Synopsis

The and arrive in on , 1869 and discover that something is making the dead come back to life. The time travellers team up with a world-weary to investigate Gabriel Sneed, the local undertaker and his servant girl Gwyneth — and come face to face with the ghostly .

Plot

In a funeral parlour during the ,

a young man named Redpath grieves over the open casket containing his

dead grandmother. Closing his eyes in sorrow, he does not see a blue,

glowing vapour wash over the corpse and enter it. The old woman's eyes

snap open and she grabs Redpath by the throat, killing him. Gabriel

Sneed, the undertaker, rushes in and tries to close the lid on the

reanimated corpse but she knocks him unconscious to the floor before

getting up and wandering out onto the street, wailing. Sneed regains

consciousness and calls for his servant girl, Gwyneth. This is not the

first corpse in the funeral home to come alive, and Gwyneth tells Sneed

that they need to get help. Sneed protests that it is not his fault,

and they have to get the dead woman back. Riding in the hearse, Sneed

orders Gwyneth to use her abilities to seek the dead woman out, and Gwyneth focuses on the old woman's last desire: to see ,

who is giving a reading in a music hall in town. Dickens himself is in

a melancholic mood as he waits for his stage call. He feels old, is

estranged from his family and his imagination is growing thin. He feels

that he has seen all there is to see.

In the , and Rose are having a rough ride. As the ship shakes and they hold onto the console, the Doctor aims the TARDIS for in 1860. When they land, Rose is about to rush out when the Doctor tells her that she would start a riot in her

clothing. Rose returns more suitably dressed in an off-the-shoulder

gown, and the Doctor compliments her, saying she is beautiful... for a

human. They step out into the snow-covered streets of history, the

Doctor realising when he buys a newspaper that his aim was a bit off —

it is Christmas Eve, 1869, and they are in , not Naples.

In the music hall, Dickens gives a reading of ,

but stops short as the dead woman in the audience starts to glow blue.

The vapour pours out of her mouth, an ethereal gas with a vaguely human

shape that sweeps around the hall and sends the audience running in a

panic. The screams attract Rose and the Doctor as well as Sneed and

Gwyneth. Dickens accuses the Doctor of being responsible for the

illusion, as the vapour completely leaves the dead woman's body to be

sucked into a gas lamp, and the body collapses. Sneed and Gwyneth carry

the limp body out. Rose goes in pursuit, and Sneed

her, bundling her into the hearse with the dead woman. The Doctor

commandeers Dickens's coach, but the great writer's protests vanish

when the Doctor discovers who he is and gushes over his literary

genius. When the Doctor tells him about Rose, Dickens chivalrously

joins the chase.

Rose awakens in the locked viewing gallery of the funeral parlour,

not seeing another gaseous entity take over young Redpath's body. As

the Doctor and Dickens arrive at the parlour and force their way in,

Redpath and his grandmother come to life again, approaching Rose

menacingly. The gas lamps in the house flicker, and the Doctor realises

there is something living in the pipes. He hears Rose's cries and

breaks the door down, pulling her away from the corpses. He asks them

who they are, and the corpses cry that they are dying because

is failing and these forms cannot be sustained. Then the blue vapours

stream out of the dead, and the bodies collapse once more.

Sneed explains that the house has had a reputation for being

haunted, which is why he managed to buy it so cheaply. The Doctor

explains that the house is built on the rift the aliens were referring

to — a break in

that is growing. These entities are from across the universe. Dickens

is still sceptical, refusing to believe that there are ghosts in the

gas pipes. The Doctor tells him that as dead bodies release gas when

they decompose, they are ideal vehicles for these gaseous aliens.

Dickens tells the Doctor, shakily, that if what he has seen is true,

then perhaps his entire life, spent fighting against injustice and for

social causes in what he thought was the real world, has been for

nothing.

Rose, in the meantime, talks to Gwyneth, finding out that she was

taken in by Sneed when she was twelve, after her parents died. Although

they initially get along well, Gwyneth sees the future in Rose's mind

but is shocked when she sees the things Rose has experienced with the

Doctor, mentioning the big .

