autumn. The loading dock played
the interior of UNIT mission control
for the next three days (recording 8am
to 7pm), and a team from Doctor Who
Confidential was present to interview Hawes
and Adam Garcia (who played Alex).
an interview with Piper by Nick
Duerden under the title The kid
stays in the picture. By now, David Tennant
was back in London and appeared on
Blue Peter to announce the winner of the
design-a-monster competition followed
by a live CBBC webchat. Friday 20 was the
final scheduled day for the guest cast, with
Ben Cook interviewing Wilton. With Piper
and Tennant back in Cardiff, recording
from 11am to 10pm on Monday 22
August began at HTV to complete the flat
scenes and then move out on location to
finish estate rooftop scenes delayed from
Monday 15. Meanwhile, a second camera
unit remained at HTV to complete various
green screen elements and inserts such as
Rose looking at her watch, a close-up of
the Doctor threatening the Santas with his
sonic screwdriver (a heroic shot requested
by Gardner) and shots for New Earth.
Block One then continued with School
Reunion and then New Earth. Hawes had
originally aimed to record the Doctor
selecting his new clothes on Tuesday 6
September, but this day was reassigned to
location work on School Reunion.
0 n Thursday 18, The Independent ran
The model work of the top eight storeys
of the tower block losing its 110 windows
was undertaken by Mike Tucker’s BBC
model unit team at the Model Unit Stage
in London on Tuesday 6 and Wednesday
7 September, with Doctor Who Confidential
present on the second day; the one-sixth
scale model was shot shattering twice by
three 16mm film cameras. Two inserts on
the TARDIS set were recorded from 2pm
on Thursday 8 along with work for School
Reunion. The shot of the Santa mask rolling
away was scheduled to be recorded in the
Q2 car park on Thursday 22 September, an
additional day at the end of Block One.
An extra recording day at the start
of Block Two, Saturday 8 October,
saw Tennant record what he felt was a
landmark scene of the Doctor selecting his
new clothes on a redressed version of the
usual TARDIS set. Recording between
8am and 7pm, Tennant tried on a
Casanova-style outfit, and a Hogwarts
uniform (referring to his appearance in
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) could
be seen along with versions of all the
previous Doctor’s costumes and a Fourth
Doctor-style scarf knitted for Collinson
when he was a child by his great aunt. An
insert of Rose, Mickey and Jackie looking
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on set.
t the Sycorax ship was recorded in the
park with a double for Coduri. The
e-up shot of the Doctor’s severed hand
was recorded against a green screen, along
with another shot of the Santa mask, all
covered by Doctor Who Confidential.
On Monday 31 October, a goldenrod
revision was made to the pre-credits, the
first view of the Sycorax, and the Doctor
selecting his new outfit. Additional shots
for The Christmas Invasion were recorded
along with a special ‘prequel’ scene for
Children in Need at Unit Q2 on Thursday 3
November. These included the Doctor and
Rose emerging from the TARDIS in the
revised pre-credits, the Doctor sweating
in bed, and Rose reacting to the Doctor’s
new clothes (requested by Jane Tranter).
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Office); Unit Q2, Newport (British Rocket Living Room)
Kennington, London (Tylers' Estate/Ext (Shopping Street)
Cross, Cardiff: Studio 1 (Tylers' Flat:
Fri 22 Jul 05 Tredegar House & Park, Wed 3 - Thu 4 Aug 05 HTV Studios (Subterranean Corridor/British Rocket
Group, Conference Room/Conference Fri5 Aug O5HTV Studios (Tylers’ Flat: (British Rocket Group: Mission Control/
Room #2; Black Background) Rose's Bedroom/Kitchen/Living Room) Control Booth)
Mon 25 Jul 05 Wallis House, Great Mon 8 Aug 05 Baltic House, James Fri 19 Aug 05 Millennium Stadium
West Road, Brentford (Tylers’ Street, Cardiff Bay (City Street); British (Mission Control/Stairwell/Corridor)
Estate: Wasteland) Gas Building, Churchill Way, Cardiff Mon 22 Aug 05 HTV Studios (Green
Tue 26 Jul 05 Brandon Estate, (City Street); The Hayes, Cardiff Screen - Flying)
Tyler's Flat: Bedroom Window/Walkway) Tue 9 Aug 05 Broadstairs Road,
Wed 27 Jul 05 Brandon Estate (Tylers’ Leckwith (Suburban Street); The Hayes block model)
Wed 17 Aug 05 Millennium Stadium,
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would form part of BBC One’s Christmas
Day line-up.
Salmon-pink script revisions on Tuesday
8 November changed the television
coverage of Guinevere One, Llewellyn’s
arrival at the Tower of London and the
entranced ‘A-positive’ people coming back
to normal. The newsreader inserts were
recorded in the C2 News Studio of BBC
Wales on Thursday 10 November. One
of the newsreaders was BBC Wales sports
reporter (and Doctor Who enthusiast) Jason
Mohammed who had been MC at the
Doctor Who Galactic Dinner to raise money
for Children in Need on Friday 14 October,
while Lachele Carl had previously appeared
in Aliens of London/ World War Three. @
Westgate Street, Cardiff
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Thu 28 Jul 05 Tower of London,London Wed10-Sat13 Aug 05 Clearwell Newport (TARDIS)
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of London) Mon 15 Aug 05 Clearwell Caves (Sycorax Sat8OctO5 Unit Q2 (TARDIS/Ext Tylers’
Fri 29 Jul O05 Brandon Estate Ship); Brian Cox Motor Engineering, Flat/Shopping Street/Wing of Spaceship)
(Tylers' Estate) Bromley Road, Elwood (Clancy's Garage) Thu 3 Nov 05 Unit Q2 (Ext Tylers’
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in October and November; CGI
effects included the TARDIS
crash, the Sycorax ship
modelled by Matt McKinney,
the intricate TARDIS
wardrobe created by Chris Petts and Dave
Houghton (featuring many costumes
from throughout the show’s history),
the shattering of the glass windows on
the Gherkin simulated by Nick Webber
(at one time planned as a partial model
effect but deemed too expensive), and
a handful of Sycorax were turned into
hundreds. It had been intended to show
the deaths of Llewellyn and Blake using
skeletons suspended against a green
screen, but these looked hilarious when
the skulls kept rotating and instead they
were achieved by The Mill. The final
shots of the spaceship were rendered on
Tuesday 15 November, with Alex Fort
providing the background matte painting
of London. Shots of London from space
were used from the Science Photo Library,
while the backgrounds of Paris and the
Colosseum came from the Getty Image
Library and the shot of the Cairo Hotel
came from Horizon: The Lost Pyramids of
Caral, broadcast Thursday 31 January
2002. Shots of people standing near the
pyramids and Sydney Harbour Bridge were
dropped, the latter because it was too wide
to fit the screen correctly.
Editing was underway in November, with
Hawes pleased with the British, festive feel
of the Special. The opening shot of the
Earth was the same as that which opened
“Did you miss
me?” David
Tennantmakes
his entrance as
the Doctor.
Rose. The first cut was made to the scene
in the kitchen after Rose got the pork pie
from the fridge. Ignoring her mother’s
questions about the Doctor, Rose said, “Oo,
it’s been light years since I had a pork pie.”
When Jackie persisted asking, “No, but
how, though?” Rose started to explain, “He
just...” She then stopped, explaining “He
absorbed the Time Vortex. He saved my
life, and then he was dying, he said he was
dying. But then he sort of... whooshed. All
this light and stuff, like he was exploding.
Next thing you know... he’s different.”
Watching the Guinevere broadcast, Jackie
asked Rose, “Ever been to Mars?” “Nope,”
replied Rose, “God, I feel... Earthbound!
They’re sending out spaceships, what
about me? I’m stuck at home.” The taxi
scene lost Rose’s concluding remarks that
Jackie was in danger. As Rose persuaded
Jackie to head for the Peak District, she
told her, “Trust me. Someone’s after the
Doctor. There were these things, they
looked like Santa, they had the hats
and faces, like they were using all that
Christmas stuff as a disguise, and...” She
tailed off, spotting the new tree.
Dialogue about the pilot fish was cut,
including Mickey commenting, “Pilot
fish. I’ve seen them on telly, hold on, I'll
show you...” as he plugged his laptop in,
explaining to Rose, “The pilot fish pick
food out of the shark’s teeth, that’s how
they live, like parasites.” Later on, while
tracking the spaceship, he commented,
“The big fish doesn’t know the pilot fish
exist. The big fish is just hungry.” In the
meantime, Jackie said “Pictures of Mars,
they’re all the same, Just rocks and dust.
Nothing compared to what we've seen,” as
she waited to see Guinevere’s pictures.
On entering Mission Control, Llewellyn
originally said to Blake, “But... you’ve got
better facilities than us! I spend all that
time asking for funds, and you’ve built
your own Mission Control. How long’s
all this been here?” “I’m sorry,’ replied
Blake, “all information is on a strictly
need-to-know basis.” (This scene was later
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of ‘Series 2’) When Harriet made coffee for
Llewellyn, there was a flustered exchange
about milk.
A short scene of Mickey tracking the
spaceship was cut, along with the start of
the next scene where Mickey finds Rose
watching over the Doctor. “Even his voice
changed,” said Rose, to which Mickey
replied, “Yep, that’s our biggest problem
right now.” “How can he change accent?”
asked Rose. “Well, you pick up accents,
don’t you?” replied Mickey, “depending
on who you're with. Maybe he’s got it off
you.” When Blake realised that Harriet
had met the Doctor, he commented,
“T’ve only seen the classified files.” As the
Sycorax demands were translated, Harriet
remarked that the aliens now possess “your
women!”; this was dropped because the
dialogue was deemed too ambiguous.
Another short scene was dropped
with Mickey looking up and seeing Rose
entering the living room; “You'd better
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come and see this. Aliens online,” he told
her; this sequence obliquely implied that
the pair had spent the night together.
Shortly afterwards, Rose heard Sandra
calling after Jason outside the flat. Some
dialogue concerning the possessed people
was dropped. Harriet puzzling, “But why
those people. Why are they affected...? And
not us?” was trimmed, along with the start
of the next scene in the flat where Mickey
observed, “It’s an invasion. Different way
of invading, gotta give them that, but all
the same.” In Mission Control, Llewellyn’s
lines were cut as he pondered “some sort
of genetic link, but...” and then asking,
“These people, do we know what blood
group they are?” A short scene in the
flat was omitted with Jackie calling out
to the returning Rose and Mickey, “It’s
on telly, they’re saying it’s everyone. Whole
planet. People just standing on the edge,
there’s two thousand people on the White
Cliffs of Dover - look, they said it’s a
special announcement.”
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i) translating “welcome” and “no
surrender” were deleted, along with
the continual chants of “Jalvaaan!” from
the Sycorax. Also omitted - to advance the
Doctor’s entrance - was Alex translating,
“We will summon the Sycorax armada
and take only half your population. The
rest you can keep,” “We have travelled in
the wastelands. We care nothing for your,
um, tiny legislation of landbound species,”
and, “We practice the forbidden arts. The
lost rites of Astrophia.” The Doctor’s first
look around the Sycorax ship saw him
comment, “Nice place. Roomy. Bit dark.
Cost a fortune, heating this place.”
When Harriet told the Doctor she was
now Prime Minister, his original response
was, “Oh fantast... ”, whereupon he
stops dead on trying to say his previous
incarnation’s catchphrase. “No, hold
on... Fantas. Fanta. Fantazzz. Fan. Fa. R”
He wanders away, saying, “Can't say it
any more, doesn’t fit these teeth. Ohh, I
liked that word, what am I going to say
now? ‘Brilliant’? Brilliant, brill-ee-ant,
excellent!’ Naah. ‘Superb!’ ‘Marvellous!’
‘Molto bene!’ Oh. I don’t know, let’s just
settle for ‘very very good’. ‘That’s very very
good, yes, that’s really very very good’. Not
taking off is it?” This diatribe was dropped
as unrealistic. He then told the Sycorax
leader, “Nice ship, by the way, sturdy, good
gravity, kind of rocky...” This sequence was
later included on the DVD.
When Alex exclaimed that the Doctor
had killed the people on Earth, the Doctor
retorted, “Oh shut up! Don’t be so stupid!
Blimey, this rudeness thing is way out of
control, sorry. Whoever you are.” The fight
was reduced to speed it up; as he fought,
the Doctor originally said, “Thing is, I still
don’t know who I am. Am [a fighter? Am
Iaswordsman? Am I an expert? Am I the
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no... which, if you think about it, is a good
thing... but not right now.” As the fight
moved outside, the Doctor exclaimed:
“Oh youre just nasty. I’m only wearing
slippers.” When Harriet explained about
using alien technology from a crashed
ship, the Doctor retorted, “You scavenged
it,” to which she replied, “We made best
use.” She also told the Doctor, “I really am
sorry,” while he informed her, “I don’t need
swordfights, I’m stronger than that.” In the
final scene as the Doctor and Rose looked
up at the stars, Rose said, “I miss him.” “So
do I,” replied the Doctor as they smiled at
each other.
The ‘BBC’ caption appeared over the
opening shot while producer and director
captions were superimposed over Rose
checking the Doctor’s hearts. David
Tennant was billed as ‘The Doctor’ (rather
than his predecessor’s ‘Doctor Who’) at
Tennant’s request after he saw an early edit
of the special. The episode concluded with
a trailer comprising non-CGI extracts of
moments from the first six episodes of the
next series.
he music playing on the radio
at Clancy’s Garage was Slade’s
December 1973 hit Merry Christmas
Everybody. In the shopping street sequence,
the brass band played the 1833 carol God
_ Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, while the tune
| of the whirling Christmas tree was Jingle
Bells, published in 1857 by minister James
Pierpoint and out of copyright. Murray
Gold wrote an incidental music score
) which - along with an extended orchestral
version of the theme tune including a
‘middle eight’ section - was recorded in
a six-hour session with the 80 piece BBC
National Orchestra of Wales conducted by
Ben Foster and with leader Lesley Hatfield
at Studio 1 of the BBC in Cardiff on
Monday 14 November. This was covered
by Doctor Who Confidential. Some cues were
reused from the previous series, notably
a vocal from Rose which the producers
referred to as ‘President Flavia’s Song’. Very
late in the day, when the
rights for The Bells of St Mary were
found to be not available, Gold composed
Song for Ten - influenced by Phil Spector
and the 1960s Motown composers
Holland-Dozier-Holland. The lead for this
was Tim Phillips who co-wrote the music
for Shameless with Gold, who provided
backing and an instrumental version. Ml
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BBC One from Wednesday 26 October,
effectively reusing the one shown back
in June. The same day, Billie Piper
was quoted in the MediaGuardian as
saying of the episode: “It’s got scary
Christmas trees, Santa attacks, there’s
an invasion, and the Doctor stays in
bed for a long, long time. I am carrying
most of the show.”
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promoted the special on Thursday
24 November, claiming that it would
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Davies wrote a special Doctor Who
piece for the Christmas edition of
Time Out in which the characters gave
their preview of yuletide television.
In the run-up to Christmas, Radio
Times for 3-9 December 2005 saw
Alison Graham select Doctor Who as
one of the Top 20 festive shows. In
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Monday 12 December.
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the Christmas double-issue Radio
Times was given to Doctor Who, with
Mark Thomas illustrating a snow
globe containing the TARDIS, a snow
Dalek and a snowman with a floppy
hat and long scarf. Available from
Saturday 3 December, this was the
first programme-specific Radio Times
Christmas cover for 16 years, in which
time the custom had been to feature a
generic festive illustration. A 10-page
feature promoted the special with an
article and series preview by Davies,
comments from Tennant, Piper,
Coduri and Clarke, Griffith’s interview
with Gilder, and a chance to win a
Dalek. Doctor Who was one of Graham’s
picks in Today’s Choices illustrated by
the Doctor, Rose and the TARDIS,
while the show’s listing had a picture
of the Doctor emerging from his
ship. A message on how the Doctor
could be revived was revealed by the
capitalised lead letters of the articles:
‘A CUP OF TEA.
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more promotion from tabloids like
The Sun and the Sunday Mirror. A
cast and crew screening was held on
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Peter previewed the Special with a clip
on Friday 9 (and a Dalek operated
by Nicholas Pegg pre-recorded on
Tuesday 6). Tennant was interviewed
in the Sunday Mirror on Sunday 11
December, and spoke to The Observer
with Davies, while a new television
trailer also appeared.
® On Monday 12 December, Davies,
Tennant, Piper, Coduri and Clarke
attended a press screening of The
Christmas Invasion at the Soho Hotel
in central London. Press reviews the
next morning had Ciar Byrne of The
Independent observing that Doctor Who
Joins the Protests Against The War in Iraq,
while in the Daily Star, Nigel Pauley
penned a piece titled The Doc Gets Lost
in Space. That afternoon, 12-year-
old Callum Kierk filed his report
for Newsround. BBC One’s Breakfast
previewed a clip on Tuesday 13 as did
GMTV on Friday 16. Penelope Wilton
was interviewed by the Daily Telegraph
on Saturday 17 December, while
Tennant spoke to the Western Mail,
and Davies talked to the Sunday Herald
the next day. Davies also appeared
on BBC Radio Wales, Wales Today on
Monday 19, the same day that bbc.co.uk
updated Mickey’s fictional website to
cover the Guinevere project. Radio 2’s
Doctor Who: Regeneration documentary
was broadcast at 8.33pm on Tuesday
20 (with Mark Gatiss having recorded
his narration on Friday 9 December
in Studio 1H of Broadcasting House),
a new 50-second trailer appeared on
BBC One. Next morning, Tennant was
interviewed on BBC One’s Breakfast
by Dermot Murnaghan and Sian
Publicity
Williams, while on Thursday 22,
Coduri and Clarke were interviewed
on GMTV. Friday 23 December
saw Tennant appearing on Radio 1’s
Colin and Edith Show (commenting on
the cut line about the Doctor’s accent),
Radio 4’s Front Row and BBC One’s
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. In
Wales, radio listeners could hear the
latest edition of Doctor Who Back
in Time — New Doctor, New Danger
at 6.30pm, repeated Christmas Eve
at 1.05pm.
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first episode of Doctor Who ever to asteroid in the JX82 system.
début on a Sunday when it aired
on Christmas Day; it was the ® David Tennant continued to record
second-most-watched programme his Doctor Who Video Diary during
of the day, and became only the his Christmas break with his parents
12th Doctor Who episode to chart in Scotland, pondering the strange
in the week’s Top Ten. During the phenomenon of his face adorning all
broadcast, the BBC website carried the television listing magazines and
the message ‘The Christmas Invasion is then viewing his début as the Doctor
on BBC One now. Harriet Jones says: with the rest of the McDonald family
Switch off this website for Britain’ on BBC One Scotland.
After broadcast, a commentary
by Davies, Gardner and Collinson ® The episode was broadcast by CBC
recorded on Tuesday 6 December by in Canada on Boxing Day with a
the Doctor Who Confidential team was special introduction by Piper. The
made available; this was the BBC’s reviews for the episode were positive,
most popular MP3 download with The Sun referring to it as ‘the
over Christmas, accessed 64,000 jewel in the BBC’s crown’ while The
times. BBC One digital viewers Times commented on the ‘totally
were encouraged to use their red splendid and, more importantly,
buttons to play the interactive very hot Doctor. In early January,
adventure Attack of the Graske that the right-leaning Spectator
evening. bbc.co.uk also offered a commented on the ‘worryingly
British Rocket Group website which peacenik tendencies’ of the new
was a tribute to Daniel Arthur ‘wussie’ Doctor to a Prime Minister
Llewellyn (1972-2006), while the who was just doing her job. In Radio
UNIT website referred to Major Times for 14-20 January 2006,
Richard Blake. Davies also provided Russell T Davies answered a query
a history of the Sycorax for the about his development of the
website, indicating that they were Sycoraxic language.
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EPISODE DATE TIME CHANNEL DURATION RATING(CHART POSITION) APPRECIATION INDEX
The Christmas Invasion Sunday 25December 2005 700pm-8.00pm BBCOne 58'51" 9.8M (Sth) 84
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he Christmas Invasion was
initially released on DVD,
along with New Earth, as Series
2 Volume 1 on 1 May 2006. It
was later released as part of
The Complete Second Series DVD
box set, by the BBC on 20 November
2006. Also included on the box set was a
commentary on the episode with Russell T
Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson,
a selection of out-takes and deleted scenes,
Billie Piper’s Video Diary, the Doctor Who
2005 Children in Need Special and the short
version of Doctor Who Confidential.
Several tracks of music used in The
Christmas Invasion, including an extended,
newly recorded version of Song for Ten,
were included on the Doctor Who: Original
Television Soundtrack CD, published by Silva
Screen on 2 December 2006. Song for Ten
and one other track from the
» episode were included on
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Anniversary Collection
box set released in
late 2014.
Yoplait Dairy Crest
released a range of
Doctor Who themed
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flavoured fromage
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tubes in April
2007. The
Sycorax featured
on the ‘Frube
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accompanying
packaging.
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amongst the miniature MicroUniverse Doctor Who
figures released by Character Options on underretiag
(above), a
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Who Figurine Collection, published 22 May figurine (below
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2014, presented a figurine of the i:
action figure.
Sycorax Leader.
In September 2007, Millennium FX
made available a Sycorax Helmet for
£558.13 (a deluxe version was also
available for £616.88). A Santa mask, cast
from the same moulds as those used in the
episode, was also made available in January
2009, costing £182.85.
Woolworths released a five-pack of
Doctor Who themed underpants »>
in October 2007, the red pairof 9.
which featured the Sycorax.
The Sycorax returned to
oppose the Tenth Doctor again
in the comic strip adventure,
The Widow’s Curse, originally
published in Doctor Who
Magazine in 2008.
The Sycorax also featured
as one of the monsters in
the Classic Doctors, New
Monsters box set of audio
adventures, released by Big
Finish Productions in
July 2016.
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CREDITS
Written by Russell T Davies
Producer: Phil Collinson.
Director: James Hawes
1st Assistant Director: Jon Older
2nd Assistant Director: Steffan Morris
uncredited: Lynsey Muir].
