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WHO

THE COMPLETE HISTORY

EDITOR JOHN AINSWORTH

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Contents

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INTRODUCTION

PUBLICITY

INTRODUCTION

PUBLICITY

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STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION
BROADCAST MERCHANDISE CAST ANDCREDITS

2007 SERIES
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OVERVIEW

SMITH AND JONES
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STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION
BROADCAST MERCHANDISE CAST ANDCREDITS

POST-PRODUCTION

PROFILE

POST-PRODUCTION

PROFILE

THE SHAKESPEARE CODE

INTRODUCTION

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PUBLICITY

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STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION
BROADCAST MERCHANDISE CAST ANDCREDITS

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INDEX

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POST-PRODUCTION

PROFILE

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loose tradition of having the
Doctor joined by a ‘guest’
companion in the Doctor
Who Specials began with The
Runaway Bride {2006 - see
page 6]. Having waved a
sorrowful goodbye to Rose at the end
of Army of Ghosts/Doomsday {2006 - see
Volume 53], the Doctor finds himself in
the company of Donna Noble, played by
high-profile comedian Catherine Tate.

Of course, Donna would later become
a fully-fledged companion, being
reintroduced in Partners in Crime [2008
- see Volume 57] and travelling with the
Doctor on several adventures. But her first
encounter with the Doctor was crafted as
a one-off special appearance.

The following Christmas’ Voyage of
the Damned |2007 - see Volume 57] saw
another big name becoming the Doctor’s
temporary companion. This time it was
pop megastar Kylie Minogue, who slipped
on a pinny to become Astrid Peth, a
waitress on the ill-fated spaceship Titanic
who would give her life to save the Doctor.

Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor [2008 -
Volume 60], played by David Morrissey,
was a bit of a departure from the traditional
companion role - not just in that he was

male, but that he believed he was the Doctor.

Lady Christina de Souza, played by
Michelle Ryan, was a slightly rebellious
sidekick for the Doctor in Planet of the
Dead [2009 - see Volume 61]. Keen to join
the Doctor in his travels, she was barred
from the TARDIS, but given a flying bus
as compensation.

Opera singer Katherine Jenkins stepped
aboard the TARDIS with the Eleventh

Left:

Kylie Minogue
looks to

the stars as
Astrid Peth.

Doctor as the fatally ill Abigail in A
Christmas Carol [2010 - see Volume 66].

Claire Skinner was widowed mother
Madge Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and
the Wardrobe [2011 - see Volume 70}, in
which (with a little help from the Doctor)
she was able to save her husband and
reunite her family.

Although already well established in
the series by this time, River Song, played
by Alex Kingston, joined the Doctor for
one final adventure in The Husbands of
River Song [2015]. However, this episode
also introduced us to Nardole, played by
Matt Lucas. Like Donna Noble before
him, Nardole would make a comeback as
a more permanent companion, returning
in The Return of Doctor Mysterio {2016},
and remaining with the Doctor for the
duration of the 2017 series.

John Ainsworth — Editor

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spider creeps
up on Sarah
Jane in 1974's
Planet of

the Spiders.

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hen trying to fashion a

scary monster for Doctor

Who, many writers

have found themselves

turning to our irrational

fears. Is there something
hiding under the bed? Is there a sinister
reason why this old house creaks in the
night? Might inanimate objects - like toys
or shop window dummies - suddenly come
to life and attack us? These, however, are
all passing thoughts. One irrational fear,
which has been used in Doctor Who time
and again, is arachnophobia.

Not only do spiders of various kinds
make numerous appearances in the series
itself, they were also a popular ingredient
in spin-off fiction. 2006’s Christmas
Special, The Runaway Bride, featured the
biggest, baddest spider of them all - the
Empress of the Racnoss. She was bright

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red, all eyes and legs, and snared her
victims in a giant web. And in an amusing
twist on how many of us deal with
unwanted spiders, she was defeated by
effectively being washed down a plughole
(worryingly, a solution not a million miles
away from Professor Zaroft’s apocalyptic
plan in The Underwater Menace {1967 - see
Volume 9)).

Writer Russell T Davies, keen to make
the Empress a larger-than-life villain,
gave her an epic backstory. Not only did
we discover that the Racnoss were an
impossibly ancient race - the Earth having
formed around them billions of years ago =
but they were also revealed to be a menace
that were hunted down by the Time Lords.

Of course, the Empress wasn’t the
series’ first or last giant spider. The Great
One from Planet of the Spiders [1974 - see
Volume 21] was the descendant of an
ordinary Earth spider who had, like some
spiders in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [2012 -
see Volume 71] hitched a ride into space.
Also, out in space - and again unnervingly
large, even if they weren’t anywhere near
as big as the Racnoss - were the creatures
seen in Kill the Moon [2014 - see Volume
78]: weird bacteria-like life forms that just
happened to look like spiders.

Of course, in real life, most spiders
are harmless - like the unusually big
money spider that the Doctor finds in the
basement of the Palace Theatre in The
Talons of Weng Chiang [1977 - see Volume
26]. Doctor Who writers take great delight
in making spiders lethal, however,
building on the fact that many of us
are already terrified of these maligned
creepy-crawlies!

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fF eoff Noble is walking his daughter

Donna down the aisle to be married
to her fiancé Lance when she
disappears in a gaseous swirl!

She materialises in the TARDIS, much
to the surprise of the Doctor. Donna
slaps him and orders him to return her to
the church. The TARDIS lands in central
London. Donna tries calling her mother,
Sylvia, but her phone is engaged. The
Doctor notices a brass band consisting
of three Santas, [1] then Donna gets into
a taxi - being driven by another Santa.

The three Santas prepare to fire their
instruments, but the Doctor creates chaos
by making a cashpoint blast out notes.

Donna’s taxi pulls onto a dual
carriageway. Donna knocks off the
driver’s Santa mask, revealing a robot!

The TARDIS pulls alongside the
taxi and Donna jumps across into the
Doctor’s arms. [2]

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The TARDIS lands on a London
rooftop. Donna explains that she met
Lance while working as a secretary at
a company called HC Clements, which
handles security systems. [3]

The Doctor and Donna arrive at the
reception. Watching a recording of the
wedding, the Doctor realises that Donna’s
disappearance was caused by huon
particles. He sees Santas approaching
outside and warns everybody to stay away
from the tree.

The baubles of the Christmas tree float
up into the air and start exploding. [4]
The robot Santas line up to attack the
Doctor but he plugs his sonic screwdriver
into the sound system and they collapse.

The Doctor traces their control signal
to the sky... where the Empress of the
Racnoss watches from the control room
of her spaceship, the Webstar. [5]

Arriving at HC Clements with Donna
and Lance, the three of them descend
into the lower basement, emerge into

a corridor and continue their journey

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on three Segways until they come to a
laboratory located directly beneath the
Thames Flood Barrier. Then the wall
slides up to reveal a flood chamber, lined
with Roboforms. [6]

In the middle of the chamber is a shaft,
drilled down to the centre of the Earth.
The Empress of the Racnoss teleports into
the chamber. She is a gigantic spider! [7]
Lance creeps up behind her with an axe
but it turns out he serves her and has been
dosing Donna with huon particles for six
months. The Doctor uses a huon sample
to make the TARDIS materialise around
him and Donna. They travel back in time
to witness the creation of the Earth and
see a Webstar moving through the clouds
of dust, becoming the planet’s core. [8]

Lance is force-fed water dosed with
huon particles.

The TARDIS is dragged back to 2007
where it materialises in a corridor near
the flood chamber.

Donna is captured and ensnared in
the web beside Lance. [8] The Empress

purges them of their huon particles,
which float down the shaft and unlock

the sacred heart. The Empress declares
that her children will be reborn and sends
Lance plunging to his death.

The Webstar glides over the city of
London, scorching the streets with arcs
of electricity. [10]

The Doctor releases Donna and she
swings across the chamber, hitting the
wall. Then he reveals that he has the
Roboforms’ remote control unit. [11] He
uses explosive baubles to blow holes in
the walls and water bursts in and pours
down the shaft.

The Empress teleports to her Webstar,
but it is destroyed in a barrage of
tank gunfire.

The Doctor and Donna emerge
onto the barrier. They have drained
the Thames! [12]

The Doctor returns Donna to her
home. She turns down the Doctor’s offer
to travel with him but makes him to
promise to find someone.

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to a screwball episode built around the car
chase sequence (a notion originally given
to writer Toby Whithouse for the Sarah
Jane Smith story which became School
Reunion [2006 - see Volume 52]). Davies
had had in mind the basic plot - with the
elements of the bride, the strange particles
and the vast spiders - for some time, and
at an early stage considered setting ee

explained writer/executive
| producer Russell T Davies on
| Doctor Who Confidential, “Lovely
a _¢ | Rose Tyler might have left - but

—> this is about the Doctor, and
his life continues and will always continue,
and here’s another adventure starting
seconds after the disaster of Doomsday
[2006 - see Volume 53].”

The 2006 Christmas Special for Doctor
Who had begun life in early 2005 as an idea
for the sixth episode of the 2006 series.
The title, The Runaway Bride, was shared
with a successful 1999 romantic comedy
movie starring Julia Roberts (and an earlier
1930 film with Mary Astor). However,
following a request for two festive episo
a few months later, Davies opted to sai
his idea for The Runaway Bride for the
Christmas 2006 slot, with Tooth and Cla

Catherine Tate

lM avies decided against introducing

fy | the Doctor’s new regular companion
» in the Christmas Special, and
tead opted to have a rather different
nd distinctly reluctant one-off TARDIS
veller, whose situation would be part of
the process of the Doctor (David Tennar
coming to te oss of Rose
(Billie —

For this character, Davies looked to
high-profile comedy actress Catherine
es who was enjoying great success in

er own BBC Two sketch show. Tate had

[2006 - see Volume 51] being dropped in
the run instead.

In the original outline for The Runaway
Bride, the Doctor and Rose were faced with
a bride appearing in the TARDIS which led

been recommended to the showrunner Fertict
by his friend, journalist David Benedict, Santas
who had seen the actress on stage in the cca ck
2005 play Some Girl(s). Davies, producer i

Phil Collinson and casting director Andy
Pryor met with Tate in London on Tuesd,
31 January 2006 to hatch the plan of
casting her for the one-off appearance...
one which would be kept secret from the
press and viewers. Tate agreed, only telling
her mother, partner and daughter. “Some

| people genuinely thought I was going to be
in Ocean’s Thirteen! Or the new James Bond

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THE RUNAWAY BRIDE

The Doctor
tinkers with
robotic

electronics.

STORY 178

film!” she told Radio Times. The actress,
who was keen to work with David Tennant,
although she had never really watched
Doctor Who, asked what the name of her
character was and on the spot Davies said:
“Donna. She’s called Donna.”

When Donna appeared in the TARDIS
at the end of Doomsday [2006 - see Volume
53], Davies had not fully plotted the story
which would unfold in The Runaway Bride.
Under great secrecy, Tate recorded her
brief scene with David Tennant’s Doctor on
the TARDIS set on the evening of Friday
31 March.

“Two things came together,” explained
Davies on BBC Radio Wales’ Doctor Who —
Back in Time. “Yve always wanted to do the
TARDIS chasing a car down the motorway.
When I was a kid we'd go on summer
holidays and I used to imagine the TARDIS
flying alongside the cars. Set alongside
that was the idea of a bride; the size of the
costume is symbolic and iconic... an almost
fairytale sort of image.” The car chase was
something which Davies had discussed as

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a practicality with visual effects supervisor
Dave Houghton when production on Doctor
Who restarted in 2004; originally the taxi
was to have been guided by a sat nav system
which the Empress of the Racnoss was
using as her eyes and ears across Earth. The
theme of transport, as with a caper movie or
romantic comedy, was continued with cars,
buses and also Segways, personal motorised
platforms invented by Dean Kamen and
launched in December 2001.

Davies wrote the Doctor and Donna’s
relationship like that of Spencer Tracy
and Katharine Hepburn in various
movies of the 1940s and 1950s. At the
outset, Davies knew his script would
end on an ordinary street in the snow as
the Doctor told Donna, “Her name was
Rose.” However, while the Doctor was
heartbroken by the loss of Rose, Davies
told Newsround that “I don’t want to give
viewers on Christmas Day an hour’s
worth of weeping and angst”.

Unlike the previous year, the extended
60-minute Special was to be made in a

single production block of its own - Block
One - and not recorded alongside other
episodes. Directing The Runaway Bride was
Euros Lyn, who had worked on the show
since 2004 with The End of the World [2005

- see Volume 48], and had helmed several
episodes subsequently, through to Fear Her
[2006 - see Volume 53], made at the start of
2006. The Christmas script arrived in two
parts for the director, meaning an agonising
two-week wait for the conclusion after he
received the scenes up to the first glimpse
of the Webstar (which the crew nicknamed
Kevin, after Coronation Street mechanic Kevin
Webster). To help establish the style of the
Special, Lyn watched the 2004 thriller The
Bourne Supremacy for inspiration and used
model cars in the tone meeting on Tuesday
6 June to plan the TARDIS chase.

he shooting script - prepared on
Testy 22 June - was titled Doctor
Who 3 Christmas Special 2 but was
generally referred to as Episode 3X.
The script opened with a CGI effects
shot zooming in on London which was
described ‘as series 1 & 2. The Earth, the
Moon... Heading for somewhere new,
this time - West London - Chiswick.’ The
wedding was in ‘a modest, pretty church;
this is a winter wedding, arrange with
white flowers & holly’ and the bridegroom,
Lance Bennett, was described as ‘27,
impossibly handsome’. When Donna
materialised in the TARDIS at the end of
the pre-credit sequence, this was the same

Pre-production

as the scene which concluded Doomsday.
Back at the wedding, Donna’s mum and

dad, Sylvia and Geoff, were described as
‘both Londoners; bit of money, but they
started on a market stall. Geoff’s nice,

Sylvia’s like whiplash,’

Davies described the scene of the Doctor

Left:

The Doctor's
hopes fora
quiet Christmas
are shattered
once again,

and his reluctant companion trying to hail
a cab in their frantic dash to the church as
a ‘fast & zippy sequence. Music like Yello’s
The Race’ in reference to the Swiss electro
band’s 1988 single. When Donna made
for an ordinary phone box in the high
street to call her mum, the stage directions
noted ‘modern, not an old red one’, while
for the start of the TARDIS car chase,
Davies envisaged ‘the taxi cruising off a
slip road, onto the main road - a major
A Road, a motorway if possible.” While
the robot Santas had been seen before in
The Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume
51], this time it was revealed what was
hidden under their festive faces during
Donna’s taxi kidnap: ‘Behind the mask:
a smooth, golden metal head. Black eyes
with a pinprick of white light centre. (No
moveable mouth or features, it’s solid.)’
Thinking about practicalities, when

the TARDIS landed on the
London rooftop, Davies
indicated this should be
‘near the river (or any good
vantage point, but high/
distant enough to hide the
lack of city-wide Christmas
decorations)’. The hotel
where the reception was
being held was a ‘big
free-standing pub/hotel/
function room-type place...
Almost posh, but with a
bit of Harvester. Inside,
the reception had ‘a winter
wedding theme, classily
done... Christmas song -

Connections:
Dinosaurs

h
b

uggesting that the

g hole in the Earth may
ave dinosaurs at the
ottom of it, Donna says,

There's that film, under
the Earth, with dinosaurs.”

he is referring to the 1976
micus fantasy adventure

ilm At the Earth's Core,
which starred Peter

ushing (who had played

Dr Who in two cinema films
in 1965 and 1966).

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Wizzard, I Wish It Could

Be Christmas Every Day’ in
reference to the December
1973 hit. HC Clements was
connected to Torchwood,
the organisation referred
to throughout the 2006
series and seen at work
prominently in Army of
Ghosts/Doomsday. During
the reception, the music
was to be ‘a lively Christmas
version of Song for Ten’, the

Connections:
Poptastic!

Lance's rant about the
popular culture trivia that
Donna spouted included
references to Pringle
crisps, film star couple Brad
Pitt and Angelina Jolie, pop
Star Victoria ‘Posh Spice’
Beckham, hit ITV1 reality
show The X Factor which
débuted in August 2004,
the controversial Atkins
low-carbohydrate diet, and
the Chinese Feng Shui

composed for the closing
scenes of The Christmas
Invasion. The Doctor saw a
tall man in a suit holding a
blonde and laughing: ‘CUT
TO FLASHBACK, a second of the Doctor
& Rose, New Earth [2006 - see Volume 51],
sc.79, he’s catching her after Cassandra’s
left her body. The wedding video man
was ‘Rhodri, 27, Welsh’ who had been
told to send his recording of Donna’s
disappearing trick to You’ve Been Framed,
the home video clips show screened by
ITV since 1990. Like the robot Santas,
the concept of a lethal Christmas tree
had been seen previously in The Christmas
Invasion, although this time Davies

came up with a new way for it to deal

out devastation.

The interior of the Webstar was
outlined as starting on a shot of the
Doctor and Donna on a screen, ‘one of
many, other screens playing all sorts of
images - TV channels, CCTV, as though
the whole Earth is being monitored.

But this isn’t some hi-tech-room; all

the screens are bound together with
webbing, as though a million spiders
have knitted them together. A long, thin,
spidery leg touches the Doctor’s image.
The writer compared the tones of the

practice of space
arrangement.

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if

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song which Murray Gold had

the Empress with those of the tortured
soul from JRR Tolkien’s 1937 fantasy

The Hobbit when noting that she spoke
‘with a clever, joyous, Gollum-y female
voice’. This voice came from ‘a big central
chair, made out of solid web, seen from
behind to obscure the occupant. Except
for the 8 spider’s legs - each about 10 feet
long - radiating out, all moving gently,
caressing the screens. Around the chair:
screens suspended in the web, the throne
centre, inside a globe of monitors, ceiling
to floor. The vessel itself when seen

from the outside was ‘a huge ship - it’s
the size of a tower block - gliding into
orbit. Made out of solid web, and the
peaks of the web have jutted out to form
a three-dimensional star, like the star on
a Christmas card; thin, elegant spires.’

In some deleted dialogue, as the Webstar
approached Earth, the Empress said,
“Tonight, tonight, oh yes, I bring tidings
of great joy. Christmas time. Mistletoe
and wine...” quoting Cliff Richard’s
Number One hit from December 1988.

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The Empress was finally revealed in
the flood chamber as she teleported in:
‘Half-human, half-spider, like a centaur’s
human/horse; the female body juts
forward like the prow of a ship, her body at
waist level becoming all SPIDER, a bulbous
abdomen. But huge; the human bit’s
human-sized, but the abdomen’s about 10
feet. The female has two arms, which thin
out to jointed spider-legs; the other 6 legs
jut out from thorax & abdomen, massive
span, legs in constant motion, pawing
the ground. All a deep, wet red. Her face
is human, with spidery bits; her teeth are
fangs. She giggles, sly, sexual.

Christmas Eve

he suburban street where Donna’s

parents lived was described in the

final scene as ‘the most ordinary
street in the world. Though a bit posh,
good houses.’ When the TARDIS departed
with only the Doctor aboard, ‘it becomes a
streak of light, shooting up... it flares into

a shining white star, in the Christmas
night sky. This vertical take-off rather
than the usual dematerialisation
echoed the ship’s departure implied at
the end of Fury from the Deep [1968 -
see Volume 12].

The adventure took place
largely on Christmas Eve,
presumably in 2007 given
the Doctor’s references to the
events of The Christmas Invasion
(Christmas 2006) being “last
Christmas” (although the prop
Order of Service was dated 25
December 2006, but this was

not seen on screen). Donna and

: ; : Concept

Lance’s abortive wedding began art fora

at 15.00, the Doctor brought Empress of the

Donna back to Earth at 15.06, Racnoss and
the Webstar.

they tried to hail a cab at 15.15
and Donna left the message for her mum
at 15.19. Donna hailed her taxi at 15.20
and by 15.35 was being whisked away in
the wrong direction, with the TARDIS
catching the vehicle up at 15.38 and
Donna bravely jumping to safety. By 15.40,
the pair had arrived back on the London
rooftop where they talked until 15.46,
next being seen alighting from a bus at the
hotel at 16.15 to enter the

reception a couple of minutes Connections:
later. The Doctor surfed Zip up
for HC Clements on the When the Doctor asks

borrowed mobile at 16.30,
the Webstar began its descent
at 16.38, the ambulance had
arrived at 16.45, the Doctor’s
party entered the premises
of HC Clements at 17.20,
reached the basement at
17.25, found the laboratory
at 17.37 and gazed upon the
Empress of the Racnoss at
17.42. The TARDIS rescued
the Doctor and Donna at

Donna if her fiancé

is human, or if he is
“overweight with a zip
around his forehead”,
this refers to the alien
Slitheen family from
Raxacoricofallapatorius
who had used human body
suits in Aliens of London/
World War Three [2005 -

| see Volume 49].

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Right:

Lance Bennett
prepares to tie
the knot.

Connections:
Money maker

® The Doctor's use of his
sonic screwdriver to
extract money froma
cashpoint echoed his use

of the device to arrange
credit while on Satellite
Five in The Long
Game [2005 - see
Volume 49].

17.50 and was dragged back to the corridor
at 17.58, with the Webstar descending

over London at 18.02. The flood started

at 18.07 and the Webstar was destroyed

at 1811 - after which the Doctor made it
snow for Donna at 00.01 on Christmas Day
itself. In terms of the flashbacks, Donna
met Lance on Day A at 10.00, they had

a chuckle over coffees in the stairwell at
12.00 on Day B, Donna claimed that Lance
asked her to marry him (sort of) at 22.00
on Day C, offered to get rid of her dog on
Day D and pleaded “please please please
please” at 12.00 on Day E.

WER QST

ince finishing work on his first series
at the end of March, David Tennant

had taken part in BBC documentary
series Who Do You Think You Are?, about
celebrity family trees, which in April
and May had taken him to Scotland and
Ireland, before starting work on a BBC
One drama called Recovery. He had also
recorded The Ultimate West Wing Challenge
for More4 (screened Friday 28 July) before
managing to enjoy a holiday in Sardinia
with his girlfriend Sophia Myles (who
had played Reinette in The Girl in the
Fireplace |2006 - see Volume 52]), where his
celebrity status meant that even his holiday
was worthy of reporting by
the Daily Mail on Saturday
8 July. And it was while in
Sardinia that he had read
The Runaway Bride, realising,
“What’s important story-wise
is that the Doctor realises he
shouldn't be on his own.”

Of the rest of the cast,
playing the Empress of the
Racnoss was Sarah Parish
who had worked with

Tennant playing lovers in

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the 2004 BBC One drama Blackpool and
as husband and wife in Recovery; “Since

I started doing this job she has been
insistent that she be cast as an alien,”
commented Tennant. Playing Lance, Don
Gilet had previously worked with Parish
in the BBC One drama Cutting It in 2002.

The readthrough for the episode was
held at a hotel in Cardiff on Thursday 29
June. Busy on other projects, Tate was
unable to attend, so Donna’s lines were
read in by Sophia Myles.

Tennant’s bearded look for the making
of Recovery meant that the publicity
photographs taken of him with incoming
companion Freema Agyeman some weeks
earlier were deemed unacceptable, and so
the clean-shaven actor posed with his new
co-star for fresh shots on Monday 3 July.
Agyeman then gave her first interview, to
Doctor Who Magazine journalist Benjamin
Cook, before departing on a holiday until
she was required for work on Smith and
Jones [2007 - see page 54].

Pink amendments were made to the
script on Monday 3 July which extended
the dialogue in which the Doctor tried to
deduce with his medical probe what
force had whisked Donna aboard his
ship; Donna attempting to phone her
mother from the high street; the Doctor’s
realisation about the deadly Christmas
tree; the explanation to Donna of how
Lance had dosed her with huon particles
each day; the Empress ordering the
Doctor’s death, and Donna’s final goodbye
to the Doctor.

Pre-production | Production

ecording got underway forthe | - as Martha Jones was announced with a Above:
2006 Doctor Who Christmas f press release in which Davies commented, a
Special - and indeed the 2007 “Martha won't be featured in this year’s thalReeneee!
series of Doctor Who — at 2pm Christmas Special; we’ve got another
on Tuesday 4 July with a crew surprise in store for that.”
in London recording plate Next day, a few shots of the Chiswick
shots for CGI sequences of the Thames flyover on the M4 were recorded in the

Flood Barrier and the sweltering capital's afternoon to show the taxi in which Donna

skyline which would be augmented by the was whisked away by Santa moving onto
Webstar, as well as the view from the top the main road. David Forman acted as

of HC Clements. Meanwhile, the casting stunt co-ordinator for driver George Cottle
of Freema Agyeman - who had been seen wearing one of Millennium FX’s redesigned
the previous Saturday in Army of Ghosts fibreglass Santa masks, with the vehicle

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in question advertising
Henrik’s, the store where
Rose had worked in Rose
[2005 - see Volume 48].
Corinna McShane doubled
for Catherine Tate.

was again on hand to see Tennant and Tate
at work on the set and practicing riding the
Segways in the car park. Potential overseas
buyers for the series were also at Upper
Boat where the final scene of Doomsday was
re-recorded, mainly because director of

Connections:

Alien war

® The Doctor spoke to
Donna and Lance about
the ‘Battle of Canary
Wharf’ with the Daleks

and Cybermen as seen in
the previous story Army
of Ghosts/Doomsday
[2006 - see

ume 53].

The first main day of
shooting began at 8am on
Thursday 6 July. The TARDIS
had been erected the previous
night on the helipad atop
the IPC building in central
London, also used in a BBC
One ident. Commissioned for a third
series, Doctor Who Confidential was present
to cover David Tennant’s first day back
at work, alongside Catherine Tate whose
involvement with the series was still being
kept a closely guarded secret, to the extent
that she was not listed on the call sheets
and production manager Tracie Simpson
was ‘smuggled’ out of the building under
a coat to draw attention away from Tate’s
presence. Onlookers in central London
quickly spotted Tennant’s distinctive figure
alongside the TARDIS along with an
unidentifiable woman in a wedding dress

Right: :

ae this looking out towards St Paul’s Cathedral.
ring, | thee “I did feel apprehensive, stepping into
bio-damp.”

Billie Piper’s temporary shoes, as it were,”
Tate told the Western Mail. Meanwhile
on the other side of the world, viewers in
New Zealand were able to see the previous
Christmas Special on PrimeTV, with The
Christmas Invasion then appearing on ABC
in Australia two days later.

Travelling back to Wales on the morning
of Friday 7 July, by 11.30am the crew
were ready to start recording Doctor Who
at the new home of the series, Upper Boat
Studios in Trefforest where the TARDIS set
had been erected after two years at Unit Q2
in Newport, having been carefully moved
to avoid damaging its fragile vac-formed
plastic elements. Doctor Who Confidential

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photography Rory Taylor lit the TARDIS
in golds rather than the green and reds
favoured by Ernie Vincze on Doomsday. “We
had the DVD player by the side of the set
to try and recreate it as close as we possibly
could,” commented Tennant. The same day,
Davies received an honorary fellowship
from the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama in Cardiff. Rose’s top from New
Earth was draped over the safety rail on the
control room set, which was also the scene
of recording during Saturday 8, where the
team was shadowed by both Doctor Who
Confidential and On Show, a BBC Wales arts
programme made by Indus Films which
was studying the work of production
designer Edward Thomas.

Over the weekend, in a garbled piece
of guesswork, the Daily Star claimed that
in the ‘three-part special shown over the

Christmas period’ the Doctor’s ‘enemy

is a Cyberwoman played by Caroline
Chikezie’ (which was in fact referring to
Cyberwoman, an episode of the Doctor Who
spin-off series Torchwood); other tabloid
speculation suggested the return of
Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and
even the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy.
Online, Yahoo claimed that Billie Piper
would be returning as Rose in the Special.
However, by 7.45pm on Saturday 8, Tate’s
appearance in the TARDIS had been
revealed to over eight million viewers.

ecording resumed at Atradius
PR esis in Cardiff Bay on Tuesday
11 July for the scenes at HC
Clements and also the various flashback
sequences of Donna’s whirlwind romance,
with a quick trip to The Waterguard Pub
and a final scene on Riverside showing
a city street. Wednesday 12 saw the crew
starting two days of recording Donna’s
disastrous reception at the Baverstock
Hotel in Merthyr Tydfil where DJ Mark
Haste provided his own equipment
(augmented by speakers from Magpie
Electrics in reference to The Idiot’s Lantern

Production

[2006 - see Volume 52]) and played the DJ
in the scenes which were recorded without
music. The venue - named the Manchester
Suite in reference to Platform One in The
End of the World [2005 - see Volume 48] -
also saw series choreographer Ailsa Berk
drilling regular monster actor Paul Kasey
and his fellow Santas.

Blue revisions in the script were issued
on Wednesday 12. This covered the
Doctor’s destruction of the Racnoss in
the flood chamber, which was powerfully

Left:

It suddenly
dawns on the
Doctor that it’s
Christmas Eve
and he hasn't

written as a key scene for the Doctor: ‘THE — doneanyof
DOCTOR. ICONIC SHOT... he’s holding bis christie
shopping.

the remote, the architect of destruction,
and so aloof. So cold. Water pouring down
foreground; around him [flames] belching
upwards; he’s surrounded by water and
fire, like a God of the Elements. Hold on
him; almighty, and unstoppable... He looks
round. Blinks. Dazed. Lost. As though
for a second, he’d become someone else;
someone terrifying.’