She apologises, admitting her clairvoyance and saying that her

abilities have been growing stronger recently. The Doctor has been

listening, and surmises that Gwyneth's abilities are due to her growing

up in this house over the rift, and she is the key. He suggests they

hold a .

Gwyneth manages to summon the aliens, who speak through her. They are the Gelth, a species whose bodies were destroyed by the

and left them facing extinction in a gaseous state. The few Gelth

remaining need to come through the rift and take over dead bodies to

survive. Rose is repulsed by the idea, but the Doctor insists that they

have to help. Gwyneth will stand at the spot of the rift down in the

morgue and allow the Gelth to use her as a bridge. Rose continues to

protest: she knows the Gelth do not succeed, because the future does

not have walking dead, but the Doctor tells her that time is constantly

in flux, and the future can be rewritten; nothing is safe. In any case,

Gwyneth wants to help her "angels". The Doctor warns the Gelth that

this is only a temporary solution—once they possess the bodies, he will

transport them to another place where they can build permanent ones.

However, when Gwyneth stands at the rift, and the Gelth begin to

come through her, the numbers are much more than they originally

implied. The Gelth show their true colours — they do not just want

bodies that are already dead, they are willing to kill to supply

themselves with more hosts and occupy the planet. Gwyneth stands

motionless at the position of the rift as the Gelth continue to stream

in. Sneed has his neck snapped by a reanimated corpse and is taken

over. Dickens, overwhelmed, runs in fear as the Doctor and Rose are

backed up into a corner. The Doctor apologises to Rose that she is

going to die over a century before she was born, but she tells him that

she wanted to come. The Doctor holds her hand as they prepare to go out

fighting together, and he tells Rose he is glad he met her.

Outside, Dickens sees a pursuing Gelth get sucked into a gas lamp on

the street, and has a brainstorm. He rushes back into the house,

turning off the flames and turning up the gas. He goes down into the

morgue, doing the same, telling the Doctor what he is doing. The Doctor

realises that by filling the house with gas, the Gelth will be sucked

out of the dead bodies like .

This is exactly what happens, the Gelth pouring out of the collapsing

corpses and swirling around in the confines of the morgue. The Doctor

tells Gwyneth to send them back, but she says she is only strong enough

to hold them here, and takes out a box of matches from her apron.

The Doctor tells Dickens to get Rose out of there before the two

succumb to the gas fumes, and tries to convince Gwyneth to leave the

Gelth to him. As he touches her neck, however, he discovers the truth

of the matter, and reluctantly leaves. Gwyneth lights a match, and the

house and the Gelth are consumed in fire. The Doctor tells Rose that

when he checked Gwyneth's pulse, he realised that she was dead. He

thinks Gwyneth died the moment she stood in the rift. Rose does not

understand — Gwyneth spoke to them and saved them. In response, Dickens

quotes , that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (: Act 1, scene V). Rose looks sadly at the ruins of the funeral home—a servant girl saved the world, and nobody will ever know.

Dickens thanks the Doctor as they stand in front of the TARDIS. The

things he has seen tonight have given him hope that there is more to

learn. He plans to patch things up with his family and finish ,

identifying the murderer as a blue elemental. He asks the Doctor if his

books will last, and the Doctor assures a smiling Dickens that his work

will last forever. Inside the TARDIS, Rose asks if Dickens writing

about what they just experienced will change history. The Doctor tells

her that Dickens will never get to write his story, as he dies the

following year. Right now, however, they have made him more alive than

he has been in a long time.

Dickens watches in wonderment as the TARDIS fades away before his

eyes. He laughs out loud, and walks through the streets of Cardiff,

wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and declaring, "God bless us,

everyone!"

Cast

— — Gabriel Sneed — Redpath — Huw RhysMrs Peace — Jennifer HillGwyneth — — Stage Manager — Wayne CaterDriver — Meic PoveyThe — Zoe Thorne

Cast notes

Simon Callow, who plays Dickens, has also written extensively about

the writer and is well known for playing Dickens on television as well

as in a one-man show. See .Eve Myles, who plays Gwyneth, subsequently stars in the Doctor Who spin-off series as . There is supposedly no connection between the two characters other than both characters living in ..