3rd Assistant Director: Lynsey Muir
uncredited: Adam Hill, Will Cummins,
Rhys Davies, Anna Evans]
Location Managers: Lowri Thomas,
Gareth Skelding [uncredited: Gareth Lloyd]
Unit Manager: Justin Gyphion
[uncredited: Rhys Griffiths]
Production Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk
Production/Script Secretary: Claire Roberts
Production Runners: Debbie Meldrum,
Tim Hodges, Sarah Davies
A/Production Accountants: Debi Griffiths,
Kath Blackman, Bonnie Clissold
Continuity: Llinos Wyn Jones
Script Editor: Helen Raynor
Camera Operator: Julian Barber
[uncredited: Joss Lowe, Paul Lang,
Terry Bartlett, Kevin Rudge
Focus Pullers: Mark Isaac, Terry Bartlett
[uncredited: Donald Ng, Dean Thompson,
Anna James, Elly Harrowes]
Grip: John Robinson [uncredited: Steve Jones,
Peter Muncey, Craig Copple]
Boom Operator: Jeff Welch
[uncredited: Rhydian Yeoman, Adam Margetts,
Mark Walters, Glen Jenkins]
Gaffer; Mark Hutchings
Best Boy: Peter Chester
Stunt Co-ordinator; Peter Brayham
[uncredited: Kevin McCurdy]
Stunt Performers: Dean Foster, Kim McGarrity,
Dani Biernat, Maurice Lee
Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas
Art Dept Production Manager: Jonathan
Marquand Allison
Standby Art Director: Arwel Wyn Jones
Asst Supervising Art Director: James North
Design Assistants: Ben Austin, Matthew Savage
Standby Props: Phil Shellard, Trystan Howell
Standby Carpenter: Silas Williams
Standby Rigger: Bryan Griffiths
Set Decorator: Julian Luxton
Property Master; Adrian Anscombe
Production Buyer: Catherine Samuel
Props Storeman: Stuart Wooddisse
Specialist Prop Maker: Mark Cordory
Prop Maker: Penny Howarth
Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies
Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics
Costume Supervisor: Anna Lau
Costume Assistants: Lindsay Bonaccorsi,
Barbara Harrington [uncredited: Rupert
Steggle, Angela Jones, John Laurie, Gemma Jones,
Chrisie Atkinson, Sheenagh O’Maragh]
Make-Up Artists: Anwen Davies, Steve Smith,
Moira Thomson [uncredited: Laura Shalker,
Sara Griffiths, Anwen Williams, Marie Doris]
Casting Associate: Andy Brierley
Assistant Editor: CeresDoyle
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Post Production Supervisor: (
Post Production Co-ordinator; Marie B
On Line Editor: Matthew Clarke
Colourist: Mick Vincent
3D Artists: Chris Petts, Pau! Burton, Jean-Claude —
Deguara, Nicolas Hernandez, Andy Howell,
Matthew McKinney, Neil Roche, Chris Tucker,
Mark Wallman, Nick Webber
2D Artists: Sara Bennett, David Bowman, Melissa
Butler-Adams, Joseph Courtis!, Bronwyn Edwards
Simon C Holden, Russell Horth, Kim Phelan
Digital Matte Painter: Alex Fort"
Model Unit Supervisor: Mike Tucker
Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts
Sound Editors; Paul McFadden, Doug Sinclair
Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies
Finance Manager: Richard Pugsley
With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG
Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams
Sound Recordist: Simon Fraser
[uncredited: Graham Ross, Mark Walters]
Costume Designer: Louise Page
Make-Up Designer: Sheelagh Wells
Music: Murray Gold
Visual Effects: The Mill
Visual FX Producer: Will Cohen
Visual FX Supervisor; Dave Houghton
Special Effects: Any Effects
Prosthetics: Neill Gorton and Millennium FX
Editor: Liana Del Giudice
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC
{uncredited: Peter Tyler]
Production Manager: Tracie Simpson
[uncredited: Marcus Prince]
Associate Producer: Helen Vallis
Executive Producers: Russell T Davies,
Julie Gardner
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STORY 167
,
The Doctor
think David will go a long way.
He’s a promising actor, with a
very firm bottom.” So said future
Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss of
David Tennant when, in March
2003, the Scottish actor was
recording Big Finish Doctor Who audio play
Sympathy for the Devil. Little did anyone
realise that just over two years later the
revived programme would be a TV smash
hit with the aforementioned Tennant as
the Tenth Doctor.
Born 18 April 1971 in Bathgate, West
Lothian as David John McDonald, he was
the son of Reverend Alexander ‘Sandy’
McDonald, a Presbyterian minister and
Helen McDonald (neé McLeod). He
later grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire,
attending Ralston Primary School and
then Paisley Grammar School.
It was Doctor Who in particular that
convinced Tennant he wanted to be an
actor at a very young age: “I was very
small, about three or four I think, and just
wanted to be the people on telly telling
these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea
grew and matured with me, but I can’t ever
remember wanting to do anything else.”
Tennant was the first Doctor to have
grown up a devoted fan of the programme
(Peter Capaldi would be the second - see
Volume 76). Aged seven, he owned the
Doctor Who Monster Book, signed by Tom
Baker in a John Menzies store in Glasgow.
“Tom Baker was the one I have the
earliest memories of and then I was still
watching it very avidly through Peter
Davison,” he admitted to Doctor Who
Magazine’s Clayton Hickman in 2005. His
studies took over in his teens: “I lapsed a
little bit in the final years, I guess. But I
caught up with those episodes later on.”
Tennant’s first acting performance was
at 11; he attended Saturday junior classes
at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music
and Drama in Glasgow. At 16 he passed
the entry audition. He began a BA in
Dramatic Studies at 17 in 1988 (accredited
by the University of Glasgow).
Even before starting his studies, Tennant
had already performed professionally, in
an anti-smoking ad for Glasgow Health
Board at 16, and then a ghost story for
children’s TV play strand Dramarama
made by Scottish Television, The Secret of
Croftmore (1988). He was credited as David
Tennant since there was another David
McDonald on Equity’s register - the name
was borrowed from Neil Tennant, singer
with pop duo Pet Shop Boys.
Tennant graduated in 1991, taking the
title role in Mozart from A to Z in his final
year. His first job on leaving was touring
Brecht play The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
in a cramped van with the left-leaning 7:84
theatre group. Ashley Jensen, later star of
Extras and Ugly Betty, was among the
group. Repertory work followed at the
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh and Dundee
Repertory Theatre.
He played a transvestite in a 1993
episode of Scottish comedy Rab C Nesbitt
but his first major TV role was as manic
depressive Campbell Bain in acclaimed
six-part BBC Scotland serial Takin’ Over the
Asylum (1994). Joining the same agent as
the serial’s star, Ken Stott, Tennant moved
to London.
His main focus was on classical theatre
however and from the mid-90s he
appeared in Royal Shakespeare Company Above:
productions including As You Like It (1996) Lee aie
and later took the male lead in Romeo and makes his big
Juliet (2000). one Y
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Tennant entered the world of Doctor invest
Who playing a Nazi guard in the Big Finish
audio Colditz in autumn 2001, a story
featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
Among much radio work, Tennant had
a part in a Radio 4 adaptation of Terry
Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His
Educated Rodents in 2003, but he was
excited to discover the new BBC online
Doctor Who adventure Scream of the Shalka
being recorded in the studio next door
DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPL
the voice
_ of Twigs in
children’s TV
series, Tree
Fu Tom.
and persuaded the director to give hima
one-line cameo. He was just as enthusiastic
when recording further Big Finish
Unbound audios.
Tennant’s career exploded in his annus
mirabilis of 2004 when in the space of
around 12 months he took his first leading
TV role in Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right
as Reverend Gibson, stole the show from
David Morrissey in acclaimed offbeat
thriller Blackpool (playing DI Peter Carlisle)
and took the title role in BBC Three’s
Casanova (2005S).
Written and produced by one Russell T
Davies while his commitments to Doctor
Who Series 1 began to take priority, the
fast-moving Casanova showcased Tennant’s
dynamic energy and charm. As Tennant
later recalled to Doctor Who Magazine's
Benjamin Cook in 2006, he was desperate
to ask Davies for a role in his ‘other show’:
“I was doing Casanova so I thought, ‘I’ve
got to get a part in Doctor Who. I just want
to be in an episode. Playing the Doctor
was not something that I actually believed
that I'd be asked to do.”
But while watching a playback of a
Casanova episode with Davies and fellow
producer Julie Gardner, they took Tennant
aside; “They said, ‘Look, we’re hoping we'll
get a second series - will you be in it?’ So
that was it really.”
On 31 March 2005, just five days after
Christopher Eccleston’s Who début and a
day after the BBC announced there would
be a second series, the story broke that
Eccleston had quit the show. Even the
BBC News website immediately reported
Tennant was the frontrunner, with bookies
quoting him at odds of 1/10.
A BBC press release issued 16 April
_ 2005 finally confirmed the poorly kept
ret and announced Tennant as the
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said in the release. “I grew up loving Doctor
Who and it has been a lifelong dream to
get my very own TARDIS. Russell T Davies
is one of the best writers television has
ever had, and I’m chuffed to bits to get the
opportunity to work with him again.”
With Christopher Eccleston having
filmed an open-ended regeneration
scene in early March, Tennant filmed the
continuation of the scene on 21 April to be
edited in later.
Winning his dream part was a huge step
for Tennant: “You suddenly realise that
you have to take it very seriously,” he told
Doctor Who Magazine as he set out in the
role. “It’s almost, ‘Be careful what you wish
for. So yes, it was a funny one and I did
have a few moments when I wondered if it
would be a mistake. Is this what I should
do? And then of course I woke up one day
and thought, ‘Oh shut up! Obviously you'll
say yes!’ Because how could you walk away
from it and watch whoever it would be
taking over instead?”
The production team had recognised
Tennant’s huge charisma and potential.
Producer Phil Collinson summed up the
new star: “There’s an etherealness, an
otherworldliness about him too, and a
little more eccentricity. I like that. It’s a
great contrast, and I think that viewers are
really going to take to him.”
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Russell T Davies later attempted to
encapsulate Tennant’s special onscreen
magic: “What sets him apart from any other
man on screen is a lack of boring machismo.
He skates over stuff, he dances over stuff,
he’s so nimble and light and clever.”
Davies decided Tennant would not use
his own accent as the Doctor, the logic
being he couldn't have another ‘regional’
accent following on from Eccleston’s
Northern tones. A Cockney/Estuary
London accent was chosen.
An inkling of the audience reaction that
Tennant would produce came from Caitlin
Moran, something of a spokeswoman
for smart British women, reviewing The
Christmas Invasion in The Times: “Very
hot...” she purred, “he’s twinkly, he’s
foppish, he’s clever...” We had the first
‘sexy’ Doctor and Tennant drew female
viewers to Doctor Who as never before.
A poll of 10,000 women for New Woman
magazine in March 2006 put Tennant
20th in their Top 100 Men list, ahead of
icons like Brad Pitt. As Tennant admitted
to Benjamin Cook he was nonplussed,
“Before I was on the telly whenever I
was written about, they'd use words like
‘sawky’ and ‘beanpole’ and they were fairly
unpleasant.” By 2006 he was dating Sophia
Myles, his beautiful co-star in The Girl in
the Fireplace [2006 - see Volume 52].
Davies played to Tennant’s attractive
qualities and turned the Doctor, for the
first time, into a romantic hero, becoming
an endless source of fascination for
attractive female characters. This took the
Doctor into uncharted waters, as Tennant
realised, speaking in late 2006.
“The relationship with Rose became,
to all intents and purposes, a love story.
You learn how malleable the character can
be - the show doesn’t disappear in a puff
of smoke if the Doctor does things that
apparently he’s never done before. It’s not
the end of the series if he snogs Madame
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British scientist
Sir Arthur
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2008 TV movie,
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Pompadour. I’m interested in how we can
push that - not necessarily sexually, but in
other aspects as well. How can we tweak
at the corners of the established myth
without pulling it apart?”
The Tenth Doctor’s era is marked by its
emotional beats, some romantic, some not:
his separation from Rose by a dimensional
split; his falling in love with Joan Redfern
while in human form as John Smith;
his tears at the Master’s wilful refusal to
regenerate; his ‘exile’ from Donna after her
memory wipe; his final sacrifice for Wilf.
Again, female viewers responded positively
to this new, upfront emotional approach.
Tennant’s era cemented the revived
programme’s popularity, indeed laying
reasonable claim to being the most
popular Doctor ever. The 2007 Christmas
special Voyage of the Damned |see Volume
57| had 13.31m viewers, placed second for
the week and the highest figure (ignoring
strike-assisted 1979 episodes) since Part
Two of The Ark in Space [1975 - see Volume
22]. The second episode of The Stolen
Earth/Journey’s End [2008 - see Volume 60}
was No 1 for the week in July 2008, 10m
viewers beating all-comers. It was the first
time Doctor Who had ever topped
the ratings.
In December 2006, a Doctor Who
Magazine poll of 4,000 fans made Tennant
the favourite Doctor of all time, with 28%
of the vote, almost 2% ahead of Tom Baker.
Despite the huge ratings, in September
2007, it was decided the show would have
a gap year, with no full series in 2009.
Tennant embarked on a lengthy run in the
title role of Hamlet for the RSC at Stratford
and London from August 2008 through to
early 2009. Tickets sold out in hours and
the play would be filmed and broadcast on
BBC Two on Boxing Day 2009.
It was while in Hamlet that Tennant was
nominated for a National Television Award
for Outstanding Drama Performance. As
29 October 2008 approached, should he
win the award, Tennant would make a
shock statement live via satellite during
Hamlet’s interval.
On receiving his award, Tennant made
an emotional speech: “I’m very excited
because in January, I go back to Cardiff
to make four new Specials, which will
see Doctor Who all the way through 2009.
But...’ There was then an almighty pause.
“’.. when Doctor Who returns in 2010 it
won't be with me.” The gasps were audible.
“T love this part and I love this show so
much, that if I don’t take a deep breath
and move on now I never will... I think it’s
better I don’t overstay my welcome.”
Tennant admitted at the end of 2009
that “I signed a contract for three years,
so it was always in the back of my mind
that I'd do three series, and maybe a few
Specials. I think once I realised that
Russell and Julie [Gardner] were going,
it seemed the obvious stepping-off
point.” He admitted to a “wobble” when
incoming showrunner Steven Moffat
outlined exciting plans for one further
season starring Tennant. Moffat gave
him a weekend ultimatum to decide, but
ultimately Tennant reckoned it was a series
he wanted to watch rather than be in.
After shooting his final scenes for The
End of Time [2009/10 - see Volume 62}
in May 2009, the Tenth Doctor’s era was
almost over, except for a guest appearance
in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode The
Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith filmed the
following week.
His two-part finalé aired on Christmas
Day 2009 and New Year’s Day 2010.
With the last words, “I don’t want to go,”
Tennant signed off. “Right now, I’m happy
to leave it, feeling proud of what we did
- and happy that it never felt like a chore
or a job,” he said. “It’s been a very happy
period of my life.”
The Tennant era had been so popular
that, as Steven Moffat revealed in 2014,
BBC bosses even considered ending the
series with his departure.
Tennant abandoned plans to relocate
to Hollywood to marry Georgia Moffet,
the daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter
Davison, the couple having met filming
The Doctor’s Daughter |2008 - see Volume
58]. They married on 30 December 2011
and had a daughter, Olive, in 2011 and son
Wilfred in 2013.
Tennant has remained one of the UK’s
most popular actors since leaving Doctor
Who. Film work has included the role
of Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire (2005) and St Trinian’s 2
(2009). He has had leading TV roles in
Einstein and Eddington (2009) and Single
Father (2010). A popular voiceover artist,
he narrated the documentary spoofs
Twenty Twelve (2012) and its sequel
WIA (2014-15).
Profile
Above:
Tennant with
Olivia Colman in
the acclaimed
Broadchurch,
His biggest post-Who TV success
has been ITV murder mystery serial
Broadchurch in which he stars as DI
Alec Hardy. The final episode of 2013’s
first series was the year’s highest rated
drama and a sequel followed in 2015. Of
Broadchurch’s success following on from
Who Tennant said; “I’ve been so lucky to
have been in two shows that have got such
a huge following. I still pinch myself,”
Tennant received a Special Recognition
award at the National Television Awards in
January 2015, much to his surprise as he
sat in the audience.
To the fans’ delight Tennant returned for
the 50th Anniversary story The Day of the
Doctor [2013 - see Volume 75)), reaffirming
his popularity.
The man who had wanted play the
Doctor since the age of four, summed up
the experience thus: “It’s continuously —
inspiring really, to get to play this
mercurial, anarchic, extraordinary
who gets all the best lines and gets :
the cleverest person in the
2006 SERIES ite ie
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RELATIONSHIP
EARLY
2006 Series
New Earth
Tooth and Claw
School Reunion
(see Volume 52)
The Girl in the Fireplace
(see Volume 52)
Rise of the Cybermen/
The Age of Stee!
(see Volume 52)
The Idiot's Lantern
(see Volume 52)
The Impossible Planet/
The Satan Pit
(see Volume 53)
Love & Monsters
(see Volume 53)
Fear Her
(see Volume 53)
Army of Ghosts/
Doomsday
(see Volume 53)
2006 series
hen preparing the
return of Doctor Who to
our screens, Russell T
Davies was dealing with
a show with disparate
expectations. For some -
largely in the media - it was joke, a source
of derision - naff TV of a bygone age. For
an increasing chunk of the audience it
was something either largely forgotten or
entirely unheard of. And for those who still
loved it and awaited its return, there was
nevertheless.a fear that the new incarnation
of the show might not be faithful to the
one that had gone before. After 13 weeks
of Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper
though, Doctor Who was a media darling,
a public success and a delight to the vast
majority of its dyed-in-the-wool adherents.
The Christmas Invasion [2005 - see page 6]
had been a vehicle to establish that this
new fellow was definitely still the Doctor,
with his personality only really becoming
established after spending much of the
episode asleep. His first full series would
determine exactly what direction he would
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Doctor are
shocked to
discover that
people are
being taken
from their
homes in 1950s
London,
be taking the show in. So where once the
pressure had been to deliver something
that - depending on their initial point of
view - people didn’t think was either an
ill-judged resurrection of something best
forgotten, something that didn’t interest
them at all or an insult to a much loved
classic, now Davies and his team had
an entirely different but no less intense
pressure. They had to complete the difficult
second album.
f course repeating a success without
0 one of the key ingredients can be
tricky. No sooner had Christopher
Eccleston established himself as the Time
Lord for the modern era than he hung up
his space boots and left the show without
a leading man. Doctor Who has flourished
after replacing an established lead with a
totally different interpretation of the part,
but the unprecedented success of the first
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year of the revamped series could have
produced an audience resistant to the jar
of a different characterisation. Eccleston’s
soulful, war-scarred Doctor gives way to
David Tennant’s apparently more chirpy,
hyper investigator, but that’s not to say
that the new incumbent of the TARDIS is
without depth. The Doctor who apparently
let Cassandra die in The End of the World
[2005 - see Volume 48] is definitely the
same man with a different face who wearily
tells the Krillitane leader in School Reunion
[2006 - see Volume 52] that he “used to
have so much mercy”. Indeed his threat
to the shape-changers that they get “one
warning : that was it” is an echo of the “no
second chances” issued after the ruthless
dispatch of the Sycorax leader in The
Christmas Invasion. For all of the apparent
laddish bonhomie, there is no doubt that
this is still an aged Time Lord steeped in
blood. He may be on the road to recovery
from his post-Time War stress disorder,
but the scars haven’t entirely healed and
the hardness hasn’t entirely gone. That is
because despite his youthful exuberance
he is old - ageing is a different form of
time travel but one that provides a subtle
undercurrent to the dominant theme of
the 2006 series: loss.
If the audience were hoping to recover
from the exit of one lead then they were
in for a shock. The other original cast
member would be gone by the time the
credits rolled on this series’ final episode.
If anything, Eccleston’s quick departure
was quite useful in teaching the audience
that one of the key factors of the show’s
success is that the central character
changes face and form and manner, but
he is still the Doctor. Companions are, by
their nature, much more disposable, but
the potential problem at this point in the
show’s history is that much of the success
of the 2005 relaunch was the integral
part played by Rose. She was the essential
identification figure and the opening
episode was told through her eyes, and
indeed named after her.
It is no surprise then, that thematically
this series gears us up for the loss of the
girl from the Powell Estate who breathed
new life into the Doctor - both on screen
and off. It’s fascinating how quickly the
new TARDIS duo hit it off, frolicking on
the grass of New Earth before invoking the
ire of Queen Victoria for their insolence
and blasé attitude to mortal peril (while
others around them lose their lives). The
message is that the fun they are having
comes at a cost, and ultimately it is
they who will have to pay the price. The
inevitable break-up of their relationship is
seeded early in the season. That their close
The Doctor
surrenders to
the Cybermen.
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LONELINESS THA
S TO ENDURE.
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bond occasionally veers into smugness
(by the end of The Impossible Planet/The
Satan Pit [2006 - see Volume 53] they
are describing themselves as “the stuff of
legend”) helps with this. It is the hubristic
part of their dynamic which helps the
viewer to see what the characters cannot -
that they are getting too comfortable in a
universe where all things (especially good
things) have to come to an end. They are
having such a good time together that the
inevitable split will have a seismic effect
on both of them.
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t seems that the Doctor can never
Tees) find happiness, but that
is the burden of his long quest to
explore the universe - he knows that
hanging around with humans comes
at an emotional cost because he will
ultimately outlive them: this is deliberately
underlined in School Reunion. For a series
that was coy about its past in its first year,
to bring back a tin dog prop designed in
the late 1970s and an actress who had not
had much of a TV profile for many years
might have looked like a ludicrous piece
of fan-pleasing wish fulfilment with no
place in the brave new world of reinventing
Doctor Who for the 21st century. But School
Reunion is about the cruel passing of
time and the loneliness that the Doctor
inevitably has to endure. The fact that a
small percentage of the audience know
who Sarah Jane and Elisabeth Sladen are
might give them an added bonus, but the
emotional pull of the story isn’t actually
dependent on our familiarity with the
older character - the episode is as much
about Rose and the show’s new audience
getting a glimpse of their future, as about
the Doctor and long-established fans
getting a taste of their past.
Indeed, a future and past love end
up being one and the same person,
introduced and dispatched in one episode.
In The Girl in the Fireplace [2006 - see
Volume 52] we are shown how the Time
Lord can have an intense and important
relationship that he has to say goodbye to
in the space of 42 minutes. Just because
it is short-lived, it doesn’t make the
Doctor’s relationship with Reinette facile
or superficial - there is no doubt that the
emotions here are deep and heartfelt. But
it also shows that time works differently
in the Doctor’s universe than it does for
us - and by extension, anyone from, say,
a council estate on twenty-first-century
Earth who might hop aboard his time
ship. It also, crucially, shows that once
someone is gone from the Doctor’s life
there is no going back, no matter how
much the fact that he can time travel
might make that seem possible.
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Left:
The Doctor falls
for Reinette.
2006 SERIES
Above:
John Lumic -
creator of
the Cybermen.
During this series, Mickey finally takes
his place on board the TARDIS as a
travelling companion - but after his scuffle
with the Cybermen in an alternate universe
he takes his turn to emphasise this year’s
continued adherence to the idea of loss.