With the shoot now extended by a
week, recording continued on the Santa
attack at the hotel on Thursday 13, with
Benjamin Cook of Doctor Who Magazine
on set. Any Effects provided a pneumatic
Santa to be shattered by the
Doctor’s sonic wave, and
David Forman jumped off
a trampette to land in the
ornate wedding cake. David

Connections:

Deep down

® Donna's disbelief
about a secret base

Tennant was then allowed hidden underneath a
jor London landmark
the Doctor's rejoinder,

Friday 14 off, which was
when the church scenes

were recorded at St John Unheard of,” refers in part

the Baptist Church on to the Nestene lair beneath
Trinity Street in Cardiff - the London Eye in Rose
a location selected for its [2005 - see Volume 48],

lack of summer greenery and the UNIT base unde
which would have spoilt the Tower of London in
the Christmas setting. The Christmas Invasion
Organist Philip Thomas [2005 - see Volume 51}.

recorded all the church music

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“mn

)

“Thanks for
nothing,
spaceman!"

between 8am and 9am that morning, but
unfortunately recorded Felix Mendelssohn's
Wedding March from his 1843 A Midsummer
Night’s Dream instead of Richard Wagner’s
Bridal Chorus from his 1850 opera Lohengrin
which was associated with the arrival of
the bride. Doctor Who Magazine was again
on hand to cover production. With the
matrimonial scenes completed, the crew
then held a technical meeting about the
TARDIS car chase sequence which was
scheduled for the weekend.

Only Catherine Tate from the main
cast was required for work on Saturday
15 July, when recording began at 4.30am.
From 3am to 8am, the police formed
a rolling roadblock on the A4232 Ely
link road around Cardiff with the stunt
team co-ordinating five vehicles; the
taxi, the Land Rover Discovery, a red van,
a Vauxhall Vectra and a Saab (also seen
as Gwen Cooper’s car in the Torchwood
episode They Keep Killing Suzie). In The
Guardian, Davies said, “I remember writing
the scene, thinking, ‘We'll be lucky if we

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

manage it, but, you know, they closed off
the road for us.” After recording ended at
3.30pm, Lyn held a special rehearsal with
the children in the back of the Discovery at
the unit base of Cardiff Athletic Stadium.
Meanwhile, Tennant was in London
opening the Ashmount Primary School
Summer Fair in Hornsey which raised
£7,000 for the school, and was covered the
following week in the pages of The Hornsey
and Crouch End Journal and the Islington
Gazette. Next morning, he too was on the
A4232, strapped to a scaffold pole on the
back of a low loader so that he could be
seen in the foreground of shots of the
car chase as he leant out of the TARDIS.
Again, the police were on hand from 3am
to 10am, with the stunt of the taxi door
opening planned first, after which shots
inside the cab with Donna and the robot
Santa were shot on the roads at the West
Point Industrial Estate in Grangetown.
The Guardian listed Russell T Davies
in the Top 100 British Media People on
Monday 17 July, while The Sun carried

NNN NN octuction

a short piece showing “funny girl
Catherine Tate” sporting bridal gown
and sunshades during filming in Cardiff.
Tuesday 18 saw the scenes of the hotel
exterior shot at the New Country House
Hotel in Thornhill, with Bella Emberg
as Mrs Croot, reprising her role from
Love & Monsters [2006 - see Volume 53}.
The scene in Donna’s little pink Smart
car travelling to HC Clements was then
recorded in the nearby streets. Seen in
this sequence were Tennant’s parents,
his sister-in-law and his nieces, Maisie
and Hannah. “They were visiting the set
and got strong-armed into being extra
supporting artists,’ Tennant explained.

he flashback of Lance and Donna in
T the city street was recorded around

8am on Wednesday 19 July outside
the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, a
familiar venue for the Doctor Who team
after its use in Dalek [2005 - see Volume
49] and several subsequent episodes.
Gilet had a quick practice on the Segway
at Upper Boat before the three vehicles
were put into use later that day. Incoming
producer Susie Liggat was acting as first

assistant director for the day,
with Doctor Who Magazine
again on set.

The laboratory section
of the flood chamber was
situated at the Johnsey
Estates factory in Pontypool
where three days of recording
began on Thursday 20
July. The first day saw a
demonstration of the webbed
ceiling effect at lunchtime.
For the scenes with the
Empress, Tate and Tennant acted to
a greenscreen while the spider-woman’s
lines were read in by Catrin Powell.
Meanwhile, shooting in the heatwave
continued to be the subject of pieces in the
Daily Star and Daily Mirror. The morning
of Friday 21 began with Tennant’s
appearance on BBC One’s Breakfast
programme, discussing Recovery with
Susanna Reid in a pre-recorded interview
from weeks earlier. At the business park
that day, Forman again supervised the
stuntwork, which involved a lot of water
and the stars getting rather wet. Tennant
was not required on the Saturday which
focused on the shots of Donna and Lance
trapped in the web with Tate and Gilet
suspended on wires, watched by the crew

Connections:

Off course

® Todivert the TARDIS'
nding place, the Doctor
ses the extrapolator from

Boom Town [2005 - see
Volume 50], which is still
connected to the TARDIS

as in Bad Wolf/The Parting
of the Ways [2005 - see
Volume 50},

Left:
of Doctor Who Confidential. Travelling
After the weekend, both Confidential by Segway,

and members of the public watched
production as the team recorded in the
middle of Cardiff, on and around St Mary
Street, first used by Doctor Who on Rose in
July 2004, with Howells department store
again disguised as Henrik’s. “It was the
craziest week known yet on Doctor Who in
terms of public attention,” commented
Tennant as he and Tate acted against
shopfronts dressed for Christmas in

the summer heatwave. The evil Santas
performed outside the Old Library on The

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Connections:

they're”
on the |

Right:
Don't mess
with Donna.

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Deep pockets

» The Doctor reveals how
heis able to hold an
impossible amount of
things in his pockets;

see like the TARDIS,

Hayes, three taxis were on
hand again, and Any Effects
erected a London Credit
Bank cash machine next to
Waterstones bookshop on
Wharton Street. Ruling out
the use of real money at once,
the production of copies of
genuine notes was barred as
an illegal act. As such, the
design team made their own.
The £10 notes had the Doctor’s face, with
the legends, “I promise to pay the bearer
on demand the sum of ten satsumas,”
and, “No second chances - I’m that sort
of a man,” which were both references to
The Christmas Invasion. It was producer
Phil Collinson’s face that adorned their
£20 equivalents, with the phrase, “There’s
no point being grown up if you can’t be

a little childish sometimes,” a misquote
of the Doctor’s dialogue from the end

of Robot [1974/5 - see Volume 22]. The
shoot was covered by BBC News next day,
and icWales quoted Tate as saying, “I’m
honoured and delighted to be joining
David Tennant aboard the TARDIS. As

a summer job, this’ll do!”

The team was back in central Cardiff
the next afternoon with the TARDIS
parked off Churchill Way. Doctor Who
Confidential was on set again, covering the
night shoot through to 4.30am when a
Challenger tank, Bedford TK Army vehicle
and Army Land Rover joined the London
trappings of taxis and a red bus to provide
verisimilitude for the Webstar’s attack
on London. St Mary Street was closed off
from midnight as bangs and flashes were
detonated by the effects team.

With the On Show crew present,
recording on Wednesday 26 July began at
5.30pm at Upper Boat for material in the
TARDIS and - with a second unit crew - in
Upper Boat’s new dedicated greenscreen

bigger
nside’

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a Sh Th

studio for various wire effects shots such
as Lance’s fall down the shaft and Donna’s
swing on the web performed by stunt artist
Nina Armstrong. The team then moved out
to Princess Avenue in Roath for another
night shoot on the concluding scene
outside Donna’s home. “It was tempting
when we shot the scene where he says,
‘Why don’t you come with me?’ to just
keep saying, ‘Okay then,” admitted Tate
on Doctor Who — Back in Time. Meanwhile,
the Western Mail covered Monday’s shoot
in Paul Carey’s piece Fake notes are Doctor
Who's cash conversion which focused on the
prop banknotes with quotes from ‘a Doctor
Who insider’ about the items.

hursday 27 was a big day for the
T Upper Boat team, as at 4pm various

dignitaries such as Welsh Enterprise
Minister, Andrew Davies were visiting
for the studio’s official opening, covered
by BBC Cymru’s Wales Today. Following
this, recording ran through to 3am with
greenscreen work on shots of the car chase
sequence with the TARDIS and the taxi.
Armstrong again doubled Tate for Donna’s
brave leap from her cab - and at the same

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ys
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time, Freema Agyeman did make-up tests
with a second unit from 6.30pm.

The bulk of the flood chamber scenes
with the Empress were recorded at the
Impounding Station on Newport Docks
from 2pm on Friday 28, with fire and water
effects mingled in with stunt sequences and
various greenscreen elements as Powell
again stood in for Parish, with Doctor Who
Confidential covering the action. Over the
weekend, David Tennant and Sophia Myles
were able to enjoy themselves at Madonna’s
Confessions concert at the Millennium
Stadium on Sunday before returning to
the docks at 1lam, on Monday. This was
the first day that Sarah Parish endured
a two-hour make-up session to be fitted
with prosthetic head, contact lenses and
dentures, before kneeling in a body suit
and arching her back for hours on end to
perform as the Empress. “I'd never worked
with prosthetics before and you have to
really work your face to actually see it
moving,” Parish told the Radio Times. Doctor
Who Confidential covered all the work this
week, with the vast, half-tonne Empress
prop made by Millennium FX and operated

by four technicians beneath the actress
for scenes in the flood chamber and on
the Webstar. These scenes continued on
Tuesday 1 August, alongside shots of the
Thames Flood Barrier not completed the
previous Friday, and also some shots for
the car chase and the first taxi journey,
some of which again saw Armstrong
standing in for Tate. Tuesday 1 August saw -
The Sun running the story Tanks for waking
us, Doc by Emma Cox in which the noise
of the battle staged in central Cardiff was
covered, notably as an American lady called
Laura, returning home from war-torn
Israel, ducked under the bed
when the artillery opened
fire outside her hotel room:
“There were these military
vehicles and guys in uniforms.
There were cameras too, I
figured they might be a news
crew.” The BBC indicated that
the hotel had been warned
in advance about this noisy
night shoot.

On Tuesday 1, a recce for
Block Two was held as Block

Action for
the Empress.

Connections:

Home planet
For the first time since
the return of the series in
2005, the Doctor specifies
that his home planet is
Gallifrey, first seen in the
The War Games [1969 -
see Volume 14] and first
named in The Time Warrior

| [1973/4 - see Volume 20].

DOCTOR WHO | THECOMPLETE HISTORY 25

ty td One drew to an end. Wednesday 2 saw

e Doctor :

Briss han the conclusion of all the Empress
particles. material, including the dialogue recording

for the Webstar scenes. Doctor Who
Magazine was on set to interview Tennant.
Rehearsals on Block Two were then
deferred by a day from Thursday 3 to
allow Tennant to conclude various insert
shots on the TARDIS set and against
greenscreen back at Upper Boat, as well
as having the scene with Donna’s car
re-recorded on the Victoria Park Road

——— -

East with doubles for the Doctor, Donna
and Lance after executive producer Julie
Gardner had disliked the pink car used
on the original version. Charlie Edge
from Mono TV interviewed Davies and
Tennant, with the end of shoot party
held that evening.

Many of the water shots at the climax of
the episode were model inserts performed
by Lucas FX. There was an additional day
of insert shot recording at Upper Boat
with a second unit on the afternoon and
evening of Thursday 19 October, with
Tennant taking time off from 42 [2007 -
see Volume 55] to reperform his close up
in the flames and water, an effect which
assistant director Anna Evans performed
on the test.

PRODUCTION
Tue 4Jul06 Thame
Approach, Woolwich,
Thames Floor Barrier

s Barrier, Barrier
London (London:
; Thames)

Wed 5 Jul 06 A4/M4 Chiswick Flyover,
London (London: Roads/Major Roads)

Thu 6 Jul 06 IPC Bui
Lane, London (Londo

Iding Helipad, Shoe
n: Roof Top)

Fri 7 - Sat 8 Jul O6 Upper Boat Studios,

Trefforest - Studio 4:

Tue 11 Jul 06 Atraci

TARDIS
us Building, Cardiff

Bay (HC Clements: Stairwell/Office/Lift

Shaft); Waterguard P

Riverside, Cardiff (City Street)
Wed 12 - Thu 13 Jul 06 Baverstock

Hotel, Merthyr Tydfil
Function Room)
Fri14 Jul 06 Stjohn

Sun 16 Jul 06 A423

(Hotel

the Baptist Church,
Trinity Street/St John Street, Cardiff (Int/
Ext Church)
Sat 15 Jul 06 A4232 - Ely Link Road,
Cardiff (Taxi/Major Road)

2 - ElyLink Road,

Cardiff (Taxi/Major Road); West Point

Industrial Estate

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ub, Cardiff Bay (Pub);

Grangetown, Cardiff (Int Taxi)

Tue 18 Jul 06 New Country House Hotel,
Thornhill, Cardiff (Outside Hotel/Ext Hotel
Function Room/Hotel Reception/

Donna's Car)

Wed 19 Jul 06 Westgate Street,

Cardiff (City Street); Millennium Stadium,
Westgate Street, Cardiff (Subterranean
Corridor/End of Subterranean Corridor/
Subterranean Corridor #2/End of
Subterranean Corridor #2/Corridor)

Thu 20 Jul 06 Usk Valley Business Park,
Pontypool, Torfaen (Laboratory/

Flood Chamber)
Fri 21 Jul 06 Usk Valley Business Park
(Laboratory/Flood Chamber/Ladder
Shaft/Lower Ladder Shaft)

Sat 22 Jul 06 Usk Valley Business Park
(Flood Chamber/Narrow Corridor)

Mon 24 Jul 06 St Mary Street/Wharton
Street, Cardiff (High Street #2/High
Street/Taxi)

Tue 25 Jul 06 Churchill Way, Cardiff
(Derelict Area); St Mary Street
(Shopping Street)

Wed 26 Jul 06 Upper Boat Studios

- Studio 4: TARDIS/Flood Chamber -
Greenscreen; Princess Avenue, Cardiff
(Suburban Street)

Thu 27 Jul 06 Upper Boat Studios -
Studio 4: TARDIS/Major Road/Taxi
Fri 28 Jul 06 In-pound Station, Newport
Docks, Newport (Flood Chamber
Mon 31Jul 06 Impounding Station
(Webstar/Flood Chamber)
Tue 1 Aug 06 Impounding Station (Flood
Chamber/Ext Thames Flood Barrier);
Newport (Taxi/Road); Newport Docks
(Taxi/ TARDIS/Road)
Wed 2 Aug 06 Impounding Station
(Flood Chamber/Webstar)

Thu 3 Aug 06 Upper Boat Studios -
Studio 4: TARDIS; Greenscreen Stage: HC
Clements/Hotel Function Room/Church/
Flood Chamber/Cashpoint/Taxi/Road/
Phone Box); Victoria Park Road East,
Canton, Cardiff (Donna's Car)

Thu 19 Oct 06 Upper Boat Studios
(Christmas Lights/Doctor close-up/
Robots/Snow)

Post-production

n dubbing, some of Donna’s

narrative dialogue was changed.

Originally the bride told the
Doctor that she had spent
“the last two years at Bowden
Double Glazing” and that at
HC Clements everyone was “all a bit
snotty. Stick thin. Still, 1 thought, I won't
be staying long.” Similarly, the Doctor
commented that Donna’s office on HC
Clements was on the third floor, rather
than the sixth as scripted. When the
army sergeant ordered the troops to fire
at will, this was now on the order of “Mr
Saxon” who had not been mentioned in

headline of the newspaper read by Victor
Kennedy in Love & Monsters [2006 - see
Volume 53], and would be heard again...
When the Doctor introduced Donna to
the TARDIS as she stood in the vessel’s
open doorway, he originally continued
by saying, “And you're safe. I promise
you. Don’t be scared, I promise you,
you're completely safe.” The scene of
pandemonium at the church in the wake
of the bride’s evaporation through the
roof was trimmed; after Sylvia wondered

| if her daughter was dead and was placated

by her husband, the Vicar interceded to

say, “Excuse me, I’m sorry to interrupt
at a time of... well, I’m not quite sure

Asmoky

the script; this name had appeared in the i TARDIS.

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what the word is. But regardless of your
circumstances, there is an equally pressing
concern. I have another wedding booked
for three thirty.” “But Donna disappeared,”
wailed Sylvia, “you saw it!” “Indeed,”
agreed the man of the cloth, “and we can
discuss making a mockery of the church

at a more convenient time. Nevertheless,
if she’s not here in 20 minutes, then I’m

afraid... the wedding is off.”

A: Donna frantically made for the high

street phone box, her diatribe about
hating Christmas and spending it in

Morocco continued, “What do you care
anyway?” “There’s gotta be something,”
said the Doctor, “you didn’t zap across
space for nothing -” “You're not dissecting
me!” exclaimed Donna. “Keep your alien
probes to yourself.” As she was whisked
away onto the motorway, the irate bride
yelled at her mechanical kidnapper, “you
are dead, you are so dead - oy! I’m talking
to you! I demand to be taken to Chiswick!”
When the Doctor used the sonic to make
the robot Santa’s head spark, he originally
explained, “All I can do is lock him in
position,” as he shouted to Donna.

Following Donna’s brave jump from the
speeding taxi into the hovering TARDIS,
a short scene outside St Mary’s Church
was cut. A well-built middle-aged bride
had arrived at the church with her rather
thin father who hurried inside, whereupon
the vicar informed Donna’s party, “I’m
sorry. But it’s just too late,” as he slammed
the door in their faces. Lance, Sylvia
and Geoff were stunned while the guests
looked glum. “Well then,” said Lance as the
congregation turned and walked off.

In the rooftop scene, after the Doctor
sadly considered how the Tyler family was
now gone, Donna angrily retorted, “I’ve

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just missed my own wedding and been
kidnapped by Father Christmas. Sympathy
is limited.” “Yeah,” agreed the Doctor.
There was then a longer cut after the
fuming bride told her companion to stop
bleeping her with his sonic screwdriver.
“Sorry,” apologised the Doctor. “S’pose
you're right though,” admitted Donna,
“Nothing special about me. That’s what
the wedding’s for. My one big day.”
“Rubbish,” retorted the Doctor. “I beg
your pardon?” exclaimed Donna. “That’s
just rubbish,” repeated the stranger.
“Oh,” snapped the bride, “and you'd
know, would you?” “Yes!” insisted the
Doctor. “Oo you're spiky,” taunted Donna.
“T’m spiky?” exclaimed the traveller in
amazement. “Yes!” insisted Donna. Having
told the ‘Martian’ about HC Clements,
the secretary admitted, “I dunno, I don’t
understand the technology, I just handle
the canteen accounts. Middle of the City,
it’s all alfalfa.”

Following this skyline scene, two
scenes of the Doctor and his reluctant
companion making their way to the latter’s

reception were cut. Outside the hotel, the
Doctor and Donna hopped off a bus to
applause from the other passengers as Mrs
Croot from Love ¢ Monsters called out,
“Congratulations! Oh, you make a lovely
couple!” “Yes, we do!” called back Donna,
grabbing the Doctor’s hand and holding it
up triumphantly while muttering sideways
to the groom, “Go with it.” The Doctor
smiled alongside her as the bus pulled off.
“Thank you. Bye bye. Thank you,” called
out the bride until the vehicle had gone -
whereupon she dropped her companion’s
hand instantly and instructed him, “Don’t
get ideas.” Crossing the street, they
arrived at the hotel, as Donna explained,
“We booked the honeymoon suite and
everything. But I checked in this morning,
I can get changed, and get my stuff, and
my mobile, I can start phoning round.
Ohhh...” Suddenly she stopped, upset.
“What is it?” asked the Doctor. “We were
gonna have the reception here. I spent

so much time planning it. Now the whole
thing’s cancelled.” This was replaced by

a new voice-over from Donna about

how everyone at the reception would
be heartbroken. Which - of course -
they weren't...

When the Doctor realised that
the biodamper he had given Donna
was ineffective and dashed out into
the reception area, originally he was
confronted by three Santas. Fortunately,
they turned around to reveal that they
were just three old guys dressed up - but
he then saw the two metallic Santas
outside. The journey from the reception
to HC Clements was also omitted. After
the Doctor asked Lance for a lift, Donna
said, “Hold on, have you been drinking?”
“Um,” hesitated Lance, “I’ve had a couple,
yeah.” “No, I'll do the driving,” announced
his bride, forthrightly. “You’re not insured
to drive my car,” pointed out the groom.
“All right then,” said Donna, “We'll go
in mine.” Donna’s car turned out to bea
very small Smart car which trundled along
a suburban road at a cautious 20 mph.
Inside Donna was at the wheel with Lance
beside her and the Doctor crunched up in
the small back seat. “Not exactly a chase,
is it?” observed the Time Lord. “Oy, there’s
a speed limit,” retorted the bride, pointing
out, “I’m not going to jail in my wedding

The whole
of space Is
presented
to Donna.

What is Lance
up to?

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dress.” “It’s like driving a hairdryer,” said
the Doctor. “Hold on. Speed bumps,”
warned Donna as the car lumbered over
them. “That’s all right. No rush,” said the
Doctor sarcastically as the vehicle crawled
over the sleeping policemen at only 10
miles per hour.

When the Empress first materialised in
the flood chamber, she declared, “Behold,
thine eyes dazzle!” and Donna - with all
her heart - admitted, “I hate spiders.”
After the Empress agreed that the Racnoss
were wiped out apart from her, the Doctor
originally asked, “How did you escape?”
“Oh my pitiful hibernation,” replied
the behemoth, “I fled to the edge of the
universe, and drifted in silence, in the
cold, in the dark. But then! Ohh, but then!
These oh-so-curious humans detected
something, they went digging, down and

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aa
down and down...” “What is it?” asked
the Doctor, indicating the shaft, “what’s
down there?”

“Still doesn’t get it, does she?” Lance
originally remarked as the Doctor realised
how Donna had been dosed with huon
particles; this was to lead in to a flashback
to the office of HC Clements with Lance
walking away from giving Donna a coffee
as the glow of huon particles danced
around his glass coffee jug. “And those
Christmas trees at the reception,” noted
the Doctor, “they had to be planned in

| advance.” Explaining why he had joined

forces with the Empress, Lance originally
told the Doctor, “There I was, working

in the City, every day, I was climbing that
ladder. Then it happened. Your Cybermen.
Your Daleks in the sky. Everything I'd spent
my life doing seemed so small.” What the

Empress could give him was “not power,
not money, that’s down there with the
small stuff”. As he declared that all they
needed was his bride, Lance said to the
Doctor, “You can be downsized.”
Following the Doctor and Donna’s
escape in the TARDIS, Lance said to the
Empress, “There’s got to be some way of
getting her back - this Doctor, she said
he was Martian, what do we know about
Martians?” After his cohort declared that
another key must be cut, the luckless
groom asked, “... but how do we do that?”
The answer - a couple of scenes later - was
Lance being force-fed huon particles with
the Empress originally saying, “Drink
deep! My court jester,” and her victim
pleading, “- but it’s not gonna work,
Donna took six months to catalyse.”

atching the creation of Earth

from the TARDIS doorway, the

Doctor originally explained to
Donna, “The Racnoss are being hunted to
extinction. So they hide! Brilliant! They
sit in the dust, and make a whole planet
grow around them! They hibernate, the
universe moves on, and they’re forgotten.”
“So...” pondered Donna, “the Racnoss
created the Earth?” “They created a
natural gravitational effect,’ agreed the
Doctor. “You made that planet what it is.
You lot.” The Empress’s command to the
roboforms to bind Lance was dropped,
along with her comments to the groom
as he hung over the shaft, “Consider this
a privilege. You will unlock the Secret
Heart.” While Donna and Lance were
trapped in the web together, Donna
pathetically recalled, “But that night in
Alicante. We were happy then. Wasn't
that nice?” “What’s the capital of Spain?”
asked the groom. “Barcelona?” ventured

Donna. “How many times?!” exclaimed
an exasperated Lance.

As the Webstar descended, Donna was
to react to a terrible noise, like thousands
of marching legs, which came from the
shaft. “My children. Ohhh, they survive!”
explained the Empress. “How many of
them?” asked Donna. “A million born
every minute,” gloated the spider-woman.
After the Empress’ comment that the
Doctor-man amused her, she continued,
“T might almost consort with him.” “No
thanks,” declined the Doctor, “I’m single,
these days.” “What would be the point of
staying here? This world is dying,” stated
the Racnoss, after which a short scene
of the army arriving in London to deal
with the Webstar was also dropped. After
the Empress teleported to her ship, two
short scenes were cut; the first saw the
Doctor helping the screaming Donna to
a maintenance door to escape the flood
chamber, while the second, on the Webstar,
had the raging Empress saying, “Maximum
power! If the Racnoss must perish, then
so shall mankind -” The final trim was as

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The Doctor is
not the man
Donna had
planned on
spending
her wedding
day with.

The robot
Santas spread
the Christmas
cheer.

Donna told her new friend that he needed

somebody: “What’s the point of seeing that
stuff, all on your own?” she asked him.

Christmas music

s specified in the script, the zoom-in

to London seen in Rose [2005 - see

Volume 48], The Christmas Invasion
[2005 - see Volume 51] and Army of Ghosts
[2006 - see Volume 53] was used again to
open the show, but adapted to zoom in
on Chiswick. CGI work included Empress’
blinking eyes, a refined TARDIS model for
the car chase and even making the summer
trees more of a wintery brown. When the
Doctor searched for Torchwood on the
guest’s mobile phone, images were seen
of bbc.co.uk tie-in websites for Torchwood
House (from Tooth and Claw {2006 - see
Volume 51]), Leamington Spa Lifeboat
Museum, UNIT and Guinevere One (from
The Christmas Invasion). The producer and
director credits were superimposed over the
Doctor and Donna in the TARDIS.

“We needed a song that reflected the

Doctor’s inner thoughts whilst also being

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something you could imagine a crowd

at a wedding dancing to,” said composer
Murray Gold of the reception, which led

to his composition Love Don’t Roam. This
Northern Soul-inspired track was recorded
by Neil Hannon, the frontman for the
Northern Irish band The Divine Comedy,
on Tuesday 26 September at Windmill Lane
Recording Studios in Dublin while Hannon
was recording the previous Christmas’
vocal Song for Ten for a forthcoming
soundtrack CD. Joining this in the finished
programme would be Slade’s December
1973 hit Merry Xmas Everybody, also heard
in The Christmas Invasion.

The incidental score for the episode was
recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of
Wales in late November, with Gold asking
arranger Ben Foster to listen to Nino Rota
and Leonard Bernstein for influences.

As with The Christmas Invasion, the 1857
composition Jingle Bells was used to herald
terror from a Christmas tree.

The opening titles featured the
revised version of the series logo with
the metallic background replaced by
a yellow fire effect.

Publicity

» For the most part, press attention
focused on the guest star of The
Runaway Bride. ‘Look at my face... it’s
hard not to by Rob Driscoll of Western
Mail on Saturday 28 October had
Tate discussing her guest appearance

|
although “sworn to secrecy” about the
plot but explaining that her three-and- NX

a-half-year-old daughter Erin loved
the series: “She was very excited when
I got that part.” Tate was the subject of
a similar piece trading on one of her
catchphrases, A Robot Santa?... I Ain’t
Bovvered by Rick Fulton in the Daily

Record on Thursday 30 November. » Radio Times previewed the top 20 Above:
television Christmas programmes a
‘ heads below
» The motorway chase was shown at on Tuesday 28 November, with The the Thames to
the Children in Need concert on Sunday Runaway Bride safely slotted in at uncover the

19 November while the orchestra RaciGe> say

provided its incidental score live;
singer Gary Williams delivered a live
version of Love Don’t Roam at the

Number 1. On Friday 1 December, the
BBC announced that Radio 1 would
host a three-hour pre-recorded Doctor
Who Special on Christmas Day leading
up to the broadcast of The Runaway
Bride; this would see Tennant acting

same event.

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as DJ alongside Jo Whiley between ae
4pm and 7pm when the Special man Lance,

would air. Joining in with the festive
spirit, bbc.co.uk’s Doctor Who website
was revamped to feature an advent
calendar with daily treats for fans of
the series (including a full trailer for
the Special on Tuesday 12 December).
TV trails for the special began on
Saturday 2 December, as part of
generic seasonal items.

» The Christmas Invasion was scheduled
by BBC One for 4.25pm on Sunday

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appeared on the cover of that week’s
pre-Christmas Radio Times. The full
Christmas Day schedule was finally
confirmed on Tuesday 5 December; in
addition to The Runaway Bride there
was a special edition of Doctor Who
Confidential on BBC One at 1pm.

» The Christmas double-issue of
Radio Times started to appear from
Wednesday 6 December, with the
festive broadcasts promoted via a
two-and-a-half page feature, Nick
Griffiths’ The Claus of Doom, which
spoke to Tennant, Tate and Parish as
well as letting slip to revealing some
details of the new series. The show
was selected by television editor Alison
Graham in Today’s Choices with shots
of the Doctor, Donna and the Santas,
with a picture of Donna on the phone
accompanying the listing. Also inside
was the first of four free CDs, the first
part of Tennant’s reading of The Feast

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of the Drowned which had been released
by BBC Audiobooks in July 2006;

this title was followed by a similar
double-disc reading, The Stone Rose.

® Again the tabloids devoted space

to the impending special, with The
Sun covering all the running done
by the Breathless Bride on Saturday

9 December, and the following night
the cast and crew were treated to
the first screening of the finished
Christmas Special. Love Don’t Roam
was released on Silva Screen’s CD
Doctor Who — Original Television
Soundtrack on Monday 11 December
after a week’s delay. Julie Gardner
and David Tennant recorded an online
commentary for the Special

on Wednesday 13 December.