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"Time Crash"

charity special

"What!?" The Tenth Doctor meets the Fifth Doctor.

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8 Minutes

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"Time Crash" is a of the series . It was broadcast on as part of the 2007 appeal for the children's charity on . It was written by and starred and as .

The episode depicts an encounter between the Doctor's and

incarnations, played by Davison and Tennant respectively. "Time Crash"

was a ratings success, with a viewership of 10.9 million and a 45%

share of the total television audience that night, making it both the

most watched portion of the 2007 Children in Need special and the most

watched Doctor Who episode since the show's 2005 revival.

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Plot

After saying farewell to , the Doctor sets off on his travels when the

encounters a problem, the result of which involves the Fifth Doctor

appearing in the console room. The Tenth Doctor is gleeful at the

meeting, but the Fifth Doctor is initially baffled, assuming his future

incarnation is a deranged fan, possibly from .

The Tenth Doctor explains that he forgot to put up the shields after

rebuilding the TARDIS and it collided with the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS

(its earlier self) in the timestream. This is generating a paradox at

the heart of the ship powerful enough to rip a hole in the universe the

(exact) size of . The signals the impending end.

However, without a thought, the Tenth Doctor manipulates the TARDIS controls to manipulate a into exact counterbalance; it cancels out the

caused by the paradox, so that all matter remains constant. This amazes

the Fifth Doctor, but he quickly realises that the Tenth Doctor 'came

up with' the solution only because he .

The Fifth Doctor says his farewells, and the Tenth Doctor tells the

Fifth of the personality traits that he retained from his fifth self,

also telling him he loved being him and that he was "his" Doctor.

As he departs, the Fifth Doctor reminds the Tenth to raise his shields again, but too late; as he is doing so, the hull of the crashes through one of the TARDIS walls, as originally seen at the end of the last series.

Cast

— —

Cast notes

appears, uncredited, as in footage from "" at the start of the episode, adding to the established events depicted then.At 56 on the date of filming, Davison — still the current record

holder for the youngest actor to play the Doctor — was older than was when he began his run as the

- at 55 the oldest anyone has been when they first played the Doctor.

From an in-character point of view, the aged appearance of the Fifth

Doctor was explained away as an effect of the merge.

Continuity

Both the Fifth Doctor and the Tenth Doctor make references to each

other's respective storylines throughout the episode. The Tenth Doctor

mentions and , the , , as well as commenting at length on the Fifth Doctor's clothing. The Fifth Doctor asks the Tenth Doctor if he's connected with and uses the phrase "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" first heard in "", also by Steven Moffat. Other elements from the series such as , and are also mentioned.

Both Doctors refer to common elements throughout the series such as the and the . The Fifth asks if the Master still has "that rubbish beard" (referencing the fact that actors and portrayed the character with a beard), and the Tenth replies "No, no beard this time... well, a " (referring to ). The Fifth Doctor also notes that the TARDIS's "" has been changed, accounting for its radically different appearances throughout the series.

The Tenth Doctor offers to help the Fifth Doctor fix the problem caused by the TARDIS merge through his , which the Fifth Doctor declines. The latter's own sonic screwdriver was destroyed in the serial , as then-producer

saw it as an "easy way out" for writers to resolve any difficult

situation the Doctor faced. The sonic screwdriver would never appear in

the show again until the in 1996.

During the original run of Doctor Who, the Doctor met different incarnations of "himself" in three stories: (1973), (1983) and (1985). The Children in Need special

(1993) also featured all the five surviving Doctors at the time, with

specially made busts standing in for the remaining two. In the sketch

(1999), also written by Moffat, the Doctor regenerated four times,

resulting in five different actors playing the role. Multi-Doctor

stories have also appeared in .

There were also several instances of the incidental music changing

to a style more heavily favoured during the time that Peter Davison's

episodes were produced. This differed greatly from the orchestral style

of music now favoured by the programme.

Chronology

It is never explicitly stated where the Fifth Doctor's segment fits

into his own continuity. From the Tenth Doctor's perspective, the

special takes place at the very end of "Last of the Time Lords",

immediately prior to the RMS Titanic crashing into the TARDIS.