In a short period he has transformed
from comedy stooge and thoughtless,
feckless boyfriend to a determined - if
occasionally somewhat hapless - part
of the central dynamic. The Doctor and
Rose are ultimately shamed by their
sometimes patronising treatment of
him as he emerges as a brave, principled
hero. His departure relatively early in the
series emphasises to the audience that no
character is safe from being swept away
should the plot require it. His surprise
reappearance in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
[2006 - see Volume 53] helps to up the
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ante in the series’ final story but actually
the changes he has undergone (“Mickey
Smith - defending the Earth”) show that
he was probably better off outside of the
stifling dynamic of the TARDIS where he
was undermined and patronised just a bit
too often. This in turns reminds us that
the Doctor and Rose are somewhat to
blame for the terrible emotional wrench
that awaits them.
Rose’s departure
he Rise Of the Cybermen/The Age Of Steel
T [2006 - see Volume 52] also rather
cleverly subverts the expected dynamic
of Billie Piper’s departure. Here, the girl
who ran towards the TARDIS at the end of
her first episode chooses to walk away from
it - pulled by the promise that a version of
her father is alive. Mickey too is lured away
by family. The Doctor, on the other hand,
has no family. Although Rose might fear
ever having to give up the travelling and
the adventure, she will never experience the
loneliness that the Doctor does.
This idea of entropy and decay doesn’t
just run through the psyche of our heroes.
The ageing that is an essential part of
humanity and consequently such a barrier
to the Doctor ever having a fulfilling
relationship with one of us is also the very
thing that Cassandra (with her foolish
attempts to stave off the ravages of time),
John Lumic (in creating the Cybermen),
and the Krillitanes (in harnessing the
Skasis Paradigm) are seeking to overcome.
For the Doctor such avoidance of nature
is morally wrong, despite the fact that
the emotional consequences of what
his enemies are trying to overcome are
probably more hurtful to him than
anyone. Time, though, has to move on, as
evidenced by the damaging, reactionary
nature of Eddie’s blinkered adherence to
the rigid past while the country around
him is revitalised by a new technology and
a new hope in The Idiot's Lantern [2006 -
see Volume 52].
By the latter episodes of the series,
Rose’s imminent departure looms ever
more ominously. By this time, pretty much
everyone in Britain would have known that
Piper was leaving, so instead of making the
spoilerific nature of modern television steal
his thunder, Davies uses it as conductor
for dramatic weight. “The valiant child
who will die in battle so very soon,” says
the Beast in The Impossible Planet/The Satan
Pit, a story so dark and unsettling that its
sense of foreboding menace hangs over
the season’s subsequent episodes. Even the
quirky diversion of Love & Monsters [2006
- see Volume 53], in trying to make a virtue
of the series’ need to largely dispense
with its regulars for a week, hints at the
likelihood of the exit of one of them. In his
final summation of the wonders of having
the Doctor in your life, Elton worries that
something awful awaits the Time Lord and
his friend. In seeing their space-age larks
from the perspective of those left behind
The Wire is
HUNGRY!
The Ood are
possessed by
the Beast.
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2006 SERIES
Below:
Scary pictures!
Chloe Webber's
drawings come
tolife.
- in this case Jackie Tyler - we see that the
fun comes at the emotional expense of
those close to them. The genocide of your
species may be a cross to bear, but actually
it means that the Doctor has no one to
pine for him - this isn’t the case for Rose.
Another caring mother fretting about
her daughter gives the travellers someone
to assist in Fear Her [2006 - see Volume
53] - an episode all about isolation and
the importance of a supportive unit,
something Rose is definitely going to need
very soon. Despite the celebratory mood
at the end of Fear Her, the fireworks at the
conclusion give the Doctor the indication
of a storm coming, which leads the viewer
into the two-part finale with a sense of
foreboding - a foreboding that is well
founded as the oft-mentioned Torchwood
finally makes its début.
In terms of the series that it spawns,
this Torchwood is a bit of a red herring.
It is a covert, powerful thorn in the side
of our heroes in The X-Files vein: its desire
to resurrect the idea of the British Empire
very much in keeping with the dominant
issue of the danger of holding onto the
past and trying to preserve what must
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inevitably pass. Whereas ‘Bad Wolf’, in
the early episodes of the 2005 series, was
essentially a repeated meme that gave the
eagle-eared something to get excited about,
Torchwood is a far more tangible presence
throughout the 2006 series. Specifically
invoked by Queen Victoria as early as
the second episode, this covert group is
a constant presence in the shadows who
make no bones about their knowledge of,
and intentions towards, the Doctor. By
the end of Army of Ghosts/Doomsday the
institution is all but destroyed, but not
before it facilitates the - at this point -
last hurrah of the two characters whose
meeting spawned the new era of Doctor
Who. Fitting that their parting should
take place on the premises of another new
component of the Doctor Who universe
- birth, death, endings, beginnings, new
things, old things: the patterns repeat and
the universe goes on, and life and death are
so inevitably intertwined.
t is a year of moving forward that
knows that part of doing this is to
look back and take stock as you do
so. Regeneration and change bring with
them ageing and decay. Going forward
means leaving things behind. Brave new
worlds blossom in the wake of older, lost
ones. While David Tennant takes hold of
the series and runs with it, his journey
ultimately takes him away from the last
onscreen remnants of what had made
Doctor Who’s first year back on screen so
successful. And that is because the show
knows that standing still, staying familiar
and trying to keep hold of the past, is
actually lethal to the Doctor as a person
and as a television character, which is
ultimately the tragedy of everyone who
travels with him.
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~ Introduction
here are two sides to New
Earth. Most conspicuously, it’s
quirky and jolly. Cassandra,
the self-styled last human and
“bitchy trampoline” first seen
in The End of the World [2005
- see Volume 48] is back, and hilarity
ensues when she possesses the bodies of
the Doctor and Rose. The vast hospital,
where much of the action takes place, is
run by cats. As the episode reaches its
climax, a horde of diseased patients are
unleashed, but even then they have the
shambling, lurching quality of zombies in
a schlock horror movie.
But of course, ‘diseased patients’ aren't
really funny. Bubbling beneath the story’s
frivolity is something much darker - a tale
of grotesque experimentation that raises
questions about medical ethics. And the
Sisters of Plenitude’s exploitative scheme,
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shocking in itself, also sows the seeds for a
sequel the following year. Gridlock |2007 -
see Volume 55] takes these pharmaceutical
concerns further, with unchecked drug use
having apocalyptic consequences.
The Tenth Doctor slept through most of
his first adventure, and so New Earth feels
a bit like the first proper David Tennant
story. In places it has a vague similarity to
the Seventh Doctor’s first story Time and
the Rani [1987 - see Volume 43] which also
features a strand where the villain adopts
the appearance of the Doctor’s companion.
It picks up on the moment in the Eighth
Doctor’s first (and only) story [1996 - see
Volume 47] where he kisses his companion
- something that had already happened in
the closing moments of the previous series
and would become a bit of a tradition in
the following years.
It’s a good introduction for the new
Doctor. Its lighter, wackier moments
pre-empt fun Tenth Doctor stories like
Love & Monsters [2006 - see Volume 53],
Partners in Crime [2008 - see Volume 57]
and The Unicorn and the Wasp [2008 - see
Volume 58}. Its dark undercurrents are
akin to the more unsettling plot threads
such as the ultimate fate of humanity in
_ Last of the Time Lords [2007 - see Volume
56] and the treatment of the Ood in Planet
of the Ood [2008 - see Volume 58].
In the opening moments of New Earth,
the Doctor promises to take us further
than we’ve ever been before. The 2005
series strongly re-established Doctor
Who after a long period off the air. The
start of the 2006 series showed how the
series could take its adventurous spirit to
different extremes.
a Introduction
‘THE DOCTOR PROMISES TO TAKE US
FURTHER THAN WE’ VE EVER
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NEW EARTH » STORY 168
STORY |
he Doctor takes Rose to the
T planet New Earth in the year
5,000,000,023. Their arrival is
detected by Cassandra who is residing in
a basement. She recognises Rose, “that
dirty blonde assassin!” [1]
The Doctor receives a message on his
psychic paper to visit someone in the
hospital. They enter the building and
Rose is surprised to see that the nurses
are humanoid cats. The Doctor steps
into a lift and Cassandra’s assistant
Chip overrides the controls, sending it
up, so Rose has to take a different lift.
She undergoes disinfection [2] before
emerging in the grimy basement.
Chip takes her to see Cassandra,
who is watching a movie of a party for
the ambassador of Thrace. Cassandra
orders Chip to activate a machine and
it transfers her mind into Rose! “Oh my
God, I’m a chav!” [3]
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LANAAARS
The Doctor is reunited with the Face
of Boe, who is being treated by Novice
Hame. [4] There is a story that just before
| its death the Face of Boe will impart a
great secret.
Two of the cat nurses, Matron Casp
and Sister Jatt, enter a vast vault lined
with cells. Inside one of the cells a patient
begs for help. Casp orders Jatt to have the
patient incinerated. [5]
Occupying Rose’s body, Cassandra joins
the Doctor, who accesses a computer
terminal and locates the cats’ secret
intensive care chamber.
They enter the vast vault and open a
cell. The Doctor realises the patients are
lab rats. [6] Hame appears and explains
that they have found cures that have
saved lives using the “flesh”.
The Doctor demands to know what
they have done to Rose. Cassandra
admits that she is occupying Rose’s body.
She knocks the Doctor out and puts him
in one of the cells while Hame goes to
inform Casp.
Cassandra intends to pump the Doctor
full of diseases, but Casp and Jatt arrive.
Cassandra orders Chip to open all the
cells on that level - and their newly
awoken occupants walk free. One of the
patients opens all the other cells. Another
patient touches Jatt, infecting her, and
she dies instantly. [7]
The hospital is placed under quarantine
as the plague carriers wander its
corridors. The Doctor and Cassandra
return to the basement where Chip hides
in a waste chute. The Doctor demands
that Cassandra return Rose to him, but
instead she transfers her mind into his
brain. They flee up a ladder. Casp appears
and grabs Rose’s ankle but one of the
carriers grabs Casp, infecting her and
sending her falling. [8]
To enable the Doctor to use his sonic
screwdriver, Cassandra briefly transfers
her mind into one of the plague carriers
before returning to Rose. She tells
the Doctor the carriers are alone, just
reaching out to be touched.
The Doctor and Cassandra reach ward
26. The Doctor gathers intravenous
solutions to cure every infection, then
enters the lift shaft and descends the
cable with Cassandra. [9]
The Doctor pours the solutions into
the lift’s decontamination tank, enters
the lift and he and some of the carriers
are sprayed with the mixture. He emerges
into the reception area and encourages
the carriers to pass on the cure to
everyone by touch. [10]
The Doctor says goodbye to Boe, who
promises to share his secret the next time
they meet. [11] Chip returns to Cassandra
and volunteers to act as her body. She :
transfers herself into him, even though
he is dying. But now Cassandra is finally
ready to accept death.
The Doctor takes Cassandra back to the
ambassador of Thrace’s party, where - in
the body of Chip - she tells her younger
self that she looks beautiful, before dying
in her arms. [12] The Doctor and Rose
slip away.
NEW EARTH
Pre-production |
ew Earth was a nightmare,
honestly, where the ambition
of the script burst the
seams of the budget and the
schedule,” recalled director
James Hawes in the video
documentary Doctor Who: The Inside Story.
Writing the début episode of the second
series - originally an idea called Body
Swap - Russell T Davies wanted to start
with something spectacular and fun, and
recalled how the press and viewers had
quickly latched onto the futuristic images
and alien beings from The End of the World
[2005 - see Volume 48] prior to broadcast
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of the first series; in fact, he saw a visit to
the year five billion becoming an annual
event for the series. He was particularly
fond of Cassandra, the villain in The End
of the World, even more so since writing
a biographical piece about her for the
book Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains. As
with the inclusion of familiar characters
Jackie and Mickey in The Christmas Invasion
[2005 - see page 6], bringing Cassandra
back would act as a good bridge for
younger viewers who would recognise
the character, helping them adapt to the
new Doctor. To reduce the demands of
the time-consuming CGI realisation of
a
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Cassandra, which had plagued The End of
the World), Davies decided to transfer the
character’s persona into the bodies of the
Doctor and Rose; the result would be both
cost-effective and allow a rare opportunity
to have both characters play comedy
during their respective possessions.
Furthermore, it allowed a kiss for ‘Rose’
and the Doctor, which was only natural if
Cassandra had been trapped for so long in
a body which prevented her having a good
snog! This fulfilled a promise to Billie
Piper that Rose would enjoy some comedic
material after the emotional intensity of
the first series. Another function of the
episode was to show that Rose had now
fully come to terms with the Tenth Doctor.
For the futuristic setting, Davies opted
Right: for a hospital which he felt was suitably
A Cassandra- ; . :
possessed creepy, especially after having written
Rose gets hospital drama for the CITV series
eo with Children’s Ward. Originally, this was to be
the Doctor. :
the Hospital of Evergreen Days on the
planet Coffra. Also returning was another them off! Script editor Helen Raynor had
character from The End of the World, the also felt that releasing the patients from
Face of Boe. In an early draft, the Face of pain by death was too harsh, commenting
Boe imparted his message warning the in The Inside Story: “We had a conversation
Doctor “You are not alone” and died, but - about it, and Russell must have been
: this was removed and kept thinking along similar lines, because I
_ Comections: 4 for a later episode when - didn’t have to convince him.” The infection
Very new! in mid-June 2005 - Davies by touch was added following a comment
® Arriving on New Earth in learned that Doctor Who had by Julie Gardner that nobody in The Empty
the distant future, Rose been guaranteed a third Child had been seen to be contaminated
is incredulous when the series. The Doctor’s original in this way. Originally there was more
Doctor identifies the city method of releasing the _ material with Frau Clovis and the Duke
before them as "New New infected patients from misery | of Manhattan who teleported into the
York" He tells her that itis, was to kill them because reception area as the Doctor and Rose
in fact, the fifteenth city they were beyond hope. This arrived; the Duke collapsed only to be
to be called New York - so solution was changed after saved by the Doctor’s swift actions. There
it is, in fact, New New Davies read Steven Moffat’s was also a scene where the Duke’s butler
ew New New New New foreword in Doctor Who: offered some champagne to the possessed
New New New New The Shooting Scripts which Rose, who replied, “Moisturise me.” The
New New New commented that Davies Duke’s disease, petrifold regression, was
New New York! always created likeable incorporated by Jacqueline Rayner into her
characters and then killed Doctor Who novel The Stone Rose.
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New Earth was the first episode to be
script-edited by Simon Winstone, the
replacement for Elwen Rowlands who had
left to work on Life on Mars. Winstone was
already familiar with Doctor Who having
edited novels developed from the series at
Virgin Books in the 1990s; he joined the
team in Cardiff in the first week of June.
New New YorR
Ithough during the summer there
A were erroneous reports of the
episode being entitled The Sunshine
Camp, the title on the shooting script for
the first episode of the new series, prepared
on Friday 8 July, was New Earth. The
opening scene in the TARDIS described
the Doctor ‘in his element, pulling levers,
finding his way around. Same old ship,
brand-new man’. New New York comprised
‘the gorgeous, glittering skyscrapers of a
massive sci-fi mega-city’ while the hospital
was ‘a white tower, built into the cliff,
rising up like a classy, futuristic lighthouse,
though taller, wider, more lofty’. Chip
- originally a dwarf called Zaggit - had
‘white skin, completely covered with
delicate henna patterns. Thin, gaunt, wide-
eyed, servile’ In a mark of continuity, the
stage directions specified ‘End of the World
shuttles’ should fly overhead and that the
Doctor and Rose were watched by ‘an End
of the World spider’.
The Sisters of Plenitude were described
as ‘cats; beautiful, but with that cool
feline archness too’; Davies chose cats to
represent a sinister health service because
he felt he could never tell what a feline was
thinking. Sister Jatt was ‘50, wise, calm’
while Novice Hame was ‘unveiled, young’.
When Cassandra inhabited Rose’s body,
the stage directions noted that ‘she’s all
sly and foxy, London accent gone’. After
kissing the Doctor, Rose ‘wipes her mouth
like she’s eaten fried chicken’;
the Doctor’s comment that Connections:
he had “still got it” was Song of the city
» When Rose
written as he ‘catches sight
of himself in a convenient
mirror.
The intensive care area
was ‘a dark, metal, industrial
area. Metal walkways,
gantries... the wall is lined
with booths, all identical (like those on
the Dalek ship), Human-size, opaque glass
doors, plumbed with dark tubes and pipes.’
Referring to the vessels of the cybernetic
assimilation race of Star Trek: The Next
Generation, the area was later described as
‘very Borg ship’.
In chronological terms, the episode
began on Day 3 (ie Boxing Day 2006)
at 10.00 as Rose boards the TARDIS,
stepping out onto New Earth at 10.11. The
pair enter the hospital at 10.30, Cassandra
commented "New New
York, so good they named
it twice,” this referred to
Gerard Kenny's 1978 song
New York, New York,
Below
Cassandra's
tattooed
manservant,
Chip.
v2
Above:
Frau Clovis
working at
the New New
York hospital.
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to Chip as “Gollum”, likening
him to the wretched
subservient creature from
RR Tolkien's The Lord of
the Rings which had been
made as a trilogy of movies
released over three
consecutive years
from 2001.
possesses Rose at 10.43 and joins the
Doctor at 10.55, the patients are released
at 11.13, the Doctor is possessed by
Cassandra at 11.24, and they reach Ward
26 at 11.40. The Doctor’s cure is deployed
at 11.45, the police shuttle arrives at 12.00,
the Face of Boe departs at 12.35, and the
party is taking place at 00.30 when the
TARDIS arrives.
=x Pink revisions on
q Wednesday 20 July covered
Cassandra watching the
her dialogue as ‘human
Cassandra’ including, “Oh
don't, now stop it, that’s
simply not true. That wasn’t
me! That’s vile rumour!
Well, all right, maybe it was
me, but for Bodley’s sake,
don’t tell the princess. Oh,
she'd be livid! Fuming!”
Other changes affected
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‘Rose’ overpowering the Doctor; when the
Doctor asked who she was, she replied, “So
soon forgotten?” There were also changes
to the scene where the Duke and Clovis
helped barricade Ward 26, the Doctor and
‘Rose’ arriving in the besieged ward, and
the arrival of the police and nurses at the
hospital (it was noted ‘police & nurses all
comparatively young, 20s and 30s’) with
Frau Clovis taking charge and instructing
the nurses. The other changes affected the
Doctor and Rose with Chip outside
the TARDIS.
While talking to the Doctor, Sister Jatt
originally commented, “And humanity
does seem to have more than its fair share
of woes.” This scene was considerably
expanded to introduce Frau Clovis and the
Duke of Manhattan.
Patients |
imilarly, the later conversation with
& the now-cured Duke was extended,
along with a more extensive
introduction of Matron Casp. The scene
| where Casp and Jatt were confronted by
the patients was also changed to add their
moans of “save us,” and delete the Matron’s
comments, “Those theories about the echo
of life might have some validity, they’re
practically people.” “The human race, it
will adapt,” agreed Jatt.
As part of the first recording block
(Block One) of the series under director
James Hawes, New Earth was largely left
until after principal photography on The
Christmas Invasion and School Reunion [2006
- see Volume 52] had been completed.
In preparation, Hawes went back and
rewatched The End of the World. Of the cast,
producer Phil Collinson had previously
used Struan Rodgers in Sea of Souls while
Lucy Robinson had worked with Davies
on Revelations. &
Production
t had been planned to record
Mickey and Jackie seeing Rose
off on the Brandon Estate in
London on Friday 29 July, but
this was deferred to complete
work on The Christmas Invasion.
Recording for New Earth began after the
crew returned from London. From 10am
on Monday 1 August, recording took
place at the Ba Orient dim-sum restaurant
on Mermaid Quay in Cardiff Bay for
the party scenes with Zoe Wanamaker
as Cassandra; this was the only day the
actress was available before starting work
on Poirot, and if she had not been available,
Davies had planned to rewrite Cassandra
as Cassandra’s sister to be played by
another performer. It was Wanamaker who
suggested the ‘Jessica Rabbit’ style wig that
she sported in this sequence. Black drapes
David Tennant
is trapped in
the hospital's
intensive
care unit,
DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY
a Connections:
be 4 Chavtastic!
Rose's body for
time, she is hor
term ‘chav’ cam
popular usage i
Below:
Rose leaves
her mum,
Jackie, to
travel with
the Doctor.
» When Cassandra occupies
discover that she has
become a “chav. The
decade of the twenty-first
century and is a derogatory
term used to describe a
young lower class person
who behaves badly,
wearing real
or imitation
designer clothes.
NEI J EARTH ® story ise
had to be placed around
the building to simulate
the dark of night, and this
was the first scene which
David Tennant performed
in the Doctor’s new outfit;
the actor was still recording
his Doctor Who Video Diary
for BBC Worldwide. Billie
Piper was also still wearing
her hair extensions needed
for The Christmas Invasion,
and so Rose wore her hair
up to hide the fact for this
sequence. While at Mermaid
Quay, Tennant and Piper gave
interviews to Wyre Davies
of BBC Cymru’s Wales Today,
Lizo Mzimba of BBC One’s
Newsround, BBC Five Live’s Midday News,
Radio 4’s PM programme and BBC News 24
(who covered the item with comments in
studio from Nicholas Courtney, who had
played Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in
the series from 1968 to 1989). Wanamaker
also performed all her other dialogue in
the first
rified to
einto
nthe first
LVN ANRNRARARAS
a sound booth. As had been the case in
The End of the World, her performance was
recorded by a camera so that the CGI
Cassandra’s mouth could be made to move
correctly. The pattern on Chip’s skin was
achieved by airbrushing with a stencil.
For this and each subsequent episode,
Tennant changed the configuration of the
buttons on his suit after consulting with
the crew. The shots of Mickey and Jackie
were recorded at Loudoun Square (the
‘Bad Wolf’ graffiti was still visible where it
had been painted in March for recording
on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways); in the
ad-libbed dialogue, reference was made to
Mo from The Christmas Invasion. Because
of the TARDIS’ shift in location, Davies
later suggested that some time had elapsed
since the yuletide adventure and other
adventures may have taken place prior to
New Earth. On the same day, blue revisions
were made to the arrival of the Doctor and
Rose at the hospital (removing the Duke
and Frau Clovis to cut down on location
work), and Hame finding Casp and Jatt.
==, TS =. =a 5
NN
he Daily Mirror revealed that
T Cassandra was returning on
Saturday 6 August. With most of
The Christmas Invasion completed, work
on New Earth resumed on Monday 22
August with second unit work at HTV
Studios from 11am to 10pm. Tennant
was due to perform shots of the lift cable
sequence with Kim McGarrity doubling
for Rose (as she had done in previous
stories such The Empty Child/The Doctor
Dances [2005 - see Volume 50}), while Dani
Biernat undertook Matron Casp’s death
fall under the supervision of her husband
Peter Brayham; ultimately problems
with the rigging forced schedule changes
which meant that Tennant did not record
AND BE CURED.”
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NEW EARTH © storv iss
76
Above:
"Save us.”