» The Christmas Special was noted

as a festive highlight by BBC One
controller Peter Fincham when he

was Simon Mayo’s guest on Radio

5 Live on Friday 15 December, and
Fincham quashed rumours about

the show being axed again. The first
full trail for The Runaway Bride aired
the next day. A press screening of the
finished programme took place at
London’s Soho Hotel on Monday 18
December, attended by Tennant, Tate
and Parish, and covered that evening
by Wales Today on BBC Wales; the three
stars were also interviewed by Julian
Carey for Doctor Who — Back in Time on
BBC Radio Wales. In a Q&A session
afterwards, Tennant, when asked when
he was leaving, said, “I try to remain
as non-committal on that as possible.
I think I shall maintain that stance
today!” That afternoon Tate appeared

on Channel 4’s The New Paul O’Grady
Show to say how much she enjoyed her
appearance as Donna. When the Daily
Mail covered the launch, they noted
that having destroyed the Thames,
Tennant suggested that future targets
in the capital could be Buckingham
Palace and Madame Tussauds.
Interviews with the three stars from
the launch were screened the following
day on two BBC One shows - the
morning Breakfast programme with
Emma Jones, and that afternoon’s
Newsround with Lizo Mzimba - as well
as GMTV on ITV1 where critic Richard
Arnold commended the Special. The
Tuesday 19 edition of Radio 4’s Front
Row saw Time Out television editor
Alkarim Jivani comparing the Doctor
Who Christmas episode to the TV

fixture that the Christmas editions
of The Morecambe and Wise show had
once been. Russell T Davies then
spoke to Julian Carey for his radio
show on Wednesday 20.

» Friday 22 December saw Davies
interviewed by Jonathan Wright in
The Guardian, commenting of The
Runaway Bride, “One thing that people
have been saying is that it’s like a
Comic Relief sketch, but it’s not...

It’s a proper hour-long drama and
Catherine Tate has a proper part.”

The same day, Richard Evans of BBC
Radio Wales spoke to Julie Gardner.
The next morning, the same paper
revealed that Doctor Who — The Official
Annual 2007, published by Penguin
and BBC Children’s Books, had made
history by knocking the traditional
Beano Annual into second place, selling
271,000 copies. On Christmas Eve,

a special Christmas Doctor Who story
entitled Deep and Dreamless Sleep,
penned by series writer Paul Cornell,
appeared in the Culture section of the
Sunday Times, and listeners to BBC
Radio Wales could hear Jingle Hell, a
new edition of the Doctor Who — Back in
Time documentary series at 1.30pm.

» On Christmas Day, Doctor Who was
even a story on the BBC Radio 2 news
because of Catherine Tate’s appearance
as Donna that evening, and on an
edition of Radio 4’s everyday story of
country folk The Archers later that day,
Ed and Will Grundy reconciled their
differences to watch The Runaway Bride
together (“Not too bad once you get
used to Billie Piper not being in it,”
said Eddie Grundy).

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Partners
in crime.

Above: The broadcast of The Runaway

Bride was followed by trailers for

the début episode of The Sarah Jane
Adventures and the final two episodes
of Torchwood, all due for broadcast the
following week on New Year’s Day.
The main competition for the Special
was an extended hour-long edition

of Emmerdale on ITV1, but The
Runaway Bride drew in almost two
million more viewers, making it the
tenth most-watched programme in
Christmas week.

fashionably late
to her wedding
reception.

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On Boxing Day, The Sun carried the
item Doctor’s fans cash in on notes in
which it was claimed that the prop
£10 notes used on the shoot had been
grabbed by passers-by and were now
being sold on eBay, with a nameless
collector commenting: “The going
rate for these notes is £50.” The
Times meanwhile gave The Runaway
Bride an enthusiastic review, noting
that “the TARDIS had its coolest
ever moment - bouncing along the
Westway in a shower of sparks... It

looked absolutely thrilling.” That
evening, BBC Two Wales screened the
On Show programme about the work
of Edward Thomas, Designs on Doctor
Who, narrated by former Doctor Tom
Baker, at 7pm.

The episode was repeated on BBC One
at 1.50am on the morning of Sunday
31 December as part of The Sign Zone;
this was the first time that an episode
of Doctor Who had been screened by
the BBC with in-vision sign language
interpretation for the deaf, on this
occasion performed by Kate Holder.
During this screening a caption was
superimposed directing viewers to
BBC Two for breaking news on the
execution of Saddam Hussein. On
Friday 12 January, the Media Guardian
reported that fans of the show were
attempting to get Love Don’t Roam into
the Top 40 Music Chart via downloads,
with the story then repeated in The Sun
the next day and covered on Newsround
on Friday 19.

Donna’s Christmas outing was
something Catherine Tate thoroughly
enjoyed, telling the Daily Record: “I
had a blast working on Doctor Who. I'd

never done a production where the
special effects are so vast that they
can't actually produce them until you
finish the show. That was brilliant.”

Alone again.

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The Runaway Bride Tuesday28December2010 140pm-2.40pm BBCOne 60'16" 154M - -

‘Broadcast as part of The Sign Zone with in-vision signing 2.25am-3.25am in Scotland and Wales

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Merchandise

Right:

Screen shots
from David
Tennant's
video diary
featured on the
DVD release,

Below:
Character
Options’
Empress of the
Racnoss figure,

he Runaway Bride was first

released on BBC DVD in April

2007 along with the Music and

Monsters Doctor Who Confidential

special. In November 2007

it was released as part of The
Complete Third Series box set. Among the
special features were: David Tennant’s
Video Diary; an audio commentary by
David Tennant; outtakes; deleted scenes; a
cut-down version of Doctor Who Confidential
and an audio description for the episode.
This was reissued as part of The Complete
Series 1-4 in October 2009, and in August
2014. Issue 14 of GE Fabbri’s Doctor Who
— DVD Files featured The Runaway Bride in
July 2009. In November 2015, The Runaway
Bride was included on BBC Worldwide’s
The 10 Christmas Specials limited-edition
DVD/Blu-ray box set.

The track Love Don’t Roam, performed

by Neil Hannon, was featured on Silva
Screen’s Doctor Who: Original Television
Soundtrack in December 2006. Several cues
were included on the Doctor Who: Original

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Empress

Television Soundtrack: Series 3, also from
Silva Screen in November 2007. Tracks
from the 2006 Christmas Special were

also included on Silva Screen’s four-CD
Doctor Who — The 50th Anniversary Collection,
released in December 2013, and later on
the 11-CD version of the same title in
September/November 2014.

In 2006, BBC Worldwide issued two
postcards promoting The Runaway Bride
of the Tenth Doctor, and Donna and
the TARDIS.

Character Options issued an action
figure of the Empress of the Racnoss for
their 5” range in February 2007. In January
2007, Woolworths sold Empress of the
Racnoss pyjamas. Titan produced T-shirts
for The Runaway Bride in 2013. &

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Merchandise | Cast and credits

Cast and credits

CAST

David Tennant The Doctor
Catherine Tate Donna Noble
Saralt: Panishy cucneitannancricneronnavnndn Empress
DONIGHO@E isc cscusinccosneic Lance Bennett
Howard Attfield once Geoff Noble
JACQUELINE KING |... Sylvia Noble |
TV@VOF G@OFG@S sissies Vicar
Glen Wilson............ . Taxi Driver
Krystal Arche fimo nc consnonmsngncnrcnynes Nerys
RHR OGHEMENIT iis cncicscersmionionmencanenitie Rhodri
Zafirah Boateng 0.0.0.0... Little Girl
Paull [email protected]:::c::ccinicininneciearsaninen Robot Santa
UNCREDITED

Bella EMDeTG.......:cccccssssssisssesees Mrs Croot!
Diane Dawson... Older Bridesmaid
Ellie Hand, Tilly Mathews..... Young Bridesmaids
KOdjO TSAKPO wc Best Man
Owen Staton, George Onyeahasi........... Ushers
Sandra ScOte cssuscnmsmonncasouse Groom’s Mum
ASH Crome@y).c8 cccrciscsaimnaiernuucinnn Groom's Dad
Gareth EVANS... ccs Photographer
Marcus MagGi0..n Handsome Man
Ben [email protected] Mobile Phone Man
Richard Price, Zak Humpage................ Gay Men
Ella Hunt, Alexandros Allen, Kyde Marrable,
Ellie HANSON... Wedding Guest Kids

Simon Hamilton, Sophie Luckie, Kyle

Legall, Ben Callaghan, Gail Felton, Mike
Britton Jones, Gary Devonish, lan Wilson,
Sarah Vaughton, Gwen Hestor, Kwesi Gepi
Attee, Euneta Waithe, Susanna Jon, Susie
Coats, Justin Walters, Joanna Ruiz, June
Simmonds, Cynthia Reynolds, Jorja Welsh,
Tony Honekar, Maria Ohrwall, Laura Jones,
Peter Kemp, Bobby Tee, John Richardson,
Beryl Cornish, Eddie Hunt, Michelle

Wignall, Biannca Jones, Keena Anderson,
Dave James, David Ulett, lan Coather, Mark
Gottshalk, Leroy Ingram, Kuda Kaliyati, Jill
Alexander, Darren Clarke, Aleta Morgan,
Maddie Rie@G............ ccs Wedding Guests
Corinna McShane.........ccs Double for Donna
Daniel Radbourne, Chris Ilston......... Lads in Car
Richard Walker, Duncan Collins, Winston
Pyke, Clare Brice, Rhi Louise, Helen
Steadman, Alejandro DaSilva, Sadie Reid,
Alison Clist, Johnson Yakoob, Mike Williams,
Rachel Doe, Neil Ford, Craig Ford..,Pedestrians
Jo Standing, Lamorna Waters....... Whistle Ladies

Darrell He@athhiaiiinusnieninonmemonnnnn Taxi Driver
Carl WatsOM uci Double for Taxi Driver
Mark Chappell... Big Issue Seller
Andrew Sweet... ..Cash Point Man
Ken Hosking, Adam Sweet.................. Evil Santas
LOFraiNe JOSEPH... £10 Lady
George Cottle... Stunt Santa Driver
Tina Maskell... Stunt Driver Mum
Richard Hamnett..............0005 Stunt Driver Smart
Gary Hoptrough, Rob Hunt............. Stunt Drivers

Jack Ruiz Rodriguez, Ellie Ruiz Rodriguez...
sotsnsiaiotesvia}108is AE TGLEL A REEEEE OFT Children in Car
Margarette Damsell, Harry Damsell...................

soindin Si eiernesniigaaaee aaa ese NTE TE Grandparents
Nina Armstrong................ Stunt Double for Donna
Daniel Geoff... Double for The Doctor
Gerald Bowman...........c005 Father of Lucky Bride*

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The robot
Santas prepare
for action.

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Samantha Hartley............:ccccen Lucky Bride*
Samantha Bennett, Natascha Motee, Brian
Taher, Helen Lennox, Helen Cuthbert,
Deborah Light, Miriam Akhtr, Neil Partridge,
Will Downie, Richard Beavis....... Office Workers

RICH ARC BCAVIS ii iciesiccirinsienssisscissnresissn Barman
Sousilla Pillay, Stephen Evane........... Passers-by
Right: COCCI rence asuiesiisinissessssssisssssinn Bus Passengers?
“A little bit of Clare Reynolds, Paul O'BFiaM.............00.0008 Staff
lippy, darling, MOPAR RAE MMPS U rrr sarc vet cvrsansyaisaccscesetivesssisesssssssorssssssvcens D}
shine? SII i giciesnes seins 3 Old Santas!
Richard Tunesi, Joe White, Pete Symonds,
Mark Llewellyn Thomas...............005 Evil Santas Pink, Stephen Bracken Keogh, Daryl Adcock,
URKMOWM cies 2 Paramedics Nick Cater, Nicholas Wilkes, Matthew Jones,
RSPACEROUUID crrisccprisstccserissesssssssisessssin Cake Covered Man Paul SparrowhaM........cccccsses Crowd ADR

Unknown... .. Double for Lance Catrin Powell Stand in for Empress!
ANAS OV erie ti icici Hero Gold Head
Ken Hosking, Richard Tunesi, Adam Sweet.... Not in finished programme
BPM ere ne ie rrsecisssasses ecssccocsenasssssssocsenn Gold Head Robots
BEPEGBEEMEN cy ictsscisssccsesenssesinees Taxi Driver | CREDITS
Durin@ HOWE! IL 0... Mum Written by Russell T Davies
REAM NUN SSIUMEANRCESD oeresescsssccstecyovessesesesssoyssssvsssescsvsssossesscsssssees Dad Producer: Phil Collinson
Lesley Dring, Annette Balaam, Antony Director: Euros Lyn
Asis, Yolaris Khan, Sally Martin, Lawrence 1st Assistant Director; Peter Bennett
Llewellyn, Kaman Chan, Dan Gough, Chester uncredited: Susie Liggat, Richard Bird]
Durrant, Chris Swann, Tom Rawles, Adam 2nd Assistant Director: Steffan Morris
Young, Rebecca Harford, Robert Skipmore, uncredited; Anna Evans, Dan Mumford]
Toni Rice, Poppie Skold, Nick Madge, 3rd Assistant Director: Sarah Davies
Hayley Jones, Jim Fox, Gemma Hobbs, uncredited: Anna Evans, Dan Mumford]
Mark Sterling, Lindsay Summers, Caroline Location Managers: Patrick Schweitzer,
Bennett, Greg Bennett, Stephen Evans, Gareth Skelding
Antonia HafrTison oe Pedestrians Unit Manager: Rhys Griffiths
RRS CONOR rtttetetea terrae dasusxeesnccsssssrevsssens 2 Policemen Production Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk
Eddy Martin, Carl Watson, Dennis Gregory, Production Secretary: Kevin Myers
Andrew Michell, Bryan Williams, Craig Production Assistant: Debi Griffiths
Bowden, Richard Harris, Chris Alderman, Production Runner: Victoria Wheel
Jonathan Holcroft, Kay-D Mills................ Soldiers Drivers: Wayne Humphreys, Malcolm Kearney
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Unknowns. Bedford TK Transport/ Floor Runner: Barry Phillips

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Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics
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Costume Assistants: Sheenagh O’Marah,
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Post Production Supervisors: Samantha Hall,
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THE RUNAWAY BRIDE = »® stor ve

Profile

Below:
Sarah Parish as

Anna Rampton,

Director of
Better in WIA.

Empress of the Racnoss

orn Sarah Janet Mary Parish

on 7 June 1968 in Yeovil,
Somerset, hers was a performing
family - father Bill, a helicopter
engineer, had previously sung

in quartet The Gay Batchelors.
The youngest of three children, sister Julie
became a music teacher, while musician
brother John Parish has worked with artists
including PJ Harvey. Mother Thelma (née
Cromarty) was deputy headmistress at the
local Preston School, which Sarah attended,
but also taught ballet and was involved
with the nearby Swan Theatre and Yeovil
Operatic Society. Sarah’s first performance
came in a village panto aged two, as a pearl
in an oyster.

Hoping to become a dancer, after
auditioning unsuccessfully for the Royal
Ballet School at 11 she joined Yeovil Youth
Theatre, which her mother helped run.

— DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

ee NG

Parish studied at Yeovil College before
heading to London at 18, where she trained
at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.
She later worked on a jewellery market stall,
in a chocolate shop, and toured Italy with
the Theatre in Education group.

Occasional stage roles included The Nose
(1994, The Attic, Wimbledon and Old Red
Lion, Islington) and the same year brought
her TV début, in an episode of The Bill
broadcast 10 November 1994.

Her real career breakthrough came as
‘Vera’ in a 1994 TV advert for Mancunian
beer Boddington’s Bitter, seen sunbathing
on Blackpool beach. This much-aired ad
saw Parish attract northern parts despite
her West Country upbringing.

She featured in Ben Elton’s Popcorn
(1996/7, Apollo, London) and had a small
TV part in Babes in the Wood (1998), before
taking her first leading TV role, as Dawn
Rudge in Peak Practice (1997-9).

Supporting TV roles followed in Beast
(2000), City Central (2000) and Kiss Me Kate
(2000) before becoming Amanda in drama
Hearts and Bones (2000/1), featuring in crime
drama The Vice (2001) and taking a starring
role in psychological thriller Sirens (2002).

It was four seasons of frothy hairdressing
drama Cutting It (2002-5) that really
established Parish as a television name,
playing Manchester clipper Allie Henshall.

Further top billing came as Annie Naylor
in legal drama Trust (2003) and as Beatrice
in ShakespeaRe-Told: Much Ado About Nothing
(2005S). 2006 brought a guest role in Marple
and the part of a TV news reporter in
Hollywood sitcom pilot Girls on the Bus.

She was GP Katie Roden in successful
female ensemble drama Mistresses (2008-
10), starred in TV one-off Sex, the City and
Me (2007), guested as Lady Catrina in Merlin
(2009) and appeared in lavish international
mini-series The Pillars of the Earth (2010) and
Hatfields and McCoys (2012).

Recent recurring TV roles include
Jenny Bremner in medical drama Monroe
(2011/12), Queen Pasiphae in Atlantis
(2013-15), Margaret Dalton in costume
medical drama Breathless (2013) and
Marjorie Stutter in Amazon’s The Collection
(2016). Guest roles include Poirot (2013).

Her comedy roles include Anna Rampton,
Director of Better, in WIA (2014/15) and
Cheryl Fairweather in two series of Trollied
(2015/16).

Her film début had been as a receptionist
in Michael Winner’s Parting Shots (1999);
more recent movies include The Wedding
Date (2005) and Holiday (2006).

Parish ran her own production
company, Benny Productions, from 2005
and directed a BBC Director’s Debut entry
Baby Boom (2007).

She came to Doctor Who after asking
David Tennant to speak to writer Russell T
Davies and “make sure he makes me a really
horrible villain with some sort of ridiculous
prosthetic costume”. As the Racnoss, Parish
had her legs ensconced in a huge spider

costume and was unrecognisable in
make-up, headpiece and fangs.

Parish has appeared several times
alongside David Tennant: in musical thriller
Blackpool (2004); in Recovery (2007) as
wife to Tennant playing her brain-injured
husband; and in Series Three of Chris

| Chibnall’s Broadchurch (2017). Tennant also
} narrated comedy WIA. She joked about the

association in The Guardian in 2007: “In 20

years’ time we'll probably be doing a ropey

old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston.”
She was ‘married’ to Peter Capaldi for

| single comedy drama Aftersun (2006).

In real life Parish married actor James
Murray on 15 December 2007, having met
on Cutting It. They left Islington in 2006 for
rural Alton, Hampshire, relocating in 2014
to nearby Ovington. Their first baby Ella-
Jayne was born in 2008, but died aged just
eight months from a rare genetic condition.
They later created charity the Murray-
Parish Trust to raise funds for a children’s
intensive care unit in Southampton. Second
daughter Nell was born in 2009. &

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Profile

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

2007 SERIES

+2007 series |

he 2007 series of Doctor Who
began without either of the
lead actors who had relaunched
the show with such success in
2005. David Tennant had by
now proved that the public
could happily accept a new leading man}
his peppier, more anarchic Doctor proving
just as popular as Christopher Eccleston’s
quirky but wounded Time Lord. As the
audience identification figure, however,

-
_
a

Billie Piper’s Rose were arguably the bigger

shoes to fill. She was the person after

whom the first episode of the relaunch was

named - she was massively popular with

the public and her departure had broken

hearts both on and off screen. Indeed, Rose a
Tyler casts a shadow over the whole of the

2007 series, much to her replacement’s acum
chagrin. Her name is even the last word

uttered in the first adventure without her

(The Runaway Bride |2006 - see page 6])

2007 series

® Smith and Jones

® The Shakespeare Code

® Gridlock
(see Volume 55)

® Daleks in Manhattan/
Evolution of the Daleks
(see Volume 55)

® The Lazarus Experiment
(see Volume 55)

» 42
(see Volume 55)

»® Human Nature/
The Family of Blood
(see Volume 56)

» Blink
(see Volume 56)

» Utopia/
The Sound of Drums/
Last of the Time Lords
(see Volume 56)

1S UNREQGUITED LOVE THAT
EVENTUALLY LEADS TO MARTHA LEAVING
THE TARDIS AFTER JUST ONE SER!

THE DOCTOR'S SIDE.’

DOCTOR WHO | THECOMPLETE HISTORY 45

aus es

The Judoon
confirm that
Martha Jones
is human, with
non-human
traits.

and the Doctor mentions her often over
the course of the series, the theme of which
seems to be loss and loneliness.

After that temporary diversion with
Donna Noble, newcomer Martha Jones
becomes the next series regular, but unlike
Rose her début doesn’t see her getting
the episode title all to herself. Smith and
Jones [2007 - see page 54] finds her taking
second billing to the Doctor’s earthly
nom-de-plume of John Smith. That said,
the audience is left in no doubt that she is
our new point-of-view figure: the episode
opens with a montage of her complicated
family relationships. She is clearly the
responsible one of this dysfunctional
bunch ~ her siblings badger her, expecting
her to be the organised one, while her
estranged parents use her as a sounding

board and battleground. She juggles
this chaos while clearly applying herself
with aplomb to the demands of being a
medical student - she acquires new and
complex knowledge quickly, and is cool
under pressure.

She is soon put to the the test when her
hospital is rather unexpectedly transported
to the Moon, her boss is drained of his
blood by an alien old lady with a straw,
and some space rhinos start cataloguing
the patients. Not everyday problems, but
Martha’s intelligent realisation that the
hospital’s air is being kept in by some sort
of energy shield and her attempts to settle
her patients, suggest to the Doctor that
she is companion material. She’s intuitive,
smart and good in a crisis. Her repudiation
of the Doctor’s title - she insists that the

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appellation ‘doctor’ is something that
needs to be earned - emphasises her
medical background and throws a fresh
perspective on a word somewhat taken
for granted in the series.

With the Doctor and Rose’s relationship
being one of mutual but unspoken love,
the dynamic this series is different, and not
in Martha’s favour. She is initially taken on
board for just one journey, and The Lazarus
Experiment {2007 - see Volume 55], only
halfway through the series, begins with her
being dropped off and apparently ending
her travels - she’s under an illusion, up
until the end of that adventure, that she
has permanent residence in the TARDIS.
She also spends the series pining for the
Doctor - noting in Human Nature/The
Family of Blood {2007 - see Volume 56] that,
“You've had to go and fall in love with
a human... and it wasn’t me,” after the
Doctor, unknowingly shrouded in the guise
of human teacher John Smith, acts upon
his feelings for Nurse Joan Redfern. The
Doctor seems oblivious to this, as noted
by Captain Jack in Utopia/The Sound of
Drums/Last of the Time Lords {2007 - see
Volume 56] when the Doctor rigs up
a perception filter. It is this unrequited love
that eventually leads to Martha leaving
the TARDIS after just one series by the
Doctor’s side.

adi VT
s for the Doctor himself, David
Py ier perky leading man finds
himself mournful again this year,
with reminders about his isolation as the
last of his kind never too far away. Even
after the hi-jinks of The Runway Bride his
eyes brim with tears and his voice breaks
as he remembers the loss of Rose. He
is enlivened by his first encounter with
Martha, whose intelligence and pluck

galvanise him - but he seems mindful of
what happened before and keeps her very
much at arm’s length. As we discover in
Gridlock [2007 - see Volume 55], this joy
of adventuring again is a mask for the dark
sadness that lurks underneath his quirky
exterior. He even admits that he doesn’t
know himself why he lied to Martha
about the death of his people, and he
decides, quite early in their relationship,
to come clean with her about being the
last of his kind. “The only certainty is
that you'll end up alone” is this Doctor’s
gloomy summation of a life-long lived in
The Lazarus Experiment. He is a Doctor
haunted by loss, unable to escape the fact
that everyone he knows will die before he
does. It is a cruel irony that - having been
tantalised with the news that he may not
after all be the only surviving Gallifreyan
- his reunion with one of his own people
actually provokes the epic battle of the year

in the series finale. Be careful what you Below:
wish for, Doctor. eos
* A ive forever:
That spectacular climax is the natural The Doctor

culmination of many threads that lead helps Professor
writer Russell T Davies places throughout ae goeot

c ces - eatn In
the series, and it is easy to discern a house The baeahis
style to his vision of Doctor Who which Experiment.

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY ©

Above:
William
Shakespeare
features in this
year's ‘celebrity
historical’ The
Shakespeare
Code.

Right:

Mr Saxon's
agent
convinces
Francine Jones
that the Doctor
is dangerous

in The Lazarus
Experiment.

consolidates itself this year. After the 2005
series’ recurrent mentions of Bad Wolf
and the insidious threat of Torchwood
bubbling under the surface of the 2006
series until its climax, an over-arching
storyline seeded into the individual
episodes is now expected. Similarly,

the mixture of single episodes and
multi-part stories closely follows the
template of previous years, and the
‘celebrity historical’ is present and correct,
with Dean Lennox Kelly’s Liam Gallagher-
like William Shakespeare following in

the footsteps of Charles Dickens (in The
Unquiet Dead [2005 - see Volume 48]) and
Queen Victoria (in Tooth and Claw [2006 -
see Volume 51]). For an epic finale with

a ‘Big Bad’ replete with - as most stories
set in the modern day are - celebrity
cameos and news reports from around
the world, Utopia/The Sound of Drums/
Last of the Time Lords couldn't be a more
perfect example.

SANS

G aid Big Bad is ever present, obliquely,

throughout the series - regular

viewers are rewarded with constant
references to Mr Saxon: his name is
actually first seen in the previous series
in Love & Monsters {2006 - see Volume

XN NNNRAARAS

53] on a newspaper headline. It is he

who orders the attack in the Racnoss
ship in The Runaway Bride and his name
is seen adorning posters exhorting the
inhabitants of modern-day Great Britain
to vote for him. He’s hiding in plain sight,
plain enough for the viewers to pick up on
his presence, even if the Doctor doesn’t.
As most mentions of Saxon are initially
very much in the background (and are
often linked with issues involving alien
incursions) - the audience, appropriately,
get constant subliminal hints about him
to the extent that he drums away at our
subconscious, much like the constant
noise that he has to endure in his head.
Things become more blatant as the

series progresses - The Lazarus Experiment
itself is sponsored by Mr Saxon, whose
mysterious agent is on hand to poison
Martha's mother against the Doctor,

and by 42 [2007 - see Volume 55] his
people are ensconced in the Jones home,
eavesdropping on conversations between
Francine and her daughter.

RDED WITH
R SAXON.’

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DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY a
= |

2007 SERIES

Above:

John Smith

falls in love
with Nurse
Joan Redfern in
Human Nature/
Family of
Blood.

Below:

Captain Jack
joins the Doctor
and Martha

for the

series finale.

Saxon is finally revealed to be the latest
incarnation of the Doctor’s arch nemesis
the Master. His resurrection is cleverly
threaded into the overall arc of the series -
the Doctor himself uses a chameleon arch
disguised as a fob watch in order to escape
his pursuers in Human Nature/The Family
of Blood. In Utopia, when Martha notices
that the apparently benign Professor Yana
has one in his possession she, and the
audience, realise that Yana is another Time
Lord in disguise, providing the biggest

ANN NNNAARAS

shock revelation of the series. Once a
Time Lord resurrection is on the cards,
long-term viewers will have expected it to
be just one person. That Yana’s name is
itself a clue (the Face of Boe in Gridlock had
uttered the words “You Are Not Alone”

in reference to the fact that there might

be other survivors of the Last Great Time
War) shows how carefully the over-arching
storyline has been threaded through the
series as a whole.

s with the Daleks and the Cybermen,

The Master needed a cosmetic

overhaul before being unveiled to a
modern audience, even though he remains
the same fan-favourite underneath.
Allowing Derek Jacobi a few moments as
an older, more traditionally evil renegade,
gives more seasoned fans enough time to
confirm it is the same character they know
and love to hate. But his reign of terror
is short-lived and he regenerates into a
younger, sparkier version who is very much
the evil alter ego of the Tenth Doctor.
Two stories as a decayed husk and one as a
high-profile but affordable American guest
star aside, the Master had generally had the
same characteristics for the majority of his
time on television — black-clad, bearded,
suave and slyly humorous. A modern
Doctor required a more modern take,
and the wiry, energetic, pugnacious David
Tennant needed a wiry, energetic and
pugnacious Moriarty, and so John Simm’s
more youthful, spiteful, and slightly crazy
Master becomes the other side of his coin.
One can’t imagine Roger Delgado, for
example, dancing to the Scissor Sisters,
although this latest incarnation seems
as fascinated by The Teletubbies as his
predecessor was in Clangers (in The
Sea Devils [1972 - see Volume 18)).

pepeerrerrre

terre

Aside from the central characters, the
show capitalises on its own mythology.
We meet characters who have witnessed
the same events as the audience - Martha
is aware of the Slitheen ship crashing into
Big Ben in Aliens of London/World War Three
[2005 - see Volume 49] and the invasion of
the Cybermen (which resulted in the death
of her curiously similar looking cousin
Adeola in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday [2006
- see Volume 53]). New Earth, first seen in
New Earth {2006 - see Volume 51], the first
episode of the previous series, returns in
Gridlock, bringing with it its cat nuns (the
returning Novice Haim) and the Face of
Boe, the oldest being in the universe: wise,
mysterious and a great big head in ajar.
That the Face of Boe turns out to be an
old nickname of Captain Jack’s, and that
the two could be one and the same, shows

) part of a well-formulated plan (Jack, for

;
+

Sbepeeeeerererrr

Above:
Faithful
Chantho stands
by Professor
Yana in Utopia.

that perhaps not everything this year is

example, doesn’t blink when the Face is
mentioned within his earshot in Utopia)
and sometimes improvised quite late in
the day. Jack himself brings with him
continuity from the previous years and,
of course, spin-off show Torchwood, and
suddenly the Doctor Who universe feels like
a big and interconnected place - which, for
a series that had only returned two years
earlier, is a stark demonstration of the
extent and speed of the show’s success.
The resurrected series has established
its own characters and continuities but
it is still prepared to nip further back
for inspiration. The Macra, stars of The
Macra Terror {1967 - see Volume 10], now
lost and unseen in the UK after its only
screening, nonetheless drop by to provide

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2007 SERIES ey

A BEVY ny
ssp OF SUPERSTARDOM. .

jeopardy in Gridlock (though they are
now feral beasts rather than the canny
propagandists of old).

