Synopsis

With the TARDIS stuck at the bottom of a cliff, the four time

travellers have ingratiated themselves into an unoccupied Roman villa.

The owner, Flavius Giscard is away campaigning in Gaul. As the Doctor

and Ian recline, Barbara and Vicki walk to the nearby Roman village. At

the market they are spotted by two slave traders, Didius and Sevcheria.

When they return to the villa the Doctor announces that he is off to

Rome, some miles away, and will travel there with Vicki. Later that

evening Barbara and Ian, now alone, are relaxing when the two slavers

burst in upon them. They are soon overpowered and taken prisoner. Ian

is sold to one slave owner, while Barbara is to be traded with another

and sent to Rome.

The Doctor and Vicki are en route for Rome when they find the

murdered body of a lyre player named Maximus Pettulian. The Doctor is

holding the man’s lyre when a Centurion arrives and mistakes him for

the dead man who is late for an engagement in Rome. The Centurion thus

accompanies them to Assysium. Once stationed at an inn there, the

Centurion makes contact with the mute assassin Ascaris, who killed the

real Pettulian, and instructs him to kill the Doctor. The assassin

draws his sword and heads off to the Doctor’s chambers.

The Doctor overpowers the assassin and, along with Vicki, drives him

away through an open window. It seems the Centurion has fled, and the

Doctor concludes the soldier was in league with the assassin. He

decides to maintain his alias as Pettulian and head onward to the city

of Rome. Barbara is meanwhile already in the city and is soon sold in

open auction for 10,000 sesterces to a man named Tavius, who is highly

placed in the court of the Emperor Nero. She is to be a handmaiden to

Nero's wife, Poppaea. Tavius is a kindly man but warns that if she

tries to escape her slavery that she will be killed.

The Doctor and Vicki arrive at Nero’s court too and encounter

Tavius, who seems to imply to the Doctor that Pettulian is part of a

secret network in which he is also a player. Further discussion is

interrupted by the arrival of Nero himself, a laughable excuse for a

leader who seems arrogant, vain and selfish. The Doctor cleverly avoids

an extended lyre concert and then have the freedom of the court. On one

walk around they find the body of the Centurion who imperilled them

earlier.

Ian has been confined to a galley in the Mediterranean but the craft

soon runs into rough seas and is broken up. He is washed to the nearby

shore and there is found by another survivor of the galley, Delos, who

has saved his life and removes the last of his chains. They agree to

head for Rome in search of Barbara. When they reach there, however,

they are captured by some centurions. Taken to the arena they are set

to be trained as gladiators – and their first opponents will be the

lions.

It becomes apparent to the Doctor that Tavius had the Centurion

murdered and that he too is expected to fulfil some sort of action.

Nero decides the Doctor must fulfil an obligation too, and organises a

banquet in his honour at which he must play the lyre. He also takes a

shine to Barbara and starts to pursue her romantically – and literally

– much to the anger of Empress Poppea, who decides to have her poisoned

at the Pettulian banquet. Barbara has just left the banquet chamber

when the Doctor arrives there, warning the Emperor that he has learnt

his wine could be poisoned. It has been, as part of Poppea’s plan.

The Doctor is soon put to perform centre stage and picks up his lyre

with the warning that only those with the most sensitive and perceptive

hearing will be able to discern its subtle melody. He then creates

absolutely no sound but has created a climate in which no-one wishes to

make themselves out to be philistines by not appreciating the music.

Nero is not convinced, however, and in private fumes against the

deception. He decides to have Pettulian fed to the lions.

Meanwhile, at the arena itself Ian and Delos have been trained as

gladiators and are set to fight each other. With Nero watching them

they are told to battle to the death.

Delos and Ian decide to fight their way out of the arena instead,

and Ian is able to shout to the watching Barbara that he will be back

to rescue her before he and Delos flee. The Emperor calls off his

soldiers when it becomes clear they cannot be caught, planning to have

him killed when he returns to rescue Barbara. A crowd of soldiers are

arranged at the palace.

The Doctor has meanwhile found the architectural plans for Nero’s

new Rome, and deduces that since the year is 64 AD that the Emperor is

planning to destroy the city. Tavius arrives and warns the Doctor that

the Emperor is planning to kill him too, advising him to fulfil his

mission and kill Nero soon. It seems that Pettulian was an assassin all

along. The Doctor and Vicki decide to leave quickly but before

departing accidentally set fire to Nero’s architectural plans. The

Emperor notices this and decides to burn down the city, thanking the

Doctor and deciding after all to spare his life. A rabble are bribed

into starting the blaze and while anarchy rages Ian is helped into the

palace by Tavius, who reunites him with Barbara. Under Tavius’ eye the

two are allowed to escape and make their way from Rome and back to the

villa. Delos helps them get clear of the palace, parting from his

friend Ian. The Doctor and Vicki also escape the city, watching it burn

from a nearby hill.

By the time the Doctor and Vicki return to the villa, Ian and

Barbara have spruced themselves up, and the Doctor mistakenly assumes

that they have not even left the villa. All four leave in the TARDIS

but have barely begun to travel when a strange force starts dragging

the ship to an unknown location.

Synopsis

The crew is still missing

when the ship lands on a planet the Doctor eventually recognises as

Dido, a world he has visited before. The trio soon encounter two

survivors of a space crash, Vicki and Bennett, who are awaiting a

rescue ship, due to arrive in three days time. Vicki and Bennett live

in fear of Koquillion, a bipedal inhabitant of Dido which is stalking

the area. Koquillion encounters the time travellers and attacks,

pushing Barbara over a cliff and temporarily trapping Ian and the

Doctor. Vicki finds Barbara injured and rescues her from Koquillion,

and they share reminiscences. Vicki’s father was amongst those who died

when the survivors of the crash, save Bennett and Vicki, were lured to

their deaths by the natives of Dido. She is evidently very lonely,

having befriended an indigenous

for company. However, when Ian and the Doctor reach the ship tempers

are fraught because Barbara mistook the Sand Beast for a threat and

killed it.