Connections:
I need a doctor!
» During the Doctor and
Rose's visit to the New
New York Hosp
exotic diseases
include Marcon
which the
to cure.
DOCTOR WHO | THE
encounter patients
suffering from several
pallidome pancrosis, and
petrifold regression - all of
Plenitude are able
his material. Choreographer Ailsa Berk
rehearsed the movements of the infected
patients emerging from the ICU booths as
she would throughout production, with
Sheelagh Wells and MFX collaborating
on the infection make-up. Millennium FX
performed make-up tests at an early stage,
i incorporating distortions of
\ the eyes and mouth which
were felt to be too horrific;
the aim was to keep the
patients sympathetic, and
avoid showing blood.
After another break while
scenes for School Reunion
were shot, recording began
again on New Earth at 5pm
on Monday 5 September; this
was later than James Hawes
had planned, but work on
School Reunion had over-run
to some extent. The first day
covered the hospital foyer
ital, they |
. These
i's disease,
Sisters of
COMPLETE HISTORY
scenes at the Millennium Centre in the
heart of Cardiff Bay, previously seen in
Boom Town [2005 - see Volume 50]; this
was only available to the BBC for a single
day. Doctor Who Confidential covered work
which ran to 4am, interviewing crew
including Edward Thomas and location
manager Lowri Thomas. At an early stage,
Davies overcame the issue of unconvincing
cat costumes (the spectre of which still
lingered from Survival [1989 - see Volume
46]) by suggesting to Neill Gorton that
the Sisterhood were cats which had
evolved into humanoids and so could be
realised by prosthetics alone. The original
designs were painted over photographs
of the actresses cast in the roles (selected
by James Hawes because they all had
| large eyes) and realised by Martin Rezard
in June 2005, starting off with a design
| which featured a far heavier set of facial
muscles. Flocked appliances were cast for
each specific actress and had a different
airbrush pattern to give them character,
such as a soft ginger for Hame. Only three
such make-ups were prepared as they took
around three hours to apply and each
mask could only be used once; one actress
had a bad reaction to the make-up. Most
Sisters wore veils over their faces, beneath
which they had rigid cat masks to create
the appropriate profile, purchased by
Louise Page from a novelty shop.
It was originally planned to continue
recording New Earth at Unit Q2 that
week, but the next few days were needed
to complete School Reunion. When work
resumed at 1.30pm on Friday 9 September,
it was at The Paper Mill, a Cardiff building
used as the Nestene lair in Rose [2005 -
see Volume 48] which now formed the
Intensive Care Unit. A team from Doctor
Who Confidential was again in attendance.
When playing the possessed version of
Rose, Piper wore a more vivid shade of
lipstick and emphasised her figure with
a Wonderbra. Recording was scheduled
to run to half-an-hour after midnight.
The following day the later sequences in
intensive care were recorded from 12.30pm
to 11.30pm, with a second camera unit
completing plate shots for some scenes.
I t had been hoped that work on
PAN aA!
SES AE's
Monday 12 September would cover
the TARDIS scenes deferred from the
previous Tuesday. Instead recording from
11am to 10pm covered various hospital
scenes, with Brayham supervising the stunt
sequences in the hospital shaft with the
ladder which was again covered by Doctor
Who Confidential which had a team present
the following day. Work from 10am to
9pm on Tuesday 13 focused on scenes on
Wards 7 and 26. There were problems with
the new Face of Boe prop - cast from the
original mould but with more mechanisms
to control the brow and mouth - when it
broke while being operated
by Piper’s boyfriend Connections:
Amadu Sowe. When one Talking down
of the female extrasteled ® After inhabiting Rose's
to turn up, runner Sarah body, Cassandra attempts
Davies played one of the to convince the Doctor
that she is really Rose
by speaking in a cockney
accent and using rhyming
slang (which originated
in the middle of the
nineteenth century), The
Doctor is startled to hear
the possessed Rose use
such colourful phrases as
“wotcha’, “governor’, “boat
race” (meaning ‘face’), and
“| can't Adam and Eve it”
(meaning ‘| can't believe it’).
patients, and she chatted to
Tennant for his video diary.
Goldenrod script changes
were made on Wednesday
14; these revisions abridged
the discussion between Casp
and Jatt in the Intensive Care
area. The same day, work
from 8am to 9pm covered
scenes in the antechamber
and Boe material on
Ward 26.
Two units worked at
Q2 from 8am to 7pm on
Thursday 15 September. While the main
unit recorded hospital scenes, the second
unit recorded close-up insert shots such
as the nuns’ claws opening; a prop claw
which had been built proved ineffective
and the effect was ultimately achieved
; : Left:
using CGI. Several other inserts were aa Doce
deferred to the following day, such as examines the
Jatt’s death and Chip hiding in one of the Te
ICU pods. Friday 16 had originally been solutions
scheduled for the Gower Peninsula (as
reported in that day’s South Wales Evening
Post), but instead was spent at Q2 covering
the deferred TARDIS scenes from 8am to
7pm. By now, it was necessary to cut some
scenes with Frau Clovis and the Duke of
Manhattan. When under siege, the Duke’s
butler realised they must block the service
exit as well, and he and Frau Clovis ran to
the Duke’s bed. The patient complained,
“This is outrageous, I’ve tried calling the
palace but the quarantine keeps cutting me
off, Frau Clovis, you should complain...”
“Indeed, I should,” agreed Clovis, “and he
you, your Grace, you should shift.” When et ae
ba
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the Duke refused, Clovis and
the Butler tipped him out
of bed onto the floor. “Frau
Clovis! You're fired!” roared
the Duke. “Any attempt to
terminate my employment
without warning will result
in the payment of massive
compensation,” said Clovis,
“so thank you very much.
Now get out of my way!”
Another short scene of the
besieged Ward 26 hada
furious Clovis bellowing
“You're supposed to be
the nurse! Can’t you do
something?” to the
cowering Hame.
David Tennant now had
a day off, while Billie Piper was scheduled
to resume work in the basement of
Tredegar House - as used in The Christmas
Invasion - on Monday 19 September
from 8am to 7pm. Unlike The End of
the World, Wanamaker’s dialogue was
played in during recording, and this work
was covered by Doctor Who Confidential.
However, as Tennant recorded that day in
Connections:
I know that face!
» The Face of Boe makes his
second appearance in the
series, Like Cassandra, he
had originally appeared
in The End of the World
[2005 - see Volume 48],
Unlike Cassandra though,
and despite his great age
and terminal prognosis,
Boe survives the story,
promising the Doctor that
they will meet again and
he will reveal “a
great secret”
Right: ae : :
ae TARDIS his video diary, his co-star had been taken
arrives on ill and recording had to be prematurely
location for
curtailed after recording all the scenes
with only Chip and Cassandra that had
been scheduled. Further scenes in the
dungeon and corridor had been planned
New Earth.
Billie Piper was in no fit state to work, the
crew were stood down until Wednesday
which had originally been planned as the
final day of Block One.
The crew returned to Tredegar House
on Wednesday 21 September, which had
originally been planned as the final day of
Block One; this completed the dungeon
material with Rose and Chip between
11am and 10pm. Tennant rejoined the
for Tuesday, but since it was now clear that
=
SL \AANRNRARAS
crew at Tredegar on Thursday 22 from
10am, while back at Q2 an insert shot
of a patient in an ICU pod was recorded
through to 9pm. This was also Billie
Piper’s 23rd birthday, and Tennant’s video
diary covered the surprise presentation
to her of a cake decorated with a picture
of Rose Tyler. That night, cast and crew
attended the wrap party for the block at
the Terranova Bar on Mermaid Quay.
‘Bad weather
n Monday 26 September, the crews
0 for Doctor Who and Doctor Who
Confidential travelled to the Gower
Peninsula for the opening and closing
scenes of New Earth, with Tennant and
Hawes being interviewed for Confidential.
Recording was due to run from 11.30am
to 7.30pm. Although Country Life had
said this was the most wonderful place
in the UK to see a sunset, and Davies had
recommended the location, bad weather
plagued the shoot, and the final scene
outside the TARDIS had to be abandoned
as the light went during a rain storm
Ohi On
‘nh an
es
mt iit
S ill
od
shortly after 3.30pm. Subsequently, a
problem was found with the camera
recording the close-ups, and these were
lost. Originally, the Doctor said to Rose
and ‘Chip’: “New Earth. This planet lasts
for another billion years. Then they move
on, another planet Earth. Then another.
Then another.” Rose asked, “Where does it
end?” “I don’t know,” replied the Doctor,
“Maybe it never does.” “I won't see it,”
said ‘Chip’. “No one sees it all. Not even
me,’ agreed the Doctor. Chip then said,
“This heart is slowing. Not long now.
You can leave me.” Stepping forward, the
Doctor said, “Don’t think I’ve forgiven you,
Cassandra. People died because of you.
But... I think you can make one last trip...
We've been invited to a party.” Rather than
re-hire Sean Gallagher again, this was
truncated to a voiceover from Tennant,
and much of this day’s location material
had to be redubbed because of the terrible
weather conditions. A location report was
published by the South Wales Evening Post
three days later.
Two more days at Q2 were still needed.
The first of these saw Tennant and Piper
recording with a second unit from 9am to
8pm on Friday 7 October while the main
crew worked on Tooth and Claw [2006 - see
page 94]. This recording was attended
by both Benjamin Cook for Doctor Who
Magazine and Doctor Who Confidential and
included the shots of the Doctor and Rose
being disinfected in the lifts.
What began as a pleasant
warm shower at the start
of the day became colder as
Get me
the tank was refilled, and The Docto
the clean-up of the set was he doesn't
time-consuming. Confidential because th
covered more pick-ups taped the creeps.
between 8am and 7pm on he is recalli
Saturday 8 October; these
included the stunt sequence
of the Doctor and Rose
sliding down the cable (with
he regener
third body i
) out of here!
Feline make-up
is applied.
*
tells Rose that
like hospitals
ey give him
Possibly
ng his own
stay in a hospital after
ated into his
n Spearhead
from Space [1970 - see
Glenn Foster and Juliette
Cheveley doubling for the
stars in the green-screen
sequence), plus close-ups of
the pair in Ward 26 and of
the Face of Boe.
On Monday 31 October,
alien
Volume 15]
he was kidnapped by
autons - agents of the
estene - and then
accidentally shot after he
was able to escape.
. While there
Connections: ral 4
Above:
The Doctor
challenges
the Sisters.
PRODUCTION
Mon 1 Aug 05 Ba Orient, Mermaid
Quay, Cardiff Bay
Loudoun Square,
Estate)
Mon 22 Aug 05
a salmon-pink revision was made to the
arrival of the TARDIS at the party. This
shot of the Doctor emerging from his ship
was recorded on Thursday 3 November
alongside a special Children in Need item
that would herald the return of the series
with the new Doctor.
It was decided that the new series
would be promoted by specially recorded
‘prequels’ for each episode, which would
run up to a minute and be available either
via mobile phones or the BBC website.
These went by the name ‘Vortext’, although
this was changed to “Tardisodes’ by the
Care/Stairs)
High Society Bar);
Gabalfa, Cardiff (Tylers’ Ladder)
HTV Studios, Hospital Ward 26)
Mon 12 Sep 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Dark
Metal Corridor/ Hospital Shaft With
Tue 13 Sep 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Ward 7/
VV\\NRRARREASE
end of March 2006. Gareth Roberts’
script for Vortext 1 - New Earth was dated
January 2006 and was made in a recording
block with episodes two to six and 11.
The 46-second item was an advert for
the Sisterhood’s hospital, with Novice
Hame saying that they had never lost
a patient and could cure the incurable
as she walked past a patient restored to
health from Hawtrey’s syndrome (which
_ Roberts named after Carry On film actor
Charles Hawtrey, whose biography was
on his bookshelf. The writer had meant to
change it as he thought it sounded silly,
so was relieved it was pronounced ‘Haw-
tray’ in the finished production). “Come
to New Earth and be cured,” Hame said as
a woman’s voice screamed out “Help me!
Please, help me!” Establishing shots used
elements from New Earth itself, and the
new material was recorded in one day with
Anna Hope reprising her role as Hame
on a minimal version of the Ward 26 set
at Enfys Television Studios in Cardiff on
Tuesday 31 January. It was on this day
that Hope was interviewed for Doctor
Who Confidential (broadcast in Totally
« Doctor Who). &
Mon 19 Sep 05 Tredegar House,
Newport (Dungeon)
Wed 21 Sep 05 Tredegar House
(Dungeon Corridor/ Dungeon)
Thu 22 Sep 05 Tredegar House
(Dungeon/Dungeon Corridor); Unit Q2
Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff: Studio 1
(Green Screen/Hospital: ICU Booths)
Mon 5 Sep 05 Millennium Centre, Cardiff
(Hospital Foyer/Lift #1)
Tue 6 - Wed 7 Sep 05 BBC Model Unit,
Kendal Avenue, London (Smoke effects)
Fri9 Sep 05 The Paper Mill, Sanatorium
Road, Cardiff (Hospital Intensive Care)
Sat 10 Sep 05 The Paper Mill (Intensive
0 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY
a
Wed 14 Sep 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Ward
Antechamber/Hospital Ward 26/Face of
Boe's Area)
Thu 15 Sep 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Ward
Antechamber-Upper Level/Hospital Ward
26/Hospital ICU/Hospital Shaft with
Ladder)
Fri 16 Sep 05 Unit Q2 (Int TARDIS/
Hospital Ward 26/ Hospital ICU)
(Hospital Intensive Care)
Mon 26 Sep 05 Worm’s Head, Rhossili,
Gower (Clifftops)
Fri 7 Oct 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Lift Shaft:
Top of Lift/Hospital Lift/Hospital Lift #2/
Hospital Lift #1)
Sat 8 Oct 05 Unit Q2 (Hospital Lift
Shaft/Hospital Ward 26)
Thu 3 Nov 05 Unit Q2 (High Society Bar)
Post-production
“She stole a ride on the back of the Face of be
Boe’s truck, and fled to my devotions.” In
response to Rose’s chastising, Cassandra q
said, “I’m just desiccating in my pit. Letting =
ome material was deleted in
editing. As the Doctor and
Rose looked at New New York,
Rose exclaimed, “There’s a
city,” and when she asked
about “New Earth?” the Doctor
explained, “The next Earth. Earth Two.”
When the message appeared on the psychic
paper, Rose commented, “That’s a bit
powerful. Projecting a thought across time
and space.” “Exactly,” replied the Doctor,
“well worth a visit.” When telling Rose
how his mistress survived, Chip explained,
the memories play.” Of Rose’s phone,
Cassandra commented, “It’s so antique.
What do I do...?” As she walked off to
meet the Doctor, she commented, “These
legs... are walking!” A short scene was cut
with Novice Hame noticing that the Face
of Boe had awoken and telling him, “Your
friend’s arrived, the Doctor. D’you want
me to find him...?” then departing when _
NEW EARTH
The Doctor is
not happy with
the hospital's
intensive
care unit.
STORY 168
the Face nodded and sighed. When ‘Rose’
ordered Hame about, she added, “Now
I’ve discovered your private health care
scheme, we've got business to discuss.” A
sequence of ‘Rose’ confronting the Matron
about the Sisterhood’s attitude to life was
cut, but would be included on the Complete
Second Series DVD box set. A short scene
of Rose, Chip and the Doctor running
downstairs was also dropped.
Entering the dungeon, the Doctor
commented, “So this is where you were
hiding. Sitting right on top of the secret
and you didn’t even see it.” “I wasn’t exactly
built for looking around corners,” replied
‘Rose’ before asking what they should do
next. When the Doctor ordered Cassandra
to leave Rose’s body, she replied, “Aren’t
you tired of killing me?” “You did all this
to yourself,” replied the Doctor raising his
sonic screwdriver, “Now d’you really think
I can’t force you, Cassandra? You’ve met
me before. You know I won't stop. You're
violating that mind, and I won't allow it.”
When Cassandra occupied the Doctor and
Rose ordered him to leave, the ‘Doctor’
82 QOCTORWHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY
replied, “Lesson in logic. The Doctor
has the power to remove me. Little Rose
Tyler does not. Ergo, I occupy the Doctor
- temporarily, because frankly, this nose
needs work.” “But the Doctor’s the only
one who can save us!” insisted Rose.
A brief exchange was cut from the
sequence of the Doctor and Rose on the
shaft ladder after Cassandra had just
returned to the Doctor. “What the hell
are you doing?” demanded Rose. “He was
threatening me!” exclaimed the ‘Doctor’.
“He can open the door!” insisted Rose.
“He’s not nice!” retorted the ‘Doctor’.
Cassandra-possessed Rose
aving grabbed all the IV bags, the
Doctor tells ‘Rose’, “Cassandra,
with me, I need another pair of
hands.” When he later repeated this in
the lift shaft, ‘Rose’ retorted, “Well go to
the hand department, you’re not having
mine.” “Oh come on,” pleaded the Doctor,
“there’s got to be a bit of Rose still in there.
She'd do it. She’d come with me.” “She
would,” said ‘Rose’, “but I’m stifling her
very successfully, thank you.” “What about
Cassandra, then?” appealed the Doctor,
“C’mon Cassie!” When ‘Rose’ asked the
Doctor to leave her, she replied, “I want
Rose.” Scared, ‘Rose’ replied, “But I can’t.
You won't let me go to anyone else.”
The episode content was locked by
ee Kg ee
| on Monday 9 January 2006; this featured
} 35 minutes of new music, some of which
mid-November and additional dialogue
recording took place on Tuesday 20
December. Shots of the lifts were taken
from Rose. The producer and director
credits were superimposed over the Doctor
and Rose leaving the TARDIS; at the
Rose is ready
for new
adventures
with the
new Doctor.
_ suggestion of Doctor Who Magazine editor
| Clayton Hickman, the name of the actor
was now capitalised as opposed to their
role (as with previous shows). The music
for the pre-credit sequence reworked the
incidental score from Rose. The CGI work
by the Mill included Cassandra (rendered
in a more sophisticated manner than
in The End of the World), the metal spider,
the full ICU area, the disease effects,
lift-shaft backgrounds, New New York
(which featured the same shuttles as in
The End of the World) and the hospital
itself (both created by Alex Fort); this
was originally an isolated building, but
was amended close to transmission, at
Phil Collinson’s suggestion, into part of a
complex with a retro 1930s look. The final
mix of Murray Gold’s score was performed
Cassandra
abandons her
reworked themes from the 2005 series. old ‘body:
— “=
ay
NEW EARTH © storviss a a
a ' 1:
One Year On, up to date. The team
recorded links for Doctor Who Night
with Corey Johnson at the Tower of
London on Thursday 6 April.
» Repeating the build-up of 2005, Radio
Times began a countdown to the series’
return in Doctor Who Watch for the issue
of 1-7 April 2006, starting with It’s not
long now..., an interview with Collinson.
The following week, It’s nearly Time...
promoted BBC Three’s themed evening
with comments from Davies.
» New Earth was screened at a press
launch at the Millennium Centre on
Tuesday 28 March, with Tennant,
nage » On Thursday 2 March 2006, Doctor Piper and many of the cast and crew
is ey Who Magazine 367 announced the in attendance along with Doctor
from his pod, introduction of the specially recorded Who Confidential and also director
along with all prequels for each episode of the new Brendan Sheppard from CBBC extra
the infected ' ' : :
anans. series and the New Earth prequel was recording a Doctor Who Special; this
made available from Friday 31 March.
team had interviewed Totally Doctor
Who presenter Barney Harwood and
assistant producer Jack Jameson
earlier that day, and that evening
spoke to Tennant and Piper who
answered young viewers’ questions.
BBC Cymru’s Wales Today also carried
another feature. Next morning the
CBBC team recorded questions from
the children at St Patrick’s Primary
School in Cardiff and returned to
London. On Thursday 30 March,
Davies was interviewed on BBC Radio
Five Live, while material from the
launch appeared on GMTV and BBC
One’s Breakfast and Newsround, and
the episode was discussed on BBC
» In March, the Doctor Who Confidential
team had three weeks’ notice that BBC
Three would host a three-hour Doctor
Who Night on Sunday 9 April; this
comprised repeats of The Christmas
Invasion and the 2003 documentary
The Story of Doctor Who plus a one hour
programme from the Confidential team.
Following last-minute commissions in
2005 for BBC One’s Doctor Who: A New
Dimension and Doctor Who: The Ultimate
Guide, Gillane Seaborne’s team had
anticipated the request and assembled
material recorded for The Christmas
Invasion to bring the new programme,
84 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY
Radio 1’s Newsbeat with Kev Geoghegan
speaking to Davies and Tennant.
There were also parts of BBC Radio
Wales interviews with the two stars on
Nicola Heywood Thomas’ lunchtime
show. In London, Sheppard’s team
worked with John Leeson and recorded
material with K9 for the CBBC feature,
although this was ultimately dropped
from the 12-minute package which
aired from 6 to 15 April. Mickey’s
website was updated on Friday 31, a
specially made series trailer aired at
6.58pm on BBC One on Saturday 1
April, and on Sunday 2 the Sunday
Mirror ran a piece claiming Nicole
Kidman had been Davies’ inspiration
for Cassandra.
Doctor Who again grabbed the cover
of Radio Times for the week of its
return, with a fold-out photo of the
Doctor and Rose by the TARDIS,
along with Sarah Jane, K9, a Sister of
Plenitude, two clockwork robots and
Doctor Who, Saturday BBC)
And they're not alone ..
the Cybercontroller. A major feature
included a piece by Davies, an episode
guide, Tennant and Piper answering
readers’ questions, and an article
about the cover photoshoot. Alison
Graham selected New Earth as one of
Today’s Choices, with a photo of Rose
and the Doctor; Graham also picked
Cassandra’s “chav” comment as her
Moment of the Week. The programme
listing was accompanied by a photo of
the Doctor with one of the Sisters. The
Culture Show on BBC Two promoted
New Earth with a positive review on
Thursday 6 April, and Davies was
spotlighted by The Independent on
Monday 10 April in a piece entitled
The Saviour of Saturday Night Drama.
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features in the
Radio Times.
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Lady Cassandra
at the
Ambassador
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dinner party,
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Radio Times
cover for the
new series.
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Rose enjoying
the scent of
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An episode-specific trailer appeared
on BBC Television from Wednesday 12
April. In publicity before transmission,
a bearded Tennant was interviewed on
Virgin Radio’s The Breakfast Show and
by John Barrowman on ITV1’s This
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Sarah Jane, K-9 (episode three) Sisters of Plenitude (episode one)
Clockwork robots (episode four)
Morning on Wednesday 12 April; Piper
was due to have appeared on the latter
but was unwell. Tennant featured on
Radio 1’s Jo Whiley show the next day,
with New Earth reviewed on Radio
4’s Front Row. The Sun ran a piece
about Tennant on Thursday 13 April,
commenting on his school essay about
his love of Doctor Who. Friday 14 saw
a three-minute trailer with clips from
most episodes (created for the press
launch) screened by BBCi digital.