Production

The episode was directed by on , , who twenty-three years previously had directed Peter Davison's last regular appearance in Doctor Who in the serial . It was officially announced by the BBC on .

According to the

episode featuring behind-the-scenes footage, the Fifth Doctor's coat

and trousers are originals taken from the Blackpool Doctor Who

exhibition. The trousers had been previously altered in order to fit for the regeneration scene in The Caves of Androzani (and the opening of The Twin Dilemma). The jumper was knitted especially for this episode, and the hat was a new roll-up panama hat with an original band added on.

David Tennant mentioned in an interview the morning after airing

that the Tenth Doctor's speech complimenting the Fifth Doctor's sense

of style and personality was written by himself, and that the Fifth was

his favourite Doctor.[]

Previous Doctor Who charity specials transmitted over the years include the aforementioned Dimensions in Time, Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death and "". The first two are generally not regarded as canonical by Doctor Who fans, but the last one is, directly connecting "" with "". The anniversary special The Five Doctors was broadcast on Children in Need night for its United Kingdom premier broadcast.

Broadcast, reception and release

The episode was introduced by and , who plays ; Barrowman had just performed the song "".

Children in Need was the most-watched television programme of

the night, with an overnight rating of 9.4 million viewers, and figures

peaked between 8:15pm and 8:30pm, when "Time Crash" was aired, with a

total of 10.9 million viewers. The episode is therefore the most-viewed

since the show's revival in 2005, surpassing the revival's premiere, "", which achieved a rating of 10.8 million viewers. Calls also peaked during the episode's airing. When the episode was replayed later that night it garnered an audience of 2.5 million viewers.

Critical reaction was positive, with reviewers calling it the highlight of the Children in Need special. Steven Moffat was praised for his writing of the episode, which was characterized as witty and clever. The performances of both Peter Davison and David Tennant were also well-received.

See also

Davros Awakes!

Destiny Of The Daleks and Davros Boxset for November.

Destiny of the Daleks, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor

and Lalla Ward as a newly regenerated Romana, is set to be released on

DVD by 2Entertain.

When the Doctor and Romana arrive on Skaro, they find themselves

caught in the middle of in an interplanetary war between the Daleks and

the robotic Movellans. Can Davros, creator of the Daleks, give the

Doctor's greatest enemies the edge they need?

The single-disc (not double, as previously reported) contains all four episodes plus the following extras:

Commentary - With actors Lalla Ward and David Gooderson, director Ken Grieve.Terror Nation - documentary about writer Terry Nation, creator of

the Daleks, and his work on Doctor Who. With contributions from

producers Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe, script editor Terrance

Dicks, director Richard Martin and Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs.Directing Who - director Ken Grieve recalls his time on this story.CGI Effects – providing the option to watch the story with

seventeen of the original video effects sequences replaced by CGI

versions.Trails and Continuity - BBC One trails and continuity announcements

from the story's transmission, including the specially shot trailer

heralding the return of the Daleks.Photo Gallery - production, design and publicity photos.

Prime Computer Adverts - Australian TV adverts for Prime Computers, starring the Doctor and Romana.Coming Soon - trail for forthcoming DVD boxset release of Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep.Easter Egg

Destiny Of The Daleks will be available from 26 November. The story

will also form part of a special Davros boxset, collecting all the

other adventures featuring the evil genius, plus extra material. More

on these extras soon!

Synopsis

The takes his new companion, , on her first trip through time, 5 billion years into the future. There, on a called Platform One, he and Rose are on hand with a group of races to witness the expand and swallow the . However, someone is planning to sabotage the event with deadly robotic spiders.

 Plot

"Welcome to the end of the world."

Following "", the Doctor asks Rose where she would like to go on her first trip in the , and she selects the future. The Doctor takes her to the year 5.5/Apple/26 (five billion years in her future) onto a named Platform One orbiting the . In the eons since Rose's time, the Earth has emptied, mankind having left it long ago and the planet taken over by the . Although the expansion of the

takes millions of years, gravity satellites held the effects back, and

the trust also restored the "classic" positions of the continents on

Earth. Now that the money has run out, the Earth will be allowed to be

swallowed up by the Sun at last. Platform One is where the

rich of the universe will witness the end of the world, which will

occur in about an hour. The station has automated systems and is

staffed by blue-skinned humanoids.