The Doctor enters Bennett's room, and finds things are not as they

seem. The supposedly crippled Bennett is missing, and a tape recorder

hides his absence. He finds a trap door in the floor of the cabin and

follows it to a temple carved from rock where he unmasks Koquillion as

Bennett. Bennett reveals he killed a crewmember on board the ship and

was arrested, but the ship crashed before the crime could be radioed to

Earth. It was he who killed the crash survivors and the natives of Dido

to cover his crime. He has been using the Koquillion alias so that

Vicki would back up his story. Just as Bennett is about to kill the

Doctor, two surviving native Didonians arrive and force Bennett to his

death over a ledge. With no living family and nothing left for her on

Dido, Vicki is welcomed aboard the TARDIS.

Production

Serial details by episode:

Episode

Broadcast date

Run time

Viewership

(in millions)

Archive

"The Powerful Enemy"

2 January 1965

26:15

12.0

16mm t/r

"Desperate Measures"

9 January 1965

24:36

13.0

16mm t/r

The series would not feature another two-part serial until a decade later with , although the format would become a regular feature in the era of the 1980s.

Alternative titles

The story had the working title Doctor Who and Tanni, which was the original name for Vicki.The 10th anniversary special called the story The Powerful Enemy,

as it titled all the early stories by the title of the first episode.

Some subsequent listings repeated this error, as did the story's

broadcast on some American stations.

Cast notes

To preserve the mystery of its true identity, Koquillion was

originally credited as being played by "Sydney Wilson" — a name made up

by the production team in tribute to two of the creators of Doctor Who, and . This was the first instance of an alias being used, in the credits, for a cast member in order to conceal a plot twist in .

book

The Rescue

Series

Release number

124

Writer

Publisher

Cover artist

ISBN

0 426 20309 7

Release date

August 1987 (Hardback)

21st January 1988 (Paperback)

Preceded by

Followed by

Commercial releases

This story was released in 1994, on a double With . It has also been anounced by the BBFC website that 'The Rescue' along with will be released on

on 23 February 2009. The DVD will have a commentary track featuring

star William Russell, designer Ray Cusik & director Christopher

Barry.

In print

A novelisation of this serial, written by (the actor who played companion during the era), was published by

in August 1987, nearly a year after his death. Marter died soon after

completing the manuscript, which was subsequently edited (with some new

material added) by ,

editor of the Target Books line. According to Robinson, he did not have

to do too many changes to Marter's manuscript, although he did have to

remove an apparent reference to in an early chapter.

TRANSIT OF VENUS

Performed by William Russell as Ian Chesterton with Ian Hallard as Joseph Banks(Duration: 60' Approx)CAST: William Russell (Ian Chesterton), Ian Hallard (Joseph Banks)SYNOPSIS:The year is 1770, and daring explorer Captain James Cook and his crew on the Endeavour are navigating the Pacific Ocean.Into

their midst come strangers: the Doctor and Ian Chesterton, who are

believed to have come from Venus. But the TARDIS is lost to them -

along with both Susan and Barbara - and Ian makes an enemy of the

ship's chief scientist, Joseph Banks.Why is Banks acting strangely? Could it be that the travellers are not the only visitors from the stars?AUTHOR: Jacqueline RaynerDIRECTOR:Nigel FairsSOUND DESIGN:David DarlingtonMUSIC:David DarlingtonCOVER ART:Simon HolubNUMBER OF DISCS:1 CDRECORDED DATE:3 November 2008RELEASE DATE:31 January 2009PRODUCTION CODE:BFPDWCC16ISBN:978-1-84435-356-9

Warriors' Gate is a in the series ,

which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to

January 24, 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected

serials known as the and the last to feature and as .

Contents

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Continuing the Doctor's adventures in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana,

K-9, and their newest companion/stowaway, Adric, arrive on a planet

experiencing what appears to be a period. The population scratches out a living as

under the thrall of three local lords, Zargo, Camilla, and Aukon, who

dwell in a shadowy tower. Adding further fear to their lives, they

experience a yearly ritual called "the Selection," in which a sample of

young villagers are taken to the tower, never to be seen again. This

selection process is enforced by a thuggish band of guards led by

Habris.

The Doctor and Romana venture out into the village (not knowing that

Adric is following them), and it doesn't take long for the Doctor to

realize that something is very wrong when he discovers evidence of

technology considerably more advanced than what this

society seems capable of producing. With such technology, the Doctor

and Romana wonder what happened in the course of the planet's

development to cause it to evolve "backward" from a presumably advanced

culture to its current rustic condition -- to be in a "state of decay."

The arrival and then departure of the Doctor and Romana from the

village hall is reported by the headman, Ivo, via an electronic

communications device to an unseen figure called Kalmar. As the two

head out of the village they are seized by cloaked figures who convey

them to a secret base filled with illegal computers and other

technology. Kalmar is a scientist - a heretical role in their society -

and is very grateful for the Doctor's help in repairing a computer

which proceeds to reveal the names of the original chief officers of

the spaceship Hydrax. The faces of three senior officers are revealed

as those of the Lords of the Tower.

The Lords too have learnt of Romana and the Doctor, and Aukon sends

a flock of his winged servants, bats, (aka "The Wasting") to menace

them as they travel a clearing near the village.