On Saturday 15 April - the début date
for New Earth and the start of the new
series, fixed for around 10 months
- CBBC saw its programmes hosted
with a Doctor Who theme (with Matt
Edmondson and Anne Foy dressed as
the Doctor and Rose), while Davies
took part in a phone-in with Nicola
Heywood Thomas on BBC Radio
Wales, Tennant was interviewed by T4
on Channel 4, and Eamonn Holmes
arrived by TARDIS on BBC One’s The
National Lottery Jetset that evening.
Cybermen (episode five)
Broadcast
Following the broadcast of
New Earth on 15 April, bbc.co.uk
made a podcast narration of the
episode available, recorded in
Cardiff on Wednesday 15 March by
Tennant, Davies and Collinson; this
was also available to some viewers
on the BBC Three repeat the
following day. Reviews for the
episode were generally enthusiastic,
and New Earth rated far higher than
the main competition, 2002 film
Early on in the development of the
2006 series in spring 2005, there was
debate about whether the opening
episode would be the Body Swap
storyline or Mme de Pompadour (latterly
The Girl in the Fireplace). Months later,
there was further discussion of this
nature when Tooth and Claw was also
seen as a contender for beginning the
run. The fact that the pre-credits had
Rose with a change of clothes had been
created so that, if necessary, it could
be moved from New Earth to Tooth and
Claw. However, BBC Drama Controller
Jane Tranter felt that the Victorian tale
was too dark and New Earth offered a
lighter introduction.
EPISODE DATE
New Earth Saturday 15 April 2006
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TIME
715pm-8,00pm
DURATION
44'05"
Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets, on ITV1 that evening, and
was only outrated by editions of
EastEnders and Coronation Street
during the week.
Cassandra (in
Chip’s body)
visits her
younger self.
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8.6M (9th) 85
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on DVD, along with The 7
Christmas Invasion, as Series 2
Volume 1 on 1 May 2006. It was
later included as part of The
Complete Second Series DVD box
set, released by the BBC on 20 November
2006. It featured a commentary with James
Hawes, Julie Gardner and visual effects
producer Will Cohen. Various outtakes
and deleted scenes were included as extras.
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and right:
NewEarth were released together by Character
action figures Options in July 2006. The same company subsequently released a figure of Rose
from New Earth along with the
robotic spiders in January 2007;
A 5” scale toy of the Face of Boe,
initially sold through Toys R
Us, was released on 31 March
2007; figures of the Doctor,
Rose and Cassandra as an
exclusive for the Sainsbury’s
supermarket chain in 2008;
Chip and the Destroyed
Cassandra figures in June
2008, with the Destroyed
Cassandra also being available
individually as an exclusive
through Woolworths in the
same year. An action figure of
Novice Hame was released
in January 2008. @
Cast and credits
David Tennant
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Camille Coduri
Noel Clarke icine
Zoé Wanamaker
SEAN GallaGhel iiss Chip
DonaiGrollosuscanunmnonnincccns Matron Casp
Michael Fitzgerald ...... Duke of Manhattan
Lucy Robinson...... . Frau Clovis?
AGIGa ANDO iidicccniiitccticsssenese Sister Jatt
Anna HOD §asissiicscniisanniiisciciies Novice Hame
SIMON LUMME|TS..e scsi Patient
StrUAN ROGET... Face of Boe
‘ Mis-spelt Fran Clovis
Sam Stennett, Paul Burke, Emma Powell,
Philippa Daniels, Madog Davies, Owain
Davies, Marianne Hemming, Elsie May.............
Mere Comma anuiamignsnntnrmpEBiusu Visitors
Liza Meggitt, Hazel Beauchamp, Jade
Kenning, Natalie CUZNEF.............0 Cat Nuns
Stuart ASAMAMN wc Butler
Claire; SaGGleny, memo satiated us Red Lady
Zeph WHITE... cenit sienvvisiiern Man
Nila COMI eisai. Ga trrommrtnncetccssatiecicen Cat Nun
Gareth Dixon, lan Wooley, Kevin Hudson,
Domenico Balsaco, Kwesi Gepi Attee, Nate
Webb, Peter Simon, Jeremy Harvey, Sian
Gunney, Sarah Williams, Becky Evans,
Surayall ittal,...c\ Semeacon atic naisaisapssnnie Guests
Unknown .Bar Man
Lucy Hassan, Andy Jackson, Nick Godding, Jo
Dibble, Luke Zac, Beth Dibble, Nikki White,
Jeannie Rebane, Jason Jones, John Evans,
Richard Atkin, Sarah Davieg................... Patients
Rebecca Tromans, Clare Bromage, Jo Ruiz,
Laurence Chanon, Richard Heneghan, Heidi
Scurlock, Oliver Hopkins, Gerrard Cooke,
SophiaiDay...ccoc.ucunane Patients - Diseased
Steve Whaites, Paul Loftas, Poppie Skold,
Linda John, Paul Starsky, Fred Smith, Annie
SWAINSON siéiiodisdananunsunmennneetine Patients
Helen IFvVing......::s:sicsciicneesnonemeeeee Posh Mum
Dave BreMMe®........cccccccsesseesssssssnes Posh Dad
Eddie Hunt, Eryl Vaughan, Steve Apelt,
David Hanford, Sam Varna, Deborah Evans,
Boby Tee, Sally Martin, William Adrian
bsaieanniiiaisinnvepeeistivtsn GUS CORUM EEE ae Patients - Diseased
Louisa Davis, Jodi Mulcahy, Andrew Hopkins,
Oliver Hopkins, Carl Watson, Ash Croney,
Gerard Cooke, Sophia Day.......... Patients - White
Mai [email protected] White Man
Dani Biernat........... Stunt Double for Matron Clasp
Rose is
possessed by
Cassandra.
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Joanna Crozier, Richard Beavis................. Patients
Kim McGarrity, Juliette Cheveley
saadrcoreesnjs sea igvmnropperaTeNay RTUIMUATTENNTOSIRR Stunt Doubles for Rose
Glenn Foster............... Stunt Double for The Doctor
Rachel Williams, Matthew Williams Visitors;
Rachel Williams, Matthew Williams, Elin
Griffiths, Hannah Emlyn Jones, Abigail
Apollonio, Gavin Jessop.................. Clean Patients
John Walker, Dennis Gregory, Joanna
Brown, Rick Manning, Louise Harrison, Sam
Downie, Richard Tromans, Rebecca Rendell,
James Saunders, Simon Frost, Melissa
Stanton, Diane Lukins, Kirsty Alderton............
Gorn ud <b MED TROTTER Tee Patients
Dave Wong, Gareth Somere............... NNYPD Cops
Michael Tudor, Jitka Charyparova....Paramedics
Steven Bracken-Keogh, Nina Kitt, Paul
Ganny, Wendi Sheard, Nicholas Wilkes,
Hannah Welch, Daryl Adcock, Jane Hunt........
eee Additional Dialogue Recording (inc Tannoy,
Police Voice)
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with
Sophie HIGGS....cccuuustcnn acces: Patient
Natalie Cuzner, Kim Wyld.........00000008 Cat Nuns
CREDITS
Written by Russell T Davies
Producer: Phil Collinson
Director: James Hawes
1st Assistant Director: Jon Older
[uncredited: Tim Hodges
2nd Assistant Director; Steffan Morris
[uncredited: Lynsey Muir]
3rd Assistant Director: Lynsey Muir
uncredited: Adam Hill, Anna Evans,
Dan Mumford]
Location Managers: Lowri Thomas, Gareth Skelding
Unit Manager: Justin Gyphion
uncredited: Rhys Griffiths]
Production Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk
Production/Script Secretary: Claire Roberts
oduction Runners: Debbie Meldrum
uncredited: Victoria Wheel]
A/Production Accountants: Debi Griffiths,
Kath Blackman, Bonnie Clissold
Continuity: Llinos Wyn Jones
Script Editor: Helen Raynor
Camera Operator: Julian Barber
uncredited: Joss Lowe, Paul Lang, Terry
Bartlett, Paul Lanh]
Focus Pullers: Mark Isaac, Terry Bartlett
uncredited: Steve Rees, Donald Ng,
Elly Harrowes]
Grip: John Robinson [uncredited: Steve Jones]
Boom Operator: Jeff Welch [uncredited:
Rhydian Yeoman, Bryn Thomas, Adam
argetts, Glen Jenkins, Jon Thomas]
affer: Mark Hutchings
est Boy: Peter Chester [uncredited: Slogger]
unt Co-ordinator: Peter Brayham.
tunt Performers: Dean Foster, Kim McGarrity,
Dani Biernat, Maurice Lee
Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas
Art Dept Production Manager: Jonathan
ae)
WALA (OO: Cy
Marquand Allison
Standby Art Director: Arwel Wyn Jones
A/Supervising Art Director: James North
Design Assistants: Matthew Savage, Ben Austin
Standby Props: Phil Shellard, Trystan Howell
Standby Carpenter: Silas Williams
Standby Scenic Artist: Louise Bohling
Set Decorator: Julian Luxton
Property Master: Adrian Anscombe
Production Buyer: Catherine Samuel
Props Storeman: Stuart Wooddisse
Specialist Prop Maker: Mark Cordory
Prop Maker; Penny Howarth
Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies
Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics
Costume Supervisor: Anna Lau
Costume Assistants: Lindsay Bonaccorsi,
Barbara Harrington [uncredited: Angela Jones,
Sheenagh O'Maragh, Gemma Evans, Louise
Martin, Anna Stone]
Make-Up Artists: Anwen Davies, Steve Smith,
Moira Thomson [uncredited: Sara Griffiths,
Anwen Williams, Marie Doris, Neil Batt,
Betsan Dafydd]
Casting Associate: Andy Brierley
Assistant Editor: Ceres Doyle
Post Production Supervisors: Chris Blatchford,
Samantha Hall
Post Production Co-ordinator: Marie Brown
On Line Editor: Matthew Clarke
Colourist: Mick Vincent
3D Artists: Chris Petts, Paul Burton,
Jean-Claude Dequara, Nicolas Hernandez,
Andy Howell, Matthew McKinney, Neil Roche,
Chris Tucker, Mark Wallman, Nick Webber
2D Artists: Sara Bennett, David Bowman,
Melissa Butler-Adams, Joseph Courtis,
Bronwyn Edwards, Michael Harrison,
Simon C Holden, Russell Horth
Visual Effects Co-ordinator: Kim Phelan
Digital Matte Painter: Alex Fort
Dubbing Mixer; Tim Ricketts
Sound Editors: Paul McFadden, Doug Sinclair
Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies
Finance Manager: Richard Pugsley
With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra
of Wales
Original Theme Music Ron Grainer
Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG
Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams
Sound Recordist: Simon Fraser
[uncredited: Phil Edward]
Costume Designer: Louise Page
Make-Up Designer: Sheelagh Wells
Music: Murray Gold
Visual Effects: The Mill
Visual FX Producer: Will Cohen
Visual FX Supervisor; Dave Houghton
Special Effects: Any Effects
Prosthetics: Neill Gorton and Millennium FX
Editor: Liana Del Giudice
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC
[uncredited: Rory Taylor, Pete Tyler]
Production Manager: Tracie Simpson
Associate Producer: Helen Vallis
Executive Producers: Russell T Davies,
Julie Gardner
BBC Wales with thanks to the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
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Left:
Sister Jatt
overseeing
the patients.
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Cassandra
oé Wanamaker was born in
New York on 13 May 1949
to actors Sam Wanamaker
and Charlotte Holland,
both Americans from Jewish
Ukrainian émigré backgrounds,
but her family was soon uprooted. Father
Sam, one of America’s first ‘method’
actors, was blacklisted at the height of
the paranoid McCarthy witch-hunts
that persecuted intellectual communist
sympathisers, so the family moved to
England in 1952.
Wanamaker attended King Alfred School,
Hampstead then Sidcot School, a Quaker
boarding school in Somerset. She attended
a Pre-Diploma course at Hornsea College
of Art before moving to train at the Central
School of Speech and Drama.
Her first job as a clerk in a Covent
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Garden basement office revealed that she
was dyslexic but this did not deter her
acting ambitions, and on graduating from
drama school she went “from rep to rep”.
She performed in Much Ado About Nothing
in 1971 and by 1973 she was with the
Cambridge Theatre Company.
She limited TV appearances to around
one a year, mostly in single plays. Early
TV parts included Take Three Girls (1971),
A Christmas Collection (1972), Between the
Wars (1973), Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill
(1974), Village Hall (1975) and A Christmas
Carol (1977).
Theatre remained her main focus
and a stint as Celia in As You Like It in
1976 at the Nottingham Playhouse and
Riverside Studios led to her joining the
Royal Shakespeare Company. Working
at Stratford in 1978 for Piaf, playing
Edith Piaf’s half-sister Toine, proved a
breakthrough role, taking her to Broadway
and gaining her a Tony Award nomination
in 1981.
Becoming one of British theatre’s leading
players through the 1980s and 1990s,
Wanamaker was nine times nominated for
an Olivier Award. A win for Best Actress
_ ina Revival for Once in a Lifetime in 1979
at the Aldwych Theatre launched her as a
major talent. Almost 20 years later in 1998
she won Best Actress for the title role
of Electra.
Selective TV work still tended to be in
| prestige one-off dramas during the 1980s.
Among a few more populist outings was an
episode of Tales of the Unexpected: Skeleton in
the Cupboard (1987). Wanamaker became
a household name with romantic comedy
drama Love Hurts (1992-94) in which she
played a high-flying businesswoman who
quits her career and finds love.
Even greater mainstream TV success
came with hit comedy My Family (2000-
2011). Despite the show’s popularity,
after several series she and co-star Robert
Lindsay complained about inconsistent
writing and asked for more creative input.
Wanamaker continues to view TV and film
as something to subsidise less lucrative,
more challenging theatre work.
Mainstream parts in recent years have
included Harry Potter’s Quidditch teacher
Madame Hooch in The Philosopher’s Stone
(2001) and, on TV, six episodes of Poirot
and Mr Selfridge (2015).
Of her time twice playing the CGI-
generated Cassandra in the Doctor Who
stories End of the World [2005 - see Volume
48] and New Earth (in which she also
appeared in her own human form) she
said: “I thought she was fantastically
funny. She appealed to me on the principle
that she’s a naughty child really.”
Wanamaker’s talent and unconventional
pixie looks have helped her carve a niche of
offbeat roles. “I’ve never been considered a
great beauty,” she told Doctor Who Magazine
in 2006, “and what people call ‘character
actors’ are usually people who aren't great
beauties. But that’s fine by me: I play all
the nice parts and the funny parts.”
Wanamaker was awarded the CBE in
2000, specifically taking British Citizenship
so she could receive the full award. ©
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Above:
Wanamaker
as a younger
Cassandra.
1879 Scotland. A group of sinister monks are
plotting against the monarchy and hope to
create a new empire... the Empire of the Wolf.
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espite his alien origins, there’s
something pervasively British
about the Doctor. Among a
myriad examples: the First
Doctor takes pride in his food
machine serving up British
bacon; the Fifth Doctor loves the typically
British pastime cricket; and the Eighth
Doctor’s sidekick Grace attributes his
eccentricity to him being British. Quite
often, to be even more specific, the Doctor
is conspicuously Scottish. Arriving in
Scotland in Tooth and Claw certainly brings
out the Scot in the ordinarily English
Tenth Doctor.
Equally, despite the fact that the TARDIS
can travel anywhere in space, when it
travels back in time it often favours a
British perspective on history. Recently,
such journeys have focused on the greats of
British literature - Dickens, Shakespeare,
Agatha Christie - but going back to the
early days, when he travelled back into
the history of Earth, the Doctor often
encounters the British monarchy.
In The Crusade [1965 - see Volume 5], we
are welcomed into the court of Richard the
~ Introduction
Lionheart. The Doctor’s companion Ian is
even knighted by the King - a scene that’s
echoed at the end of Tooth and Claw. Only
a few weeks after The Crusade, we get our
first glimpse of Queen Elizabeth I (who
the Doctor would go on to marry...) on the
Time Space Visualiser in The Chase [1965
- see Volume 5]. The Second Doctor, while
not meeting royalty, gets involved in a
dispute over sovereignty in The Highlanders
[1966/7 - see Volume 9]; the Fifth Doctor
encounters a very good copy of King John
in The King’s Demons [1983 - see Volume
37]; and after turning down an invitation
to meet her in his fourth incarnation, the
Seventh Doctor has a brush with Elizabeth
IL in Silver Nemesis [1988 - see Volume 45].
Tooth and Claw is the first time a British
King or Queen actually gets involved in
the action (but not the last - the totally
fictional Liz X is central to The Beast Below
[2010 - see Volume 63]). Queen Victoria
had already been named-checked several
times in the series, but here we have a
gun-toting monarch, quite capable of
defending herself and putting the
Doctor in his place.
As we discover in Tooth and Claw, the
Doctor’s dealings with royalty don’t
always end well. Perhaps he should have
taken note of Queen Victoria’s disapproval
and trod more carefully when he finally
met Elizabeth I. She may have helped
him outwit the Zygons [The Day of the
Doctor, 2013 - see Volume 75] but she
too was less than impressed, when he
didn’t take the responsibility of being
her husband seriously, and called for his
execution in The Shakespeare Code {2007 -
see Volume 54]. @
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group of monks cross a rugged
Byes: to arrive at a manor house.
The steward tells their leader,
Father Angelo, they are not welcome.
The monks respond by taking the house
by force. [1] They lock Lady Isobel and
the servants in the cellar - along with a
cowled figure in a cage.
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and
Rose to Scotland in 1879. They are
captured by Captain Reynolds anda
band of redcoats escorting a carriage.
The Doctor identifies himself as Doctor
James McCrimmon and is called to speak
to the occupant of the carriage - Queen
Victoria! [2] Tonight she will be residing
at the house of Sir Robert MacLeish. Rose
bets the Doctor she can make Victoria say
she is not amused.
At the house, Angelo is disguised as
a butler and reminds Sir Robert that
his wife Isobel will die if he does not
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co-operate. Robert welcomes Victoria
to the house, known as the Torchwood
Estate. Captain Reynolds orders two
soldiers to bring a mysterious box inside.
In the observatory, Robert shows
Victoria Endeavour, his father’s telescope.
In the kitchens, the monks prepare a soup
which, when served to the soldiers on
guard, sends them to sleep.
Rose discovers a maid hiding in a
cupboard. [3] She is hiding from the
monks. Rose tells her she has a friend
who can help. They are both caught by
monks and dragged to the cellar.
The Doctor dines with Victoria,
Reynolds and Robert. Victoria asks
Robert to tell her about the local wolf. He
explains that every full moon a howling
rings through the valley and livestock is
found ripped apart. Sometimes a child
goes missing. Robert’s father didn’t think
it was just a story. [4]
Rose approaches the figure in the cage.
He is a host for an alien intelligence,
kidnapped by the monks when he was a
boy. The intelligence intends to migrate
to Victoria - with one bite it will pass into
her blood - and create the Empire of
the Wolf. [5]
The host is caught in a beam of
moonlight and begins to transform. The
Doctor and Robert run down to the cellar
just as the prisoners pull their chain
from the wall. Everyone runs as the host
becomes a werewolf and smashes out of
its cage! [6]
Angelo overpowers Reynolds, but
Victoria pulls out her own gun and
shoots him. [7]
The male servants attempt to fend the
wolf off but it makes short work of them.
[8] The Doctor, Rose and Robert flee
upstairs where they bump into Victoria.
She’s carrying the mysterious box. They
run to the library where Reynolds stands
guard. He holds the wolf at bay long
enough for them to barricade
themselves inside.
Victoria reveals that her box contains
the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Doctor
J realises the house is a trap for the wolf,
designed by Prince Albert and Robert’s
father. The wolf crashes through the
skylight [9] and they run to
the observatory.
The Doctor and Rose position the
telescope to point towards the moon
while Robert stands outside with a sword.
The wolf kills him and bursts into the
observatory just as the moonlight is
magnified by the telescope. The Doctor
uses the diamond to refract the light
at the wolf, which turns back into the
host. [10] He asks the Doctor to make it
brighter; the Doctor does so and the
host dissolves.
Later, Victoria dubs her rescuers Sir
Doctor of Tardis and Dame Rose of the
Powell Estate. [11] She goes on to say she
is not amused and banishes them from
her empire. They return to the TARDIS.
Victoria tells Isobel that she will
establish an institute to fight Great
Britain’s otherworldly enemies; it will be
known as the Torchwood Institute! [12]
Below:
The Doctor
and Rose are
impressed by
the Koh-i-Noor
diamond.
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TOOTH ANDCLAW stor
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Pre-pro
hen considering the
second BBC Wales
series of Doctor Who,
Jane Tranter had asked
Russell T Davies to
“kick the historicals up
the arse a bit.” Since 2004, Davies had
had an idea for an episode which featured
Queen Victoria and a werewolf, and when
the original sixth storyline of the new
series - The Runaway Bride {2006 - see
Volume 54] - was dropped back to form
the Christmas 2006 special, this idea was
pulled into service with a new ingredient
of kung-fu fighting monks. The element of
Queen Victoria, the instantly recognisable
British monarch who ruled for most
of the nineteenth century, came about
following the success of Victorian writer
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cduction
Charles Dickens, who was an integral
element of The Unquiet Dead {2005 - see
Volume 48]; Davies liked the idea of
another ‘celebrity historical’ and wanted
one in each series. He was also keen to
make it a scary story using a traditional
monster. Since ghosts and zombies had
both been used in the previous series, he
selected werewolves, partially because
the visual effects team at The Mill had
indicated that they would like to create
such a beast in CGI. From the outset
Russell was determined that no blood
would be shown. The martial arts monks
were inspired by films such as the 2000
movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The narrative element of the Koh-i-Noor
diamond was suggested by producer
Phil Collinson.
'
Pre-production
was planned to span Monday
26 September to Wednesday
26 October, and the director
would be Euros Lyn who had
handled The End of the World
[2005 - see Volume 48] and
The Unquiet Dead [2005 - see
Volume 48] in autumn 2004.
