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Contents 


THE STOLEN EARTH / JOURNEY’S END 
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INTRODUCTION STORY PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTION POST-PRODUCTION 
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THE SPECIALS 
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OVERVIEW 


THE NEXT DOCTOR 
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n recent years, the motion picture 

industry has seen a move towards 

creating shared universes. This 

is exemplified in the success of 

the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 

films devoted to the adventures 
of superheroes lifted from the pages of 
Marvel Comics. The MCU (as it is known) 
serves up a mix of single superhero 
adventures and those that team up these 
colourful characters in a blockbusting 
movie event extravaganza. 

Looking back to Iron Man in 2008, the 
film that launched the MCU, many said 
Marvel was taking a gamble, one that 
would never pay off. But in June and July 
of that year, mere weeks after Iron Man 
opened in cinemas, one beloved British 
television series had already blazed a trail 
to its own team-up event. 

The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End {2008 - see 
page 6] is one of the most joyous Doctor 
Who adventures ever conceived. Since 
2005, lead writer Russell T Davies had 
created a shared universe around Doctor 
Who with all the flare and genius of a great 
showman. Doctor Who was soon joined by 
Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, 


Welcome 


series that catered for different audiences 
but existed in the same fictional universe. 
It was a masterstroke. 

When it came to plans for the finale to 
the 2008 series of Doctor Who, everything 
was in place for an end-of-term get- 
together. Marvel may have the Avengers, 
but Doctor Who assembled the Children 
of Time, friends and allies answering 
the call in Earth’s hour of need. There’s 
something exciting about Daleks attacking 
the Torchwood Hub, or super-computer 
Mr Smith emerging from the wall in Sarah 
Jane’s Bannerman Road attic. Martha 
Jones, Rose Tyler, Harriet Jones - former 
Prime Minister - and even K9 all made 
return appearances to help the Doctor 
battle Davros and the Daleks. 

During the scene in Journey’s End where 
everybody is helping fly the TARDIS, 
Freema Agyeman’s Martha looks directly 
into camera, her look saying: isn’t this 
great? And she’s absolutely right. With 
this finale, Doctor Who became the most 
popular show on British television. It’s a 
thoroughly well-deserved accolade after 
the work cast and crew put in since starting 
production in 2004 - and a worthy way to 
mark the beginning of the end of an era. 


Left: 
The Next Doctor [2008 - see page 80] was The Children 
the start of a series of Specials that would of Time face 
the Daleks. 


lead to David Tennant’s final adventures 

as the Tenth Doctor. He’s joined by the 
brilliant David Morrissey as the tragic 
Jackson Lake, an ersatz Doctor who fuelled 
speculation about Tennant’s successor. 

But for a while, we still had a few more 
adventures with the Tenth Doctor to enjoy... 


Mark Wright — Editor 


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The Doctor has vanished, leaving his most 
loyal companions to battle a DaleR invasion of 
Earth. As an old enemy lurks in the shadows, 
can the Children of Time save reality itself? 


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— Introduction 


Introduction 


enesis of the Daleks [1975 - see 
Volume 23] was a landmark 
episode. Considered by many as 
the best Doctor Who adventure 
ever, it not only gave the Daleks 
an origins story, but crucially 
introduced us to their creator. Davros was 
a fascinating character - an evil genius, 
obsessed with developing ‘the ultimate 
creature’. He also looked terrifying - like a 
corpse wired into the base of a Dalek. 

It’s no surprise that showrunner Russell 
T Davies decided to reintroduce Davros 
when he was making Doctor Who, but that’s 
not all he took from Genesis of the Daleks. 
On his first encounter with Davros, the 
Doctor asked him if he could wipe out all 
of creation - would he do it? The reality 
bomb, seen in The Stolen Earth/Journey’s 
End was Davros finally making good on his 
assertion that, yes, he would do it. 


This wasn’t the last time that a line from 
Genesis of the Daleks served as inspiration 
for a Doctor Who story. The Magician’s 
Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar [2015 - 
see Volume 80] picked up on the scene 
where the Doctor asked Sarah Jane Smith 
whether she could kill a child if she knew 
he'd grow up to be an evil dictator. 

Of course, Davros wasn’t the only 
character to return in the 2008 series 
finale. With Davies’ time as showrunner 
drawing to a close, The Stolen Earth/ 
Journey’s End featured all of the Tenth 
Doctor’s companions - Rose, Martha 
and Donna - as well as members of their 
families. The casts of Doctor Who’s two 
spin-off series - Torchwood and The Sarah 
Jane Adventures - also got involved. This 
family of characters would all return a year 
later for the Tenth Doctor’s final story, The 
End of Time [2009/10 - see Volume 62], but 
it’s here that they get truly involved in the 
story - a fitting celebration of Russell 
T Davies’ time as executive producer. 

Journey’s End also followed in the 
footsteps of stories such as The Massacre 
of St Bartholomew’s Eve [1966 - see Volume 
7| and The Enemy of the World {1967/8 - 
see Volume 11] by presenting us with a 
duplicate of the Doctor. Uniquely, however, 
this wasn’t just a lookalike or an evil double 
- it was a genuine copy of the Doctor, the 
result of an aborted regeneration. 

The implication here is that this human 
Doctor lives a life with Rose Tyler until the 
end of his days - the tragic curse of the 
Time Lords avoided. And the next story 
would continue the theme of a duplicate 
Doctor - showing us what appeared to be 
the next Doctor... 


Left: 

The Daleks’ 
creator Davros 
is introduced 
in Genesis of 
the Daleks, 


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The Stol en Earth 


| he TARDIS lands on Earth on an 
ordinary Saturday. The Doctor 
Mi speaks to a milkman, then nips back 
inside the TARDIS. It shakes. When he 
looks outside again, the Earth has gone! 

At UNIT’s base in New York, Martha 
Jones takes charge after an earthquake. 
Jack, Ianto and Gwen at Torchwood in 
Cardiff experience an earthquake too - as 
do Sarah Jane Smith and Luke in Ealing 
and Wilf and Sylvia Noble in Chiswick. 
They all look up at the sky, which is full 
of alien worlds! [1] 

On the world’s TV screens, Richard 
Dawkins and Paul O’Grady react to 
events. [2] At Torchwood, Ianto detects 
27 planets, including the Earth - plus 
something else. 

Sarah’s computer Mr Smith and UNIT 
both detect spaceships approaching 
the Earth. 


Sas 


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In London, rioting has started. Rose 
Tyler strides through the chaos, armed 
with an enormous gun. 

Mr Smith picks up a communication 
from the spaceships: “Exterminate! 
Exterminate! Exterminate!” 

Rose watches as a Dalek spaceship 
descends over London. [3] 

The TARDIS lands in the home of the 
Shadow Proclamation. The Doctor and 
Donna are greeted by a Judoon and taken 
to meet the Shadow Architect. She shows 
them the worlds that have been stolen 
from time and space. The Doctor realises 
that adding Pyrovillia, Adipose III and 
the lost moon of Poosh creates a pattern 
that could be used as an engine. [4] 

Lieutenant General Sanchez tells 
Martha that Project Indigo is being 
activated and takes her to collect the 
Osterhagen Key. She then teleports away 
from the base. [5] 

In the darkened vault of the Daleks’ 


mothership, the Crucible, the Supreme 
Dalek informs Davros and Dalek 


Caan that no trace of the Doctor has 
been found. [6] 

The Doctor and Donna realise there 
is a connection between the bees 
disappearing and the Earth going 
missing, meaning they can locate it. 

Wilf and Sylvia watch as the Daleks 
take humans prisoner and exterminate 
those who resist. Cornered by a Dalek, 
Wilf shoots it with a paint gun, but it is 
unharmed. [7] In the nick of time Rose 
arrives and destroys it. 

The TARDIS materialises in the 
Medusa Cascade, the centre of a rift in 
time and space. But there is no sign of the 
Earth and the other missing planets. [8] 

Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones 
contacts Sarah, Torchwood and Martha 
Jones (at home with her mum) using the 
Subwave Network. The call is also picked 
up by Wilf, enabling Rose to listen in. 

[9] Harriet wants to use the Subwave 
Network to contact the Doctor, getting 
the whole world to call him at once. Her 
plan works, and the Doctor locates the 


Earth, hidden one second in the future. 
The Daleks locate the transmission’s 


source and exterminate Harriet. [10] 

The Doctor and Donna make contact 
with Torchwood, Sarah and Martha. But 
then the conference call is interrupted 
by another signal - and the wizened face 
of Davros appears on the screen. He was 
rescued from the Time War by Dalek Caan 
and has created a new race of Daleks, 
grown from cells from his own body. [11] 

Mr Smith detects the TARDIS landing, 
and Sarah sets off in her car. 

The Doctor and Donna exit the TARDIS 
onto a deserted street. Deserted, that is, 
except for Rose Tyler. She runs towards 
the Doctor, he runs towards her - and 
then a Dalek blasts him. Jack appears and 
destroys the Dalek, then helps Rose and 
Donna carry the Doctor into the TARDIS. 

The Daleks enter Torchwood. In 
London Sarah finds the road blocked by 
Daleks, which turn to exterminate her. 

And in the TARDIS, the Doctor starts 
to regenerate... [12] 


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t the foot of the TARDIS console is 

ajar containing the Doctor’s severed 

hand (removed in the encounter with 
the Sycorax) - and the Doctor diverts the 
regeneration energy into the hand... 

Sarah is rescued by the timely arrival 
of a heavily armed Mickey Smith and 
Jackie Tyler. [1] 

Torchwood is protected by a time 
bubble, the legacy of deceased Torchwood 
member Tosh. 

The Daleks locate the TARDIS and 
transfer it into the command deck of 
the Crucible. 

Martha teleports to a wood in Germany 
where she dodges a Dalek patrol. [2] 

Rose tells the Doctor that the stars 
in her universe were going out and 
dimensions have been collapsing across 
reality. The Doctor, Jack and Rose emerge 
into the Crucible Command Deck while 
Donna remains inside the TARDIS. The 


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Daleks drop the TARDIS into the core of 
the Crucible where it will be destroyed. [3] 

Trapped inside the TARDIS, Donna 
touches the jar. It breaks, and suddenly 
a new Doctor is created out of the energy 
contained in the severed hand. [4] 

The Daleks exterminate Jack and 
transfer the Doctor and Rose to the vault. 

The new Doctor puts on a blue suit and 
explains that he grew out of a biological 
metacrisis. He is part-Doctor, part-Donna. 

Martha comes to a castle. A German 
woman leads her inside and they descend 
in a lift. 

Jack is resurrected and emerges from the 
Daleks’ waste disposal. [5] 

The Doctor and Rose are placed in 
forcefields in the vault. The Doctor mocks 
Davros, saying he is being kept as the 
Daleks’ pet. 

Mickey, Jackie and Sarah are brought 
into the Daleks’ ship along with other 
prisoners. Sarah slips away with Mickey. 
The prisoners are being used to calibrate 
the Daleks’ weapon, the reality bomb. 


Jackie teleports away as the other 
prisoners are dissolved to atoms. [6] 

Davros says the Daleks will use the 
reality bomb to destroy the entire universe, 
leaving them as the only survivors. [7] 

Jack finds Mickey, Jackie and Sarah. 
Sarah reveals that she has a Warp Star, 

a crystal containing an explosion. 

Martha enters a control room and 
contacts two other Osterhagen Stations. 
Three are required to use the key. 

In the TARDIS, the new Doctor builds a 
gadget which will cause the reality bomb 
to backfire. 

Martha Jones contacts the Daleks, 
threatening to use the Osterhagen Key - 
and destroy the Earth. Jack and Sarah also 
contact the Daleks, threatening to use the 
Warp Star to destroy the Crucible. Davros 
mocks the Doctor - his companions have 
been turned into killers. [8] 

The Daleks teleport Martha, Jack, 
Mickey, Jackie and Sarah into the vault. 
Davros orders the Daleks to detonate the 
reality bomb. 


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The TARDIS materialises in the vault 
and the new Doctor emerges with the 
gadget. Davros blasts him and places 
him in a forcefield. Donna then emerges, 
and Davros blasts her - which induces 
another metacrisis, giving her the Doctor's 
knowledge. [9] She takes control of the 
Daleks and releases the Doctors, who 
return the planets to their rightful places. 
The new Doctor destroys the Daleks, 
angering his other self. 

The Doctors and companions run into 
the TARDIS, leaving Davros to die. They 
then use the TARDIS to drag Earth back 
to its proper position. [10] 

The Doctor drops off his companions, 
leaving Mickey and Martha with Jack, and 
Rose and Jackie with the new Doctor in 
the parallel universe. This Doctor is part- 
human and will grow old with Rose. [11] 

In the TARDIS, Donna recoils in pain, 
overwhelmed by having the Doctor’s mind 
in her head. The Doctor is forced to wipe 
some of her memories. [12] He leaves her 
with Wilf and Sylvia, back in her old life. 


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THE STOLEN EART’ 


ns 
LA 
¢ if his year we had to deliver the One reason for the climax having to 
grandest finale of all,” explained _—_ attain a grand scale was Doctor. Who's 
producer Phil Collinson of the imminent absence as a regular series 
\ ? 2008 series climax on Doctor during 2009, instead being replaced by mre... 
Above: Who Confidential. The stakes had _asseries of Specials before returning for - 
aes He ss to be even higher than before, a full new series in 2010. This break had — 
Doctor once / fwith the whole of reality now threatened _been carefully scheduled in spring 2006, 
more. in a Doctor Who adventure played out on ith the production team keén to have the 
an epic scale. “The most exciting ending audience hungry for its return. “It we 
I can possibly promise youlever,” was how By decision,” explained David Tenrfant  —_ 


showrunner and writer Russell T Davie 
described the two-part finale on Doctor 
Who: Back in Time, later explaining on 
Newsround, “I’ve been planning for a couple 
= of years. Not definitely, but as we film it 
I’ve watched what’s working and mixed — 
things up as we’ve gone along.” 


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Cardiff during July as with the three 
previous years. . 

It was Russell T Davies, who had 

shaped the whole’series to this point, 

who took on the task of weaving together 
the strands and clues from over three 
years of adventures for the concluding 
episodes. One of these strands was to 

be the disappearance of Earth’s bee 
population; this had been inspired by 

a quotation attributed to theoretical 
physicist Albert Einstein (but actually 
stemming from a statement made by 
Maurice Maeterlinck in his 1901 work The 
Life of the Bee): “If the bee disappeared off 
the face of the Earth, man would only have 
four years left to live.” 


ey ee 
Davrosandthe Daleks 
or such a massive climax, it 
was natural to bring back the 
Doctor’s most famous enemies: 
the Daleks. “They still work for a new 


generation,” explained Davies on Doctor 
Who Confidential. “It’s not just nostalgia. 


Something in 1963 focused and got it 
right from the word go... A truly enduring 
> design classic.” The creatures had been an 
a in Doctor Who in December 1963, and had 
— WF returned on numerous occasions to face 
b each of the first seven Doctors through to 
1988. When the series was revived in 2005, 
Ve lone member of the species featured in 
Dalek [2005 - see Volume 49], followed by 
the whole race in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the 
Ways a few weeks later [2009 - see Volume 
50]. Four Daleks - the Cult of Skaro - were 
then revealed in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday 
[2006 - see Volume 53], with this quartet 
reappearing in New York of 1930 for the 
following year’s Daleks in Manhattan/ 
Evolution of the Daleks [2007 - see Volume 


__ 55] However, this time the Daleks would 


immediate hit when they had first appeared — 


be joined by their creator, Davros. 
The character of Davros, a Kaled 
scientist on the planet Skaro, had been 
introduced by the Daleks’ real-life creator, 
Terry Nation, in Genesis of the Daleks 
[1975 - see Volume 23], partly to allow 
better dialogue sequences - something 
for which the Daleks were not noted. On 
this occasion, the character was played by 
Michael Wisher, and was apparently killed 
by the Daleks in the final episode. Wisher 
had not been available when a sequel 
story, Destiny of the Daleks [1979 - see 
Volume 30], entered production, and so 
David Gooderson filled the role when the 
Daleks returned to find their centuries-old 
creator. Davros was imprisoned on a space 
station, but rescued in Resurrection of the 
Daleks {1984 - see Volume 39], a story in 
which Terry Molloy took on the part of the 
scientist. Molloy returned in Revelation of the 
Daleks [1985 - see Volume 41] - in which 
he created a new race of Daleks - and again 
in Remembrance of the Daleks [1988 - see 
Volume 44] in which Davros had become 
the new Emperor Dalek. The Doctor made 


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The Doctor 
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oblique references to Davros 
in both Dalek and Daleks in 
Manhattan/Evolution of 

the Daleks. 

Davies was considering 
the climax to the 2008 
series on Sunday 18 February 
2007 when he was pondering 
on what the lost people of 
Earth would be doing; Earth 
would be one of a number 
of planets which would 
vanish, following a story 
strand which would be 
seeded during the season. 

In a series breakdown on 
Tuesday 20, he referred to 
the two episodes as The 
Stolen Earth, indicating 
that in the season finale Earth would be 
transported halfway across the universe 
as part of a plot involving the Daleks and 
Davros. He also wanted these episodes 
to feature not only the Doctor and his 
new, then-unnamed companion, but also 
former companions Martha Jones (who 


Connections: 

Hands off 

® Davros is seen to sport 

a metal hand, anew 

ition that ties in to his 

scenes in Revelation 

the Daleks [1985 - see 

1e 41] when his 

ining appendage had 

shot off by gunfire 
he serials climax. 

eks' creator can 

fire energy bolts fro 

his hand, an ability a 

emonstrated i 

Revelation of 
the Daleks. 


Be would be leaving at the end of the 2007 
old friends series then in production and whom 
ad ae it was planned to have feature in The 
Captain Jack Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky and The 
Harkness and Doctor’s Daughter [all 2008 - see Volume 
eo 58], Captain Jack Harkness (who was 


due to appear in the climax of the 2007 
series as well as featuring in the post- 
watershed spin-off series Torchwood due 
to start production of its second series in 
April), Sarah Jane Smith (last seen in School 
Reunion [2006 - see Volume 52] and the 
special introducing her own CBBC spin-off 
The Sarah Jane Adventures which was also 
to start regular production in April), Rose 
Tyler (last seen in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday 
[2006 - see Volume 53}) plus her mother 
Jackie and her boyfriend Mickey Smith. He 
also wanted to bring back the character 


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of Elton Pope who had been central to 
the episode Love e& Monsters [2006 - see 
Volume 53]. Davies aimed to feature other 
members of the Torchwood cast, envisaging 
the setting as being a futuristic space 
station complex which was hosting an 
alien conference attended by various aliens 
(either still available as CGI or physical 
costumes). The writer wanted the episodes 
to feature the biggest Dalek spaceship 
interior ever, like a Dalek temple, and have 
the skies across Earth changing into a 
weird space vista as the planet was stolen. 
Much of Davies’ planned story depended 
on cast availability. By Wednesday 7 
March, executive producer Julie Gardner 
confirmed to him that Billie Piper who had 
played Rose Tyler in the 2005 and 2006 
series would be available for up to four 
episodes of the 2008 series - two more 
than Davies had hoped for. Furthermore, 
Catherine Tate - who had played Donna 
Noble in the recent Christmas Special 
The Runaway Bride {2006 - see Volume 
54] - had very much 
enjoyed her time working 
with David Tennant 


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on Doctor Who and was keen to make 
herself available for a return; believing 
that Tate would never be available for 

the whole series, Davies decided to add 
Donna to the list of returning companions 
in the two-part series finale, working 
alongside the Doctor and his new 
companion, Penny. 


y late March, it was clear that Tate 
te was happy to commit to an entire 
year of Doctor Who, meaning that 
Penny had been replaced by Donna Noble. 
Julie Gardner met Billie Piper on Sunday 
25 March and confirmed that Piper would 
be available for four episodes and even 
discussed the idea of her appearing in 
the subsequent Christmas 
& Special. Meanwhile, 
Davies had started 
working out how to 
foreshadow the Daleks’ 
new plan in the Medusa 


Cascade in earlier episodes of the 2008 
series; Earth and five other planets would 
be stolen by the Daleks and thus form a 
Dalek energy convertor for a planet-sized 
bomb; Davies had the Master refer to 
the Medusa Cascade in his script for the 
2007 season finale Last of the Time Lords 
[2007 - see Volume 56]. Davros was to be 
discovered by Dalek Caan, one of the four 
Daleks in the Cult of Skaro first seen in 
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday and then escaping 
the Doctor in a temporal shift at the end 
of Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the 
Daleks; Caan would now be insane. The 
series would then conclude with the 
Doctor returning Earth home and making 
an announcement from above the planet 
that he would protect the world forever. 
By the end of April, Davies knew 
that his line-up of companions would 
comprise Donna, Martha, Rose, Jack, 
Sarah Jane and Mickey... and he also 
wanted one of them to die. He knew that 
he could not kill Rose, and 
Phil Collinson had told him 
that they couldn’t kill off 
Mickey. Davies pondered if 
one companion could die, 
but then be brought back to 
life by Martha performing 
CPR. He did know that he 
needed a very happy ending 
for the final episode, and 
saw the six companions 
working together to pilot 
the Doctor’s ship. “Having 
brought all of them together, 
I just had to have a scene 
of all of them around 
that TARDIS console,” 
said Davies of all the 
regular characters, as 
he recalled a comment 
made to him in 
2004 by production 


Connections: 
More hands 
® The Doctor's severed 
hand that he lost in 
The Christmas Invasion 
2005 - see Volume 51] 
is key to events, forming 
he basis for the growth 
of the new Doctor. This 
Doctor declares himself 
to be “part-Time Lord, 
part-human” In the TV 
Movie Doctor Who [1996 
- see Volume 47], it was 
revealed that the Doctor 
was “half-human, on my 
mother's side”, something 
which the Master had 
confirmed from the 
Doctor's retinal structure. 


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designer Edward Thomas that the original 
controls must have been designed for 

six operators. He also conceived a scene 

in which Sarah Jane was surrounded by 
Daleks when Mickey suddenly appeared 
with a gun, declaring: “No one kills a 
Smith!” Davros would recognise Sarah 
Jane from their meeting in Genesis of 

the Daleks; Davies also wanted to use an 
idea he had planned for the last of the 
upcoming 2009 Specials which would 
conclude the current Doctor’s adventures; 
the Doctor’s severed hand from The 
Christmas Invasion held at Torchwood in 
Cardiff from Day One and then aboard 

the TARDIS after Last of the Time Lords 
(referenced in episodes such as The Doctor’s 
Daughter [2008 - see Volume 58]) would be 


Right: 
Sarah Jane 
faces old fears. 


used to allow Rose to have a new Doctor of 


her own in her parallel universe. 

On Thursday 12 July, Davies decided 
that if he was going to create a new Doctor 
for Rose, he might as well use the second 
Doctor in the fight against the Daleks; as 
such, he planned that the opening part 
of the finale would end with the Doctor 


Connections: 
Nightmare 


® The Doctor had believed 
that Davros was destroyed 
in the first year of the Time 
War at the Gates of Elysium 
when his command ship 
flew into the jaws of the 
ightmare Child. In fact, 
Davros was saved by Dalek 
Caan, who emerged from 
he emergency temporal 
shift it made at the end 
of Daleks in Manhattan/ 
Evolution of the 
Daleks [2007 - see 
Volume 55], 


being shot by a Dalek and 
apparently regenerating... 
only for him to channel 
this energy into the severed 
hand instead. By now, the 
Christmas 2007 Special 
Voyage of the Damned {2007 
- see Volume 57] was in 
production, and Davies had 
become very fond of the 
character of Midshipman 
Frame played by Russell 
Tovey, hoping that he could 
also bring back this character 
for the season finale. 
Having decided to kill 
off the characters of Tosh 
and Owen at the end of the 
second series of Torchwood 


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which was then recording, at the start 

of August Davies considered ending the 
series finale with Mickey Smith back from 
the parallel universe so that the character 
could guest in future episodes of Torchwood 
and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Trying to 
form a storyline for the finale later in the 
month, Davies kept playing the Paul and 
Linda McCartney song Live and Let Die, 

the theme tune to the 1973 James Bond 
film, for inspiration, wanting to capture its 
dynamic feel. 


avies was concerned when on 
D Wednesday 22 August he heard 

from Billie Piper’s agent that Piper 
was marrying actor Laurence Fox on 
New Year’s Eve and would be away on 
honeymoon during January 2008, across 
the period when the finale was to be made. 
Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman and 
Elisabeth Sladen - who played Martha, 
Jack and Sarah Jane - had already been 
booked for this time, as had Euros Lyn 
whom it had been planned to have as 


director. Davies considered if he could 


make his story work if Piper was available 
to work for just one day on a scene at 

Bad Wolf Bay (as in Doomsday) and felt 
that there was now no way to bring back 
Mickey if Rose was not present. In late 
September, Davies conceived of a story 
element in which Gwen Cooper and Ianto 
Jones of Torchwood would defend the Hub 
from the Daleks. During mid-October, 

it became clear to him how ill Howard 
Attfield who played Donna’s dad Geoff 
Noble was and that he would be unable to 
feature as planned; indeed, Attfield died 
at the end of the month. The big plan for 
the return of various former companions 
was leaked into the press. On Monday 8 
October, the Daily Star proclaimed that 
four of the Doctor’s assistants would 

be teaming up to combat Davros in the 
season finale: Rose Tyler played by Billie 
Piper along with Jackie Tyler (Camille 
Coduri), Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall) and 
Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) who would 
join Martha Jones and Donna Noble... 
plus Sarah Jane Smith and Captain Jack 
Harkness. “This is the daddy of all shows,” 


production 


proclaimed a ‘TV source’, 
“The writer Russell T Davies 
really wants to pull out 

all the stops for the finale 
next year.” The piece also 


Connections: 

Name-calling 

® The cursing Davros 
names the Doctor “the 


suggested that Davies would seals sro Waris 
be leaving Doctor Who after erung the piniase used 
by physicist | Robert 


three Specials scheduled 
for 2009. 

Early in November, during 
an interview with This Is 
Nottingham, John Barrowman 
confirmed that he would be 
recording Doctor Who after 
Christmas, having battled the 
Daleks at the Birmingham Hippodrome 
in the Aladdin panto. Because of the 
availability of Piper, the finale had been 
deferred in production to the following 
spring; instead, across December and 
January, Euros Lyn directed Silence in 
the Library/Forest of the Dead [2008 - see 
Volume 59]). On the evening of Thursday 
1 November, Davies finally worked out 
how he would write Donna Noble out of 
Doctor Who and on Thursday 8 November 
he and Julie Gardner met up with David 
Tennant and Catherine Tate to explain the 
plot of the last episode to them and reveal 
the returning villain. “One of my first 
memories of Doctor Who is Davros. I was 
avery small child, absolutely captivated 
by this extraordinary creature,” recalled 
life-long series devotee Tennant excitedly 
on Confidential. Tate, however, admitted on 
The Graham Norton Show, “1 didn’t know 
who Davros was. And for a brief second, 

I thought they meant Stavros, Harry 
Enfield’s character.” 

During November, Davies considered 
including a story about Davros’ 
background and origin as he had done 
with the Master in the 2007 finale. By 
Sunday 25 November, the Daily Express 
claimed that for the ‘three [sic] Specials’ 


Oppenheimer [1904-67] 
about himself after he 
developed the atomic 
bomb in a phrase from 
the Sanskrit text 
Bhagavad Gita, 


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THE STOLEN EARTH / JOURNEY’S END =» stows: 


Connections: 
Impaired vision 


® As the Dalek o 
Wilf's paintbal 
its eye-piece, i 


to be made in 2009, Russell 
T Davies and David Tennant 
had persuaded Billie Piper to 
return as Rose, with ‘insiders’ 
noting ‘the plot will centre on 
Rose’s quest to track down 


vercomes 
attack on 
tsays, “My 


vision is NOT | 


a twist on, “My vision 


is impaired!" a 
utterance fron 


in previous stories such as 
Resurrection of the 


besos ; 
ipaired! the Doctor in a bid to save 


Earth, which has become 
affected by some of his past 
actions’. The reuniting of 
the Doctor with Rose for the 
finale was again emphasised 


regular 
n the Daleks 


Daleks 
Volum 


Below: 

Wilf and the 
Doctor part on 
good terms. 


1984 - see 


by the Daily Mirror on 
e 39]. 


Tuesday 27 November. 

At the end of November, 
Davies worked out how the focus of 
the finale’s conclusion should be about 
the Doctor and Donna rather than 
Davros. With the scripts for the episodes 
really required by Monday 7 January 
2008, Davies set to work on Tuesday 11 
December. He had considered destroying 
New York in the opening episode, 
postulating that most of the companions 
would be in London... but then realised 
that Martha could be in New York. By now, 
Bernard Cribbins had become a regular 


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on the show as Donna’s grandfather, Wilf 
Mott; he had been talking to Davies about 
ideas for the series, and on hearing that 
the Daleks were returning the actor had 
suggested that Wilf could blind a Dalek by 
firing a paintball at its eye. In the opening 
scene of the first episode, Donna asked the 
Doctor what “Bad Wolf” meant - which 
Rose had said to her at the end of Turn Left 
[2008 - see Volume 59]. 


ealising that the Earth had been 
Reeves from the solar system, 

the Doctor told Donna that they 
only had seven hours to locate it and get 
it back into position before the structure 
of the other planets orbiting the Sun was 
affected. Chinese, French and Russian 
radio voices discussing the emergency were 
to be heard before Trinity Wells’ broadcast. 
In keeping with the ‘celebrity cameos’ 
seen in each season since Bad Wolf, after 
Wells’ broadcast there would be a glimpse 
of ‘an elderly professor’ on a ‘Newsnight- 
type show’. Davies hoped that ethologist 
and biologist Professor Richard Dawkins 
would make an appearance; since 1992, 
Dawkins had been married to Lalla Ward, 
who had played the Doctor’s companion 
Romana from 1979 to 1981. Hearing that 
comedian-turned-talk-show-host Paul 
O’Grady was a great fan of Doctor Who, 
Davies offered him a cameo too. The script 
noted that O’Grady was ‘in fine form’ on 
his Channel 4 programme, The New Paul 
O’Grady Show, which had run since March 
2006. While the full Torchwood team of 
Jack, Gwen and Ianto were seen in the Hub 
sequences, the scenes set in Sarah Jane’s 
attic in Ealing only featured Sarah Jane 
and her adopted son Luke, with passing 
references to Maria Jackson and Clyde 
Langer who also featured in The Sarah Jane 


Adventures; Davies had at one point hoped 
to feature all the regular cast members for 
each show. The UNIT office in New York 
had ‘UNIT-HQ-type controls, as in 4.4’ 
(referring to UNIT HQ in The Sontaran 
Stratagem/The Poison Sky). Suzanne was in 
her ‘20s’ and Martha was working with 
General Slade, quickly renamed to General 
Sanchez. Rather than hearing the voices 
of the Daleks on the radio, Jack recognised 
the design of the spaceships, as did Sarah 
Jane. The spaceships moved towards the 
White House and Westminster, with Jack 
attempting to warn the Prime Minister 

- Aubrey Fairchild - to evacuate. Going 
to a microphone outside a civic building, 
Fairchild attempted to communicate with 
the aliens, indicating that the human 

race was peaceful... only for the Dalek 
which emerged from the landed saucer 

to exterminate him. 

The Dalek vessel at the heart of the web 
of saucers was the Crucible, a ‘huge, dark 
space, with 1.13-type designs’ in reference 
to the craft carrying the Dalek Emperor 
in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways. The 
Supreme Dalek was introduced as ‘a red 


Above: 

The Supreme 
Dalek gives 
out orders. 


Dalek; deep metallic red’. This was a nod 
to a Dalek which had appeared in the 1965 
feature film Dr Who and the Daleks and 
again in its 1966 sequel Daleks — Invasion 
Earth 2150 A.D. The Supreme Dalek - or 
Supreme Controller - had been introduced 
in The Dalek Invasion of Earth {1964 - see 
Volume 4], and generally presented as 
a black Dalek in The Chase [1965 - see 
Volume 5], Mission to the Unknown [1965 
- see Volume 6] and The Daleks’ Master Plan 
[1965/6 - see Volume 6], Resurrection of the 
Daleks and also being as a black-and-gold 
creation of the Supreme Council in Planet 
of the Daleks [1973 - see Volume 20]. 

The Doctor took Donna to the 
Shadow Proclamation, revealed as 
‘a huge installation, metal sci-fi towers 
ranged across a series of linked asteroids, 
hanging in space, like a Roger Dean 
painting’; Roger Dean was an artist 
whose illustrations adorned the album 
covers of bands such as Yes. In the lobby, 
the Doctor and Donna saw Judoon and 
were confronted by three Krillitane, two 
Vespiform (from The Unicorn and the Wasp 
[2008 - see Volume 58]), plus Judoon, 


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THE STOLEN EARTH / ju 


Above: Slitheen, Hath (from The Doctor’s Daughter), 

la Bnei Sycorax (from The Christmas Invasion), the 
octor visit ‘ : 

the Shadow Sisters of the Wicker Place Mat (from The 


Proclamation. End of the World [2005 - see Volume 48}) 
and Graske (as featured in the interactive 
‘red button’ feature Attack of the Graske... 
all bustling about in their role as “outer 
space police”. When Donna commented 
on the smell, the Doctor said: “That’s the 
Slitheen...” The Raxacoricofallapatorian 
rounded furiously on him to say: “We are 
not Slitheen! Slitheen are criminals! We 
are Jingatheen.” The Jingatheen explained 
about the disappearance of Clom and 
then departed with a baby 
Connections: Slitheen called Margaret 
Time, please which said: “Take me home, 
® The Daleks measure Daddy. I don’t like the nasty 
time in rels, a unit of time policemen!” “Margaret!” 
previously mentioned exclaimed the Doctor, 
in Doomsday [2007 - realising that this was the 
see Volume 53], but Slitheen he had encountered 
first established outside and seen regressed to an egg 
the series in the 1966 in Boom Town {2005 - see 
movie Daleks’ Volume 50]. The Doctor 
Invasion Earth then confronted a Judoon 
2150 A.D. and - claiming to be from the 
Judoon High Council by use 


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of his psychic paper - demanded to see the 
Chief Constable. While the Doctor filled 
in paperwork in the lobby, Donna was 
confronted by an ‘elderly nun’ who told 
her there had been something on her back 
and was sorry for her loss. The Doctor 
finally got to deal with a Shadow Soldier 
whom he recognised - Midshipman Frame, 
whose life he had helped save previously. 
Quoted in the Daily Mail on Saturday 15 
December, Davies explained, “There is a 
very big story coming up and the Doctor 
needs everyone he has ever needed to fight 
for him.” Meanwhile, Davies had checked 
on the availability of Russell Tovey to 
reprise his role as Frame - only to discover 
that he would be appearing in The Sea at 
the Theatre Royal Haymarket from January 
to April 2008 and so was unavailable. The 
intention had been that Frame would join 
the Doctor and then be killed when the 
Doctor and Donna arrived aboard the 
Dalek ship in the final episode. Davies 
then reworked the Shadow Proclamation 
material, omitting Frame and the elderly 
nun. The Doctor now demanded that 
the Judoon took him to see the Chief 
Constable, a ‘tough, efficient woman, 40s, 


NNN reproduction 


black uniform’. Sanchez handed Martha the 
Stattenheim Key and the Crucible vaults 
where Davros was situated was noted as 
being the ‘Command Deck redressed’. Dalek 
Caan was now ‘opened, gutted and melted, 
its harsh lines now curved and warped... in 
the middle of the warped, open shell sits a 
Dalek Mutant, tentacles stirring; but this 
creature is burnt and blackened. Though its 
eye still stares’ The script originally referred 
to Davros purely as ‘Voice OOV’ when the 
character addressed the Supreme Dalek. 

He was revealed in stages, first ‘a Dalek 
base, gliding forward’, then ‘a metal hand, 
chrome, with elegant multi-jointed fingers, 
hovering above buttons and switches built 
into the base’. 


y Saturday 22 December, Davies 
A had excised the Dalek attack on 

Westminster and the death of the 
Prime Minister; the Doctor’s companions 
now heard Dalek voices before they saw 
the spaceships. The Chief Constable 


suggested they should scan for zygma 
energy to locate the planets while Donna 


was addressed by an Albino 
Servant described as ‘a 
gaunt, white woman, 20s, 
humble, black robes’ who 
now took on some of the 
dialogue previously given 

to the elderly nun. As the 
Doctor prepared to follow 
the signal to find Earth, the 
Chief Constable attempted to 
stop him, informing him that 
the Seven Hundred Societies 
had declared war. After the 
sequence of Rose meeting 
Donna’s family, at the Hub 
Gwen was infuriated that 
Jack seemed to have given 

up, while in the attic Sarah 


Connections: 

Shot through 

the hearts 

® The Doctor catches 

most of the impact of a 
Dalek blast at the end of 
The Stolen Earth; he had 
been shot by them on 
two previous occasions, 
being temporarily crippled 
in Planet of the Daleks 
1973 - see Volume 20] 
and receiving a glancing 
blow on his hand in Genesis 
of the Daleks [1975 - see 
Volume 23). 


Jane admitted to Luke that this time she 
couldn't think what to do. At this juncture, 
Davies brought back the character of 
Harriet Jones, the former Prime Minister 
disgraced in The Christmas Invasion; both 
Davies and Gardner had wanted to offer 
Harriet a form of redemption. This role 

in the plot was one which Davies had 
originally considered for Elton (or possibly 
a descendent of Joan Redfern from Human 


Nature/The Family of Blood [2007 - see 
Volume 56]), and at this juncture was 
writing the character in, hoping that 
Penelope Wilton would be available to 


Left: 

“Harriet jones, 
former Prime 
Minister” 


reprise her role. As a fallback, Davies 
believed that the character of Mr Copper 
from Voyage of the Damned (referenced in 
the dialogue with regards the Subwave’s 
creation) might be a suitable replacement 
if Wilton was unavailable. When Martha 
wondered how Harriet had located her 
at her mum’s house, Francine Jones 
commented: “Oh, don’t tell me, the Prime 
Minister was tapping my phone. Again!” 
After the hook-up between Harriet 
and her accomplices, the Daleks were to 
quickly identify the use of the Subwave 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY @& 


“T’m here! I’m here!” The TARDIS was 
then grabbed in a Dalek tractor beam 
and pulled towards the Crucible. As the 
box approached the saucer, Davros was 
revealed: ‘Half-man, half-Dalek, his face 
withered, an artificial blue eye blazing 

in his forehead. His torso swathed ina 
tunic like a black leather straitjacket. The 
metal hand always suspended above the 
Dalek-base’s switches. Inside the TARDIS, 
Donna was lost in thought again as the 
Doctor declared that having ridden his 
ship through a Time War he could evade 
a tractor beam, recalling flying through 
the Gates of Elysium over the head of 
the Dalek Emperor’s Nightmare Child. 