The Doctor and Romana are now seized by Habris and his guards and

taken to an audience in the Tower. Zargo and Camilla entertain them for

a while, then are called away to deal with a situation called the

Arising. The Doctor and Romana start to snoop around and discover that

in fact, the great Tower in which the Lords dwell is itself a spaceship

originally from , which also somehow was pulled into E-Space long ago.

Adric has meanwhile wandered into the village and finds himself

looked after by Ivo and his wife Marta, both of whom are grieving for

their late son who was chosen for the Selection.

In the Hydrax the Doctor and Romana discover rows of corpses drained

of blood, while the craft's fuel stores are full of blood. Talk turns

to . They head downwards and find an . It is there that the Lord Aukon greets them, welcoming them to his domain.

Aukon invites the Doctor and Romana to become the first of the new

servants of the Chosen Ones then tells them that he has Adric much to

their surprise. When they refuse they are imprisoned. The Doctor

deduces by applying principles of

that the current lords' names are a corruption of the original crew

names (e.g. "Sharky" becomes "Zargo"). Thus the Doctor realizes that

the three lords might not be descendants of the original crew, but

members of the original crew themselves. He is reminded of ancient

stories of the Great Vampires, a giant race of rapacious, destructive,

and powerful creatures that were ancient enemies of the Time Lords

themselves. He deduces that the Great Vampire escaped destruction at

the hands of the Time Lords by somehow retreating into E-Space, and it

managed eventually to gather enough power to pull the old Earth ship

into this universe and corrupt the crew. Over time, it licked its

wounds and gathered power so that it could once again feast on worlds.

Meanwhile, Adric's attempts to mingle with the natives have led to him getting caught up in the Selection. He is put under a

by Aukon and accompanies him to the tower. Normally, the Chosen Ones

are chosen for Guards or killed if they defy the Three Who Rule, but

Aukon has other plans for Adric when he finds, to his surprise,

something different about the third stranger. Aukon plots to change

Adric into the new Chosen.

Another rebel named Tarak, makes a solo attack on the Tower in the

hope of freeing the Doctor and Romana. The Doctor returns to the

TARDIS, while Romana stays with Tarak to search for Adric, whom she

knows now is in the Tower's Inner Sanctum. As they try to snap Adric

out of his trance, they unknowingly awaken Zargo and Camilla. Tarak is

literally throttled by Zargo and dies when his neck snaps on the edge

of the "bed". Adric throws a knife at Zargo's heart and Camilla

advances on Adric. Romana backs away but Zargo grabs her shoulder. With

a toothy evil grin, he chuckles as he pulls the knife out of his heart

and is about to give a fatal blow to Romana.

Romana closes her eyes as Zargo draws his arm back for a fatal blow

but Aukon orders him to stop. "The boy," he says "is the first of the

Chosen Ones, soon to be one of us. He is not for you!" Camilla then

asks to have Romana. Aukon grabs Romana's chin and says gloatingly,

"The girl is a Timelord, one of the enemies of the Great One. She is to

be held for sacrifice at the time of Arising!" Romana and Adric argue

about their fate. Adric says if it's a choice between death and joining

the dine that means there's no sense in two of them getting the chop.

Adric asks Aukon why he is being kept prisoner when Romana is the

sacrifice and he is a Chosen One. "I'm sorry Timelady. One of my

families died for your lot already. I reckon one's enough!" Romana asks

Adric if he knows what happens to vampires when they die. Adric smugly

replies "But they don't die, do they Aukon!". They are taken to the

bottom of the Tower (as shown in the picture above), where Romana will

be sacrificed at the time of Arising and Adric will indeed become a

Chosen One.

In the TARDIS the Doctor and K-9 review the old stories about

vampires. The lore that the Doctor and K-9 uncovers determines that the

Great Vampires could only be defeated by metal bowships driven through

their chests (rather like the wooden stakes that work on lesser

vampires). He takes the craft to Kalmar's base and there uses scanning

equipment to scan the Tower. Under the lake of blood he finds a

restless, demonic presence, whom he determines to be the last Great

Vampire. He warns it is about to be revived. Kalmar, Ivo and many other

villagers agree to help him fight back. This rebel army and K9 make an

assault on the Tower itself, killing collaborator guards. Ivo finds

Habris and tells him "This is for my son!" and then kills him. The

Doctor heads off to the peak of the Tower and, in a burst of

characteristic ingenuity, the Doctor manages to rig one of the old

scoutships still attached to the spaceship/tower to launch and achieve

a trajectory that caused it to point back toward the ground and drive

itself into the heart of the subterranean Great Vampire, thus

duplicating the effect of the "metal bowships" of Time Lord history.

With the Great Vampire dispatched, the three vampire Lords crumble

to dust without the power of their master to sustain them. The Doctor

finds Romana and Adric. Together with K9 they leave the planet to its

own fate, hoping that, now freed from the corruptive effect of the

vampires, it will change direction and develop once again toward its

former advanced state and even perhaps surpass it. He leaves the planet

in Kalmar's hands, while hoping the next journeys in the TARDIS will

take Adric home and lead the craft back out of E-Space.

Continuity

This serial comprises the second leg of an extended adventure

generally known as the "The E-Space Trilogy"; the trilogy began in the

previous serial, , and concludes in .

The Doctor mentions his childhood on Gallifrey and "an old hermit

who lived up a mountain behind our house [and] used to tell me ghost

stories" – tales of the Time Lord's war with the Vampires. This is the

first mention of the Doctor's mentor from his youth since his last . This figure, K'Anpo (or Cho-Je) is first mentioned in and seen in .