Old enemies or new, remarkably adult
issues are covered or depicted this year.
In Last of the Time Lords Alexandra Moen’s
Lucy Saxon is clearly under a chemical
influence and sports a black eye - a tacit
suggestion that she is a victim of domestic
abuse at the hands of her husband. The
Master’s hold over her is physical as well
as mental. Elsewhere, two very different
musical interludes provoke contrasting but
complex emotions. In Gridlock the hymn
The Old Rugged Cross is a symbol of both
unity and inertia: it brings people together
and yet... is it also what is holding them
back? Faith gives the gridlocked drivers
moments of hope and unity while moving
nowhere - it is both their salvation and
a tool for controlling them. In The Family
of Blood another religious number, He
Who Would Valiant Be, plays as young boys
machine gun down marauding scarecrow
monsters - a potentially absurd situation
given huge emotional wallop because (a) it
is depicted with utter seriousness and (b)

because of the sub-text that these boys will
soon be fighting a real war, one which is
historical fact. The whole sequence, with
the tears springing from the eyes of these
innocent young boys as violence turns
them into men far too early, is one of the
most extraordinary things to have been
presented in a show that specialises in the
extraordinary. History provides a lesson
of a different kind in Daleks in Manhattan/
Evolution of the Daleks {2007 - see Volume
55] — setting it in Hooverville enables the
writer to make salient points about the
exploitation of the poor and the price

of progress.

T he 2007 series boasts a bevy of young

actors on the cusp of superstardom:
future Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan,
future Hollywood Spider-Man Andrew
Garfield, future British film A-lister Gugu
Mbatha-Raw (now MBE) and future stage
star Bertie Carvel emphasise how the
very best talent was being attracted to the
show. At the other end of the scale some
actors who had enjoyed great success
in the past, like Roy Marsden, Thelma
Barlow and Nichola McAuliffe are barely
on screen before they are killed off, but
it means smaller parts are given added
lustre, meaning that every episode feels
like a big event just because of the
talent assembled.

And it was a big event. In terms of
storytelling, character, backstory and its
impact on the public consciousness, the
2007 series of Doctor Who is confident
enough to do what it does well, isn’t
afraid to mine its past while treading new
ground, and is comfortable in its own
shoes. And when you sat in front of your
TV and watched the episodes go out, you
knew for sure that You Were Not Alone.

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY &

ONS ee ee Y

Left:

Carey Mulligan
starred as
Sally Sparrow
in Blink.

ae,

SMITH AND
JONES

® STORY 179

When the Royal Hope Hospital is transported
to the Moon, the Doctor meets medical
student Martha Jones and the pair join

forces to investigate. It’s not long before
a Judoon platoon arrives on the Moon to track
down an alien fugitive...

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

—_—_

SMITHAND JONES | storvis i ;

THE MORE SUCCESSFUL 3
| 5 THIS TIME.

ntroduction

he Twelfth Doctor and his | The Doctor described the Judoon as

Introduction

companion Bill are like the _ “police for hire”. In Smith and Jones, they
police - or, at least, that’s were investigating the murder of the child
how Bill chose to explain the princess of Patrival Regency Nine, but
situation when challenged in it was not clear whether they'd just been

Empress of Mars [2017]. It’s not hired by some alien royals, or if they were

a bad summation given that since the very working for a higher power. We next saw
beginning the Doctor has travelled around, _ the Judoon in the following year’s series
helping others, in a box with ‘police’ finale - The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End [2008
written on the top. Whatever constabulary - see Volume 60]. In that story they were
duties he might take on however, are working for the Shadow Proclamation
conducted on a very unofficial basis... and - another kind of police force that were

it was only a matter of time before he'd run __ responsible for upholding intergalactic
into the real thing. laws. The Doctor first referred to the

Smith and Jones introduced us to an Shadow Proclamation and these laws

outer space police force in the form of in Rose [2005 - see Volume 48] when he
the Judoon. Physically, these brutal and confronted the Nestene Consciousness. He
officious aliens look like a cross between also alluded to the organisation when he
the Kraals [The Android Invasion, 1975-see was trying to communicate with the Isolus
Volume 24] and the Sontarans [introduced via Chloe Webber in Fear Her [2006 - see
in The Time Warrior, 1973/4 - see Volume Volume 53].

20]. Like the Kraals, they are based on the The Eleventh Doctor would encounter
rhinoceros with leathery skin and horns. yet another alien ‘police force’ in The

Like the Sontarans, they are stocky withno —_— Eleventh Hour [2010 - see Volume 63].

neck and they wear a helmet that echoes Like the Judoon, the Atraxi were on the

the shape of their large heads. tail of a single criminal who was using

_ shape-changing abilities to evade capture. ieee
-.. 7 _ The crew of the Teselecta in Let’s Kill Hitler The Daciee
&

; [2011 - see Volume 68], on the other hand, challenges the
Atraxi in The
Eleventh Hour.

dispensed justice throughout history.

The Judoon aren’t the only interesting
ingredient in Smith and Jones, but they are,
nonetheless, one of the more successful
alien menaces introduced at this time.
They have since made appearances in
The Pandorica Opens [2010 - see Volume
66], spin-off TV series The Sarah Jane
Adventures, and in books, audio dramas
and video games. It’s a busy job policing
the universe!

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SMITH AND JONES » sTORY179

artha Jones, a medical student,
yi has a complicated family life. Her

dad, Clive, intends to bring his
girlfriend to Martha’s brother’s birthday
party. Then a man she has never met
before walks up to her in the street and
takes his tie off. [1]

Later, she makes the rounds of the ward
with a consultant, Mr Stoker. An old lady,
Florence, is complaining of dizziness,
which Stoker attributes to salt deficiency.
Then they come to another patient, the
Doctor, who Martha recognises as the
man she met in the street. [2]

It starts raining outside the hospital -
but the rain isn’t going down, it’s going
up! The hospital building shudders,
and it is suddenly dark outside. It’s
on the Moon! [3]

Martha calms the panicking patients
and wonders why all the air hasn’t been
sucked out. The Doctor invites her out

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onto a balcony and demonstrates that
there is a forcefield around the hospital.
Then three spaceships land nearby and
armoured creatures march out. The
Doctor recognises them - Judoon! [4]

Florence finds Stoker in his office.
Then two motorcycle couriers enter,
their faces hidden by their helmets. They
grab Stoker and Florence pulls out
a drinking straw! [5]

The Judoon enter the hospital and
begin scanning its occupants before
marking them with an ‘X’.

The Doctor tells Martha that the
Judoon are police for hire and are looking
for something non-human, which he
suspects will be a patient admitted in the
past week with unusual symptoms.

Martha goes to see Stoker and disturbs
Florence feeding on his blood. She runs
back to the Doctor, pursued by one of
the couriers, and they lock themselves in
the radiology lab. The courier bursts in,
but the Doctor uses the X-ray machine
to kill it with radiation. The Doctor

explains that it was a Slab, a slave drone.
[6] The Doctor realises that Florence
was assimilating Stoker’s blood so that
when she is scanned by a Judoon, she will
register as human!

The Doctor and Martha run to

an upper level, where the oxygen is
beginning to run out. [7] They enter
Stoker’s office, and by examining his
corpse the Doctor works out that
Florence is a fugitive Plasmavore.

They hear the Judoon approaching.
The Doctor kisses Martha, [8] then runs
down to the MRI room, where Florence
is interfering with the MRI scanner. Her
remaining Slab grabs the Doctor.

A Judoon finds Martha and scans her,
detecting a non-human element.

Florence intends to use the MRI
scanner to send out a magnetic pulse
that will fry the brains of every living
thing within 250,000 miles. [9] The
Doctor convinces Florence that the
Judoon are increasing their scans so she
must assimilate again if she is to pass as

human. She gets out her straw, ready to
drink the Doctor’s blood.

The Judoon burst into the MRI room,
followed by Martha. They find the
Doctor, apparently dead. Martha tells the
Judoon to scan Florence and she registers
as non-human because she assimilated
the Doctor’s blood. [10] The Judoon
execute Florence’s Slab, but Florence
activates the scanner. The Judoon destroy
her, then withdraw to their spaceships.

Martha resuscitates the Doctor. He

_ deactivates the scanner, [11] and, just in
; time, the hospital is returned to Earth.

Martha’s sister Tish finds her, desperate
to know what happened. The Doctor
slips away, back to the TARDIS.

Chaos ensues at Leo’s party. While
her family argues in the street, Martha
spots the Doctor in an alleyway. He
asks her to come with him and proves
he can travel in time by going back to
see her that morning. Martha enters
the TARDIS and they depart for
new adventures... [12]

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_ FTe-pro

ush hour, hundreds of
people, but all reduced to
} along-lens blur foreground
& background, to focus on:
. MARTHA JONES, walking
Mm) =W along. 23, facing another day
at work, just another face in the crowd,
In the same way that Rose [2005 - see
Volume 48] had focused on introducing
the Doctor to a new audience through
the eyes of his new companion, Russell
T Davies placed the emphasis of the
first episode of the 2007 series of Doctor
Who on the next young woman who
would be accompanying the Doctor on
his travels. “The whole focus of the
episode is Martha’s mad first day with the
Doctor,” he told Doctor Who Confidential,

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“Throw everything at her and see how
she survives.”

Martha was originally conceived as a
16-year-old schoolgirl, then - inspired by
the scene of Reinette understanding the
spaceship in The Girl in the Fireplace [2006
- see Volume 52] - she was a Victorian
maid. Over dinner with BBC Drama
Commissioner Jane Tranter at the start
of 2006; Davies realised that this was
a bad idea.

The team wanted an experienced yet
unknown performer to play Martha -
and fitting the bill perfectly was Freema
Agyeman. Born in North London’s
Finsbury Park in 1979, Freema graduated
with a drama degree from Middlesex
University and played chambermaid Lola

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Wise in the revived ITV1 soap Crossroads.
On Friday 24 June 2005, Agyeman
auditioned for the role of Sally Jacobs in
The Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume
51]. While not successful, on Thursday 27
October she then auditioned for the roles
of Esme in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of
Steel [2006 - see Volume 52] (a character
ultimately omitted from the finished
scripts) and Adeola in Army of Ghosts/
Doomsday [2006 - see Volume 53]. Landing
the latter part, she was closely watched by
producer Phil Collinson during production
in December, her audition having already
resulted in her being noted as a potential
successor to Billie Piper. She was then
invited to read for a part, supposedly
Gwen in the Doctor Who spin-off series,
Torchwood, in London on Wednesday 17
January 2006, although in fact the scripts
were from Doctor Who. Other actors were
also auditioned under the cover of the
spin-off series, although reading a genuine
Torchwood scene written for the regular
character of Gwen. Although Agyeman
was ill in January and unable to make the
second audition, the actress had already
made an excellent impression on the

b
a
q

production team and read
for them again on Friday 3
February. Just before she was
invited to Cardiff for the next
audition, her agent revealed
that the part was actually

the new companion in Doctor
Who and that she could not
discuss this with anyone
beyond her immediate
family. A nervous Agyeman
travelled down to Cardiff
and found a good luck note
from Tennant at her hotel;
“He wrote, ‘Sorry for all the cloak-and-
dagger stuff, it’s going to be fine, relax and
have a good time.’ After that any nerves
were gone.” Her screen test was performed
with David Tennant at Phil Collinson’s

flat on Wednesday 15 February, following
Tennant’s readthrough on The Impossible
Planet/The Satan Pit of the 2006 series, and
the producers quickly agreed that Freema
was the talent they needed for the part.
While out driving with her brother and
sister two days later, Agyeman’s phone rang
and it was answered by her sister. Pulling off
the road, the actress called her agent back
and was told she had the part.

Connections:

Pseudonym

® The Doctor's alias on
the hospital ward is his
uSual everyman name
of ‘john Smith; first
established in The Wheel in
Space [1968 - see Volume
12], where it was adopted
by his companion, Jamie,
and employed on many
occasions since.

Left:

A crazy day
at work for
medical
student
Martha Jones,
some research about the series which

included collecting tokens for a
Doctor Who DVD offer from The Sun (which
she then forgot to post) while working
shifts at a Blockbuster video outlet, having
had no acting work since Army of Ghosts.

“I did start doing a bit of research into this
massive institution that is Doctor Who, and
it was so much to take on board,” she told
Doctor Who Confidential.

Russell T Davies told Doctor Who
Magazine, “At the end of The Runaway Bride

EH aving landed the role, Agyeman did

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SMITH AND JONES » STORY 179

Connections:

Family

® During Martha's
examination, she asks the
if he has a brother.
more,” he replies.
o the Doctor's
re, and this is
occasion that
has implied he

igh

t have siblings.

[2007 - see page 6], Donna
challenged the Doctor very
directly, telling him that

he needed a companion

in his life. Judging by his
actions... he was listening.” In
developing Martha, Davies
made her different from Rose
in many respects so that
viewers wouldn’t feel that the
Doctor was simply replacing
Rose, but rather travelling
on with a new human friend.
Whereas Rose had been emotional and
instinctive, the slightly older Martha
would be educated and questioning. Her
background was more middle class and
with a fragmented family in crisis (who
would feature less than the Tylers) to give
her a different dynamic with the Doctor.

Originally, Davies had the TARDIS
in the hospital with the Doctor and
the Plasmavore racing to find it in the
basement, but this shifted the focus to
the TARDIS and away from Martha. He
originally sold the story to Jane Tranter
as opening with Martha on shift at the
hospital when the Doctor - knocked out
by the Plasmavore - was brought in on
a stretcher.

The closing scenes where Martha
entered the TARDIS were deliberately set
in an ordinary alleyway where she would
discover the gateway to another world.
However, Davies also wanted to have
carefully placed references to Rose in the
scripts for several episodes to show that
the Doctor had not forgotten her.

In terms of the story, Davies wanted
something that was “fast, funny, with big
monsters and thrills and scares”.

‘Freema Agyeman was last night revealed
to be the front-runner to replace Billie
Piper in Doctor Who, commented The Sun
on Friday 16 June. Agyeman took part in

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a photocall with a bearded Tennant while
the latter was recording Recovery, but these
shots were scrapped and another session
was scheduled on Monday 3 July. On
Wednesday 5S July, Agyeman’s casting was
announced to the press while the actress
was on holiday in Spain. Such was the
press attention surrounding Doctor Who
that the newspapers were keen to second
guess the contents of the new stories,

such as when Nicola Methven of the Daily
Mirror announced that, ‘Freema Agyeman
is set for a chilly reception as she helps [the
Doctor] battle old foes the Ice Warriors, in
her piece Doctor New on Wednesday S July.
The Martian reptiles introduced in The Ice
Warriors {1967 - see Volume 11] would not,
in fact, be appearing.

Unlike the scripts for the 2006 episodes,
those for the 2007 series did not carry
titles in a move to minimise leaks and
allow exclusive announcements by Doctor

NN AN NN nnn: Se Pre-production

Who Magazine and the Radio Times now
that Doctor Who was such a newsworthy
topic. “We're not releasing any Series

Three episode titles just yet, cos I think
it’s too early,” said Davies in Doctor Who '
Magazine during August, “I felt as though
we gave away a little bit too much too
soon last year... so we’ll hold back a bit,

even to the extent of not actually deciding

titles yet.”

T he shooting script for Smith and Jones

(as it would eventually be known)

was issued on Friday 28 July. The
start of the script outlined the rest of
Martha’s family, first introducing ‘Tish
Jones, 23, running round - a mess, clothes
everywhere. She’s always late’; then ‘Leo
Jones, 21, bit of a lad [with] girlfriend &
6 month old baby’ who lived in a ‘small

_ Adeola in Army of Ghosts, a

; Martha’s cousin was written
® into the dialogue to explain

" bedsit’; their mother ‘Francine Jones...
: 47, slim, professional’ who lived in a

‘nice semi-detached’; and finally their
father ‘Clive Jones, 49, getting into nifty
second-hand sportscar - it’s way too young
for him, very mid-life-crisis... Annalise
jumps into the car. All 21 years of her,
Dressed like a Big Brother eviction night,

| wrote Davies in reference to Channel 4’s

popular reality show.

Florence Finnegan was described as
‘70, frail, a bit genteel’ while Martha’s
colleagues included Morgenstern (‘specky
lad’) and Julia Swales (‘23, Martha’s mate’)
all led by Mr Stoker (‘55, suit, puffed up’).
The victim of a bloodsucking Plasmavore,
Stoker was well-named, recalling Irish
writer Bram Stoker whose vampiric novel
Dracula was published in 1897 - although
Davies only realised the connection
when the art department named him ‘B
Stoker’ on his office door. The writer had
originally named the character after Mr

; Left:
Stoker, the consultant on 1980s Children’s ‘tehong
ITV series Children’s Ward, who had been human.”

played by Matthew Marsh. Stoker referred
to Hippocrates, a Greek physician in
the fourth century BC, and his idea of
steam from salt-water inhalations curing
respiratory problems.

With Freema Agyeman having played

iam
Connections:
Maximum power
® The Doctor tells Stoker,
“My mate, Ben. That was
a day and a half. | got rope
burns off that kite, and
then | got soaked,” implying

line explaining that she was

their physical similarity.
The three Judoon

spaceships were described

as ‘like tubes, but massive

upright tubes - they stay that he had assisted
upright always, no need to polymath Benjamin
be aerodynamic - the size of Franklin in proving that

office blocks, studded with
levels and lights, all very
functional and military’;

lightning was electricity,
as published in 1751,

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| these were watched by Mr Stoker
with ‘a little pair of binoculars
(for the golf course)’. The line of
| Judoon showed they were ‘burly,
tough figures in black, heads

in black helmets. And armed.
Like stormtroopers. Entering

' the hospital, the Judoon were

| seen as ‘big & brutish, stocky,
thickset, in uniforms of studded
black leather panels; the lower
half is a leather skirt, like

| Roman centurions; hefty boots
' below. Heads are covered with
shiny black helmets, in the
strangest shape, like the thick

_ head juts forward, onto the
chest, then twists up at the
| end. It’s hard to work out,
mmm Ulitil the Judoon Captain
Above: twists a clasp at his neck - the hiss

AKVENE)

—.
}

\
y\

aes zy of depressurisation - and lifts off

Judoon ship. his helmet. The head of a Rhino.
A humanoid Rhino. Grey
leathery skin. Snout curving
down, then up into a horn;
helmets modelled around
this” As an aside, considering
the prosthetics costs, the
description added ‘all other
Judoon keep helmets on’.

Right: When the troopers stormed

AJudoon on up the staircase, it was noted the

the hunt for

‘Judoon yomp up the stairs - big
heavy boots stomping, they’re
brutish thugs, unstoppable’, and
the luckless man originally
attacked one of the Judoon
with a chair before being
sentenced to death.

The Doctor was delighted
that - unlike the hospital in
New Earth [2006 - see Volume
51] - this one had a little shop
in its foyer. Of the Slab which

space criminals.

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pursued the Doctor and Martha, the script
described it as running ‘like Robert Patrick
in Terminator 2, a proper, lethal, focused
run, belting along, vicious’ with reference
to the 1991 sequel Judgment Day and its
unstoppable T-1000 killer. When Martha
applied CPR to the Doctor, the script
noted, ‘And this is so real; just a medical
student trying to bring a man back to life,
the sheer physical urgency of it’ Originally,
Martha explained to the Doctor, “The air...
I gave you the last,” before collapsing.
While ridiculing Annalise, Francine
referred to Quizmania, a basic ‘interactive’
game show which had begun on Sky in
August 2005 and was then running on
ITV1; it was subsequently moved to ITV
Play in September 2006 and then cancelled
in January 2007. When the Doctor
introduced the TARDIS to Martha,
he originally defined it as “Time
And Relative Dimensions In
Space”, although on recording,
David Tennant used the
singular “Dimension”
as heard in both Rose
(although the script
in that case had also
specified the plural) and
An Unearthly Child, the
opening episode of the
very first Doctor Who story
100,000 BC [1963 - see Volume 1].
ga, “David actually phoned me from
) set that day, to suggest saying
A it in the singular, just as Chris
Eccleston had done,” recalled
Davies. “Which was fine with
me!” The Doctor then told
Martha about Rose, and
how she was with her family
again, as at the climax
of Doomsday.
In one early draft of Smith
and Jones, the Doctor and

Martha fled from the Judoon by hijacking
a window-cleaner’s cradle and making
their getaway down the hospital exterior;
this was a scene Davies had conceived for
a 1990s reboot of Doctor Who. When the
Judoon fired from above, one of the cables
was hit and snapped, with Martha dangling
from a wire. Script editor Simon Winstone
pointed out the script was too long by
about four minutes, and so the sequence
was omitted.

he chronology of the story covered
T Day 2 and Night 2, starting at 0845

with Martha on her way to work,
arriving at the hospital at 0855, receiving
a shock from her locker at 0905, fudging
her diagnosis of Miss Finnegan at 1000,
and meeting ‘Mr Smith’ at 1010. The
storm clouds gathered at 1100 with the
hospital snatched at 1220 - after which,

_ half of Block Two alongside
__ The Shakespeare Code {2007

given the lunar conditions - the action

continued on Night 2 at 1223. The Judoon

ships landed at 1233 with their crew

storming into the foyer at 1237 and then

generally continuous action until the

hospital was restored to London at 1323.

Leo’s celebrations then went .

wrong at 2040 on Night 2. Connections:

Smith and Jones formed * Aliens among us

§ Martha refers to Earth’s
recent alien invasions: a
“spaceship flying into Big
Ben” (Aliens of London/
World War Three [2005
- see Volume 49),
“Christmas” (The Christmas
Invasion [2005 - see Volume
51] and The Runaway Bride
[2006 - see Volume 54)),
and “that battle in the sky”
(Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
[2006 - see Volume 53}),

Bloodthirsty
Florence has
even brought
her own straw.

- see page 90]. The two
shows were to be directed
by Charles Palmer (son of
actor Geoffrey Palmer, who
had appeared in Doctor Who
and the Silurians {1970 - see
Volume 15] and The Mutants
[1972 - see Volume 18})
who had worked on Linda
Green with Phil Collinson
as well as Life Begins and
The Ghost Squad. Following

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Connections:
In the works

® TheDo

his laser spanner was
stolen by the “cheeky”
Emmeline Pankhurst,

the founder of Britain's

suffrag

who began the

Right:

An angry
Doctor bares
his teeth,

a tone meeting on Monday
24 July, the recce for these
episodes was held on Tuesday
1 August, but with work
continuing on the Christmas
Special, the readthrough
planned for Thursday 3 was
moved to Friday 4 so that
David Tennant could be
present. The show’s star saw
Smith and Jones as taking place
some time after The Runaway
Bride: “1 think the Doctor’s
been away for a while,” he told Doctor Who
Confidential. “He’s done a bit of thinking.
Done a bit of being on his own.”

SS ANN NS

T he main guest artists for the episode

ctor claims that

ette movement,

Women's Franchise
League in 18839,

were Anne Reid and Roy Marsden

as Florence and Stoker. Reid (who
originally wanted to play Florence with
a German accent to hint at her vampiric
nature) had previously appeared in
The Curse of Fenric [1989 - see Volume
46], since when she had featured in
Dinnerladies and worked with Palmer on
Life Begins, as well as appearing in Linda
Green scripted by Davies and produced
by Collinson. Marsden’s television roles
included Burnside in The Sandbaggers and
Adam Dalgliesh in the popular PD James
detective serials.

Of the rest of the Jones family, Francine
was to be played by Adjoa Andoh who
had played Colette Griffiths in Casualty
but whose recent Doctor Who appearance
had been hidden under the feline features
of Sister Jatt in New Earth. Trevor Laird -
playing Clive - had appeared in the series
many years before as Frax in Parts Five to
Eight of The Trial of a Time Lord [1986 -
see Volume 42]. The role of Leo was given
to Reggie Yates, a DJ and Top of the Pops

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NNN NNNAAD

presenter, who also created and starred
in the CBBC series The Crust, while Gugu
Mbatha-Raw, cast as Tish, had worked on
Vital Signs with Charles Palmer and played
Jenny in Spooks.

Pink script revisions to Smith and
Jones on Monday 7 August covered the
opening scenes of the episode: Martha’s
examination of the Doctor; the aftermath
of the hospital’s arrival on the lunar
landscape; the Doctor introducing himself
on the verandah; the Judoon storming
through the hospital; Martha finding the
dead Stoker; the Judoon cataloguing their
captives; the Doctor and Martha discussing
the Judoon to Martha being scanned;
from Florence’s demise to the start of the
rainstorm; and finally the Jones family’s
argument. By now, Agyeman had moved
to a new flat in Cardiff and suddenly felt
nervous the night before the shoot, telling
Doctor Who Confidential, “1 felt I needed that
moment of, ‘Oh my God!’ because I hadn't
had that yet.”

MM ecording on Block Two of
| the 2007 series of Doctor Who
) began on Tuesday 8 August,
and for her first day playing
iY \ Martha, Freema Agyeman
Me WA found herself leading the cast
without David Tennant present. However,
as she said in the episode commentary, on
the set she was “seeing a lot of people from
when I did Episode 12 of Series Two which
was a real comforting, ‘Hello and welcome
back”. Doctor Who Confidential was on
hand to capture Agyeman’s first day for
posterity as the production team started
the first of several days work around
the disused School of Sciences at the
University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd,
which would appear as much of the Royal

Pre-production | Production

Hope Hospital. The actress’ first scene
was in the ward corridor where Stoker
commented on the virtues of salt, with
work for the day largely showing people

_ in hysteria at the building’s windows.

However, one of the Courier artistes had

: to be sent home as he was the wrong size

for the costume and was replaced by one
of the boom operators.

Recording a video diary for BBC
Worldwide, David Tennant was on hand
the following day which began with
a photocall for the two stars and the
TARDIS outside the university at 7.45am
before a day of recording scenes in the
male ward and nurse’s station including
the Doctor’s first meeting with Martha.
Along with Martha’s outfit for The

Above:

The Doctor
anda Slab are
poised for the
next scene.

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SMITH AND JONES » STORY 179

Below:
Martha gets an
electric shock,

Shakespeare Code, the Doctor’s new outfit
of a sharp blue suit was unveiled in the
publicity session, with the BBC Press Office
putting out a release that evening revealing
that Martha was a medical student and
also confirming that other episodes would
be written by Chris Chibnall and Stephen
Greenhorn, with directors Graeme Harper
and Euros Lyn returning to the show, as
well as John Barrowman as Captain Jack.
“T am still pinching myself and can’t wait
to get started! It’s been nerve-racking but
David has been brilliant in helping me to
adjust on my first days on set. I am really
looking forward to travelling through time
and space with him over the next eight
months,” said Agyeman, while Russell T
Davies revealed, “The Doctor and Martha
are destined to meet William Shakespeare,
bloodsucking alien Plasmavores, the
Judoon - a clan of galactic stormtroopers -
and a sinister intelligence at work in 1930s
New York.”

Based at ennium Stadium’s car park in
Cardiff, the crew started work on Thursday
10 by recording the city street scenes
including Martha’s first meeting with the

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Doctor. Following that, it was back to the
Upper Boat studio base in Trefforest where
greenscreen was used for the verandah
scenes until it could be digitally replaced
by a moonscape. Jason Arnopp of Doctor
Who Magazine was on hand, while the
same day the Sci-Fi Channel and BBC
Worldwide America confirmed that the
Tenth Doctor would début Stateside in
The Christmas Invasion during September.
Work continued back at base on Friday

11 with Tennant and Agyeman as the only
cast members. Doctor Who Confidential was
on set to cover the BBC Picture Publicity
photo shoot of the Doctor and Martha on
the TARDIS set, slotted in between the rest
of the verandah material and the TARDIS
interior sequences for both this and The
Shakespeare Code. When Martha entered
the TARDIS, Tennant suggested that the
Doctor should mouth along with her now-
familiar line about the ship being “bigger
on the inside”.

judoon outfits

he new photographs of the Doctor
Who stars appeared in The Sun on

Saturday 12 August along with the
verdict of a fan that, “They seem quite
flirty,” while in the South Wales Evening Post,
Susan Bailey’s piece Hospital’s Odyssey to
Outer Limits covered location work on the
story. The following day, the Sunday People
claimed that ‘David Tennant has been
offered millions to quit the hit BBC show’,
with a ‘show insider’ commenting, “David
has yet to sign for another series of Doctor
Who. There’s a lot of talk about him going
as we're all aware of deals on the table
from ITV and Hollywood. A lot of film
producers think he'd be great on the
big screen.”