By July, the episode had
been established as the
second in the run, displacing
Connections:
Alternate
desinations
» The Doctor offered the
Rose some other potential
destinations in the TARDIS,
including the Battle of
Trafalgar in which the
British Navy defeated
French and Spanish forces
in October 1805, or Julius
and Claw, derived from the line ‘Nature, Left: |
Early in 2005, the storyline was red in tooth and claw’ from the poem In Theresa
on the loose!
commissioned from a writer who was
new to Doctor Who but had a couple of
decade’s experience writing for various
established drama series. The brief was
that Jack the Ripper-style murders were
being committed around Buckingham
Palace and the court of Queen Victoria,
and that the monarch herself was setting
out to find the killer, who turned out to be
a vampire. The writer developed a solid
two-page Queen Victoria treatment (about
the Queen getting an alien insect in her
eye at Buckingham Palace and the Doctor
having to operate on the monarch), but
omitted both werewolf and warrior monks
as well as the Koh-i-Noor. Davies thus
took on the commission himself, with the
formal allocation made on Wednesday 15
June and the script having to be written
within days to allow pre-production
to get underway in late July. Although
originally planned to be included in the
first recording block (‘Block One’) of
episodes, it was deferred to become one of
the two episodes being produced in Block
Two, with the other being The Girl in the
Fireplace [2006 - see Volume 52], referred
to at this stage as Pompadour. Recording
The Girl in the Fireplace which
had originally been allocated
an earlier slot. By now, the
story was entitled Tooth
Memoriam AHH by Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Davies had toyed with the idea of calling
it Empire of the Wolf. Published in 1850,
Queen Victoria said that “Next to the
Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort” after
the death of her consort, Prince Albert
of Saxe-Coburg, in December 1861. In
1862, the monarch requested a meeting
with Tennyson because of the piece. (Tooth
and Claw had also been used as the title of
a 1997 Doctor Who Magazine comic strip
story by Alan Barnes.)
avies structured his episode very
D carefully around the werewolf.
During The End of the World, too
many CGI shots of the Cassandra character
had originally been requested for the time
available, and had needed to be cut back.
This time, The Mill indicated in advance
how many shots of the werewolf they
could realistically achieve. Davies thus
used this quota sparingly and effectively
for key moments, keeping the momentum
of the piece by showing sequences from
the creature’s point of view, eliminating
Caesar crossing Italian river
the Rubicon in 49 BC.
“Queen Victoria
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ngon 1979, the
erred to Chinese
forces invading Vietnam on
ry, the Muppets’
first big-screen outing The
Muppet Movie, released on
argaret Thatcher
being elected Prime
inister on 4 May, and the
US space
aboratory Skylab
alling back to Earth on 11
uly - an event that the
Doctor claimed he had a
hand in, nearly losing
one of his thumbs
as aresult.
the need for CGI and requiring only
hand-held camera work. The story used
classic horror elements: a monster in a
cellar, empty windswept moorlands and
characters trapped in a remote house.
The use of a werewolf also meant that less
dialogue needed to be spent explaining its
background to the audience. The inclusion
of the monks allowed Davies to write a
substantial stunt fight sequence of the
sort that had not yet appeared in the
revived series.
The script was set during one of
Victoria’s regular visits to Scotland, and
Davies phoned David Tennant to ask if
Scotland had an ‘everyman’ name like the
Doctor’s usual alias of ‘John Smith’. All
Tennant could suggest was ‘Jock Tamson’
- as in the Scottish saying ‘we’re all Jock
Tamson’s bairns’ - but two days later
Davies phoned again and said he had
settled on the name Jamie McCrimmon,
the Doctor’s former companion and
eighteenth-century Highlander who
featured in the programme between 1966
and 1969.
After Davies had delivered
his script, incoming script
editor Simon Winstone (who
had replaced Elwen Rowlands
after she joined the crew
for the BBC series Life on
Mars) undertook background
research on elements of
it to back up Davies’ own
research, discussing the use
of prisms in telescopes with
an astronomer, and also
a justification for the use
of mistletoe against
werewolves, since its use as
an anti-convulsant fitted in
with the agonies suffered
by the Host during his
transformation. Winstone
talked to Debrett’s Peerage for background
on the concluding knighting ceremony,
though a more ceremonial version was
used than was truly authentic on the
grounds that this was what the audience
would expect; in an actual knighting
ceremony, the Queen would say nothing.
In reality, the first instance of an order for
dames in Britain was 1917, 16 years after
Victoria’s death. Tooth and Claw would also
include the origin of Torchwood; in the
early drafts, the name of Sir Robert’s estate
was not revealed until the end. Another
idea rejected at an early stage was that
Queen Victoria would die at the end of the
story, thus creating the alternate universe
which the Doctor and Rose would visit
later in the series in Rise of the Cybermen/
The Age of Steel [2006 - see Volume 52].
However, Davies knew that such a move
would be too complicated at this point and
could cause the series to lose viewers.
A planning meeting for the episode
was held on Friday 5 August, attended by
Ben Cook of Doctor Who Magazine. The
shooting script, Episode 2: Tooth and Claw,
was prepared on Tuesday 16 August 2005.
Of the characters, Father Angelo was
‘bald, strong, impressive; says the most
terrible things with such sadness’. The
steward - named Jacob in the dialogue -
was ‘50’, Sir Robert was ‘a tall, strong man
in his 30s’, Lady Isobel was ‘30s, English’,
Captain Reynolds was a ‘smart, 30 y/o’ and
Flora was a ‘15 y/o maid’. The Host was
introduced as ‘a man in rags, legs crossed
like Buddha’ and his eyes ‘are black. No
whites; jet black.” When transformed into
the werewolf, he was ‘a muscular, fearsome
8ft beast, standing like a man, powerful
forearms... hurtling onto all fours, like an
almighty hound,
Victoria
ueen Victoria was described as ‘60
years old, in black, though nowhere
near as dour as tradition would
say; a glint in her eye, a keen intelligence’.
Victoria spent time in Scotland in 1879,
crossing the Tay Bridge in June and
entertaining the Empress Eugenie of
France at Gelder Shiel. Prince Albert
had purchased the Balmoral estate for
Victoria in 1852. There were references to
six previous attempts to assassinate her:
these took place in 1839, 1842 (twice),
1849, 1850 and 1872. Her attackers
were believed to include the Chartists (a
movement demanding social and political
reform based on the 1838 People’s
Charter), the Anarchists (believing in
the abolition of rulers) and the Fenians
(Irish nationalists opposed to British
rule). The phrase which Rose associated
with Victoria, “We are not amused,”
was allegedly inspired either by the Hon
Alexander Grantham of Yorke, a groom in
waiting whose role was to entertain her,
or on the Monarch first seeing the 1878
Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera
HMS Pinafore.
Victoria was a carrier of haemophilia, an
impaired control of bleeding, which had not
been evidenced in either of her parents but
which surfaced in her son, Prince Leopold,
N
P
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t
born in April 1853. As noted
in the dialogue, the Queen
had five daughters, from
Princess Victoria in November
1840 to Princess Beatrice
in April 1857. The Doctor’s
comment about Victoria
being “like a stamp” related
to her image on the ‘Penny
Black’, the world’s first postage
stamp issued in May 1840.
The Koh-i-Noor was once
the largest diamond in the
world, hailing from the
Indian subcontinent and
gifted to Victoria in 1850. When displayed
at the Great Exhibition, it disappointed the
crowds and Albert had it recut from 1852
to improve its brilliance. In 1937, it was
set in the Queen Mother’s consort crown.
Connections:
Quote the poet
The Doctor's description
of Rose as a“timorous
beastie” hailed from the
start of Robert Burns’
1785 poem To a Mouse
(‘Wee, sleekit, cow’rin,
tim'rous beastie’) while his
comment about chasing
her “over hill and over dale”
echoed the child ballad
Walter Lesly,
Although Hazelhead is a real locale near ne F
Aberdeen, the royal jewellers of Hellier and transformation,
Carew were an invention.
When Reynolds tells two
of his troops to escort the
jewel from the carriage, they
are named Mackeson and
Ramsay, the real names of
the two soldiers who actually
carried the Koh-i-Noor from
India. When considering
assassination, Rose
commented about President
John F Kennedy (shot on
22 November 1963, the day
before the first episode of
Doctor Who was broadcast)
and Beatles musician John
Lennon (shot on 8 December
1980). The Doctor made
reference to the “Elephant
Man”, the badly deformed
Joseph Merrick who at that time was a
sideshow attraction.
Connections:
Man of the isles
» When asked to identify
himself by Captain
Reynolds, the Doctor
claims to be Doctor
James McCrimmon,
from the township of
Balamory. Highlander
Jamie McCrimmon was a
companion of the Second
Doctor and Balamory is
the fictitious Scots island
community featured in
the CBBC TV series
Balamory which
premiered in
. > FY September 2002.
sy
ciel ; For the pre-credit action sequence,
The bald, athletic Pawiee’ a : b < h
Peaks of the avies’ stage directions about the Brethren
cut, cut, fast, a blur - the monks turn,
fast - whip off their robes, revealing
simple, dark red tunics underneath (more
like Japanese warrior monks, all young,
athletic... slo-mo fight, bullet-time, pure
Crouching Tiger, monks sailing over the
heads of the stablehands!... And then
cut, cut, cut, sticks, jaws, punch, whap - !
Monks spinning! Men sent flying!’ Father
Angelo spoke a Latin incantation: “Lupus
magnus est, lupus fortis est, lupus deus
est...” which translates as “the wolf is great,
the wolf is strong, the wolf is god”. Davies’
father was a Latin teacher and translated
the phrase for him.
Inside, the Torchwood Estate was ‘not
lavish, but stark & cold; rough plaster, all
browns, blacks, whites; the wind howls
through, all day, all night’. When the
host transformed, the stage directions
noted, ‘Music should be wild, clever, a bit
[Quentin] Tarantino - not period, maybe
wild electric guitars.’ The script carefully
indicated the FX shots of the CGI werewolf
and the point of view (POV) shots. One
FX item was ‘that classic shot of the half-
wolf host, holding up his hand, watching
it stretch, crack, and claw..., inspired by
films such as 1981’s An American Werewolf
in London. Originally, when the beam of
moonlight hit the werewolf at the climax,
the host appeared again: ‘His eyes are
normal. He’s human. And he’s
smiling, gentle.’
The narrative opened on Day 4 at 16.00
when the monks crossed the moorlands,
arriving at Torchwood at 16.30. The
TARDIS materialises at 17.00 and the
Queen’s entourage reach Torchwood at
18.15, visiting the observatory at 18.30.
Rose prepares for dinner at 18.42, the
meal starts at 18.55, and the Doctor
confronts the Host in wolf-form at 19.09.
The Doctor’s party barricades itself in Sir
Robert’s library at 19.18 and the climax
YX NNNSA
in the observatory is at 19.36. The Doctor
and Rose are honoured at 08.00 on Day 4
and depart in the TARDIS at 10.00
that morning.
Doctor Who Confidential attended both
the episode’s storyboard meeting on
Monday 5 September, and a production
meeting on Friday 9. Pink script revisions
were made on Wednesday 14 September
covering the TARDIS’ arrival, the royal
party moving on, from the arrival
at Torchwood House through to the
observatory scene, Victoria meeting Sir
Robert, the Doctor and Rose on the
stairs, and the TARDIS’ departure.
Scottish actors
ead-throughs for the Block Two i
episodes were held on Friday 9 ‘
September at the end of recording
for Block One. Tennant loved the script,
and very much enjoyed being surrounded
by other Scottish actors; he had been at
drama school with Tom Smith who played
the Host. The actor was also pleased
that he was able to use his natural Scots
accent during this episode, although he
was now so used to using an English voice
for the role that he found he needed to
concentrate hard so he didn’t forget. The
main guest star was noted actress Pauline
Collins who had previously featured in the
Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones [1967 -
see Volume 10]. Collins and several other
cast members were not available for the
readthrough, so the part of the Queen was
played by Helen Griffin, who often sat in
on rehearsals. Also present at the read-
through were Tennant’s parents, Sandy and
Helen McDonald, who read the dialogue
for Captain Reynolds and Lady Isobel
respectively; the actor later commented
on how delighted his mother and father
had been to take part. Also in the cast as
Flora was young Ruthie Milne from the
Edinburgh Lyceum Youth Theatre who
celebrated her 18th birthday during the
episode’s production.
Monday 19 September saw Doctor Who
Confidential join the production team ona
location recce. On Saturday 24 September,
This is Gwent ran an item about the story
Lady Isobel and
her servants
are trapped
with the wolf.
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members of the Korean Kickboxing
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Jennings, Rob Taylor and
Richard Carpenter - had A qualified doctor \w= ‘
The Doctorclaimsto WV
passed auditions to appear
as warrior monks... for which have a doctorate from
they had to have their heads Edinburgh, training under
shaved. After hearing that Dr Bell; this was Dr Joseph
the trio had landed parts in Bell, a lecturer at the
Doctor Who, the production University's medical school
office was also approached in the late eighteenth
by a local cheerleading squad century and the inspira
to see if there was a script for Sherlock Holmes,
which could involve them... created by his student
A fight rehearsal was held Arthur Conan-Doyle, The
at Penllyn Castle in the Doctor had previously
Vale of Glamorgan on claimed in The Moonbase
Sunday 25 September, [1967 - see Volume 9]
supervised by stunt to have taken a degree in
co-ordinator David Forman Glasgow in 1888, studying
(who had worked on the under pioneering surgeon
movie Batman Begins) and oseph Lister.
wireman Bob Schofield.
ion
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‘QUEEN VICTORIA W
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NOWHERE NEAR AS DOUR AS
TRADITION WOULD SAY’ .”
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AB ome oe September with the pre-credit
fight; the cart and horses were
)\ provided by Classic Horse
WA Drawn, and the courtyard
Paickens from Animals on Film. Director
Euros Lyn, who took his inspiration for
duction -
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an \
this sequence from the fantasy fighting
of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
the stylish 2001 French horrortovie
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups),
wanted it to be edited in the style of the
2002 zombie film 28 Days Later. He also
drew upon the 1995 thriller Se7en. Forman
employed the martial art of wushu for
DOCTOR WHO"| THE COMPLETE ATSTORY 107
STORY 169
the stick work among a mix of other
Father Angelo
has sinister
plans for the
monarchy.
Connections:
What big eyes
you have
The host's comment that
there was “something of
the wolf” about Rose was a
reference back to the ‘Bad
Wolf’ theme of the previous
series which was resolved
in Bad Wolf/
The Parting of the
Ways [2005 -
see Volume 50],
visually exciting techniques. This shoot -
scheduled for 8am to 7pm - focused ona
mere one page of script compared to the
daily average of three or four
pages. A high-speed 35mm
film camera (rather than a
digital camera) was used to
create a slow motion effect,
and wire work allowed the
artists to leap effortlessly.
Doctor Who Confidential
covered this set piece,
interviewing lan Hanmore
who played Father Angelo
and stuntman Tony van
Silva who doubled for Ron
Donachie’s steward in the
shot where the character was
sent flying backwards - an effect achieved
by yanking him back on a wire. Donachie
also participated in other parts of the fight,
wearing a carefully padded costume to
absorb the blows. At the same time, David
Tennant and Billie Piper were working
with James Hawes on location for New
Earth [2006 - see page 62] on the Gower
Peninsula. In the afternoon, Jamie Sives
had a horse riding rehearsal on a mount
provided by Classic Horse Drawn for his
role as Captain Reynolds.
The scenes in the Scots wilderness were
recorded on Gelligaer Common near
Fochriw on Tuesday 27 September from
8am to 6.30pm, with Tennant, Piper and
Collins joining the cast at the freezing cold
location - a closed road between Bargoed
and Merthyr. Classic Horse Drawn
furnished the farmer’s horse and cart, the
Queen’s carriage and the escort horses,
while armourer Mark Wilde supervised the
soldiers’ rifles and pistols. To help show
that the Doctor’s outfit wasn’t a uniform
‘costume’, Tennant opted not to wear a
tie for the episode, while Louise Page clad
Piper in a T-shirt with an image of the
coronet crown as a visual joke. For Collins,
Sheelagh Wells worked from photos of
Queen Victoria taken during a visit she
made to Scotland at this time; the actress
wore a wig which she had previously
donned for a BBC production of Bleak
House a few months earlier and which was
specially sent down from Scotland. The
South Wales Echo reported on recording the
following day, while Doctor Who Confidential
interviewed art director Stephen Nicholas
and the design team as they dressed the
following day’s location.
A Scottish castle
second location was used for
Torchwood House between 11.30am
and 8.30pm on Wednesday 28
September; this was Craig-y-Nos, a castle
owned by the cleaning agency Selclene
situated in the Brecon Beacons National
Park in the Upper Swansea Valley. This
roadside venue was one which Edward
Thomas had worked at before and had
visited as a child, recalling that its turret
and limestone construction resembled
a Scots castle. The cast and crew were
plagued by rain as they worked on the
exterior sequences. One of the guards’
horses decided not to behave in the
courtyard, so one artist had to perform his
shots sat atop a pair of ladders. A second
unit was used to shoot establishing shots
of the castle - the modern fittings of
which had been camouflaged - at dawn
and dusk.
At work from 9.30am
to 8.30pm on Thursday
29 September, Lyn’s crew
worked at the disused
Headlands School in Penarth
which he had used in 2004
on The Unquiet Dead. Tennant
was not required for the
first day, which saw the
first appearance of drama
student Josh Green as the
wolf stand-in. Clad in a
revealingly tight lycra body
stocking of white, black or
green (depending on the
type of shot), Green would
act as a point of reference
for The Mill to create the werewolf. Tom
Smith also had to wear special dark
contact lenses for his close-ups as the
Host. Visitors on the set on the first day
included incoming BBC One controller
Peter Fincham and Clare Hudson, BBC
Wales’ head of programmes. Friday 30 saw
the team joined by Tennant and Doctor Who
Confidential who interviewed Tom Smith
Connections:
My credentials
The Docto
uses his
psychic paper to prove his
identity to Queen Victoria
andis slightly surprised
to learn that the Queen
reads from it that he has
been appointed by the Lord
Provost as her protector.
ALord Provost is the
civic head of one of the
principal cities of Scotland,
a position not dissimilar to
that of mayor.
Josh Green
provides a
reference point
for creating
the werewolf.
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and visual effects supervisor
Connections: Dave Houghton; recording
at save was scheduled from 8.30am
€ queen to 7.30pm. For later scenes,
® Although he had not
Green wore a skateboard
helmet topped by a pole with
a green ball attached to give
the actors an eye-line for the
werewolf’s head, referred to
by Green as his “Ultra Lupine
Stunt Hat”. After completing
their scenes, Donachie, the
servants and farmhand
artists returned to Unit Q2
for gun-firing rehearsal with
previously met Queen
Victoria, the Doctor had
been instrumental in saving
her life while in his Seventh
incarnation, foiling a plan
to assassinate her in Ghost
Light [1989 -
see Volume 46]. The
Third Doctor also claimed,
in The Curse of Peladon
piesa “Gee ne 18}, Wilde. During this day, a
thet he ned oat ay second unit recorded the Queen Victoria’s pistol, while Piper
attended Victorias visual effects shots of the was not needed and had the weekend
coronation, but inlet ine Host’s transformation and off. An interview in the Sunday Mirror
BGG) Cents ng iti the scenes with the Doctor, the next day saw Collins discussing her
ie eratntaniet Sir Robert and the wolf in current role. Work on Monday 3 October
Ease the below stairs corridor. resumed at Q2 on sets for the hallway and
Recording from 8am to observatory, scheduled for 9am to 8pm.
7pm on Saturday 1 October saw another Wilde supervised the servants handling
venue for Torchwood: Llansannor Court their guns and van Silva performed a
in the Vale of Glamorgan, where the close-up insert as the farmhand whose
dining room and corridor were situated. head was forced into a bucket of water.
Wilde was on hand for the firing of The next day, costume fittings were held
Right: |
Piper and
Tennant
shooting scenes
in the library,
eave tight:
The monks
_ force Sir Robert
MacLeish to
commit treason.
feo!
The Doctor
es the
escope in the
tory,
for the two Victoria doubles, Colleen
Quinn and Karen Vincent, along with
tests for The Girl in the Fireplace, while
Doctor Who Confidential interviewed crew
including Forman, Wilde and Chris Petts.
The two stars spoke to reporter Kate
Lawson, and had problems in making the
freely spinning wheel mechanism on the
telescope look heavy. The observatory
scenes continued to be recorded on the
Tuesday from 8.30am to 7.30pm.
Torchwood House
he ornate staircase of Treowen House,
a seventeenth-century Grade 1-listed
building in Dingestow, first came to
the attention of Edward Thomas when
one of his colleagues had been married
there, and it appeared as another part
of Torchwood House on Wednesday 5
October when recording ran from 8.30am
to 6.30pm. For the running scenes, Collins
wore trainers under her voluminous skirts,
which tripped her up a couple of times; in
some shots she was doubled by Quinn. It
was here that Derek Riddell, playing Sir
Robert, pointed out that Victoria should
be referring to Sir Walter Raleigh rather
than Sir Francis Drake: by coincidence,
Riddell had appeared as Raleigh in BBC
One’s The Virgin Queen earlier that year
and had also acted with Piper in Much Ado
About Nothing a few months beforehand. To
simulate the passage of the werewolf along
the corridors, first assistant director Peter
Bennett fanned the flames of the candles.
Production was covered by Jason Arnopp
from Doctor Who Magazine. The same day,
blue rewrites were made for the material
of the Doctor’s party puzzling why the
werewolf could not enter the library.
Various Torchwood sets were erected
at HTV Studio 1 on Thursday 6 October
for recording from 8am to 7pm. Sives
i
had another gun firing rehearsal in the
morning (and for the final take he fired
at a sheet of Perspex to stop
the blast hitting the camera),
and in tandem with various
corridor scenes the second
unit recorded various inserts,
including the transformation
of the host, the chain coming
free from the wall, and an
insert for The Girl in the
Fireplace. Peter Ross was on
set from The Sunday Herald
Magazine, and it was on this
day that Piper singed her
hair by running too close to
a candle.
Tredegar House, already
used in The Christmas Invasion
[2005 - see page 6] and New
Earth was used for recording
from 8am to 7pm on Friday 7
October on various kitchen,
study and library scenes
while Tennant and Piper were
at Q2 completing deferred
scenes from Block One.
Connections:
Knight of
the realm
Queen Victoria rewards
the Doctor and Rose by
knighting them, awarding
the Doctor the title “Sir (
Doctor of TARDIS" and
Rose “Dame Rose of the
Powell Estate’ The First
Doctor had said that he
almost wished that he had
been knighted when his
companion lan Chesterton
was knighted by King
Richard the Lionheart in
The Crusade [1965 - see
Volume 5]. The Fifth
Doctor was also knighted,
as “Sir Doctor” by an
impostor of King John in
The King’s Demons [1983 -
see Volume 37].
STORY 169
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tafe .
“Books... the ‘
best weapons
in the world!" a -
-
The suit of armour in the antiques room
had previously appeared in the TARDIS
wardrobe in The Christmas Invasion. Doctor
Who Confidential recorded material about
CGI work at The Mill on Saturday 8
October, including the digital scanning of
Smith’s head for the transformation effect.
Back at Tredegar House on Monday
10 October, scenes of the Doctor’s party
trapped in the study were completed from
8.30am to 7.30pm. Tuesday 11 marked
the final principal day of work on Tooth
and Claw at Tredegar (again from 8.30am
to 7.30pm), where the crew would remain
for The Girl in the Fireplace the next day;
also on Tuesday 11, the BBC website
confirmed Pauline Collins’ guest role in
the episode. This was Collins’ final day on
the production, and she re-recorded much
of Victoria's dialogue for the country road
scene which had been spoilt by a flapping
curtain in the earlier location shoot.