The Great Vampires are mentioned by the in "".

Tie-in media

The spin-off novel by Terrance Dicks and the by are sequels to this serial. Other Doctor Who novels featuring vampires include and .

Many of the novels feature references to the war between the Time

Lords and the Vampires. Another anti-Vampire weapon, the N-Forms, were

introduced by in his New Adventures novel . Bowships are mentioned in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 as one of the weapons used in the against the , along with N-Forms and Black Hole Carriers.

The Fourth Doctor segment of ,

in which the Fourth Doctor is captured by the last few surviving

vampires and is rescued by Romana and the Eighth Doctor, takes place

between the destruction of the Great Vampire and the end of this story.

The , , and refer to the vampires and to their history with the Time Lords. The BBC audio webcast features a vampire named Nessican.

Production

Serial details by episode:

Episode

Broadcast date

Run time

Viewership

(in millions)

"Part One"

22 November 1980

22:24

5.8

"Part Two"

29 November 1980

23:16

5.3

"Part Three"

6 December 1980

24:13

4.4

"Part Four"

13 December 1980

24:54

5.4

Working titles for this story included The Wasting and The Vampire Mutations.The serial was a re-written version of a story called The Witch Lords which Dicks had submitted to the series in 1977, but which had been pulled just before production and replaced with .This was one of two serials to feature a highly improved K-9 prop. The other was .

book

Doctor Who and the State of Decay

Series

Release number

58

Writer

Publisher

Cover artist

ISBN

0 426 20133 7

Release date

14 January 1982

Preceded by

Followed by

Commercial releases

This story was released on

in October 1997. On the video, one tiny scene is omitted that was

previously on the TVOntario version. In Part 4, K-9 is perched on the

thrones of Zargo & Camilla, determining the moment when the Doctor

is activating the scout ship. When he tells the rebels to evacuate the

Tower, a rebel lifts him down and they escape.A commentary with , and has been recorded and it was released on January 26th 2009 in a box set with Warriors Gate & Full Circle.

In print

A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in September 1981. A condensed version of the book was read by Tom Baker and released on cassette.

Audio Book

This story was released on with linking material by

Plot

A new adventure for a new Doctor in a new Dimension…

The Doctor and his travelling companion, retired army officer Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, take a random trip in the - and land on the planet . The Doctor helped the to the

years ago, so he is surprised to find the Thal city under Dalek

occupation. He determines to help them again, but what is the Daleks'

purpose in keeping the Thals alive? Does it have anything to do with

the Daleks' mythical creator, named in their teachings as ?

Cast

— — — — Nadel — Gillen — Delt — Jeremy JamesToloc — Christopher Heywood

Notes

This is a sequel to .As the previous story was named after a , this play is named for a .In this audio drama, David Warner plays an alternative Third Doctor. He previously appeared with his "predecessor" in .The incident in 1972 that the Brigadier mentions is apparently an alternate version of the events of 1972's .

External links

"The Next Doctor" is an episode of the television series that was broadcast on 25 December 2008 and is the fourth of the revived series.

stars as the , plays the titular "Next Doctor", and plays the latter's Rosita.

This special sees the return of the , (of the design of the parallel universe's Cybermen), following their previous appearance in the two-part finale of in , ""/"".

During its original airing, the episode had a viewing audience of

13.1 million viewers. It was the second most watched programme of

Christmas Day 2008.

Contents

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[] Plot

The

lands in London on Christmas Eve, 1851, where he encounters a woman

called Rosita and another man who calls himself 'The Doctor'. After

failing to capture a , the two men talk, with the Tenth Doctor believing the other to be a future . Unfortunately, the other (dubbed 'the Next Doctor') is lacking many memories. Meanwhile, the

are planning an attack with a human ally, Miss Mercy Hartigan. The

Tenth Doctor follows the Next Doctor to a house of a dead man, Reverend

Aubrey Fairchild, where they search for clues to what the Cybermen are

planning. The Next Doctor begins to regain some of his lost memories;

when the Tenth Doctor finds a pair of 'infostamps' (the Cybermen's data

storage devices) the Next Doctor remembers he was holding one the night

he lost his memory. The Cybermen then attack the house, but before they

can kill the 'Doctors', the Next Doctor kills them with an electrical

charge in the infostamp.

At the Reverend's funeral, Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen attack the

mourners, sparing four who are subsequently fitted with Ear-Pods and

dispatched by Miss Hartigan to their workhouses to recruit the

children. Returning to the Next Doctor's home base, the Tenth Doctor is

shown the other's "Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style" - a . Realising what has happened, the Doctor explains that the Cybermen have escaped from the Void (following the ) when the walls of the universe were weakened in "".

The Cybermen came upon a man named Jackson Lake, the first person to

disappear, attacking him and his wife. In the confusion, Lake destroyed

the Cybermen with an infostamp (one containing information on the

Doctor gleaned from the Daleks), as earlier in the house, but it also

backfired, overwhelming Lake's mind with information about the Doctor.

In despair at losing his wife, Lake came to believe he was the Doctor.

Meanwhile, the children are taken to a sluice gate to the Thames. The

Doctor and Rosita investigate and are confronted by Miss Hartigan, who

explains that the Cybermen offered her liberation. The Doctor returns

the infostamp to the Cybermen, who download it, confirming him as their

foe. Miss Hartigan orders the Cybermen to delete the pair, but Lake

appears and destroys the Cybermen with another infostamp, allowing them

to escape. A furious Miss Hartigan announces that "the CyberKing will

rise tonight!"