Above: Network, with the Supreme ordering He slammed the controls and broke free. 

oe its destruction. In the vault, Dalek Davies then went back and revised this 
Caan declared that “one of the pretty material to lose the tractor beam material 
Children [of Time] will die”. Just before and have the revelation of Davros to the 
Christmas, Davies took the script to the Doctor and the others. He completed 
TARDIS’ arrival at the Cascade; he had writing the first part of the finale in the 
also renamed the Stattenheim Key as the early hours of New Year’s Eve. A key 
Osterhagen Key, having found the name aspect of the story’s structure was the 
(an anagram of ‘Earth’s gone’) on a website Doctor’s apparent and seemingly abortive 
of German surnames. regeneration and its consequences, which 


bridged the two episodes, with the writer 

_ >. * explaining, “I simply wanted the biggest, 

ig chiffhange ee 

= most exciting cliffhanger you could have 

y Saturday 29 December, The Sun in Doctor Who. It’s always been done at 

Right: 5 claimed that Rose, Martha and 

Mickey Smith Donna would team up in an episode 

- defender without the Doctor who was ‘lost in 

pieetth. space’ and ‘take control of the Tardis as 
they battle to save the world from an 
alien invasion’. Davies continued to refine 
his script, adding more dialogue about 
Donna’s temping skills in the scene with 
the servant. There was more dialogue 
as the Doctor spoke to his old friends, 
learning how Harriet Jones had brought 
them together from Jack; Martha recalled 
how she had seen the last of the Daleks 
defeated and the Doctor asked after 
Rose... who was shouting out, unheard, 


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the end of a story.” As the Doctor started 
to regenerate, he ‘throws his head back, 
splays out his arms - volcanic golden 
energy blasts from his arms, his neck... 
The two episodes would form Block 
Nine of the 2008 series, to be directed 
by Graeme Harper. Harper had directed 
Davros before in Revelation of the Daleks 
and handled Daleks more recently in early 
2006 on the Army of Ghosts/Doomsday 
climax, where he had also handled Rose’s 
farewell. Having directed Turn Left [2008 - 
see Volume 59] - in November/December, 
he was able to read a draft script of the 
opening episode of the finale as it emerged 
over Christmas. For the key role of Davros, 
Phil Collinson suggested actor Julian 
Bleach, whom he had seen in the opera 
noir Shockheaded Peter, a role which won 
the actor an Olivier Award. Independently, 
Bleach was also nominated by Davies, 
and during October had recorded an 
episode of Torchwood, playing the sinister 
Ghostmaker in From out of the Rain. Shortly 
after Christmas, Harper met Bleach and 
was impressed with him, recording a 
successful screen test. As preparation, 
Harper watched Genesis of the Daleks again. 
He realised that he would have to choose 
the shots showing the two versions of the 
Doctor very carefully. 


Preparation for the recording block 
began on Monday 7 January. Penelope 
Wilton’s availability as Harriet Jones 
was confirmed on Wednesday 9 January. 
Russell T Davies started writing the final 
episode on Friday 11 January. 

Davies was initially concerned about 
the structure of this episode; a few weeks 
earlier he had needed to solve a narrative 
problem with The Poison Sky and had done 
this by moving forward an idea he had 
for Donna being alone in the TARDIS for 
the finale. Following Ianto realising that 
the Hub was sealed in a time lock, there 
was then a scene in the TARDIS where 
Rose told Donna that she had seen her 
family, and the Doctor asked after Jackie 
Tyler, learning she had had a little boy. 

As the Daleks captured the TARDIS in 

a chronon lock, the Doctor admitted to 
Rose that his ship was not impregnable to 
Daleks, and explained to Jack that even the 
extrapolator shield which they had used 
before against the scavenger Dalek hybrids 
would be of no use. The Crucible itself was 
revealed in all its glory in the final episode: 
‘a huge globe, many miles in diameter, 

all studded and riveted bronze, with six 
bristling metal arms radiating out of its 
centre.” Martha originally arrived 

‘SO miles outside Bremmen’ 
in Germany. 

Davies became increasingly 
concerned that there was 
no real room in his plot 
for Jackie Tyler. The new 
Doctor created in the second 
episode was referred to as 
‘the Doctor #2’ in the stage 
directions. ‘An identical 
Doctor! Naked!’ read the 
script, adding - for the 
comfort of a family audience 
- ‘Mid-shot only. This 
Doctor was to be identified 


Back up 


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NNN reproduction 


Left: 

“Jackie Tyler, 
Rose's mum. 
Now where 
the hell is my 
daughter?” 


Connections: 


® The Albino Servant 
at the Shadow 
Proclamation tells Donna, 
“There was something on 


your back," in reference 

to the Time Beetle which 
had attacked her in Turn 
Left [2008 - see Volume 
59], and Donna's previously 
established background as 
a temp was vital to events. 


THE STOLEN EARTH / JOURNEY’S END 


Connections: 

My Sarah Jane! 

® As in spin-off The Sarah 
Jane Adventures, Sarah and 

uke live at 13 Bannerman 

oad, Sarah sought the 

elp of her attic computer 


r Smit 
"Mr Smi 


she regularly announced 
in The Sarah Jane 
Adventures. She also used 


easily for the viewers by 
wearing his blue suit, while 
the original sported his 
brown version. After the 
apparent extermination of 
Captain Jack, there was more 
dialogue as Davros ordered 
“the Children of Time” to be 
brought down to the vault. 
In revisions to his existing 
script, Davies added Jackie 
to the story at the start of 
the final episode, having her 


h with the phrase 
hl | need you!” as 


sonic lipstick, first 
seen in Invasion of 
the Bane. 


join Sarah Jane and Mickey 
in the street close to Dexeter 
Road where the TARDIS had 
landed; she was then with the 
pair when they were captured by Daleks 

in a suburban square where test subjects 
were being collected and transported to 
the Crucible. In Germany, Martha arrived 
at a cottage (rather than a castle) and met 
the old woman. He then doubled back 
and wrote a new scene in the TARDIS 
between Donna and the Doctor #2. The 
other Osterhagen Stations were specified 
as China, Alaska, Argentina and Liberia. 
Again, doubling back, Davies inserted 

a new scene of the Daleks apparently 
disposing of Jack’s ‘corpse’ before 
continuing with the scene of the Dalek 
prisoners being brought into the Crucible 
test area which was ‘a vast space - like, if 
not the same as, the UNIT warehouse from 
4.11’; there was more material with Sarah 
Jane and Mickey attempting to save Jackie 
from the reality bomb test, while on Earth 
Wilf and Sylvia looked at the alignment 

of planets. 

After the successful test of the reality 
bomb, Rose originally asked Davros what 
happened to him to make him look the 
way he did. Davros explained to her about 
the war between Thals and Kaleds on 
Skaro... and Davros was shown as a man 


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‘gaunt, strong, in a dirty-white medic’s 
coat’ standing on the vast plain of a ruined 
world. While Davros recalled how he 


dedicated himself to the survival of his 
race, the younger Davros was seen tending 
the wounded in a ‘World War I Ward’ as 
he tried to find a way to “free them from 
the agonies of the flesh”. He was caught in 
an explosion... screaming with his hands 
across his burnt face. Aboard the TARDIS, 
the Doctor #2 knew that Davros wouldn't 
be expecting another him, after which the 
story continued with Jack joining Mickey 
and Sarah Jane. At the Osterhagen Station, 
the Chinese woman at Station Five, Anna 
Zhou, was ‘young, scared’ while the 
unnamed man in Liberia’s Station Four 
was ‘tense, grim’. 

While the final episode was still being 
written, on Saturday 19 January the 
Doctor Who team learnt that Jane Tranter 
(controller, BBC Fiction) had agreed 
to the instalment being a one-hour 
Special; this now needed to be ready 
for the tone meeting on Wednesday 23 
January, Davies finished the script on the 
morning of Tuesday 22 January. In the 
Bad Wolf Bay scene, the Doctor originally 


commented to Rose of the Doctor #2: 


“He’s a bit too human, for my liking. 

Too fast in destroying those Daleks. He 
needs someone to look after him, Rose. 
Someone like you.” In the final scene, alone 
in the TARDIS, the Doctor was mystified 
by a reading on the console... when two 
Cybermen loomed up behind him. 

The tone meeting for the block was 
held - with Confidential present - on the 
morning of Wednesday 23 January. The 
scripts were circulated over the next few 
days; at this juncture the crew was working 
on Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead 
and was very upset over Donna’s fate 
(something of which both David Tennant 
and Catherine Tate had already been 
aware). Bernard Cribbins sent a text to 
Russell T Davies: ‘I have read Episode 13. 
I have been crying for two days. 

On Thursday 31 January, it was 
announced that - as a result of BBC One 
agreeing to the longer final episode - 
recording on the finale two-parter would 
now run for an additional week, with the 
crew’s contracts extended up to Saturday 
29 March, although David Tennant, 
Catherine Tate and Phil Collinson would 


still be finishing on Friday 21 March. 
There would then be a week’s break 

in production, with recording on the 
Christmas 2008 Special [‘Series 4 Episode 
14’] from Monday 7 April to Saturday 

3 May, with Susie Liggat as producer. 
Concurrent with work on the previous 
block, the newsroom material for the 
penultimate episode was recorded with 
Jason Mohammad - as himself - and 
Lachele Carl as Trinity Wells in the C2 
News Studio at Cardiff’s BBC Broadcasting 
House between 9am and 11am on 
Thursday 31 January. 


SNS 


ith the script completed, Russell 
W: Davies felt unwell... and by 

Tuesday 5 February knew that he 
had developed chicken pox. Meanwhile, 
Phil Collinson’s departure from Doctor 
Who to become BBC Manchester’s head 
of drama was announced on Friday 1 
February. The follow-up tone meeting for 
the episodes was held on the afternoon 
of Thursday 7 February at Upper Boat 
studios. At this stage, it was planned that 
numerous monsters would be present at 
the Shadow Proclamation, and various 
voice artistes - including Annette Badland 
(Margaret Slitheen from Aliens of London/ 
World War Three and Boom Town [2005 - 
see Volume 50]), Philip McGough (who 
had played Sergeant Calder in Resurrection 
of the Daleks) and regular Dalek voice actor 
Nicholas Briggs recorded alien voices 
which were ultimately not used when 
the scene was dropped. 

A week before any recording took 

place on the episodes, The Sun was again 
discussing the series climax on Monday 
11. Who’s next for the Doctor claimed the 
tale had ‘hapless assistant Donna racing 
round the stratosphere alone when the 


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Pre-production 


Left: 

The Doctor has 
no choice but 
to wipe Donna's 
memory. 


Above: 
Concept art 
for Davros. 


Connections: 


Missing bees 
® Donna again refers to the 


bees disappear 


Earth as in Partners in 
Crime [2008 - see Volume 


57], 
The Unicorn an 


[both 2008 - see Volume 
58] and Turn Left 


[2008 - 


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Timelord goes missing... Former assistants 
Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith 
and Captain Jack all rush to her aid. The 
fearless foursome then scour the universe 
in search of the Doctor - battling a whole 
host of alien life-force. 

The shooting script for the opening 
episode was issued on Tuesday 12 
February, and that for the finale on 
Monday 18 February, with Davies having 
revised the Bad Wolf Bay scene. General 
Sanchez was described as ‘40s, American’ 
and the interior of Station One in 
Germany was described as 
‘like a compact version of 
the Outer Radiation Room, 
3.11’ referring to Utopia 
[2007 - see Volume 56]. The 
Chief Constable became the 
Shadow Architect (‘female, 
30s, albino, hair scraped 
back into a black snood, 
red eyes; weird, solemn, 
swathed in black robes’). 
Davies had also added to 
his dialogue the concept of 
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which he had earlier added to the script 
for Planet of the Ood |2008 - see Volume 
58] and felt that he could reuse in this 
new connotation. 


Location recces for the two-parter were 
held on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 
14 February, after which a production 
meeting was held back at Upper Boat. 

Of the returning cast, Penelope Wilton 
had last played Harriet Jones in The 
Christmas Invasion. Noel Clarke’s last work 
as Mickey had been in January 2006 on 
the Bad Wolf Bay scene of Doomsday, while 
Camille Coduri last performed as Jackie 
in March 2006 on Love & Monsters. Adjoa 
Andoh had recorded her last material as 
Francine in March 2007 for The Sound of 
Drums/Last of the Time Lords [2007 - see 
Volume 56]. Elisabeth Sladen and Thomas 
Knight, who played Sarah Jane Smith and 
Luke, had finished work on the first series 
of The Sarah Jane Adventures in mid-July 
2007, and the voice of Mr Smith would 
again be provided by Alexander Armstrong 
in post-production while K9 would be 


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voiced as usual by John Leeson. John 
Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth 
David-Lloyd had finished work on the 
second series of Torchwood as Captain 
Jack, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones in late 
November 2007; Myles had previously 
appeared in The Unquiet Dead [2005 - 

see Volume 48] as Gwyneth, recorded 

in 2004. Playing Rose, Billie Piper had 
wrapped on Turn Left in December 2007, 
since when she had married actor Laurence 
Fox and been away on honeymoon; 
Bernard Cribbins and Jacqueline King had 
also last worked on this episode as Wilf 
and Sylvia, and Cribbins had previously 
faced Daleks in the 1966 movie Daleks’ 
Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Freema Agyeman 
had completed recording on The Doctor’s 
Daughter in mid-January 2008. 


onfidential was present for the 
(hese: on the afternoon of 

Friday 15 February at the London 
Welsh Centre on Gray’s Inn Road in 
London, although Davies missed it 
through illness; the proceedings were 
recorded and sent to him to watch. 
Alexander Armstrong was not available, 
so Mr Smith’s dialogue was read in by 
David Tennant. “We had to keep pausing 
because people were laughing and gasping 
and crying,” recalled Freema Agyeman 


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on Breakfast. “It was the most dramatic 
readthrough I've ever had.” Elisabeth 
Sladen told the series’ website, “There are 
a lot of feelings attached to this one, for 
Sarah and for me.” 

“This one’s mine. I’m doing Davros,” 
was Neill Gorton’s reaction to the 
prosthetics work on the episodes as he 
told Confidential. Gorton had previously 
worked with Julian Bleach on ITV1’s 
Frankenstein in which Bleach had played 
the Monster. The Millennium FX team 
took a mould of Bleach’s head while he was 
wearing a bald cap, and then Gorton made 
a wax model of Davros’ head. “The brief I 
got was to err towards the original version 
of Davros,” recalled Gorton, and the team 
agreed that they liked the original latex 
mask crafted by John Friedlander in 1975. 
It took four weeks to perfect the design, 
with feedback from Davies such 
as “make the eyebrows meaner” and 
a desire to have the eyes looking burnt 
rather than sleepy. Once this design was 
approved, a mould was taken, matched 
with that of Bleach and a silicone gel face 
was then created to fit the actor perfectly. 
The masks - which could only be used 
once - came in separate pieces such as 
chin and ears, with the forehead’s blue 
light placed in a plastic skull beneath 
the prosthetic. Millennium also made a 
silicone glove for Davros’ robotic hand and 
offered a more substantial surgical neck 


brace than seen previously. 


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“A cross between Hitler and Stephen Deured 
Hawking,” was how Julian Bleach described _longsfor the 
Davros in Radio Times, explaining that destruction 

of reality, 


he remembered watching Genesis of the 
Daleks on its original broadcast when 
younger before reviewing the DVD prior 
to his own interpretation: “I knew this 
character, this Dalek world and everything 
from my childhood - that’s so deep in 

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Monday 18 February 2008. ‘Davros will be behind the Doctor’s 
David Tennantand Catherind upcoming mysterious disappearance’ 
Tate performed most of Press coverage about Davros continued 
their TARDIS scenes for the first episode the next day with a story in the Daily 
between 8am and 7pm at Upper Boat. Mirror where another ‘show source’ ra 
A time-consuming element was the declared, ‘It’s an explosive finale. We want ~ 
conversations across the Subwave Network — him to come back and cause havoc.’ David 
which meant that the scenes had to be Tennant spent Tuesday 19 February at BBC 
recorded several times on different sets. Audiobooks in Bath where he recorded Pest 
The same day, The Sun reported Davros’ Control, a new Doctor Who story writtenby  , 
return, with Jen Blackburn’s You Davin’ a Peter Anghelides for release in May 2008. & ‘ 
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of the Hub from Torchwood, 
with John Barrowman, 

Eve Myles and Gareth 
David-Lloyd performing 
most of their scenes for the 
opening episode. 

Freema Agyeman appeared 
on the BBC One Breakfast 
programme on Wednesday 
20 to promote her BBC 
Two Torchwood début that 
night (BBC Three having 
screened Reset the previous 
Wednesday); she later 
featured on Radio 5 Live, 
BBC Radio Oxford and 
Channel 4’s Richard and Judy. Meanwhile, 
The Sun’s Colin Robertson reported that 
‘Paul O’Grady is to achieve a lifelong 
ambition - by appearing in Doctor Who’, 
with ‘a source’ revealing that Paul ‘asked 
if he could be a guest star... We’ve had to 
wait until his chat show is filming again 
so we can shoot him on the set. It will be 
the usual camp Paul - just maybe a bit 
more sinister. The BBC released a report 
on its iPlayer service, with Christmas 
Special, Voyage of the Damned the most- 
watched item, followed by three episodes 
of Torchwood. 

Back in Cardiff, work from 8am to 
7pm on the Torchwood Hub finished 
early, with the crew well ahead of schedule 
on the first episode scenes. That night, 
David Tennant was present at the Brit 
Awards in London where he presented 
his Voyage of the Damned co-star Kylie 
Minogue with the Best International 
Female award on the ceremony screened 
live on ITV1. Simon Mayo of Radio 
SLive grabbed a backstage interview with 
Tennant, who explained that he didn’t 
know of a firm date for the new series 
to start. 


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Thursday 21 February saw the 
continuation of action on the Hub from 


8am to 7pm, with armourer Faujja Singh 
supervising Myles and David-Lloyd’s use of 
the firearms against the attacking Daleks; 
ballistics use was recorded simultaneously 
from two angles to save on ammunition. 
The Dalek was operated by Barnaby 
Edwards, who had worked in this capacity 
since Dalek in 2004, and to attempt to 
preserve the surprise of the creatures 
return they were referred to simply as 
‘Enemy’ in call sheets. From 8am that 
morning, Edwards had been rehearsing 
with his fellow operators - Nicholas Pegg 
and David Hankinson (both credited 
Dalek operators since Bad Wolf/The Parting 
of the Ways) and Anthony Spargo (who 

had come on board with Army of Ghosts/ 
Doomsday) - in practising inside the Daleks, 
and the new Supreme Dalek casing, with 
animatronic operators Colin Newman and 
Lyn Walters, and Nicholas Briggs, who had 
voiced the Daleks since their 2005 return. 
It was over a year since the Daleks had 
been in action, and the original 2004 prop 
which had become Dalek Sec had now 
been repainted bronze, while a new casing 
had been made to replace another that had 
been retired. The Dalek Supreme was a 


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new prop, employing a remote-controlled 
dome as with two of the existing Daleks. 
This was developed by design assistant 
Peter McKinstry, based on the original 
1963 designs and further inspired by the 
1957 Soviet satellite Sputnik; rejected 
concepts featured Daleks with glass tops, 
samurai-style helmets and large cannons. 
Doctor Who Confidential recorded the 
rehearsal, with Benjamin Cook of Doctor 
Who Magazine present along with Simon 
Hugo, representing Titan’s Torchwood: The 
Official Magazine. Scenes for the opening 
episode were completed, and the action 
moved onto the finale with the remaining 
Hub material, complete with an exploding 
Dalek from Any Effects. That evening 
at 6.30pm, Radio 4 listeners could hear 
Catherine Tate interviewing David 
Tennant in Chain Reaction, recorded almost 
a year earlier. 

A few changes - mainly to stage 
directions dictated by location - were 
made to the opening episode’s script on 


Friday 22 in the form of pink amendments. 


The first week of recording concluded 
at Upper Boat with the recording of 
regeneration scenes aboard the TARDIS 


from 8am to 9pm. With Tennant and 

Tate again back centre stage, the pair 

was joined by John Barrowman and Billie 
Piper. Work then continued into the final 
episode, ending with Donna being trapped 
aboard the vessel, while Confidential 
captured all the key action. Tate also 
recorded a line of dialogue for The Fires 

of Pompeii [2008 - see Volume 57] and a 
pick-up shot of the Dalek in the Hub was 
recorded by a second unit crew. Planning 
ahead, Colum Sanson-Regan - David 
Tennant’s regular double since Voyage of 
the Damned - was called to Upper Boat for 
a costume fitting and hair cut so that he 
could be an effective double for the show’s 
star in the shots requiring two Doctors. 
Also present was a crew from the Japanese 
Broadcasting Corporation NHK under 
director Yusuke Ito. 


here was no weekend recording, so 
Te Barrowman travelled to London 

to appear on BBC One's live lottery 
programme, while Freema Agyeman was 


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interviewed on Vernon Kay’s Radio 1 show. _ickey verses 
There was more publicity on Monday 25 Davros. 


when Bernard Cribbins appeared on The 
Alan Titchmarsh Show on 


ITV and, along with a clip Connections: 

for Voyage of the Damned, On the trail 
commented of Doctor Who, ® The Tandocca trai 
“T’m also engaged in doing takes the Doctor and 


Donna to the Medusa 
Cascade, a rift in time and 


some more, I’m doing some 
quite soon in fact.” 

While the Daily Star noted 
that Freema Agyeman 
would be facing Davros in a 
forthcoming episode in the 
article I’m Jacking it in for the 
Doc, the second week began was “just a kid” at the age 
at Upper Boat with TARDIS of 90. 
scenes for the final episode 


space, first mentioned in 
Last of the Time Lords 
[2007 - see Volume 56]; 
the Doctor explains that 
he had visited it when he 


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Above: recorded from 8am to 7pm and covering 
Beer nels. most of the material through to the Doctor 
setting course for Norway. This included 
the Doctors and companions piloting the 
TARDIS around the console, with Sanson- 
Regan standing in - back to camera - as 
both Doctors when required. Work with 
the two Doctors was time-consuming, with 
Sanson-Regan acting as a 
Connections: ‘place holder’ while Tennant 
We know... changed costumes, and 
® Harriet Jones introduces also appearing in reference 
herself to the Daleks as shots where he would later 
“Harriet Jones, Former be replaced by Tennant in 
Prime Minister” to which compositing. Rose, Mickey 
they reply, “Yes, we kn and Jackie were armed with 
who you are.” This was new versions of the teleport 
continuation of a running discs seen in Army of Ghosts/ 
joke established in Aliens Doomsday, revised by Peter 
of London/World War McKinstry. The Interactive 
Three [2005 - see Volume team was again present for 
49], and continued in The recording of these scenes. 
Christmas Invasion “We all got slightly excitable 
[2005 - see and out of hand at times,” 
Volume 51]. admitted Billie Piper to 
Doctor Who Confidential, while 


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John Barrowman described it as “a part of 
iconic Doctor Who history, and it probably 
won't happen again”. Noel Clarke recorded 
a video diary for bbc.co.uk on his first day 
back on set, with Agyeman telling him 
that the atmosphere was “like the last day 
of school”, while Elisabeth Sladen later 
recalled, “I was so excited on that first 
day.” “I just wanted to cheer for you,” Phil 
Collinson told Confidential. “1 think it’s one 
of the finest scenes we've ever filmed.” 
Bernard Cribbins was back on Doctor 
Who alongside Jacqueline King and Billie 
Piper for a location shoot at the Nobles’ 
regular home on Nantfawr Road in 
Cyncoed on Tuesday 26 February, when - 
between 8am and 7pm - the living room 
scenes for the first episode were recorded, 
plus the scene of tremors hitting the 
home in the second episode when Graeme 
Harper’s crew got ahead of schedule. Large 
black drapes covered the house’s windows 
to simulate the bizarre night-time in 
which the Earth found itself. Ian Smith of 
Interactive was present to record location 
work for the website. 


ON roctucction 


The same locale was used on Wednesday 
27 with further recording from noon to 
11pm. Tennant and Tate joined Cribbins 
and King for scenes in Donna’s home, 
including the Doctor’s painful goodbye 
to the woman who had been such a good 
friend. Benjamin Cook took notes for 
Doctor Who Magazine coverage, and Any 
Effects provided the rain for the Doctor’s 
departure at the end of the episode. With 
the TARDIS parked on the street, a large 
crowd was soon present to see the cast and 
crew at work. 


he TARDIS set was in use from 
T 10am to 9pm on Thursday 28, with 

only Tennant and Tate required for 
scenes of Donna and the newly created 
Doctor #2 aboard the craft, with Tennant 


uncomplainingly facing the cold climate 
of the studio for his ‘nude’ scene. Also 


recorded was Donna’s realisation that she 
wouldn't be travelling with the Doctor 
forever as she'd hoped. “I found that scene 
in the TARDIS really hard,” commented 
Graeme Harper on Doctor Who Confidential. 
“It broke me up when I started shooting.” 


Tennant and Tate did 

two takes of the powerful 
sequence, with Harper 
selecting the first take in the 
edit. That evening on Radio 
4, Chain Reaction continued 
with David Tennant talking 
to fellow Scots actor Richard 
Wilson about his career, as 


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Rose and Jackie to the 
alternative Earth at the 
same point where he 


had said a heartbreaking 
goodbye to Rose two years 


recorded in October 2007. earller In Doomsday [2006 
The morning af Friday - see Volume 53]: Bad Wolf 
29 February saw the leak of 3 ial Beri UN Stine 


script details about Steven orway. 


Moffat’s forthcoming 
‘Library’ story in The Sun, along with the 
story It never rains, it pours for Who in which 
a rain-sodden Tennant was shown from the 
Wednesday night shoot. “He looked like a 
drowned rat but kept working through the 
downpour,” said an onlooker. “He dried 
off and signed autographs for drenched 
fans.” Meanwhile, the show’s star was again 
on the TARDIS set at Upper Boat from 
8.30am to 7.30pm where, along with Tate, 
the two performed scenes for the final 
episode, along with a greenscreen shot 

for The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky 
while Any Effects provided the flames that 
licked around the TARDIS as the craft was 
hurled into the core of the Crucible. Two 


Left: 
Cybermen were also on hand to appear The Doctor 
fleetingly in the scene that would lead into investigates, 


the 2008 Christmas Special. Doctor Who 
Confidential was on set for this material, 
and also covered Millennium FX’s show- 
and-tell session for Davros (or ‘Enemy D’ 
as he was referred to in an attempt to keep 
his identity a secret) at 1pm. “David and 

I spent the entire morning in a state of 
complete frenzy,” recalled Phil Collinson 
on Confidential. “We were so excited.” Peter 
McKinstry had redesigned the character’s 
wheelchair in line with the 2004 retooling 
of the Daleks, adding a new back piece 
resembling a Dalek grille to hold Davros in 


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Connections: 

Sarah's past 

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Dalek voice, having 
encountered the aliens in 
Death to the Daleks [1974 
- see Volume 21], and then 

g Davros’ creation 


witnessin 


of the terrifying creatures 
in Genesis of the Daleks 
[1975 - see Volume 23], 


Sarah had 
Rose and 


also met both 
Mickey before 
in School Reunion 


[2006 - see 
Volume 52], 


place. “Everyone seemed very 
happy,” recalled Neill Gorton 
of the demonstration, 

“Phil Collinson and I were 
standing there grinning 

ear to ear.” 

Also present for Davros’ 
unveiling and the day’s 
recording were Doctor 
Who Magazine editor Tom 
Spilsbury and the magazine’s 
designer Stuart Manning, 
who were on set to conduct 
a special photoshoot with 
David Tennant, for the 
publication's forthcoming 
400th edition. 

Also on Friday 29, pink 
amendments were made to the final 
episode’s script, covering the Doctor 
disabling the teleport on Jack’s wrist strap, 
as well as the scene at Bad Wolf Bay. This 
now added clarification that the walls of 
the parallel world were closing again as 
part of the ‘dimensional retroclosure’, an 
emphasis that Doctor #2 had committed 
genocide, and omitting Rose asking the 
Doctor, “But I'll see you again, yeah?” and 
his explanation about the after effects of 
the reality bomb. The kiss between Rose 
and Doctor #2 was also inserted. 

John Barrowman was back on BBC 
One on Saturday 1 March as one of the 
judges in Your Decision as the United 
Kingdom entry for Eurovision 2008 was 
selected. On Monday 3 March, Doctor 
Who was announced as a nominee for 
the Best Drama Series category of the 
Royal Television Society awards to be 
presented later that month, with David 
Tennant also up for Best Actor and The 
Sarah Jane Adventures contesting Best 
Children’s Drama. 

On Saturday 1 March, Russell T Davies 
revised the key Bad Wolf Bay scene again, 


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and within days had to make a number 

of cuts because of the FX budget; this 
included losing most of the aliens at the 
Shadow Proclamation, including Margaret 
Slitheen for whom Annette Badland had 


already recorded her dialogue. The scene 
with young Davros was also deleted. 


DaleR Caan 


n Cardiff, the Crucible vaults set 
ic been erected at Upper Boat 

using elements created for Bad Wolf/ 
The Parting of the Ways three years earlier, 
plus bookshelves made for Silence in the 
Library/Forest of the Dead. Scheduled for 
8am to 7pm, the week kicked off with 
scenes from the first episode of Davros 
and Dalek Caan, with Barnaby Edwards, 
Nicholas Pegg and David Hankinson 
operating the three ‘Enemies’ which 
had been fitted with new manipulator 
arms designed by Peter McKinstry in 
place of the usual suction cups. Recording 
then continued onto the finale, with 
Davros - nicknamed ‘Dave’ (as in ‘Dave 
Ross’) by the crew - talking of old times 


with the Doctor as Rose looked on. 

“T occasionally got a bit disorientated 
and confused because my vision was 
impaired and sound became distorted,” 
Julian Bleach told The Daily Telegraph. 
“The overall effect made me feel almost 
as old as I looked.” 

“T love the giggling,” said Harper of 
Nicholas Briggs’ performance as Caan, 
which gave the voice artiste a sore throat 
on his first day. The exposed mutant of 
Dalek Caan itself comprised a new silicone 
skin made from the moulds created for 
Dalek in 2004, with Gustav Hoegen of 
Millennium FX inserting new animatronic 
servo motors for the tentacles to replace 
the mechanism which rusted in the water 
tank during Bad Wolf/The Parting of the 
Ways. On set, the tentacles and eye were 
operated by Pete Hawkins and Jon Moore, 
with squeeze bulbs making bladders 
pulse under Caan’s skin. Also on Monday 
3 March, David Tennant continued to 
record his video diary for BBC Worldwide 
to include on a later DVD release, 
commenting about how it was nice to 


have his friends back. 


The Crucible vaults were home to 
Graeme Harper’s team for most of the 
week, with Tuesday’s recording from 
8am to 7pm on final episode scenes with 
Davros revealing his plan to the captives 
through to his countdown. Noel Clarke 
recorded a second video diary, chatting 
to Camille Coduri, Freema Agyeman 
and the Dalek operators. Following the 
previous week’s location reports, The Times 
ran an item entitled Mysterious secret of 
the Tardis is out: it materialises like an Ikea 


wardrobe in which it was revealed that Left: 

the TARDIS was ‘transported not by the pana 

: : Bene ; encounters 

intergalactic power of dilithium crystals... the SHaeets 

as the writer confused Doctor Who with Proclamation’s 

Star Trek - ‘but like an Ikea wardrobe, police force, 
the Judoon. 


flat-packed on the back of a lorry’. Various 
adult witnesses to this upsetting event were 
interviewed about having their ‘fantasies 
shattered’ and the revelation being 

‘a bit of a shock’. 

The one day on location for the week 
was Wednesday 5 March when Graeme 
Harper took his team back to the cold 
location of Southerndown Beach near 
Bridgend, which had appeared as Bad Wolf 
Bay in January 2006 for Army of Ghosts/ 
Doomsday. The early start at 7am meant 
that the BBC team could 
work during the hours of 
low tide, but were advised to 
be off the beach by 3.30pm, 
prior to high tide at Spm. 
Catherine Tate rejoined 
Tennant, Piper and Coduri, 
with Sanson-Regan again 
standing in as either Doctor 
as needed. Interactive and 
Doctor Who Confidential were 
both present to record 
interview material with the 
crew, showing how the cast 
was standing on boards to 
prevent them sinking into the 


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»® Sarah summons K9, 


the robot dog left to her 
by the Doctor in the 1981 
spin-off K9 and Company, 
and rebuilt by the Tenth 


Doctor in School Reunion 
[2006 - see Volume 52]. 
K9 first appeared in The 
Invisible Enemy [1977 - 
see Volume 27], providing 
assistance to the Fourth 
Doctor for several years, 


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Connections: 
Miss Jones 
® As with her appearances in 
spin-off series Torchwood 
and The Sontaran 
Stratagem/The Poison Sky 
2008 - see Volume 58], 
Dr Martha Jones is still a 
serving member of UNIT, 
now promoted to medic 
director on Project Indig 
at UNIT HQ in Manhattan, 
ew York, She knew that 
she could contact the 
Doctor again by the phone 
which she had left him in 
Last of the Time Lords 
[2007 - see 
Volume 56]. 


Right: 
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the Shadow 


Proclamation, 


the Shadow 
Architect. 


sand. Unfortunately, there 
was some disruptive noise 
from nearby buildings, and 
some close-ups were later 
completed in the nearby 
car park after the tide had 
come in. 

Meanwhile, Caitlin 
Moran of The Times - who 
had covered Doctor Who 
at length - penned a piece 
about the previous day’s 
TARDIS outrage in Doctor, 
the daleks have stolen our Allen 
key. Empathising with the 
distraught onlookers, she 
explained, “The first time I 
saw the Tardis - sitting ona 
wooden pallet on a disused 
stage - I burst into tears and 
had to go round the back of 
the Face of Boe to wipe my eyes. Though 
I could see it was just a prop... it still 
looked... powerful’ She continued, ‘Just 
because the Tardis comes with an Allen key 
is no reason to disrespect it. 

Recording from 8am to 7pm on 
Thursday 6 March covered some of 
the climactic material in the Crucible 
vaults, including the shot of Donna being 
hurled backwards by a bolt of energy 
from Davros. For this, Tate was pulled 
backwards through the air on wires 
operated by Bob Schofield under the 
supervision of stunt arranger Abbi Collins, 
while stunt performer Sarah Franzl stood 
in for Tate for Donna’s collision with the 
console. David Tennant was again busy 
with his video diary, chatting to various 
people including his double, musician 
Sanson-Regan. 

In The Sun that day, a story appeared 
under the title PM is Doctor Who Dalek 
where the tabloid ‘revealed’ that Penelope 
Wilton had been smuggled onto the Doctor 


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Who set to reprise her role as Harriet Jones 
who, in the new story, ‘has been converted 
into a tyrannical pepperpot’. A source 
explained that this non-existent scene was 
‘a stunning highlight of the series’. 

Lord It’s Time for a Change said the Daily 
Star on Friday 7 March, announcing that 
the Doctor would be saying goodbye to 
Rose, Martha and Donna as a ‘TV source’ 
said, “There are some major shake-ups on 
the way.” Recording scheduled for 8am 
to 7pm on Friday 7 March focused on 
material in the vaults, with the swapping 
of costumes for David Tennant as the two 
Doctors being rather time consuming, and 
Ollie Cullen joining as a second double 
for the show’s star amid all the Daleks 
and companions. “It’s like This Is Your Life 
with Daleks!” exclaimed David Tennant in 
Doctor Who Magazine. There was a round 
of applause for Catherine Tate after she got 
through her technobabble speeches, and 
a show-and-tell was also performed for the 
effect of Davros opening his tunic to reveal 
what remained of his torso. Benjamin 
Cook was again on set, reporting for 
Doctor Who Magazine. At the end of the 
day Nicholas Briggs pre-recorded the 


Judoon voices - with odd looks from 
Billie Piper - for later playback, having 
originally created the alien tones for 
Smith and Jones [2007 - see Volume 54}. 
Meanwhile, the BBC announced that 
Doctor Who had been nominated for an 
International Interactive Emmy Award in 
recognition of BBC News Wales Media’s 
applications such as Comic Maker, 

the 2006 TARDISodes and the 2005 
interactive adventure Attack of the Graske. 


Albinos and Judoon 


Ihe Shadow Architect office scenes 
were recorded at the School of 
| Optometry and Visual Sciences 
in Cardiff University on Maindy Road 
off Cathays Terrace from 8am to 7pm 
on Saturday 8 March, with Paul Kasey 
donning a Judoon costume again as in 
Smith and Jones, and the pre-recorded 


Judoon voices played back on location. The 
special contact lenses work by the Architect 


(played by Kelly Hunter) and her fellow 


albinos were supervised by specialist Gavin 
Mahony, while Ailsa Berk choreographed 
the movement of the albinos and Judoon 
on the set. That evening, BBC One 
repeated the Doctor Who Special of The 
Weakest Link first screened in March 2007. 
As work on the 2008 series of Doctor Who 
drew to a close, the first episode of the 
production run - the Christmas Special 
Voyage of the Damned - was released on 
DVD by 2|entertain on Monday 10 March, 
packaged with the Children 
in Need mini-episode Time 


Dental work 
for Davros. 


Connections: 


Crash and a cut-down version Valiant down! 


of the Doctor Who Confidential 
episode Confidential at 
Christmas. That day, the 
Crucible vaults were the 
backdrop for action between 
8am and 7pm, covering 
most of the remaining scenes 
as the Doctors and their 
friends fled in the TARDIS. 
Any Effects was on hand 

for the destruction of the 


® The UNIT airborne 
aircraft carrier Valiant, 
which had been introduced 
in The Sound of Drums 


[2007 - see Volume 56] 
and reappeared at the 
ATMOS factory in The 
Poison Sky [2008 - see 
Volume 58] is seen to be 
destroyed by the Daleks. 


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Daleks 
assemble. 


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Crucible, providing flames, carefully 


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controlled falling girders and an exploding 
Supreme Dalek. This was also Julian 
Bleach’s final day being made up as 
Davros. The spectacle was observed by 
some competition winners, Doctor Who 
Confidential, Interactive and also Benjamin 
Cook of Doctor Who Magazine. 


ctions: 


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Graeme Harper began his 
birthday shoot on Tuesday 11 
March at 9.30am with Daleks 
herding prisoners on the 
Crucible corridor sets, and 
the apparent incineration of 
Captain Jack. At the same 
time, David Tennant was 
engaged on recording special 
material for the various 
Doctor Who exhibitions on the 
TARDIS set with a different 
crew, while Tate was working 
with a second unit on the 
vault set for close-ups of 
Donna working the consoles, 
plus shots of the Daleks (all 
operated by Nicholas Pegg) 
spinning out of control and a 


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H/ JOURNEYS END STORY 198 \ 


close-up of Davros opening his tunic. For 
some corridor shots, David Hankinson 
was replaced inside his Dalek by Blue Peter 
presenter Gethin Jones, who was visiting 
his home town for a set report. Jones 
had previously featured on the series as a 
Cyberman in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of 
Steel [2006 - see Volume 52] in December 
2005 and made a cameo in The Sarah Jane 
Adventures’ début episode Invasion of the 
Bane. His new report - including training 
from Edwards and Newman, and chats 
with Russell T Davies, John Barrowman 
and Nicholas Briggs - was recorded by the 
crew from Doctor Who Confidential. “It was 
a good day of filming,” said Jones in The 
Sun. “1 love the show and I think producer 
Russell T Davies is a legend.” At 2pm, 
the team moved to Tonteg to record the 
very first scene of the Doctor and Donna 
emerging from the TARDIS at Ffordd 
Gerdinan, and the night-time arrival of 
Rose at the end of the pre-credits, which 
wrapped recording at 8.30pm. 

Meanwhile in The Sun, the article Cold 
Feet for James over Who by Derek Robins 
saw James Nesbitt ruling himself out 


of following David Tennant as the next 
Doctor, commenting, “I could never follow 
Christopher Eccleston or David as they’re 
just so good. It would be career suicide to 
follow David as he’s so good. I don’t know 
if the BBC were ever interested in me for 
the role. It’s not something that I grew up 
with... but my daughters love it.” 
Wednesday 12 March saw Tennant and 
Tate recording the trailers for the new 
series at Upper Boat in conjunction with 
work on the finale. When preparing the 
trailers for the new series of Doctor Who, 
the brief to Red Bee Media in January 
2008 was to introduce the character of 
Donna, emphasising that the relationship 
between her and the Doctor was based 


on friendship and adventure as opposed 
to romance... while also displaying that 
the series would be “bigger and better” 
than ever. 


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ecause the new trailers would appear 
F in the cinemas as well as television, 
creative head Matt Scarff and 
creative director Richard Senior (who had 
handled the 2007 trailer) wanted to create 


something from specially shot material 
that was dynamic and iconic, launching 


NNN roctucction 


what might be an entire 
series of trails. In particular, 
they wanted to have 
alternative material of the 
alien creatures, making them 
a key selling point. In tone, 
the aim was to be darker and 
more serious, akin to the 
cinema promo for Voyage of 
the Damned which had proved 
popular and engaged older 
members of the audience - 
while also being exciting 

for youngsters. 