Week two of production saw the crew
returning to the disused Usk Valley

Business Park seen in The Runaway Bride
which provided more of the hospital
interior and had been selected for its very
long corridor. In the mornings, the actors
playing Judoon were fitted into their
costumes and drilled by choreographer
Ailsa Berk; the Judoon Captain was played
by regular monster-man Paul Kasey while
most of his colleagues had been Cybermen
in the previous series. The Judoon outfits
had been sculpted by Martin Rezard on

a body cast of Kasey, and Gustav Hoegen
added the animatronics to the working
rhino-like head worn by Kasey which

was operated by Hoegen and Richard
Darwin, with the actor inside barely able
to see through two pinholes in the mask.
The voice was provided on location by
Nicholas Briggs, already frequently heard
on Doctor Who as the voices of the Daleks
and Cybermen. Recording on various

corridor scenes began at 1.30pm, with Will Above:
Willoughby standing in for stunt work as rege
: ; fooled by
one of the Slab couriers. Before the evening _ appearances...
recording started, Agyeman performed a dear old
Florence is

live interview from her trailer on location
with Adrian Chiles on the first edition
of BBC One’s early evening magazine

up to no good,

_ programme The One Show; “living a

_ dream’ was how the actress described her
; experience of Doctor Who to

® date, as clips of her demise in

Connections:
Hidden blemish
® Martha's quip asking if
the dead Slab came from
the “Planet Zovirax" refers
toa television advert for
Zovirax cold sore cream, in
which a girl courier wore a
black motorcycle helmet to
hide her blemished face.

Army of Ghosts were shown.
“T don’t even know exactly
where their relationship is
going to go,” she commented
on the partnership between
the Doctor and Martha.

The evening shoot through
to midnight was planned

to be the alleyway scene of
the Doctor - in his original

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Above:

The Judoon
platoon patrols
the hospital's
corridors.

Connections:

brown pinstripe suit - showing Martha
the TARDIS (which also required the first
fleeting appearance of Gugu Mbatha-Raw as
Tish) just off Market Street in Pontypridd.
Originally, when Martha gave reasons for
not being able to travel with the Doctor,
Tish ran past yelling, “I’m gonna get you
Annalise!” causing Martha to turn back
to the Doctor, saying, “Then again...”
However, this night shoot was deferred

to a later date, with Tish
removed from the scene.

the script covered Martha’s arrival at Royal
Hope Hospital. Two units were at work on
Thursday 17; while the main unit covered
the scenes between Florence and the
doomed Stoker in Stoker’s office, a second
unit completed the MRI room scenes with
the two leads. Friday 18 concluded scenes
in Stoker’s office, while yellow revisions
were drafted to change the telephone
conversation between Martha and Tish as
the hospital vanished. The bulk of the day
was spent on corridor scenes including the

Work resumed at the
University of Glamorgan
at midday on Tuesday
15 August for scenes in
the locker room and MRI
room (which was a redress
of the room used earlier
for the ward), the latter of
which were completed on
Wednesday 16, with Doctor
Who Confidential on set. The
same day, blue revisions to

Doctor carrying the unconscious Martha.
For this, Tennant rehearsed with a
dummy... and Agyeman was a little
concerned when Tennant kept knocking
the dummy’s head on the side of the door!
Recording on Saturday 19 August saw
another new location, Singleton Hospital
in Swansea, which featured as the exterior
of the Royal Hope and also provided some
interior corridors and a stairwell, the latter
being the venue for second unit work to
repeatedly shoot the Judoon artistes so

On the run

® The Doctor compares
Florence hiding on Earth to
Ronald Biggs, an escaped
convict from the 1963

Great Train Robbery who
was discovered in Rio

de Janeiro by British

m police in 1974 but
\ who could not
j be extradited.

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shots could later be combined to turn the
small number of aliens into a larger army;
Kasey started the day as a Judoon trooper
before being promoted back to his usual
rank of Captain. Under the supervision of
Crispin Layfield, stuntman George Cottle
played the patient attacking Ruari Mears’
Judoon with a breakable vase. Doctor Who
Confidential was again present, as were
vehicles such as police cars, ambulances
and courier bikes necessary for external
dressing. The next day, David Tennant
took time off and attended the V Festival
at Hylands Park in Essex, where he met up
with his former co-star, Billie Piper.

ack at the Singleton Hospital,
it afternoon and night recording began
on Monday 21 for the complex
sequence of the Judoon’s arrival in the
hospital foyer (actually the library area of
the building, which the BBC crew used at
night), with David Tennant spending the
afternoon of the second day rehearsing his
action sequences for The Shakespeare Code.
“We had to shoot here at night, and we
needed it to be empty as we couldn’t do

: terribly complicated, without

- were meant to shoot all this

a sequence like this, that was .
Connections:

At the helm
® The Doctor refers to
TARDIS controls, such as
the Gravitic Anomalyser
and Helmic Regulator, that
had first been mentioned
in The Horns of Nimon
[1979/80 - see Volume 31]
and The Ark in Space [1975
-see Volume 22].

ma wee

being in complete control of
the place. The big shot from
above was so complicated. We

in one night... and we got
halfway through the night
and realised that we weren’t
going to do it so we had to
go back a second night,”
said Phil Collinson on the
episode commentary.

One of the reasons the scene was time
consuming was the locked-off camera
work for multiple takes which turned six
Judoon into dozens. The reworking of the
Tuesday schedule to return to Singleton
Hospital meant deferring the X-ray room
and staff kitchen scenes planned for the
University of Glamorgan, with Mears
standing in for Kasey as the Judoon
Captain on this second night at the foyer.
There were further rehearsals for Tennant
on The Shakespeare Code the next day back
at Upper Boat, where the material in the
staff kitchen was now actually recorded in
the real studio kitchen, suitably redressed,
with pre-rigged cabinets and camera shake
used to conjure up the trip from the Earth
to the Moon.

Following this, the remainder of Block

Left:
Restrained
by a Slab.

} Two was largely devoted to The Shakespeare
: Code. However, since the X-ray room
® scenes were still outstanding, while

Palmer’s main unit worked on crooked
house sequences for The Shakespeare Code
on Friday 25 August, James Strong, the
director of The Impossible Planet and The
Satan Pit [2006 - see Volume 53], directed
David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and
stunt Courier Dean Forster back at the
University of Glamorgan, with their

work in turn recorded by Doctor Who
Confidential. The casting of the three

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Conne
Sonic

® The Doctor is dismayed

when

is destroyed in the hospital

Xray

fifth i

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he act!

similarly saddened in his

his Sonic screwdriver was
destroyed by a Terileptil
in The Visitation

members of the Jones family
was then announced by the
BBC on Sunday 3 September.

Towards the end of Block
Two, various pick-up shots
were performed. On Tuesday
12 September, greenscreen
inserts were recorded of
the massed Judoon by
the second unit, along
with items like the Doctor
sonicking the computer
terminal, rain inserts, and
the stone hurled into the
forcefield. Having completed
work on The Shakespeare Code on
Wednesday 13 September, the two leads
returned to Market Street in Pontypridd
to record the TARDIS exterior scenes -
with ‘Vote Saxon’ posters, as seen in the
Torchwood episode Captain Jack Harkness,
in view - and without the appearance of
Tish. This work was covered by Doctor Who
Confidential’s team.

“I was considering calling the episode
simply Martha until the two surnames

ctions:
death

his sonic screwdriver
machine. He was

ncarnation, when

[1982 - see
Volume 35],

clicked,” Davies told Doctor Who Magazine.
In September, the title of the episode was
fixed as Smith and Jones, which echoed

the lighthearted Western adventure Alias
Smith and Jones made in the 1970s, and the
1980s-90s BBC comedy shows featuring
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, Alas
Smith and Jones. It also had a feel of two
people forming a team, like classic episodes
of the 1960s series The Avengers.

Schedule logistics

ecause of schedule logistics, it was
i decided to leave all the scenes with

Martha’s family to be recorded
during Block Three. On Monday 2
October, a second unit covered a series
of inserts with both David Tennant and
Freema Agyeman - who both travelled
over from London that morning - and
the rest of the Jones family with recording
at various venues around Pontypridd,
as watched by Doctor Who Confidential.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw then worked on
scenes of Tish walking to the hospital

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on the streets of Cardiff on Friday 13 '
October which were recorded byasecond §&
unit; greenscreen was used to allow the
insertion of the missing hospital, with a
‘foot double’ used for the shot of Annalise |
stepping in a puddle. I
By now, it was thought that the cut from
the exterior of the hospital to the scene |
of Leo’s birthday party was too sudden, ; Left:
so a new scene was written by Russell T | It’s nota kiss,
Davies. This sequence of Martha in her ee
living room, getting ready to go out - with
radio coverage mentioning Mr Saxon- was — Experiment and Blink [2007 - see Volume
recorded on Thursday 19 October at the 56] at the Old NEG Glass Site in Cardiff
end of Block Three along with scenes on Bay, a venue used as the transgenics lab in
the same set for The Lazarus Experiment Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
[2007 - see Volume 55] at Upper Boat. [2007 - see Volume 55]. The extended
Then, during Block Four, on Tuesday 7 scenes included the Doctor and Martha
November, David Tennant and Freema discussing the lack of back-up while hiding
Agyeman recorded new material for Smith in the corridor and a revised version of
and Jones alongside scenes for Gridlock Martha saving the Doctor’s life in the
[2007 - see Volume 55], The Lazarus MRI room.

PRODUCTION
Tue 8 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences, Glyntaff, Pontypridd
(Hospital: Ward Corridor/Room/Female
Ward/Female & Male Ward Windows)
Wed 9 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital: Male Ward/
Nurse's Station
Thu 10 Aug 06 Quay Street, Cardiff (City
Street); Upper Boat Studios, Treforest:
Hospital: Patients Lounge Verandah)

Fri 11 Aug 06 Upper Boat Studios:

Room/MRI Room)

Wed 16 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital: MRI Room)
Thu 17 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital: MRI Room/
Mr Stoker's Office/Corridor Outside Mr
Stoker's/Ward Corridor)

Fri 18 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital: Mr Stoker's
Office/Ward Corridor/Mr Stoker's

Office Window)

Sat 19 Aug 06 Singleton Hospital,

X-Ray Room)
Tue 12 Sep 06 Upper Boat Studios:
Greenscreen/Hospital Nurses Station/Ext
Royal Hope Hospital

Wed 13 Sep 06 Market Street,
Pontypridd (Alleyway)

Mon 2 Oct 06 Tyfica Crescent,
Pontypridd (Ext Clive's Street/Francine’s
Kitchen/Leo's Flat/Tish’s Flat Bedroom);
Taff Street, Pontypridd (City Street);
Market Tavern, Market Road, Pontypridd
(City Pub/Alleyway)

Hospital: Patients Lounge
Verandah/TARDIS

Mon 14 Aug 06 Usk Valley Business
Park, Pontypool, Torfaen (Hospital: Sth
Floor Corridor/Outside X-Ray Room/
Corridor Outside MRI Room); Market Street,
Pontypool (Alley Way)

Tue 15 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital: Locker

Sketty Lane, Swansea (Ext Royal Hope
Hospital/Hospital: 1st Floor
Corridor/Stairwell)

Mon 21 - Tue 22 Aug 06 Singleton
Hospital (Hospital: Foyer)

Wed 23 Aug 06 Upper Boat Studios:
Hospital: Staff Kitchen

Fri25 Aug 06 University of Glamorgan,
School of Sciences (Hospital:

Fri 13 Oct 06 The Friary/Queen Street,
Cardiff (City Street/Hospital); Lloyds

TSB, Tresillian Way, Cardiff (Hospital -
Greenscreen)

Tue 7 Nov 06 Old NEG Glass Site, Trident
Park, Glass Avenue, Cardiff Bay (Hospital -
Corridor/MRI Room)

Wed 17 Jan 07 Upper Boat Studios:
Hospital

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SMITH AND JONES § » stow

Post-production

Below:
Aconvincing
human
disguise for
a Plasmavore
criminal.

mith and Jones did not feature a
pre-credit sequence and began
with a revised opening title
sequence which now billed
David Tennant and Freema
Agyeman. The producer and
director credits were shown over the shots
of Martha arriving at the Royal Hope.

In the CGI work, the crater left on the
south bank of the Thames across from
Westminster places the Royal Hope in the
real-life location of St Thomas’ Hospital
(with this raw footage coming from World
Backgrounds at Borehamwood); this was
grafted onto an unused aerial shot from
Aliens of London/World War Three [2005 -
see Volume 49]. As well as the storm and
Judoon ships, The Mill placed the London

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Eye in the background of the hospital
exterior shots. The death of the attacking
patient was also revised after the original
flesh-boiling effect of the Judoon ray was
deemed a bit strong for a young audience.
Doctor Who Confidential attended the
music recording for the episode at which
the new theme composed for Martha
by Murray Gold was recorded; several
versions were recorded of this, one by
the Crouch End Festival Chorus, a full
orchestral version and also a solo vocal by
Melanie Pappenheim. The music added
to the start of the episode as Martha
walked down the street was Sunshine
by the Georgia hip hop group Arrested
Development, which had featured on
their album Since the Last Time, released
in November 2006. Additional dialogue
recording for the episode was performed
on Friday 22 December.

fter the episode had been edited, a
Paecrsssis error was spotted in one

of the remounted shots by senior
brand executive Edward Russell. This was
the shot of the Doctor using his sonic
screwdriver on the lock of the X-ray room
- at a point in the story where the sonic
had been melted. Charles Palmer recorded
a new version of this shot without the
device at Upper Boat on Wednesday 17
January while doing TARDIS pick-up
shots with Tennant and Agyeman for
Human Nature/The Family of Blood {2007
- see Volume 56] while the main unit was

working with Graeme Harper on 42 [2007
- see Volume 55]. Mf

One of a series of special trailers
produced by Red Bee Media’s Matt
Scarff and Richard Senior to introduce
Martha as the new companion, was
made available on the BBC Doctor Who
website on Friday 16 March although
no transmission date was given. For
several months, the series had been
slated to start on Saturday 17 March,
but this was changed to 24 March
when it was realised the opening
episode would otherwise go up against
the final of ITV1’s popular Dancing on
Ice. This was confirmed to Doctor Who
Magazine which went to press with this
‘officially confirmed’ date in issue 380.
Soon after, however, it was realised

Post-production | Publicity

that Sky Sports was due to screen
England’s European Championship
qualifier against Israel on Saturday 24,
and it was thought unwise to launch
the series against such a high profile
international match. The start date
was therefore shifted back another
week to 31 March - though too late
for Doctor Who Magazine to amend

its erroneous announcement.

® The 2007 series of Doctor Who

completed recording on Monday 19
March, and the next day BBC One
screened a trailer confirming its
launch: Saturday 31 March at 7pm.
The BBC website was updated as part

“I'm talking
toanalien?
In hospital?”

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Right:

Mr Stoker is
head of the
Royal Hope
Hospital.

of the forthcoming publicity campaign
and Radio Times keenly counted down
to the show’s return in its issue for
24-30 March, featuring enthusiastic
quotes from stars and producers.

® The first time that Freema Agyeman
had the chance to see her début
episode in its final form was when she
recorded a commentary track with Phil
Collinson a couple of weeks after the
episode was dubbed.

® Smith and Jones and The Shakespeare
Code, edited together as an omnibus,
were previewed to the press anda
guest audience in the Crystal Room
at the Mayfair Hotel in London at
7pm on Wednesday 21 March. An
89-second trailer for the series was
also shown, followed by a Q&A session
with David Tennant, Freema Agyeman
and Russell T Davies. The guests
included Anne Reid and Roy Marsden
from Smith and Jones, plus controller of
BBC fiction Jane Tranter, Noel Clarke
(who had played Mickey in 2005 and
2006), former guest artists Catherine
Tate (The Runaway Bride), Sophia Myles
(The Girl in the Fireplace), Tracy-Ann
Oberman (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
and Annette Badland (Aliens of London
etc) plus Jonathan Ross, Dawn French,
Celia Imrie, Adam Woodyatt, Charlie
Higson, Arabella Weir and Jo Whiley.
From the production team were
Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, writers
Gareth Roberts, Mark Gatiss, Stephen
Greenhorn, Helen Raynor, Matt Jones,
Tom MacRae, and directors James
Strong and Euros Lyn. Numerous
camera crews were in attendance from
shows like Doctor Who Confidential and

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Newsround. BBC Wales covered the

event on its news bulletin at 10.25pm
that night. “They make it big,” said
Davies of the celebrity contingent at
the event. “We want to be talked about.
It’s fantastic!”

¥ Jo Whiley and Lizo Mzimba covered

the launch on BBC Radio 1 and
Newsround respectively on Thursday
22, while a report from David Sillito
appeared on BBC One’s Breakfast
programme and various BBC news
services. Wales Today had coverage in
several programmes during the day,
and GMTV carried its own report. In
the afternoon, John Simm spoke to
Simon Mayo on Radio Five Live and
confirmed that he would be playing the
secretive character of Mr Saxon. The
Times ran a piece focusing on Freema
Agyeman, while The Sun and Daily Mail
concentrated on the ‘genetic transfer’
between the Doctor and Martha (eg
Dr Phew hooks up with new pal). Another
piece in The Sun from Derek Robins
had Agyeman discussing her months

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on the show - and her co-star’s stunt
work. Alongside all this, BBC News
had Russell T Davies confirm: “Series
Four is officially existing. I’m very
excited, but we have known for ages.”

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® On Friday 23 March, Ben Rawson- f
Jones of DigitalSpy reported that at the }
press launch, Tennant had discussed
the idea of a multi-Doctor story,
recalling The Five Doctors [1983 - see
Volume 37] and commenting, “It’s
a lovely idea, [but] I just don’t know
about the practicalities of it, really.”
In the Daily Mirror, Nicola Methven
announced that the actor had secured
a million pound deal for a third series
as the Doctor... according to ‘a source’.
Derek Robins of The Sun also carried
confirmation of a further series in

2008, but indicated that the BBC
would not announce that Tennant
would be playing the Doctor. “I’m
very excited about the fourth series.
We have known about it for ages but
I can’t say anything else about it,”

commented Davies. The same article
also revealed that John Simm was to
play the Master.

® Saturday 24 March saw Sam Leith of
The Daily Telegraph writing It’s now time
to take Doctor Who seriously, an opinion
piece about the series’ style which said
it was “one of the best and most artful
pieces of popular television in years”
partly because of “its underlying deep
melancholy” regarding the Doctor.
The Living Scotsman promoted the
new series with The Doctor will see
you now next day in which Tennant
was interviewed, while the text
indicated that in the first episode
he would be ‘chased by a Sontaran
through what looks like a Tiger Bay
leisure centre after hours’. When asked
how long he would play the Doctor,
David replied, “It’s judging when is
the right moment to go. I think I now
know how many series I’m going to
do - but I think it would be stupid of
me to say more.” Then on Monday
26 March, Catherine Tate from The
Runaway Bride interviewed Tennant at
a recording of Radio 4’s Chain Reaction.

_ 3 On Tuesday 27, after an early morning

appearance on BBC One’s Breakfast
programme talking about how she
landed her new role, Freema Agyeman
did another live appearance, this time
on Blue Peter, arriving by TARDIS -
after a detour via a 1981 edition of
the series - to answer questions from
young viewers. Who’s that girl? asked
the Radio Times cover for the week of

31 March to 6 April, while also offering

readers the choice of ‘2 Collectable
Covers’ comprising either 1: Earth

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY &

Left:

Who's that
girl? was Radio
Times’ cover
line promoting
the start of
Doctor Who's
new series

in 2007,

Above:

The Doctor
preps Martha
for her kiss.

(featuring the Doctor, a Judoon and
Martha) or 2: The Moon (featuring
Martha, a Judoon and the Doctor).
Inside, for the third year running, a
lavish 16 pages were devoted to Doctor
Who’s return, this year under the title
Welcome Aboard, Miss Jones... My Pleasure,
Mr Smith and comprising Nick Griffiths’
interviews with Agyeman (The Two
Doctors) and Tennant (Perfect Tennant),
Davies’ comments on the forthcoming
season (Brute Force) and Rob Mayor’s
look at the crafting of the Judoon
(Oodles of Props). A colour shot of the
Doctor and Martha graced the page of
Today’s Choices in which Mark Braxton
declared that after various other family
series, “This is the real McCoy (if you'll
pardon the pun).” The programme
listing was accompanied by a shot

of the Doctor with one of the Slabs,
while it was also announced that David
Tennant had been voted the coolest
person on television in a readers’ poll.

» David Tennant was busy with radio

promotion on Wednesday 28, first of
all with Chris Moyles on Radio 1 and
then later on Steve Wright’s Radio 2
afternoon show. Between engagements,
he dropped into BBC Television Centre

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Studio 6 to record a sketch for BBC
Two’s topical impersonation show
Dead Ringers; in this, he appeared as a
regenerated version of Jon Culshaw’s
Tony Blair, planning another century
as Prime Minister. The show’s star then
travelled to London Studios to record
a guest appearance on The Graham
Norton Show on BBC Two; this included
a stunt in which a passer-by was lured
into a TARDIS on the South Bank
and transported by forklift truck to
the studio. The same day, The Sun’s
Derek Robins revealed that Agyeman
had been to a couple of Star Trek
conventions in Who’s got a Trekkie
secret? while the actress commented,
“The fans have been really, really
encouraging. I’ve had some great
letters saying that they’ll miss Rose
but they’re looking forward to meeting
Martha.” Also, Smith and Jones was
promoted by guest Anne Reid on
ITV1’s This Morning.

® Thursday 29 saw another early start

for David Tennant on Virgin Radio’s
breakfast show with Christian
O’Connell. That night, he could be
seen in two consecutive programmes
on BBC Two, Dead Ringers and The
Graham Norton Show (the latter having
an extended repeat the following
Sunday). The series preview trailer was
also available as a BBCi red button
item, and John Barrowman dropped
in on Channel 4’s Richard & Judy to
promote both Doctor Who and the new
BBC One talent show Any Dream Will
Do which also began that Saturday.

» On Friday 30 March, John Barrowman

appeared on BBC’s Breakfast while

Agyeman displayed her knowledge
of Doctor Who by sitting a Mastermind
challenge on ITV1’s GMTV. At noon,
the actress joined Sara Cox on BBC
Radio 1 and then moved on to Radio
Five Live with Simon Mayo. On BBC
Radio Wales, Julie Gardner joined
Richard Evans on his show to answer
questions from listeners - including
Russell T Davies’ father! Davies
himself, accompanied by various
props and monsters, visited Richard
e& Judy, while on BBC One Newsround
previewed the new series and John
Barrowman was also featured on The
Charlotte Church Show on Channel 4.
However, the biggest promotional
television programme was the
50-minute special edition of The
Weakest Link, scheduled by BBC One at
8.30pm (in Scotland, the programme
was screened at 6.10pm on Sunday

8 April on BBC One Scotland); this
had been recorded on Tuesday 21
November 2006 during the production
of Block Four of the 2007 series.

® Come launch day, David Tennant

guested on Radio 1 with Fearne and
Reggie that morning, while Breakfast
promoted Doctor Who Confidential and
interviewed Paul Kasey about the
series, and on BBC Radio Cymru, the
early morning show also offered heavy
Who coverage. Smith and Jones was
given special screenings at 10.30am on
Saturday 31 March 2007 at the Odeon
cinemas in Cardiff, Swansea and
Wrexham as well as the Aberystwyth
Arts Centre and Neuadd Dwyfor at
Pwllheli, along with a special video
message from David Tennant and the
series trailer; the 1,200 free tickets for

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these screenings had been snapped up
within hours of being made available
to the public.

® Russell T Davies spoke to Jonathan

Ross on his morning show on Radio 2,
and Welsh listeners were then treated
to a new edition of Julian Carey’s
Doctor Who - Back in Time at 1.04pm.
Invasion of the Bane, the first edition

of The Sarah Jane Adventures, was also
scheduled for a 4pm repeat the same
afternoon. In the lead-up to broadcast,
a chat between Russell T Davies and
Patrick Kielty was featured on Radio
4’s Loose Ends humorous magazine
programme, pre-recorded that same
morning. Following the broadcast of
the episode, viewers in Wales had a
choice between Doctor Who Confidential
on BBC Three, or an edited version of
Doctor Who — A Celebration on BBC Two
Wales. The same day, a new version of
the Doctor Who Up Close Exhibition
had opened in Manchester at the
Museum of Science and Industry.

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® Kevin O’Sullivan, writing in the Sunday

Mirror, was positive about the episode,
predicting that ‘Freema Agyeman is
set to be just as popular as her smash-
hit predecessor Billie Piper’. Further
reviews followed on Monday 2 April,
with Andrew Billen of The Times noting
that ‘[The Doctor] is on to something
good with his new cohort, Martha
Jones, but while agreeing that ‘it
looks wonderful’ admitted that ‘the
humour... worries me’. In The Guardian,
Sam Wollaston was enthusiastic

about the chemistry of the two leads,
commenting, ‘Agyeman is great. If 1
do have one criticism, it’s that she’s
too much like her predecessor... I
hope... she’ll develop more of her own
identity. Jim Shelley declared Martha’s
so Dalektable in the Daily Mirror on
Tuesday 3, commenting, ‘Russell T
Davies came out all guns blazing...

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION

EPISODE

Smith and Jones

DATE TIME
Saturday 31 March 2007 7.00pm-7.45pm

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blitzing the audience with an opening
as fast and smart and slick as an advert
for Pepsi.

» A PDF version of the episode’s

shooting script was made available
online by the BBC Writers’ Room
website, as part of a scheme to
champion new creative talent, on
Friday 20 April.

® Running against a repeat of Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on
ITV1, Smith and Jones performed
well, with 40 percent of the viewing
audience tuning in, gaining it a higher
audience figure than the previous
year’s opener, New Earth. Martha
Jones had joined the Doctor and - as
the script concluded - ‘The TARDIS
hurtles on its way, through the blue
vortex, to destinations unknown,

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RATING(CHARTPOS) — APPINDEX
8.7M(9th) 88

Merchandise

mith and Jones was first released |
on DVD in May 2007 as part
of Doctor Who: Series 3 Volume
1. In November 2007, it was
included on The Complete Third
Series box set; this was reissued
as part of The Complete Series 1-4 in October
2009, and in August 2014. The special
features included David Tennant’s video
diaries, outtakes, an audio commentary by
David Tennant and Russell T Davies, the
series launch trailers, audio descriptions
and cut-down episodes of Doctor Who
Confidential. In March 2008, The Sun gave
away a set of six Doctor Who DVDs with
free tokens from newspapers issued from
Saturday 15 March to Thursday 20 March.
The token for Smith and Jones was in The
News of the World on Sunday 16 March.

Left:

Behind the
scenes on the
DVD extras,

ADJOA ANDOH
Francine Jones

Issue 15 of the Doctor Who —- DVD Files,
published by GE Fabbri in July 2009, came a
: : 7 Left:
with the episode Smith and Jones. The initial DVD
The track Martha’s Theme featured on release of
_ Silva Screen’s Doctor Who: Original Television the story.
_ Soundtrack — Series 3 soundtrack released in
: November 2007; it also appeared on the
four-CD Doctor Who — The 50th Anniversary
Collection, released in December 2013,
and later on the 11-CD version of the same
title in September/November 2014.
Character Options released several
items from Smith and Jones. In June 2007
there were 5” action figures of the Judoon
Captain, a Judoon Trooper (with blaster
accessory), and Martha Jones (initially
Spries 3. \Valume 1: Smift-Aand: s0BBS: only available from The Entertainer
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of the Judoon Captain, a Judoon
trooper sound effects helmet
(exclusive to Argos) and a 12”
figure of Martha. A Judoon
scanner toy was available in
August 2007, while in December
2007, saw ‘sound’ keyrings
which featured a speaking
Judoon head on a keychain.
Finally Character Options issued
a model of the Judoon patrol
ship in March 2008.
Judoon scanner torches were
available from Wesco in July
2008. Issue 18 of the Doctor Who Figurine

DOCTOR-WA

Above:

rae Collection, published
Judoon figure. by Eaglemoss in April 2014, came with

a figurine of the Judoon Captain.
Judoon T-shirts were available from

Marks & Spencer in October 2007 and

Woolworths in December 2007. Judoon

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selection pyjamas were available from Woolworths
of novels in October 2007 and Marks & Spencer
peeling in November 2007. Judoon long-sleeved
the Judoon, : ;
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Revenge of the
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Judgement of the Judoon
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same month, Pearson —
Education published Judoon
Afternoon by Trevor Baxendale.
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novelisation episode of
The Sarah Jane Adventures:
Prisoner of the Judoon which

was intended for use

in schools, to develop

literacy skills. In 2011,

Chivers Audiobooks (via

AudioGO) produced an
unabridged reading of
Judgement of the Judoon by
) Colin Brake. The story was

read by Nicholas Briggs.
In November 2016, Warlord

Games released Into the Time
Vortex: The Miniatures Game:
Judoon - a box set of three

Judoon unpainted pewter
miniatures and plastic bases.