Lake reveals that he and his family were attacked at their new house

and the Doctor realises it may lead to the Cybermen base. There, they

find a Dimension Vault, stolen

technology that allowed the Cybermen to escape the Void. In the

Cybermen base, the captive children are working to generate power to

allow the CyberKing to ascend. Hartigan is betrayed by the CyberLeader

and 'converted' to the CyberKing - thus receiving liberation from her

anger and hatred. However, she proves too powerful to control, and uses

her new powers to obliterate the CyberLeader. The Doctor, Rosita and

Jackson evacuate the children, including Jackson's son who was abducted

when he was attacked. However, the CyberKing - a giant Cyberman-shaped

robot ship - emerges from the Thames and begins to lay waste to London.

Using the gas balloon, the Doctor confronts Hartigan and offers her a

chance to live in peace. When she refuses, the Doctor uses the

infostamps to sever her connection from the CyberKing. Realising what

she has become, Hartigan screams in horror destroying the Cybermen and

herself. Before the CyberKing can collapse on the city, the Doctor uses

the dimension vault to transport it into the .

In the aftermath, Jackson thanks the Doctor for what he has done and

offers him a place at his Christmas celebration with Rosita and his

son. They walk away, to a Christmas dinner in honour of those they have

lost.

[] Continuity

The ten genuine Doctors, to date, appear in this episode through an infostamp projection. Apart from 's newly filmed appearance as the in special mini-episode "", "The Next Doctor" marks the first time since Doctor Who was revived in that footage of the prior to the (), and indeed any footage made prior to 2005, has been used within an episode. The ten Doctors were all illustrated in A Journal of Impossible Things, a book featured in "", however only a few of these illustrations were actually shown on screen. Audio clips of and as the were used in "". The footage of the () is taken from ; the () from ; the () from ; the () from ; the Fifth from ; the () from ; the () from ; the () from the ; the Ninth from ""; and the Tenth from "". Further footage of the Tenth Doctor appears from episodes including "", "", "" and "".

When trying to trigger Jackson's memories, the Doctor refers to

'not blinking', 'weeping angels' and 'Sally Sparrow', all of which

featured in "".

The Doctor also refers obliquely to past companions, noting to Lake

that they either leave him, meet someone else or forget about him.

The Doctor mentions the events of "". This is the first episode since "Doomsday" that the Cybermen have appeared in Doctor Who, although the Doctor Who , , furthered that story in the episode "".

These Cybermen have survived the apparent destruction of the Void,

using Dalek technology developed in the Void to pass through

dimensions. It is also implied by the Doctor that the events of allowed the Cybermen to escape the Void, as it also allowed to return to her own universe.

[] Production

[] Writing

Pre-broadcast publicity, based on excerpts from Davies' book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale,

revealed that the Doctor would meet a man played by David Morrissey who

also claims to be the Doctor. In further excerpts, Davies commented,

"The best title for this episode would be The Two Doctors... but maybe not. The New Doctor, perhaps? Or The Next Doctor? I quite like The Next Doctor."

The book also contained two pictures from a scene cut from the end of

the previous episode, intended to segue into the special echoing the

previous two series. This scene was included on the series boxset.

Following the success of last year's Christmas special, "", which guest starred pop star as one-off companion ,

Russell T Davies had initially felt tempted to copy this format with

another high-profile guest star, but decided against it after jokingly

offering up " on board the " as an example.

Regarding the unanswered question of why a gigantic robot in London

1851 "isn't in the history books", Davies and Gardner jokingly offer

several possibilities ranging from there being alternate history of Doctor Who England, pointing out "a spaceship didn't fly into the in 2006 either" (in the episode "") or that perhaps "maybe everyone was by the soon-to-be-born , or something."

Davies, from a writer's standpoint, was also unhappy with the final

scene in the episode where the Doctor gets rid of the CyberKing with

the convenient Dalek dimension vault but he couldn't during the writing

process think of another way to stop London being crushed by a giant

robot. However, after the episode was produced, a different idea came

to him. In this alternate ending Davies imagines, Miss Hartigan "should

have destroyed the Cybermen when she screamed... but she's still in the

chair", as the CyberKing falls to the Earth, the Doctor calls out to

her saying "Save them." This version would have Hartigan redeem herself

as she is the one to cause the CyberKing to disappear, with no need for

what Davies calls "a silly Dalek continuum dimension vault". Julie

Gardner felt this would have been a superior, "marvellous" ending and

Davies says he "can't bear that there could have been a better ending

than we actually transmitted".

Davies also feels he would like to write a

novel, set in the midst of that brief scene where Jackson Lake is in

the Doctor's TARDIS in which the Doctor takes Jackson to another

planet, ending with the "no no no scene" before Jackson invites the

Doctor to spend Christmas dinner with him.

[] Locations

Filming for this episode was conducted in April 2008 at and St Woolos Cemetery in , and in the streets of Gloucester, where shooting was hampered by up to 1,000 onlookers. The main setting of , their Torchwood Hub was also redesigned and used as the workshop for the children.

[] Casting

David Morrissey is the main guest star, playing "a character called The Doctor – a man who believes himself to be a Time Lord". He was influenced in his performance by previous Doctor actors , and , as he believed there was "a truth" to their performances because they "never saw [Doctor Who] as a genre show or a children's show".

He is joined by Velile Tshabalala as Rosita, the companion to

Morrissey's "Doctor", whom Russell T Davies describes as "probably

cleverer than the two of them [the Doctors] put together". For

Tshabalala, the character came naturally because her "feisty cockney

girl" characterisation was very "close to home" for her.