Since Donna was already 
known to the audience, she 
could be used to describe 
the Doctor and his amazing 
adventures - an aspect where the team 
drew upon Tim Latimer’s speech about 
the Doctor in Human Nature/The Family 
of Blood. As such, the Doctor would be 
presented as a magical stranger who 
always appeared at times of crisis from 
the perspective of an everyday person, 
emphasising Donna’s desire to track down 
the Time Lord as in Partners in Crime [2008 
- see Volume 57]. Part of the inspiration 
was also the discussion of the mythical 
criminal mastermind Keyser Séze in the 
1995 film The Usual Suspects. “Keyser S6ze 
is probably one of the most legendary, 


Connections: 

Looks familiar 

® The Doctor asks 
Torchwood's Gwen Cooper 
if she came from an old 
Cardiff family, and her 
response that she did, back 
to the 1800s, addressing 
speculation that she was 
related to Gwyneth, the 
Welsh maid the Doctor 
and Rose met in Cardiff on 
Christmas Eve 1869 in The 
Unquiet Dead [2005 - see 
Volume 48] - played by the 
same actress, Eve Myles, 


: ‘ Left: 
most mysterious and coolest characters in Daleks really 
modern cinema,” explained Senior, “and don't like rain. 


I didn’t think associating the Doctor with 
those characteristics would do any harm.” 
Senior felt that the idea of Donna 
telling the ‘legend’ of the Doctor to the 
audience would work well with a camp-fire 
setting. He then drafted a script that was 
developed in conjunction with Russell T 
Davies and Julie Gardner. The camp-fire 
setting suggested that the creatures could 
appear from the darkness, illuminated 
by flame and shot in fleeting close-ups 


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Connections: 


Moving the Earth 

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someone tried to move 
the Earth before, along 


time ago; the D 


attempted to relocate 
the planetin The Dalek 
Invasion of Earth [1964 


- see Volume 4 
the Time Lords 
relocated Earth 


renamed it Ravolox as part 
of a cover-up exercise in 


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to display them in all 

their glory. This material 
could be recorded against 
black and greenscreens in 
limited studio space, and 
edited together as hyper- 
real images. There would 
also be elements of the 
Doctor shown before his 
final reveal: his eye opening, 
the reflection in the Dalek 
iris, the silhouette shot. In 
a change to the previous 
promotions, the Doctor and 
his companion would not 
interact. Other inspiration 
came from studying the title 
sequences of James Bond 
films for their smooth, 
dreamy use of transitions between shots. 

The recording took place from 10am 
on the Wednesday morning at Upper 
Boat using the greenscreen erected 
opposite the TARDIS set. Scheduled 
around ADR work, David Tennant and 
Catherine Tate were available for two 
hours each as they were not required for 
the location recording that night. After 
the gas-powered camp fire and propane 
woofer (to create fireballs) had been set 
up, Tennant recorded his material from 
11am to 1pm, after which Tate delivered 
Donna’s monologue from 1pm to 3pm. 
After lunch, the alien shots were recorded 
with a single Sontaran and Ood recorded 
against greenscreen for multiplication 
material, with all the material completed 
by 9pm. The material was recorded in HD 
to give greater resolution for resizing of 
shots, although the promo would be made 
in standard definition. 

As well as advising and arranging the 
special effects for the shoot, the promos 
were edited and graded by Nial Brown 
over two weeks in the HD Smoke suite at 


aleks had 


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BBC Resources in London, and mixed by 
Raja Sehgal at Grand Central Studios. The 
launch trail was only completed the day 
before it was first transmitted. 

On the same day, the BBC finally took 
the decision to schedule Doctor Who from 
on Saturday 5 April, a week earlier than 
had been planned, to avoid launching 
on the same night as ITV1’s Britain’s Got 
Talent. That evening, Graeme Harper 
supervised a night shoot (dictated by the 
black sky of the relocated Earth) from 
6pm, finishing well ahead of schedule at 
3.45am. Work began at Hawthorn Road in 
Pontypridd - rather than Nantfawr Road 
as usual - for scenes outside the Nobles’ 
house as Wilf and Sylvia looked up at the 
black sky. The team relocated to Market 
Street in Pontypridd - last seen in Smith 
and Jones recorded in August/October 
2006 - where Computing Wales featured 
as Megabyte City as Rose confronted the 
looters. Any Effects provided the fireball 
explosion behind Piper, while stunt driver 
James O’Dee drove through the panic- 
stricken melee in a sun-roofed car. 


nother major night shoot was 
Piece: to begin at 6.30pm on 

Thursday 13 March and run to 
5.30am next day. For the first time since 
the return of the series in 2004, the Daleks 
were out on a public location in the 
freezing streets of Penarth for the long- 
awaited reunion of the Doctor and Rose. 
A shot of Jack looking up at the sky for the 
opening episode was also recorded, along 
with the Daleks closing in on the TARDIS 
and Sarah Jane formulating a plan with 
Jackie and Mickey. The police box prop 
(the new one built in 2007) was placed 
in the High Street, with Rose arriving on 
Queens Road (like the High Street, last 


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glimpsed in Utopia/The Sound of Drums/ 
Last of the Time Lords recorded in February 
2007), and Jack appearing on Arcot Street. 
The Doctor - heavily padded for his fall 

- was shot down by a Dalek operated by 
Edwards (perched on a wedge-shaped ramp 
to compensate for the street’s gradient) on 
the intersection of Paget Road and Queens 
Road. A large crowd assembled to watch 
recording, with some members of the public 
even recording the work on the key scene 
and placing it on the internet. Graeme 
Harper again used a quad bike to allow 

him to record tracking shots of the Doctor 
running at speed towards Rose. During the 
night, Tennant continued to record material 
for his video diary as he, Tate, Piper and 
Barrowman sheltered from the cold of the 
night shoot in a car between scenes. 

Quick off the mark, The Sun carried 
pictures of the heavily armed Rose under 
the title Billie is gunning for the Daleks, 
including shots of the ailing Doctor 
sprawled on the street. Tennant and Tate 
were not required for the following night’s 
recording, from 6.30pm on Friday 14 


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to 5.30am on Saturday 15. Brook Street 
in Cardiff, which had been seen in the 
Torchwood episode Day One, was used as 
the street where the Daleks rounded up 
prisoners and destroyed the family in its 
home. Pegg and Edwards’ Daleks were 
mounted on dolly tracks for some shots, 
while the three Daleks on the pavement 
were placed on hidden duckboards as 
Nicholas Briggs delivered their electronic 
voice from a nearby van with a speaker 
outside. Doctor Who Confidential was again 
present with its own team. The crew then 
moved to the adjacent Plantagenet Street 
where Rose saved Wilf and Sylvia from a 
Dalek (operated by Edwards), completing 
Cribbins and King’s work on the series with 
an ad-lib from Cribbins (“Do you want 
to swap?”). The team then moved to the 
grounds of Castell Coch at Tongwynlais 
- near to Upper Boat - to record Martha 
encountering the German woman at the 
castle and moving through the woods. 
“It was really rubbish,” giggled Agyeman 
of her attempts at speaking German on 
Confidential. In an early script, this venue 


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had been a Hansel-and- 
Gretel-style cottage, and 
Harper had been told of 
such a building glimpsed by 
a colleague from the road... 
only to discover that this was 
a quarter-scale construction 
in a children’s playground! 
Throughout the night there 
were plenty of Easter eggs 
handed around the cast and 
crew. Agyeman was a key cast member on 
Sunday 16 when the BBC team took over 
part of the Welsh Traffic Management 
Centre (a venue used for the Torchwood 
episode Everything Changes in June 2006) 
from 6.30pm to 5.30am and turned it 
into UNIT HQ in Manhattan. Edwards, 
Pegg and Hankinson operated the three 
Daleks, with Abbi Collins supervising 

the action material. American Dempsey 
and Makepeace star Michael Brandon was 
thrilled to be working with the Daleks - 
since his son was a great Doctor Who fan 

- and had his photograph taken with one 
by Graeme Harper, only to have a warning 
barked at him from the operator inside! 
However, during the shoot there was a bad 
traffic accident and at one point the unit 
understood that they might need to leave 
the premises while the incident was dealt 
with. During the day, Davies also decided 
to end the finale with a caption reading: 
‘Doctor Who will return at Christmas in 
The Next Doctor.’ 

The following freezing night’s work 
from 5.30pm on Monday 17 to 4.30am 
was on location at the derelict premises 
of Alpha Steel in Newport where the 
Crucible’s test area and adjoining 
antechamber had been found for the finale 
episode. Peter McKinstry designed the 
Warp Star used by Sarah in the manner 
of a magical charm; “Russell made it clear 
that the final design should reflect Sarah 


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Jane’s character,’ McKinstry told the 
bbc.co.uk website. Green screen was used for 


shots of the Reality Bomb victims which 
would later be processed by The Mill, with 
these inserts directed by Phil Collinson. 

On Tuesday 18, the Daily Star proclaimed 
that the Cybermen would be returning to 
Doctor Who for the Christmas Day Special 
that year. Meanwhile at Earl’s Court in 
London, Tom Baker - who had played the 
Fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981 - was 
opening a new Doctor Who exhibition at the 
Museum Hall which would be open to the 
public from Thursday 20 March to Friday 
19 September. 


The Doctor’s goodbyes 


espite claims by The Sun, Penelope 

Wilton’s only recording was 

performed from 3.30pm on Tuesday 
18 at Lower House Barn in Dinas Powys, 
where Benjamin Cook was present 
representing Doctor Who Magazine and 
Pegg, Edwards and Hankinson operated 
the trio of Daleks which moved along 
a ramp laid from the cottage’s French 


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windows. The first assistant director read 
in all the other characters’ lines for Wilton 
to react to. The props department provided 
Harriet’s ID cards, which indicated her 
date of birth (3 June 1949) and address 
(14 Mantleford Crescent). With Wilton’s 
material completed, the crew returned 
to Castell Coch for Agyeman’s material 
outside the castle, with Anita Love standing 
in for Valda Aviks, and wrapping at 2.30am. 
Wednesday 19 March saw recording 
from 1pm at Morgan Jones Park in 
Caerphilly, with the TARDIS’ return to 
Earth and the Doctor’s goodbyes to Sarah, 
Captain Jack, Martha and Mickey. At 
Spm, the team headed for the National 
Collection Centre at Nantgarw where a 
long corridor with storage shelves had 
been located, ideal for the departure 
of Martha from UNIT HQ courtesy of 
Project Indigo; work wrapped almost an 
hour early, just after 11pm, with Faujja 
Singh present to supervise the use of 
firearms against the Daleks. Catherine Tate 
meanwhile recorded her Node shots for 
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead back 
at Upper Boat. 


Production 


On Thursday 20 March, the BBC 
announced the new series of Doctor Who 
would begin on Saturday 5 April. Again, 
two units were at work from 11am, this 
time both at Upper Boat. After recording 
the closing TARDIS scene for Turn Left, 
a number of insert shots for the Doctor 
and Donna were recorded on the same 
set for the two-part finale, before Tennant 
and Tate continued to work with director 
Euros Lyn on pick-ups for Silence in the 
Library/Forest of the Dead. In the meantime, 
the main unit was at work through to 
9.30pm on the Crucible vault set which Left: 
had now been redressed as the Crucible ee 


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command deck, with Caan’s dais becoming Martha to take 
the Supreme Dalek’s podium. Dalek- the Osterhagen 

Key, 


only scenes from both episodes were 
scheduled, with the bronze Daleks now re- 
equipped with their usual sucker probes, 
and Edwards spending some of the time 
operating the new Supreme Dalek, which 
Harper referred to as “the Superb Dalek”. 
This new Dalek was positioned directly 
below a light and became extremely hot 
inside, with crew members holding an 
umbrella over Edwards to give him shade 
when the dome was removed between 
takes. Nicholas Briggs did a deliberately 
grand voice for the Supreme Dalek. 

The nominations for the Hugo Awards 
to be presented at the World Science 
Fiction Convention WorldCon in August 
2008 were announced on Good Friday. 
Doctor Who featured in the category Best 
Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) for 
Human Nature/The Family of Blood and 
Blink [both 2007 - see Volume 56], 
competing against episodes of Torchwood 
(Captain Jack Harkness), Battlestar Galactica 
and the fan-created internet series Star 
Trek New Voyages. At Upper Boat, work 
from 9.30am to 8.30pm continued on 
the Crucible command deck, completing 
all the scenes with David Tennant for the 


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Martha ends up 
in the one place 
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be... home, 


series, including a dubbed line for The 
Doctor’s Daughter. Catherine Tate recorded 
a second unit shot of Donna trapped in 
the TARDIS in the final episode and so 
finished her work on Doctor Who, then 
giving an interview to Confidential. BBC 
disc jockey Jo Whiley visited the set with 
her family, as did the winning bidder 
from the previous November’s Children in 
Need. After the end of recording, the wrap 
party doubled for the farewell party for 
Catherine Tate and Phil Collinson, the 
latter departing on holiday before taking 
up his new job as the BBC’s head of drama 
in Manchester. 

By Easter Sunday, Russell T Davies was 
having doubts about the final scene of 
the episode, feeling that the appearance 
of the Cybermen added nothing to the 
programme. Recording continued for 
another week, with work from 8am on 
Easter Monday completing the Dalek- 
only scenes on the Crucible with all four 
Daleks over an hour ahead of the projected 
7pm wrap. Next day, recording in Penarth 
began at 1pm for scenes of Francine Jones’ 
house in the opening episode, featuring 


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Adjoa Andoh and Freema Agyeman. The 
crew then relocated to Clinton Road 

in Penarth, the venue of Sarah Jane’s 
Bannerman Road abode from The Sarah 
Jane Adventures, where night shots were 
recorded in the rain, followed by Sarah’s 
cliffhanging confrontation with the Daleks 
(Edwards and Pegg) and her rescue by 
Jackie and Mickey at the junction with 
Robinswood Crescent. Sarah’s retro- 

style Nissan Figaro from her series, as 
introduced in Invasion of the Bane, was used 
for these scenes, and was driven by Abbi 
Collins who stood in for Elisabeth Sladen; 
Doctor Who Confidential was again on hand 
for recording. Meanwhile, David Tennant 
was in Battersea recording for Channel 

4’s The Friday Night Project at a branch of 
Asda. Also, the British Academy Television 
Craft Awards were announced, including 
a nomination for the Doctor Who Comic 
Maker by Tom Collins for Interactive 
Creative Contribution, Murray Gold for 
Original Television Music, the sound team 
for Sound Fiction/Entertainment, The 
Mill for the Visual Effects in Voyage of the 
Damned and Steven Moffat for his script 
for Blink. 


lso on Tuesday 25 March, the 
Py ites Daily Examiner carried 

the story Dr Who borrows a Clio from 
Huddersfield! by Barry Gibson in which it 
was revealed that beauty therapy student 
Jo Neary had loaned her Renault Clio to 
Slaithwaite-based Vehicles in Vision on 
Wednesday 12 March where it was driven 
down to Cardiff for filming, and for which 
she was paid £75. “I’m not a fan of the 
show to be honest,” said Jo, “but I’ll be 
watching to see the scene with my car.” 


Agyeman and Andoh completed material 
at the Jones home between 11.30am and 


6.30pm, wrapping hours ahead of schedule 
on Wednesday 26 March, with Benjamin 
Cook again present to report on events 

on this day and the next. Russell T Davies 
and Julie Gardner also agreed to abandon 
the shots of the Cybermen at the end of 
the finale, knowing that by the time of 
transmission it would be possible to show 
a full trailer for The Next Doctor instead 

- made possible by the recording of the 
Christmas Special in the spring rather than 
in the summer as previously. 

Work on Thursday 27 began on the 
scenes in the first episode set in Sarah 
Jane’s attic at Upper Boat at 10am, while 
a second unit covered cutaway shots of 
Daleks; recording finished early, shortly 
after 8pm. That evening, David Tennant 
was The Friday Night Project's guest host, 
recorded at London Studios. 

Friday 28 March completed the scenes 
with Sarah and Luke for the story between 
9am and 2pm; Tommy Knight, who 
played Luke, recorded a video diary for the 
website, covering his time on the attic set, 


with K9 provided by and operated Above: 
as usual by Mat Irvine. Richard Dawkins ae ple 
then recorded his cameo in Studio S. Jane's attic, 


“People were falling at his feet,” recalled 
Davies in Radio Times. “We’ve had 
Kylie Minogue on that set, but it was 
Dawkins people were worshipping.” 
After this, the crew moved to the Hub 
set where the lift and control room 
of Osterhagen Station One had been 
constructed for the solo scenes with 
Martha. Meanwhile, the second unit 
recorded the TARDIS roundels and 
windows shattering as inserts, with all 
work completed by 8pm. Confidential 
interviewed Agyeman and Sladen, and 
Benjamin Cook was present for Doctor 
Who Magazine. That evening, Tennant’s The 
Friday Night Project was shown on Channel 
4. The remaining scenes in the Osterhagen 
Stations were then scheduled between 8am 
and 7pm at Upper Boat on Saturday 29 
March, but finished well ahead of schedule. 
Only Graeme Harper, Julie Gardner and 
production manager Peter Bennett were 


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required to attend the recording of The 
New Paul O’Grady Show at London Studios 
in London on Monday 31 March, with 
O’Grady’s cameo appearance - alongside 
his dog Buster - in the first episode 
bringing the main recording of the series 
finale to an end; this was recorded with 
a standard edition of the popular Channel 
4 show, which had resumed production 
two weeks earlier. 

With the decision to change the 
original Cybermen cliffhanger ending to 
Journey’s End having been taken at the end 


of March, a blue script amendment to 
this effect was made on Monday 31 April, 
altering the last scene of the finale and 
the opening scenes of the script for The 
Next Doctor. 

As such, during recording of The Next 
Doctor on Thursday 1 May, a soaked 
David Tennant performed extra shots of 
the lonely Doctor on the TARDIS set to 
replace the original scene, which would be 
included as an extra on the forthcoming 
Complete Fourth Series box set from 
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PRODUCTION 

Thu 31 Jan 08 C2 News Studio, 
Broadcasting House, Llantrisant Road, 
Cardiff (Newsroom) 

Mon 18 Feb 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
TARDIS 
Tue 19 - Thu 21 Feb 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: Torchwood Hub 
Fri 22 Feb 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
TARDIS/Torchwood Hub 
Mon 25 Feb 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
TARDIS 


Tue 26 Feb 08 Nantfawr Road, Cyncoed, 


Cardiff (Nobles' House - Living Room) 
Wed 27 Feb 08 Nantfawr Road (Nobles' 
House - Living Room/Kitchen/Donna's 
Bedroom) 

Thu 28 - Fri 29 Feb 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: TARDIS 

Mon 03 - Tue 04 Mar 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: Crucible Vaults 

Wed 05 Mar 08 Southerndown 
Beach, Ogmore Vale, Nr Bridgend (Bad 
Wolf Bay) 

Thu 06 - Fri 07 Mar 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: Crucible Vaults 

Sat 08 Mar 08 School of Optometry, 
Maindy Road, Cathays (Shadow 
Architect's Office) 

Mon 10 Mar 08 Upper Boat Studios: 


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Crucible Vaults 

Tue 11 Mar 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: Enemy Corridor/ Crucible 
Vaults; West Mound Crescent, 
Church Village, Tonteg 

Suburban Street) 

Wed 12 Mar 08 Hawthorn Road, 
Hawthorn, Nr Pontypridd (Ext 
obles' House); Computing Wales, 
arket Street, Pontypridd 
Abandoned Computer Shop/ 
Shopping Street) 
Thu 13 Mar 08 Harbour View Road/Arcot 
Street, Portway, Penarth (Street/Big 

Wide Street) 

Fri14 Mar 08 Brook Street, Riverside, 
Cardiff (Suburban Street 2); Castell Coch, 
Tongwynlais, Nr Cardiff (Int/Ext 

German Castle) 

Sun 16 Mar 08 Traffic Management 
Wales Centre, Coryton, 

Cardiff (Unit HQ, New York City) 

Mon 17 Mar 08 Alpha Steel, 

Corporation Road, Newport 

(Crucible Test Area/Crucible Test 

Area - Antechamber) 
Tue 18 Mar 08 Lower House Barn, 
Michaelstone-Le-Pit, Dinas Powys 
(Harriet's Cottage); Castell Coch, 
Tongwynlais, Nr Cardiff (Woods next to 


German Castle) 

Wed 19 Mar 08 Morgan Jones 

Park, Nantgarw Road, Caerphilly 

(Park); National Collection Centre, 

Heol Crochendy, Nantgarw 

(UNIT HQ, New York City - 

Long Corridor) 

Thu 20 - Fri 21 Mar 08 Upper Boat 
Studios: Crucible Command Deck/TARDIS 
Mon 24 Mar 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
Crucible Command Deck 

Tue 25 Mar 08 Cwrt-Y-Vil Road 

(Lower) Penarth (Ext/Int Jones’ 

House - Kitchen/Hall); Clinton Road, 
Penarth (Ext Sarah Jane Smith's House/ 
Big Wide Street 
Wed 26 Mar 08 Cwrt-Y-Vil Road (Jones' 
House - Kitchen/Hall) 

Thu 27 Mar 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
Sarah Jane's Attic/Greenscreen/ 

TARDIS 
Fri 28 Mar 08 Upper Boat Studios: Sarah 
Jane's Attic/Studio/Lift/Osterhagen 
Station One/TARDIS 
Sat 29 Mar 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
Osterhagen Station One 

Mon 31 Mar 08 Southbank Studios 
(The New Paul O'Grady Show) 

Thu 01 May 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
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on Wednesday 2 April, and“ "Star billing on the series - ie Freema = 
after seeing an edit of the final | Agyeman, John Barrowman and Billie 
episode on Thursday 8 May Piper - as well as Elisabeth Sladen, since 


it was decided to conclude the previous ___— she was now the star of her own spin-off 


~ series. Additional prominent cast members — 
E - Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Adjoa 
The content of the finale’s opening Andoh and Penelope Wilton - were then 
episode - The Stolen Earth - was locked by 4 credited over the opening TARDIS sce 
the end of April, but its titlewaskepta  —-with the producer and director capti 
closely guarded secret, not even revealed to With an extended 50-minute slot» 
Radio Times. “If I have my way, we'll do so allocated on BBC One, cuts to the firs 
until the official BBC Press Information is episode were minimal, omitting Donna 
released,” explained Davies in Doctor Who pointing out to the Doctor in the TARDIS 
Magazine. “You'll see why!” “te al that “all the air gets ripped away!” from 
“It’s a busy opening titles,” Beted Davitt the Earth, Rose telling the two looters, — 
of the last two episodes on Newsround. “You can put that stuff down, AND run fo 
After the extensive five-minute pre-credits — 


instalment with ‘To Be Continued’ rather | 
than offering a throw-forward. Zs 


Above: 
Jackie, Mickey 
and Sarah 
surrender to 
the Daleks. 


Wilf and Sylvia, “Get your phones! Any 
phone! Dial that number!” the Doctor’s, 
“She’s got a what?” on seeing Luke with 
Sarah Jane, and Jack’s comments of his 
wrist-strap, “I can lock this thing onto the 
TARDIS.” The number of Martha’s mobile 
shown on screen - 07700 900461 - was 
one reserved by Ofcom for television and 
film dramas, and a stock shot of Roald 
Dahl Plass appeared as the Hub exterior. 
At the end of the episode, the words 

“To Be Continued’ appeared, with no 
‘throw-forward’ to Journey’s End. 

Journey’s End, as the final episode was 
titled, kicked off with a montage reprise 
of The Stolen Earth for its pre-credit 
sequence, and Camille Coduri and Noel 
Clarke given on screen credits along with 
Gareth David-Lloyd, Eve Myles and Adjoa 
Andoh over the opening sequences. Edits 
again were generally minimal. When Rose 
told the Doctor about the stars dying in 
her universe, she added, “And at the same 
time, the walls between dimensions started 
to unravel.” When the Doctor looked at 
the seemingly dead Jack, he commented, 
“Good man, Captain.” When the Doctor 


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explained to his friends about Donna 
being half-human, half-Time Lord, Martha 
asked, “D’you mean, she’s like Jenny?” “No, 
that was just biology,” said the Doctor, 
“Donna’s a brand-new creation. An event!” 


Grow-your-own TAROIS 


he major casualties came at the end 
Tee episode - a sequence was cut 

where Rose and Doctor #2 were 
handed a chunk of coral, so that they 
could grow their own TARDIS. The final 
cut was made by Julie Gardner and Russell 
T Davies. This was a short scene in the 
Noble’s kitchen as the TARDIS departed, 
and Donna - hearing the noise - looked 
up, just for a second, staring... and then 
continued her phone conversation. 
The concern was that viewers might 
interpret this as the trigger that would 
lead to Donna’s death, which was not 
the intention. 

Footage was inserted of Donna from 
The Runaway Bride and Partners in Crime 
[2008 - see Volume 57], while Wilf was 
glimpsed in Voyage of the Damned. The 


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final montage of those sacrificing 
themselves covered Harriet Jones (The 
Stolen Earth), Jabe (The End of the World 
[2005 - see Volume 48]), the Controller 
(Bad Wolf), Lynda (The Parting of the Ways), 
Sir Robert MacLeish (Tooth and Claw {2006 
- see Volume 51]), Mrs Moore (The Age of 
Steel), Mr Skinner, Ursula Blake, Bridget 
(all Love ¢ Monsters), the Face of Boe 
(Gridlock [2007 - see Volume 55]), Chantho 
(Utopia), Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned), 
Luke Rattigan (The Poison Sky), Jenny 

(The Doctor’s Daughter), River Song (Forest 
of the Dead) and the Crusader hostess 
(Midnight [2008 - see Volume 59]}). K9’s 
materialisation in the attic came from 

The Sarah Jane Adventures episode The Lost 
Boy Part Two. The montage of Donna 
vaguely followed a reverse chronology 
with glimpses from - in sequence - Turn 
Left, Silence in the Library/Forest of the 

Dead, The Poison Sky, The Doctor’s Daughter, 
The Unicorn and the Wasp, The Poison Sky, 
two clips from Planet of the Ood, two 

clips from The Fires of Pompeii, Partners in 
Crime and two clips from The Runaway 
Bride. The news coverage of celebrations 
featured firework footage from Associated 
Press. The episode now ended with the 


words ‘Coming Christmas 2008: The 
Return of the Cybermen’, with teaser 
shots of David Tennant as the Doctor, 
guest stars David Morrissey and Dervla 
Kirwan, and some snowbound Cybermen. 
The final cut of Journey’s End ran to almost 
65 minutes. 

Work from The Mill included the 
Doctor’s regeneration energy (as with 
The Parting of the Ways and Utopia), frozen 
bullets, the temporal prison, the Crucible’s 
neutrino core, the full-scale Dalek force 
and their spacecraft (plus their demise), 
the reality bomb’s effects, the effects of 
various weapons, the captured planets, the 
Shadow Proclamation, the Valiant and the 
Medusa Cascade. Crowd ADR work took 
place on Thursday 5 June at Air Studios, 
and the final mix of The Stolen Earth took 
place on Thursday 12 June. Murray Gold’s 
score drew heavily on themes established 
previously, and he delivered the incidentals 
for Journey’s End on Wednesday 25 June, 
with the final mix on Friday 27. 

Meanwhile, The Stolen Earth’s title 
was finally revealed by the BBC Press 
Office on Thursday 12 June. The version 
of The Stolen Earth circulated to the press 
as a preview was a ‘work in progress’ 
with some effects still to be added; it 
ended prematurely after the Doctor was 
shot by the Dalek, and thus kept the 
‘regeneration’ a secret. No preview discs 
of Journey’s End were made available in 
advance of transmission. “I think it’s 
very important to keep secrets in drama 
because that’s how you experience a story 
for the very first time,” explained Davies 
on BBC News. “It’s a new and brilliant 
experience to come across the ending for 
yourself, instead of having it described in 
a newspaper.” At a time when most shows 
had declining audiences, he observed 
that Doctor Who was unique in having 
a growing one. Ml 


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Publicity 


® At the new series press launch on 
Tuesday 1 April 2008, David Tennant 
promised that the season finale would 
be “the biggest, boldest, maddest, 
saddest, most exciting story we’ve ever 
done”. When Gethin Jones announced 
he was leaving Blue Peter, The Sun 
seized upon another Who-related 
story on Thursday 10 April, claiming 
that the presenter ‘has already been 
snapped up to star in Doctor Who’ 
and was ‘remaining tight-lipped about 
his role’. 


® Promoting his film Adulthood on BBC 
One’s Breakfast on Monday 16 June, 
Noel Clarke confirmed his return to 


Doctor Who. Dr Who’s enemy Davros to 
make a comeback was an article by Laura 
Clout in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday 
17 June, in which Davros’ return was 
discussed, and stating that the Doctor 
and Rose would be ‘faced with a new 
and deadly red Dalek’. The Sun also 


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ran 20 Years On, and Davros Doesn’t 
Look a Day Older by Sara Nathan and 
Colin Robertson, including pictures of 
Davros, the Supreme Dalek and Rose. 
By the weekend, the Sunday Mirror 
was looking ahead to the Christmas 
Special, claiming that Armani 
supermodel Agyness Deyn (AKA Laura 
Hollins) would feature prominently, 
with ‘a BBC source’ claiming ‘Agyness 
is the perfect choice. She’s talented 
and fast becoming a household name’ 
That evening, BBC Two screened a 
trailer for The Stolen Earth shortly 
before 7pm, and this was seen during 
the week along with a teaser trailer 

of the Daleks. Bernard Cribbins than 
discussed his role on Doctor Who with 
a clip from The Stolen Earth on BBC 
One’s Breakfast on Friday 20 June. 


» On Tuesday 24, Radio Times ran an 


extensive piece entitled Red Alert with 
images of the Supreme Dalek, a chance 
to win a limited-edition Dalek design 
print, and comments from Russell 

T Davies about the return of the 
menace from Skaro in conversation 
with Benjamin Cook. Alison Graham 
selected The Stolen Earth as Pick of the 
Day, describing the show as ‘great fun’, 
while Davies commented on the cameo 
from Richard Dawkins; the Doctor’s 
first sight of Rose in two years was 

also emphasised as the ‘Moment of 
the Week’. A shot of Sylvia and Wilf 
emphasised the programme listing 
itself. “If Russell T Davies is bowing 


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out soon from helming Doctor Who, 
then he’s certainly doing it in style,” 
wrote Derek Pike of Southampton in 
the Feedback pages as he cited Midnight 
as “one of the most exciting things I’ve 
seen on TV in months”. 


» Freema names star who sneaks choc into 


TARDIS was the Daily Star’s scoop 

on Tuesday 24 as Freema Agyeman 
revealed that Billie Piper would take 
chocolate on the set. Gethin Jones’ 
Blue Peter set report aired on BBC Two 
on the afternoon of Tuesday 24, with 
the studio also playing host to the 
costumes of a Hath, a Sontaran and 
the Abzorbaloff. Freema Agyeman 
joined presenter Zde Salmon to make 
a Doctor Who magnet game after which 
she answered questions from young 


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viewers. An exclusive clip of Journey’s 
End with Gethin’s big scene was 
included in the show. 


® Nicholas Briggs performed interviews 


about his alien vocal talents with 
Heather Stott on BBC Radio 
Manchester and Ted Robbins on 

BBC Radio Lancashire on Wednesday 
25 June. 


» Thursday 26 saw the Daily Express 


running a story by Brian Swanson 
entitled Who's Set for a £1.3M pay day? 
in which he reported that the BBC 
hoped to prevent David Tennant 
quitting Doctor Who by offering him a 
new deal worth £100,000 an episode. 
‘Everyone assumes David is quitting 
but that’s not the case,’ said ‘a senior 


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Publicity 


wad 


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Rose, the 
Doctor and Jack 
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The Doctor 
follows the 
Tandocca Trail 
wavelength to 
track down 
the location 
of Earth. 


BBC source’. ‘We're hoping he will 
be back. The situation as it stands is 
that no deal has been discussed yet 
for the next series of Doctor Who... 
we're not considering anyone else 

at this time.” That evening, Bernard 
Cribbins enthusiastically discussed 
his long association with Doctor Who 
on BBC One’s early evening magazine 
programme The One Show, and the 
clip of Wilf taking on a Dalek 

was shown. 


» Freema Agyeman and Elisabeth 
Sladen - who was taking time off from 
recording The Sarah Jane Adventures 

- appeared together on The Richard 
Arnold Show segment of ITV1’s GMTV 
on Friday 27, with the host arriving 
by TARDIS to find a Dalek in his 
studio, and introducing an extract of 
the Dalek force announcing its arrival. 
That afternoon, Michael Brandon 
joined Richard & Judy on Channel 4 


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to enthuse about the following day’s 
episode, illustrated by a clip of the 
Dalek attack on New York (“How great 
is that?”). 


® In The Stage’s look at the weekend’s 


television on its TV Today blog, Mark 
Wright described the ‘audacious yarn’ 
of The Stolen Earth as ‘like one of those 
cracking Marvel Comic team-ups... 
Fantastic, huge, silly entertainment 
of the highest order’ 


» On the morning of transmission, 


Saturday 28 June, The Sun readers 
discovered in the pages of its TV 
guide that the Doctor was to be 
gunned down by a Dalek. During the 
afternoon, Freema Agyeman appeared 
on BBC Two during coverage of the 
Glastonbury Festival which she was 
attending, and later returned on BBC 
Three’s broadcasts from the event 
that evening. 


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Doctor Who Magazine issue 397, 
released on Thursday 26 June 2008, 
previewed The Stolen Earth/Journey’s 
End, the cover headline declaring 
‘Red Alert!’ as the Doctor faced 

the Supreme Dalek. The issue was 
polybagged, with all the text on the 
magazine’s cover replaced with 

‘Bad Wolf’, tying in to the cliffhanger 
ending of Turn Left that led in to The 
Stolen Earth. 


“It’s the biggest adventure yet,” 
proclaimed the BBC One continuity 
announcer just before broadcast of The 
Stolen Earth on the evening of Saturday 
28 June. Screened against the end of 
the film Racing Stripes and New You’ve 
Been Framed on ITV1, Doctor 


Who performed well, with almost 

nine million viewers, nearly three 
times the audience of its rival. It was 
the second-most-watched television 
programme of the week, matching the 
highest-ever chart appearance for the 
series, a record held by 2007’s Voyage 
of the Damned. 


® Following broadcast, the BBC 
website again confirmed that Journey's 
End would run to 65 minutes and 
emphasised the earlier start time of 
6.40pm, as well as announcing that 
a bonus trailer for the episode would 
air on BBC One the next day shortly 
before 1pm. 


® Doctor Who Confidential’s Friends and 
Foe screened on BBC Three from 
8pm to 8.45pm, with a 4am repeat; 
this also performed well, being 
the highest-rated non-terrestrial 
programme of the week. 


® The regeneration cliffhanger, missing 
from the preview discs, caught the 
nation’s imagination. “I’ve been 
astonished for the past week,” 
admitted Russell T Davies on BBC 
News a few days later. “When I saw it 
go out on Saturday night I was struck 
by how big it was.” 


® Doctor Who finale to be watched by 10 
million predicted Lewis Carter in the 
next morning’s The Daily Telegraph, 
with a spokeswoman saying, ‘There’s a 
limited amount of information on the 


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Left: 

Doctor Who 
Magazine's 
cover for The 
Stolen Earth/ 
Journey's End. 


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Right: 
Donna is forced 
to forget. 


website about the final episode, but 
it’s fair to say we want to keep it quiet, 
in fact we want to keep it as secret as 
possible. We put a block on sending 
out preview tapes so no one could find 
out how it ended’ 


The Stolen Earth was repeated at 8pm 
that evening, with the Cut Down of 
Friends and Foe from 8.45pm to 9pm. 
Later that evening on Sky One’s Top 50 
Showbiz Comebacks, Billie Piper’s switch 
from singing to actress brought her in 
at number 23, while number two in the 
countdown was Doctor Who itself, with 
clips from 1977's The Sun Makers [see 
Volume 27] and newer episodes such 
as Rose [2005 - see Volume 48] and The 
Parting of the Ways [2005 - see Volume 
$1], along with comments from Phil 
Collinson. The episode commentary 
by the Dalek team of Nicholas Briggs, 
Nicholas Pegg and Barnaby Edwards 
went out on digital radio station BBC7 
at midnight as usual. 


‘It’s going to be hard to top this 
episode, wrote Sam Wollaston of 
The Stolen Earth in The Guardian 

on Monday 30. ‘It had everything... 
It was a wonderful episode, though. 

I had a lump in my throat at the end’ 
In The Independent, Thomas Sutcliffe 
was more begrudging, noting, ‘It 
would take a fair amount to make me 
watch Doctor Who these days, but the 
prospect of both Richard Dawkins and 
Paul O’Grady taking cameo roles in 

a script written by Russell T Davies 
did the trick’ The Times saw Andrew 
Billen commenting on the secretive 
behaviour of the BBC with regards 

to what he saw as ‘the most self- 


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confident programme on television’ 
and admitting, ‘For the first time for 

a while, I am actually looking forward 
to the next episode’ The Daily Mail 

ran the story Robert Carlyle tipped to 
replace Time Lord David Tennant in 
accordance with the odds of 2-1 offered 
by bookmaker William Hill, who 
explained, ‘We get lots of calls from Dr 
Who enthusiasts who want to put bets 
on the next Time Lord. Robert Carlyle 
is currently the favourite but it changes 
all the time.’ The actor concerned 

was quoted as saying, “Would I do it? 
Possibly.” Also in the running according 
to The Daily Telegraph were Jason 
Statham (4-1), Alan Davies (9-2) and 
James Nesbitt (6-1). 


» Who will be the next Doctor Who? asked 
Lucy Mangan in The Guardian on 


Tuesday 1 July as she considered 
names touted in the press, including 
Bill Nighy, Richard E Grant and Hugh 
Grant and presumed - correctly - 
that, having recorded the Christmas 
Special, Tennant wouldn't be leaving 
imminently. The Daily Telegraph’s Nicole 
Martin asked Could a woman become the 
next Dr Who?, adding Catherine Tate, 
Billie Piper and Amy Winehouse to 
the possible shortlist. The BBC News 
website invited questions for Russell 
T Davies, as did ITV1’s This Morning. 


»® For the fourth time in 13 weeks, Doctor 


Who seized the Radio Times cover with 
a shot of Davros to promote Journey’s 
End. Editor Gill Hudson rhapsodised 
about her favourite moments of the 
series and launched a competition 

to win the Davros mask seen in the 
magazine’s photoshoot, and offered 

a double-sided poster of Davros and 
his creations. Never Mind the Daleks! 
Here’s Davros! began an eight-page slice 
of Doctor Who Watch with a set report 
from Benjamin Cook, an interview 
with Julian Bleach from Nick Griffiths, 
and an extensive look at Millennium’s 
creations in The Man Behind the Masks 
from Neill Gorton. The instalment was 
both Pick of the Day and Drama of the 
Week, although Alison Graham had 

to admit to a lack of preview DVD and 
could only offer, ‘Prepare to be gripped.’ 
On the Feedback page, David Smith of 
Bristol suggested that the series could 
no longer keep storylines secret, citing 
elements such as Billie Piper’s departure 
and return, and Kylie Minogue’s 
appearance as being heralded in the 
press, and adding, ‘Some of us still like 
to be surprised by storylines.’ 


» On Tuesday 


night, Catherine 
Tate recorded 
an appearance 
on The Graham Norton Show at London 
Studios for transmission on the 
Thursday evening on BBC Two. 


® Andrew Pettie of The Daily Telegraph 


offered an extensive piece on 
Reinventing Davros on Thursday 3 July, 
with comments from Neill Gorton and 
Peter McKinstry. The Daily Telegraph 
also ran a feature - Dr Who profile: 
Britain’s favourite alien - summarising 
the show’s history and rebranding, 
with Davies commenting, “We've set 

it up in such a way that it should be 
around for 20 to 30 years yet.” 