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CREDITS

Written by Russell T Davies

Producer: Phil Collinson

Director: Charles Palmer

uncredited: James Strong]

1st Assistant Director: Gareth Williams

uncredited: Richard Harris]

end Assistant Director: Steffan Morris

[uncredited: Jennie Fava, Dafydd Parry]

3rd Assistant Director: Sarah Davies

uncredited: Anna Evans, Heddi Taylor]

Location Manager: Gareth Skelding

uncredited: Lowri Thomas]

Unit Manager: Rhys Griffiths

uncredited: Huw Jones]

roduction Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk

roduction Secretary: Kevin Myers

roduction Assistant: Debi Griffiths

roduction Runner: Sidn Eve Goldsmith

uncredited: Graham Huxtable]

Floor Runner: Heddi Joy Taylor

uncredited: Lowri Denman]

Contracts Assistant: Bethan Britton

ontinuity: Non Eleri Hughes

uncredited: Pam Humphries]

Script Editor: Simon Winstone

Camera Operator: Julian Barber

Focus Puller: Steve Rees [uncredited: Ant Hugill,
Marc Covington, Sue Cane, Mark Isaac, Sam
Morris, Pete Bateson, Shirley Schumacher]

2nd Camera Operator: Steven Hall [uncredited:
Sian Elin Palfrey, Paul Edwards, Rory Taylor]

Grip: John Robinson [uncredited: Clive Baldwin,
Ron Nicholls, Steve Pugh, Steve Baldwin]

Boom Operator: Jeff Welch [uncredited: Bryn
Thomas, Stephen Longstaff, Robin Green,
Kevin Staples]

Gaffer: Mark Hutchings

Best Boy: Peter Chester

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Stunt Co-ordinators: Tom Lucy, Crispin Layfield " Prosthetics Designer: Neill Gorton

Stunt Performers: Will Willoughby, George Cottle, & Prosthetics Supervisor: Rob Mayor

Dean Forster On Line Editor: Matthew Clarke
Choreographer: Ailsa Berk ; Colourist: Mick Vincent
Chief Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas » 3D Artists: Mark Wallman, Matthew McKinney,
Art Department Production Manager: Bruce Magroune, Will Pryor

Jonathan Marquand Allison 2D Artists: Simon C Holden, Sara Bennett, Russell
Art Department Co-ordinator: Matthew North Horth, Bryan Bartlett, Melissa Butler-Adams,
Chief Props Master: Adrian Anscombe Joseph Courtis, Tim Barter
Supervising Art Director: Arwel Wyn Jones Visual Effects Co-ordinators: Rebecca Johnson,

Associate Designer: James North Jenna Powell
Set Decorator: David Morison Digital Matte Painters: Simon Wicker,
Standby Art Director: Tim Dickel Charlie Bennett
[uncredited: Leonie Rintler, Lisa McDiarmid] On Set VFX Supervisor: Barney Curnow
Design Assistants: lan Bunting, Al Roberts Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts
Cyfle Trainee: Anna Coote Supervising Sound Editor: Paul McFadden
Storyboard Artist: Shaun Williams Sound Editor: Doug Sinclair
Standby Props: Phill Shellard, Clive Clarke Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies
Standby Carpenter: Paul Jones Finance Manager: Chris Rogers
Standby Painter: Ellen Woods With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Standby Rigger: Bryan Griffiths Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer
Property Master: Phil Lyons Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG
[uncredited Paul Aitken] Production Executive: Julie Scott
Props Buyer: Catherine Samuel Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams
Props Chargehand: Gareth Jeanne Sounds Recordist: Julian Howarth
Props Storeman: Stuart Wooddisse [uncredited: Ron Bailey, Ray Parker]
Forward Dresser: Amy Chandler Costume Designer: Louise Page
Practical Electrician: Albert James Make-Up Designer: Barbara Southcott
Senior Props Maker: Barry Jones Music: Murray Gold
Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies Visual Effects: The Mill
Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics Visual FX Producers: Will Cohen, Marie Jones
Assistant Costume Designer: Marnie Ormiston _ Visual FX Supervisor: Dave Houghton
Costume Supervisor: Lindsay Bonaccorsi _ Special Effects: Any Effects
Costume Assistants: Sheenagh O’Marah, Kirsty = Prosthetics: Millennium FX
Wilkinson [uncredited: : Angela Jones, & Editor: Matthew Tabern
Susie Lewis] Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Make-Up Artists: Pam Mullins, Steve Smith, Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC
John Munro [uncredited: Rory Taylor]
Casting Associate: Andy Brierley Production Manager: Patrick Schweitzer
Assistant Editor: Ceres Doyle [uncredited: Tracie Simpson, Debbi Slater]
Post Production Supervisors: Chris Blatchford, Executive Producers: Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner
Samantha Hall BBC Wales in association with the Canadian
Post Production Co-ordinator: Marie Brown Broadcasting Corporation
Special Effects Co-ordinator: Ben Ashmore bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
Special Effects Supervisor: Paul Kelly © BBC 2007

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SMITH AND JONES » STORY 179

Profile

Right:

Freema as
Adeola in Army
of Ghosts.

Martha Jones

orn on 20 March 1979, Frema
Agyeman later added an

extra ‘e’ to her professional
name to avoid confusion over
pronunciation. Her Ghanaian
father Osei and Iranian mother
Azar (née Azizian-Konan) divorced when
she was a child but she remained close

to both. She and older sister Leila and
younger brother Dominic were raised on
Woodberry Down council estate, Hackney,
north-east London.

At Our Lady’s Convent RC High School,
Stamford Hill she dreamed of being a
marine biologist or doctor. It wasn’t until
age 16 that she became interested in acting.
She spent summer 1996 at Anna Scher’s
Theatre School in Islington, before going
on to study performing arts and drama at
Middlesex University.

After graduating in 2000 she took
numerous part-time jobs, including stacking
shelves in video rental shop Blockbuster.
Early acting work came in children’s and
outdoor theatre but she soon realised she
could earn more than “a pittance” working
in TV. Her first TV job came in briefly
revived soap Crossroads (2003), playing
kitchen assistant Lola Wise, earning her
a nomination for Best Newcomer at the
British Soap Awards.

One-off roles followed in Casualty@Holby
City (2004), The Bill (2004 and two further
episodes in 2006), Mile High (2005) and
Silent Witness (2005). She also took a starring
role in British independent film Rulers and
Dealers (2006).

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Agyeman’s road to Doctor Who was
shrouded in secrecy. Showrunner Russell T
Davies knew from the outset of Series Two
that Billie Piper/Rose Tyler would be exiting
at the season’s end. His long-range planning
was to have a ‘star guest’ bride in the
Christmas episode, followed by an exciting
newcomer as a full-time female companion
for Series Three.

Agyeman’s first contact with the show was
auditioning on 24 June 2005 for Sally in The
Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume 51].
Though Anita Briem eventually won the
role, the production team kept Agyeman
in mind.

On 27 October 2005 she returned to read
for two parts; Torchwood operative Adeola
in Army of Ghosts {2006 - see Volume 53]
and Esme, a freedom fighter intended for
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel [2006 -
see Volume 52]. Esme was later dropped,
but the double audition proved instructive,
as Davies later recalled in Doctor Who
Magazine: “The difference between the two
characters, in the same 20-minute casting
session, was astonishing,” said Davies.
“Adeola, flirting and sweet, and Esme,
hard as nails... she seemed to be literally,
physically, a different person as she read
each part.” Director Graeme Harper said

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Profile

after her audition: “She’s going to be
a star!”

She duly shot her part in Army of Ghosts im
December 2005, though the episode would
not air until 1 July 2006.

Meanwhile she was asked back to audition
for what she was told was a regular role in
spin-off series Torchwood, performing on 17
January 2006 for Julie Gardner and casting
director Andy Pryor.

Auditioned a second time on 3 February,
she was then finally told what the part
really was. After screentesting with David
Tennant in Phil Collinson’s Cardiff flat on
15 February, she won the part. Agyeman
was forced to keep the secret all through the
second series’ transmission.

Eventually, on 5 July 2006 - just four
days after her Army of Ghosts role
had screened - a press release
announced Agyeman as the
new companion.

Russell T Davies enthused:

“We called her back in to
audition with David for the
role of the new companion.
It was an immediate and
sensational combination,
and her range, presence and
charm blew us all away.”

Agyeman herself was
quoted as saying: “Billie
rightfully built up an
amazing fan base and she
will be missed, but I hope
the fans are willing to go
on new adventures with me.

It still hasn’t quite sunk in,

I’m sure it will slam home first
day on set when I’m stood gazing
at David Tennant!”

Davies would later admit that had
he already decided to cast Agyeman
as the permanent companion, he
would not have killed Adeola off in

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SMITH AND JONES » STORY 179

Above:
Freemain Little
Dorrit in 2008.

Right:

Martha Jones
returned in the
Tenth Doctor's
finale, The
End of Time.

Army of Ghosts. The two characters’ identical
appearance would later be explained by
their being cousins.

Agyeman soon began work on Series
Three, with shooting taking place between
August 2006 and March 2007. Medical
student Martha Jones finally made her
screen début with the transmission of Smith
and Jones on 31 March 2007. At the series’
launch, Agyeman described Martha to The
Guardian's Hannah Pool: “She’s a feisty girl;
she’s a go-getter, she’s not a wallflower.”

Despite Mickey Smith being a key
character in the previous two seasons,
sections of the press portrayed Agyeman as
the first Doctor Who companion of colour.
Pool asked if Agyeman would play Martha
as “a stereotypically ‘feisty black woman”?

“Stereotypically feisty how?” countered
Agyeman. “It’s a coveted lead female role.
There are no stipulations. The BBC has
chosen to cast it black. I’m proud to be
an actor, I’m proud to be black, but in
this case the two are not synonymous. It’s
not politely ignored but it’s not the whole
point of the character, so of course it’s
acknowledged and rightfully so. But at what
point do you get the balance? Because the
flip side is a continuous labelling ‘black

companion, ‘black, black, black, black’”

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Alongside Series Three, Agyeman also
voiced Martha in animated adventure The
Infinite Quest (2007), originally shown within
junior spin-off Totally Doctor Who.

Proving popular, Agyeman was
nominated for Best Actress at the National
Television Awards and TV Quick Awards.
She won the People’s Choice award at the
Screen Nation Film and TV Awards in
October 2007.

After Martha apparently departed to be
with her family at the end of Series Three in
Last of the Time Lords [2007 - see Volume 56],
two days later a BBC press release issued
2 July 2007 announced she would return,
not only in the middle of Doctor Who's next
series but in Torchwood.

Russell T Davies said: “Series Three has
gained outstanding reviews and Freema has
been a huge part of that success, gaining
rave notices for her portrayal of Martha.
Now we are taking the character of Martha
into brand-new territory with a role
in Torchwood.”

Martha made guest appearances in three
episodes of Torchwood’s second series in
spring 2008: Reset, Dead Man Walking and
A Day in the Death. She also featured in the
Torchwood Radio 4 play Lost Souls, broadcast

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10 September 2008 to mark the switch on
of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. 5
Soon after, Martha returned to Doctor
Who, now working for UNIT in Series
Four’s The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison
Sky [2008 - see Volume 58] and The Doctor’s
Daughter [2008 - see Volume 58]. She was
recalled along with other companions of the
era for that series’ two-part finale The Stolen
Earth/Journey’s End {2008 - see Volume 60].
Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine's
Benjamin Cook about the finale, Agyeman
found herself readjusting back into the

parent show: “In Torchwood the character She was Tattycoram in a BBC adaptation Above:
had a different energy about her, and it’s a of Little Dorrit (2008) and briefly appeared eC al oe
darker, harder show, so it was right to push as Jenny Walsh in a revival of Terry Nation’s at the Proms
her that little bit further. At times, it felt like Survivors (2008), before being killed off in in 2008.

I was playing a different character. Coming
back to Doctor Who, it’s lighter-hearted, a lot
more optimistic at heart, that general sort
of it’s-going-to-be-alright-in-the-end vibe.”

Asked about a further return, Agyeman
replied: “I'd like to think that there will be
more for Martha Jones, because Doctor Who
has been one of the biggest experiences of
my life, both in terms of my career and in
terms of how it has changed my life over the
last two years... Maybe I'll pop back for a
cameo when I’m old and grey.”

In fact, a cameo was not far off, with a
gun-toting Martha reappearing in Tennant
swansong The End of Time [2009/10 - see
Volume 62], battling Sontarans alongside
husband Mickey Smith.

Additionally, Agyeman narrated BBC
Doctor Who audiobooks The Last Dodo
(2007), Wetworld (2008), The Pirate Loop
(2008), Martha in the Mirror (2009) and
Breathing Space (2009). She also hosted live
musical event Doctor Who at the Proms at
London’s Albert Hall on 27 July 2008.

In 2007, Agyeman had already presented
several stories in CBBC’s The Bedtime Hour
but on leaving Doctor Who found many
leading TV roles.

a shock plot twist.

Agyeman featured as Crown Prosecutor
Alesha Phillips in three series of ITV crime
drama Law and Order: UK (2009-11).

This role meant she was unable to appear
in Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009) as
originally planned.

She starred in Sky Living’s one-off drama
Rubenesque (aired 8 October 2013) and the
same year was café owner Shelly Periwinkle
in Bernard Cribbins’ CBBC series Old Jack’s
Boat (2013). Straight after filming this
children’s series, she headed to the States
to make her US TV début as style editor

_ Larissa Loughlin in Sex and the City prequel

The Carrie Diaries (2013/14) for network

: The CW.

Later she was Amanita Caplan in two
seasons of Netflix’s raunchy fantasy drama
Sense8 (2015-17).

Agyeman appeared in British gangster
movie North v South (2015) and horror film
Eat Locals (2017). She made her West End
début in July in Apologia in July 2017.

Eagle-eyed fans may have noticed a
tattoo on Agyeman’s right arm - it features
a butterfly and the Iranian word raha
meaning ‘free’.

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THE SHAKESPEARE
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» STORY 180

As areward for her help, the Doctor takes
Martha on a trip in the TARDIS to Elizabethan
England to see one of William Shakespeare’s

plays performed at the Globe Theatre, But

Love’s Labour's Won is instrumental in the

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iven his legendary status as one
of the most famous writers who
ever lived, it’s hardly surprising
that William Shakespeare has
made his way into Doctor Who.
And, as is the case with many
renowned figures from history, the Doctor
is quite an admirer. When he ends up
lecturing at St Luke’s University - as seen
in the 2017 series - he keeps a bust of the
Bard in his study.

We first got a glimpse of William
Shakespeare on the Time-Space Visualiser
in The Chase [1965 - see Volume 5].
History teacher Barbara Wright uses the
machine to spy on a meeting between the
playwright and Queen Elizabeth I. The
Doctor and Martha Jones eventually got
to see them both first-hand when they
travelled back in time to see a play at the
Globe Theatre in The Shakespeare Code.

For reasons that aren’t quite clear, the
Doctor didn’t seem to know Shakespeare
when he met him on that occasion. Which
is surprising, considering that he claimed
to have helped him transcribe Hamlet
in City of Death [1979 - see Volume 31]
and, after quoting lines from Julius Caesar
during The Mark of the Rani [1985 - see
Volume 41], the Sixth Doctor called
Shakespeare “an interesting fellow” and
said he should “see him again sometime”.

A little confusion is unsurprising,
however, given how often Shakespeare has
been worked into Doctor Who's broader
mythology. Even the Daleks have taken
an interest! In The Dalek Book published
back in 1964, it was suggested that
Shakespeare’s plays were written by the
Dalek Emperor! This incongruous pairing

was repeated in spin-off audio adventure
The Time of the Daleks released in 2002
which featured Daleks quoting lines

of Shakespeare.

Of course, it’s not just the Doctor himself
who is a fan of Shakespeare. Beyond the
TV series, many of the actors who have
played the Doctor have performed notable
roles in Shakespeare’s plays. Patrick
Troughton appeared in Laurence Olivier’s
film adaptation of King Lear, Tom Baker
played Macbeth, Sylvester McCoy played
the Fool opposite Sir Ian McKellen’s King
Lear, Christopher Eccleston starred in a TV
adaptation of Othello, and towards the end
of his time on Doctor Who David Tennant
played Hamlet. In the production gap
between the 2015 and 2017 series, many
of the people who usually made Doctor
Who worked on Russell T Davies’ version
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bringing
things back to Doctor Who, Matt Lucas -
cast as Bottom in that production - soon
returned to Cardiff to play companion
Nardole alongside the Twelfth Doctor.

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STORY

young man, Wiggins, serenades
A:: love, Lilith. [1] Lilith invites

Wiggins into her house, then
reveals herself to be a witch! Wiggins is
set upon by Lilith and her fellow witches,
Doomfinger and Bloodtide.

The TARDIS lands in Southwark in
1599 near the Globe Theatre. The Doctor
and Martha watch a performance of Love’s
Labour’s Lost, then William Shakespeare
takes to the stage to announce a sequel,
Love’s Labour’s Won. [2| He is being
secretly controlled by Lilith using a
poppet doll.

The Doctor and Martha go to
The Elephant inn, where they meet
Shakespeare. He takes a liking to Martha.
They are interrupted by Lynley, the Master
of the Revels, who forbids any public
performance of Love’s Labour’s Won.

Lilith flirts with Lynley and plucks
out one of his hairs - which she uses in

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conjunction with a poppet to make him
suffer death by drowning. [3]

The Doctor examines Lynley and
claims he died of an “imbalance of the
humours”. Then he and Martha retire to
their bedroom. [4]

Lilith makes Shakespeare complete
Love’s Labour’s Won. || She is disturbed
by Dolly Bailey - whom she kills. Martha
and the Doctor rush in but Lilith makes
her getaway on a broomstick.

The next morning, when Martha
mentions seeing a witch, Shakespeare
recalls that Peter Streete, the architect of
the Globe, also spoke of seeing witches.

The Doctor, Martha and Shakespeare
return to the Globe. Shakespeare hands
the scribe the final part of the play before
they hurry off to visit Peter Streete.

After they have gone, the actors Dick
and Kempe rehearse the closing speech,
causing a wraith to materialise briefly. [6]

The Doctor, Martha and Shakespeare
meet Peter Streete, an inmate at Bedlam
hospital. The Doctor places him in a

trance before questioning him about the
witches. Streete informs the Doctor that

the witches made him build the Globe to
their design. [7]

This exchange is observed by the
witches. Doomfinger teleports into the
cell and kills Streete with a single touch.
But before she can kill the Doctor, he
names her ‘Carrionite’, forcing her to flee.

The Doctor realises that the witches
made Shakespeare include a code at the
end of Love’s Labour’s Won which will be
spoken at the Globe - which is a psychic
energy converter!

At the Globe, the performance of
Love’s Labour’s Won begins. Shakespeare
attempts to stop the show but is
prevented by Doomfinger, who uses the
poppet to render him unconscious. [8]

The Doctor and Martha locate the
witches’ house, where they are confronted
by Lilith. Lilith sends Martha to sleep and
plucks out a lock of the Doctor’s hair. [9]
Using another poppet - or, as the Doctor
describes it, a ‘DNA replication module’

- she stops one of his hearts before flying
off. Martha resuscitates him.

At the Globe, Dick speaks the Carrionite
code. A portal opens and thousands of
screaming wraiths stream through! [10]

The Doctor and Martha find
Shakespeare and take to the stage.

The Doctor realises the portal can be
closed by speaking the correct sequence
of words. With the Doctor’s help,
Shakespeare improvises a speech, but gets
stuck on the final word. Martha cries out,
“Expelliarmus!” [11] The portal closes,
sucking up the wraiths and every copy

of Love’s Labour’s Won. The witches are
trapped in their own crystal ball.

The next morning, Shakespeare resolves
to begin work on a new play in memory
of his son, Hamnet. They are interrupted
by the sudden arrival of Queen Elizabeth
I, eager to see a repeat performance of
Love’s Labour’s Won. That is, until she
spots the Doctor, whom she recognises as
her sworn enemy! [12] The Doctor and
Martha run into the TARDIS...

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Pre-production

areth had been waiting in the
wings for long enough, and
he’s done such sterling work
on Doctor Who over the years
that I wanted to reward him
with a big-budget blockbuster,”
explained Russell T Davies to Doctor Who
Magazine. The executive producer had
admired Gareth Roberts’ work since the
publication of his first Doctor Who novel,
The Highest Science, in February 1993. Since
then, Roberts had worked on various
television shows including Coronation Street,
Springhill (with Davies), Emmerdale (with

t
’

Phil Collinson), Brookside, Swiss Toni and
the revival of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).
Roberts had joined the new Doctor
Who world with his novel Only Human,
published in September 2005, following
which he wrote the interactive adventure
Attack of the Graske, scripted the short =
‘Tardisode’ shorts which accompanied the
2006 episodes, and wrote the 2006 ‘Quick™
Reads’ book I Am a Dalek. .
For the 14 episodes required for the
2007 series of Doctor Who, 16 scripts
were to be commissioned, with two to q
be possibly held over for the following

Pre-production

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the remaining eight were being planned in a production company with his Life ee
the first months of 2006. One of these was Mars colleague Ashley Pharoah.
a 1920s/Arthurian story by Stephen Fry Of the other writers, Roberts learned
hich had been deferred from the 2006 that he was being commissioned foran’
Series when Fry was too busy to perform episode from script editor Simon Winstone
rewrites on it. In an online webchat on at the end of a telephone call about the
Wednesday 14 June 2006, Fry confirmed Tardisodes on Friday 3 February. His.
16 hadibeen forced to drop out of the bject came in a one-word email from
foject altogether \by,this time he was avies the next day: ‘Shakespeare.’ |
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Wit which he had written for Doctor Who
Magazine issues 363 and 364, published

in November and December 2005. Davies
already had Shakespeare in mind as the
central figure of what he termed a ‘celebrity
historical’ for the new series, following on
from Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead
[2005 - see Volume 48] and Queen Victoria
in Tooth and Claw [2006 - see Volume

51]. However, there was no hook for the
Shakespearean tale until Roberts met

up with Davies and the team at the BBC
Showcase event in Brighton on Monday 27
February. “One of the first things he said
was, ‘Did you know there was actually a
lost play of Shakespeare’s?’ and that was it,”
recalled Davies on Doctor Who Confidential,
“Suddenly you felt the whole story click
into place.”

What Roberts was referring to was Love’s
Labour’s Won, a Shakespeare play which was
named in both Francis Meres’ guidebook
Palladis Tamia in 1598 and a bookseller’s
catalogue of 1603, which indicated that
it was a comedy like its predecessor, Love’s
Labour’s Lost. In this earlier piece, written
around 1597, the King of Navarre and
three of his nobles vow to give up the
pleasures of women - only to fall in love
with the visiting Princess of France and her
retinue. Unexpectedly for a comedy of the
period, the play did not end with the King
and his friends marrying the Princess’ party,
and so it is often assumed
that Love’s Labour’s Won would
conclude the story.

Impressed with the scope
and originality of Roberts’
ideas, the team started to
develop the story to script
stage, with meetings from
Wednesday 5 April. Roberts
was keen to avoid the idea of
a story which revealed that
somebody else really wrote

8 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

Shakespeare’s plays (since the nineteenth
century, literary writers had debated if
Shakespeare was a pen-name used by
authors such as Francis Bacon). When
preparing his story, he did no additional
research into his subject, opting instead to
check his facts in retrospect after the script

had been drafted.

hakespeare had previously been
& glimpsed by the Doctor in The Chase

[1965 - see Volume 5] (played by
actor Hugh Walters), while in both Planet
of Evil [1975 - see Volume 24] and City of
Death [1979 - see Volume 31], the Doctor
indicated that he had met Shakespeare, on
the latter occasion revealing that he had
written out Hamlet for him. Roberts was
careful to structure his story so that it did
not contradict any of the series’ previous
Shakespearean references, although, as he
told Doctor Who Magazine, an early draft of
the script contained, “a sly reference to City
of Death” removed because “it was so sly it
would have been a bit confusing for fans
that recognised it and baffled the bejesus
out of everyone else”. In this, the Doctor
had said, “See you earlier,’ to Shakespeare
as he departed.

“We don’t really know that much about
Shakespeare the man... so anyone can take
him and do what they want,” explained
Gareth Roberts in Doctor Who Confidential.
Consequently, the script presented the

Bard of Avon as dazzlingly clever, with
Davies explaining that, “For the first time,
the Doctor’s meeting an intellectual equal.”
However, Roberts also wrote Shakespeare
in the manner of a rock star, his fame and
presence making him a sixteenth-century
version of today’s celebrities.

As enemies for the Doctor, two
supernatural elements from Shakespeare’s
work were considered: witches from 1606’s
Macbeth or fairies featured in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (1595). Witches were felt to
be stronger characters and immediately
recognisable by children, as well as
allowing for the casting of a younger
witch who could use her feminine wiles
on the Doctor and exude the same sexual
presence as the Hammer horror movie
sirens of the 1950s and 60s. The name
Carrionite came from the arrionites in
Roberts’ 1995 novel Zamper in the Doctor
Who: The New Adventures range (though
they were originally spelt Karyonites in
early drafts), and he also rationalised the
species’ use of words instead of numbers.
“Magic and witchcraft do not exist in the
Doctor’s world... and he does have a way
of rationalising it,’ explained Davies on
Doctor Who Confidential.

Roberts spent the next three months
writing the script, which was up to a
fourth draft by the third week of June,
and would proceed to around eight

drafts in all. The first draft script had
the fundamental plot of the episode in
place, but also included the character of
Shakespeare’s daughter, Susanna (born
in 1583 in real history), who would be
present at the Globe disguised as a boy in
the story. When the Doctor and Martha
arrived at The Elephant inn, Martha
originally remarked that the creature on
the sign didn’t resemble an elephant, with
the Doctor explaining that such a creature
would never have been seen in London.
Another item later dropped was one of the
actors, Dick, telling the audience, “Will
the owner of the dappled horse with the
palsy in its front right foot please move it,
as it is blocking the entrance.” In one early
version, Lilith originally hid in the toilets
at The Elephant inn to effect Lynley’s
demise, and other scenes were to show
her climbing the exterior of the building
to reach Shakespeare’s room. Until quite
late in the day, Bloodtide (named after the
opening track to Marc Almond’s 1986 EP
Violent Silence) and Doomfinger were Lilith’s
sisters, rather than her mothers.

There were debates about the bedroom
scene with the Doctor and Martha, with

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down into the bed in his cell,
an effect requiring CGI and
a special bed rig which
proved problematic at the
planning stage.

At one point, the notion
was conceived that Martha
would audition to join
the company of actors at
the Globe theatre - where
Shakespeare’s plays were
premiered from 1599 to
1607 - and that she would
face a trio of judges in the
style of The X Factor, the ITV1
talent show which débuted in September
2004. An element suggested by Russell T
Davies was the appearance at the end of
the episode by Queen Elizabeth I, who
would despise the Doctor because of an
as-yet-unseen future adventure of which
the Time Lord had no knowledge -
recalling the conclusion of the 2001 Big
Finish Doctor Who audio drama The One
Doctor, written by Roberts and Clayton
Hickman. There were various discussions
about how the Doctor and Martha would
get into the Globe to stop the catastrophe,
such as climbing the walls, swooping onto
the stage on wires from above, or popping
up through the trapdoor. Indeed, the idea
of the Doctor appearing via the trapdoor
to ruin Martha and Shakespeare’s romantic
interlude - where she originally kissed him
- featured in one draft.

As the story developed, it was clear
that to authentically recreate Elizabethan

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London and the scope of Shakespeare’s
world would be taxing on the series’
budget. “I suppose it took me a while to
realise that we could achieve it on this

scale,” commented Russell T Davies in
Doctor Who Magazine, “Dickens and Queen
Victoria were quite contained, mostly set
in Sneed’s parlour and Torchwood House,
but meeting William Shakespeare had to
be big and sprawling.” It was unlikely that
the settings could be found in and around
Cardiff, and a lot of extras would be
needed for various sequences.

Along with Smith and Jones [2008 - see
page 54], The Shakespeare Code formed
part of Block Two under director Charles
Palmer. A tone meeting for the episode
was held on Saturday 24 June, by which
time it was clear that the episode would
require a larger budget than usual and
extensive night shoots. A key location for
the production was the recreation of the
Globe Theatre which, in June 1997, had
been opened only 200 yards from the site
of the original.

An agreement was made with the Globe
to allow recording there. However, since
there were performances at the theatre
during the day, the only opportunity that
the BBC would have to record there would
be through the night, dressing the venue
as 1599, recording as many wide and long
shots as possible, and then clearing their
equipment for normal work to resume
the following morning. Doctor Who was
the first television drama series ever to
be granted permission to record at the
venue. The scripts had been written with
performances during the day - as they
would have been in 1599 - and so had to
be rewritten, with Russell T Davies at one
point considering adding a line of dialogue
explaining that a royal decree was allowing
night performances for the week the story
was set. Ultimately, the team felt that the
nighttime setting was better for effects
work and the atmosphere of the piece.

The shooting script for The Shakespeare
Code was issued on Monday 31 July.

The setting was specified as 1599 and the

character of Wiggins (described as ‘16,
gorgeous, even in doublet and hose’) was
named after Dr Martin Wiggins, a Senior
Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute in
Stratford-upon-Avon and author of works
such as Shakespeare and the Drama of His
Time. Lilith was described as ‘beautiful,
20, white nightgown, all innocence’. When
her true nature was revealed, the character
was described as ‘now a hideous, pitted
(prosthetic) hag! Exactly what a witch
should look like - warts, nose, green-grey
skin, rotted teeth. Her voice an ancient
croak. Doomfinger was described as ‘more
hideous still than Lilith’ while Mother
Bloodtide was ‘the oldest, most vile of the
three. An edge of madness to her’ who
cried out, “A new plaything! A fresh, hot
toy!” as she landed by Wiggins.

Before leaving the TARDIS, the Doctor
exclaimed, “Brave new world,” from
Miranda’s speech in Act 5 Scene 1 of
Shakespeare’s The Tempest which dated
from 1611. As she had done in Smith and
Jones, Martha again jokingly referred to her
new friend as “Mr Smith’.

0 f Shakespeare’s troupe of actors, the

script featured two in particular;

the first, Dick (‘late 30s, handsome,
lead actor’) was actor/theatre owner
Richard Burbage while Kempe (‘40s, a
drinker going to seed, the comedian’) was
William Kempe, who specialised in comic
roles and died in 1603. The play they were
performing at the Globe was Love’s Labour’s
Lost with Dick as the King of Navarre and
Kempe as the country fool Costard.

In the script, Shakespeare was described
as ‘35, ear-ring, neat beard, well-dressed in
dark clothes, relaxed, sexy’. The Elephant
inn referred to the inn named by Antonio
in Act 3 Scene 3 of the comedy Twelfth

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Pre-production

Left:

The Doctor
explains
the rules of
time travel
to Martha.

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Night, or What You Will written in 1601.