Dervla Kirwan plays Mercy Hartigan, who Russell T Davies describes in the episode's

commentary as "a dark a villain as you will ever have". A lot of her

characterisation goes unstated, but Russell discussed it in long

conversations with Dervla Kirwan and fellow executive producer Julie

Gardner. Davies characterises Miss Hartigan as "a victim of abuse", for

whom the suggests a "terrible "

which is symptomatic of her being "part of [this] Victorian Age."

Davies describes this as being "a powerless woman who's been in

servitude or far worse all her life", but holds his tongue from saying

her precise profession, relaying: "I'm talking quite discreetly around

this because there are children listening and watching and there's only

so far I should go." He does however explain that "She's had terrible

things done to her" which is responsible for her "really twisted

character where she sexualises everything." In terms of costume, "she

wears red" because "everything's inflammatory with her". "And in the

end, actually" Davies discusses how to escape her male oppression she

"becomes a man, she becomes the CyberKing. She has to go through this

extraordinary process because she's so damaged."

Design

Millennium FX's Neil Gorton's original design for the Cybershade

took the existing Cyberman design and "refurbished" it by adding rivets

and a copper finish. The design was cost-effective but Russell T Davies

did not believe it was the right approach. He sketched a new design for

the Cybershade that was "a crude version of a Cyberman, all angular and

blocky, with its trademark handlebars set at a jaunty angle and

shrouded in flowing black robes". Gorton used Davies' sketch to create

a fibreglass mask that the Cybershade actors wore over their heads.

Costume designer Louise Paige made the flowing robes, that were "light

enough to not restrict movement" to complete the Cybershade costume.

Originally, Gardner relayed that there was a widespread

dissatisfaction with Hartigan's CyberKing crown. The original helmet,

he remarked "was like the Cyberwoman's head from " (referring to the episode ""),

literally "a Cyberman's head on Dervla Kirwan" or "as if Dervla Kirwan

decided to go to a [fancy dress] party as a Cyberman." Davies' response

was "Oh my lord, no." The production team however worked hard, and in

two days produced the final headpiece seen in the episode which Davies

described as "beautiful", because it's "Victorian and it fits the

design." In the scene after the headpiece is placed on her, Dervla wore

black contact lenses and SFX company The Mill helped to get rid of "any

traces of white" in post-production.

 Broadcast

Preliminary figures show that the episode had a viewing audience of

11.71 million during its original airing, with a peak at 12.58 million

viewers, and a 50.5% share of the 18:00 timeslot it was shown. It was

the second most watched programme of Christmas Day 2008, behind 's . Final viewing figures show an audience of 13.1 million viewers.

The episode had an

figure of 86 (considered "Excellent"), making it the second most

enjoyed programme on mainstream television on Christmas Day. The only

programme to score higher was Wallace and Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death, which scored 88. Australia, the ABC will broadcast the episode much earlier than usual on Sunday 25 January at 19:30.

Full Circle

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112 – Full Circle

serial

A emerges from underwater.

Cast

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Guest stars

— — Draith — Nefred — Garif — Login — Dexeter — Varsh — Keara — Tylos — Omril — Rysik — Marshman — Marschild

Production

Writer

Director

Script editor

Producer

Executive producer(s)

Production code

5R

Series

Length

4 episodes, 25 minutes each

Originally broadcast

–,

Chronology

← Preceded by

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Full Circle is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from to , . The serial is the first of three loosely connected serials known as the and introduces as the newest , .

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The BBC today announced

that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic

BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will

take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He

will be seen in the forthcoming fifth series that will be broadcast in

2010.

The fifth series will also have a new lead writer and Executive

Producer in the form of the BAFTA award winning writer Steven Moffat

who is taking over from Russell T Davies. Moffat will be joined by

Piers Wenger who will be the new Executive Producer for BBC Wales

making the show.

Following David Tennant's decision to step down at the end of 2009,

the team behind the new series set about casting the new Doctor so that

new adventures could be created and scripts written with Matt in mind.

The identity of the new Doctor was revealed on a special edition of

Doctor Who Confidential that was broadcast on BBC One on January 3rd at

17.35hrs. In it Smith revealed his initial reaction at taking on such a

legendary role and his thoughts on what direction the Doctor might now

be going with him playing the part.

Matt Smith said of his new role "I'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. 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.

"David Tennant has made the role his own, brilliantly with grace,

talent and persistent dedication. I hope to learn from the standards

set by him. The challenge for me is to do justice to the show's

illustrious past, my predecessors and most importantly to those who

watch it. I really cannot wait."

Lead writer and Executive Producer Steven Moffat said "The Doctor is

a very special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You

need to be old and young at the same time, a boffin 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 Lord, we knew we had our man. 2010 is a long time away

but rest assured the Eleventh Doctor is coming - and the universe has

never been so safe."

Piers Wenger, Head Of Drama, BBC Wales added "With two hearts, a

ferocious mind and over 900 years of experience behind him, it's not

every 26 year old actor who can take on a role like the Doctor but

within moments of meeting Matt he showed the skill and imagination

needed to create a Doctor all of his own.

It's just the beginning of the journey for Matt but with Steven

Moffat's scripts and the expertise of the production team in Cardiff

behind him, there is no one more perfect than him to be taking the

TARDIS to exciting new futures when the series returns in 2010."

Ben Stephenson, Controller BBC Drama added "I am delighted to see

Matt take on this iconic role. It will see him continuing his

relationship with the BBC following his performances in Ruby In The

Smoke and Party Animals, and his upcoming role in Moses Jones. The

combination of Matt, Steven and Piers will, I know, take Doctor Who

onto new and even dizzier heights."