® On Friday 4 July, the Liverpool Echo 


ran the story, Liverpool actor David 
Morrissey could be next Doctor Who, 
noting that the subject of its story 
‘refused to scotch rumours’ that he 
could be replacing David Tennant in 
the TARDIS following his appearance 
in the Christmas Special - recorded in 
April - and had refused to comment 
on the idea when interviewed the 
previous night by Janice Long at 

the Unity Theatre. In the Daily Mail, 
Quentin Letts ruminated on the 


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series finale, 


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Rose watches 
onin horror as 
Davros and the 
Daleks prepare 
to destroy 
reality, 


position of David Tennant amid his 
predecessors on the series in Who’s the 
greatest?. Former Newsround reporter 
turned BBC News entertainment 
correspondent Lizo Mzimba discussed 
how confidentiality agreements had 
maintained the secrecy of the climax 
in Keeping the secrets of Doctor Who at 
BBC News, and interviewed Russell T 
Davies, Freema Agyeman and Caitlin 
Moran of The Times for a report in 

the 6pm BBC News. This featured an 
exclusive clip from Journey’s End of 
Captain Jack’s body being disposed 

of by the Daleks, and saw Mzimba 
with the tape which had arrived at the 
Broadcast Centre that afternoon and 
which was kept under lock and key. 


® Answering questions on the BBC News 
website, Davies told Fiona Pryor of his 
successor, “I think Steven {Moffat]’s 


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more than his own man. He doesn’t 
need me at all. 1 won't write for it in 
the future. I’m done with it.” The July 
edition of What’s On Stage magazine 
carried a shot of the Doctor and 
Donna on its cover to emphasise that 
both David Tennant and Catherine 
Tate were shortly to appear in the 
theatre; Tennant would début as 
Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon from 
Thursday 24 July while Tate would be 
appearing as Michelle in the comedy 
Under the Blue Sky at the Duke of York 
Theatre from Friday 25 July. 


» Phil Collinson was interviewed on the 


Breakfast show on BBC Radio SLive 
before 8am, along with comments 
from young viewers, and Nicky 
Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty 
attempting to find out if Tennant 

was staying for the next series and 
discussing the show’s wide-ranging 
appeal. After 8am on ITV1’s GMTV, 
Sylvester McCoy - who played the 
Seventh Doctor from 1987 to 1989 
and in the 1996 TV Movie [see Volume 
47] - talked about the phenomenon 
of the series. Around 9am, Agyeman 
spoke to Susanna Reid and Charlie 
Stayt on BBC One’s Breakfast, resisting 
the questions about the following 
day’s instalment, which could only be 
trailed with two clips from The Stolen 
Earth. Russell T Davies appeared to 
answer viewers’ questions from around 
the world at 1lam on ITV1’s This 
Morning, speaking to Phillip Schofield 
and Ruth Langsford. Many questions 
related to the Doctor’s regeneration 
and the limited number of them, 

with Davies quipping that he was 

sure “the magic crystal of Zog” would 


resolve this at an appropriate point in 
the future. 


» Numerous other broadcasts during 


the day covered the next day’s episode, 
from a discussion on Richard & Judy 
on Channel 4 to comments from fan- 
comedian Mitch Benn on Radio 4’s The 
Now Show. A double bill of Turn Left 
and The Stolen Earth was scheduled on 
BBC Three that night, with a different, 
longer Cut Down version of Friends and 
Foe from 9.40pm to 10pm. 


® The day of the 2008 series finale’s 


transmission found Caitlin Moran in 
The Times ruminating on how she had 
been sucked into the sub-culture of 
the series as she speculated on David 
Tennant’s successor in Think outside 
the Tardis: who he, the new Doctor Who? 
while Andrew Billen speculated Has 
time finally run out for coolest man on 
TV?. On Radio 2, Tim Smith invited 
listeners to suggest who could be the 
next Doctor on his morning show. On 
BBC One, Breakfast featured Doctor 
Who at 9.50am with comments about 


the high levels of interest coming from 
Doctor Who Adventures editor Moray 
Laing and Doctor Who Appreciation 
Society co-ordinator Karen Davies. 
The South Wales Echo noted that 
‘anxious sci-fi fans jammed phone 
lines across the country last Saturday’ 
attempting to phone the Doctor. 


® In the Daily Mirror, Russell T Davies 


spoke to Mark Jefferies about the 
series’ future beyond David Tennant 
in Master Behind Dr Who, commenting, 
“T love David and he is brilliant... I 
was 11 when Jon Pertwee left and it 
broke my heart. But then along came 
Tom and he was just spectacular in it, 
so I suspect that will happen again...” 
Of Journey’s End, he revealed, “There 
are probably about 10 of us who 

have watched it - including David... 
and Catherine Tate... The controller 
of BBC One has not even seen it, or 
the head of drama, because it’s been 
locked away. But I have seen it about 
15 times... And I will be watching it on 
Saturday night at home in Manchester 
with my boyfriend.” 


® Journey’s End was scheduled from 


6.40pm to 7.45pm, while ITV1 
scheduled the film Kindergarten Cop. 
Doctor Who attracted the largest 
average viewing audience of the night 
with three times ITV1’s audience. 
Again, the Appreciation Index was a 
remarkable 91, and - for the first time 
in its 45-year history - Doctor Who was 
the top-rated television programme 
of the week, with even more than the 
predicted 10 million viewers tuning 
in. The broadcast was also shown 

to attendees of the Pride London 


Broadcast 


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08 @ Central London celebrations 
in Trafalgar Square where it was 
introduced by Freema Agyeman. 


» BBC Three’s Doctor Who Confidential 
- End of an Era - ran from 7.45pm to 
8.30pm, and gained its highest-ever 
BBC Three audience of one and a 
half million, the most-watched non- 
terrestrial show of the week. Tennant 
still Doctor after finale announced 
the BBC News website at 8.42pm, 
noting that David could return for 
the next series in 2010, with Gillane 
Seaborne, series producer of Doctor 
Who Confidential, explaining about the 
‘regeneration’ in the finale. 


® The next day The Daily Telegraph’s Chris 
Hastings described the finale as ‘one 
of the most ambitious episodes in 
the show’s 45-year history’ while his 
colleague John Preston emphasised 
that Doctor Who ‘served up a lot 
more than mere excitement’ and 
commended ‘Catherine Tate’s excellent 
Donna’. Meanwhile Andrew Johnson 
of The Independent speculated on how 


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long David Tennant would remain in 
Doctor Two, with the BBC confirming 
that no actor had been signed to 

star in the 2010 run. Andrew Billen 
of The Times gave the episode five 
stars in When more isn’t less declaring 
that Russell T Davies ‘did not sell 

us short in a spectacular finale’. The 
Sunday Express saw David Stephenson 
reiterate Tennant’s position as the 
‘coolest person on TV’ with a source 
confirming, ‘David has definitely 
signed to play Doctor Who in three 
[sic] Specials which will be shown next 
year. There will also be a Christmas 
Special this year’ 


® Journey’s End was repeated at 7.30pm 
on Sunday night, gaining the greatest 
non-terrestrial audience of the day, 
along with a 25-minute version of End 
of an Eva as Doctor Who Confidential Cut 
Down from 8.35pm, also repeated at 
4.10am. Between these screenings, 
BBC7 carried the extended podcast 
commentary - featuring Phil Collinson 
and Julie Gardner (recorded Thursday 
12 June) - from midnight to lam. 


® The initial BBC Three run ended on 
Friday 11 July with Journey’s End at 
8.30pm and a repeat of the Cut Down 
at 9.35pm (and again at 4.15am). A 
double bill of The Stolen Earth and 
Journey’s End was scheduled on BBC 
One from 5.35pm on the afternoon 
of Sunday 13 July, attracting over two 
million viewers. 


® A year had passed since Voyage of the 
Damned had gone before the cameras 
in Cardiff. Phil Collinson was now 
installed in his new role at BBC 


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Manchester, noting on the podcast 
of his four years on Doctor Who, “It’s 
been a huge journey. An enormous 
life-altering experience. I don’t think 
V’ll ever get over it.” 


® David Tennant and Catherine Tate 
were now in rehearsals for their stage 
projects, and while the former would 
be back at Upper Boat in January 
2008, the same was not true for the 
latter. “I’ve done this job for eight 
months and it was so daunting when 
I first got here to think of being away 
for eight months... and now I can’t 
believe it’s gone so quickly and I'll be 
really bereft once it dawns on me that 
it’s finished. I’ve just loved it,” she 
told Confidential. 


® The scripts for both episodes were 


made available to download in January 
2010. The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End 


formed part of the BFI’s Doctor Who 

at SO season celebrating the series’ 
golden anniversary in 2013. These 
were screened at the BFI Southbank 
at 2pm on Sunday 29 September 

in a session augmented by a panel 
discussion featuring David Tennant, 
Catherine Tate, Graeme Harper and 
Phil Collinson. BBC America also 
created an omnibus edition of the two 


ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION 
EPISODE 

The Stolen Earth 
Journey's End 


DATE 
Saturday 28 June 2008 
Saturday 5 July 2008 


REPEAT TRANSMISSIONS 
The StolenEarth Sunday 13July 2008 
Journey's End Sunday 13 July 2008 


episodes which was screened as part 
of its anniversary schedule on Sunday 
27 October. 


“The more you emphasise the lonely 
Doctor, the more you come back to 
what the heart of the series is: a man 
travelling time and space in a box,” 
noted Russell T Davies on Confidential 
of the status quo at the end of the 
series, which had again been a colossal 
hit with television audiences. “When 
you get kids in playgrounds talking 
about your story, about who’s going 
to live and who’s going to die, then 

I consider that a job well done,” he 


“ ms . Below: 
told BBC News. “That’s interactive "Do you like 
television. That’s what it’s all about.” my gun?” 


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Merchandise 


ight he Stolen Earth and Journey’s End 
Cae were included on The Complete 
DVD extras. Fourth Series DVD/Blu-ray box 
set, released by BBC Worldwide 
in November 2008. Box sets 
sold at HMV had an exclusive 
cover, meanwhile play.com offered five 
postcards free with the set: Davros, three 
Daleks, Donna and the Doctor, the Doctor, 
and a group shot of all the Doctor’s 
companions and friends. Special features 
on The Complete Fourth Series included: 
David Tennant’s Video Diary (15’44”); The 
Journey (So Far) (a 30’56” documentary 
charting the return of Doctor Who in 2005 
up to the 2008 series finale, featuring 
Be eect interviews with Russell T Davies, David 
Ba eeveral DVD Tennant, Phil Collinson and Julie Gardner); 
collections. teasers featuring the Daleks and trailers 
for both episodes; 
audio commentaries 
for The Stolen Earth 
(with David Tennant, 


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Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner) 

and Journey’s End (with David Tennant, 
Catherine Tate and Russell T Davies); the 
corresponding cutdown versions of Doctor 
Who Confidential and deleted scenes from 
Journey’s End plus the unused ending. This 
set was reissued as part of Doctor Who: The 
Complete Series 1-4 in October 2009 and as 
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series in 
August 2014. 


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he Stolen Earth and Journey’s End 
were also included on The Dalek ~ 


Collection BBC DVD and Blu-ray 
box set, released in October 2009 and 
on 2|entertain’s DVD/Blu-ray set 
The Monster Collection: Davros in 
September 2013. 

Both published in January 2010, 
issue 27 of GE Fabbri’s Doctor 
Who — DVD Files included The 
Stolen Earth and issue 28 included 
Journey’s End. 

Murray Gold’s incidental music for 
the two-parter was included on Silva 
Screen’s CD Doctor Who: Original 
Television Soundtrack: Series 4 released 
in November 2008. The tracks were: 
Davros, The Dark and Endless Dalek 
Night, A Pressing Need to Save the 
World, Hanging on the Tablaphone 
and Song of Freedom. The track 


Song of Freedom was also available on the Left: 

four- and 11-disc editions of Doctor Who: ot ee 
ptions’ Stolen 

The SOth Anniversary Collection, a soundtrack Earthset. 

set released by Silva Screen in December 

2013 and September 2014 respectively. 

A Stolen Earth set of 5” action figures - 
Davros, the Doctor, the Supreme Dalek 
and the Crucible Dalek - was available 
from Character Options in September 
2009. In June 2006 a two-figure Tenth 
Doctor and Dalek set was available 
exclusive to Toys R Us. In February 2014, 
issue 13 of Eaglemoss’ Doctor Who Figurine 
Collection came with a figurine of the 
Supreme Dalek. In August 2017, issue 
104 included a Dalek Caan figurine. In 
early 2018, Warlord Games released a 
‘Maximum Extermination’ miniature pack 
for the Into the Time Vortex combat game, 
featuring the Supreme Dalek as seen in 
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End. 

In 2008 The Stamp Centre issued 
covers for The Stolen Earth. A limited 
number of 1,000 copies were signed by 
Gareth David-Lloyd. Mf 


Below: 
Eaglemoss' 
figurines of the 
Supreme Dalek 
and Dalek Caan. 


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CAST 
David TENNANT... The Doctor 
Catherine Tate Donna Noble 
Freema AgyeMa J... cen Martha Jones 
John Barrowman..............05 Captain Jack Harkness 
with 
Elisabeth Sladen... Sarah Jane Smith 
and 
Billie: PIPEM: wisaiccsiemnamounenane Rose Tyler 
with 
Penelope Wilton... Harriet Jones [1}* 
Noel Clarke ccs Mickey Smith [2] 
Camille COMUTE tin Jackie Tyler [2] 
Adj0a ANdOR...... iii Francine Jones 
EV Mylesiag iscsi siccsmnnssccceenmetrenssencan Gwen Cooper 
Gareth David-LlOyd....icccnines lanto Jones 
Thomas KNIGHL...........ccccs esse Luke Smith 
Bernard Cribbins Wilfred Mott 
JACQUELINE KING... Sylvia Noble 
Julian BleACH i ciiseeiin Davros 


Michael Brandon.................0.... General Sanchez [1] 
Andrea Haff... Suzanne [1 
Lachele Cane rsagsicccnitremtinin Trinity Wells [1 
Richard Dawkins... Himself [1 
Paul Grady Fiscccisnmansageinnncanne Himself [1 
Marcus Cunningham... Drunk Man [1 
Jason Mohamma............cc8 Newsreader [1] 
Pall KaS@y i citissiccscnsarrssertesisinisnecsconiennraneds Judoon [1 
Kelly HunteL.........cccccin Shadow Architect [1 
Amy Beth HayeS..............c6cnu8 Albino Servant [1 
Gary MUNG i ccscccconnmumanomaumn Scared Man [1]! 
Valda AVIKS wu... German Woman [2]' 
SHOBU KapOOT 0.0... ies Scared Woman [2]}* 
Elizabeth Tal... Chinese Woman [2]? 
Michael PFICE........cccccsessen Liberian Man [2]: 


Barnaby Edwards’, Nicholas Pegg’, David 
Hankinson, Anthony Spargo.., Dalek Operators? 
Nicholls BFigGGS .........ccssesssessne Dalek Voice? 
JOANN LE@SOM |... cscs Voice of K-9 [2}* 
Alexander Armstrong.............. Voice of Mr Smith? 


*Not credited in Radio Times 
“ Erroneously billed as Barney Edwards and Nick 


Pegg 
3 Not credited in Radio Times for The Stolen Earth 


UNCREDITED 

Andrew Bulllivant............ccccssissnesnnn Milkman 
Nathan Williams, Mike Freeman, David 
Creed, Natalie James, Danielle Saunders, 
Sean [email protected] UNIT Soldiers* 
Martine Bavetta, Natascha Motee, Natalie 
Danks Smith, Michael Bouhdlen, Becky 
Jones, Michelle Stone |... UNIT Workers* 
Joshua Hugheg.................665 Double for Luke Smith 
Bernie Hodges, Sam Walsh, Kee Ming Wong, 
Kadeem Sinclair, Claire Cattrall, Susan Cecil, 
Jon Cecil, Gary Devonish, Ling Cheung, Ruth 
We DD i isis cccamnwacdeetnn, ater Neighbours 
Daniel RAdDOUINE.............:::cenn Teenager 


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Cast and credits 


Left: 

A Dalek- 
encased 
human. 


Above: 

The crew 
prepares a trio 
of Daleks. 


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Ollie Bryan, Alex LUCAS viii Looters 
Andrew Reynolds, Nick Madge, Kristin 
Elharti, Nathan Whittaker, Rupert Randle, 
Laura Savickas, Amy Woodsend, Sonya 
Hardy, Victoria Akers, Laura Aberdeen, Lucy 
Harvey, Matthew Cox, John Sinclair, David 
Ulett, David Mullaney, Timothy Driscoll, 
Michael Williams, Adrian Walker, Deita 
Hubbard, Marcus Maggio, Alphonso Archer, 
Anne Lyken Garner, Dave James, Kadeem 


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Rachael, Hayley Jones................... Albino Servants 
Ruari Mears, Adam Sweet, Richard Tunesi, 

Jon Davey, Andy JOM@S uu... Judoon 


Nicholas Briggg................ .. Judoon Voice 
Ethan Smith....... «Scared Man’‘s Son (Simon) 
Jennifer Faubel............. Scared Man's Wife (Laura) 


Matthew Caan, Megan Gwen Davies, 

Leilah Hughes, Aimee Herbert, Shaheen 
Jafargholi, Carys Williams, Louis Morgan, 
Emily Morgan, Alexandra Beatty .......... Children 


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Thomas Rosser, Will James, Robin March, 
Tracy Scott, Nick Rogers, Carolyn Jolliffe, 
Rhys Thomas Oxenham, Tosin Aikomo, Sue 
Weston, Louise Jeffrey, Clayton Planter, Paul 
Burling, Tom Coppin, Brian Bowen, Oliver 
Hopkins, Nadia Teer, Carlisle Antonia, Oliver 
Tommy, Natalie Dimeo, Dertinder Regazzoli, 
Meryle Buxton, Kwesi Gepi Attee, Melanie 
Allen, Simone Bennett, Rahana Davis, 

Chris Shalders, Christopher Finch, Chris 

Lee, Jim Fox, Paul Fullerton, Rachel Bright, 
Rita Birchall, Chloe Hallinan, Sally Miller, 
Channon Jacobs, Abigail Creel, Rhianwen 
Bailey, Ikay Agu, Taylan Anar, Alison Ball, 
Nicola Bates, Max Cahn, Daniella Cheung, 
Levi Crosdale, Nikola Derewicz, Matthew 
Doman, Abdelmajid Elharti, Amie Elharti, 
Kay Garrod, Jocelyn Guy, Jeremy Harvey, Ceri 
Hopkins, Christopher Hoskins, Dion Jackson, 
Tat Wa Lay, James Mustoe, lan Newbury, 
Marina Penhallurick, Nick Pree, Christian 
Rae, Peter Sheward, Bianca Cochrane, 
Gemma Cooke, Amiee Dewitt, Carol Ann 


Firmin, Jaleelah Galbraith, Matthew Harries, 
James Hyett, Hazel Robinson, Michael 
Stewart, Hannah Warren, Dominik Sacchetti 


Gaffer: Mark Hutchings 
{uncredited: Clive Johnson [2], John Cox, 
John Budd [2]] 


seevaaternaciaenaveasaee eiapitse 0a OT TESEIOOStE (OPT ett eee Hostages Best Boy: Peter Chester 

Abbi Collins............. Double for Sarah Jane Smith Stunt Co-ordinator: Abbi Collins 

Anita LovG...........cccsn German woman (OOV) Choreographer: Ailsa Berk 

TONnIRICG.....scc nee Double for Rose Tyler Chief Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas 
GethIN JONES |... cesses Dalek Operator Art Dept Production Manager: Jonathan Allison 
Colum Sanson-Regan....... Double for The Doctor Supervising Art Director: Arwel Wyn Jones 
Sarah Franzi............ Stunt Double for Donna Noble Associate Designer: James North 

Ollie Cullen... Double for The Doctor Art Dept Co-ordinator: Amy Pope 

Ruari Mears, Matt Doman.................. Uncredited® Set Decorator: Julian Luxton 

Nicholas Wilkes, Paul Ganney, Paul Props Buyer: Adrian Anscombe 
Sparrowham, Nicholas Cater, Daryl Adock, Standby Art Director: Nick Murray 

Lindsay Hollingsworth, Jane S.R. Hyte-Hunt, [uncredited: Ciaran Thompson [2], Paul Jones] 


Nicole Casey, Holly Cracknell, Hannah Welch 
cvvivuBenbusnt ene@divavineditevas (ensues Zarcaverseeeavonemenetd fsehese ee Crowd ADR 


“inc Jalandra, Wikowsky, DaCosta, Pte T Dawson 


Design Assistant: Peter McKinstry 
[1; uncredited on 2], Al Roberts [2; uncredited 
on 1] [uncredited: Sarah Payne] 

Storyboard Artist: Shaun Williams 


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> Omitted from final edit [1; uncredited on 2] pe 
rin 
Graphic Artist: Christina Tom [2] Hecreeaey 
CREDITS Standby Props: Phill Shellard, Jackson Pope clapperboards 
Written by Russell T Davies [2; uncredited on 1] while she 
composes 
Produced by Phil Collinson Standby Carpenter: Will Pope [1; uncredited on 2] cae rOntne 
Directed by Graeme Harper [uncredited: Paul Beans [2]] next scene, 


Daleks created by Terry Nation 

K-9 created by Bob Baker & Dave Martin 

1st Assistant Director: Simon Morris 
[uncredited: Sarah Davies, Nick Britz [2]] 

end Assistant Director: Jennie Fava 

3rd Assistant Director: Sarah Davies 
[uncredited: Heddi Joy Taylor [2]] 

Location Manager: Gareth Skelding 


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Production Co-ordinator: Jess van Niekerk 

Asst Prod Co-ordinator: Debi Griffiths [2] 
Continuity: Non Eleri Hughes 

Script Editor: Lindsey Alford 

Camera Operators: Roger Pearce, Rory Taylor 
[uncredited: Joe Russell] 

Focus Puller: Steve Rees 

[uncredited: Jamie Southcott, Penny Shipton [2]] 
Grip: John Robinson 

[uncredited: James Holloway [2], Alan Hughes] 
Boom Operator: Jeff Welch 

[uncredited: Bryn Thomas, James Drummond [2]] 


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Standby Rigger: Keith Freeman [2; uncredited on 1] 
Standby Painter: Julia Challis [2; uncredited on 1] 
[uncredited: Ellen Woods] 
Property Master: Paul Aitken [1; uncredited on 2], 
Phil Lyons [2; uncredited on 1] 
Senior Props Maker: Penny Howarth [1] 
[uncredited: Barry Jones] 
Construction Manager: Matthew Hywel-Davies 
Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics 
Costume Supervisor: Lindsay Bonaccorsi 
Assistant Costume Designer: Rose Goodhart 
Costume Assistants: Barbara Harrington, 
Louise Martin [uncredited: Andi Mears, 
Gemma Evans, Amy Clarke, Maria Franchi [2], 
Maire Jones [2]] 
Make-up Artists: Pam Mullins, Steve Smith, 
John Munro [uncredited: Morag Smith [1], 
Cathy Davies [1], Kate Roberts [2]] 


Right: 
Dalek action. 


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Casting Associate: Andy Brierley 
[uncredited: Amy Rogers] 
VFX Editor: Ceres Doyle 
Post Production Supervisors: Samantha Hall, 
Chris Blatchford 
Post Prod Co-ordinator: Marie Brown 
FX Co-ordinator: Ben Ashmore 
FX Supervisor: Danny Hargreaves 
rosthetics Designer: Neill Gorton 
rosthetics Supervisor: Rob Mayor 
n Line Editor: Mark Bright [1], Matthew Clarke 
2; uncredited on 1] 
Colourist: Mick Vincent 
3D Artists: Jean-Claude Deguara, 
Nicolas Hernandez, Nick Webber [1; uncredited 
on 2], Andy Guest [1; uncredited on 2], Serena 
Cacciato [1; uncredited on 2], Matt McKinney 
2; uncredited on 1], Jeff North [2; uncredited 


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on 1], Dave Levy [2; uncredited on 1], Will Pryor 
2; uncredited on 1], [uncredited: Jean-Yves 
Audouard, Bruce Magroune] 
2D Artists: Sara Bennett, Bryan Bartlett 
1; uncredited on 2], Greg Spencer [1; uncredited 
on 2], Arianna Lago [1; uncredited on 2], Russell 
Horth [2; uncredited on 1], Adrian Cirulli [2; 
uncredited on 1] [uncredited: Murray Barber, 
ulie Nixon [2], Lyndall Spagnoletti [2], Joe Courtis 
2], Michael Harrison [2]]. 
atte Painters: Simon Wicker, David Early 
uncredited: Alex Fort] 
VFX Co-ordinator: Rebecca Johnson 
1; uncredited on 2], Jenna Powell 
2; uncredited on 1] 
On Set VFX Supervisor: Tim Barter 
Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts 
Supervising Sound Editor: Paul McFadden 
Sound Editor: Doug Sinclair 
Sound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies 
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: Oliver Ager 
Sound Recordist: Julian Howarth 

[uncredited: Jeff Matthews [2]] 


Cast and credits 


Julian Bleach 
prepares for 
ascene as 
Davros. 


Costume Designer: Louise Page 
Make-Up Designer: Barbara Southcott 

: Below: 
Music: Murray Gold Dancing 
Visual Effects: The Mill Judoon, 
Visual FX Producers: Will Cohen 
[1; uncredited on 2], Marie Jones 
[2; uncredited on 1] 
Visual FX Supervisor; Dave Houghton 
Special Effects: Any Effects 
Prosthetics: Millennium FX 
Editor: Will Oswald 
Production Designer: Edward Thomas 
Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC 
[uncredited: Rory Taylor] 
Production Manager: Peter Bennett 
[uncredited: Catrin Defis [2]] 
Executive Producers: Russell T Davies, 
Julie Gardner 
BBC Wales 
bbc.co.uk/doctorwho 
© BBC 2008 


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PENELOPE WILTON 


Harriet Jones 


orn Penelope Alice Wilton on 3 
June 1946 in Yorkshire seaside 
town Scarborough, father 
Clifford was a businessman 
while mother Alice Travers was 
a dancer and actress. Alice’s 
siblings Bill and Linden Travers were also 
successful actors. Penelope and sisters 
Rosemary and Lindy attended La Sagesse 
convent school in Jesmond, Newcastle, 
before boarding at Oak Hall School, Surrey, 
with Penelope overcoming dyslexia. 
Trained at London’s Drama Centre 
from 1965-8, Wilton’s career began at 
Nottingham Playhouse in late 1968, with 
work ranging from Christmas show The 
Dandy Lion (1969/70) to a witch in Macbeth 
(1969) and, notably, Cordelia in Jonathan 
Miller’s King Lear (1969). 


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Their production of Widowers’ Houses 
transferred to London’s Royal Court in 
April 1970, then The Philanthropist (1970, 
Mayfair Theatre/Royal Court) went to 
Broadway in 1971. Further rep stints came 
at Edinburgh Lyceum, Guildford’s Yvonne 
Arnaud and Bristol Old Vic. 

Her television début arrived in Thirty- 
Minute Theatre play The Editor Regrets 
(broadcast 27 November 1970), soon 
appearing in another entry An Affair of 
Honour (31 January 1972). She featured 
in Mrs Warren’s Profession (1972), costume 
serial The Song of Songs (1973), played four 
different sisters in serial The Pearcross Girls 
(1973) and was Regan in Jonathan Miller’s 
television play King Lear (1975). 

On stage in the original run of Alan 
Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests (1974, 
Greenwich Theatre), she later starred in 
its 1977 TV adaptation. Further TV plays 
included The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1976), 
Able’s Will (1977), Play for Today entries 
Pasmore (1980) and Country (1981), plus the 
BBC Shakespeare Othello (1981). 

Her stage career flourished with National 
Theatre productions Plunder (1976), The 


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Philanderer (1978/9), Betrayal (1979), Othello 
(1980), Sisterly Feelings (1981), Major Barbara 
(1982), Travelling Time (1987) and Piano 
(1990), winning the Critics’ Circle Best 
Actress award as Beatrice in Much Ado About 
Nothing (1981), and nominated for Best 
Actress Olivier awards for Man and Superman 
(1981) and The Secret Rapture (1988). 

TV success came as Ann, wife of the anally 
retentive Martin (Richard Briers), in sitcom 
Ever Decreasing Circles (1984-7, 1989). A 
lead role in less well-remembered comedy 
Screaming (1992) followed. 

She read on Jackanory (1984/9/91), 
while other TV included The Monocled 
Mutineer (1986), C.A.T.S. Eyes (1986) and 
The Borrowers (1992/3). She starred in Alan 
Bennett’s Talking Heads monologue Nights in 
the Gardens of Spain (1998), while costume 
dramas included Wives and Daughters (1999) 
and Victoria and Albert (2001). 

Movie appearances included The French 
Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), Clockwise (1986) 
and Cry Freedom (1987). Her film career 
really blossomed a decade later with Iris 
(2001), Calendar Girls (2003), Shaun of the 
Dead (2004), Pride e& Prejudice (2005) and 
The History Boys (2006). 

Playing Bob’s mother Monica in Russell 
T Davies’ ITV drama Bob e& Rose (2001) led 


to Doctor Who, with Davies writing Harriet 
Jones, MP for Flydale North, especially for 
her for Aliens of London/World War Three 
[2005 - see Volume 49]. Jones was elevated 
to Prime Minister for The Christmas Invasion 
[2005 - see Volume 51] before returning to 
face extermination in one of many cameos 
made in The Stolen Earth. 

Wilton starred in thriller Five Days (2007), 
as Mary in modern-day Easter adaptation 
The Passion (2008), Marple (2009), My Family 
(2010), costume drama South Riding (2011), 
Radio 4 comedy North by Northamptonshire 
(2010-12) and Ann Summers drama 
Brief Encounters (2016). Her role as Isobel 
Crawley in Downtown Abbey (2010-15) won 
her three Screen Actors Guild awards. 

Film successes included The Best Exotic 
Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel, 
playing the Queen in The BFG (2016) and 
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie 
Society (2018). 

Acclaimed as Madame Ranyevskaya in 
Royal Shakespeare Company production 
The Cherry Orchard (1995-7, Stratford/Noel 
Coward Theatre, London/tour), she earned 
Olivier Best Actress nominations for The 
Deep Blue Sea (1993, Almeida/ Apollo; aired 
on TV 1994), John Gabriel Borkman (2007, 
Donmar) and The Chalk Garden (2008, 
Donmar), winning for Taken at Midnight 


Left: 
(2014/15, Haymarket Theatre Royal). As sAnniniuer 
Having met in Bloomsbury (1974, Phoenix, Decreasing 
Circles. 


London), she married actor Daniel Massey 
in 1975. Daughter Alice, born 1977, became 
a theatre manager. Massey divorced Wilton 
in 1984 and married her sister Lindy. 
Wilton was married to actor Ian Holm 
from 1991-2001, and they appeared 
together in The Borrowers and on stage in 
Moonlight (1993, Almeida/Comedy Theatre), 
The Deep Blue Sea and Pinter’s Landscape 
(1994, Dublin Gate/National Theatre). 
Awarded an OBE in 2004, she became 
a dame in 2016. 


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ometimes I think a Time Lord 
lives too long.” 

When David Tennant 
announced - live on television 
in late 2008 - that he would be 
leaving the role of the Doctor| 
after a forthcoming series of Specials, 
the countdown began to what, at the 
Fime, was the most seismic shift in Doctor 
Vho’s recent history. Viewers had barely 
got to know Christopher Eccleston’s 
Joctor before finding out that his début 
eason would also be his last, but Tennant 
as an established, popular, apparently 
nassailable lead. His decision to leave 


The Specials. 


writer Russell T Davies led man 
question whether the programme co 
possibly survive. 

Immediately playing havoc with the 
rumour mill and viewers’ expectations, the 
first Special, The Next Doctor [2008 - se 
Page 80], is a tabloid headline in story 
form and a sign of a programme as keen 
to entertain outside of its storylines as 
much as within the episodes. Twenty-firs 
century Doctor Who plays out in the me 
alongside its televised adventures and 
Davies, always a canny manipulator of 
press, used this to his advantage. No loi 
could viewers rely on the informatio 
being fed to them; Davies had pre 


The Specials 
»® The Next Doctor 
|} Planet of the Dead 
(see Volume 61) 
) ® The Waters of Mars 
(see Volume 61) 
» The End of Time 
(see Volume 62) 


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THE SPECIALS 


Right: 
Captain 
Adelaide 
Brooke 
challenges 
the Time Lord 
victorious in 
The Waters 
of Mars. 


told Doctor Who Magazine that Donna 
would only ever be capable of being a 
one-off companion and that he was 
unlikely to bring back the Master. Both 

of these things turned out to be cheerful 
falsehoods used to misdirect news-hungry 
viewers. Now, with David Morrissey gamely 
obfuscating during TV interviews to 
promote the show that he had absolutely 
no intention of taking the lead on, column 
inches and school playgrounds became 
awash with speculation that perhaps 
Tennant was going sooner rather than 
later and that the next Time Lord would be 
played his Liverpudlian Blackpool co-star. 


s the more media savvy might have 
Besse the premise of The Next 

Doctor is one big misdirection, 
with the identity of the ersatz Time Lord 
revealed relatively early in the episode. 
Rather than being the début of a new era 
for our hero, it is actually the story - giant 
Cyberman stomping over London aside - 
of a man finding himself again after a great 
emotional trauma. Jackson Lake is lost 
after the death of this wife at the hands of 
the Cybermen, but with the Doctor’s help 
he learns to live again. In turn he offers 
the Doctor the opportunity to face up 
to his own losses and encourages him to 
rediscover his own empathy. But this is a 
Doctor whose enforced separation from 
his recent companions, Rose and Donna, 
has left huge emotional marks, and so for 
the year of Specials he finds himself with 
a series of one-off sidekicks. 

After Jackson, the Doctor hooks up with 
the resourceful Lady Christina de Souza in 
Planet of the Dead [2009 - see Volume 61], 
who rather amusingly subverts the usual 
dynamic. Instead of deferring to the funny 
guy with the attitude and the gizmos, she 


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takes control of the situation when a red 


London bus transports her and a disparate 
bevy of travellers to the planet San Helios. 
She’s confident and resourceful and even 
has her own spade. She’s also quite self 
possessed and bossy and speaks perfect 
French in response to his favourite refrain 
(“Allons-y”). As she says, they are perfect 
for each other, but he is too afraid of being 
hurt and lets her go: “People travel with 
me and I’ve lost them, lost them all. 

Never again.” 

The Doctor helps her, a thief, escape 
justice; after all he did steal the TARDIS 
and so feels some empathy for this hoity- 
toity thrill seeker. This contradiction of 
the just crusader siding with a criminal 
emphasises the flaws of our complex 
hero. For all his righteousness, he breaks 
rules and is attracted, even addicted, to 
danger. He benevolently recommends that 
Nathan and Barclay work in UNIT, but this 
recommendation will plunge two decent 
young men into a world of peril. The 


Doctor’s morality is blurry and difficult 
where the actions of the good guy can have 
appalling consequences. 

This is no more evidenced than in the 
Doctor’s encounter with Captain Adelaide 
Brooke in The Waters of Mars [2009 - see 
Volume 61]. On the surface she is very like 
the Doctor: a brave, stubborn, resourceful 
pathfinder. Unlike him, though, she is 
human and so can see the danger in what 
he has become - in breaking the rules of 
time to save her and her remaining crew he 
has jeopardised important future events. 
The “Time Lord victorious” is a dangerous 
thing. Brooke rightly takes umbrage with 
the idea that there are “little people” (the 
unimportant individuals he has a habit of 
saving) making the Doctor’s benevolent 
acts seem like arrogant loftiness. 

Appropriately enough, it is one of 
those “little people” who becomes the 
Doctor’s companion for his last story, The 
End of Time [2009/10 - see Volume 62]. 
Wilfred Mott, the batty old ex-soldier, 


his eyes full of tears and his heart full 
of hope, turns out to be the ultimate 
cause of this Doctor’s downfall. “Look at 
you - not remotely important,” laments 
the Doctor as he resolves to sacrifice his 
current incarnation for the sake of an 

old man. And that’s the point: in saving 
someone who, in the great scheme of 

the vast universe, is not important, the 
Doctor demonstrates why he is so special. 
Freeing Wilfred before he can be doused in 
radiation achieves nothing beyond what it 
does - the saving of an individual life. 

But before his fateful encounter with 
Wilfred, the Doctor meets many more 
“little people”. Aside from Lake, whose 
adventure with the Doctor reconnects 
him with himself, the Doctor is assisted 
in Victorian London by spunky sidekick 
Rosita who fulfils the time-honoured 
companion trick by punching the 
villainous Miss Hartigan in the face. The 
Doctor expresses his disapproval while 
being secretly delighted by the violent act: 
again highlighting an essential conflict 
within the series. The man of peace 
frequently needs violence to get him out 
of trouble: where there is light there is 
darkness. The reverse is true too, with 


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being the key to defeating the Cybermen 
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own humanity. A small nugget of decency 
within the hate-filled woman is enough to 
destroy the emotionless, conformist aliens. 
The idea that an individual human’s 
soul - for want of a better word - might 
hold the key to defeating evil is prevalent 
throughout the Specials. In Planet of 
the Dead the Doctor is assisted by a 
bunch of supposedly ordinary humans, 
each of whom has a special attribute 
that contributes to their survival. This 
celebration of the “little people” invokes 
their sheer ordinariness - chops and 
gravy, unemployment, nights in front of 
the telly. Stranded on an alien vista of 
desiccated corpses, this disparate bunch 
stand as an example of plucky, indomitable 
humanity in T-shirts and cardigans facing 
a marauding horde of alien locusts. For all 
of his universal travels, consorting with 
Lords and Masters, the Doctor is an 
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is precious, and whose preciousness he 
harnesses for good. 

The Waters of Mars brings us a base full of 
such plucky individuals. Part of the appeal 
of this perennial Doctor Who story structure 
is our emotional investment in characters 
we know might die at any moment. The 
ante is upped here by throwing in the 
idea that the Doctor knows that events 
on the base are inevitable and that there 
will be no survivors. The crew with 
whom he has been bantering are all, as 
far as he is concerned, already dead: the 
seasoned traveller knows this, but the 
man who cherishes individual lives cannot 
countenance it, even if that means facing 
up against time itself. 

How appropriate then that, in the 
final story of this sequence, The End of 
Time, the Master uses the technology he 
hijacks to replace every single individual 
soul on Earth with himself. It’s a palpable 
manifestation of the very opposite of what 
drives the Doctor. The Master - and this 
wiry, manic incarnation is very much the 


flipside of a coin with the Tenth Doctor’s 
face on it - wants to consume everyone 
where the Doctor wants to rescue them. 
By reducing everyone on Earth to just 
one person - the Master - the importance 
of our disparate nature as individuals 

is emphasised. 

This signifies the last phase in the 
departure of the Tenth Doctor, an exit that 
has been both protracted and harrowing. 
He ends the sequence much like Jackson 
Lake begins it. Jackson discovers what 
it means to not be the Doctor, while our 
hero discovers the opposite. In between he 
has been vengeful, a righteous zealot who 
over reaches himself and so needs to be 
cleansed and reborn. 


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he danger at his core comes to a head 
during the unflinching The Waters of 


Mars: as horrific an installment of the 
programme as we've seen since its 2005 
return. Never mind the dripping human 
cadavers stalking their former workmates 
and transforming them in a graphic and 
unsettling fashion. At the climax the Doctor 
here becomes the major threat, one who has 
to be vanquished by a brave and righteous 
act of self-sacrifice from the perceptive 
Captain Adelaide Brooke. On the surface 
the Doctor has done a good thing in saving 
those whom history has recorded as dead, 
and yet they aren’t grateful: in fact they are 
frightened and appalled. The usual happy 
ending of a Doctor Who story is sullied 
by the fallout of his god-like actions. As 
Adelaide says: “No one should have that 
much power.” The Time Lord victorious 
has become the embodiment of the very 
things that he fights. Adelaide kills herself in 
order to restore the timeline and the Doctor 
realises that he has gone too far but even 
then, having seen the Ood beckoning him, 


resists his call to death. However he, and the 
audience, know that this death is inevitable. 