It was here that ale wife Dolly Bailey
(named after Doctor Who Magazine writer
David Bailey) worked, described as ‘30ish,
buxom, full of life’ as she commented on
having enough beer “to sink the Spanish”
in reference to the vast Spanish armada
defeated by England in July 1588. When
Shakespeare noticed Martha for the

first time, his, “Hey nonny nonny,” was
indicated in the script as being delivered in
the style of Leslie Phillips, the suave actor
who found fame in various British comedy
films from the 1950s onwards. The Doctor
found his psychic paper - introduced in
The End of the World {2005 - see Volume
48] - to be useless on Shakespeare, and
introduced himself as “Sir Doctor of
TARDIS”, as he had been knighted by
Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw.

he Master of the Revels produced
T entertainments at the royal court and
was effectively the theatrical censor
who had to license each script; this post
was held from 1578 to 1610 by Edmund
Tilney, while in the script the character was
Lynley, described as ‘50s, well-dressed,
red-faced, ginger, rigid’. Martha made
reference to the fact that Shakespeare
had married Anne Hathaway in 1582
and discovered that he had affairs with
various women while in London. The
Doctor commented, “All the world’s a
stage,” which Shakespeare later used in
the Act 2 Scene 7 monologue by Jaques of
his pastoral comedy As You Like It, written
early in 1600. When Martha mentioned
JK Rowling’s successful magical adventure
novels about young wizard Harry Potter,
the Doctor commented that he had read
“Book Seven”; at the time the script was
written, this had not even been named (the

Pre-production

Left:
“Just one touch
of the heart...”

title Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
was announced in late December 2006)
and at the time of broadcast had not been

published (which it was on 21 July 2007).
During the episode, the Doctor again
referred to his former companion, Rose,
and what her memory meant to him.

Shakespeare was originally drinking a
tankard of beer when the death of Dolly
was discussed, during which the Doctor
quoted Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ 1951
poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
(“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”)
written for Thomas’ dying father. Martha
mistakenly believed that Shakespeare had
already written about witches, thinking of
the three hags, the Weird Sisters, featured
at the start of his tragedy Macbeth. Peter
Streete was a master craftsman, the
architect of the Globe Theatre; in real life
he lived on to build the Fortune Theatre in
1600. Streete was found in Bethlem Royal
Hospital - known as Bedlam - then located
on Bishopsgate and a hospital for the
mentally ill since 1403.

At Bedlam, the Doctor commented that
Shakespeare had lost his son, Hamnet,
who had died in 1596 at the age of 11.
Shakespeare then mused, “To be or
not to be...” which he later used in the
famous soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1 of his
tragedy Hamlet, first performed in 1607.
The Doctor then referred to “a winter’s
tale” when speaking to Streete, with

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THE SHAKESPEARE CODE

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STORY 180

Shakespeare later writing a tragicomedy
called The Winter’s Tale around 1610. Back
at the inn, the Doctor exclaimed, “The
play’s the thing!” which was to appear
in Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 and also, “Once
more unto the breach,” which Shakespeare
recognised from Act 3 Scene 1 of Henry V
(or The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth)
which he had written around early 1599.
One of the lines of Love’s Labour’s Won
spoken by Dick was, “The eye should have
contentment where it rests,” a quotation
from The Wheel of Fortune, the third episode
of the Doctor Who serial The
Crusade [1965 - see Volume
5]. Other elements of the
play’s blank verse were drawn
from various plays of the
time such as “stroke of
death” from 1606’s Antony
and Cleopatra.

The Doctor explained
the results of tampering
with history to Martha by
referring to the 1985 science-
fiction comedy film Back to
the Future in which the main
character Marty McFly saw

106 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

photographic images of his family in 1985
start to fade after he altered his parents’
first meeting by travelling back to 1955...
and indeed there was a novelisation,
written by George Gipe, published at the
same time. Lilith referred to her race being
banished by the Eternals, immortal beings
first seen in Enlightenment [1983 - see
Volume 37] and also mentioned in Army
of Ghosts/Doomsday |2006 - see Volume 53}.
Originally when confronting Lilith in the
crooked room, the Doctor was carrying

a sword and a duel with blades ensued
before the Carrionite took flight through
the window, leaving the Doctor to fall out
of the window to his apparent death. In
very early drafts the sword fight was to
have taken place on the roof of the house,
with the Doctor then plummeting several
storeys to the street below. When the
portal opened, Lilith referred to turning
the Earth into a “blasted heath”, the
description of the surroundings used by
Macbeth when he encountered the witches
in Act 1 Scene 3 of the eponymous play.

At the climax of the episode, it was Martha
who provided the word “expelliarmus”, a
disarming charm used on another witch or

VXAARRR

wizard introduced in the 1998 novel Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

The sonnet which Shakespeare
composed for Martha was Sonnet 18,
probably written in the 1590s; Sonnets
127-152 were addressed to a figure referred
to by commentators as the ‘Dark Lady’.

he story began on Night 1 with the
death of Wiggins and then moved to

Night 2 - carrying on directly from
Smith and Jones - with the arrival of the
TARDIS. Shakespeare took the Doctor
and Martha to visit Bedlam on Day 3, with
the performance of Love’s Labour’s Won on
Night 3 and the TARDIS departing soon
after dawn on Day 4. In addition to the
main script, Roberts was also asked by
Simon Winstone to write the final page of
Love’s Labour’s Won so that it could be seen
on screen on Shakespeare’s desk.

The main guest star for the
episode was former stand-up
comic Dean Lennox Kelly,
best known as Kev in Channel
4’s Shameless who had also
appeared in Sorted and was
known to Davies because his
brother Craig had appeared in
Queer as Folk.

Pink amendments on
Monday 7 August covered
the climax of the pre-credit
sequence, the Doctor and
Martha leaving the Globe,
Shakespeare meeting
Martha, Lynley’s demise,
the bedroom scene with
the Doctor and Martha,
the aftermath of Dolly’s
death, from the Doctor
explaining about his
naming of the Carrionite

Pre-production

to his comments about Back to the Future,
and the portal opening and closing,

It was originally planned to start
recording The Shakespeare Code on Friday
11 August at Upper Boat studios, where
the single TARDIS scene would be
recorded along with the end of Smith and
Jones; but while the Smith and Jones material
was recorded, the hectic schedule saw the
start of the Shakespeare episode deferred.
However, in tandem with Smith and Jones,
rehearsals began for the action sequence
in The Shakespeare Code where the Doctor
and Lilith engaged in a sword fight. This
was to be performed using wires - allowing
Lilith to fly - and the first meetings to
discuss this set piece were held on Sunday
13 August. Stunt arranger Crispin Layfield
then discussed the sword fight with David
Tennant and did some early rehearsals on
location at Usk Valley Business Park on
the morning of Monday 14. The crooked
house set where the fight would take place
was part of a discussion with The Mill the
next day, and a recee to find a suitable

: : Left:
location was held by the production Dean Lehnadl
team on Wednesday 16. Kelly stars

The Shakespeare Code was turning apie
Shakespeare.

into a major location piece since the
authentic settings which the story
demanded could not be found around
Cardiff. A week of night shoots
at three venues around
England was planned,
starting at Coventry,
then moving to Warwick
and finally taking in the
reconstructed version
of the Globe Theatre in
London. This schedule
was also mapped out
on Wednesday 17
August while work
continued on Smith
and Jones. &

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106

David Tennant
looks the
audience in
the eye,

ehearsals for the fight sequence
for The Shakespeare Code took
place on Tuesday 22 August, in
tandem with work on Smith and
Jones, with stunt artists Gordon
Seed and Maxine Whittaker
performing the swordplay against
greenscreen from 3pm with the rehearsal
played back to David Tennant and
Christina Cole in Swansea that evening
before the night shoot. This was a set piece
which Palmer planned to shoot on film
rather than video. Work on The Shakespeare
Code then began in earnest on Wednesday
23 August with the recording of scenes on
the crooked house set erected at Upper
Boat. Tennant (who was recording a video
diary for BBC Worldwide), Cole and their

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stunt doubles rehearsed from 2pm in the
greenscreen area before the show’s star
had to record some deferred scenes from
Smith and Jones while Cole kept rehearsing
with Crispin Layfield and Tom Lucy.
David Tennant and Freema Agyeman then
joined Cole to record the sequence where
Lilith bewitched Martha and probed the
Doctor’s mind.

Thursday 24 August began with a
meeting to thrash out the planned
recordings at the Globe. Recording then
continued on the crooked house set - but
with some notable rewrites necessitated
by an accident during the fight sequence.
‘The stuntwoman hit the stuntman’s
eye with her sword, wrote Russell T
Davies in Doctor Who: The Writers’ Tale.

NN NON ee Production

Production was immediately stopped
while Davies spent 20 minutes writing
new material for recording later that
day. In place of the action scene, new
material with Lilith trying her feminine
charms on the unmoved Doctor was
inserted for recording between 2pm and
lam, retaining the wirework for Lilith’s
departure from the scene. Recording was
attended by both the crew of Doctor Who
Confidential who covered the wirework
and also by visitors from the Willow
Foundation. Another rewrite made the
same day covered the Doctor talking to
Peter Streete at the asylum.

Tennant and Agyeman were busy
picking up scenes for Smith and Jones with
director James Strong at the University of
Glamorgan on Friday 25 August, leaving
Charles Palmer to record the remaining
crooked house scenes with the three
witches - all clad in Carrionite prosthetics
from Millennium FX - including the
pre-credit sequence, from 1pm to
midnight; work was again covered by
Doctor Who Confidential who interviewed
Sam Marks who was playing Wiggins.

However, there was something of a panic
when the planned Doctor Who ‘Grand Tour’,

which was due to take in
Coventry, Warwick and the
Globe, almost fell apart. Five
days before recording at the
Globe, it seemed that the use
of the theatre might have
fallen through because of
contractual issues. “We were
thinking, could we relocate
to a country house [near
Cardiff] and what would that
do?” recalled Julie Gardner
on the episode commentary.
Fortunately, the contractual problems were
resolved, and the Grand Tour was back on.
Over the weekend before the Tour began
came news from Anaheim, California
that Steven Moffat’s 2005 story The Empty
Child/The Doctor Dances {2005 - see Volume
50] had won the Hugo Award for Best
Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) at the
2006 World Science Fiction Convention
on Saturday 26. “We are over the moon to
win such a prestigious award,” said Russell
T Davies. At the Edinburgh Television
Festival, meanwhile, Davies himself was
named Industry Player of the Year.

CNS

Connections:

Land of the free

® As Shakespeare
attempts to guess Martha's
country of origin, the

Doctor tells him that she
comes from “Freedonia”,
the fictional country
depicted in the 1933
Marx Brothers comedy
Duck Soup.

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Tour began with the cast and crew picks up his
travelling to the Midlands city of quill and

takes action,
Coventry for afternoon rehearsals on the

Globe sequences - where time would be
critical - at the United Reform Church
on Warwick Row from 1pm, all ready to
record exterior sequences that evening.
The venues were the courtyard of Ford’s
Hospital (a sixteenth-century almshouse
turned old people’s home whose residents
had been moved to a hotel) on Greyfriar’s
Lane, and Cheylesmore Manor on New
Union Street for the sequence of the
journey to Bedlam, Wiggins singing his

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arrival at the crooked house
- plus capturing the period
architecture for various plate
shots with work between
5.30pm and 1.30am. The
crew stayed overnight in
Coventry and next day set
off for the nearby town of
Warwick, by which time Marc
Meneaud of ICCoventry had
published reactions of locals
to the production in Dr Who’s
been sent to Coventry in which
promotions spokesman
Peter Walters explained,
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appearance. The Lord Leycester Hospital, a heritage

centre and home for retired soldiers which
offered a preserved Elizabethan courtyard
and a balcony. Recording from 5.30pm to
4.30am on Tuesday 29, this covered scenes
at the TARDIS landing site with David
Tennant and Freema Agyeman joined by
Robert Demeger as the Preacher. While
two camera units covered this, a third unit
recorded crowd shots against greenscreen
to be placed into the CGI vistas of London.
Also required on this night was a horse and
cart driven by John Rose and a longbow
man from the armourers Bapty & Co for

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the closing shot of a shaft being fired into
the TARDIS door. The following night,
recording from 8.30pm to 6.30am saw
the two main units and Confidential crew
on hand to capture the demise of Lynley
(achieved via pressurised water pumped
into the performer’s mouth through a
PVC tube bonded to the actor’s skin and
hidden under his beard) at the same venue,
this time dressed as the exterior of The
Elephant inn. Chris Larkin - who played
Lynley - was interviewed along with Kelly.

hursday 31 August saw the team
travel down to London ready to start
recording at the Globe Theatre at

Bankside. Regulations regarding work at
the venue were strict; no food and drink

was allowed and because the theatre was
busy with performances and tours during
the day, working hours through the night
were limited. The last performance ended
around 10pm, whereupon the design
teams had to work quickly to transport the
venue back to 1599 and record through

to 8am. Knowing that his recording time
was limited to around six hours per night,
Charles Palmer opted to concentrate
on wide shots showing the scale of the
Globe with the principal actors in shot;
close-ups and crowd inserts would be
recorded back at Upper Boat on facsimile
sections of set. The first night covered
Shakespeare’s announcement of his new
play (with his high kick ad-libbed by Kelly)
and the Doctor asking to meet the theatre’s
architect, while celebrated actress Angela
Pleasence arrived for a make-up test
prefiguring her cameo appearance - ina
rather uncomfortable costume - as Queen
Elizabeth. Also attending recording were
writer Gareth Roberts and Doctor Who
Magazine editor Clayton Hickman, along
with representatives from BBC Worldwide
and the Character Group.

“It’s a really big deal for us to be here
at the Globe,” Phil Collinson told Doctor
Who Confidential, “It’s very important for
us to get in here for this episode... and

Applying
Carrionite
prosthetics.

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Below:
“That's a wig!”

we wanted to show the audience what

it would have been like. We’re the first
drama ever to film in here and it took a
lot of quite delicate negotiation between
ourselves and the brilliant people who run
this theatre.”

There were more visitors from BBC
Worldwide to the Globe on the night of
Friday 1 September when Doctor Who
Confidential and Benjamin Cook of Doctor
Who Magazine were also both around to
capture sequences such as the climax of the
episode and the coda to the main action
with the arrival of the ruling monarch.
Three camera crews were again used
recording through to 8am again, and
Rob Grundy of Bapty & Co was again
in attendance for longbow duties. The
summer weather had remained fine all
week, apart from 20 minutes of rain on
this final night. Earlier that day, it had
been revealed that David Tennant had
topped a poll of the coolest people in the
UK held by a pizza company - beating the

Pook on NON

likes of Fearne Cotton and Jeremy Clarkson
- which merited coverage in tabloids like
The Sun and the Daily Star.

The final night at the Globe - Saturday
2 - did not require either David or Freema
and was scheduled to complete the material
in the witches’ box and also the rehearsals
for Love’s Labour’s Won, again under the gaze
of Doctor Who Confidential. The following
day, the BBC released information about
the as yet untitled episode in terms of its
setting, location recording and guest star.
“The Shakespeare episode is, without
doubt, one of our most ambitious projects
to date,” enthused Davies, “It’s incredible
to have a working replica of London’s most
famous theatre in which to film the new
series.” The London shoot was covered by
the Daily Mirror, which early the following
week reported the work there and quoted
Davies from the BBC story.

No recording was performed on
Monday 4 September, with David Tennant
having remained in London to attend

the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards at
The Dorchester hotel where he collected

the award for Best Actor and Best Loved
Drama, as well as being reunited with Billie
Piper who had won Best Actress. “It was
very hard to step into something that had
been such a success already,” said Tennant
of taking over from Christopher Eccleston.
“It was very daunting and because of that,
this award means a lot.”

The Elephant inn

ack at Upper Boat next day,

recording started on the set for

Shakespeare’s room at The Elephant
inn, continuing onto Wednesday 6
September when two units were at work.
The second day included the scenes of
Lilith manipulating Shakespeare, with
Cole starting in her youthful guise before
donning her alien prosthetics.

More location work took place on
Thursday 7 when the scenes at Bedlam
were recreated in the basement of Newport
Indoor Market, around which the public
clustered waiting to see David Tennant.
For this, some of the crew were unavailable

as they were engaged on the recce for
Block Three. It was back to Upper Boat on
Friday 8 to complete shots at the Globe
with close-ups using the box and the stage
apron with backdrop; this included Lilith
casting her spell on Shakespeare and the
writer attempting to stop his own play,
with Ben Cook of Doctor Who Magazine
present to report on work. Over the
following weekend, The Sun ran an article
claiming that David Tennant had signed up
for another series which would be his last.
The final week of Block Two arrived, and

two units were at work on the Upper Boat Lith comma

sound stages on Monday 11 September. Shakespeare,
The main unit worked on the Globe like a puppet
onastring.

elements such as the witches inserts,
with a stand-in now doubling for Jalaal
Hartley as Dick. Meanwhile, a second
unit covered the shots of Lilith with her
doll at The Elephant inn, after which Cole
was made up for shots of the witches at
the crooked house. Following this, David
and Freema departed for the readthrough
of Block Three that evening. Two units
were again scheduled for the next day;
while a second unit covered
Judoon elements and pick-
up shots for Smith and Jones,
the main unit completed
close-ups in the Globe for
The Shakespeare Code along
with the rescheduled TARDIS
scene and some further .
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Jawbreaker
The Doctor's comment
that the ass’ jawbone in
the Globe's prop store
reminded him of the
alien Sycorax from The
Christmas Invasion
2005 - see Volume 51]
eads to Shakespeare
noting the name for future
use. For The Christmas
Invasion, Russell T Davies
had named his aliens
he Sycorax from a
witch mentioned in
The Tempest.

shots of the three witches in
their lair. That day, Russell
T Davies was interviewed
for BBC One’s Newsround
and as well as discussing
the Christmas Special was
asked what the best bits of
the new series were. “I love
the Shakespeare episode,”
explained the executive
producer, “It’s a joy - it’s

Right:
“Hey, nonny
nonny!" Will
turns on the
charminan
attempt to

woo Martha.

lively and funny and new and you learn a
lot about Shakespeare.” The main shoot
for the episode concluded on Wednesday
13 September with Doctor Who Confidential
present at Upper Boat to capture the
afternoon recording of the scenes between
David and Freema in the Doctor and
Martha’s Room from 3.30pm, prior to

a location sequence for Smith and Jones

that night.

A. NN

Thursday 14 and Friday 15 saw
recording of effects elements shots at
an industrial unit in Cardiff, with 45
supporting artists forming the audience
at the Globe, recorded from different
angles to be composited together by
The Mill. These items were recorded
from 12.30pm to 1.30pm on both days.
Also on Thursday 14 September came
the formal announcement of the
CBBC spin-off series, The Sarah Jane
Adventures which would begin with a
one-hour Special early in 2007 (to be
recorded in October), followed by a
full series.

Still left to complete were close-up
inserts of Shakespeare’s hand, writing
Love’s Labour’s Won. These were performed
by design assistant Peter McKinstry,
and although originally scheduled for
recording alongside scenes of the Jones
family for Smith and Jones at the Market
Tavern in Pontypridd on Monday 2
October, they were subsequently
re-recorded with other second unit
material for The Shakespeare Code at
Lloyds TSB on Tresillian Way in Cardiff
on Friday 13 October.

PRODUCTION

Wed 23 Aug 06 Upper Boat Studios,
Trefforest: Crooked House

Thu 24 - Fri 25 Aug 06 Upper Boat
Studios: Crooked House - Top Room/
Allhallows Street

Mon 28 Aug 06 Ford's Hospital,
Greyfriars Lane, Coventry (London -

Street/Allhallows Street); Cheylesmore
Manor, New Union Street, Coventry
(London - Street/Allhallows Street)

Tue 29 Aug 06 The Lord Leycester
Hospital, High Street, Warwick (London -
Street)

Wed 30 Aug 06 The LordLeycester

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Hospital, High Street, Warwick
(Outside The Elephant/The Elephant
Landing)
Thu 31 Aug 06 Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside,
London (The Globe Theatre)
Fri1- Sat 2 Sep 06 Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre (The Globe Theatre/Lilith’s Box)
Tue 5 - Wed 6 Sep 06 Upper Boat
Studios: Shakespeare's Room

Thu 7 Sep 06 Newport Indoor Market,
Upper Dock Street, Newport

Fri 8 Sep 06 Upper Boat Studios: Globe
Theatre Building/Lilith's Box

Mon 11 Sep 06 Upper Boat Studios:

Globe Theatre - Stage/Backstage/

Lilith's Box/The Elephant - Landing/
Crooked House - Top Room

Tue 12 Sep 06 Upper Boat Studios: Globe
Theatre - Lilith’s Box/TARDIS/Crooked
House - Top Room
Wed 13 Sep 06 Upper Boat Studios:
Doctor & Martha's Room
Thu 14 - Fri15 Sep 06 Unit H1,
Colchester Avenue Industrial Estate,
Cardiff (Element Shot)

Mon 2 Oct 06 Market Tavern, Market
Road, Pontypridd (Shakespeare's Room)
Fri 13 Oct 06 Lloyds TSB, Tresillian Way,
Cardiff (Shakespeare's Room)

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hile the crooked house
set lived on, totally
redressed, as the attic
of Sarah Jane Smith’s
home in the spin-off
series, The Mill cooked
up elements of Elizabethan London
ranging from composite matte shots with
plates taken in Warwick, through to the
rendering of the energy storm over the
Globe, complete with tiny people fleeing
into the streets of London - although,
mistakenly, the CGI Globe was shown with
houses surrounding it on all sides, rather
than near the bank of the Thames.
For a long time, the anticipated title
of the episode was Love’s Labour’s Won,

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concerned by

the conditions
at Bedlam.

episode commentary, “We were all quite
enthusiastic about it and then one day

[we] looked at each other and said, ‘It’s a
bit uninteresting.” The new name - after
Theatre of Death was briefly considered -
was inspired by the title of Dan Brown’s
best-selling 2003 mystery novel The Da
Vinci Code, which had by then been released
as a major Hollywood film.

The finished version of The Shakespeare
Code opened with a caption establishing
the action as taking place in ‘London 1599’
and the producer and director credits
appeared over the opening scene as the
Doctor and Martha left the TARDIS.
Several small edits had to be made to

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY a3

“Peter, I'm the
Doctor. Go into
the past.”

the programme. Originally, Lilith said to
Wiggins, “Though fear and love, aye both
quicken the heart,” and when Dick asked
Shakespeare why he had announced his
new play so early, the author uncertainly
replied, “Just... instinct! I know that crowd,
they’re baying for something new.” At The
Elephant inn, after Shakespeare asked
the Doctor, “Who are you, exactly?” the
traveller replied, “I am indeed the Doctor,
a lord of England, knighted by the Queen.”
“A lord,” declared Shakespeare, “is trained
from the day he’s born to behave like a
lord, but there’s something different about
you.” Looking closer at the Doctor he
continued, “No - perhaps you were a lord,
a long time ago. But no more.”

When Lynley burst into Shakespeare’s
room, the playwright declared, “By all
the stars, it’s like a public house in here!”
After Martha commented that it was “all
go around here”, the Doctor asked, “Do

DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY

I detect a bit of bad blood?” “Not at all,”
replied Shakespeare, “I just happened
to... trip, one night, and fell against Mr
Lynley’s wife.” “Well, that’s an accident,”
observed the Doctor. “I sort of... fell onto
her lips,” admitted Shakespeare. “Hold
on, you're married,” pointed out Martha.
“So was she!” stormed Lynley, “To me!
Oh, you licentious men of the theatre!”
As Lynley writhed in agony outside the
inn, Shakespeare originally exclaimed,
“Oh, these amateur dramatics.” Back

in Shakespeare’s room, after telling the
Doctor and Martha about their room,
Dolly said to Shakespeare, “As for you,
Will, you’ve had quite a shock tonight, I’ll
bring you a warm treat later on, eh?” As
the ale wife departed with a wink, Martha
observed, “That’s what I call room service.”
In the following conversation, after the
Doctor said that he did a lot of reading,
Shakespeare agreed and continued, “But

Post-production

I know the sort of man you are.” Staring

at the Doctor, the writer went on: “A man
that talks and talks and talks and talks, and
behind the mouth he thinks and thinks
and thinks and thinks.” A short scene of
Lilith entering the crooked house through
the window after putting her influence on
Shakespeare to write his play was dropped. |
“How they love to kiss and frolic! The ale |
house wife had such a feeble heart!” she
exclaimed. “But was the play written?” |
asked Bloodtide. “Peace! The charm’s |
wound up!” replied Lilith (a quote from
Macbeth), “Today the sun rises for the last
time! The very last day of humankind!”

Peranidinh SOS |

he calmed Peter Streete in his cell
originally asked the Doctor, “Kate...?
Where’s my Kate?” “Is that his wife?”

asked the Doctor. “You've healed him!” very much alike, he continued: “I sense Above: —
declared Shakespeare, to which the Doctor your loss, your grief, your madness. But Hi ise
responded, “Nowhere near. Hush now...” we both go on living, go on talking, go on day for Lilith,
When the Doctor then spoke of “a winter’s hoping. We must, what else are we fit for?

tale”, Shakespeare originally remarked, But I don’t need to travel. This is where I

“Hm, I like that...” causing the Doctor belong, this is the whole earth, the Globe.

to retort, “Not now!” In the aftermath Give me a pen and ink, give me a mind’s

of events the following dawn, after eye, and I can go wherever I want.” When

Shakespeare told the Doctor that they were / Queen Elizabeth arrived, she originally

decreed of the Doctor, “I’ll have his head
Left:

on a spike at Traitors’ Gate!” Greenscrmen
A different effects shot of the Doctor was used
announcing the Globe to Martha had been ee
: : ‘ London
used in the series preview shown at the end in 1599.

of The Runaway Bride [2006 - see page 6] in
December 2006 which had subsequently
been changed when the team felt the

theatre was too close. Additional dialogue
recording on the episode was performed at
AIR Studios on Friday 26 January 2007. A
commentary for the episode was recorded by
Julie Gardner, Gareth Roberts and Charles
Palmer on Wednesday 21 February, a few
days after the final mix of the episode.

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THE SHAKESPEARE CODE §* ?

Above:
Lilith takes
atrip to
the theatre.

:
’

During the build-up to broadcast, in
Leicester, visitors to the BBC Open
Centre could meet a Dalek and a
Cyberman at a special event from
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 April, and

BBC2 Wales repeated Designs on Doctor

Who at 7.30pm on Monday 2.
The MediaGuardian’s Media Monkey

also reported an unattributed
quote that David Tennant was
“suaranteed” to star in the 2008
run of Doctor Who.

In Radio Times, Doctor Who Watch saw
Nick Griffiths talking to Dean Lennox
Kelly and Gareth Roberts in Labour
of Love, as well as showing how the
Globe audience was created, while

photographs of Shakespeare on stage
and the Doctor graced the Today’s
Choices page on which TV editor Alison
Graham declared this to be ‘one of the
most sparkling and energetic episodes
yet’. The programme billing was
accompanied by a shot of the Doctor
and Martha with the Bedlam jailer. An
enthusiastic feature about Doctor Who
was included on BBC Radio Scotland’s
Radio Café on Friday 6 April, Dean
Lennox Kelly discussed his turn as the
Bard on GMTV on Good Friday, and
over the Easter weekend when the
episode was broadcast, another Doctor
Who Up Close exhibition of props and
costumes from the series opened at
Land’s End in Cornwall.

Broadcast

® With the BBC One continunity
announcer urging viewers to record
the show, The Shakespeare Code rated
well, winning its time slot with over
three million more viewers than Grease
Is the Word and Harry Hill’s TV Burp on
ITV1. In The Independent on Monday
9 April, Deborah Orr enthusiastically
wrote about the episode, particularly
delighting in the humour such as
the Doctor’s, “Fifty-seven academics
just punched the air!” quip about
the Bard’s much-debated sexuality.
Following broadcast, the costume for
Bloodtide went on display as part of
an exhibition at the Globe in London,
while in issue 382 of Doctor Who
Magazine the Globe offered readers a
voucher for two-for-one entry to the
theatre tour and exhibition.

® “I think it’s the most lavish episode aah
we've ever done,” said Russell T Davies Bc i
on Newsround, “the amount of extras,
the size of the picture, we get to film
in the Globe Theatre, we went out on
location for a lot of days all around the
country. The monsters are brilliant,
the dialogue is funny, it’s very scary
in places and it’s a good story for Left:

ha? — d Shakespeare

Martha. I'm already very, very prou fakeeta
of that episode.” his stage.

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
EPISODE DATE TIME CHANNEL DURATION —-RATING(CHARTPOS) — APPRECIATION INDEX

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Merchandise

Right: n May 2007, The Shakespeare Code
cla a was released on BBC DVD in
DVD extras. Doctor Who: Series 3 Volume 1. It
was later released on The Complete
Third Series box set in November
2007 with the following special
features: David Tennant’s Video Diaries,
a commentary from David Tennant and ,
Christina Cole, deleted scenes, outtakes, GARETH ROBERTS
trailer, an audio description for the episode Wier, Eni
and the Doctor Who Confidential Cut Down.
This was reissued as part of The Complete
Series 1-4 in October 2009, and in August
2014. The episode was also available with
a issue 15 of GE Fabbri’s Doctor Who - DVD
Ghsrarter Files in July 2009.
Options’ figure Music from The Shakespeare Code
oe. was included on Silva Screen’s
Rortois CD Doctor Who: Original
gift set. Television Soundtrack: Series 3 in

November 2007. The tracks
_ were Drowning Dry and The sets. 2,500 were available at the San
Carrionites Swarm. Diego Comic-Con, with the remainder

Character Options issued subsequently being filtered out to
5” action figures of Lilith stores. The Tenth Doctor action figure
in June 2007, initially came dressed in his outfit from The
only available from The Shakespeare Code.