Jay Hunt, Controller. BBC ONE said "Matt Smith will be a mesmerising

eleventh Time Lord, true to the spirit of the show. He is a worthy

successor to David Tennant who has been utterly remarkable in the role

and promises to continue to be in next year's four special episodes."

 Matt Smith

Matt Smith, 26, grew up with his family including one sister in

Northampton. He was head boy at Northampton School For Boys where he

excelled at sports, music and drama.

Initially, Matt wanted to be a professional footballer and played

for Northampton Town Under 11 and 12s, Nottingham Forest Under

12,13,14s and Leicester City Under 15 and 16s before a back injury

forced him out of the game.

Following his injury, and with the encouragement of one of his

teachers, Jerry Hardingham, Matt decided to join the National Youth

Theatre. It was during this time that Matt first gained attention at

the Royal Court Theatre when he was cast in the play Fresh Kills,

directed by Wilson Milam, whilst still at the University Of East Anglia

where he was studying Drama and Creative Writing.

Already a stalwart of the National Youth Theatre, his performance at

the Court led to a variety of theatrical experiences at the National

Theatre: in the award winning History Boys (directed by Nick Hytner),

On The Shore Of The Wide World (directed by Sarah Frankcom) and also in

the acclaimed trio of plays Burn / Citizenship / Chatroom (directed by

Anna Mackmin).

These roles led to Matt's first outings on the small screen,

alongside Billie Piper in Phillip Pullman's period detective stories,

The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, where he played Jim,

right hand man to Billie's detective heroine Sally Lockhart. These

pieces were followed by the lead role of Danny in the BBC Two series

Party Animals, the brilliantly observed drama set in the world of young

politicians.

In a dazzling return to the Royal Court in 2007, Matt played Henry

in Polly Stenham's award winning first play That Face, opposite Lindsay

Duncan. His performance gained Matt an Evening Standard Best Newcomer

nomination and a year later the play had a second life in the West End

at the Duke of York's Theatre. In between the two runs, Matt played Guy

opposite Christian Slater's Buddy in Swimming With Sharks, Mike

Leslie's searing West End adaptation of the 1994 Hollywood film. In

this time he also played a lead role in the BAFTA winning BBC One

series, The Street, opposite Gina McKee and Lorraine Ashbourne.

Matt has recently completed work on Moses Jones for BBC Two,

directed by Michael Offer, in which he plays the lead role of Dan

Twentyman, alongside Shaun Parkes in the title role.

Battlefield

156 – Battlefield

serial

A meeting with an old friend

Cast

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()

Guest stars

— — Doris — — Dorota Rae — Paul Tomany — Noel Collins — Pat Rawlinson — Elizabeth Rawlinson — Peter WarmslyLing Tai — Shou Yuing — — Mordred — AncelynMarek Anton — The DestroyerStefan Schwartz — Knight Commander

Production

Writer

Director

Script editor

Producer

Executive producer(s)

None

Production code

7N

Series

Length

4 episodes, 25 minutes each

Originally broadcast

–,

Chronology

← Preceded by

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Battlefield is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from to , .

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The clip, from The Next Doctor, is online now at the BBC's Children In Need website, and shows the first two minutes of a brand new episode for the Time Lord, played by David Tennant.This never seen before footage, is a worldwide exclusive, and will keep fans all over the globe wondering what's in store for the Doctor's next adventure.As a bonus, you can also watch a special report on the recent Studio Tour competition days at the Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures sets.We very much hope that you enjoy both clips and that you can support BBC Children In Need.2.1 Doctor Who - Dead LondonSYNOPSIS:Someone's playing with us. Manipulating time and space for their own ends. The TARDIS lands in London. But which one? The Doctor and Lucie find themselves trapped in a maze of interlocking Londons from Roman times to the present day. But they are not alone in this labyrinth: a killer is on their trail.2.2 Doctor Who - Max WarpSYNOPSIS:Welcome to Max Warp! Broadcasting live from the Sirius Inter-G Cruiser Show. Hosted by outspoken columnist and media personality Geoffrey Vantage, with spaceship-guru-extraordinaire O’Reilley and daredevil pilot Timbo ‘the Ferret’. When a test flight of the new Kith Sunstorm ends in disaster, the Sirius Exhibition Station is plunged into a web of murder and intrigue. Someone – or something – is trying to re-ignite a war between the Varlon Empire and the Kith Oligarchy.As the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance, only two investigators, the Doctor and Lucie, can hope to uncover the truth. So strap yourself in, engage thrust, and prepare for... Max Warp!2.3 Doctor Who - Brave New TownSYNOPSIS:It's like The Village That Time Forgot! The inhabitants of the quiet seaside town of Thorington in Suffolk are living the same day over and over again. What's so special about the 1st of September 1991? Why haven't the villagers noticed that the same song has been number one for years? And just where on Earth has the sea disappeared to? The Doctor and Lucie must solve the mystery before the 'visitors' return...2.4 Doctor Who - The Skull of SobekSYNOPSIS:Too much perfection's dangerous. On the isolated planet of Indigo 3, far out in the wastes of the Blue Desert, lies the Sanctuary of Imperfect Symmetry. It is a place of contemplation and reflection. It is also a place of death. Something from another time, from another world, has found its way inside the hallowed walls. Something with a leathery hide, a long snout and sharp pointy teeth. Tick tock. Here comes the crocodile...2.5 Doctor Who - Grand Theft CosmosSYNOPSIS:Here's to crime, Doctor!The Doctor and Lucie visit nineteenth-century Sweden and become embroiled in an attempt to steal the infamous Black Diamond.But the stone is guarded by forces not of this world...2.6 Doctor Who - The Zygon Who Fell to EarthSYNOPSIS:There are no monsters this time... are there? Ten years later and Aunty Pat is in her prime. She's snagged herself an ex rock star at the Kendal Folk Festival and now, in the brave new world of the early 1980s they manage together a snazzy hotel on the poetic and shingly shore of Lake Grasmere. However, still waters run deep and friends from the past are returning, intent on milking the old cash-cow... Featuring the song Falling Star sung by Steven Pacey with music by Tim Sutton and lyrics by Barnaby Edwards.2.7 Doctor Who - Sisters of the FlameSYNOPSIS:The richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey. Why? As the Doctor and Lucie attempt to discover the answer, it becomes clear that someone is attempting to resurrect the past - and they need a Time Lord to help them achieve it.2.8 Doctor Who - Vengeance of MorbiusSYNOPSIS:The richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey. Why? As the Doctor and Lucie attempt to discover the answer, it becomes clear that someone is attempting to resurrect the past - and they need a Time Lord to help them achieve it.