The show itself, and the media brouhaha 
that surrounded it, rightly built the Tenth 
Doctor’s exit up as a major event, one that 
would precede the biggest top-to-bottom 
(but mostly top) shake-up of personnel 
in the show’s history. Viewers could 
reasonably have expected the Doctor to 
be shot down in a blaze of glory, perishing 
in battle and saving millions of lives. How 
typical of this inventive and surprising 
period of the show’s history then, that 
after the bang at the climax of The End of 
Time the Doctor still stands, only to fall 
after a whimper at the coda. 

“He will knock four times,” warned 
psychic Carmen in Planet of the Dead, 
and so he does. Wilfred Mott’s tentative 
tapping of the glass of the booth in which 
he is trapped heralds the exit of the latest 
incarnation of the Doctor. It is a moment 
of deliberate bathos that grounds all of the 
heroic posturing of the previous two hours 
and so is even more touching than any 
heroic last stand might have been. 

That said, the manner of this Doctor’s 
departure isn’t entirely unprecedented. 
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morally apt finale, punishing our hero 

for his acquisitiveness and arrogance, 
cleansing him of his sins to have him 
reborn anew. The Fourth Doctor enjoyed 

a series of greatest hits before and after 

his plummet from a radar telescope in 
Logopolis [1981 - see Volume 33]. He may 
not have had time to attend a book signing 
or clobber a Sontaran like the Tenth, but 
he did muster a couple of clip sequences 

of favoured adversaries and companions 
before his transformation. The Fifth Doctor 
essentially sacrificed his life to save Peri, the 
crusading Time Lord bowing out because 
of the preciousness of a single life. And the 
Second Doctor departed after a less-than- 
happy reunion with his own people. The 
Tenth Doctor’s departure has elements of all 
of these and also ties together strands that 
have been weaved throughout the Russell T 
Davies era of the show. 

Wilfred is revealed to have been a 
constant returnee to this Doctor’s timeline 
for a reason, the drumming in the Master’s 
head resonates right to the end of the 
series, and the Doctor’s search for his 


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own people comes to a tragic end. 

The Master’s wife returns briefly, as 

do the Ood, and before the Doctor 
regenerates he ticks off a checklist of 
the good and faithful from his era, an 
acknowledgement perhaps that this has 
been a golden age for the show: a time 
when on-screen quality and off-screen 
acclaim were in perfect symbiosis. 


elf-reflection aside, there are 
5 consistent reminders that these 

Specials are part of a larger tapestry 
too. In The Next Doctor we see, for the first 
time since the show returned in 2005, 
moving footage of previous Doctors, who 
had been hitherto hinted at and seen as 
drawings - in the pages of John Smith’s 
journals in Human Nature/The Family of 
Blood [2007 - see Volume 56]. Another call 
back to that adventure takes the form of a 
fob watch that leads the Doctor to suspect 
- incorrectly - that Jackson Lake may be 
a future incarnation whose memories are 
lost. UNIT, the paramilitary organisation 
that first appeared in 1968, returns in 
Planet of the Dead, and bring with them 
a suggestion of the Doctor’s illustrious 
history as saviour of the Earth, and 


references to the show’s past abound. 


The programme also exists within the 
period that it was made - Lady Christina’s 
father lost all his money by investing in 
the Icelandic banks, while Donna and her 
family are hoping that President Obama 
will lead the world out of the recession. 
The Doctor travels through space and time 
and all over the universe but his adventures 
are seen through the prism of all the little 
people watching at home. They are the 
very people - any single one of them - for 
whom he would sacrifice his own life. And 
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ne of the earliest precepts 
introduced in Doctor Who 

was that you couldn't change 
history. Whenever the Doctor 
and his companions travelled 
into the past he made it very 
clear that they mustn't interfere. This 
rule didn’t seem to apply to the future, 
however, which is odd - even the future 
is history to subsequent generations. Of 
course, what made the past different is 
foreknowledge. This rule boils down to it 
being inadvisable to use what you know 
to change established history. Whatever 
time period the TARDIS lands in, the time 
travellers become part of events. 

The Next Doctor turns all of this on its 
head. It allowed the past to be rewritten 
in quite a conspicuous way. It treated 
an escapade in Victorian London as no 
different to one that is set in the present 
day or the future. The CyberKing - a type 
of spaceship-cum-cyber-processing-plant - 
strode across London for all to see. Surely 
everyone in other stories set between 1851 
and the modern day would have heard 
about this event? 

A simple solution to this is to say, as 
extraordinary as it may seem, for some 
undisclosed reason, they haven't. It’s also 
been suggested, however, that the mystery 
of the CyberKing is one of those things 
that got swallowed up by the crack in time 
seen in the 2010 series. 

However you explain it away, it is in 
keeping with the rest of the episode which 
plays with our expectations. 

Obviously, there is the mystery of the 
other Doctor that the Tenth Doctor meets 
when he arrives in Victorian London. It 


also begins the process of blurring the lines 
between the Cybus Industries Cybermen 
created in the parallel world in Rise of 

the Cybermen/The Age of Steel [2006 - see 
Volume 52] and those that originated in 
our own universe. 

While the Cybermen in The Next Doctor are 
very explicitly said to have travelled through 
the void from that other reality, subsequent 
stories would use the same design, without 
its origin being so clear cut. Eventually we 
would see Cybus-style Cybermen on the 
Mondasian colony ship in The Doctor Falls 
[2017 - see Volume 89], an example of what 
the Doctor called parallel evolution. 

The Next Doctor is a good example of 
necessity being the mother of invention, 
with apparent knots in the series’ dense 
continuity giving rise to some very 
clever rationalisations. 


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he TARDIS lands in London, on 

Christmas Eve, 1851. The Doctor 

emerges and hears someone calling 
for him. It’s a young woman called Rosita, 
but she was calling for another Doctor. [1] 

The ‘next’ Doctor has been hunting a 
creature that has been given a primitive 
cyber-conversion. The next Doctor ropes 
it, and it ends up pulling both Doctors 
through a warehouse. They are only saved 
when Rosita cuts the rope. 

The Doctor correctly guesses that the 
next Doctor is missing some memories. He 
remembers nothing prior to the arrival of 
the Cybermen. [2] 

The next Doctor is being monitored 
by the Cybermen from their HQ. They 
are being aided by Miss Hartigan, a 
workhouse matron. 

The next Doctor investigates the 
deserted residence of the late Reverend 
Fairchild. The Doctor joins him and they 


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discover some ‘infostamps’. Then the 
Doctor opens a door - and a Cyberman 
lurches out! [3] The Doctor grabs a cutlass 
from the wall and fights it off, until the 
next Doctor blasts it with an infostamp. 

Miss Hartigan attends Fairchild’s funeral 
in a scandalous red dress. She summons 
the Cybermen and they kill the mourners, 
[4] save for four workhouse masters. 

Rosita finds the next Doctor and they 
lead the Doctor to their base. There, the 
Doctor finds some abandoned suitcases 
belonging to a man called Jackson Lake. 
Then the next Doctor and Rosita show 
him their TARDIS - a hot-air balloon: 

“Tt stands for Tethered Aerial Release 
Developed In Style.” [5] 

The four workhouse masters are put 
under Hartigan’s remote control. 

The Doctor has worked out who the 
next Doctor really is. He’s Jackson Lake. 
When Lake came to London, he found 
an infostamp. That infostamp contained 
the Cybermen’s database on the Doctor. 
It must have backfired and streamed that 


information into Lake’s head, making him 
believe he was the Doctor. [6] 

A clock strikes midnight. The workhouse 
masters lead the workhouse children 
through the streets. The Doctor and Rosita 
follow them to the building containing the 
sewer sluice. They are caught by Hartigan. 
She orders the Cybermen to kill the 
Doctor and Rosita - but then Lake arrives, 
armed with a bandolier of infostamps. 
They escape and Hartigan tells the 
Cybershades to tell their masters that the 
CyberKing will rise tonight! [7] 

Lake has remembered that he first 
met the Cybermen in a cellar of a house 
on Latimer Street. There they finda 
Dimension Vault, a device which the 
Cybermen used to travel through time. 

Hartigan kills the workhouse masters 
and puts the children to work generating 
electricity for the CyberKing. The 
Cybermen inform Hartigan she will be 
converted! She is placed in a throne - but 
her mind is stronger than anticipated and 
she takes command of the Cybermen. [8] 


The Doctor, Lake and Rosita run into 
the sluice works and tell the children 
to run. Lake then sees a little boy he 
recognises - it’s his son! [9] The Doctor 
rescues Lake’s son and they flee as the 
building explodes. 

Miss Hartigan’s throne is in the chest 
of the CyberKing, a 200-foot-tall robot. 
It rises out of the Thames and looms over 
the city. [10] 

The Doctor takes off in Lake’s hot-air 
balloon. Soon he comes within sight of 
Hartigan. [11] He fires some infostamps 
at her, which frees her mind from the 
Cybermen, making her realise what she 
has become. The CyberKing topples, but 
the Doctor dematerialises it using the 
Dimension Vault. 

Watching from the street below, Lake 
cries, “Bravo!” Later, he finds the Doctor 
and invites him to join Rosita and his 
son for Christmas dinner. The Doctor 
accepts the invitation: “Jackson, if 
anyone had to be the Doctor, I’m glad 
it was you.” [12] 


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when explaining his departure from Doctor 
Who. Indeed, the plan had been in place 
for some time, since the first week of July 
2006. Before recording commenced on 
Tennant’s second year as the Doctor, the 
series’ star had discussed the long-term 
outlook with executive producers Russell 
T Davies and Julie Gardner at Woods 
Restaurant Brasserie in Cardiff. 
The plan was that Tennant, Davies 
and Gardner would make a new series 


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vlog 
for both 2007 and 2008. Following 
this there would be a gap, to allow an 
appetite for the show’s return to develop 
with the audience, and to allow a new 
production team and a new Doctor to be 
put in place for when the next series aired 
in 2010. In the meantime, four Specials 
with Tennant would be made as the old 
team’s swansong; these would be broadcast 
on Christmas Day 2008, around Easter 
2009, Christmas 2009 and then finally in 
early 2010 to lead into the series featuring 
Tennant’s successor. 

Even when Billie Piper, who had played 
Rose Tyler, had left production of the 
show in March 2006, the team had hoped 
that she would be returning. On Sunday 
25 March 2007, Julie Gardner met Piper 


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to discuss her return for at least the final 
episode of the 2008 series, but also to 
sound out if she would be interested 
in returning as the Doctor’s travelling 
companion aboard the TARDIS for the 
Specials, which were then in a state of flux. 
By spring 2007, the success of Doctor 
Who made it clear that the BBC wanted 
the current team to remain at the helm 
for as long as possible. A couple of weeks 
into broadcast of the third series as the 
BBC Wales team was planning the 2008 
series, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter, the 
BBC head of fiction, visited Davies at his 
flat on Wednesday 11 April, and indicated 
that the BBC wished him to remain as 
Doctor Who’s showrunner for a fifth series. 
However, Davies was determined to stick 
to his original promise; he would do a full 
fourth series plus some Specials and then 
hand over to an incoming team. 


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returning for several episodes at the 
end of the 2008 series, but that the Rose 
narrative would be concluded for good 
at the end of that series’ finale; as such, 
Davies knew that the subsequent Specials 
would be developed without any of the 
established companions - such as Rose, 
Martha Jones or Donna Noble. It was now 
envisaged that the next production block 
starting in July 2007 would begin with a 
Christmas Special (Voyage of the Damned 
[2007 - see Volume 57]), continue with 
13 standard episodes, and conclude with 
a Christmas Special for December 2008, to 
be recorded around April 2008. After that, 
production on Doctor Who would be stood 
down for some months, allowing David 
Tennant to take on other work prior to his 
final Specials as the Doctor. 


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It was in early May that Davies started to 
have his first thoughts about the Christmas 
2008 Special. ‘Period drama, Cybermen 
in the snow’ was as far as he had got, 
reviving the cyborg menace created on a 
parallel Earth which the Doctor had faced 
in four episodes during the 2006 series. 
This specific image was drawn from the 
first appearance of the Cybermen in an 
Antarctic blizzard in The Tenth Planet [1966 
- see Volume 8], which Davies remembered 
seeing at the age of three. 

However, the ongoing success of Doctor 
Who during spring 2007 meant that the 
BBC was increasingly reluctant to rest 
one of its top TV shows. In late May, BBC 
One controller Peter Fincham considered 
over-ruling the agreement made with 
Jane Tranter about resting the series in 
2009, and proposed to bring in a new 
production team to record a new series 
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included ‘Cybermen rising from the 
grave’. He pictured a pre-credit sequence 
featuring a snow-covered Victorian funeral 
scene, with the mourners pulled into the 
ground by metal hands reaching up from 
the grave... concluding in the silent, empty 
graveyard. The idea of another story 

set during the reign of Queen Victoria 
appealed to Davies. While the previous 
Christmas Specials had all been set in the 
‘present day’, the writer told Radio Times 
that, “There’s just something about the 
Doctor that fits the Victorian age.” 


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for the Specials, it was time to 
ensure that Doctor Who would be 


in safe hands after the departure of the 
current production team. On Tuesday 17 
July, Davies emailed Steven Moffat about 
succeeding him as Doctor Who showrunner. 
An established comedy writer for many 
years, Moffat had been a life-long Doctor 
Who fan who had written several acclaimed 
and award-winning episodes since 2005; 
he also had experience of television 
production having been an associate 
producer on his sitcoms Chalk and Coupling, 
and then executive producer on his new 
BBC One drama Jekyll. “I got an email 
from Russell as I boarded a plane to 
Athens,” Moffat told Radio Times. “And 
there it was on my BlackBerry: an email. 

A whopping big, ‘What do you think?’ It 
was a bit gobsmacking, to be honest.” The 
writer-producer was thrilled, responding 
two days later to say that producing Doctor 
Who was his “specific dream job”. 

In late July 2007, Davies managed to 
snatch a holiday in Sorrento in Italy, and 
while there had an off-beat alternative idea 
for the forthcoming Christmas Special. 
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Who in 2004, he had approached JK 
Rowling - the world-famous author 

of the best-selling Harry Potter books - 
to write a script for the series, only to be 
politely turned down. However, Davies 
now envisaged a story built around JK 
Rowling herself as a famous writer - in 
the same manner as The Unquiet Dead 
[2005 - see Volume 48], The Shakespeare 
Code [2007 - see Volume 54] and the 
forthcoming The Unicorn and the Wasp 
[2008 - see Volume 58] had seen the 
Doctor meet Charles Dickens, William 
Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. 

The new idea for the Special was that 
one Christmas Eve in Edinburgh, JK 
Rowling would be pursued by a journalist 
who kept asking her what she would write 
next (the seventh and final Harry Potter 
book being published in July 2007). Later 
on, Rowling would be attacked by the same 
sort of time-psyche creature which Davies 
had in mind to use in the script for Turn 
Left [2008 - see Volume 59], and that the 
author would find herself in a world of 
Victorian magic where the Doctor would 
have to battle witches and wizards to reach 
her. The concept was strong enough for 
Julie Gardner to try to arrange a meeting 
with Rowling. 

In late August, Davies was planning 
his workload for the coming months and 
knew that he would have to write the 
Christmas 2008 Special in January 2008. 


Having heard the idea of the JK Rowling d 
adventure, David Tennant was less keen as 

he felt there was a danger that the resultant | 
episode would be more of a ‘spoof’. The 

JK Rowling idea was parked as it seemed 
unlikely that the author would agree to 
appear as herself, and Davies started to 
develop his story of the Cybermen in 
Victorian London, and decided to include 
elements such as starving children in 
workhouses. In particular, he considered 
Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 short 

story The Little Match Girl about the dying 
hallucinations of a poor child attempting 

to sell matches on New Year’s Eve. Such 

a London street urchin could become the 
Doctor’s companion for the story, but 
perhaps older. 

Since early July, rumours had been 
circulating in the media about David 
Tennant negotiating to return to work 
with the Royal Shakespeare Company 
in a production of Hamlet. By the end 
of August, the RSC was issuing its 
programme for its 2008 season; this 
revealed David’s commitment to theatre 
work from July, clearly indicating that he 
would not be working on Doctor Who as 
usual. Pre-empting the RSC’s press release 
scheduled for Tuesday 11 September, the 
BBC issued a press release on Monday 3 


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that the Christmas 2008 Special would be 
recorded at the end of the fourth series. 
Production on the next three Specials 
would then start in January 2009, now 
scheduled for transmission at Christmas 
2009, New Year’s Day 2010 and Easter 
2010, leading into the new series. 

On Monday 24 September, Tranter and 
Gardner had dinner with Steven Moffat 
to discuss the future of Doctor Who and his 
involvement with it, and four days later 
Moffat emailed Davies to confirm that 
he had agreed to take over from him as 
showrunner. However, Davies and Tennant 
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Monday 22 October, Moffat’s agent was 
agreeing terms with Tranter and Gardner 
shortly before they interviewed applicants 
to replace Gardner. It seemed most likely 
that her successor would be Piers Wenger. 
Wenger had previously been head of drama 
development at Granada. 

Terms for Moffat’s dream job were 
concluded within days, meaning that 
he was officially on board by the end of 
October. By the start of November, Davies 


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was also determining how 
best to end the storyline for 
Donna Noble, the Doctor’s 
companion for the 2008 
series played by Catherine 
Tate. One option was to have 
Donna being lost in time so 
that the Doctor could pick 
her up again in one of the 
Specials to be made in 2009. 
Engulfed in the scripts for 
the end of the 2008 series, 
Davies had little opportunity 
to further develop the 
storyline for the Christmas Special which 
he needed to deliver in February. He 

was concerned that the Victorian setting 
was too reminiscent of The Unquiet Dead, 
and by early December had spent a day 
considering if he could shift his tale to 

the court of Henry VIII. However, the 
sixteenth-century backdrop would not 
allow recognisable Christmas traditions, 
many of which had been introduced in the 
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Another idea came to Davies in the 
early hours of Tuesday 4 December. In 
London, following the press launch of the 
second series of the Doctor Who spin-off 
Torchwood, Davies was staying at a hotel in 
Paddington. At 2am he ventured outside 
his room to fetch some ice and was struck 
by how deserted the entire establishment 
was. He conceived the start of a story 
where the father of a family had left his 
wife and children in a hotel room at 
Christmas and ventured out on a similar 
journey, only to return to the room to find 
it empty. He was the only person, apart 
from the Doctor, left in the building, which 
had been taken out of time. This random 
thought was, however, not substantial 
enough to work into a full adventure for 
the 2008 Christmas Special. 

Piers Wenger accepted the post as 
BBC Wales head of drama on Friday 7 
December. On Tuesday 11 December, the 
BBC announced his appointment, while 
confirming that Gardner would continue 
as executive producer on the Specials 


during 2009. In the meantime, Davies 

was working on the final two episodes of 
the 2008 series and was concerned by the 
projected delivery date of the Christmas 
Special - now referred to as 4.14 - on 
Monday 18 February. Gardner understood 
that the worst case was that they did not 
make a Christmas Special, but that the 
BBC would be devastated. Davies agreed, 
and so vowed to continue. To give Davies 
more writing time, Gardner looked into 
extra funding to allow production to be 
stood down for a week between the end of 
the fourth series and the Special, extending 
the deadline by seven days. Both were 
aware that they did not want Doctor Who 
out of the Christmas schedules for a year, 
and did not want to risk upset with Jay 
Hunt, who had been appointed as the new 
BBC One controller the previous week. 


n Tuesday 22 January, Davies wrote 
the final scene of Journey’s End [2008 


- see page 6] - which concluded 
with two Cybermen appearing in the 
TARDIS behind the Doctor; in keeping 
with the previous series’ climaxes, this 
was a shock ending to entice viewers 
towards the Christmas Special. His next 
task was to weave together the Christmas 
episode in three weeks; this he now saw as 


featuring Cybermen, Victorian London, 
workhouse children and a sword-fight 

on the city rooftops with wraith-like 
Cybermen called Cybershades. “I just 
wanted a variation and [the Cybermen] 
needed somebody to do their dirty work 
for them,” explained Davies of his new 
creations on the episode commentary; 

he kept the origins of these Cybershades 
vague, but took his inspiration from the 
Cybermats introduced in The Tomb of the 
Cybermen {1967 - see Volume 10]. Also in 
Davies’ mind was an idea that he would 
play with the viewers regarding Tennant’s 
successor, since Tennant’s departure would 
be the subject of much speculation by 

the end of the year, especially in light of 

a chance comment by Catherine Tate on 
radio before Christmas that this was the 
star’s final series as the Doctor. The tale 
would feature a man who appeared to be 
another Doctor, with the current Doctor 
effectively becoming the companion to 
this new, mysterious figure. The Victorian 
setting was essential for the use of the fake 
Doctor; it would allow him to be dressed 
in a frock coat, use old-fashioned language, 
and provide an atmosphere of uncertainty 
- since in the present day the other Doctor 
would simply consult a real doctor. “The 
story of the two Doctors is 


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told Doctor Who Magazine. himself as “John Smith’, 
Davies also wanted to his frequently adopted 
deliver a ‘chocolate box’ alias (usually “Doctor John 
Christmas story, feeling that Smith”) which had first 

a vast steampunk Cyberman been given to him in The 


would fit beautifully into the 
period technology. Before 


Wheel in Space [1968 - 
see Volume 12] and 


embarking upon the full which he h 
script, Davies checked that 
BBC drama had no similar 


period Christmas offerings 


ad adopted in 


Spearhead from Space 
[1970 - see Volume 15]. 


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lined up, noting in particular that an 
adaptation of Little Dorrit would have 
concluded broadcast by mid-December 
2008. He wanted something very different 
from Voyage of the Damned, which would 
have the intimacy of a bond between the 
Doctor and his mysterious new colleague, 
plus a sense of scale featuring the vast 
new piece of Cyberman technology: 

the CyberKing. 

Unfortunately, things did not go as 
planned for Davies. At the end of January 
he was having to rework elements of 
Journey’s End, and then he was taken ill 
with both chicken pox and bronchitis, 
battling on to make changes as necessary 
for the end of the current series. With a 
new deadline of Monday 10 March, the 
writer still felt he had no firm ideas for the 
Christmas episode, and did not conclude 
rewrites on Journey’s End until Saturday 
1 March, by which time recording on the 
final story was well under way. 

On Tuesday 4 March, a recovered Davies 
started writing the Christmas Special. 

The opening continued directly on from 
Journey’s End with the Cybermen fading 


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away and the Doctor realising that they 
were falling through the vortex. Following 
the Cybermen, the Doctor arrived in 
Victorian London and asked a street urchin 
if he had seen “any men, sort of tall, men 
made of metal, with ears, like handles, big 
handle things, metal”. By now, the writer 
was also considering titles for the tale; The 
Two Doctors was obvious, although this had 
been used for a 1985 story [see Volume 

41], so the alternatives were The New Doctor 
and The Next Doctor. Already Davies knew 
that the core story would be about the 
bond between the two Doctors, with the 
Cybermen being the darker element in a 
story which he wanted to be generally fun 


and knockabout. 


dialogue with the Doctors hugging 

and bonding took place inside the 
warehouse; the two Doctors had also 
claimed to be “the Doctor” to each other 
at an earlier juncture when confronted 
by the Cybershade (rather than the true 
Doctor being oblique about his identity). 
The Doctor was also aware that the 
Cybermen were on Earth, having tracked 
them through the vortex. At the funeral, 
the other Doctor observed to Rosita that 
the servants of the late Reverend Aubrey 
Fairchild (a name which Davies had 
originally used for the Prime Minister 
in The Stolen Earth) had been dismissed, 
leaving his house empty; the other Doctor 
was also being watched by a Cybershade 
from the rooftops with the observing 
Cyberleader saying that they would allow 
him to enter the Fairchild house so that 
he could die. There was more dialogue 
about the abduction of the children, with 
the other Doctor saying that at least 17 
were taken from their beds during the 


I: the draft script, more of the 


night. The Doctor originally described the 
infostamps to his counterpart and Rosita 
as “an electric book”, and the Cybershades 
dropped from the sky on the mourners 

at the funeral. After the attack, Mr Cole 
saw the Cyberleader approach and asked 
what the thing in its head was. “Its brain,” 
explained Miss Hartigan. “A human brain. 
It’s rather convenient, you can see what 
he’s thinking.” The Cyberleader then 
declared, “You will become like us,” and 
held up metal devices to be fitted to the 
ear with the Cybershades pinning Cole to 
the ground. The infostamp only showed 
images of the Doctor’s current incarnation 
and Miss Hartigan remarked that the 
children were coming from Martin Street 
(later changed to Hazel Street). The stolen 
device used by the Cybermen was called a 
Dimension Slider and the Doctor learnt 
about the CyberKing at an earlier juncture, 
with Miss Hartigan later commenting that 
this was “a rather male title. It’s on my 


list.” The CyberKing’s attack on London : 
The ‘Doctor’ 


was also planned as being more extensive. anti 
This Special opened by setting up a companion 
Rosita. 


mystery about the apparent new Doctor 
and continued with the duo bonding after 
being pulled along behind a Cybershade. 
This would be a fun action sequence with 
which to hook the family audience. The 
other Doctor also had a companion called 
Rosita (a partial combination of ‘Rose’ 
and ‘Martha’). Rosita was designed as an 
archetypal, brave companion, and Davies 
admitted on Doctor Who Confidential that 
“there’s a slight hint that she’s a lady of 
the night”. 

The rooftop battle with the Cybershades, 
which Davies had earlier envisaged, was 
changed into a fight between Doctors 
and Cybermen on a staircase. In terms 
of the Cyberleader, Davies decided that 
he wanted the brain visible inside the 
creature’s helmet, akin to the Cyber 
Controller seen in Rise of the Cybermen/ 


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The Age of Steel [2006 - see 


Connections: Volume 52]; he also recalled 
Don't blink being terrified by the similar 
® Talking to his other self, 


design of the Controller in 
The Tomb of the Cybermen. 
Preparation for the 
Christmas Special began on 
Monday 10 March; whereas 
previously the Christmas 
Specials had been recorded 
around July and August, 
The Next Doctor was now 
scheduled to record from 


the Doctor questions the 
phrase “don't blink” and 
looked for a reaction to 
"Sally and the angels’, 
referring to Sally 
Sparrow and the deadly 
Weeping Angels in 
Blink [2007 - 
} see Volume 56], 


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Monday 7 April to Saturday 

3 May. The producer was to be Susie 
Liggat, who had previously overseen seven 
episodes from the 2007 and 2008 series of 
Doctor Who, most recently completing Turn 
Left. Chosen to direct the 23-day shoot 
was Andy Goddard, whose work on series 
such as Taggart and The Bill had led to 
him directing six episodes of Torchwood 
since 2006; the director had been booked 
for the Doctor Who Special months 
earlier on the strength of his work on the 
spin-off. He had always wanted to work 
on the series and was delighted when 
Julie Gardner pulled him out of an edit on 
Torchwood to tell him that he could have 
the Christmas slot featuring “Cybermen 
in the snow”. “Andy had become a firm 
favourite with the Torchwood team, and 
as soon as | saw his episodes, I realised 
that Upper Boat had a remarkable talent 
on its hands!” Liggat told Doctor Who 
Magazine. Seeing the episode as a festive 
romp with a lot of fun to it, Goddard was 
delighted with Davies’ story, commenting, 
“There’s the classic element of Victorian 
mystery to it, then you've got this 
wonderful aspect of the two Doctors. 
And it’s just really Christmassy!” 

In the unfolding script, the other Doctor 
was ultimately revealed to be a man called 
Jackson Lake, who was suffering from a 


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mental fugue, a psychiatric disorder which 
involved reversible amnesia affecting 
personal identity; this was a serious subject 
that Davies wanted to tackle in his story. 
The character of Jackson delighted Davies, 
and he had ideas about how one day he 
would like to write a further adventure 
for the Doctor and Jackson. During the 
tale, he saw Jackson becoming like the 
Doctor and so helping to save the Earth, 
observing, “For the course of that story - 
he was the Doctor.” 

One of the main characters in the 
tale was the workhouse matron Miss 
Hartigan, a recipient of institutionalised 
violence whom the Doctor needed to 
set free as part of the narrative. “There’s 
clearly some terrible history of abuse 
with Miss Hartigan,” explained Davies 
in Doctor Who Magazine. “As a result 
of all that, she can’t help but sexualise 
everything.” Regarding the scene at 
the graveyard, Davies contacted Heidi 
Thomas, the adaptor of BBC One’s 


acclaimed productions of Cranford, to 
learn about period women’s etiquette in 
this situation. At one point, Davies had 
considered having both Doctors galloping 
on horseback to rescue the mourners 
during the graveyard sequence. 

Davies had originally seen Jackson’s 
home as a shed in a railway yard with ‘the 
Doctor’ and Rosita living inside a steam 
train, but this conflicted with his desire 
to include a balloon. The other Doctor’s 
TARDIS was to be a balloon; the revised 
definition as Tethered Aerial Release 
Developed In Style took the writer a long 
time to sort out. For the child slaves, 
Davies felt inspired by youngsters without 
hope such as the children hidden in the 
caves in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang 
Bang. The script also had a rare example 
of direct physical violence when Rosita 
punched Miss Hartigan. 

Davies completed his script shortly 
before his new deadline, in the early hours 
of Monday 17 March, aware that his next 


task was to start storylining the Torchwood 

_ mini-series commissioned for BBC One. 

_ Having considered the title Court of the 
CyberKing for the Special, he rejected this in 
favour of The Next Doctor, which he thought 
would create speculation if revealed in the 
closing captions of Journey’s End. Davies 
also felt that the core of the story was 
Jackson Lake, not the Cybermen. 


Present for the fans 


Mg he tone meeting for The Next Doctor 
was held on Wednesday 19 March 
(with Davies’ tone phrase being 

“Christmas dinner”), and the only major 

change was the decision to realise the 

Cybershades as costumed performers 


rather than CGI. One aspect of the “Do you want 
script in particular was developed by to come 
with me?” 


Julie Gardner, this being the images of 
the Doctor projected by the infostamp; 
Gardner suggested that this should 

be extended to feature shots of the 
Doctor’s previous nine incarnations as 

a “nice Christmas present for the fans”. 
Davies had previously shied away from 
such ‘flashbacks’ which had become 
commonplace in the early 1980s, but 

was happy to take Gardner’s suggestion 
on board. The main concern was the 
availability of a shot of Paul McGann’s 
Eighth Doctor from the 1996 television 
movie Doctor Who [1996 - see Volume 47] 
which was a co-production with both Fox 
and Universal. As such, a shot of the actor 
as Liam Phelan in the 1995 BBC1 drama 
The Hanging Gale was held in reserve. 

For David Tennant and Catherine Tate 
as the Doctor and Donna, the recording 
of The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End concluded 
on Friday 21 March at Upper Boat 
Studios; production would however 
continue for another week, focusing on 
scenes featuring Sarah Jane Smith and 


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Above: 
Dashing 
through 
the snow. 


Martha Jones. There would then be a clear 
week before recording on The Next Doctor 
would start, which would form the series’ 
tenth production block, referred to as 
‘Xmas Block’. 


According to press reports, the role of 
Jackson was originally to have been played 
by Martin Clunes, the star of shows such 
as Men Behaving Badly and Doc Martin 
and who had appeared in Doctor Who in 
Snakedance [1983 - see Volume 36] earlier 
in his career. The story Martin Clunes said 
‘no’ to Doctor Who appeared from the Daily 
Mirror on Monday 26 January 2009, with 
the report saying that he had to drop out 
when contract details could not be agreed. 

“David Morrissey is in some ways the 
great Doctor we'll never have,” Davies told 
Doctor Who Confidential of the actor cast as 
Jackson Lake shortly before production 
began. David Morrissey had already been 
suggested by the press as a potential 
successor to David Tennant, and the pair 
had starred together before in the BBC 
One musical drama Blackpool in 2004. The 
casting amused the actor who was aware 
of the media connecting him with the role 


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previously. “Well, it was Kylie [Minogue] 
last year and me this year!” commented 
Morrissey in The Stage, “It was great to 
be on board, because I’m a huge fan of 
the programme and of David Tennant.” 
The actor had always wanted to appear in 
the series, telling Radio Times that “Doctor 
Who is great. They’ve asked me to do stuff 
before but because of other commitments 
I was unable to.” He had also worked with 
Susie Liggat previously on a BBC Two 
version of Our Mutual Friend made in 1997. 
The other big name for the Special was 
Dervla Kirwan, the actress who found 
fame in the BBC One series Goodnight 
Sweetheart and Ballykissangel. Kirwan had 
also worked on Russell T Davies’ BBC 
Three series Casanova in which she had 
played Casanova’s mother. “I’ve worked 
with Dervla before... but I wanted to write 
more for her,” explained Davies in Radio 
Times, having admired her in the BBC 
Northern Ireland series Eureka Street in 
1999. The part of Rosita went to Velile 
Tshabalala who had featured in the BBC 
Three comedy show Tittybangbang and 
who had rushed down from Manchester 


to London to do her Doctor Who audition 
- the opening scene of the script - while 
working on a play called The Ugly Tree. 

On Sunday 23 March, journalist 
Benjamin Cook emailed Davies about the 
script for Journey’s End and commented 
that he felt that the appearance of the 
Cybermen devalued the sad climax of 
Donna’s storyline. The writer agreed; 
although he liked the shot of the 
Cybermen in the TARDIS, which had been 
recorded, there was concern that the series 
finale ended with the Doctor being soaked 
and the narrative originally continued 
straight through into the Christmas 
Special. In addition, the elimination of the 
scene would save on visual effects costs. 
As such, on Wednesday 26 March, it was 
decided that a new TARDIS scene would 
be recorded to close Journey’s End and 
that The Next Doctor would open with the 
Doctor emerging into Victorian London, 
suggesting that there had been a passage 
of time for the traveller. The closing scene 
of Journey’s End was rewritten on Monday 
31 March, the same day that the shooting 
script was issued for The Next Doctor 
under the title: ‘Doctor Who 4 Episode 
14 (Christmas 08) - The Next Doctor? 


In the script’s stage directions, when 
the Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS into 
the snow it was noted that ‘he likes snow’. 
For this opening scene, it was suggested 
that ‘throughout all this, a carol can be 
heard; a new Murray Gold Christmas 
carol. Jolly & sinister, like the best hymns.’ 
In each of the three previous Christmas 
Specials, series composer Murray Gold 
had developed a featured vocal. 


being ‘shot as raw, juddery, stark 

black-and-white, camera all cranked- 
up; fleeting, grabbed, violent images.’ 
It was specified that there should be no 
close-up when Rosita handed her Doctor 
his ‘sonic screwdriver’ in the pre-credits. 
The Other Doctor’s Tethered Aerial 
Release Developed In Style was described 
as ‘like a hot-air balloon, though it’s the 
wrong age for that, this is a gas balloon, 
but it looks practically the same; a basket 
with sandbags attached, ropes & trailrope, 
the fully inflated balloon looming above’. 

Of the Cybermen’s control area, it 

was noted that ‘all the 
hardware is cannibalised; 
steampunk Victorian - 
Cybertechnology welded to 
the Industrial Revolution, 
cogs and wheels mixed with 
computer screens. Screens 
at head height; Cybermen 


] ackson’s flashbacks were specified as 


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don’t sit’ The machine in to those of the Doctor 
the Cyber HQ operated himself in Human Nature/ 
by the enslaved children The Family of Blood [2007 


was described with reference 
to a popular children’s 


-see Volume 56] and 
also Professor Yana's true 


game manufactured by Ideal identity as the Master 
from 1963 as ‘like a huge in Utopia [2007 - see 
version of the board game Volume 56]. 


Mouse Trap’. When the 


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Cybermen attacked the mourners in the 
graveyard, the stage directions specifically 
noted, ‘Cybermen do NOT grab anyone 
by the neck. No throttling. They clamp 
their hand down on the shoulder, or 
forehead, and zap. In the climax, the 
CyberKing was outlined as ‘a VAST 
machine, 200ft tall, roughly in the shape 
of a Cyberman, though far more stocky 
and simplified. All in Cyber-Victorian 
design; clanking, clunking, steaming, gouts 
of fire at the joints. Head; torso; arms; 
massive legs. No hands; the arms end in 
big, blunt cannons. 


he other Doctor - which was how 
Tec Lake was referred to in 

the script prior to his true identity 
being revealed - was described as ‘lively, 
exhilarated, in frock coat & waistcoat, 
ever-so-slightly dandified’ while his 
companion Rosita was a ‘serving-girl, 
mid-20s, black, feisty’. Miss Mercy 
Hartigan of the St Joseph’s Workhouse was 
envisaged as ‘a strong woman, late 30s; 
sexy, albeit in plain, grey clothes - a tight, 
repressed Workhouse Matron’s uniform. 
Cool, unafraid of Cybermen, The other 
characters were generally minor, including 
the vicar (‘40s, thin, chinless’), Mr Cole (‘60 
y/o gent’), Mr Scoones (‘50 y/o gent’), Jed 
(‘a cheery Factory Lad, 25’) and Jackson’s 
son Frederic (‘a scared, ragged boy, 7 y/o’). 

In reference to the Controller seen in Rise 

of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, it was noted 
of the Cyberleader that its ‘brain [is] visible 
in its helmet, like the Cybercontroller’. Of 
the new incarnation of Cyber-life form, 
the Cybershade, it was noted that ‘it has 
the face of a Cyberman, like a mask; but 
the rest of it seems more supernatural, 
swathed in black robes, a black hood, the 
whole outfit trailing off into black rags; 


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it’s a Cyberman crossed with a Dementor 
[soulless prison guard creatures from the 
Harry Potter books]. The only other signs 
of metal are its two metal hands, more 
spindly and witchy than a Cyberman’s’’ 
In terms of the creature’s movement, the 
stage directions indicated that ‘it scuttles 
on all fours, like an animal’ and - with 
reference to the famous Marvel Comics 
superhero who had appeared in films such 
as 2007’s Spider-Man 3 - that ‘it clings to 
the wall like Spider Man [sic]. 

The narrative was effectively set on 
Christmas Eve, 1851; this was referred to 
in the script and shooting schedules as Day 
1 and Night 1, with Jackson’s flashbacks 
having taken place on the ambiguous 
Night X. 

By now, the first episode of the run, 
Partners in Crime [2008 - see Volume 57], 
was just days away from broadcast, with 
David Tennant and Catherine Tate joining 
Russell T Davies and various other cast 
and crew for the press launch of the first 
two episodes on the evening of Tuesday 
1 April. While the publicity machine 


swung into action for the new shows on 
Wednesday 2 April, Tennant joined Tate 
for chats on Radio 1 and 1xtra, after 
which Tennant also featured on Radio 


5 Live. The next day Davies appeared 
on BBC One’s Breakfast, after which he 
attended a further tone meeting for 
The Next Doctor. Later that day, cast 
and crew reassembled in London for a 
readthrough of the Christmas Special, 
after which the production team returned 
to Cardiff for an effects meeting. At the 
readthrough, the producers stressed the 
need for secrecy about the plot of this 
new adventure which was still over eight 
months from transmission. 

Davies prepared pink revisions to 
his shooting script the following day. 
The opening confrontation with the 
Cybershade was moved to an exterior 
rather than interior courtyard - as was 
the aftermath of the subsequent action 
sequence - while the number of planned 
effects shots of the Cybershade were 
reduced. Additional elements included 
a Cybershade watching the Doctor as 


he followed the Other Doctor to the 
townhouse, the Doctor looking at the 
umbrella stand for a weapon before seeing 
the cutlass on the wall, and the balloon 
being tethered down by Jed and two 
factory men. The machinery operated 

by the children set to work by Miss 
Hartigan was described at greater length, 
and Miss Hartigan no longer referred to 
“downloading” after conversion. 