Second unit work from 10am to 9pm on
Wednesday 12 included cutaway shots of
the monks and their overpowering of
the soldiers.
Musical issues
here turned out to be clearance
issues on the music that Davies had
originally wanted playing in the
TARDIS; Lucky Number, a February 1979
new wave hit for American singer Lene
Lovich. A British artist was easier to clear,
so yellow rewrites covered this on Monday
17 October. Davies specified that the music
should now be ‘Ian Dury, Rhythm Stick’.
Entering the charts in December 1978, Hit
Me With Your Rhythm Stick was a Number
1 hit in January 1979 for Ian Dury and
the Blockheads. Davies’ script specified
Drury as appearing at the Sheffield Top
Rank (a real venue) on 21 November 1979
(not a real tour date for Drury). A shot of
Isobel’s view of the courtyard monks was
picked up at Dyffryn Gardens on Thursday
20 October, with the TARDIS scenes
recorded alongside The Girl in the Fireplace
on Wednesday 26 October (during which
Billie Piper struggled to get up from the
TARDIS floor) and the shot of the model
telescope barrel completed the following
day. This eight-foot section was built by
Nick Kool, a member of the newly formed
Model Unit effects company created by
Mike Tucker following the disbanding of
the BBC model team; it was designed by
Peter McKinstry.
The script for the promotional Tardisode
‘prequel’ (referred to at this stage as a
‘Vortext’) was inspired by the prologues of
Terrance Dicks’ Doctor Who novelisations
(the murder of a peasant, strange lights
in the sky, etc). The script for Vortext 2
— Tooth and Claw was dated Wednesday 25
January 2006, and originally indicated that
the object from space arrived in ‘Scotland
1552’ after which the setting changed to
‘Hundreds of Years Later’. The 53-second
Sat 1 Oct 05 Llansannor Court,
Llansannor, Vale of Glamorgan (Sir
Robert's House: Dining Room/Corridor)
Mon 3 Oct 05 Unit 02, Newport
(Sir Robert's House: Servant's Hall/
Observatory/Courtyard)
Tue 4 Oct 05 Unit Q2 (Sir Robert's
House: Observatory/Corridor)
Wed 5 Oct 05 Treowen Manor,
Dingestow, Monmouth (Sir Robert's
House: Stairwell/Parlour/Entrance Hall/
Mon 26 Sep 05 Penllyn Castle,
Penllyn, Cowbridge (Sir Robert's
House: Courtyard)
Tue 27 Sep 05 Mountain Roads, Gelligaer
Common, Mythyr (Scottish Moorlands -
Mountains/Rough Road/Valley/Country
Road - Approaching Castle)
Wed 28 Sep 05 Craig-y-Nos, Brecon
Road, Pen y Cae (Sir Robert's House:
Front/Front Door/Courtyard)
Thu 29 Sep 05 Headlands School, St
Augustine's Road, Penarth, (Sir Robert's
House: Cellar/Ramp)
Fri 30 Sep 05 Headlands School (Sir
Robert's House: Cellar/Bedroom/Below
Stairs Corridor)
Stairs)
Thu 6 Oct O5 HTV Studios, Culverhouse Ni
Cross, Cardiff: Studio 1 (Sir Robert's
House: Upstairs Corridor/Corridor Outside
Study/Downstairs Corridor/Corridor
Outside Library/Cellar/Green screen/ (Telescope Barrel
Queen Victoria
knights Rose
and the Doctor. /
Tardisode began with something landing
from space on the moorlands one night.
300 years later, a lone crofter making his
way through the heather hears the snarling
of wolves. He tries to run, but a creature
attacks him. This was recorded on the Cefn-
y-Crib moors at Hafod yr Ynys in the Gwent
j Valley on Wednesday 1 February, with Alan
Dorrington as the Crofter, previously seen
as one of the re-animated corpses in Sneed’s
cellar in The Unquiet Dead.
Black screen)
Fri 7 Oct 05 Tredegar House, Newport
(Sir Robert's House: Kitchen/
Study/Library)
Mon 10 Oct 05 Tredegar House (Sir
Robert's House: Study/Library/Corridor)
Tue 11 Oct 05 Tredegar House (Sir
Robert's House: Study/Library/Corridor/
Country Road)
Wed 12 Oct 05 Tredegar House (Sir
Robert's House: Front/Courtyard)
Thu 20 Oct 05 Dyffryn Gardens, St
cholas, Vale of Glamorgan (Sir Robert's
House: Courtyard
Wed 26 Oct 05 Unit Q2 (TARDIS)
Thu 27 Oct 05 Unit Q2
Rose and Lady
Isobel are
trapped with
the host.
D CLAW
~ Post-production
STORY 169
he first assembly of the episode
was ready by mid-November
and was found to over-run
by around 10 minutes. As it
transpired, the bulk of the
editing was done simply by
removing panning, pausing or reaction
shots with barely any loss of dialogue.
The first edit was to the steward telling
Father Angelo, “You'll have to seek
charity in the village, not here,’ when the
monks arrived in the courtyard. As the
steward sarcastically offered his wife to
the monk, Angelo replied, “Women will
not be necessary. Only the house.” When
imprisoned in the cellar, the steward asked
Lady Isobel, “Did they hurt you?” “They’re
madmen, Jacob. Every single one of them.
Utterly insane,” she replied.
In the TARDIS, Rose welcomed the
Doctor’s suggestion of “going to a
concert. Like a regular couple.” Speaking
to the Queen about Dr Bell, the Doctor
said, “And he taught me the skills of
observation, I can’t help but notice,
you're very armed to the teeth, for such
a quiet stretch of road, now why would
that be? Who would the Scots Guard
be protecting?” “That’s none of your
business,” replied Reynolds. “A student of
Dr Bell, it’s claimed,” ruminated
the Queen, explaining to the Doctor,
“The train was halted.” “Then someone
wanted to stop you,” pointed out the
Doctor. “It’s a possibility,” agreed
her majesty. Commenting on her
would-be assassins, the Queen listed, “The
Chartists, the Anarchists, the Fenians.”
Rose’s comment about John Lennon was
dropped. When the party arrived at the
estate, on seeing the observatory dome
the Doctor commented, “Somebody’s
got a hobby. Astronomy. I like this place!
Torchwood House...” In the observatory,
Victoria quoted a comment of her late
husband, “The German forests are rife
with stories, creatures of the night, and so
forth,” and informed Sir Robert, “In the
absence of your cook, there’s a hamper in
my possession, a cold collation from the
train.” When Flora explained to Rose about
the unwelcome arrivals, she described
them as “The monks. The Brethren. Did
they attack you, Miss? Did they steal your
clothes?” Over dinner, Victoria made
reference to the hope of ghost stories, and
“some word from our beloved. Which never
comes.” Outlining the legends of three
centuries, Sir Robert commented, “though
the incidents continue to this day.”
Observatory
peaking to the caged host, Rose said “I
can help you.” “This is Devil’s talk...”
began the steward. Rose responded,
“Oy, shush! I’m serious.” The host talked
of “an empire of smoke and iron... being
forged, to the south’, and explained, “This
body is only a host.” Discussing the monks
over dinner, Sir Robert wondered, “What
if, they changed their allegiance, long ago?
What of that, Doctor?”
Trapped in the library, Rose commented,
“I could get through those doors, no
trouble.” Considering the background
1 i |
of the alien cell in the host, the Doctor shee
| speculated: “A spore. A virus. A thought.
Started growing.” “But in its real form,
it’s a wolf?” asked Rose. “Maybe it just
adopted that,” said the Doctor, “mapped
itself onto a local mythology.” When Sir
Robert asked why the host wanted the
throne, the Doctor responded, “Think
what it could do! With its knowledge of
the stars, added to the might of Great
Britain...” As they fled for the observatory,
Sir Robert asked “But what is it you need
there, Doctor?” “Your father’s legacy,”
was the reply. As Victoria muttered the
Lord’s Prayer and clutched her crucifix at
the observatory door, Rose called, “Your
Majesty, come back from there...” and
asked the Doctor, “If it’s not a telescope...
what is it then?”
A short scene of a shocked Doctor and
Rose leaving the estate was cut; the pair
laughed as they addressed each other as
“Sir Doctor” and “Dame Rose” and ran off.
Sir Doctor of
TARDIS and
Dame Rose
of the Powell
Estate.
In her closing speech, the Queen declared
of the Institute, “In Sir Robert’s honour,
we could name it after this house. I would
call it Torchwood.” Greatly impressed by
the finished episode, the team considered
running it first in the new series, but
ultimately decided to stick with New Earth;
the third episode was also considered to
give balance to the opening episodes, but
Jane Tranter felt it was too dark to open the
new season with.
Additional dialogue recording was
performed on Thursday 9 February 2006,
which included dubbing for the cellar
scenes plus the moorland sequences which
had been affected by both natural and
mechanical wind noise.
The Mill’s CGI work in January and
February 2006 included adding snow to
})
IPLETE HISTORY
the Welsh mountains and creating the
observatory roof. The Mill had experience
of werewolves before Tooth and Claw,
having created one for the 2004 film
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
This new wolf was modelled under the
supervision of Nicolas Hernandez and
Jean-Claude Deguara. The creature had
a wolf head, hands and feet, with a more
human-like body. The werewolf’s voice
was recorded by sound designer Paul
McFadden on Friday 24 February and
modulated using a pitch shifter, as covered
by Doctor Who Confidential.
The final edit and dub of the episode
was completed on Wednesday 15 March
2006. The producer and director credits
appeared over the Doctor and Rose in
the TARDIS.
Publicity
On Thursday 16 February 2006,
The Sun interviewed Pauline Collins
and discussed the forthcoming
episode. There was also an item in
the South Wales Evening Post on
Saturday 18 February about recording
at Craig-y-Nos under the title Dr Who
Filmed at Historic Castle.
Matthew Norman’s article about his
location visit appeared in the Sunday
Telegraph on Sunday 2 April as The
Doctor will see you now. Tooth and Claw
received a special preview in Glasgow
on Thursday 6 which Tennant
attended with his father, Piper, Davies,
Gardner, Collinson and Lyn; Billie
Piper had now left the series and a
farewell party was given for her after
the event in which she was presented
with a special DVD of her finest
moments on the series. Sunday 9 saw
an item on Collins’ appearance in the
show in the Sunday Herald.
In Radio Times, Doctor Who Watch
featured Bad Wolf? by Nick Griffiths
in which Will Cohen discussed the
creation of the werewolf and Royal
Prey where Anna Hunt interviewed
Collins. Again, Alison Graham selected
Doctor Who in Today’s Choices with a
photograph of the caged Host, while
the programme listing had a shot
of the Doctor and Rose with the
Queen. The bbc.co.uk team set up a
Torchwood Estate website to tie in
with the episode, and, in the lead-up
to transmission, BBC Radio Wales
broadcast In Need of Some Assistants,
a new episode of Doctor Who: Back in
Time, at 5.32pm on Monday 17 April
(with repeats on Saturday 22 and
Sunday 23), while a TARDIS model
set started to be built on Blue Peter on
Wednesday 19.
Tenth Doct
EPISODE
Tooth and Claw
STORY 169
There were concerns that Tooth and
Claw would air late because of live
coverage of a football match between
Liverpool and Chelsea. Gary Lineker
assured viewers that the episode would
follow “even if the match goes to
penalties”. In the end, the programme
aired as scheduled at 7.15pm.
A commentary for bbc.co.uk and BBC
Three was recorded with Tennant,
DATE TIME
Saturday 22 April 2006 715pm-8.00pm
DURATION RATING (CHART POSITION)
44'32" 9.2M (10th) 83
Riddell and Winstone on Friday 24
March, and the episode drew very
strong ratings against a repeat of
Midsomer Murders on ITV1. In
Radio Times for 6-12 May, a letter
applauded Tooth and Claw in
comparison to New Earth. The letter
went on to wonder what the Queen -
who was reportedly a viewer of Doctor
Who - made of the theory that her
family were werewolves!
APPRECIATION INDEX
~AAA AX Broadcast | Merchandise
One track of incidental
music from Tooth and Claw,
composed by Murray
Gold, was included
on the Doctor Who:
Original Television
Soundtrack CD, published
by Silva Screen on 2 re acute
December 2006. tHe were
In September 2006,
ooth and Claw was initially
released by BBC Worldwide on
DVD, along with School Reunion
and The Girl in the Fireplace,
as Series 2 Volume 2 on 5 June
2006. It was later released as
part of The Complete Second Series DVD box
set on 20 November 2006. It included a
commentary with Russell T Davies, visual
effects supervisor David Houghton and
supervising art director Steven Nicholas. Character Options released an per
cover
The short version of Doctor Who Confidential action figure of the werewolf for Series
from the episode. Volume 2.
“4 Bie > . ie |
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was also included.
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DOCTOR WHO | THE
4 Cast and credits
CAST
David Tennant... . The Doctor
SONIA es icccsstsssnssssssessssscsssscssssssseees Rose Tyler
with
Pauline COINS |...........cccscsin Queen Victoria
TAN HANMOTE.......cc scsi Father Angelo
Michelle DUNCAMN.............cses Lady Isobel
Derek Riddell iiss Sir Robert
Jamie Sives...... ..Captain Reynolds
RON DOMACHIE seen Steward
BMMIMRMRESUREREAM ITIVE Te (0e0esssssssssssccsssscsssssssssssssesscssessssssss The Host
CUCU Too ee Flora
UNCREDITED
Ruari Mears, Marc Llewellyn-Thompson,
Laurence Chanon, Andrew Morgan Evans,
Sam Stennett, Alessandro Noble............ Monks
Stephen Giffard... Cart Driver-Monk
Dave Jennings, Richard Carpenter, Rob
Darryl Cross, Pete Newman, John Jones Snr...
OUree ear sva ro cesttecsepiy ctosepseisnaseiassioitaonneviisstoxanpseaninnns Farm Hands
Tony Van Silva................ Stunt Double for Steward
Glen Foster, Tony van Silva....Stunt Farm Hands
Levan Doran, Kai Martin, Rick English.............
SMPTE i ssssssssssssssssssssnssesssssssnssssenssnes Stunt Monks
Debbie Reid, Jade Harris Cupit... sits
SUZANNE DOWD...
Dom Kynaston, Paul Strike... Servants
Adam Sweet, Michael Barry, John Mallon........
aire eirceeacerrecesstsstsseesresssessestsseessses Farm Hands
Marcus Hobbs, Jonathon Holcroft, Dave
Smith, Leighton Haberfield, Les Mason,
Tony Was, Geraint Herbert, Brett Langdon...
Me resrvseyscsssasssnyesnscsesessssssscassevesssvseseesssenn Soldiers
Jonny Black/Dave Smith ..Mackeson
Charles de Paula... Ramsey
Rainisiis Footmen
rer eerbasaciiscsciess Carriage Driver
Footman
Ruari Mears, Laurance Chanon............. Servants
OSHIGFCON irc rnc Wolf Stand-In
Colleen Quinn................ Double for Queen Victoria
Gerard [Last name unknown]]............0.cun
Toi Mea DUN Cart Driver-Farmer (Dougal)
Paull Cartomirngorcreans canteens Unknown
Cameron Jake, lan Busted, Ronnie McCann,
Glenna Morrison, Judith Williams, Marsall
Stewart wns Additional Dialogue Recording
TARDISODE CAST
Alan DOFTINGtON .....iisscsss ss Crofter
CREDITS
Written by Russell T Davies
Producer: Phil Collinson
Director: Euros Lyn
1st Assistant Director; Peter Bennett
2nd Assistant Director: Lynsey Muir
3rd Assistant Director: Adam Hill
[uncredited: Tim Hodges, Daf Parry]
Location Managers: Gareth Lloyd
Unit Manager: Rhys Griffiths
Production Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk
Production/Script Secretary: Claire Roberts
Production Runners: Tim Hodges
A/Production Accountants: Debi Griffiths,
Kath Blackman
Continuity: Non Eleri Hughes
Script Editor; Simon Winstone
Focus Puller: Terry Bartlett
[uncredited: Penny Shipton]
Grip: John Robinson
[uncredited: Clive Baldwin, Zac Henderson]
Boom Operator: Jeff Welch [uncredited:
Rhydian Yeoman, Andrew Heard, Nick Stewart]
Gaffer: Mark Hutchings
Best Boy: Peter Chester
Stunt Co-ordinator: Dave Forman
Stunt Performers: Peter Miles, Tony van Silva,
Chris Blatchford
Post Production Co-ordinator: Marie Brown
On Line Editor: Matthew Clarke
Colourist Mick Vincent
3D Artists: Chris Petts, Jean Yves Audouard,
Paul Burton, Jean-Claude Deguara, Nicolas
Hernandez, Will Pryor, Matthew McKinney,
Neil Roche, Chris Tucker, Mark Wallman
2D Artists: Sara Bennett, David Bowman,
Melissa Butler-Adams, Joseph Courtis,
Bronwyn Edwards, Michael Harrison,
Simon C Holden, Russell Horth
Visual Effects Co-ordinator: Kim Phelan
Digital Matte Painter: Alex Fort
Model Unit Supervisor: Mike Tucker
Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts
Sound Editors: Paul McFadden, Doug Sinclair
Glen Foster, Levan Doran, Kai Martin, Rick English,
Maurice Lee
Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas
Assistant Editor: Ceres Doyle
Post Production: Supervisors Samantha Hall,
Art Dept Production Manager: Jonathan Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies
Marquand Allison Finance Manager: Richard Pugsley
Standby Art Director; Lee Gammon With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra
A/Supervising Art Director: James North of Wales
Design Assistants: Matthew Savage, Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
Peter McKinstry Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG
Standby Props: Phil Shellard, Trystan Howell Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams
Set Decorator: Julian Luxton Sound Recordist: Simon Fraser
Property Master: Adrian Anscombe Costume Designer: Louise Page
Production Buyer: Catherine Samuel Make-Up Designer: Sheelagh Wells
Props Chargehand: Paul Aitken Music: Murray Gold
Props Storeman: Stuart Wooddisse Visual Effects: The Mill
Forward Dresser: Matthew North Visual FX Producer: Will Cohen
Specialist Prop Maker: Mark Cordory Visual FX Supervisor; Dave Houghton
Prop Maker: Penny Howarth Special Effects: Any Effects
Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies Editor: Crispin Green
Construction Chargehand: Allen Jones Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics Director of Photography: Rory Taylor
Costume Supervisor: Anna Lau Production Manager: Marcus Prince
Costume Assistants: Lindsay Bonaccorsi, Associate Producer: Helen Vallis
Barbara Harrington [uncredited: Angela Jones, Executive Producers: Russell T Davies,
Gemma Evans, Anna Stone, Laurie Anne Major] Julie Gardner
Make-Up Artists; Anwen Davies, Steve Smith, BBC Weles with thanks to the Canadian
Moira Thomson [uncredited: Sara Griffiths, Broadcasting Corporation
Neil Batt, Julie Davies] bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
Casting Associate: Andy Brierley © BBC MMVI
Queen Victoria
he daughter of William Collins,
a school headmaster, and Mary
Callanan, a teacher, Pauline
Collins was born 3 September
1940, in Exmouth, Devon but
grew up near Liverpool and
attended the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart
High School. She initially followed her
parents into teaching before studying at
the Central School of Speech and
Drama, London.
Her stage début came at Windsor in A
Gazelle in Park Lane in 1962 and her first
TV appearance in March 1963, as Nurse
Elliott in Emergency — Ward 10.
Me stins In the summer of 1963 she travelled
as Samantha with an acting company to Killarney,
Briggs in the Ireland but on returning to London
1967 Doctor ‘ ‘
Whostory, The discovered she was pregnant after a brief
Faceless Ones. relationship with actor Tony Rohr. He
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offered to marry her but she felt this
an unnecessary self-sacrifice. Without
telling her parents, Collins pretended to
return to Ireland to tour but was looked
after by convent nuns until having a
baby daughter, Louise, in spring 1964
before giving her up for adoption. Collins
wrote of her experiences and eventual
reunion with Louise 22 years later in
autobiography Letter to Louise (1992).
Collins now threw herself into her career,
her West End début coming in Passion
Flower Hotel in 1965. 1966 brought several
small TV parts and more significant roles
in a Theatre 625 telling of Franz Kafka’s
Amerika, Play of the Month: The Making of
Jericho and The Three Musketeers.
In 1967, Collins appeared in five episodes
of Doctor Who alongside Patrick Troughton
in The Faceless Ones [1967 - see Volume 10].
Collins played Samantha Briggs, a plucky,
fun-loving Liverpudlian lass. Invited to
become the Doctor’s new companion
with a contract for 39 weeks, she declined.
Collins reflected in The Guardian in 2012:
“I thought it was like a prison sentence.
Maybe it would have given me a profile
early in my career, but then I would have
missed so many things.” As she explained
to Doctor Who Magazine in 1994; “I havea
low boredom threshold... I’m a mover-on
and I didn’t want to do any more.”
The Liver Birds arrived in 1969, asitcom
from two female writers, Carla Lane and
Myra Taylor. A Comedy Playhouse pilot aired
in April of that year with four further
episodes in the summer. Collins played
Dawn to Polly James’ scatty Beryl. This was
an important year for Collins as, having
met actor John Alderton the previous year
(becoming a TV star himself in ITV sitcom
Please, Sir!), the couple married.
In 1970 Collins began work on period
family saga, Upstairs, Downstairs. Initially
not supported by ITV it eventually aired
in 1971 and became a huge global hit. The
series marked the first time husband and
wife had worked together, John Alderton
playing chauffeur Thomas Watkins. Their
characters left the series in 1973 to get
married. Collins and Alderton would
work together many times: in No, Honestly
(1974/5); Wodehouse Playhouse (1975/6);
Upstairs, Downstairs spin-off sequel Thomas
and Sarah (1979); 1980s TV commercials
for Maxwell House coffee; narrating
animated series Little Misses and The Mr
Men (1983); and bucolic country drama
Forever Green (1989 and 1992).
It was onstage however that Collins
found the role of her life. In 1987, Collins
took the lead in Willy Russell’s 1986
monologue Shirley Valentine in London’s
Vaudeville Theatre. It ran through 1988
before transferring to Broadway, still with
Collins, in 1989. Collins won the Laurence
Olivier Award for Best Actress in 1988
and a Tony award for the Broadway run.
She starred in a film adaptation in 1989
for which she won a BAFTA and was
nominated for an Oscar, launching a late
blooming movie career.
Further movies included City of Joy
(1992), My Mother’s Courage (1995), Paradise
Road (1997) and rest home comedy Mrs
Caldicott’s Cabbage War (2002), the latter
again with John Alderton, and Quartet
(2012) directed by Dustin Hoffman.