David Tennant has announced that he will leave the award winning BBC drama Doctor Who when he has completed the filming of four special episodes which will be screened in 2009 and early in 2010.David Tennant first appeared as The Doctor in 2005 and has gone on to star in three series and three Christmas specials as the tenth incarnation of the Time Lord. The BBC has confirmed that David will continue to play The Doctor in the four specials that will make up the 2009 series before a new Doctor takes over for Series 5. Tennant will also star in the Doctor Who Christmas Special titled The Next Doctor this year.David Tennant comments "I've had the most brilliant, bewildering and life changing time working on Doctor Who. I have loved every day of it. It would be very easy to cling on to the TARDIS console forever and I fear that if I don't take a deep breath and make the decision to move on now, then I simply never will. You would be prising the TARDIS key out of my cold dead hand. This show has been so special to me, I don't want to outstay my welcome."This is all a long way off, of course. I'm not quitting, I'm back in Cardiff in January to film four special episodes which will take Doctor Who all the way through 2009. I'm still the Doctor all next year but when the time finally comes I'll be honoured to hand on the best job in the world to the next lucky git - whoever that may be."I'd always thought the time to leave would be in conjunction with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner who have been such a huge part of it all for me. Steven Moffat is the most brilliant and exciting writer, the only possible successor to Russell and it was sorely tempting to be part of his amazing new plans for the show. I will be there, glued to my TV when his stories begin in 2010."I feel very privileged to have been part of this incredible phenomenon, and whilst I'm looking forward to new challenges I know I'll always be very proud to be the Tenth Doctor."Russell T Davies Executive Producer of Doctor Who comments "I've been lucky and honoured to work with David over the past few years - and it's not over yet, the Tenth Doctor still has five spectacular hours left! After which, I might drop an anvil on his head. Or maybe a piano. A radioactive piano. But we're planning the most enormous and spectacular ending, so keep watching!"Doctor Who returns to our screens on BBC this Christmas. The Next Doctor starring David Tennant, David Morrissey and Dervla Kirwan will be screened on the 25th December on BBC1.TIME CRASHThe 2007 Children In Need scene, written by Steven Moffat.DELETED SCENESA

collection of deleted and alternate takes including Howard Attfield's

(Geoff Noble) scenes from the S4 opener and the original 'Cybermen'

ending from the finale - each scene comes with an explanatory

introduction from Russell T Davies. Stories that receive the additional

material are: Voyage Of The Damned; Partners In Crime; Fires Of Pompeii; Planet Of The Ood; The Doctor's Daughter; The Unicorn & The Wasp; Forest Of The Dead; Turn Left; and Journey's End.DAVID TENNANT'S VIDEO DIARIESTwo

fifteen minute (approx.) segments filmed by David Tennant including the

'turn on' of the Blackpool Illuminations in 2007 and behind~the~scenes

filming of the series finale.THE JOURNEY (SO FAR)Half

hour documentary charting the return of the show up to the S4 finale.

Features interviews with Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Phil

Collinson and Julie Gardner.TRAILERSAll teasers and trailers for the episodes including the 'cinema' trailers for Voyage Of The Damned and S4.AUDIO COMMENTARIESThese are all new commentaries recorded especially for this release.VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED: Murray Gold (Composer), Russell Tovey (Midshipman Frame) & Peter Bennett (1st Assistant Director)PARTNERS IN CRIME: Julie Gardner (Executive Producer), Russell T Davies & James Strong (Director)FIRES OF POMPEII: David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Tracie Simpson (Production Manager)PLANET OF THE OOD: Graeme Harper (Director) & Roger Griffiths (Commander Kess)THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM: Julie Gardner, Dan Starkey (Commander Skorr) & Neil Gorton (Prosthetics Designer)THE POISON SKY: David Tennant, RTD and Susie Liggat (Producer)THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER: Catherine Tate, Georgia Moffett (Jenny) & Ben Foster (Conductor)THE UNICORN & THE WASP: Felicity Kendal (Lady Eddison) & Fenella Woolgar (Agatha Christie)SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY: David Tennant, Steven Moffat & Julie GardnerFOREST OF THE DEAD: Euros Lyn (Director), Lousie Page (Costume designer) & Helen Raynor (Script Editor)MIDNIGHT: David Tennant, RTD & Alice Troughton (Director)TURN LEFT: Catherine Tate, Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) & Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble)THE STOLEN EARTH: David Tennant, RTD and Julie GardnerJOURNEY'S END: David Tennant, Catherine Tate & RTDDOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL Cut-down versions (in some cases less than ten minutes) of all the accompanying episodes with the exception of Time Crash.