The most substantial change was to the 
defeat of Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen. 
Originally when the Doctor aimed the 
infostamp, Miss Hartigan screamed, fire 
broke out and the Cybermen clutched 
their heads. She and the Cybermen then 


Miss Hartigan 


and the 
disappeared, with the helmet worn by Cyberleader 
Miss Hartigan left dangling, after which generate a 

fiendish plan. 


the Doctor lowered the infostamp. At the 
readthrough, it was observed that the 
Doctor effectively killed Miss Hartigan with 
a gun. There was now more dialogue with 
the Doctor encouraging Miss Hartigan to 
break the Cyber-connection and see what 
she had become. Davies subsequently 
thought of a better resolution using the 
dimension vault which would have made 
Miss Hartigan vanish and saved London as 
her final act, also reducing the damage to 
the city caused by the CyberKing. 

The closing scene was also expanded, 
with the Doctor now commenting, 
“Jackson, if anyone had to be the Doctor, 
I’m glad it was you!” along with Jackson’s 
reply. This comment from the Doctor’s 
had originally appeared earlier in the 
alleyway scene after the discussion about 
Latimer Street. 

On the evening of Thursday 3 April, 
David Tennant and Catherine Tate 
recorded BBC One’s Friday Night with 
Jonathan Ross for broadcast the following 
evening, and from dawn on Friday 4 could 
be heard on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 
London, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2. 


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ork on the ‘Xmas 
Block’ got underway 
on Monday 7 April 
2008 with interior 
sequences of the 
Reverend Fairchild’s 
townhouse recorded at the thirteenth- 
century structure of Fonmon Castle in 
Rhoose from 8am to 7pm. The only cast 
members required were the two Doctors, 
plus a Cyberman played by Paul Kasey, a 
regular monster artiste on the series since 
2005. The presence of his friend David 
Morrissey gave David Tennant a boost as 
he approached the end of a 10-month, 
15-episode run as the Doctor. Following 
recording of the dialogue scenes between 
real and fake Time Lords, stunt arranger 
Tom Lucy supervised rehearsals of the 
staircase fight with Kasey and Tennant 


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for the following day. Also recorded on 
this first day was the stream of infostamp 
information showing London from 1066. 

The crew of BBC Three’s Doctor Who 
Confidential was on the scene on Tuesday 
8 when the main action sequence was 
scheduled at the same venue for 8am 
to 7pm, with another regular creature 
artiste, Ruari Mears, appearing as the 
second Cyberman. At the start of this 
scene, Andy Goddard and David Tennant 
improvised some of the Doctor’s business 
with the umbrella. 

On Wednesday 9 April, the two Doctors 
had the day off, while the Doctor Who 
crew worked at St Woolos Cemetery on 
Bassaleg Road in Newport from 8am to 
7pm; this venue had previous appeared in 
Blink [2007 - see Volume 56] as the venue 
of Kathy’s grave. With the area around a 


freshly dug grave in a spare plot suitably 
dressed with fake paper-based snow 
courtesy of Any Effects and Snow Business, 
onlookers were able to glimpse the first 
scenes recorded with Dervla Kirwan, 

as Miss Hartigan gatecrashed the late 
Reverend ’s funeral. The vicar was played 
by Jason Morell, whose father, actor Andre 
Morell, had appeared in The Massacre of 

St Bartholomew’s Eve [1966 - see Volume 

7]; Morell was also a friend of Russell 

T Davies’ from Oxford University. Tom 
Lucy again supervised the action elements 
involved in the Cyber-attack, with Kasey 
and Mears playing the lead Cybermen - the 
ranks of which were choreographed by 

the series’ usual movement expert, Ailsa 
Berk. A Steadicam was also used to capture 
some of the camera shots during the day 
before the cast and crew departed for a 


special screening of The Italian Job, the 
edition of Doctor Who Confidential covering 
the following weekend’s The Fires of Pompeii 
[2008 - see Volume 57], at a club in Cardiff 
that night. 

The Confidential team was again present 
at St Woolos Cemetery the next day where 
the graveyard sequences were completed 
between 8am and 7pm, with Ruari Mears 
now playing the lead Cybershade, of 
which three were seen for the first time 
(played by the actors who had been 
Cybermen the previous day). As with the 
redesigned Cybermen crafted in 2005, 
the Cybershades were designed by Neill 
Gorton of Millennium FX, who based them 
initially on the standard version of the 
cyborgs, adding rivets and a copper finish 
to give a cost-effective image. However, 
Davies wanted another approach and 


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Connections: 

Swordplay 

® The Doctor claims to bea 
dab hand with a cutlass, 
and has proven his skills 
with a blade previously in 
stories such as The Sea 
Devils 
18], The Androids of Tara 
[1978 - see Volume 29] 

and The Christmas 


Right: 

Let it snow, 
let it snow, 
let it snow, 


sketched a new design for 

a Cybershade which used 

a version of the standard 
Cyberman mask with flowing 
back robes which were 
supplied by the costume 
department to augment 
Millennium’s headpieces. 

A greenscreen was used 
behind performers for 
certain shots to allow effects 
to be added later, and a small 
trampoline was in place to 
allow the Cybershades to leap 
at their victims in spectacular 
fashion. Andy Goddard’s aim was to 
combine many stunt elements to make the 
situation look as chaotic as possible. This 
set piece was adored by the team, with 
Julie Gardner recalling that this was “one 
of my most favourite scenes of anything 
we've shot on Doctor Who” on the episode’s 
commentary. Meanwhile, Susie Liggat, 
Paul Kasey and Tom Lucy discussed their 
work with the Confidential crew. 


owever, by now there was 
i uncertainty about one aspect of 
Doctor Who’s future. David Tennant 
had enjoyed Steven Moffat’s scripts for the 
series a great deal, and had considered that 
he might stay on for an additional year 
to work with the new showrunner. With 
this element of indecision, Moffat emailed 
Tennant and gave him the weekend to 
decide if he would be leaving or not, so 
that he could start writing his first episode; 
they would then meet up the following 
week to discuss the future of the show. 
Cybermen invade Newport was the title 
introducing a piece about the strange 
events at St Woolos Cemetery in the South 
Wales Argus on Friday 11 April. “I was 


[1972 - see Volume 


Invasion [2005 - 
see Volume 51], 


102 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


going past the cemetery walls and saw 
lots of white smoke. A security guard said 
they were filming Doctor Who - it was very 
exciting,” said onlooker Janet Hancock, 
whose son’s girlfriend was to appear in 
the series as a hostage. Meanwhile, David 
Tennant rejoined the crew at the Upper 
Boat studio complex where between 

8am and 6pm he recorded the scenes 

of the Doctor in the balloon basket, 

later to be placed against a night sky; 

he also performed a single line of ADR 
(Additional Dialogue Recording) for The 
Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky [2008 

- see Volume 58]. Danny Hargreaves of 
Any Effects supervised wind-production 
machinery, while Tim Barter of The Mill 
was also on set to check on shots which 
would be matched into CGI elements. 
Russell T Davies was also present, aware 
of the difficult decision which his leading 
man had to make over the weekend, and 
also determined to back him whatever the 
outcome was. 

Doctor Who in freezing Cyberia announced 
The Sun on Saturday 12 April as it revealed 
that the Cybermen had transformed the 
Newport cemetery into ‘a freezing Siberian 


cas 
landscape’. Recording was underway again 
from 8am to 8pm on Sunday 13. The 
venue this time was the establishment 
of The Maltings off East Tyndall Street 
in Cardiff Bay; this area had previously 
featured as Pharmacy Alley in Gridlock 
[2007 - see Volume 55] and a few months 
earlier had been Shan Shen Alley in 
Turn Left. Now, it was the ironmonger’s 


* 


B 


arranger Crispin Layfield, and with Guido 
Louis present to demonstrate to David 
Morrissey how to wield a lasso, with the 
actor’s out-of-shot target actually being 


a 


Davids Tennant 
and Morrissey 
stand by for 
ascene, 


first assistant director Richard Harris. 
Recording began at 8am and was wrapped 
at the location by 7pm. Numerous takes 
were performed of the actors being pulled 
up and down the building on harnesses, 


courtyard where the two Doctors would which after a few hours took 


come face-to-face, and then turn in unison its toll on the performers; Connections: 
to combat the Cybershade played by Ruari “There can be some chafing Matters of 
Mears. Velile Tshabalala recorded her and some unpleasantness, the heart 


first scenes as Rosita on this day, while 
Bob Schofield pre-rigged the wires that 
would be required for the stunt setpiece 
scheduled for the following day. Props 
man Jackson Pope provided four chickens 
as live dressing for the period scene, 
while Any Effects was responsible for the 
snowy covering, and also the breaking 
warehouse door. 

The same cast - and the Confidential 
team - assembled on Monday 14 where the 
abseiling sequence of the Cybershade, the 
real Doctor and the other Doctor began 
recording under the supervision of stunt 


but you forget about all 
that when it’s cut together 
and it looks exciting,” 
David Tennant told Doctor 
Who Confidential, who also 
spoke to Susie Liggat and 
Guido Louis. 

The opening action 
sequence for the Special 
was to continue inside the 
Warehouse between 8am 
and 6pm next day, with the 
Cybershade dragging the 


two Doctors along inside 


To check Jackson Lake's 
heart, the Doctor uses 
his stethoscope as seen 
in episodes such as The 
Runaway Bride [2006 - see 
Volume 54], Evolution of 
the Daleks [2007 - see 
Volume 55], The Doctor's 
Daughter [2008 - see 
Volume 58], Midnight 
[2008 - see Volume 59)) 
and The Stolen Earth 
[2008 - see page 6]. 


S 


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THE NEXT DOCTOR 


Recording a 
duo of Doctors. 


STORY 199 


Building 568 of Caerwent Training Area, a 
disused Ministry of Defence establishment 
available for film and TV productions at 
Caldicot. For the action sequence, Gordon 
Seed doubled for both David Tennant 

and Ruari Mears’ Cybershade, while Nick 
Goodey stood in for David Morrissey in 
some shots under the keen eye of Tom 
Lucy and the Confidential crew. Two quad 
bikes were used for this sequence; one to 
drag the two Doctors the length of the 
building, and the other to act as a tracking 
camera mount to capture the action. For 
the first action, the two Davids were sat 
on small saddle pads strapped to a metal 
frame towed behind the bike. “It was 
really good fun,” commented Tennant on 
Doctor Who Confidential, while Morrissey 
admitted, “It was pretty uncomfortable 
the next day.” When the Cybershade 

was seen in shot, Mears ran on all fours, 
with two crew members holding the rope 
off-screen behind him. Back at Upper 


Boat, Russell T Davies was on the TARDIS 
set for a photoshoot for The Writer’s Tale, 
a collection of his email correspondence 
with Benjamin Cook which was to be 
published later that year by BBC Books. 
The next day - Wednesday 16 April - the 
BBC team assembled at Tredegar House 
in Newport; this was a favourite venue 
of Doctor Who since its appearance in The 
Christmas Invasion [2005 - see Volume 51] 
recorded in July 2005 and had also been 
seen in Torchwood. The cast comprised the 
two Davids and Tshabalala, with recording 
scheduled from noon to 11pm. The stables 
and courtyard area were dressed as an 
ironmonger’s, with posters for the Crystal 
Palace Exhibition of 1851. Recording 
began inside the factory outhouse for the 
checking of the late Mr Lake’s luggage and 
the other Doctor recalling his battle with 
the Cybermen. Also recorded at the start 
of the day were the projected images of 
the Doctor’s various incarnations; a shot 


of William Hartnell as the First Doctor 


was taken from The Time Meddler [1965 

- see Volume 5] followed in sequence by 
extracts of Patrick Troughton from The 

Ice Warriors [1967 - see Volume 11], Jon 
Pertwee from Terror of the Autons {1971 

- see Volume 16], Tom Baker from City 

of Death [1979 - see Volume 31], Peter 
Davison from Arc of Infinity [1983 - see 
Volume 36], Colin Baker from The Trial of a 
Time Lord [1986 - see Volume 42], Sylvester 
McCoy from Time and the Rani [1987 - see 
Volume 43], Paul McGann from the TV 
Movie, Doctor Who [1996 - see Volume 47], 
Christopher Eccleston from The Parting 

of the Ways [2005 - see Volume 50] and 
David Tennant as seen in The Family of 
Blood {2007 - see Volume 56]. After night 
had fallen, the scenes were recorded of the 
Doctors arriving at the other Doctor’s base 
of operations along the factory street, and 
of the real Doctor’s departure and return. 
The cast members also performed a photo 
publicity session during recording. 

Before recording on location, Tennant 
had met with Moffat and Wenger who 
outlined their plans for their new series 
to him. David enjoyed hearing about 
the new ideas, but decided to stick to 
the original plan and leave at the end of 
the Specials. “With Russell T Davies and 
Julie Gardner leaving, that became a very 
natural stepping-off point for me,” he later 


i told Lizo Mzimba. “What 


became very difficult was _ Connections: 


; I 
_ when it was announced that sorry} 


Steven Moffat was taking 
over because I’m such a fan of 
his, he’s such a great writer, 
he’s written such amazing 
stories for me in Doctor Who 
already. The prospect of 
hanging around for a while 
and enjoying working with 
him was sorely tempting and 
very nearly changed my mind. But I think 
it’s better to go when there’s a chance that 
people might miss you, rather than to hang 
around and outstay your welcome.” 

The confirmation of the situation now 
made Davies consider the possibility of 
more Specials for 2009 featuring Tennant, 
or possibly a mini-series for early 2010 
which would allow Moffat’s new series 
with the Eleventh Doctor to début in 
autumn 2010. The plan was that Moffat’s 
appointment as executive producer would 
be announced on Monday 12 May, the day 
after the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 


Doctor uses h 


sorry” which h 


see Volume 5 


ceremony where Moffat was likely to win 
Best Writer for Blink. 


ack on set, the remaining dialogue 
5 scenes inside the factory outhouse 

were recorded from 11am to 10pm 
on Thursday 17 at the same location, 
while Gardner and Davies had a meeting 
with Jane Tranter to discuss the way 
forward for the series and the possibility 
of further Specials. 

Friday 18 April saw David Tennant 
celebrating his 37th birthday up at Hensol 
Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, a stately 
venue which had appeared numerous 


times in the series since Aliens of London/ 
World War Three [2005 - see Volume 49] 


® When discussi 
luggage with Jackson, the 


a 
Production , 


ng the 


is regular 


phrase “I'm sorry... I'm so 


e had spoken 


on numerous occasions 
since New Earth [2006 - 
UL 


Left: 

The Doctor 
fends off the 
Cybermen with 
acutlass. 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 105 


THE NEXT DOCTOR 


Connections: 
Null and void 


® The Doctor recalls how 


in August 2004, most recently in Silence 
in the Library/Forest of the Dead [2008 - see 
Volume 59] in January 2008. The estate 
provided some suitable venues for the 
scenes in the underground tunnel with 
the two Doctors and Rosita, and then 
the sequences of the dimension vault 
(designed by Peter McKinstry in a style 
reminiscent of Dalek technology) in the 
dark enclosed space, including the other 
Doctor’s flashbacks. Any Effects was in 
charge of dust and rubble as required, with 
recording from 10am to 8pm, following 
which the cast and crew attended 
Tennant’s birthday party. 

While the crew enjoyed a day off 
on Saturday 19, This Is Gloucestershire 
informed Gloucester locals that their 
hamlet was to be the venue for the BBC’s 
work the following week in the article Dr 
Woos Cybermen to City for Battle. The area 
around the Cathedral was to be used, with 
the report speculating that the Doctor 
would be joined in the Christmas Special 
by both Donna and Rose in his battle with 
the Cybermen. Millers Green was to be 
dressed as a Victorian market, complete 
with snow. 

The BBC arrived to start recording at 
Millers Green and Gloucester Cathedral 
on Sunday 20 April, with 
the first in a series of 
night shoots. Work began 
at 4pm and ran to 2am, 
commencing with the 
opening sequence of the 
Doctor’s arrival in Victorian 
London. Two horses and 
carriages were provided by 
Richard and Emily Moulding 
of the appropriately 
named Gloucester Horse 
and Carriages, with the 
handlers also appearing 
in the programme. Any 


the Cybermen had been 
banished into the void 
along with the Daleks in 
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday 
[2006 - see Volume 53], 
noting that they had 
stolen the database and 
Dimension Vault from 
the Daleks inside 
the void. 


108 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


_ Effects supplied more snow and wind, 


plus braziers, while a playback of the 
eighteenth-century carol God Rest Ye 
Merry Gentlemen was available to get the 
assembled crowd of supporting artistes 
into an appropriate frame of mind. The 
arrival of the Doctor Who team was a huge 
event for the locals, and hundreds of 
sightseers soon congregated in the area. 
This caused problems for Susie Liggat 
with respects to both health and safety 
and also keeping the plot of the Christmas 
Special a secret. “We were really shocked 
when we got to Gloucester,” admitted 

the producer in Doctor Who Magazine, 
“genuinely shocked at the interest.” The 
police were informed of the situation and 
extra crowd control was arranged. David 
Morrissey was amazed at the interest 
when he arrived on location with David 
Tennant, noting, “David was fantastic. He 
was brilliant about how he just went over 
there and signed autographs and talked 

to people.” After dusk, the sequence of 
the Doctor and Rosita running down the 
alleyway was recorded, followed by shots 
of Londoners running in panic at the sight 
of the CyberKing, and Rosita and a docker 
looking up at the colossus. 


birthday bash on Monday 21 April, 

while the Western Daily Press ran 
a story by Janet Hughes about location 
recording in Monmouth the following 
week under the title Doctor Who set for 
Face-Off with Traders. Monmouthshire 
County Council had apparently upset 
business leaders after tourists and market 
traders had been denied access to the 
Shire Hall prior to a major restoration 
project; however, the BBC team would be 
allowed to use the area, as they had done 


T he Sun reported on David Tennant’s 


for The Unquiet Dead back in September 
2004. This was the latest incident in a 
controversial £2 million makeover funded 
by the lottery. Work in Gloucester that 
day was scheduled to run from 3.30pm 
to 3.30am, with Dervla Kirwan rejoining 
the team at College Green. A Victorian 
hearse, four black horses and a Hansom 
cab were provided by Kilvey Carriage 
House, and formed the centrepiece of 
the opening sequence for the day as the 
Doctors watched the funeral procession 
departing from the Reverend Fairchild’s. 
After darkness had fallen, the sequence of 
Miss Hartigan dispatching the conditioned 
mourners was recorded, followed by the 
scenes of the Doctor and Jackson at the 
conclusion of the tale - which was covered 
by Doctor Who Confidential. 

Tuesday 22 April saw pictures from 
the outdoor work the previous night in 
the Daily Mail (David Morrissey to star in 
Doctor Who Christmas Special featuring deadly 
Cybermen) and London Lite (So Who’s funeral 
are they filming, David?) with further similar 
coverage in the Western Mail and on the 


website of CBBC’s Newsround. Recording Above: 
around Millers Green and College Street a 
began at 8pm with the sequence of the spirit, 
heroes making for Latimer Street. After 

this, the scenes of a Cybershade watching 

the children on the move were recorded, 

along with Rosita evacuating the last of the 
youngsters in a later scene. This sequence 

called for around 30 young extras, and had 

to be carefully scheduled and controlled 

because of regulations governing child 

performers. Next, the conclusion of the 

closing scene between the Doctors was 

completed at the TARDIS, leaving the rest 

of the night through to Sam for crowd 

sequences of Londoners reacting to the 

CyberKing and elements of the closing 

scene. Bangs and flashes were triggered by 

Any Effects, while Tom Lucy supervised 

the shots in which two men - stunt artists 

Jason Hunjan and Maurice Lee - were 

blasted off their feet with the help of 

hidden trampolines. Also present for the 

location shoot was American satirist Joe 

Queenan, who was interviewing Danny 

Hargreaves of Any Effects about his career 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY (207 


THENEXTDOCTOR »sowi9 


Right: 

Miss Hartigan 
lines up 

her men, 


in special effects for the Radio 4 series 
A Wonderful Way to Make a Living. As 
well as Hargreaves’ comments about his 
effects work for the forthcoming episode, 
Joe chatted to some of the onlookers at 
the location. 

It is dead cold for the Doctor remarked 
The Sun on Wednesday 23, carrying 
photographs taken during location work 
on the episode, while Hello! magazine ran 
a similar story entitled David films ‘Dr Who’ 
Christmas Special in ‘snowy’ Gloucester and 
Peter Dyke penned Dr Who e& The Xmas 
Special for the Daily Star; that evening BBC 
West’s Points West carried a piece about the 
location work in the city with enthusiastic 
reactions from young onlookers. Doctor 
Who Confidential was also on set alongside 
the BBC crew for the 8pm to Sam shoot in 
the vicinity of Berkeley Street. Tim Barter 
of The Mill was on hand to plan plate 
shots into which the CyberKing could 
be added, while the main work covered 
the procession of the Victorian children 
watched by the Doctor and Rosita, and 
then further material beneath the looming 
CyberKing as Jackson and Rosita witnessed 
its defeat. 


uring Thursday 24, the crew 
relocated to Monmouth where the 


controversial Shire Hall location 


in Agincourt Square was to form the 
docklands street from Victorian London 
between 8.30pm and Sam... once a car 
parked in the street next to the building 
had been obscured by the BBC’s props. 
Doctor Who Confidential and David Bailey 
of Doctor Who Magazine were present 

to record the events for the long, cold 
night for posterity, while Ailsa Berk was 
on hand to rehearse Cyber-movements. 
First, the sequence of the youngsters 


108 DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


fleeing with Rosita’s help was recorded, 
after which the arrival of the children at 


the court of the CyberKing was recorded. 
The main scene for the evening was the 
confrontation between the Doctor’s 
party and Miss Hartigan plus her metallic 
colleagues. Tom Lucy supervised the action 
of Rosita punching Miss Hartigan, with 
a crash mat for Kirwan to fall onto out 
of shot. Another shot, which was picked 
up, was one of the Cybershade watching 
the Doctor early in the episode; this had 
caused considerable problems as earlier 
takes had made it look like it was sitting 
on a wall like a parrot. Recording also 
included the montage of the Doctor which 
drew upon images from Blink, Tooth and 
Claw [2006 - see Volume 51], The Runaway 
Bride [2006 - see Volume 54], Voyage of the 
Damned [2007 - see Volume 57] and The 
Lazarus Experiment [2007 - see Volume 55}. 
In the meantime, back at Upper Boat 
the set of the Cyber HQ had been taking 
shape, with Andy Goddard and his team 
performing a recce on this back at base 
at Spm on Friday 25. This set had been 
built on the area occupied by the Hub, 


{ 
’ i 


the main standing set for Torchwood, 
which had not been used since November 


2007 and would not be required again 
until August. Although Russell T Davies 
had agreed to this, it had been on the 
condition that it could be turned back 
into the Hub afterwards, and that it was 
not recognisable in its Doctor Who guise. 
Following this, the production team 
departed for another night shoot back 
at Tredegar House from 8pm to Sam. 
Work started in the factory yard for the 
material with the other Doctor’s TARDIS 
- the balloon basket, raised aloft ona 
crane - before continuing with Victorian 
street scenes including Jackson leading 
the applause for the Doctor. David Bailey 
was again present to report on events for 
Doctor Who Magazine. “It’s been a pretty 
gruelling week, this one,” David Tennant 
told the magazine. “Not least because 
we're at the end of a 10-month shoot now, 
so everyone’s resources are stretched to 
breaking point. Everyone’s absolutely just 
pushing on through to the end.” 

On Sunday 27 April, Tennant recorded 
an episode of Nebulous, the Radio 4 


_ Connections: 


science-fiction sitcom 
starring Mark Gatiss. 


Recording resumed on the Revolution 
Cyber HQ set in Studio 1 > Miss Hartigan refers 
to the start of the 


at Upper Boat from 8am to 
7pm - the standard hours 
for the rest of the week - on 
Monday 28 April. Recording 
started with the children 
entering the chamber to start 
work, with first assistant 
director Richard Harris 
supervising the youngsters 
and directing them in their 
required motions on the 


ndustrial Revolution; this 
was a period from the late 
eighteenth century where 
manufacturing in the 
United Kingdom began to 
shift from manual labour 
to mechanised production, 
through to the Second 
Industrial Revolution 
around 1850 which was 


set, as shown on Doctor Who particularly driven by the 

Confidential. Benjamin Cook SaRo Tar pre RURIES! 

was again on set, this time eStats cial 
the massive spread of the 


to speak to Davids Tennant 
and Morrissey on behalf of 
Radio Times. A professional 
from Specsavers visited the studio to test 
the black contact lenses that would be 
worn by Dervla Kirwan, and the actress 
also did a test with the helmet with which 
she became the CyberKing. However, this 
looked too much like that worn by the 
partially cybernised Lisa in Cyberwoman, 
a 2006 episode of Torchwood, and so 
was subsequently changed. Recording 
continued with the arrival of the Doctor’s 
party and the subsequent evacuation. 
Tuesday 29 April required only the 
two Doctors and young Tom Langford as 
Jackson’s son, Frederic. Most of the Cyber 
HQ material was completed while Doctor 
Who Confidential watched production, 
focusing on the action sequence in which 
Tom Lucy and Bob Schofield supervised 
stunts and wirework for the Doctor’s 
rescue of Frederic; for this, Tom Langford 
was wired to Tennant’s safety harness. 
Stuntman Nick Goodey doubled for David 
Morrissey in the shot where Jackson was 
thrown back by the explosion. Also on 


railway network, 


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110 


The two Davids 
out on location. 


set was Esther Freud, David Morrissey’s 
novelist wife, who had played a Cryon called 
Threst in Attack of the Cybermen [1985 - see 
Volume 40], while the Cyber HQ was visited 
by actress Joan Collins and her daughter, 
writer and presenter Tara Newley. 


WireworkR 


i he remaining Cyber HQ scenes were 
recorded on Wednesday 30, covering 
the escape of the Doctor’s party, early 

scenes of the Cybermen planning their 
attack, and the Cyberleader recognising the 
Doctor. In the meantime, a second camera 
unit was working on the greenscreen area 
of Studio 6 to record wirework shots of the 
Cybershade climbing, the Doctor swinging 
down with Frederic and also replication 
shots of children on the platforms in 
Cyber HQ. Once again, Tom Lucy and 
Bob Schofield were essential personnel 
for this work. David Tennant spoke 
to Doctor Who Confidential at 11.30am; 
due to leave Cardiff at the weekend, his 
schedule was now carefully arranged to 
fit in promotional items and podcast 
commentary recordings. 

Two units were again at work at 
Upper Boat on Thursday 1 May, joined 
by a variety of additional camera crews. 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


Lizo Mzimba and a crew from CBBC’s 


Newsround were present from early in 

the day to cover work on the TARDIS 

set with the two Davids, who were also 
due to perform a special photoshoot 
together. The TARDIS material featured at 
the end of the episode was recorded, after 
which director Graeme Harper arrived 

to record the new ending for Journey’s 

End - this time with the soaked Doctor 

at the console without the Cybermen. 
Some underground tunnel scenes with 
the children and the Doctor’s party then 
followed on further redressed standing 
sets from Torchwood, in this case sewers 
which had featured in Daleks in Manhattan/ 
Evolution of the Daleks [2007 - see Volume 
55] and appeared as the fortune teller’s 
room in Turn Left. By now, impressionist 
and Doctor Who fan Jon Culshaw had 
arrived to record an item for BBC One’s 
The One Show. Benjamin Cook was also 
on set representing Doctor Who Magazine, 
while David Morrissey was interviewed 
by the BBC Interactive team for the 
Doctor Who website; the actor said his best 
moment on the show had been earlier 
that day when he entered the TARDIS for 
the first time: “Fulfilling an ambition of 
working on Doctor Who.” Work with the 
second unit continued into the evening in 


of the Cybermen and the sonic screwdriver 
in the townhouse, the Cybershade landing 
in the warehouse and the Cybershade 
scuttling along. 

Recording on Friday 2 May began with 
the scenes in the CyberKing Chamber 
with Miss Hartigan being crowned, after 
which came a Radio Times photoshoot with 
Dervla Kirwan. Work then continued with 
some of the material in the CyberKing 
Throne. Although David Tennant had 
already recorded his dialogue for the 
climax of the episode, he attended the 
studios to read in the Doctor’s lines 
for Kirwan to react to, and had earlier 
recorded an interview with Doctor Who 
Confidential from 2pm. Meanwhile, 

a second unit did insert shots of the 
Cybermen for various sequences in the 
docklands streets. Russell T Davies and 
Julie Gardner visited the set during the 
throne recordings. 

The final day of the shoot, Saturday 3 
May, completed the remaining CyberKing 
Throne sequences, focusing on Dervla 


Studio 6, capturing additional insert shots | 
ll 


PRODUCTION 


a 


Production 


Kirwan and with Doctor Who Confidential 
present. Meanwhile, in the adjoining 
studio at Upper Boat, David Tennant was 
recording the insert for the Doctor Who at 
the Proms and some promotional items for 
BBC Wales. 

For Kirwan, a make-up change was 
scheduled towards the end of the day 
so that the final two scenes marked her 
transformation into the CyberKing. The 
actress had enjoyed her time on Doctor 
Who, commenting that her red dress as 
Miss Hartigan had been her favourite 
costume ever and how she would like to 
come back as Mercy’s “good twin”. 

“It was a long trip,” remarked Russell 
T Davies on the episode commentary, 
noting that this concluded 10 months of 
production on Doctor Who and heralded 
a break of eight months until recording 
would resume on the Specials. This 
episode would also see the departure 
of Susie Liggat who, as a fully fledged 
producer, would go on to helm other 
projects such as the drama Blood and Oil 
made by Tiger Aspect for BBC Two. 


Mon 7 - Tue 8 Apr 08 Fonmon Castle, 
Fonmon, Rhoose (Townhouse) 

Wed 9 - Thu 10 Apr 08 St Woolos 
Cemetery, Bassaleg Road, Newport 
(Graveyard) 

Fri11 Apr 08 Upper Boat Studios, 
Treforrest: Night Sky/Balloon 

Sun 13 - Mon14 Apr 08 The Maltings, 
East Tyndall Street, Cardiff Bay 
(Courtyard) 

Tue 15 Apr 08 Building 568, Caerwent 
Training Area, Dinham Rd, Caldicot, 
Caerwent (Warehouse) 

Wed 16 Apr 08 Tredegar House, 
Newport (Factory Outhouse/ 

Factory Street) 


Thu 17 Apr 08 Tredegar House 

(Factory Outhouse) 

Fri 18 Apr 08 Hensol Castle, Hensol, 
Vale of Glamorgan (Underground Tunnels/ 
Dark Enclosed Space) 

Sun 20 Apr 08 Millers Green, Gloucester 
Cathedral, Gloucester (Victorian Street 1/ 
Alleyways/Dockside) 

Mon 21 Apr 08 Millers Green (Posh 
Victorian Street/Back of Townhouse/ 
Victorian Street 2/Victorian Street 1) 

Tue 22 Apr 08 Millers Green 
(Alleyways/Victorian Street 1/ 

Docklands Street) 

Wed 23 Apr 08 Millers Green (Victorian 
Street 2/Victorian Street 1) 

Thu 24 Apr 08 Shire Hall, Agincourt 


SS = = 


Square, Monmouth (Docklands Street) 
Fri 25 Apr 08 Tredegar House (Factory 
Yard/Victorian Street 3) 

Mon 28 - Tue 29 Apr 08 Upper Boat 
Studios - Studio 1: Cyber HQ 

Wed 30 Apr 08 Upper Boat Studios - 
Studio 1: Cyber HQ/Studios 6 & 2: 

Green Studio 

Thu 1 May 08 Upper Boat Studios - 
Studio 1: TARDIS/Underground Tunnels/ 
Studio 6: Townhouse/Warehouse/ 
Green Studio 

Fri 2 May 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
CyberKing Chamber/CyberKing Throne/ 
Docklands Street 

Sat 3 May 08 Upper Boat Studios: 
CyberKing Throne 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY a 


THE NEXT DOCTOR” 


Festive cheer. 


y July 2008, a 60-minute edit 

of The Next Doctor had been 

completed and The Mill was 

at work on all the computer- 

generated imagery needed 

to finish the show off. It was 
originally intended that the first scene in 
Cyber HQ would follow the opening titles, 
but this was moved down the running 
order. As such, some of the Cybermen 
dialogue was redubbed to suit this new 
positioning, with the line “Cybershade 
16 has been discovered” changed to 
“Cybershade 16 has made contact” and 
the Cyberleader’s, “Order it to withdraw,” 
altered to, “Observe the enemy.” The start 
of the next scene, back in the courtyard, 
was then trimmed to remove the Doctor 
asking, “But what’s it doing here?” and 


DOCTOR WHO | THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


the other Doctor’s reply, “It’s fallen into 
my trap!” 

After the Doctor had tried to stir 
a memory in the newcomer with his 
comments about blinking, he originally 
made to get out his stethoscope, saying, 
“D’you mind if I just...” as the other 
Doctor remembered the funeral. A short 
scene was cut to speed up the narrative as 
the two Doctors entered the townhouse 
of the Reverend Fairchild. “You should 
make your escape, Mr Smith, I have work 
to do,” advised the other Doctor as they 
looked around the hallway. “Ohh, can’t I 
stay?” asked the Doctor, “I could be your 
companion. Always room for one more! 
Oh I like this! So what are we looking 
for, Doctor?” “Signs of alien infiltration,” 
explained the stranger. “Oh good!” 


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remarked the Doctor as the pair headed As Rosita and the Doctor first glimpsed 
for the drawing room. Once inside the the line of children, the Doctor observed, 
room, another exchange was droppedas = “Someone’s on the march.” “Nice night for 
the other Doctor noted the Reverend’s it, sir!” laughed a lad nearby while an old 
involvement in children’s charity, adding, crone cackled, “I'll buy one for a farthing!” 2 
“Oh, he was famously good to them. When Miss Hartigan told the Doctor and 
He'd discipline them, birch them, send Rosita that the Empire would bow down 
them to the workhouse.” “Lovely. Nice in worship, Rosita asked, “But how can 
man,” replied the Doctor dryly. This you side with them?” “Then tell me girl,” 
cut shortened a sequence that Davies replied the matron, “just look at your life. 
found cold and unsettling, more akin What other choice does a woman of this 
to Torchwood. world have?” 

At the end of the staircase sequence as Originally when Miss Hartigan asked to 
the Doctor checked out his colleague’s be shown the CyberKing, the Cyberleader 
heart, he added, “But we’re still alive, eh? responded, “Units six and seven will guard 
That’s not bad! That big old heart of yours = and maintain the machine.” After the 
is still beating, Doctor... That one, single Cyberleader revealed how Miss Hartigan 
heart.” This was dropped because it was had been lied to, she attempted to run 
felt to confirm that the other Doctor was but was quickly apprehended by two 
not a Time Lord too early in the story. Cybermen as she screamed, “Don’t you 

When the Doctor told his friend that he dare! Don’t you dare!” The start of the 
had worked out how he had become the next scene in the tunnels was trimmed 
Doctor, he originally continued, “But it’s to remove the Doctor’s comment, 
not easy. Becoming the Doctor never is.” As “Something’s powering up.” 
he explained about the story starting with 
the Cybermen, the Doctor then described . 
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“T will rise. And the world will behold 


me, in terror!” As the Doctor prepared to 
jump down with Frederic on the rope, he 
originally added, “Tell you what. Close 
your eyes. I would.” Down below, Jackson 
called out, “Oh excellent sir! Excellent!” 
Many of the later short sequences changed 
order in the final edit, and after Miss 
Hartigan decreed that the governments 
were to surrender, she added, “The old 
men will bow down, and they will come 
to me. To be converted into glory!” When 
Jackson showed Rosita his son, he added, 
“T must have thought him dead.” Thrown 
back into a doorway by an explosion, 


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Rosita exclaimed, “There’s no escape, sir! 
We could run a thousand miles and that 
creature would find us...” 

Murray Gold’s incidental music score 
for The Next Doctor was recorded in two 
sessions on Tuesday 7 October, conducted 
by Ben Foster with the 85-piece BBC 
National Orchestra of Wales led by 
Lesley Hatfield; a total of 38 cues were 
recorded in the afternoon and evening 
at Studio 1 of BBC Llandaff in Cardiff 
with Gerry O’Riordan acting as engineer 
and Nick Foster performing additional 
programming. The cues were then mixed 
by Jack Jackson over the next two days at 
AIR Studio 1. 

The Next Doctor was completed and 
locked shortly before broadcast. The Mill 
had performed all its CGI work which 
included adding sparks as the Cybermen 
were struck by a cutlass, painting the 
eye area around Kirwan’s contact lenses 
black, and shaking the picture as London 


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accordance with Peter McKinstry’s design. 
There was, though, time to add droplets 
of water as the giant arose from what Mill 
expert Dave Houghton had assumed would 
be the frozen River Thames. London of 
1851 had been similarly built by The Mill, 
but during the FX review Susie Liggat 
realised that she could see Tower Bridge... 
which had only started construction in 
1886. Hastily the sequence was amended 
to paint out the structure, and Julie 
Gardner also asked The Mill for an extra 
shot of the city thanking the Doctor as he 
looked down from the other TARDIS. 


he infostamp images included the 
title page of the First Folio of the 


plays of William Shakespeare, an 
unattributed seventeenth-century painting 
of the Great Fire of London, a map of 
London in 1593 by John Norden, a plan of 
the Tower of London from 1597, a 1616 
engraving of London by Claes Visscher, a 
revised image of the Globe theatre from 
Wenceslas Hollar’s 1647 etching Long View 
of London, an oil painting of Westminster 
Abbey by Canaletto from 1749, the 
1812 engraving The Leader of the Luddites 
depicting Ned Ludd, and an illustration of 
Arden of Faversham. 

David Morrissey received star billing 
after David Tennant on the opening title 
sequence. The producer and director 
credits were added over the scene of the 
Doctors discussing the Cybershade, and 
the closing credits promised that ‘Doctor 
Who will return in Planet of the Dead’; two 
versions of the end titles - which featured 
the new BBC Wales Cymru logo - were 
prepared, a 30-second version fitting BBC 
broadcast guidelines and a 44-second 
version which would feature on DVDs and 
satellite broadcasts. ll 


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® While post-production was under way, 
earlier in the process, Thursday 8 May 
was a ‘summit day’ for incoming and 
existing production teams. Russell T 
Davies, Julie Gardner and Piers Wenger 
engaged in a conference call with Jane 
Tranter, David Tennant and Steven 
Moffat to discuss when Tennant’s 
departure should be announced. While 
the actor himself wanted to wait until 
after Christmas, Davies knew it would 
leak by then. The BBC was also keen 
to announce Moffat’s appointment, 
which would create speculation about 
the current lead’s exit. 


»® The news that Moffat was to succeed 
Davies as lead writer and executive 
producer was confirmed by the BBC 
in a press release on Tuesday 20 May. 
The award-winning writer’s new 
appointment generated a great deal 
of press coverage including BBC radio 
and television news. 


»® David Morrissey ‘refused to scotch 
rumours’ that he might indeed be the 
next Doctor when discussed in the 
article Liverpool actor David Morrissey 
could be next Doctor Who in the Liverpool 
Echo on Friday 4 July. 


® Atrailer for The Next Doctor promising 
‘The return of the Cybermen’ aired on 
Saturday 5 July as Journey’s End drew 
the current series of Doctor Who to an 
end on BBC One. Davies had been 
undecided whether to include a trailer 


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or just to display the episode title, and Above: 


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ruminated in Doctor Who Magazine, fhe rampane, 


“Should we hold the title back, because 
actually, it’s a tricky little giveaway.” 


»® Steven Moffat and Julie Gardner 


attended Comic-Con International 
2008 in San Diego over the weekend 
of Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 July; the 
duo featured on a panel together and 
screened an extended trailer for the 
Christmas Special on the first day. 