She returned to TV to take the lead in
The Ambassador (1998), featured in Simon
Curtis’ TV film Man and Boy (2002) and
was Miss Flite in a BBC adaptation of Bleak
House (2005). Recent TV guest spots have
included Agatha Christie’s Marple (2010)
and Merlin (2010).
Collins has tended to avoid anything too
dark in her career. “It’s bad for the spirit to
do stuff like that. If it’s going to be worthy
and hard labour, I’m not going to enjoy it
and the audience won’ either.” @
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71, 72, 13, 74, 77,78, 79,81, 82,
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68, /4, 77, 83, 93, 100, 101, 102,104, 112, 116
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Doctor WhO: REGENELATION vss
Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 1......
Doctor Who: Seri€s 2 VOIUME Zornes
Doctor Who: The 50" Anniversary COollection sss 41
Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series........41, 82, 88, 119
Doctor Who: The INSIDE StOFY wissen
Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts
Doctor Who: The Ultimate TIME LO issn 12
Doctor, the
accent
COS TLITT Sie scrnevaransarnesnassrasesanionnansgensopes ,
PVA AS irernrcsteceanannnniammannrescanemsnaciie 10, 26, 30, 47
SEVP AG MAN G ssscaniscecniviecmaianecnnecnieiarernetaie 11, 30-31, 32
DOCtOFS DGUGHLER. TING sessssseivassecscencasccincccversesvanivicnsivccovierireestientnavttis 51
Doctor's HEArtS wessssesse 16, 36
DoONachie, ROM biiimininesinimamiumnmanmnmnenneens 108, 110
DOOR SOGAY conse vaveceivvvncsovsoveveivveveniecstvasiovstvevisevisvsvsibevtsenvtesiesn 53, 58, 60
DUkKe:OF Manhattaninicnunianenwunnienareinnie 70,72, 74,77,78
DVD, GOMINETIIAY arcarcinmncimainccniriatienrveowitee 40, 41,118, 119
DVD ext auwnnncmmmmranctaonenmnanacimnmanerinans: 34,88
Earth -nssinnnnnicnnnnnnananin 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 20, 22, 23, 33,
35,57, 58,91, 96, 102
Eccleston, CHriStOPNe Possess 12, 13,16, 22, 48, 49,
53, 54,55
ELA DOGO cisisesssintiessnmmitiaoananisicouniamaniapaneiie 64,96
EVERETT DECOR aiusamroeemennneninanauniomomunanana 9
EM PresSOl RaChOSS a uiisiisunsirausnssinndiaagaioudinaniisensauin 8
Empty Ghd: EiGxussuaeoneccameuunimacaom 18, 20, 70, 74
End of the World, Th. 21, 54, 64, 68, 70, 71, 72, 4,
78, 83, 93,101
EEC VATE, TIME acvaiasocceancnssaenseinstontncsiesevssisasusatvessvenvessicoiciipsvenrieie 8,51
Evans, Daniel
Face Of BO Gis isisiiarvacensavenvesvaves 66,67, 70, 72, 77, 78, 79, 81, 88
Faceless Ones, The..
Father Angelou
FPLEIV CT SHO IY ecswssrenccvesevacocosnseeneecex cnn caetoireciweni int cuamonncecniatiinvin unienters 2l
FeO? Hel conmnenaannimanccnnonnmenemnininatenmannaT 53,60
FEOSEOFSIAVEN,, The acuisiensaniuuinmsvamnincmseaiesieneseupiin 14
Fifth DOCtOF sisisssseniiis 26, 51, 96, 111
FlESE DOGIOE icssmancimummnmnamanumnnmamniinens 96, 111,
FOI) ~sisinivicsicniaseuparaantainegutunitiacnusuaidiinuinn 103,105,115
FOMMGh DEVIC cmsnsncenmanncnmemnniannaanman 105,407, 111
Fourth Doctor...
POR AER covnnonnanmanicnenuniinemmnmnonmmanianty
GallAQheG SQAN csimiisisisrsninariecnesnimenicnaemapnimnnmeantececeta 79
GATCUS ACSI scssrasisiassasisacsraieiasvesiaesesrinansnoucneisioacanapinnignecieedornaiiananaiia ens 31
GardNe@k |Uliiniscscs acinar 13, 14, 26, 31, 40, 41, 48,
60, 70, 88, 117
GatiSs, Markinccnnennennnimnnannnninennnannnacenia ity 16, 39, 46
Gherkin, The.. m2l, 28,33
Ghost Light... cninanonninis LLO
GCE Sai maniconimvoniunewniencananiarearen 28, 29, 30, 38
Girl in the FirePIGC€, THE sssssssssssssssesssssssneee 49, 53,57, 87,101,
111,112, 113,119
GMT Vitsiininanininniinnnianmniiasninimnnaammannaraied 29, 39, 84
Gold. MURTY nicnicesiagenciimmancnninmacanaiannccaiacssin 36, 83,119
GOrton, Neill sss n29, 31,76
Gieat HTAIGENES, THE iasinmnonancionnnonemmawunnnt 8
Hamme, NOVICE srssssessssressssseeessseens
HANMOTPE, laNvvessessreseens
Harkness, Captain Jack
Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fir@ussssssssssssssssnenien 31,51
HEWES) | AITTES wis cascrrnsvnersivtersnnnvicencanvseseny 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29,
30, 31, 33, 58, 72, 76, 78, 88, 108
HICKitTan, ClaVtOM saitcccmnionmianinnmmenncnarnnen 20, 46, 83
Highlanders, The.. m6
HOPG ANNE swicgusiscnnananmonduoynameunimaama maui 80
HOst; The siicniinanimnsnaviinenns 98, 99, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108,
109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 117
HOUGHTON, DAVE sivvsssesssesssssvvrssssesessssssssssseneesssesssseneees 33,110,119
[Ge WARHOFRS .usrisiaticnauxnintianmncineaii naoniaanmarincaanidneneveun 18
ICE WOIOKS) TAG mnmanmonnn nario 18
LUGS AAMT AM, WUGVE aescasssgaaasascearnnscerantntacecnzansacotarueniagnedivannson 53, 59
Impossible Planet, The way D1; 39
INGEPENGSME, TAG siarvecccssissserirevnasicisorsiasraassianeretessiarearsieaeres 31, 39,85
NEPSEUA wiereccsnrvirsvvceencccoranrcacesversesucashyaveanesetainitniatseinenid cxessivnevetauntates
Jatt, Sister
Jingle Bells
Jones; Harti etincnnsisanesnscrrasisceisieres 10, 11, 14, 15, 20, 22, 23,
25, 26, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40
Journey’S End min«eccnnammeonaninnnonnimnnanmnamimanmnantin 50
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Ps crest insBinshesvintNipneat ans taverductvsiaveasdetvieqstdvoncbisavbersbvelvardvvenncascistvect 57,85
Khachaturian, Aram
Spartacus ballet (The ON@diN LINE) wissen 20
KAO-i-NOOF GiAMONG wessssssssssssseesessseen 99, 100, 101, 103, 104
RINGS DEMIOMS:, THI scazsccpvessivessevsieenccectswiqreinsiesovvisigevendivaiveisiieine 96, 111
KNIGHthOOd wavs 96, 102, 111, 113
KT aM Si uniarondammanonreienneniannmnygaeanjmnadnnteni ren 54,55
LAY: [SOG lhisiecccessessiverarineniawrarerinrentern 98, 99, 103, 105, 113, 114
LSE OF TRE TIMEIOFES si scecnecioncenmmanmamannanzonwmmuttn 64
Lethbridge-Stewart, Brigadier sccscssssssssscsens 16,22, 74
Llewellyn, Danny wane 10, 11,18, 20, 21, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40
Location Filming
Ba Orient Restaurant, Mermaid Quay vissesssen 73
Ba hy (Slat Giinmmannnniennsnudtacmninmnpmmniieenistees 30
Brandon Estate, Kennington... 26, 28, 73
Brenittond Cerelicticar Dank dincasuncusimnansracnnins 26
Clearwell Caves, GIOUCESTEFSHIFE wissen
ClalG AV HGS eisinpmimaiicmunoninianmein
DYTER GARG EMS sini sisaiainisaauiauinmnanasdiianannssssiiait
Enfys Television Studios, Cardiff... ‘iii
Gelligaer COMMON, FOCHTIWi cscs
GOWEF PERINSUldiammrammmuanammneneneans
Headlands School, Penarth,
Howells departMent StOFe wissen 29
HTV Studios wavs 29, 31, 74,111
LISASANTOL COUR icanimcnnnnnvmanincnianntenmmenimes 110
LOUCOUN Square, GaDAlfa vss 28, 74
MINERAL CENtesisnvsimnunencannavcnnme 31, 76, 84
Mil@MMIUM StAGIUM visssessscsssssssssssessesessssseneeessssssneenees 31
Penllyn Castle it
THE HAYES sists isvinnesnninvcsevnininenerncnmnrdnieensinaudiniend
The Paper Mill Cardit? scmsnornnmnnnnncmncnmnmnes
Tredegar House, Newport...
TREOWEN HOuSChiiiiiinniinnmnnnninaninnnnninnaniats
WAMBO? scans
Long Game, The...
Love & Monsters...
LUE; Ohiionssimmaaninaal aman anccmnn
Vit. EUG S ccmmansponmmeannnnnreauaprmnns
Master: IG kunmuiennioniinnmunmonmemmmmentnNs 15,50
McECo VS VESTER a mnisucaninannuauniamumanniumnonannieud 47
McCrimmon, Jamie... .98, 102, 104
McCurdy, Kevin... nee
MEGEITIIVARIMT mastisnnenaneammnanmenenesomamommtaats 74
(MICK IIIT MEL a scacarasnctcrcecnecessonarnncansneoseieriadiermateisaanetoatocnaninnientants 33
Mill, Th@iscasiensvenans 28, 33, 83, 100,101, 109, 112, 116
MINER EX isniiinieiviscinaaivcnnmnineniaiaitine 25,29, 41,76
Mission Control...... will, 23,26, 31, 34,35
MOA SUV GI iseciincissnasimnmie unsmniacmamianinsionanenin 23,50, 70
Mohamad :| aS On gmnavncanannononmioncmmanmnmnuaramin 32
IAOCTINGSC,. TAG visssetsvcovcvvacnastsssesveascibvesiattvevevescavieeesesinresttsaihisstvedsenesen 105
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Murphy, Cathy
Myles, Sophia sii
MZlin bap ZOicsaananustonnmmnnnanmmtarene
NGW FGI Rnsiasarternuicagneiainnes 18, 28, 31, 41, 53, 55, 62-63,
64, 65, 66-68, 69, 70-74, 75,
76-93, 108, 111, 116, 118
ELICITED STP istsanessssniversvseadeticsvasvveigersseeneusnecegstennetendtsstonend A 78
DIOAU CASE insmirawnnrnwiemmanimmmiemanbenemaun 87
cast and credits. 89-91
METFChANGISE sowninennngimmoncreneMUnNR 88
DOSE PROGUET OM cinncsandvinvencenivmonndtenmmeniinines 81-83
Pre-PrOduCtON ncswrccnnammnnmonrenmnimmoniT 68-72
PFEQUE] wisssssssssn 32, 80, 84, 113
PFOCUCTION amcmmanenimmnnimmrenmernmmentteNnts 73-80
DIO Ml Ghanpecwiinieriemanenannicunarensanenminawine 92-93
publicity... 84-86
FEN@arsalS\ cccnenpininonurasamomniear acorn umn 76
SLONY. sisisscas 66-67
NEWSTOUNG uses 9, 38, 39, 74,84
NESE DOGIOR. TGs: iausiinininiaanciiinn ne nnananaant 8
NICHOlaS; StE DN Ehioncrinnanunnonnanncmavomanaiecs 109, 119
NODS, DONNA sitiniinnimiinnnaminankinnimpunmuenmaiminadaus 50
Oimeatiall a; CU assevcsvveevevevevsisccvtsancxsssusvvaccsvesinsnveanveciannanvinnteaaiteinaiseeed 26
OS weld) Clalal sisissumerecsssoncsinivastennieretrronansianniansinnsanteciinearninmnnaicaeccsiii 8
Page: |-OWiSesannimaneninniiammannnnenncammann 19, 25, 76,109
Parting of the Ways, Th@ vs 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 28, 74,108
Partnersn Cimesneancmancnncnimnnamnemnonnaans 64
P@LtS CHS caninnmimwmnninimmnmunninnanncunaiemansntn 33,101
Piper: Bille sicmmninannmnnnnncnnnn 13, 16, 18, 37, 41, 53, 58,
70, 74, 78, 88, 108, 113, 117
lAAVING siiinnnmninnnmnncarannniiaanmamineniinn 18,117
PIGHECOF TRE Od siesccnsieannimannannuaiiumenmiiiemnmince 64
Planet of the Spiders incnianwmomanmnmnnnnnneanate 13
PONG} AMY scnimansmiasauninwunundunimmsimunitonsieninnd 8
POWelll ES tebe sicisssissssisssiissiscussscincsassicais 14, 21, 26, 55, 99, 111, 116
PLE=CEGIS: irnimonmmincmmonnaunmaunin 32, 83, 87,104,107
DS) CHIGHEDE lv isminaaacmmnnaviinusndmnimadannnen 109
QuaterMass ExperiMent, Therese 16
Queen Victoria 55, 60, 96, 97, 98, 99,
100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108,
109; 170, 111,112;,113;,,115,716
ROCIO' TUMES scssasscarnssisccniaen 30, 37, 38, 40, 84, 85, 86, 117, 118
AUG Six susaatensuunusms qilttiauunasarmnilnamiau 40, 50, 87, 118
RavneGWElEh ane eommen ummm caaengreRnnenmteou 70
FEACGEHETAHON mcacsianisennansnnericainrarravinainis
Reynolds, Captain
Rezard, Martin wn
RICE I, DREN cssiiasuinnsiarusninecndia onasiranactaitnonaiumnini j
RIS@ OF EHEIGY DES MEM sresreccssevvraseeavvvesstsecessavaasasirsaescveaninnie 53, 58,102
RODOESANTAS: wiinanaanannaniminsnonis 6, 10, 14,15, 20, 27, 29,
31, 32, 34, 37, 41
ROSED u tctirssas osopeatinnpsiant .. 8,16, 20, 26, 29, 36, 76, 83
RURGWOY Bride: The xccnonnnncanmnanommmnmnmriannny 8, 100
Sal VicsnenansmmonnennanenemninrannmanmmmenerirnmnennnminnntTs 21,26
Sarah Jane Adventures, The
The Wedding Of SOFA [OMCs 51
Sl C(EK, AZ aM inireanrimennimeanincanrainancdieaarannnsnanenrenienvenendts 8
Satan Pit, The... DS) o7259
SENSNEIG, BOD scnvnconrsneanceninminsiicars perma rire 105
SCHOGLREUW ION siessccrvcecsesssasescenceccievtornasname 18, 26, 31, 53, 54, 56,
57 fOr 1OpALQ
Screannof the: SHGIKG Wwasteccorninicinenixaaricmmnunnnte 13, 47
S@CON DOCTOF sven .96, 104,
SECT SINE ita entre niasncduinanuannayaniacenapaiinowimnast 18, 37
SOVENET DOGO ii mannncincimmnaneart 64,96, 110
SHOKESPE GFE COCG, TGs siissiszsvcissnsszssicasisssveceacninspeeuninaveoiasiosevannannsins 96
SHOOTING SCHPTS issn 20;,71, 102
SiIVEr NEMESIS vesssssssiesssssssssssssssesssssssessessssseessssssuieesssssuesessssnenses 96
STFRODE a sncnssconssimmmncienmnancis 98, 102, 103, 104, 105,
110, 111, 115, 116
Sisters OF PIENItUCE...sssssssssssessssssen 64,69, 71, 76,80, 82, 85
Sives, Jamie
Slade
Merry CHrIStmas EV€ryONe srssissssssssessssesesssssssesssssssssssessseniin 36
Sladen; ENSabEthccnunrdamnirconenmnmmnnnnienmentenmnmanniattens 57
SICH MIGK SV) wiviveecisiaiwveniinmunvireeinnnn 10, 11,,13,21,.22, 23,28,
29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 39, 58, 59, 68, 73, 74,85
SMUG, Sara LAME srecssvveevnsvanccsivescopmesvivenseneenenveniwres 56, 57,85
SMIth, TOM wissen 105,109
SHOU: TNC i scvinsenrsisisessesiyisteorsrinsceivinrdranerenreenquneteraminterterrnivinaviers 8
SONICS CREWCIIVEl anaaraiienaanninnmnmnnmnnnens 10, 30,67, 82
South Wales Evening Post...... 77,79,109, 117
Spearhead from SPOCe inasscnisinnnnncannsancasencaas 16, 22,79
StoOlemEGrth,. [Nebainesnaninciannutnananaimncnrenccansieaas
SUDO}. TMG ssnissicsinsssassaasescasssntssunisazsisisnzciseonnpaaiiion
SUAGGY MGI onmanmumnsiprunnienon ami imanmmrotiEIT
Sunday Mirror...
SVCOlEX sunucmnomoao Br
21, 22, 23,25,26, 28, 30,.32,33,
34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 54
SYCOFAX SPACESHIP vss 6, 11, 15,16, 18, 21, 22,
23;.30;,32:33;.35
T
TARD Stsvavnnsinmeancconinvsanearerveavnencnes 6;'8;.10;11,18;.19,,20; 21,22,
2/,:28;,29, 30,31, 32, 33,38;
48, 54,55, 58, 71, 72, 74,77,
78, 80, 83, 85, 86, 96, 98, 99,
101, 104, 105, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117
TaRISO0G seuicmmaentcnenananenainimnipananetanaune 80,113
Tennant, Davi 4,5, 12,13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22,
23; 26; 27, 28;.29; 30,31, 33; 36,
37, 38, 39, 40, 46-51, 54, 60, 64,
73, 14,75, 77, 78, 84, 85, 86, 87,
102, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 117, a
Thomas, Edward... 18,19, 30, 76, 109, 111
PUTS GG THOIRGIAL ssssvesesovarisinsiaresticsnenaivieedvenninvensisormontanisiniad 29, 64
Torchwood House.... 96, 98, 104, 105, 109, 110,
TL 11S, 117
TORCMWOOG simvcirneacetsiceecniciencnivviaviesce 10, 20, 23, 60, 99, 102, 116
FOOEN GHG GIGW swivisiecsvsiveivernvvenvvtsearnvernisnat 53,79, 87, 94-95, 96
97, 98-105, 106-107, 108-123
Hdd WEEIHEL asinmmunncanincnrenenmvaniennninieraminin 109
broad CaS timaniamannainmnnnmnnmenmnancinaranmtin, 118
cast and credits. 120-121
MENCHANCISS niiianacncmaTENTERNNANTE 119
post-production 114-116
Pre=PROdUCtON aiicennionivimnniosmmanramnnran 100-105
PIOCUETOR ssrinssnarmnuncadmanicumenmaneimaatiaiorans 106-113
DFOFIIE.. sss 122-123
DUDICIEY cmernanncauunanucammeniromumnenaRN altily,
FEACTNGUG Mhaimniimionnaiiannkanarnannmenimna aay 105
FEES Sa Shvnonmcmenpncmancsmmcetoonmeammmewen 105
STG) caisnapadacrnarinankersiesonanvenin iotanstnansmisiapacanionad 98-99
WETEWOlfrinnniniscunaanuncromaranacnnian 101-102, 115
TOI DOCEOR WhO scneccsicaviecaiaiieveescaivenvstivecarweenensaiedeieats 80, 84
TOWEL Of LOMA OM wrsinsninstenennsrsaensneeeniven 10, 22, 28, 32, 84
TAIIETS vcs 19, 36, 37, 38, 39, 86
Tranter, Jane... 14, 16, 32, 87, 101, 116
TUEKE ER MIRC vic cisisiievsinrvinvererreieneranacciansiininedtreiniimeaititnnineniosen 31,113
TWIN: DileMMNG, THE wicncccenenaniuannnnincnmennnmnnnenennninent 29
THIET, JACKIE ssisssssivssessensearsrnicasevsrisninnice 10, 11,15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31,
34, 35, 60, 68, 73, 74
THIEN ROSE) csvsisisseavinrinvecivsininacerines 8,10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21,
22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 31,
32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 49,
50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60,
61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
71,72, 73, 74,76, 77,78, 79,
81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88,
94, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101,
102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111,
113, 114,115, 116, 117
VIDEO GIANY wisientonisniincnecmnamnrcinmenicin 23,27, 28, 30, 41, 74,
77,78, 88
Voyage of the DaMNeG icsnswanmsiaarccinmnnsaneannnea: 8,50
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WIEST HOA cv zcccvcvececcccscaverzevrascscerenvectsssnberscuroresecertonsen 26, 39, /4, 84
WanaMakel ZOCisinininantsnnmmcneannn 73, 74,78, 92-93
WANTOPITOM KS iaicistsrcssssrsniesenviasecine 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105,
110, 111, 114,115,118
WllS, SSE IAG A visisnrcerecnaeceevanvranecorvoivtereinicnievironnuiunrseuavivins 76,109
WETGWOF wcninncanconanunanraiina 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104,
109, 110, 111,117,119
Western Mall iiicninmnccnmmonimnnnmmnnnnnnrninTarian 30, 39
WIGOWS GUISE, FAG virecnsinnievesisecnyncsiisienimnnien tannins 41
8 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY
WIE, Mar Kisiiinninnscnisncammnmmnnninaianunn 109, 110, 111
WiliatiS sROMminniosnniupnionannmnnmanmnlimiaaaeadiannns 8
WiItON, PENA DE iiisscisiinireaioinmmnnnmacmearcmaaian 15; 31,39
WIMSHOME, SITIO srarisssconnsirerpciseenciseraineintiannanemtenga 71,102, 118
Woodnttt, Ob Tn: cecnmacmmonmmenmemn 4
WOT Wr TCG soasasssssssscccnssssseaasazavssnsesissaarsanscaneie, 14,15, 20, 21, 22,
26, 28, 32
LY GOINS ssavesesssesncnnveaaecevzensceuvnevansecy sons saivin aves ea RNa aSRAES CoO LTR 4,96
1B BC)
DOCTOR
WHO
THE COMPLETE HISTORY
THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
The newly regenerated Doctor crash-lands the TARDIS in London.
It’s Christmas. Sinister robot Santas are attacking the city anda
Sycorak spaceship is heading for Earth.
NEW EARTH
The Doctor takes Rose further into the future than she’s ever
been before, to New Earth. There, they are Summoned to a
hospital where patients are being cured of incurable illnesses,
and encounter an old foe, Lady Cassandra.
TOOTH AND CLAW
The Doctor and Rose meet Queen Victoria in 1879 Scotland.
A group of sinister monks are plotting against the monarchy and
hope to create a new empire... the Empire of the Wolf.
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