Entertainer stores. The In 2011, Department Six issued
figure came with a pre-production art of a Carrionite.
crystal ball accessory.
A Carrionite came
with issue 90 of

Eaglemoss’ Doctor
Who Figurine Collection in
January 2017.

In July 2016, Character
Options USA issued ‘The
Thirteen Doctors’ set of
5” action figures. There
were a limited 5,000 °

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Cast and credits

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Marlene Nwoye, Maxine Green... African Maids

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Tom Herriot, Jamie Hull, Richard Hull..................

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Michelle Leaver, Lorraine Leaver, Dennis
Morgan, Robin Phillips, Dominic Cryer, Paul
Bateman, James Brett, Stephen Bacon, Pete
Russell, John Waudby, Bryan Richards, Marco
Magnani, Zac Eisen, Ric Chapman, Jamie
Mellor, Russell Honeywell, Nikki McFarland,
Athena Blay, Sarah Roberts, Kate Robinson,
Lucy La Vey, Joanne Robinson.................... Crowd
Thomas Bendikas, Richard Stott, Hope

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Robert Tunnicliff, Karl King, Mark Mansi,
Tom Laverton, Adam Warwicker, Ros
Rowsell, Martin Colton, Michael Vakalis,
Andy Gill, Chris Sutton, Tommy Maxwell,

Mark Gregory... Lord Chamberlain's Men
Colin Galton, Steve Waldon, Andy Elvin,
Alan Pople, Dave Bailey, Steve Whaites,

Paul Wiggins, Alex Dillow, Joanna Brown,
Suzanne Fredericks, Lesley Dring, Susanna
Tookey, Vanessa Bailey, Diana Clay,
Samantha Link, Will Downie, Paul Bellamy,
Emily Biles, Gerald Bowman, Richard
Daniels, Christopher Hogben, Terry Mockler,
Gemma Nicholls, Matthew Rouse, Joanne
Symon, Peter Wood, Philip Gould, Phillipa
Burt, Tom Sanderson, Thomas Buchanan,
Jeremy Holdcroft, Robin Beer, Max
Underwood, Phil K-Dobson, Katie Russell,
Shirley Gillespie, Nicci Brighten, Beth
Partridge, Michelle Leaver, Lorraine Leaver,
Dennis Morgan, Robin Phillips, Dominic
Cryer, Paul Bateman, James Brett, Stephen
Bacon, Pete Russell, John Waudby, Bryan
Richards, Marco Magnani, Zac Eisen, Ric
Chapman, Jamie Mellor, Russell Honeywell,
Nikki McFarland, Athena Blay, Sarah
Roberts, Kate Robinson, Lucy La Vey, Joanne
Robinson, Michael Wallace, Paul Vigrass,

Carrionites,
Bloodtide and
Doomfinger.

Above:

The Bard
discovers just
how powerful
his words

can be.

Michael Martin, Alexander Barnes, John
Rayment, Spencer Lovell, Michael Barber,
Pascal Molliere, Eugene Wood, Demetrius
Couppis, Jo MacCrimmon, Paula Jones,

Susan Hallett, Diana Clay, Ruth Adams,
Janet Kendall, Samantha Harrington, Bella
Sabbagh, Kimberley Wyld, Zoe Jefferies,
Anne Edwards, Hal Benson, Muriel Smith,
Hugh Holman, Nigel Allen, Jamie Lee, Carl
Taggart, Alllan Jones, Andrew Ellis , Charles
De Paula, Andy Watts, Kris Williams, Robert
O'Neil, Jade Culpit, Louise Harrison, Anna
Rudolph, Nina Huggett, Suzanne Downes .....
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Michael Wallace, Paul Vigrass, Michael
Martin, Alexander Barnes, John Rayment,
Spencer Lovell, Michael Barber, Pascal
Molliere, Eugene Wood, Demetrius Couppis,
Jo MacCrimmon, Paula Jones, Susan Hallett,
Diana Clay, Ruth Adams, Janet Kendall, Gina
Murphy, Bella Sabbagh.................0csn Crowd
Peter McKinstry ..... Hand Double for Shakespeare
Tom Sanderson, Thomas Buchanan, Jeremy
Holdcroft, Robin Beer, Max Underwood, Phil
K-Dobson, Katie Russell, Shirley Gillespie,
Nicci Brighten, Beth Partridge........ Passers-by
Adrian Ledbury, Chris Mahoney, Simon
Lewis, Chris Lubus, John Mallin................0000005
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Tom Sanderson, Thomas Buchanan, Jeremy
Holdcroft, Robin Beer, Max Underwood, Phil
K-Dobson, Katie Russell, Shirley Gillespie,
Nicci Brighten, Beth Partridge, Michelle

Leaver, Nikki McFarland.................. Posh Doubles
Rob Brinton/John Walker.............0005 Trumpeter
Joseph Lippiatt...............cccunen Double for Dick

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Daryl Adcock, Lindsay Hollingsworth,
Nicholas Wilkes, Hannah Welch, Gayle
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CREDITS

Written by Gareth Roberts

Producer: Phil Collinson

Director: Charles Palmer

1st Assistant Director: Gareth Williams

end Assistant Director: Steffan Morris

uncredited: Jennie Fava, Dafydd Parry]

rd Assistant Director: Sarah Davies

Location Manager: Gareth Skelding

Unit Manager: Rhys Griffiths

[uncredited: Huw Jones]

roduction Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk

roduction Secretary: Kevin Myers

roduction Assistant: Debi Griffiths

roduction Runner: Sian Eve Goldsmith

oor Runner: Barry Phillips

uncredited: Lowri Denman]

Contracts Assistant: Kath Blackman

ontinuity: Non Eleri Hughes

uncredited: Pam Humphries]

Script Editor: Simon Winstone

Camera Operator: Julian Barber

Focus Puller: Steve Rees

2nd Camera Operator: Steven Hall
[uncredited: Sidn Elin Palfrey, Rory Taylor,
Roger Pearce, Tim Dodd, Peter Thornton]

Grip: John Robinson [uncredited: Chris Hughes,
Mike Hawk]

Boom Operator: Jeff Welch
{uncredited: Bryn Thomas]

Gaffer; Mark Hutchings

Best Boy: Peter Chester

Stunt Co-ordinators: Tom Lucy, Crispin Layfield

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Stunt Performer: Maxine Whittaker

Wires; Bob Schofield

Chief Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas

Art Department Production Manager:

Jonathan Marquand Allison

Art Department Co-ordinator: Matthew North
Chief Props Master: Adrian Anscombe

Supervising Art Director: Arwel
Associate Designer: James Nort
Set Decorator: David Morison

Standby Art Director: Tim Dicke

Wyn Jones
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Design Assistants: Peter McKinstry, Ben Austin

Cyfle Trainee: Jon Grundon
Standby Props: Phill Shellard, Cl
Standby Carpenter: Paul Jones
Standby Painter: Ellen Woods
Standby Rigger: Bryan Griffiths
Property Master: Phil Lyons
Props Buyer: Catherine Samuel

ive Clarke

Senior Props Maker: Barry Jones
Props Makers: Penny Howarth, Mark Cordory,

Nick Robatto

Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies
Construction Chargehand: Allen Jones

Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics

Assistant Costume Designer: Marnie Ormiston
Costume Supervisor; Lindsay Bonaccorsi

Costume Assistants: Sheenagh

O'Marah,

Kirsty Wilkinson [uncredited: lan Chapman]

Make-Up Artists: Pam Mullins, S

teve Smith,

John Munro [uncredited: Morag Smith,
Richard Muller]
Casting Associate: Andy Brierley
Assistant Editor: Ceres Doyle
Post Production Supervisors: Samantha Hall,
Chris Blatchford

Cast and credits

Post Production Co-ordinator: Marie Brown

Special Effects Co-ordinator: Ben Ashmore

Special Effects Supervisor: Paul Kelly

Prosthetics Designer: Neill Gorton

Prosthetics Supervisor: Rob Mayor

On Line Editor: Matthew Clarke

Colourist: Mick Vincent

3D Artists: Nick Webber, Chris Tucker, Andy Guest,
Bruce Magroune

2D Artists: Sara Bennett, Melissa Butler-Adams,

Russell Horth, Bryan Bartlett, Joseph Courtis,
Adam Rowland

Visual Effects Co-ordinators: Jenna Powell,
Rebecca Johnson

Digital Matte Painters: Alex Fort, Simon Wicker

On Set VFX Supervisor: Barney Curnow

Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts

Supervising Sound Editor: Paul McFadden

Sound Editor: Doug Sinclair

Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies

Finance Manager: Chris Rogers

With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer

Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG

Production Executive: Julie Scott

Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams

Sound Recordist: Julian Howarth
[uncredited: Ron Bailey]

Costume Designer: Louise Page

Make-Up Designer: Barbara Southcott

Music: Murray Gold

Visual Effects: The Mill

Visual FX Producers: Will Cohen, Marie Jones

Visual FX Supervisor: Dave Houghton

Special Effects: Any Effects

Prosthetics: Millennium FX

Editor: Matthew Tabern

Left:
Production Designer: Edward Thomas The Crenisers
Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC up inside the
Production Manager: Patrick Schweitzer present-day

Globe Theatre.

Executive Producers: Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner
BBC Wales in association with the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation

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Profile

Writer

orn on 5 June 1968 in Chesham,
Buckinghamshire as Gareth
Y John Pritchard Roberts
) (Pritchard was his mother’s
maiden name), he grew up a
” huge Doctor Who fan and as a
child one Pa his first stories saw the Doctor
and the Brigadier repel alien invaders with a
Focke-Wulf aircraft.

After studying drama at King Alfred’s
College, Winchester he became a voice in
Doctor Who fandom, co-editing iconoclastic
fanzine Cottage! Under Siege with Neil Corry
in 1993/4.

He regularly contributed to DWB and
Doctor Who Magazine, often collaborating
with Clayton Hickman on the latter.
Roberts wrote DWM comic strips The Lunar
Strangers (1994), Plastic Millenium (1994),
Operation Proteus (1995), The Seventh Segment

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(1995), Target Practice (1995) and The Last
Word (2001).

He moved into longform fiction with
acclaimed Virgin New Adventures novels
The Highest Science (1993), Tragedy Day
(1994) and Zamper (1995). To the Missing
Adventures range he provided First Doctor
tale The Plotters (1996), and three further
entries, demonstrating his love for the
Fourth Doctor and Second Romana team
of Season 17: The Romance of Crime (1995),
The English Way of Death (1996) and The
Well-Mannered War (1997). His camply
whimsical sensibilities were further

in evidence with Big Finish

audios co-written with Clayton

Hickman, The One Doctor (2001)
and Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (2002),
featuring pantomime stylings
and an Intergalactic Song
Contest. Roberts also co-wrote,
with Rebecca Levene, Big Finish’s
début release for The Tomorrow
People (2001).

Moving into mainstream
television via soap opera, he
became a storyliner on Sky One’s
| surreal soap Springhill (1996/7),

THE Rom t
Mitehemeg, then shifted to storylining

for Coronation Street (1997/8),

became a script/story editor, then writer
on Emmerdale (1998/9) and a writer on
Brookside (1999-2003).

He diversified into more obviously
comedic fare, with the revived Randall &
Hopkirk (Deceased) (2001), sitcom Swiss Toni
(2003) and sketch show Swinging (2005). A
fantasy comedy co-written with Mark Gatiss
The Ministry of Time (2004) reached a cast
readthrough stage but no pilot emerged.

By 1999 he was enough of a TV mover
and shaker to feature alongside Russell T
Davies, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Paul
Cornell in a Doctor Who Magazine forum
article that suggested how the show might
return for the twenty-first century: “To keep
younger viewers watching today, there’d
need to be a deeper emotional context to
the Doctor/assistant relationship.”

He and Clayton Hickman contributed
to a Doctor Who revival pitch led by Mark
Gatiss, touted around the BBC in 2001.

As Russell T Davies’ own endeavours were
about to bear fruit, Roberts was working
on DWM comic strip Doctor Who and the
Nightmare Game (2003). After the TV show’s
return, Roberts provided Ninth Doctor
strips to DWM, beginning with The Love
Invasion (2005).

Profile

Spin-off media brought him ever closer
to the parent series, with tie-in books Only
Human (2005) and I Am a Dalek (2006), a
BBC Red Button interactive minisode Attack
of the Graske for Christmas 2005, and online
Tardisodes accompanying instalments of
the second series in 2006.

The Shakespeare Code brought his first full
Doctor Who TV writing credit. Subsequent
credits came in The Unicorn and the Wasp
[2008 - see Volume 58] and Planet of the
Dead [2009 - see Volume 61], the latter
co-credited to Russell T Davies. For Matt
Smith’s Doctor he wrote two stories
featuring Craig Owens, played by James
Corden: The Lodger [2010 - see Volume 65],
a reworking of a 2006 Tenth Doctor DWM
comic strip, and Closing Time [2011 - see
Volume 69]. Roberts and Hickman also
co-wrote Matt Smith's introductory
sequence for the 2011 National Television
Awards. Roberts’ sole Twelfth Doctor entry
The Caretaker {2014 - see Volume 78] was
co-written with Steven Moffat. Roberts
also co-wrote stage show Doctor Who Live
(2010) with Will Brenton.

Alongside Russell T Davies, Roberts wrote
the pilot for spin-off series The Sarah Jane
Adventures (2007-11), before going onto
provide eight subsequent two-part stories,

: : Left:
with Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2010) Gareth helped
co-credited to Clayton Hickman. He and originate The
Hickman also scripted a 2009 Sarah Jane Samgp Jane
Adventures.

Adventures Comic Relief Special. Roberts
wrote two adventures for the series’
replacement Wizards vs Aliens (2012/13).
He briefly returned to Doctor Who in print,
writing a novelisation of Douglas Adams’
Shada (2012). In turn, several of Roberts’
own early Missing Adventures novels were
adapted as Big Finish audios from 2014.
Other TV credits include an episode of
Jekyll & Hyde (2015), written for old Swiss
Toni pal Charlie Higson, and TNT’s US
fantasy series The Librarians (2017). @

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Index

Page numbers in italic type refer to pictures.

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2007 SETIES icsinincascninninnneiunnennnvrammcnanicninid 44-46, 47-48,
49,50, 51-52, 53
A cucncreercncenneanmenenraninaanntiecaninnnanmicrnnets 26, 45, 48, 74
Ad GO Acitinnnaiincnincnmminnnininnennnaireremannats 51, 61, 63, 86, 87
AGE OF STEEL, TG ws ssnsswossnnseicerouseamtnssscconmancinrarsat sie 61, 86
AGVEMAN, FRCS MA sisasssicccaniiennususaronenonaarevies 18,19, 25, 60,
61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69,
70,71, 72,73, 74, 76,77,
78, 79, 80, 86-89, 106,
107,108, 111,112
ANENS OF LONGO Riccnvnnmanmnasnmannnracnn 17,51, 65, 74, 76
ATIC OR AG OF sssceasisrrsnscernsststiaienniinireeitusunicsamnranaddinedivaninien 66
ANGrOld INVASION, THE sinvciisamninmannninmnemonnanennsiae 57
ATIGANSS aiscsoniinenssinsmnaiiinensiopinnnienr mannii 63, 64, 70, 73
ANY ERE CtSiinninsctacsnnmeninnaninnrnnannmniniienmmnncms 21,24
PPR SDGCE RAE evvservsssvesvesnivesttecovescsveressaveiteveiioon iiveveennsinineanentens 71
ANMSTIONG). Nin Giiccnuimonrmnniniummnenamianrmannints 24,25
ANMYOF GHOSTS wa avnsinvoncniinsiaionnradieornre 5,16, 19, 20, 32, 51,
61, 63,65, 69, 76,
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BO WON ia ssiniansnndacainuidanninandemnandantendiapizeninnte 23
Bailey, Dolly... 94, 103, 105, 114
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CORORITES; TE snvsinminccadanvencwmnnanies 90, 95, 98, 99, 104,
105, 107, 109, 118, 119
(CG evsreceaseninsieisnrteerommmenneenamnmatnnanmnntcantes 15,19, 32, 74,
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CTT DIAL CHTIS swisisverervvanvsivenccesiivesrenernveranssivendicenanisnececvomnparnenttiit 43,68
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CHSEMNGS COTO, Al siniisivinieesnnarnmnerinunenunenpeniorsiranwenninen 5
Christmas INVGSION: TRG iiscidiwnncancancnenais 15;16 17,20,
21, 24, 32, 33, 61,
65, 68, 84, 111
CHEV OR DEG isn scocvsvintrovineensinernseeanenitannanepniniautawnien 93,98
Clarke; Noel siiitannninnnnnnmaninnnaninananninmmnmnamaanen
Closing Time
COle CNIS EM Gliniianraacsunteirannaaniesaetiaes 106, 111,118
Gollliggiole cnet entree ment TT 13;,25;61,,65;, 66;
71, 76, 87,96, 109
COMMENTANES emniamimmnnnnaeanananan 34, 38,67, 71, 76,
81,107, 113, 118
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COPEL, PAL vscsnanoresansarannsuesdvvetasssoveenpspianisbpsnananaaenentarveannrepeniaaves 35,123
COTE, GEOG Aincsccmnpranrananamnnueerarmmmamannemned: 19,71
Croot, MIS vss 23,29
CISGIE: THE sicnmaacctanmnnncncmnnnnminmammnnenee 104
EGTSEOPFEMNIC, TR bsissaiccrarcczessaspqiisceving nniouiniirinnapcdgubsinnviges 66
CYBENMEN tcc 20, 30, 50, 51, 69, 116
Daily: Mat lassesccicavccinveconcancennasetscerenvniesvemteasrenerrnata 18, 35, 76
Daily Mirror..... awed Oe, 7100p 110
Daily RECON ininnninnncnmmnnmonconnimnamummannnnTN 33,37
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Daily Telegraph; The cinnonensdonniianacmininenrcunnranant 77
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DPGIERS 1 MGRAGEEGM eis cniinusisisncssvianiuianainszitieaisenaiiinis 45, 53,73
DEIEKS umouuuncaavun 20, 30, 50, 69, 93, 116
Danii RICH lGaiiunurnnmnannanuannnanananacaiemoninincents 69
Davies, Russell T 8; 12,.13;.14, 15,16,

19, 20, 22, 26, 35, 43, 47,
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66,
68,.72,./3,76;/7, 78,79,
80, 81, 86, 87, 88, 93, 96,
97,98, 99,100, 101, 105,
106, 107, 110, 111, 117, 123

IBD scsvitcnei ceva eg vega evtgeanectevaasuicsenit 94,95, 99, 101,

104, 111, 114
DIEKS TENANCE ssinakaireviniinenvadcavenuitiedenva vavieineramenireennicdiwis 82
Dinosaurs On G Spaceship snvsacmsncacnmnnwnasnnnnron 8

Doctor Dances, The......0000 107
Doctor Who — DVD: FICS issncinncomnnrnncncnannnaemn 38, 81,118
Doctor Who - Original Television Soundtrack.
Doctor Whovand the SHUN Sinton

DOGtOF WhO CONPGENUG vinimincopinecunsinsan 13, 20, 23, 24,
25, 34, 38, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68,

70, 71, 72, 74, 76,79, 81, 98, 99,

107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 118

DOCTOF WAG. MGGQEZING sisiswasiwcsnovaenmnaeraein 18, 21, 22, 23, 26,
61, 62-63, 68, 72, 75, 86, 89,

96, 98, 100, 103, 109, 110, 111,

17,122,123

A Groatsworth of Wit (COMIC StFiP) wissen 97-98
Doctor Who: Back in Time (BBC Radio CYMTIU) wan 14, 24,
34, 35,79

Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection wus 38, 81

Doctor, the Widow, and the WardrObe, THE. 5
DOCTOFSIDGUGHISH THE avn veveorscécnstivimninienceneniainenananar 89
Doomfinger .94,95,99, 101,119
Doomsday 5,13,14, 15,16;,.20,

51,61, 64,65, 76,104
DVD EXtS isinsncasrmmencanuunannnnenraranenannminstis 38, 81,118

Eccleston, Christopher

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Elizabeth |, Queen

Ember, Bella.

Empress Of MdrrSwssiisssses

Empress of the Racn0ss, the wissen 6,8, 9,10,
11, 14, 16-17, 18, 19, 23, 24,

25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 38, 42

Empty Child, The wernnorinnianiinnmnnnnnaommnanianiinnginn 107

End of the World, Thé...... 15,21,103

End'of Time; Th@nndssnsmmnamieannenamnimenmnarenn 88, 89

ENGR MEN Buccoinuviconincsirieeanianmnnnnniennininiunsnts 104

Evans; ANN wnsicnnicanniniavnennnaninannanmanaranemtamaee 26
EVOlUOM OF ENE DOIEKS ica siicisensmcciumoreonummiannss 45, 53, 73
Fate Or BOS Iie ommanunancmoernmmnemanamemnurats

Family of Blood, The
FOG? HET concancunnnmmemmarenmmomanmaenes
Feast of the Drowned, The (BBC Audiobook)
FIMGhl ati; PGtEr ironannsmnuiennmnnecarnterecionaazeanconanatenoai
Finnegan, Florence...

FIVE ROGIONS; THO iiscinminsiunanimaseeunamitanrometineniananienies
FORMAN DAV censor nninnimaneemme
FORSTEG. DEAN wiissmenionvin dc niminamniaceiiiimmreniniminnenaiiestennias
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FY, STEPNEN vessssssssssees

Fury fron thé Dep cwsinconnccnwmnnmeamniiwnnnnnmnnmnnivenas

Gardner) Wliesniniconvimmncnmnniinennianen 26, 34, 35, 76, 79,
87,107,115
Gatiss, Mat himniinnacarnmmnnmnnmnnnnnmnnmminmmnnemin 76,123

GEG; DOM nasminmnmconmnnnaramiuiiionemmanaAR
Girl in the Fireplace, The.
GIOBE ThEatie, The naannanmmmnenunna: ,94,
99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105,
106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111,
112, 113, 114,115, 116, 117,121
GMTV (TN) sciseeessissenemnrennncennnnancencionmenmanantnrass 35, 76, 79, 116
Gold, Murray 16, 32, 74,108
Graham: Matth@wincussiinnsicinannnecannnnmncannananncicwan 97
GHEENMOM, STEPHEN ccsiinsiiccviinenvinisinnsinnnnstivenceinininn 68, 76
GIO CK sversievsevsiveesvveverees 45, 47,50, 51, 53, 73
GHUMGY) RED ictwnrinisimmnuncenannanarernmnnninntgniiew inn eianiie 110
Guardian, The wissiziiecccavincaneaasiaane 22, 35, 37, 43, 80, 88
Harkness; Captain ack waiwscvvessinnccesssceerseees 47,50, 51,68
Harper, Graeme
Hartley Jalaalsinmninecanannieomnnnniinmnunrannaneanrennanty
HaSte, Mak Kiscisinanimmnnmnieananmannvuennnninmmmanaats
FIG ChE MATHS is ississinsionimaunimunisancuamaas 10,16, 17,19, 21,

23,.27,28, 29, 30
«100, 109, 122, 123

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Hoegen, GUSTAVivis
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HOUGKEON, DAVE soccnnncmsracananiemrnnmmranannmmamanraannty 14
FAUMTIGI NGTUT ES wsssivtsanacaiissreeneniictinnscssetintemnsinins 45, 47,50, 74
NUON PArtiCleS swssinsvnsisneasnees 10,11, 18; 26,30, 31
Husbands of River SONG, THE wuss 5
[EAWOTHOTS, Tet niicrnronimienmunrniminneononiienninarniniatin 62
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[POSSE PIGHEE ANE asisnnnnanimnsnnseiusnneanomnnenmniaye 71
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JEMKINS; Kathrine iisiiiistensiasasiinmidininaisondinninianriderinaiain 5
IGHES; CVE cnvcsumnnmrcnonmmnneaninauniasas 58, 63, 66
Jones, Francine... 48, 63,64, 66
JORBSs | 66 nacrematannmencmmniunameninmninannT 58, 59, 63,

65, 66, 73
JGRES, MARTE wiissccansmmansimarnemmnnnecearins 19, 44, 45, 46, 47,

48, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 60,

61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,

68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74,75,

76, 78, 80, 82, 86, 88, 89,

90, 93, 94, 95, 99, 100, 101,

103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,

112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117

Jones, Matt...
Jones, Tish...
Journey's End.
Judoon, the...

58; 59; 63 64, 65, 66, 68,
69, 70, 71,72, 74, 78, 80,
81, 82, 84,111

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Kasey; Pall oneponncovenrmeneniceamarmaiis 21,69, 71,79
Kelly, Dean Lennox... 48, 105, 108, 109, 116
KENID Gin nanemnmntinmaeniTT eM 94,101
RPUREEMOGR vcissscxtsutessincencistianitinipeitndnbednteatiochaxedtntineiengsaunesiis 8
KINGSTON pAlGXinisoncaccommermzonmmninnanimmimnimenmummnmbae 5
baitd) TTeVOr anirainnsnnnmneiwermENEeRnMN ROI 66
LERKIF CHE Si cxccrsnnmannieniimicanininnamnmmniniienminaciaionen 108
Last of the Time Lords..... 45,47, 48, 53,88
LEVTIEIG, GhISBIA sinvissinemnmnininennnnereininenmredrin 71,105, 106
Lazarus Experiment, The... 45, 47, 48, 73
LQUS KAFILEIER ce sectveveeccessarenss
Liggat, Susie...
Kiltinivenmeremterrenrrcer cir creme ert

104, 105, 106, 107, 111,

114, 115, 116, 118
LOGatlOn FUMING: :issiuwiiniiinudanimnndnnae
Atradius buildirig; Cardiff Bay sicnismononcnnisrcceniicnns

Baverstock Hotel, Merthyr Tydfil
Cheylesmore Manor, New Union Street, Coventry... 107
Churchill Way, Cardiff ...ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssessssssssssseeesesssessness

Ford's Hospital, Greyfriars Lane, Coventry.
Globe Theatre, Bankside, London....100, 101, 105, 106,
107, 108, 110, 111, 112,121

Howells department Store, Cardiff sss 23

mpounding Station, NEWport DOCKS wissen 4)

PC Bul iG, LONGO wivnininaivarenainiaianriminuniticiwninee 20

ohnsey Estates Factory, PONtYPOO! issn 23

Lloyds TSB, Tresillian Way, Cardiff vss 112

Market Street, PONtYPOO!. sen «10; 72

MillenniUM Stadium, Cardiff ssccsssssssserssssssssssennessen 23

New Country House Hotel, THOrnhillunssssssnen 23

Newport Indoor Market, Upper Dock Street, Newport...

Lp AAaBINN SaRTMERNA MORTEM 111

Old Library, The Hayes: Carahil'ssonieisnumonvversnrenannn 23

Old NEG Glass Site, Cardiff Bay ws 73

PRINCESS AVENUE, ROS ivinmommoumnemsiannn 24
School of Sciences, University of Glamorgan,

PORTVEN Cd iommommacamnn wos, /0, 71,107

Singleton Hospital, SWANSEA. 70,71

St John the Baptist Church, Trinity Street, Cardiff.......21

SE Many Street; Caner wccsssarssnesnesiess paieisescinieiwnses 23, 24,28

Thames Flodd Barrel cmuwnanvnsusnanenmenanrancesiin 19,25

The Lord Leycester Hospital, WarwicKkwusssssenns 108

The Waterquard Pub, Cardiff Bay... rail

Usk Valley Business Park, Ponypool........ 23, 68-69, 105

Victoria Park Road East, Cardiff acs 26

Waterstones, Wharton Street, Cardiff....... wn 24

West Point Industrial Estate, GrangetoWwn ws 22

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Long GaME: LAConiwesnnnmnnmnacvanntecctnnrninnammuminnii 18

Love & Monsters... CDCl peo

LOVE DOM EROOM sniinnensnmmaniescncnetes 2; 33; 34;37,38

LOVE'S LADOUPS WON esses 90, 94, 95, 98, 108,

110, 112, 113

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LUGHS PX aaiaspnmanienennnncenionmnnniannacuniuntuaraunt
Lucas, Matt
Lucy, TOM ws
Lyn, Euros.......
LWilEVcsnnasvanamnamnmmennnennnin
MGGGE TAT OR The inicincancnnniienmmnnmmnionneniienninny 51
MAGRAG,, TOIT wneviivnvnimminnmndrininsisenvdomnraiiamiidnicranien 76
Marko the Rani: Tie vnccsascannonnmonamnnnanatiamnass 93
MACKS, Sail vcsionnorientarainaantanynenganscreinniwesitieaivearedtuyuunnrrtas 107
Marsden, Roy... 53, 66, 76
Master, The... 50,53), 77
Mayol? ROB mmnannannmomnnmonannimnememmTArE 78
Milathia= RaW) GUC Gs iiccuccianrrndnninonivnreniannnn 53, 66, 70, 72
McCoy SyIVeSterannincmonminanmnnimnnnamnmannntin 21,93)
McKinstry, Peter wu wi
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DOCTOR

WHO

THE COMPLETE HISTORY

THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
The Doctor is surprised when a young woman, Donna Noble,
is transported to the TARDIS on her wedding day. It becomes
clear that Donna is connected to a plot to destroy the Earth by
the Empress of the Racnoss. Can the Doctor and Donna save the
world before it’s too late?

SMITH AND JONES
When the Royal Hope Hospital is transported to the Moon, the

Doctor meets medical student Martha Jones and the pair join
forces to investigate. It’s not long before a Judoon platoon
arrives on the Moon to track down an alien fugitive...

THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
The Doctor takes Martha on a trip in the TARDIS to Elizabethan
England to see one of William Shakespeare’s plays performed at
the Globe Theatre, But Love’s Labour's Won is instrumental in the
schemes of three witch-like Carrionites.

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