® The afternoon of Thursday 11 


September saw Russell T Davies at 

the BBC Television Centre in London 
for a script meeting on the Specials, 
but he found himself grabbed by Jane 
Tranter for a discussion about the 
announcement of Tennant’s departure 
from Doctor Who. Tennant had again 
been nominated for Outstanding 
Drama Performance at the National 
Television Awards in late October, and 


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since these were to be televised 

live he suggested revealing his finale 
as the Doctor during his acceptance 
speech... should he win the viewer 
vote. The actor’s concern was that 

in the coming months, Steven 
Moffat and Piers Wenger would be 
interviewing to cast a new Doctor, 
making news of his departure from 
the TARDIS likely to leak. As such, 
he wanted to be in control of the 
situation. A live broadcast was the 
best option on a programme such as 
BBC One’s Breakfast; Friday Night with 
Jonathan Ross had been considered, but 
since this was pre-recorded the night 
before transmission, the news would 
immediately leak. 


® At the start of the following week, 

it was revealed that Tennant had 

also been nominated for a TONY 
Shadow Emmy award by Time Out 
New York in the category Outstanding 
Lead Actor in a Drama Series. On 
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Davies’ abandoned idea to cast JK 
Rowling in a festive Special with its 
story Dr exterminates role for Rowling 
and the same paper ran a piece on 
the Christmas episode from Colin 
Robertson entitled Doc meets up with 
Doc Two the next day in which Davies 
commented on the Doctor meeting 


his future self. 


»® Thursday 18 saw Russell T Davies 
and Ben Cook on BBC One’s Breakfast 
discussing their forthcoming book, 
The Writer’s Tale, at 9am. The Stage 
ran The new Doctor Who is... by Mark 
Wright which noted that David 
Morrissey played ‘an alternate version 
of the Time Lord’ in the forthcoming 
Christmas Special. 


D West Sussex Gazette ran a story 
entitled Who's that girl? New assistant 
for the Doctor lands in West Sussex on 
Wednesday 24 September. In this, Phil 
Hewitt chatted to Velile Tshabalala 
about her work on the Christmas 
adventure, and when the question 
of becoming a regular companion 
arose, the actress commented, “A lot 
of people have been saying that it 
hasn't yet been decided who the next 
assistant will be. But obviously I would 
love to do more.” 


® Seven Dr Whos set for reunion was the 
optimistic title of an article by Duncan 
Gardham of The Daily Telegraph on 
Sunday 12 October in which it was 
claimed that all the surviving actors 
who had played the Doctor would 
reunite for the Children in Need 
broadcast on BBC One on Friday 14 
November; a BBC ‘insider’ commented, 


“It’s a pretty ambitious idea and it’s still | 


being finalised. Everything is being 
kept under wraps but Doctor Who fans 
are in for a big treat.” 


® Alongside John Barrowman, Davies 
attended The Times’ Cheltenham 
Literature Festival at Cheltenham 
Racecourse on Sunday 12 October 
to talk to journalist Caitlin Moran 
in an evening session which was 
covered on BBC News. During the 
talk, Davies joked that the Doctor’s 
first name was Keith (“Keith Who!”) 
and discussed Prince Charles turning 
down an invitation to appear in the 
series (joking that he was a “miserable 
swine”); this prompted the article 
Prince Charles exterminates Dr Who 
cameo from Daniel Bates in the Daily 
Mail the next day. 


® Alongside Tennant, Catherine 
Tate was also short-listed in the 
Outstanding Drama Performance 
category at the National Television 
Awards, where Doctor Who had also 
been nominated as Most Popular 
Drama. With a backstage link to 
Stratford agreed, everything was 
set for David’s announcement, which 
was codenamed Operation COBRA 
(after Cabinet Office Briefing Room 
Alpha at Whitehall which featured 
in Torchwood: Children of Earth). 
On Friday 17 October, BBC News 
contacted the production team with 
regards to running a story about 
how the Corporation was looking 
for Tennant’s successor; Piers Wenger 
took the decision to stick to the 
COBRA plan being co-ordinated by 
Julie Gardner. 


® On Friday 24 October it was Above: 


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announced that a special two- the Doctor 


minute preview of The Next Doctor 
would be broadcast as part of BBC 
One’s Children in Need on Friday 

14 November. However, before the 
teaser sequence could air, Operation 
COBRA was to reach fruition. A press 
release was assembled on Monday 

27 October with quotes from Davies; 
this would not be issued until 7pm on 
Wednesday, after everyone was inside 
the Royal Albert Hall for the awards. 
On Tuesday 28, BBC entertainment 
correspondent Lizo Mzimba and the 
Doctor Who Confidential crew recorded 
a secret interview with David about 
his reasons for leaving Doctor Who, 
which would then be screened by the 
BBC following the announcement. 

In the interview, Tennant confirmed 
that Davies had given him no hints as 
to how his Doctor would be written 
out, and mischievously suggested that 
Jimmy Krankie, AKA comedian Janette 
Tough, could be the next incarnation 
of the Time Lord. 


® Wednesday 29 arrived, and that 


afternoon Davies and Ben Cook 
recorded an appearance on the 
Halloween edition of Richard & Judy’s 
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Friday 31 October, promoting The 
Writer’s Tale, answering questions from 
apple-bobbing fans and being shown 
both Doctor Who and Dalek pumpkins. 
Davies then proceeded from the Cactus 
Studios in Lambeth to the Royal 
Albert Hall to join Julie Gardner, Piers 
Wenger, Steven Moffat, Jane Tranter, 
Catherine Tate, Elisabeth Sladen, 
Camille Coduri and Noel Clarke in the 
audience; although Tate was already 
briefed about COBRA to interact with 
David on the link-up, the others were 
informed of what was happening at 
6pm. Voting closed at 6.30pm and at 
6.52pm Davies was told that David 
had won his category and Operation 
COBRA was on. 


® Doctor Who won the category of Most 


Popular Drama, with the award 
collected from the Duchess of York 

by Tate, Davies, Clarke, Sladen and 
Coduri to music from Journey’s End. 
Later on came the nominations for 
Best Drama Performance with both 
Tennant and Tate represented by 
extracts from Journey’s End. Tennant 
was announced as the winner by actor 
Zachary Quinto, and then appeared 
on the live link-up at a rain-soaked 
stage door in Stratford during the 
intermission in Hamlet. Having 
thanked “the best bunch of people 

in the world” who made the series, 
Tennant continued, “In January, I 

go back to Cardiff to make four new 
Specials which will see Doctor Who all 
the way through 2009. But... when 
Doctor Who returns in 2010, it won’t be 
with me. The 2009 shows will be my 
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don’t take a deep breath and move on 
now, I never will and you'll be wheeling 
me out of the TARDIS in my bath 
chair. I think it’s better I don’t overstay 
my welcome. So, it’s been the most 
brilliant, mad, life-changing time...” 
Tate then accepted his award on stage, 
quipping, “You're not getting it back.” 


“We all knew he was going to 
announce it at the awards - we 
planned it months and months 

ago,” Davies told the Evening Post. 
“We thought we could issue a press 
release or we could send a live 
transmission on ITV to eight million 
viewers. And it worked. We thought it 
would get leaked, but it didn’t, which 
was brilliant.” 


» Naturally, the press leapt upon the 


story, with extensive coverage the next 
day. On BBC One, Breakfast played part 
of Tennant’s interview and discussed 
the announcement with Lizo Mzimba 
at 7.25am. ‘Favourites’ to succeed 
David were named as Paterson Joseph 
(who had appeared as Rodrick in 

Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways). The 
trailer for The Next Doctor shown at 
Comic-Con was added to Tennant’s 
interview for press usage. Meanwhile 


in Cardiff, Davies did a signing session | 
at the reopened Doctor Who exhibition, | 
complete with Cybermen bursting 
through polystyrene doors. 


® Davies and Cook’s recorded 
appearance on Richard @& Judy’s New 
Position aired on Friday 31 October, 
while Newsround covered Tennant’s 
forthcoming departure, talking to 
younger viewers who suggested 
new Doctors such as Kris Marshall, 
Johnny Depp, Gary Oldman or Ewan 
McGregor with comments from Doctor 
Who Adventures editor Moray Laing. 


® On Monday 3 November, David 
Tennant himself appeared on BBC 
One’s Breakfast around 8.30am to 
discuss his career decision. After 
looking at memorable moments from 
his tenure, he answered questions from 
viewers. He also explained that David 
Morrissey played a character called ‘the 
Doctor’ in the forthcoming Special. 


® Fuelled by the interviews, the press 
continued to speculate on Tennant’s 
successor. Exterminate the male monopoly 
cried Lucy Mangan in The Guardian 
on Tuesday 4, calling for a female 
Doctor. Dawn French and Eve Myles 
were also mentioned in an overview 
of odds offered by the bookmakers, 
while male favourites included David 
Morrissey, comedy actor David 
Walliams and former EastEnders actor 
Tom Ellis (who had played Martha’s 
fiancé Tom Milligan in Last of the Time 
Lords). In his Radio 2 programme on 
Wednesday 5, Terry Wogan suggested 
that the new Doctor’s identity might 
be revealed on Children in Need. The 


Stage’s Liz Thomas asked Who says the 
Doctor can’t be a woman? on Thursday 
6. The same day, David Morrissey 
spoke to the trade paper about the 
forthcoming Christmas Special: “As for 
any talk of me taking over as the next 
Doctor, well, if or when they do choose 
someone, they would have to be totally 
different to David, which I am!” the 
actor told The Stage. Davies recorded 
an interview for the BBC Four 

series Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe on 
Thursday 6 November to discuss the 
art of television writing in general; this 
was broadcast on Tuesday 2 December. 
The Times also tackled the subject 

of casting on Friday 7 November in 
Caitlin Moran’s Celebrity Watch when 
names such as Lenny Henry, Stephen 
Fry, Eddie Izzard, Alan Davies, Tom 
Ellis, Richard Armitage, Russell Brand, 
Joanna Lumley, John Simm and 
Catherine Tate were catalogued 

as candidates. 


® By Saturday 8, Colin Salmon - who 
had featured as Doctor Moon in Silence 
in the Library/Forest of the Dead - was 
being hotly tipped to be announced 


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Men in black. Meanwhile in Wales, the 400 lucky 


winners of TARDIS keys for Doctor 
Who: Backstage started to arrive and 
visit the Upper Boat set; over the 
weekend various parties were shown 
the TARDIS, the Hub, Sarah Jane’s 
attic (taking part in a special audio 
adventure to help K9 fight off an 
attacking Sontaran spaceship hosted 
by Jacqueline King who played Donna’s 
mother, Sylvia) and many other 
wonders, having been greeted by a 
recorded message from David Tennant: 
“Be careful. When you're in the 
TARDIS, watch what you touch. I can’t 
be there to help you. You never know 
where you'll end up.” The tour guides 
for Team Hath, Team Ood, Team 
Slitheen and Team Judoon over the 
weekend were Davies, Julie Gardner, 
John Barrowman and Eve Myles; 
Barrowman and Myles were in the last 
stages of recording Torchwood. Costume 
designer Louise Page discussed her 
work in the Chandras’ home, Myles 
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set, there was a chance to fight a 
Pyrovile from The Fires of Pompeii using 
greenscreen, see Cybermen, Ood and 
scarecrows from Human Nature/The 
Family of Blood in the Torchwood cells, 
encounter the 456 alien on the set 
for Children of Earth and see Danny 
Hargreaves demonstrating small 
explosions on the TARDIS set with 
Phil Collinson. Lizo Mzimba reported 
on the event for BBC News on 
Saturday 8, with Lucy Owen talking 
to Davies and the excited families on 
the TARDIS set for BBC Wales Today. 
“Tt’s the kids’ reactions which are the 
best thing of all,” Davies observed of 
the event. 


® In The Stage on Tuesday 11 November, 


Mark Wright considered Who Could Be 
Who? and as his first choice proposed 
Chiwetel Ejiofor. Next day, it was 
announced that Julie Gardner would 
be leaving BBC Wales to join Jane 
Tranter working for BBC Worldwide 
in the USA from Boxing Day. The 
pre-credit sequence of The Next Doctor 
was shown as part of BBC One’s 
Children in Need at around 9.05pm on 
Friday 14 November, with host Tess 
Daly speculating on “who might be 
the next Time Lord” with the “sneak 
preview”. “For those of you worried 
about spoilers, rest assured that 

the pre-titles sequence doesn’t give 
too much away,” Davies informed 
Doctor Who Magazine readers while 
encouraging them to donate. 


® David Tennant’s performances in 


Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet 
concluded at Stratford on Saturday 
15 November, prior to the season 


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relocating to the Novello Theatre in 
London during December. 


® To mark the release of the 2008 
episodes in a DVD box set from 
2|entertain and the Silva Screen CD 
of Doctor Who: Original Television 
Soundtrack — Series 4 on Monday 17 
November, a series of projections 
illuminated the skylines of London and 
Cardiff, including a Dalek on Battersea 
Power Station. 


® The Daily Telegraph’s Michael Deacon 
continued to ponder Doctor Who: the 
man who must be the new Doctor on 
Wednesday 19, and concluded that 
the new Doctor would most likely 
not be David Morrissey, nor any of 
the other favourites; the journalist 
instead nominated Welsh actor Rhys 
Ifans. On Thursday 20, BBC News’ 
Who favourite talks Time Lords spoke to 
the hotly tipped Paterson Joseph who 
commented, “I’m afraid I can’t make 
any comment on it. I’m not a gambler. 
And I don’t approve of gambling unless 
it’s for the Grand National.” 


® An interview with David Tennant 
appeared in the Telegraph Magazine 
courtesy of Vicki Reid on Sunday 23, 


and on Monday 24 the actor presented 
the editor’s award at the Evening 
Standard Theatre Awards at the Royal 
Opera House. Simultaneously at the 
Intercontinental Hotel in London's 
Park Lane, Midnight [2008 - see 
Volume 59] was winning the award 
for Best Sound (Drama) at the annual 
Royal Television Society Craft and 
Design Awards for sound recordist 
Julian Howarth, dubbing mixer Tim 
Ricketts, supervising sound editor Paul 
McFadden and sound FX editor Paul 
Jefferies. Earlier that day in the Daily 
Mirror, Spooks star - and partner to 
Dervla Kirwan - Rupert Penry-Jones 
confirmed that he hadn’t been asked 
to take over as the Doctor. Monday 
24 had also seen Jen Blackburn's 
article Doc in Cyber Special in The Sun, 
focusing on the guest appearance by 
Dervla Kerwin with photographs 
from filming. 


® Following up his earlier piece, Mark 
Wright’s next Who Could Be Who? 
article in The Stage appeared on 
Tuesday 25 November and focused 
on Benedict Cumberbatch, while also 
noting that Paterson Joseph - then 
in BBC One’s Survivors - was now 
being hotly tipped as the new Doctor. 
The same day, the Coventry Telegraph 
ran items on how diminutive actor 
Warwick Davis craved the role of the 
Doctor, while former Davros actor 
Terry Molloy nominated 86-year-old 
Liz Smith as Tennant’s successor. 


»® Thursday 27 November found Davies 
and Gardner attending a BBC Drama 
Writers’ Academy at Elstree. Principal 
recording on Torchwood Series Three 


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wrapped on Friday 28 November, 

the same day that Russell T Davies 
received his OBE for services to drama 
from Prince Charles at Buckingham 
Palace... with the prince explaining 
how he had only just heard that the 
BBC had wanted him to appear in 
Doctor Who. At the same time, David 
Tennant and David Morrissey did 
their ADR work dubbing The Next 
Doctor. Rosita’s line, “And back to 

the TARDIS, right?” was dropped in 
as she left the two Doctors outside 

the warehouse. Also added was the 
Doctor’s observation about the starter 
motor after the children’s escape. 


® On Saturday 29 November, Davies 
took centre stage at the Barbican Hall 
for Inside the World of Doctor Who, a 
special event for the 2008 London 
Children’s Film Festival. CBBC 


presenter Kirsten O’Brien - who had 


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co-hosted the second run of Totally 
Doctor Who in 2007 - arrived by 
TARDIS to speak to Davies before an 
audience of children and their parents 
where the showrunner encouraged 
creativity amongst the youngsters; 

“T do exactly what you do in school 
for a living: make up stories,” he 
explained. Within the space of a 
minute, Davies improvised a story 
with elements from the audience 
which was set on Venus in the year 
1,002,008 and featured Davros, Daleks 
and Sarah Jane in a hurricane with 

a stepladder and an aardvark (“We 
will literally see that on television”). 
Cybermen, Ood, Scarecrows and a 
Dalek (operated by Barnaby Edwards) 
invaded the auditorium, Neill Gorton 
demonstrated Millennium’s work 

on the show, Will Cohen discussed 
The Mill’s use of CGI, Ben Foster 
demonstrated matching music to 
pictures, and young patrons destroyed 
a Cyberman with the aid of Danny 
Hargreaves. There was also a sneak 
preview of The Next Doctor for the 
2,000 attendees. 


» Meanwhile in the run-up to Christmas, 


the next Radio Times hit the high street 
on Saturday 29 November, and offered 
a preview of The Next Doctor with 
Davids Tennant and Morrissey on the 
cover, and a fold-out section featuring 
the Cybermen and Miss Hartigan. Ben 
Cook provided a three-page feature 
entitled Who’s Who? in a special preview 
which offered quotes from the two 
Doctors. Other listings magazines such 
as TV & Satellite Week and Total TV 
Guide were also giving their covers over 
to promoting the festive treat. The 


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announced Doctor Who as the readers’ 
Favourite TV Show and David Tennant 
as Sexiest Male on TV, with Tennant 
commenting, “See you at Christmas. 
We've got Cybermen, snow and David 
Morrissey... it’s going to be glorious!” 


3% Monday 1 December saw the launch 
of the advent calendar for the series 
on the bbc.co.uk website, with the first 
festive offering being a Christmas 
greeting from David Tennant on the 
TARDIS set; other special videos and 
stories followed in subsequent weeks. 
The BBC started to trail its Yuletide 
shows, including clips from The Next 
Doctor. Later that week, Tennant 
opened in Hamlet at the Novello 
Theatre on Wednesday 3, with a 
projected run through to Saturday 
10 January. The BBC Drama preview 
launched the same day included 
glimpses of the forthcoming Special, 
which went to its final dub at BBC 
Wales on Friday 5. That day, the 
BBC confirmed that The Next Doctor 
would air between 6pm and 7pm on 


Christmas Day, and that the BBC One 
line-up would also include an hour- 
long edition of Doctor Who at the Proms, 
a recording of the July concert to be 
screened at 1.50pm on New Year’s Day. 


® On Saturday 6 December, the 


Christmas double-issue of Radio Times 
offered a three-page piece by Russell 
T Davies entitled Doctor, Doctor, with a 
brief interview with David Morrissey 
from Ben Cook; a poster offer with 
images from the Special was also 
launched for readers. Doctor Who was 
on Alison Graham's selection for 
Today’s Choices, although she admitted 
that preview discs had not been 
available. A shot of Miss Hartigan and 
her cybernetic cohorts accompanied 
the programme billing. 


» David Morrissey dropped into BBC 


One’s Breakfast at 8.40am on Monday 

6 December where Bill Turnbull and 
Sian Williams asked him if he was 
going to be the next Doctor - as seen 
in the pre-credits for the Special - to 
which the actor commented, “It’ll all 
be revealed on Christmas Day.” A new 
trailer for the BBC Christmas shows 
appeared from Monday 8 December... 
the same night that it was announced 
that David Tennant had been advised 
not to go on stage in Hamlet because of 
a back injury. In the trade newspaper 
Broadcast, Neill Gorton of Millennium 
FX recounted How I... designed the 
Cybershade on Wednesday 10 as a taster 
for the Christmas Special. 


® Inthe meantime, by Wednesday 


10, Tennant had been admitted to 
hospital for an operation on his 


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back, which it was estimated would 
put him out of action for six weeks, 
preventing him attending the press 
launch for The Next Doctor. However, 
he was delighted to watch a DVD of 
the finished episode in hospital that 
evening, with his operation the next 


morning. With a complete programme 


locked down, Gardner and Davies 
recorded a commentary track; Phil 
Collinson had been offered a chance 
to watch the show in advance but had 
declined, explaining that he wanted 
the excitement of watching an episode 
he’d not seen before as it went out on 
Christmas Day. 


» Wednesday 10 December was also 
the day that Russell T Davies was 
informed by Steven Moffat which 
actor had been selected as Tennant’s 
successor. The Doctor-in-waiting had 
finally been confirmed, and so now 
his official announcement had to 
be carefully timed. Davies suggested 
that an interview could be recorded 
with the actor for broadcast on New 
Year’s Day after the scheduled repeat 
of The Next Doctor. Those concerned 


agreed that news of the announcement 


should only be made very shortly 
beforehand, most likely hours before 
transmission of the interview to 
prevent any leaks. 


® Doctor Who Magazine issue 403, 
published on Thursday 11, declared 
David Morrissey is the Next Doctor! as 
its cover headline and featured 
a preview of the Special. Also on 
this day, disappointed to miss his 
performances but unable to continue 
with the ailment which had been 


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growing steadily worse for some 

time, Tennant underwent surgery 

for his prolapsed disc on Thursday 
11. Friday 12 also saw the BBC 
announce that at the end of its iPlayer 
service's first year of operation, the 
2008 series of Doctor Who had been 
the most popular item to have been 
viewed. Meanwhile, Jane Tranter 

felt that rather than broadcast the 
interview with the new Doctor on 
New Year’s Day, a 30-minute special 
edition of Doctor Who Confidential 
should be commissioned for screening 
on BBC One on Saturday 3 January 
2009. Ostensibly this would be an 
edition advertised as The Ten Doctors, 
offering an overview of David and his 
predecessors; in reality, it would be 
geared to lead up to the announcement 
of the new Doctor. Also, despite 
Tennant’s convalescence, the press 
screening for The Next Doctor was 

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¥ Continuing to promote his stage 
work, David Morrissey appeared on 
BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on 
Sunday 14 December where again the 
pre-credits were shown and he was 
quizzed about being David Tennant’s 
successor; “It was a great show to dao,” 
commented Morrissey, to which his 
interviewer noted, “Was, past tense?” 
The Sunday Express ran pictures of the 
Cybershades in Cybermen in comeback 
on Sunday 14. 


® A 46-second trailer for The Next Doctor 
aired on BBC at 8.30pm on Monday 
15 December, and also appeared on 
the internet advent calendar; Davies 
was in London on this day to attend 
Jane Tranter’s leaving party. The Daily 
Telegraph ran Robert Collins’ interview 
with Velile Tshabalala on Tuesday 16. 
Unfortunately, on Wednesday 17, the 
production team heard that David 
Morrissey would also have to pull out 
of the press screening of the Special. 


® The press launch was staged for 
The Next Doctor on the morning of 
Thursday 18, without either Doctor 
present but with Russell T Davies, 
Dervla Kirwan and Velile Tshabalala... 
plus the odd Cyberman. At the 
event, BBC controller of fiction Jane 
Tranter implored journalists not 
to give away the riddle of the other 
Doctor as already seen in the pre- 
credit sequence: “The ability of Doctor 
Who is to ask big questions and keep 
everybody guessing. Please enter into 
the spirit of that, and allow everyone 
to keep asking questions.” A BBC 
News report by Lizo Mzimba featured 
interviews with Russell T Davies and 


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Dervla Kirwan. A key element of the — 

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bulletins was that it was expected Ginenieader 
that Tennant would have recovered sets to work. 


from his back problems to record the 
four remaining Specials as planned, 
recording from Monday 19 January. 


» The Guardian described The Next 


Doctor as ‘a lot better than last year’ 
and praised David Morrissey, while 
The Daily Telegraph felt the adventure 
was ‘a blizzard of action’. Davies also 
featured on Radio 5 Live that morning, 
chatting to Victoria Derbyshire, along 
with entertainment reporter Colin 
Patterson who described the Special he 
had just seen as ‘Godzilla meets Oliver!’. 
Following the screening at the Soho 
Hotel, Davies went upstairs to record 
his comments about the casting of 
David's successor with the Doctor Who 
Confidential crew. 


» The Christmas edition of the NME 


chose Doctor Who as its Christmas 
television highlight, while on Thursday 
18 December The Daily Telegraph 
announced David Tennant could star 


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Victorian 
companion 
Rosita. 


Jackson 
questions 
his identity. 


in a musical version of Doctor Who, 
hinting that ‘an all-singing episode 

of the hit show could be a possibility’. 
“Doctor Who, the musical, has been 
mentioned,” commented Tennant, 

“T would be up for it. I love a song and 
dance.” The paper’s Ben Leach also 
noted that bookmakers had slashed the 
odds on comedy actor David Walliams 
being the next Doctor after a flurry 

of bets. 


The recuperating David Tennant 

called into The Other Halves show on 
Absolute Radio on the morning of 
Friday 19 December, while the Royal 
Shakespeare Company issued a bulletin 
in which they said that the actor would 
not be appearing in Hamlet between 
Boxing Day and Saturday 3 January. 


Teaser reviews of the Christmas Special 
continued to appear in the press, 

with Gareth McLean of The Guardian 
declaring it to be ‘the best Doctor Who 
Christmas Special yet... it’s moving, 
funny, impressive and has a big, 
beating heart. Possibly two, in fact.’ In 
The Sun, Colin Robertson’s piece Time 
Lordy covered the press launch and 


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noted that all 10 Doctors would be 
glimpsed in the show. That afternoon, 
Dervla Kirwan featured on Channel 4’s 
The New Paul O’Grady Show, relishing 
her role as a “proper, dirty villain” 

and commenting on the secrecy 
surrounding the show: “I’ve never 
done a job where I’m asked to publicise 
it, but I’m not allowed [to talk about 
it].” The Doctor’s confrontation with 
Miss Hartigan was shown as a preview 
amid speculation that she could be the 
next Doctor. That evening, BBC One’s 
The One Show screened the interview 
with Davids Tennant and Morrissey 
conducted by Jon Culshaw back in 
May, while hosts Adrian Chiles and 
Christine Bleakley discussed favourites 
to take over from David Tennant 


with studio guests Vic Reeves and 
Bob Mortimer. 


® In The Times on Saturday 20 December, 


Caitlin Moran hosted Russell T Davies’ 
festive TV picks - naturally including 
Doctor Who — while in the Daily Mail 
Steven Henry’s Look who’s taking on 

the Time Lord promoted the Special. 

A repeat of the 2007 animated Doctor 
Who adventure The Infinite Quest was 
then screened at 11am on BBC Two 
that morning. A new teaser clip of 

the Cybermen and Miss Hartigan 
preparing their plan was the advent 
calendar surprise for Sunday 21, when 
David Tennant was also named as the 
Cultural Figure of the Year in Radio 

4’s Broadcasting House in a ceremony 
recorded before his operation. Asked 
who the next Doctor would be, 
Tennant commented, “I don’t know. I 
genuinely don’t know, and I'll probably 
be the last person to find out as well.” 


® Monday 22 brought an extract from 


the podcast episode commentary on 
the web-based advent calendar, and 
Tennant took part in a couple of radio 
shows. Firstly he was the mystery 
guest on Edith Bowman’s show on 
Radio 1, where the host suggested 
comedy actor David Mitchell as his 
replacement. Next Tennant chatted to 
Phil Williams, standing in for Simon 
Mayo on Radio 5 Live, and answered 
questions from fans. Discussing The 
Next Doctor, Tennant said he would 

be happy to hand over his crown to 
David Morrissey as his successor, 
commenting, “Who else would you 
want to cast as the Doctor, really? 

It’s sort of perfect casting.” This then 
formed the basis of the story David 
Morrissey should be next Timelord, says 
David Tennant from Anita Singh of The 


p 


Daily Telegraph later that day, with the 
story noting that Catherine Zeta Jones 
was now also in the running... 


® Lizo Mzimba’s set report with the 


two Davids was screened on BBC 
One’s Breakfast on Tuesday 23, with 
various clips from the Special, while 
on Christmas Eve the daily advent gift 
from bbc.co.uk was Velile Tshabalala 
wishing viewers a merry Christmas, 
recorded during production months 
earlier. By now the press was running 
preview items about the Special. 
Giving away key plot details, Robert 
Colvile of The Daily Telegraph described 
the show as ‘a bit far-fetched, but [...] 
dramatically satisfying’ while praising 
cast and production. In the Daily 
Mirror, Jim Shelley commented on 
the ‘lavish budget and a rumbustious 
appearance from David Morrissey’. 


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® On Christmas Day, The Next Doctor 
aired at 6pm on BBC One and secured 
a strong audience of over half the 
viewing public, almost three times 
as many people as had watched 
Emmerdale over on ITV1 at the same 
time; it was the second-most watched 
programme of the day and of the week, 
behind the new Wallace and Gromit 
animation, A Matter of Loaf and Death. 
The appreciation index of 86 recorded 
for the Special was also very strong. 


® Following afterwards on BBC Three, 
Doctor Who Confidential and Doctor Who 
Christmas Moments (billed as Doctor 
Who: Top 5 Christmas Moments) each 
attracted 0.5 million viewers. The 
latter 10-minute festive item was also 
assembled by the Confidential team, 
comprising the arrival of the TARDIS 
in Victorian Cardiff in The Unquiet 
Dead, the marketplace attack from 
The Christmas Invasion, the flooding of 
the Racnoss chamber in The Runaway 
Bride, the Doctor’s first meeting with 
Wilf from Voyage of the Damned and the 
staircase sword fight from The Next 
Doctor. Doctor Who Confidential was then 
repeated in the early hours of Boxing 
Day at 4am. 


» On Boxing Day, Tim Teeman’s review 
of the episode in The Times was that 
it ‘felt smug’ and he only awarded it 
two stars while AA Gill was similarly 
unenthusiastic in the Sunday Times two 
days later commenting that he had 
never been a fan of the revived series. 


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® On Sunday 28, BBC Radio 7 ran the 
podcast for The Next Doctor in Doctor 
Who: The Commentaries at 6pm and 
midnight. By Monday 29 December, 
a rough cut of the special edition of 
Doctor Who Confidential was available, 
and Davies had also decided that 
following the Special BBC One 
Christmas idents featuring Wallace and 
Gromit he was determined that Doctor 
Who should have the same treatment 
for Christmas 2009. 


® Doctor Who at the Proms was screened 
on BBC One and the BBC’s HD 
channel at 1.50pm on New Year’s Day, 
followed by a repeat of The Next Doctor; 
this attracted over two million viewers. 
Meanwhile, speculation continued 
about the identity of the next Doctor 
in the press. “For about four days... 
there was one particular paper who 
was so adamant that it was me, they 
kept ringing up asking for quotes 


and confirmation,” Catherine Tate 
recalled on The Justin Lee Collins Show. 
“For a brief second I actually thought, 
‘Maybe it is me! Maybe the BBC are 
so stringent that they haven't told me 
yet!’ I thought: it must be me!” 


® Then on Friday 2 January 2009 
came a press release from the BBC: 
‘New Doctor to be revealed on BBC 
One tomorrow. The Corporation 
confirmed that the identity of 
David Tennant’s successor would 
be announced the following day at 
5.35pm on BBC One in The Eleventh 
Doctor, the true title for the additional 
Doctor Who Confidential, which, on New 
Year’s Eve, Davies had signed off on. 
“We believe the actor is going to bring 
something very special to the role and 
will make it absolutely their own - 
I just can’t wait to tell everyone who it 
is - it has been a nail-biting Christmas 
trying to keep this under wraps!” 
explained Piers Wenger. Very few 
people at the BBC knew the identity 
of the chosen actor who was referred 
to only as ‘MS’ or ‘the Eleventh 
Doctor’ in emails. This spurred 
more casting discussion on Radio 4’s 
PM programme that evening with 
listeners sending in their suggestions. 
A special trailer for the following day’s 
broadcast was also made available on 
the internet. A BBC Three repeat of 
The Next Doctor at 7pm that evening 
had the optional commentary 
track, although this version was 
an alternative edit without either 
on-screen title or writer credit. 
Following this, the supporting 
Confidential was repeated at both 
8pm and 3.5Sam. 


Broadcast 


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David Morrissey 
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next Doctor. 


January carried a story about the 
revelation of the new Doctor that 
evening, with Lizo Mzimba discussing 
the story with clips from The Next 
Doctor and The Stolen Earth. Hotly 
tipped were Chiwetel Ejiofor (shown 
in The Canterbury Tales), Paterson 
Joseph (from Survivors), and “relative 
unknown” Matt Smith (depicted with 
Billie Piper in The Ruby in the Smoke). 
Other news coverage during the day 
featured Moray Laing from Doctor Who 
Adventures and also Sylvester McCoy 
who had played the Doctor’s seventh 
incarnation. Media items culminated 
in another news piece with Mzimba on 
the BBC One News that evening. 


® Finally, BBC One announced ‘TV’s 


most closely guarded secret’ as 

Doctor Who Confidential began. With 
comments from Jane Tranter, Julie 
Gardner, Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, 
Russell T Davies, David Tennant and 
Elisabeth Sladen (seen backstage at 
the Theatre Royal Windsor while 
performing as Mrs Darling in Peter 
Pan) about ‘the youngest Doctor ever’, 
the previous Doctors were discussed 
before - in the closing minutes of 

the programme - actor Matt Smith 
appeared to explain that his reaction 
to being the new Doctor was, 
“Flabbergasted. I haven't slept really 
to be honest.” Matt opened a letter 
from David Tennant and announced 
that he was starting his six months of 


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and young at the same time, a boffiin 
and an action hero, a cheeky schoolboy 
and the wise old man of the universe. 
As soon as Matt walked through the 
door, and blew us away with a bold 
and brand-new take on the Time 


ta preparation as viewers were left with Lord, we knew we had our man.” An 
aol ne the legend: ‘The Eleventh Doctor extended version of the interview 
of you...” Arriving Spring 2010’ with the new Doctor was then made 


»® The Eleventh Doctor was also screened 


on BBC Big Screens in towns and cities 
across the UK. The announcement 

of Matt Smith was a ratings grabber 
for the BBC; an estimated 6.3 million 
people tuned into BBC One for Doctor 
Who Confidential compared to around 
4.5 million for FA Cup football 
coverage on ITV, and the broadcast 
was ranked number 27 in the TV 
charts for the week, with an AI of 78. 
“T’m just so excited about the journey 
that is in front of me. It’s a wonderful 
privilege and challenge that I hope I 
will thrive on,” commented Smith. “I 
feel proud and honoured to have been 
given this opportunity to join a team 
of people that has worked so tirelessly 
to make the show so thrilling.” Lead 
writer and executive producer Steven 
Moffat noted, “The Doctor is a very 
special part, and it takes a very special 
actor to play him. You need to be old 


ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION 


available on the bbc.co.uk website. 


® In Australia, ABC screened The Next 


Doctor on Sunday 25 January 2009, 
while SPACE - rather than CBC - 
broadcast it in Canada on Saturday 
14 March. Prime screened the Special 
to the New Zealand audience on 
Monday 13 April. 


® At the conclusion of The Next Doctor, 


the Doctor had rebuilt Jackson’s life 
but - after the Victorian festivities - 
would find himself companionless 
again. “He is a man alone and we’re 
going to be looking at that in these 
final stories,” Russell T Davies 
explained on Doctor Who Confidential. 
“We're really going to focus on 

that. And you can never stop asking 
yourself, ‘Who is the Doctor?’ it’s 
called Doctor Who. There’s huge stuff to 
come. Epic, heartbreaking stuff. He’s 
just the best character in the world.” 


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TheNextDoctor Thursday25December2008  6,00pm-7.00pm 


CHANNEL DURATION 
BBCOne  60'27" 


RATING(CHART POS) APPRECIATION INDEX 
13.10M(2nd) 86 


REPEAT TRANSMISSIONS 


The NextDoctor = Thursday1January 2009 2.50pm-3.50pm BBCOne~ 60'27" 2.27M(-) 88 
TheNextDoctor Saturday 1 August 2009 6.00pm-705pm BBCOne~ 60'27" 2.16M(-) - 
The NextDoctor = Thursday 30 December 2010 2.10pm-3.10pm BBCOne~ 60'27" = 1,3M(-) - 


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closing credit sequence. This on the Original Television 
release also contained Doctor Who at the Soundtrack: Doctor Who Series 
Proms and the full-length Doctor Who 4: The Specials two-disc CD, 


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of BBC Worldwide’s The 10 
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came with a set of five 
illustrated Christmas 
cards, an accompanying 


Character Options issued 
a 5” action figure of a Mk 9 
Cyberman from The Next Doctor in 
January 2009. This came with 
a part to build a Cyber 
Controller Mk 1 figure. In 
September 2014, issue 3 of 
Eaglemoss’ Doctor Who Figurine 
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booklet and an exclusive f figurine of the CyberKing. 
bonus feature in which Rufus ; BBC Worldwide issued 
Hound journeyed through ; : free postcards for the 2008 
past Christmas Specials to Christmas Special. Prints 
revisit some of Doctor Who's from The Next Doctor were 
greatest festive moments _ available from The Stamp 
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Jenkins, Jack Walker Williams, Shannon 
Langley, Amy Jenkins, Jack Palmer, Corey 
Evans, Mark Williams, Jordan Thomas, 
Hannah Jean Evans, Shelly Oram, Raychi 
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Written by Russell T Davies 

Producer: Susie Ligatt 

Director: Andy Goddard 

1st Assistant Director: Richard Harris 
2nd Assistant Director: Jennie Fava 

3rd Assistant Director: Heddi Joy Taylor 


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Location Manager: Gareth Skelding 
uncredited: Rhys Griffiths] 

Unit Manager: Beccy Jones 

Production Co-ordinator: 

ess van Niekerk 

Production Secretary: Claire Thomas 
[uncredited: Kevin Myers] 

roduction Runner: Sian Warrilow 
Drivers: Wayne Humphreys, Kevin Kearns 
uncredited: Robert Young, Colin Bull, 

Bob Tamlyn, Steve Williams, Graham Jones, 

Sean Rosser] 

Floor Runners: Nicola Brown, Tom Evans, 

Bobby Williams 
Contracts Assistant: Kath Blackman?, 

Lisa Hayward? 
Continuity: Non Eleri Hughes 
Script Editor: Lindsey Alford 
Camera Operator: Roger Pearce, Joe Russell 

[uncredited: Kevin Rudge] 
Focus Pullers: Jamie Southcott, Duncan Fowlie 

[uncredited: Mari Yamamura] 

Grip: John Robinson 
Boom Operators: Jeff Welch?, Glen Jenkins, 

Bryn Thomas?, Patrick O'Boyle 
Gaffer: Mark Hutchings 
Best Boy: Peter Chester 


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Clive Johnson, Gavin Riley 

Stunt Co-ordinator: Tom Lucy 

[uncredited: Crispin Layfield] 

Stunt Performers: Gordon Seed?, Dean Forster?, 
ason Hunjan?, Maurice Lee?, Nick Wilkinson? 
[uncredited: Nick Goodey] 

Choreographer: Alisa Berk 

upervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas 
Standby Art Director: Ciaran Thompson 
uncredited: Nick Murray] 

Associate Designer: Julian Luxton 

Art Dept Production Manager: 

onathan Marquand Allison? 

Graphic Designer: Christina Tom? 

Model Maker: Al Roberts? 

Concept Artists: Peter McKinstry?, Sarah Payne? 
Storyboard Artist: Shaun Williams? 

Standby Art Director: Ciaran Thompson 

Set Decorator: Keith Dunne 

Props Buyer: Ben Morris? 

Props Master: Paul Aitkin 

Props Chargehand: Phil Lyons? 


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Props Driver: Pat Deacy? 

Practical Electrician: Albert James? 

Props Fabrication Manager: Penny Howarth? 

Props Makers: Nicholas Robatto®, Jon Grundon? 

Construction Manager: Matt Hywel-Davies 
[Matthew Hywel-Davies on DVD] 

Construction Chargehand: Scott Fisher? 

Workshop Manager: Mark Hill? 

Standby Props: Phil Shellard, Jackson Pope 

Standby Painter: Julia Challis? 

Standby Carpenter: Will Pope? 

Standby Rigger: Keith Freeman? 

Graphics: BBC Wales Graphics 

Assistant Costume Designer: Rose Goodhart 

Costume Supervisor: Lindsay Bonaccorsi 

Costume Assistants: Barbara Harrington, 
Louise Martin [uncredited: Caroline Thorpe, 
Maria Franchi, Katie Hicken, Maire Jones] 

Make-Up Artists: Pam Mullins, Steve Smith, 
Morag Smith [uncredited: Sara Angharad, 


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VFX Editor: Ceres Doyle Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer 
Assistant Editor: Carmen Roberts Casting Director: Andy Pryor CDG 
Post Production Supervisors: Samantha Hall, Production Executive: Julie Scott 
Chris Blatchford Production Accountant: Oliver Ager 
Post Prod Co-ordinator: Marie Brown Sound Recordist: Julian Howarth 
SFX Co-ordinator: Ben Ashmore? Costume Designer: Louise Page 
SFX Supervisor: Danny Hargreaves? Make-Up Designer: Barbara Southcott 
SFX Technicians: Dan Bentley?, Henry Brook?, Music: Murray Gold 
Gareth Jolly? Visual Effects: The Mill 
Prosthetics Designers: Neill Gorton?, Rob Mayor? Visual FX Producers: Will Cohen?, Marie Jones? 
Prosthetics Crew: Pete Hawkins?, Jon Moore?, Visual FX Supervisor: Dave Houghton? 
Sarah Lockwood?, Lauren Wellman?, Alex Wathey?, Special Effects: Any Effects 
Lenny Sant?, jill Reeves?, Karen Spencer?, Prosthetics: Millennium FX 
Darren Nevin?, Martina Hawkins?, Kate Walshe’, Editor: Richard Cox 
Lisa Crawley? Production Designer: Edward Thomas 
Online Editors: Mark Bright?, Matthew Clarke? Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze BSC 
Colourist: Mick Vincent Production Manager: Catrin Lewis Defis 
3D Supervisor: Jean Claude-Dequara? Executive Producers: Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner 
3D Artists: Nicholas Hernandes?, BBC Cymru Wales bbc.co.uk/doctorwho Below: 
Matthew McKinney?, Jean-Yves Audouard?, ©BBC 2008 Dervla Kirwan 
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Adam Burnett?, Jeff North?, Edmond Kolloen?, ? Credited on DVD only scene. 


Will Pryor?, Andy Guest?, Wayde Duncan Smith?, 
Sam Lucas’, Bruce Magroune?, Ruth Bailey’, 
Grant Bonser?, David Jones’, Emily Pearce’, 
Virgil Manning?, David Bennett? 
D Supervisor: Peter Barber? 
2D Artists: Sara Bennett?, Michael Harrison?, 
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mes Etherington?, Adriano Cirulli?, 

imon C Holden, Joe Courtis?, Loraine Cooper?, 
Lyndall Spagnoletti?, James Moxon?, Julie Nixon? 
Digital Matte Painters: Simon Wicker?, David Early?, 
Charlie Bennett? 
VFX Co-ordinators: Jenna Powell?, 
Rebecca Johnson’, Kamila Ostra? 

VFX Production Assistant: Marianne Paton?, 
Alexander Fitzgerald? 
VFX Supervisor: Tim Barter? 

ubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts 

upervising Sound Editor: Paul McFadden 

ound FX Editor: Paul Jefferies 

oley Editor: Kelly-Marie Angell? 

nance Manager: Chris Rogers? 

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DAVID MORRISSEY 


Jackson Lake 


avid Mark Morrissey was born 
21 June 1964 in Kensington, 
Liverpool. Dad Joe was a 
cobbler; mum Joan (née Frost) 
worked for retailer Littlewoods. 
Together with siblings Tony, 
Paul and Karen, David and family moved to 
a Knotty Ash council estate in 1971. 
He played the Scarecrow in The Wizard 
of Oz at St Margaret Mary’s Primary aged 
11. Inspired by the movie Kes (1970) he 
attended workshops at the city’s Everyman 
Youth Theatre in his early teens. 
Leaving De La Salle School at 16, 
he worked in theatre backstage in 
Wolverhampton but his Everyman 
connections brought his professional acting 
début. Aged 18, he starred as Billy Rizley in 
Willy Russell’s One Summer (1983), about 
two tearaways escaping Liverpool for rural 
Wales. Paul McGann originally auditioned 
for Billy, alongside Morrissey as pal Icky. 
Going on to study at RADA, when 
Morrissey became homesick it was 

McGann who convinced him to 

» continue. His professional career 

’ began with the Royal Shakespeare 

Company in Richard III (1988/9), 
Edward IV (1988/9), King John 

(1988/9) and Henry VI (1988/9). At 
the National Theatre he won the title 
role in Peer Gynt (1990) but finding theatre 
low-paid he looked again to television. 
He starred opposite Helen Mirren in 
thriller Cause Celebre (1987) but playing a 
murderer in TV movie The Widowmaker 
(1990) led to many similarly edgy roles. 


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At 6’3” he found police roles in Clubland 
(1991), Black and Blue (1992), Framed (1992), 
Between the Lines (1993) and Out of the Blue 
(1995). Other tough-guy roles included 
Gerry in The Knock (1994), the title role in 
Finney (1994) and SAS officer Andy McNab 
in The One That Got Away (1996). 

His crooked tax inspector in Tony 
Marchant’s Holding On (1997) marked him 
out as a leading man in serious television 
drama. Subsequent roles included Bradley 
Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998). 

Early British movie leads came in Hilary 
and Jackie (1998), Fanny and Elvis (1999), 
The Game of Death (2000) and Some Voices 
(2000), while he had a supporting role in hit 
romance Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2000). 

Small-screen guest roles in Paul Abbott’s 
Linda Green (2001) and Clocking Off (2001) 
led him to play MP Stephen Collins in 
Abbott’s acclaimed conspiracy thriller State 
of Play (2003). BAFTA-nominated for Best 
Actor, Morrissey lost to co-star Bill Nighy. 
Motrissey’s next role as Deputy Prime 
Minister Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003) 
won him an RTS Best Actor award. 

As Ripley Holden in musical thriller 
Blackpool (2004) he was almost upstaged 


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by a rising actor playing the detective: one 
David Tennant. Morrissey returned for 
one-off sequel Viva Blackpool (2006). 

British movie roles came in Rolling 
Stones biopic Stoned (2005) and Derailed 
(2005). A spell in Hollywood saw him star 
in erotic thriller Basic Instinct 2 (2006), 
‘earning’ him a Razzie nomination for 
Worst Actor. Better-received film roles 
included The Reaping (2007), The Other 
Boleyn Girl (2008) and John Lennon biopic 
Nowhere Boy (2009). 

Morrissey found his niche as a TV leading 
man, with starring roles in Meadowlands 
(2007) and Sense and Sensibility (2008). 

After David Tennant announced his 
Doctor Who departure in late October 2008, 
The Next Doctor teased viewers speculating 
over his replacement; many saw Morrissey 
as a possbile candidate. 

Subsequent T’V leads included crime 
drama Red Riding (2009), thriller Five Days 
(2010), costume drama South Riding (2011), 
crime mystery The Field of Blood (2011/13), 
thriller The Driver (2014), romance The 7.39 
(2014) and mini-series The Missing (2016). 

Stateside he was The Governor (Philip 
Blake) in zombie drama The Walking Dead 
(2012-15). As one of British TV’s leading 
men, he was Aulus in Roman drama 
Britannia (2017-) and Inspector Tyador 
Borlu in thriller The City and the City (2018). 

He returned to stage roles as Macbeth 
(Liverpool Everyman, 2011), then National 
Theatre plays broadcast live in cinemas; 
Hangmen (2016; staged in 2015, Royal 
Court/Wyndham’s) and as Mark Antony in 
Julius Caesar (2018, Bridge Theatre). 

He also directed TV features Sweet Revenge 
(2001) and Passer By (2004), and Liverpool- 
based movie Don’t Worry About Me (2009). 

Married to novelist and actress Esther 
Freud, they have three children - Albie, 
Anna and Gene - and have homes in Suffolk 
and North London. 


Left: 
In Our Mutual 
Friendin 1998. 


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Index 


Page numbers in italic type refer to pictures. 


Age of Steel, Thé....... 40,51, 83, 94,98 

AGYEIMaN, FFESM Ainisicneccmmnmnimranveneenieirn 5,18, 29.32, 33) 
34, 37, 43, 44, 45, 46, 
47,49, 53,54, 58,60 

Allens:of LONG OM bvincciscvnnrmmnnnvcemaniniis 27,34, 37, 71,105 

Andoh, Adjoa 

Androids of Tards The isiciinssinmirnnninidinmnasuteinnins 102 

ANY ETGCtS ascaniinnanammsraniannumiinuniva 33, 35, 39, 42,101, 

102, 103, 106, 107 

Are OF INA AL snoicommnaniamimoimmnannnedmmnmmnanianrenn 

Armstrong, Alexander 

AnnVor Ghost Skwnmanncoanaonnormmmenamanns 


Attack of the Cybermen 
ALLOK OP TMG GHOSRO i ssssssssisssevvisssiesessessssonstesssxsinesasenssitaneceibesssnie 
BEGG Lfivuiecerscroviessvinescvsveesisestieninreuadeimeienseneaivenreen 15,20, 21,32, 
36, 37, 51,118 
Badland, Annette...... 27,36 
Balke: Colin snanntenmincinscnenncencnndtirrocnmmnnnmmnnninarnnmuetnit 105 
Baker TOM ese uw 44, 59,105 
Barrowman, JOM. w 18, 19,29): 32; 
33, 34, 36, 40, 43, 
49,117,120 
Bante lM ivtcoo moni nonimemmunmeiinanie 102,108 
BBCI MME PACIV Gls ujssisiciintnsiinmnnanatinaanusviaitiins 34, 37,40, 110 
BBC Nationial\Orchestta Of WaléSh sunnniansimmmennomun 114 
BBG IN GUNS wsuscsesiaaasssciiaieiacvaasrctacivavasets i aneesonecitbaaeasieiaians 51,,55,.58, 61, 
117,125,129 
PDE HSIN. scnassihasstoysnscatstan hin cctossinciap alta sinpsdmsla canine e amines 34, 44, 
122,127,130 
BER AlISGiasusiascuantdatinnmmisanantnndrannamnien 
Blackpool (BBC One) 
ES LSERCI LUNI sinnssnasinasencodiosavrnnsnvirvcun ossennnnduanarunicaieneasenasianaty ; 
37,40, 57,69 
BUNK sviceoratanpee teeter ateanetauerneatt 45,46, 94,100,105, 108 
Blue Peter (BBC ONG) wrscimscnaccemanivemecentseneniaenntad 40, 52,53 
BOOT TOW wicctsrsssscsvivennn 22, 27,37, 40 
Brandon; Micha @lemivmrnnninnecannnnwarnrawenrenennnnimniend 44,54 
Breakfast (BBC OMe) wissen 29, 32, 52,.58, 
59,99, 116, 118, 
123,127,129 
Briggs; NiCholaStimmramnmnninnnnnneinnacannnaremi 27, 32: 374383 
40, 43, 45, 53, 56 
Brooke, Ade lal dé ccccnunmannniscniimnnmmmnnnnns 74, 75,77 


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CHGSES, TAG i sessnssssacorseovsianieanioneseserassaesccseanssaaasninines 
Chief Constable (see also Shadow Architect). 22, 23,28 
CRIIGFEN IN NOC verses 39, 46, 116, 117, 119, 120 
CHIISTMAGS INVASION, THE serene 17,18, 22, 23, 28, 
34, 71,102,104, 128 
CIEY-OF DEG ciiccnmnnnmnnnarnnimaannsaanieunanennianins 105 
GIBERE, NOE Mi cisineverusecccseisinvevecinievessasnenvaie 19, 28, 34, 37, 50, 52, 118 
Codurt: Cami llennncnaunccnscnamnmmmnaniayi 19).28; 37, 50,118 
COREA, Will icccinivnecconseasraiinineiimaiewiniennimnianmcendnieniiinies 122 
COllins; Abb iiiiissvininasinnamnicmnmnmmnanarcrcnnneit 38, 44, 46 
GOlIFSOM, RUT sisvencarveiioereveeceerntswvcvanmareen eet 14,17, 25, 27, 34, 
35, 36, 44, 46, 56, 58, 
60, 61, 62, 120, 124 
COMMENTANESiwniiawnincamnnsmraanmniia 56, 60, 62, 102, 110, 
111,124, 128,129 
Cook; Ben [aM i Nenniisisdnsanmaniineaninitien 33, 35, 38, 40, 44, 
47,52, 57,97, 104, 109, 
110, 116, 117,122,123 
COODEF GWEN nanamnnaniionneniawaninn 10,19, 20, 23, 29, 41 
Cribbins, Bernard 20, 27, 29, 33, 
34, 35, 43, 52,54 
TIES DE sa cespasssesnativmiieriascnse napuipeeinnaengeniatain LO; 12,13} 21,23, 
24, 25, 26, 35, 36, 37, 38, 
39, 40, 44, 45, 46, 51,63 
CYBEFKING iiicisisisroncernseinminenneneeninrnnncnmnrenegits 83,85, 92,93; 
95, 98, 99, 106, 107, 
108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 
113, 114,131 
Cyberlead ehimncnnmnmmnnnnminrarnancceanns 89, 92, 93, 98, 99, 
110, 112, 113,125, 127,131 
Cy DENN CRisniccranccanmimninnnemtiinmunnemanent 27,35, 40, 44, 
46, 47,48, 51, 74, 76, 80, 
82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 
99,100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 
106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 
114,119, 120, 121,122, 123, 
125,131 
GY DETSHACE manana 85, 88, 91, 92, 


93, 95, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 
104, 107,108, 110, 111, 112, 


114,115 

DG EXPPeSSissciscscinvaccnsimnimniencicnnnnnennnamaninenaiiten 19,53 
HUY MG sivesisvsvievennvessiuisvaivieceiacesesativnariin 22,56, 57, 107,117, 127 
Daily Mirror. 20; 30;52).59,96; 121, 127 
PME SUT ecsvesssuvsexeaous tevin eireivediccventeaginbeiite 19, 33, 38, 44, 53, 108 
Daily Telegraph, Th@wnweanneuvvcwunsencovess 37, 52,95; 559 5/; 
60,116, 121,122,125, 127 

Dalek Caanwiisinnccnuncamniniancanmauns 10-11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 
36, 37, 45, 49, 63 


Da AKS cnnimmnimmanienE RANT 4,5,6,9,10, 11, 
12, 13,15, 16, 17,18, 19, 20, 

21,22, 23, 24,25, 26, 27, 29, 

30, 32,33,34, 35, 36,37/,38, 

39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 

47,49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 

56, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 106, 


118,121,122 

Dalek EMP EIOM sii isnnimenncinecareeansuvenanniainits 21,24 
SUPTEMTEDAISK: sais evmessiverveieveeenioreeniceneveninn 10, 21, 23, 24, 

32, 40, 45, 52, 53,55, 63 

Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (fIIM) sss 22,29 
Daleks’ Master Plan, Theisiisncnnnvniinnimmnmnmnienmnannints dl 
David-Lloyd, Garethivnu 29, 32, 49, 50, 63 
Davies: RUSSEl! T tercnenoimmmmioneiinamummaniine 5,9, 14, 15, 


16, 17,18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 

25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 40, 41, 44, 

46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 

58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 71, 72, 78, 

86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 

95, 96, 97,98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 

105, 109, 111, 113, 115, 116, 117, 

118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 

125, 127,128,129, 130, 131 

DAVISON, PECL. .ssssacrasorssioesasnsserseseosesssvensasentossssatevsvespnauuensasnesanssverensaes 105 


DaVIOS sonra ww4, 5, 8,9, 10; 11, 
12, 13, 14,15, 16,17, 18, 19, 20, 

23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 

34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 52, 

53,57, 58, 62,63, 64,69,121,122 

SUV KTS) RI GIVES vcsssvevisessovsevieveesnsdvaconeiniseveieverevesenceneiien 20, 47,52, 56 
de Souza, Lady CHAStINAwiniwacissnemmnaiunennnneensceaimn 7A, 76,78 
DEGETE TO: THE DGIERS arse visvevcereveersisinevecrininweannriitieeenr vinta’ 36 
Destinyof the Daleks srinccenccnninncsincnmrnnirerneveinn 15 
DOCORFOIS, LNG ccnmmmmnnnimaneinnmanmrunimeeusnwenine 83 
Doctor Who at the PLOMS suisse 111, 123, 128, 131 
DOCtOF WAG: CORMGENAh ss ciccawimmursorecucnens 15;,.19,.27,29, 


33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43, 46, 47, 

55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 63, 93, 96, 100, 

101, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 

110, 111, 117,124,125, 128,129,131 

DOCtOF WAOMGGAZING vsersiviniersasenasciesiissien 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 
44, 47, 49,55, 74,91, 94, 106, 

108, 109, 110, 115, 121, 124 

DOCtOr WAG TV MOWE sssecccimssnncccratpseceawns 1758;'95,105 


Doctor's Daughter, The.... 16, 18, 22, 
29,46, 51,103 

DOOMSAOY civics secssnssminarawiununiaiiun 15,.16;.17, 19, 22, 25,28; 
32, 34, 35, 37, 90, 106 

Dr Who and the Daleks (TM) missesiessirenersrvvssinisanisnrinriniieincienide 2l 
EGEIESLON) CAMS TOPE ssivsercarseseseaverevseerseieressinriciversrverestans 41, 72,105 
Edwards, Barnaby vives 32, 36, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 56, 122 
EMG OPES WORMG:. TC essecvusveces ec ssesseseiee teratereesictnsinviaoeintriantvetiys 22,51 
End of TIM@, THE wes wD 755 7G; 77 
ENEMYOF TNE WOE, THA cmsscmniinniesenancenimanoiivenienia's 9 
Evolution Of the DGIEKS wissen 15,16, 17, 18, 103, 110 


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Fairchild, Reverend Aubrey wasn 84, 92,100, 107, 112, 119 
Family of Blood, The wus 23, 41, 45, 78, 97,105, 120 
FiréS OF POMPEL:; TNE sncornemanuansmanined 33, 51,101, 120 
Forest of the Dead........ 19, 27, 35, 36, 45, 51, 106, 119 
POSTED, BON asiitesivcenecsrasinnnaaramencanniimmmonaanin 114,122 
FOCI. wisissivissccaasineavenievcsesvirvieianavindatoamavisn nineties 98, 109, 110, 113 
TAME GUT ssiviarieeorvvsnivaccetvinnsyrisiovassveeerracarvedninies 16,17, 19, 23, 41, 
47,50, 60, 62, 63, 86, 87, 88, 
89,90, 91, 94,95, 102, 105, 111, 
114,117,118, 120, 121,124,129 
Genesis Of the DdIEKS issn G, 15,,18,.23,:25, 29, 36 
GMIV TVD sicnainnnniinnarcenuntiiennanamannnianmnin 54,58 
God dard, ANG Virsisiarnnaninnmremancinniuns 94,100, 102,108 
Gold MUNA necnininannmaimnrnsmnete 46, 51,63, 97,114,131 
Gorton; NEill anseidicanmmamanceons 29, 36,57, 101, 122, 123 
Graham Norton Show, The (BBC ON) visser 19,57 
GIMOCKomcccnnsamaswnncannimnannian 


Guardian, The 


FIBIIKIMSOMy DAWG sissssascisenaviansivssusvicenshenceentnivestibaiseesasen 32, 36, 40, 44 
Hargreaves, Danny 102,107, 108, 120, 122 
Harkness; Capt Jaki sssiccisssceianperrsinesiesioiseeiann LO, 1, 12,13, 


16, 17,18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 
25, 26, 28, 29, 36, 40, 42, 


43, 45, 50,51, 53, 56 

HEDEr Grae wnvonsamiauracronimrcavesnsanties 25, 34, 35, 37, 40, 
42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 61,110 

FArliS, RIGKAG siiwiverrccavervaanvieniunar remnants 103,109 


Hartigan, Miss... 


90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 

101,107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 

118, 122, 123,126,127 
Rartinell, Willie sasaiia sinning citardinoniiannadiiagumuninis 


Houghton, Dave.... 
FUMONINGTUTC  csiniiuuniiuninnannadinas 


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JOHES, FraNn€lNS sansneneenmornemmennnnnnmerenvenss 23,28, 46 
ones, Gethin 
ones, Harriet 


28, 34, 38, 45, 51, 70, 71 

JONES; lANtOisiiicnarnmmanenimanimnmaianinns 10,19, 20, 25, 29 
Jones, Martha doy Spl OL 1,13; 
16,17, 18,19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 

25, 26, 28, 38, 43, 45, 46, 47, 

50, 87, 93, 96,119 


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JOUTHEVS ENG ssiccommannonucmnmiaammananuin 5, 6-8, 9-13, 
14-13, 14-20, 21-22, 23-27, 28, 

29, 30-31, 32-33, 34, 35-38, 

39-40, 41-42, 43, 44-46, 47, 

48, 49-50, 51-52, 53-54, 55-63, 

64,65, 66,67, 68-70, 71.91, 92, 


95, 97,110, 115,118 
DIOAG CAST cuaitomontavmumeiniasiemnneinredainmanaieas 55-61 
CAST ANG CFditS nnrormimertanenmnneremnnmmen 64-69 
GIPAT ESET DES cr siccenvesccitanvesvenersivdetinnenvamendinedirnennien 20-26 
Gd TN GcctinimnninaonnenEORNRNTDTTORND 49-51 


PMENGHANIE SO ruisiencrencenanavarinnnmeninnnveaniernnnene 62-63 


POST=DIOdUCHON sciniininmmmnnamancnonmmnanceninnt 50-51 
pre-credits sequence... . 40, 49, 50 
PFE+PROGUCTION cennsenannemanenmmemnancenronetion 14-48 


PROUUGCE Oflimmawarieunvidimnnnenienmmincsiiiunimnnnn 49-51 


iva Ss Saasaeacovepethuhaeend inva tabaananstogoncune 37 

5, 29, 37, 47, 51,120 

RESCY) PALI se scsxssiniepinisrnierenvasiiervennanctsniaistseipavniienie 39,100, 101, 102 
KING, JACQUELING winaircnniovrmenenniemcenniveen 29, 34, 35, 40, 120 
KIPWaM DOTY a snvsssvssscscssesieonsivvsscenenniarssnnssiavecs 51, 96, 101, 107, 108, 
109, 111,114, 121, 125, 126, 137 

RIG, THOMA Siannanvinivecnnnneaiianeyeomeicantiinanitinei nits 28, 47 
Lalhig), MORAY sssscgrarnntenicanmnitnmnsiniumiasionntiind 59,119,129 
Lake, JACKSON ienimncnncmiotmmniariaanmcn 5, S914; ASD 
78, 83, 84, 85, 86, 90, 94, 95, 

96, 98, 99, 103, 105, 107, 108, 

109,113,114, 122,126, 127,130, 

131, 132, 136, 138 

Last of the Time Lords... 17,18, 28, 33, 38, 43,119 
ULZeAVSTTESTCL, GUIS TOI svicnssespnessscssensccansadgucnsvatenessnncbeesinieearocannessnesainsansebc 103 
Lazarus Experiment, The... 108 
[LESS OM),, TOMI a stvaossararsiorscenieoatencnecsiesaes araanvernsrermanncoopiaeitapactenersen emacs 29 
Liggat, Susie...... 27,94, 96, 102, 103, 106, 111, 114 
{ ESAELNIE TI GINA, ssssipssiaess ase dense vaynsaaptcederen tiniianenescines ageseniscir 28, 37 
Alphia Steel, NEWDOLE wsaissersvcieonsiieserieivrennpevetervesencaacaees 44 
ALCOEStFESE, PENAREM siistsenrsissiereinesminenniienineis 43,46 
Brook SteGb Card it wrarmmssrevnmmnancnnementneniin 43 


Caerwent Training Area, CaldiCotessesssssssnnssn 104 
Castell Coch, Tongwynlais... »43, 45 
CHATS: ROA PEMA es secvivesinisivnsininraiersiinvevssentreeineneiiens 46 


Ffordd Gerdinan, Tonteg,. 
Fonmon Castle, Rhoose... és 
Hawthorn Road; Pontypridd wnnvwcrnsannennecaine 42 
Hensol Castle, Vale of Glamorgan. 
Lower House Barn, DinaS POWYSwinssssssssssesssssees 44 


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Market STEEL PONLVOR AG ii ccsiaranasnniannmmansiuen 42 
Millers Green, Gloucester Cathedral, GIOUCeStET..... 7 

106, 107 

Morgan Jones Park, Caerphilly... 45 
Nantfawr Road, CYNCOED wesc 34,35, 42 
National Collection Centre, NAntgarWusssssssnsen 45 

Paget Road, Penariti: cansnermmmmnameniimnmnian 43 
Plantagenet Street, Cardith vse 43 

Shire Hall, Agincourt Square, MONMOUTH wasn 
106-107, 108 

Southerndown Beach, BridGend wri 37 

St Woolos Cemetery, Bassaleg Road, NEWPOF toss 
100-101, 102, 134 

The Maltings, East Tyndall Street, Cardiff Bay... 103 
Tredegar House, NEWPOFT css 104,109 
LOGODOMS anyciieriineammntiemintaninamanaiteananmntrunint 78 
Love & MonsteSininnnicinonncmnnnncnimannannnnti 16, 28, 51 
OGY: TOM casccncovieniipnmimmenmutivnannss 100, 101, 102, 104, 
107, 108, 109, 110 

UKE scomisontinansmmnccaaeaiinns 10, 20, 23, 26, 28, 47, 50, 52 
Lit BURGOS iiicciaanuistaitininnsanisaanntaaaiauiiaieasiinuiianianin 18,19,45 
MAGICION'S ADPreNtiC€, TRO. 9 
Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, The. os LOL 
MSTA MINE cccsscsssecnasiatananictatnmitincnistten 17,19, 74,76, 77,78, 97 
McCoy, Sylvester... 58,105,129 
MEGAN, PA ss cecsissnsiniceasscccinainvreininiatiinpeinaniatiacasianvicinedes 95,105, 138 
McGough; PALI Pimiivninininincimnininavacniionnceananiin 27.32 
McKinstry, Peter... 33, 34, 35, 36, 44, 106, 114 
Mears; RUAR nininnnnrawrminaveteninnsraureivn 100, 101, 103, 104 
MICE sip niaaconmediieeidcraroivenrnarnrivniiertan 32,51, 53, 103,121. 
Mill; Th@ianissnrcnaennnarnmamcmcenmmamanenn 44, 46, 51,102, 
108, 112,114, 122 

Millennium EX scmicnncanmarmmmenmmnanmnn 29;,35;37, 57; 
101, 102, 122, 123 

Mindque: Kile canines 32, 47,57, 96 
MISSION tO the UNKNOWN ini maconormnmangsanancmiannn ral 
Moffat, StEVEM sisisisusicussiiivdusinaiusiine 35, 46, 58, 88, 89, 102, 
105, 115, 116, 118, 124, 129, 130 

MoOVOY FEY atonnwimnknmnunatna ane aideamaiiniananindn 15,121 


5, 51,57, 73, 74, 93,96, 
100, 103, 104, 106, 107, 109, 
110, 112, 114, 115, 116, 119, 
121,122,123, 124,125, 126, 


Morrissey, David 


127,129, 138-139 

Martie, WALEHELEL essesscsaroeeasincesnsisanassivsagnaeeciionen 10;,11,.13;.20,,26, 29,32, 
42, 43,50, 52,54, 75, 77, 78,128 

PUMLAS Chai seaensieavinsosticianoonscscctiniatitvicraviotnisniveteatinanin 51,63, 97, 114,131 
Myles, Eve 29, 32, 41, 49, 50, 119, 120 
MZ ay IZOD sivivsisesenesrsvsierisnsericosncscnegiasecacse 58, 86, 105, 110, 117, 
120,125, 127, 129 


NEWSOME (CBBE) caunussacuprnmare 14,49, 58, 107,110, 119 
NEXT DO GEO: TAG) cssiivsinsrsrivessuscrisapivarsiomensecareinn 5,27, 35, 44, 47, 
48,57, 72, 73, 74,75, 78, 80-82, 

83-85, 86, 87-89, 90, 91-92, 93, 

94-95, 96, 97-99, 100-101, 102, 

103-104, 105-106, 107, 108-109, 

110, 111, 112, 113-132, 133-136, 


137,138,139 

DIOAd CAS tiansviniinmninncimnnndiimnemmmnneine 128-130 
EASE SNE CREM MS isireninivrersiavevnsiseeravveivinnivearen 132-137 
AM NGicinmtanmnanien 112-113 
(HETCHAGISS: wccanvievenverresannizivineueisvveennnnsintinsenintiasentvtts 131 
POSt-PFOdUCTION wees 112-114 
pre-credits sequence... Diplo 
Pre-PROdUClON avenues 86-99 
PROC UGEOM invimreeveniicenisrereivaiimnmivennncmecsinense 100-111 
DNOfile vamannsncemimemanmMT 138-139 
BUDGE wirimuinnaricimesinirnnaurenaniumonmmmariats 115-127 
NSUINGS iiaciicminceramateannamninenianranmttis 128,130 
FEACENFOUG Niciusionemanenemseanian nen wmundciodannatall 99 
rehearsals. 100, 108 
StORY smi RDUTTRIRMALTINS 84-85 
NODE, DOWNS iicisatincavirietaaminawitacisien 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 16,17, 
19,20; 21.22, 23; 24, 25,2627, 

28, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 

45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 56, 58, 60, 62, 

74, 78, 87, 90, 95, 97, 106, 120 

NGBIG; SYIW18 csccavraniienanaincnraiaannnncrenicas 10, 11, 13, 26, 29,32, 


42, 43,50, 52,120 


O:GTAAY: Paull istssniienrinsannis 
One Show, The (BBC One) 


Parting Of the WAYS, THE sss 15,21,32,36,37, 
51, 56, 105, 118 
PORES CHIME isuainaniearieunuianiuiia 41, 44, 50, 51,98 
Pegg, Nicholas...... 32, 36, 40, 43, 44, 46, 56 
PenIWEE OG ciimnmcinininnninanniminunaitunTmnNGInN 59,105 
PIBEE Bill acunisinntinoimmnrcsman 16, 17,18, 19, 20, 29, 33, 
34, 37, 39, 42, 43, 49, 53, 
56, 57, 86, 97,129 
PIG MET OF TNE DOLE cic ncicssiantianonnnnectantventoteanceains 
Planet of the Dead... 
Planet of the Ood..... 
POISON SKY, TRG ssessccovesseiscessereeneses 
RAGIO TIMES vssconsnvasvivnenconerveventicen 29, 47, 49, 52, 53, 57, 88, 
96, 109, 110, 122, 123 
Remembrance of the DolekSwisisciininnmmamninninomnans 15 
Resurrection of the Daleks... 15,20, 21,.27,,37 
Revelation Of the DICKS vss 15; 16;,25 
Rise of the Cybermen....... 40, 83, 93, 98 
ROSC concn ARETTNTATORIAS 56 


ROS ite comisanmmanmemmmnnimmnneus 75, 84, 85, 88, 92, 93, 
95, 96, 97, 98, 103, 106, 107, 
108, 113, 114, 117, 122,126 


RUNAWAY Bride, THE essences 16, 50, 51, 103, 108, 128 
SaMIGhSZ, GEMEMA veesiscrcesinsisianaenrieenieaniaesiveeiinine 10, 21, 23, 28 
SansoOn=Reqan, COlUMisiwicincnnwiracmmarmynns 33, 34, 37, 38 
Sarah Jane Adventures, The wisn 5,9, 16, 18, 20-21, 26, 
28, 36, 40, 46, 51,54 
SCHOMEIG, BOD sinisesisareceersverrirasaniccevinvecpisedsinne 38, 103, 109, 110 
Schoo! Reunion... il; 36,37 
SEGIDAWIS, TN wniiecinrainiveceinndcnrivennntianavanrernrtmensay 102 
Seed; Gordo Miiinaneriniaseannurnnancnnccmmmrmnianananuces 104 
Shadow Architect (see also Chief Constable).... 10, 28, 38, 39 
Shadow Proclamation, The wissen 10,21; 22; 25427; 
36,37; 38,51 
Shakespeare Code, The: imeunnmmnraninioniiinam ennai 88 
Silence in the LIDFOTY sss 19, 27, 35, 36, 45, 51, 106, 119 
SIAN FAUNA wisisiniinnirtanaiaavunandiminiiimapiaiauuasiivn 32,45 
Sladen, Elisabeth 18, 28, 29, 34, 46, 47, 
49, 64,118,129 
SHIMGNE ONES arm cncommmmannminnnERSORD 38, 42 
SUTIN (MITE aaeaaxaccnsacrnesnsqusizstisnvsrbvneasdesdecsnoobisnsenniprbvonovntnann 129, 130 
Smith, Mickey... «LO, 13,16; 17,.18;19; 
24, 26, 28, 33, 34, 
36, 42, 45, 46, 50 
SITMIEL, Meicrnsiscariemmurianiacierensasicviapisinnieniicen 5,10, 11, 26, 28, 29 
Simithy: Sarah Jane wwnecasranannvenimnnaienena 59,10, 12; 13,16; 
17, 18,19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 
28, 29, 36, 37, 42, 44, 
45, 46, 47, 50, 52,95, 
120,122 
SHOKCUGHCE: ccanvacronnannnnmnnimunmmnminmnimnmanmnmnnus 96 
Sontaran Stratagem, The... 16, 21, 35, 38, 102 
SOUAG OF DIMMS, TRE d iijisnenpanunmuaumapanuns 28, 39, 43 
Spearhead from Space iinniicssiismimunsiiananannaiannvenie 91 
SPECS; thBinmnmarinamnamennuney 72-73, 74-75, 76, 77-78, 79 
STAGE: NE winisinidcinainunatauinaaus 54, 96,116, 119,120,121 
SIOEMEGKh: INE xocunnoumummonempcumnces 5; 6-8, 9-13, 
14-13, 14-20, 21-22, 23-27, 28, 29, 
30-31, 32-33, 34, 35-38, 39-40, 
41-42, 43, 44-46, 47, 48, 49-50, 
51-52, 53-54, 55-63, 64,65, 66, 
67, 68-70, 71,92, 95,103,129 
DIGEUGES tirgnonmmcannnmemnmenanamnommne 
cast and credits. 
AiaTit SCP inncnrarmmmscrecannnimnensenonamninen 
SU EVAR scccccessnevcansisecssiavedsiaasvevcvivastentay au eciayens eainiaesanieeiaras th 
merchandise... 
post-production 
PFE-CFECITS SEQUENCE sssvssssssssssesssssseesssessssesesssenssees 
PREM PROG CHG Mi vivvswudnwrencenevnenininiavineriveriieeni 14-48 
production... 49-51 
profile....... wh OPAL 
PUD Cy) nance aman 52-54 
FATINGS sass ,61 
FEACTHIOUGH wmmnmamamancannaunnaannmmmnNN 29 


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SLO css aiecthesrannirnnmorecniauniauinannammnnmonanane 10-13 

Sti MORES: Ti wnmanmenenicnnmr commen 56 
SS PVINE THOS saisazusainiccteresicontescninnnireeddieaitincnou serratus 24, 27, 30, 32, 35, 
37, 38, 40, 43, 44, 52,54, 102, 

106, 108, 116, 121,126 


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TARR teveceuroiieerinsesnsneonreccesslaranurlsntmatn ivan beavrnsnnsiies 5, 10, 14, 14,13), 
17,18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 

35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 

48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 57, 74, 83, 84, 

87,91, 95,97, 104, 107, 109, 110, 

114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 123,128 

Tate, Catherine ivnsuiemnnmicusmmimruesoanvcsn 16, 17,19, 27, 30, 
33, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 

46,57, 58, 59,60, 61, 63, 67, 90, 

91, 95, 98, 99, 105, 117, 118, 119, 129 

TERNS DEVG wcscnicietmicnnaeicnnmurneiaaniy 5, 14, 16, 19, 20, 
22, 27,29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 

37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 

48, 51,52, 53, 56,57, 58, 59, 60, 

61, 62, 63, 64, 72, 74, 79, 86, 87, 

89, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 102, 

103,104,105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 

114,115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 

121, 122, 123,124,125, 126, 127, 


129, 132, 136,139 
LEGER PIOGNEE T henncwennenimmnarncnenmnennmneniventnnmeiaents 
Terror of the Autons.. a 
Time and the Rani....... 
TIME COSA visser 
Time Meddler, The...... 
TES. HMC ssicentereanininninnesunmnucniniions 37, 38, 56, 58, 59, 
60, 117, 119,127,128 
TOMD Of the CYBEFMEN, THE vss 91,94 
Tooth and Claw 
TORCAWOOG an rc ndnsuinrnitnetuniaens 
TORGRVIOOG sic ississsiiaoretcaiaidenna GsherinnsonGtee 5,9, 16, 18, 20, 25, 29, 
32, 38, 43, 45, 90, 94, 95, 104, 
109, 110, 113, 117, 120, 121 
TaOlSwurumuncmmrncnmmnans 41-42, 47,52, 55, 62,115,125 
TYQUAEGN,, JEG scorssseniseresesannevauscevasocsesonancannane 26, 87, 89, 105, 115, 116, 


120,124, 125,129 


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TrHalofa Timelord, THE cnncaniinimmunimounuannanins 42,105 
THOUGI TON, PATIICK: csceieosssisseassacesenrsteesstieseetecannaneaersiaacaussinseanariaesie 105 
Tshabalala, Velile........ 96, 103, 104, 116, 125, 127 
TERA LSI ple cacastseccaceecascessuiaciasciestetaesiasta inven 20, 25, 29, 32, 44, 45, 
51, 55, 59, 88, 94, 103, 110 

TW OID OGTONS, THO sccisssixcasvinxccctnsceisiassriviconn nranninrisnanianniarnnennaieasd 92 
TYIGG JACKICcmnnsnamnnennmamnmnmnnen 12,12,16;19;, 25, 26; 
28, 33, 35, 42, 46, 50 

TIGF ROSE ccna 5,9; 10; 11,12; 


13, 16,17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 
38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 49, 50, 52, 

53,58, /4, 86, 87, 89, 93, 106 


Unicorniand the Wasp: The swnrccnniiananannscnnns 21,51, 88 
UNIT stitmnentissnnnnnimnmrenonmmnuminiescnasy 10, 21,.26, 38, 39, 
44,45, 74,78 

UAGUEEDEGG, Th xercrcasevesscencpeusainmaracnianie 29, 40, 41, 88, 
90, 107, 128 

Upper Bose StUqIOS vinsicnnonmommeniaannn 27,28; 30,33, 35; 
37, 41, 42, 43,45, 47, 

61,94, 95, 102, 104, 108, 

109, 110, 111, 120 

ULO DI Oincrccormencenniareninimamantienmmmmnmnnies 28, 43,51, 97 
Voyage Of the DGMNEG vssusssssssssereesesesesnnsniniin 18; 23, 32,33; 
39, 41, 46, 50-51, 55, 

60, 87, 92, 108, 128 


Waters of Mars, The. 

Wells, Trinityssssssn 

Wenger: Plerssiinnisnnaimmnananinmnancann 

Wheel i SPace, THO. cssssssvessssssesesssssccssssssecsseessecssssesusestseessnsssnsesens 

WIIG, PEREGO Beko unnuninimimammmiounouennn 23,.25,25; 38; 
44,45, 49, 70-71 

WitchS Fanuge | ieiccwninaccmomormomeamaconcanmmn 9 

World Wr TACO vissssssssssssssssssssssssesseesessssssssnnss 27,34, 37, 71,105 

Wight Mar Kesiuvcnanintinmrananrenconne 54,116,120, 121 


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WHO 


THE COMPLETE HISTORY 


STORIES 198-199 


THE STOLEN EARTH/JOURNEY’S END 
The Doctor has vanished, leaving his most loyal companions and 
allies to battle a Dalek invasion of Earth. As an old enemy lurks 
in the shadows, can the Children of Time save reality itself? 


THE NEXT DOCTOR 
London, 1851, and the Doctor arrives in time for Christmas. 
Cybermen stalk the dark streets, but for once, the Time Lord 
isn’t needed. A mysterious stranger claiming to be the Doctor is 
already on the case, “Allons-y!”