On encountering the Steward, who manages Platform One, the Doctor

persuades him that he and Rose are invited guests by using a piece of "" that makes people see what the Doctor wants them to see. The other guests arrive, including the diminutive , the , living from the (whose ancestors originated on Earth) and, from Financial Family Seven, a group called the Adherents of the Repeated . Rose watches in fascination as the last living human arrives — the ,

who is just a piece of stretched-out skin with eyes and a mouth,

mounted on a frame and connected to a brain jar. The skin needs to be

constantly moisturised by her attendants. The guests exchange gifts:

Jabe of the Forest of Cheem gives the Doctor a taken from her grandfather; the Doctor gives her the gift of air from his lungs. The Moxx gives the gift of bodily , and the Adherents of the Repeated Meme hand out gifts of "peace" in the form of , even to the Steward.

Cassandra gives her own gifts: the last egg, and an "" (a ) from ancient Earth. Rose is a bit overwhelmed when the jukebox plays "classical" music — the song "" by — and leaves the hall. She has a brief conversation with a station ,

Raffalo, who is investigating a blockage. At first she is comforted by

the familiarity of Raffalo's matter-of-fact, working-class manner. But

when Raffalo explains that she is from Crespallion, which is part of

the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, in Complex 56,

Rose realises how far she is from home, and with a man she does not

even know. Rose leaves, and does not see Raffalo spot some small, -like

in the ducts, which rapidly grab her and pull her inside. Meanwhile,

the spiders are being disgorged from the metal spheres gifted by the

Adherents of the Repeated Meme to the various guests, and soon

infiltrate the entire station, sabotaging its systems.

The Doctor finds Rose, and when Rose asks him where he is from, the

Doctor brushes her questions off, getting defensive and angry. When the

Doctor alters Rose's

so she can talk to her mother in the past, another fact sinks in — her

mother is long dead. The Doctor jokes that if Rose thought the

telephone call was amazing, she should see the bill. Suddenly, a tremor

shakes the station, and the Doctor observes that it was not supposed to

happen. The Steward, investigating the cause of the tremor, is killed

when a spider lowers the sun filter in his room, exposing him to the

direct heat of the Sun's rays.

The Doctor also starts to look into the tremor, and Jabe offers to

show him where the maintenance corridors are while Rose goes to speak

to Cassandra. Rose finds that Cassandra has had 708 operations to keep

her alive, and considers herself the last "pure" human — the others who

left "intermingled" with other species and she considers them all

mongrels. Her 709th operation, to bleach her blood, is next week.

Disgusted that humanity has come to this, Rose insults Cassandra and

storms off, only to be met by the Adherents, who knock her out.

In the corridors, Jabe quietly tells the Doctor that she scanned him

earlier, and was astonished to discover what he was and that he still

even exists. She genuinely sympathises with him, putting a hand on his

arm, and the Doctor is briefly moved to tears. They then continue to

the bowels of the station, where they find one of the spiders. Jabe

captures it with a , a long, vine-like appendage which she usually keeps hidden out of courtesy.

As the station's systems continue to be sabotaged and, as a "traditional ballad" — 's ""

— plays on the jukebox, Rose wakes to find herself trapped in a room

with a lowering sun filter. The Doctor hears her cries for help and

manages to raise the filter, but Rose is still locked in. Returning to

the main hall, the Doctor releases the spider to seek out its master.

At first it focuses on the Adherents of the Repeated Meme, but the

Doctor points out that repeated memes are just ideas, and the Adherents

are remote-controlled . He deactivates them and the spider scurries over to Cassandra.

Cassandra has her attendants hold the others at bay, saying that the

moisturiser guns can also shoot acid. She reveals that her operations

cost a fortune, and she was hoping to create a hostage situation

whereby she could later seek compensation. Now she will just let

everyone burn and take over their corporate holdings. Cassandra orders

the spiders to shut off the force field protecting the station, then

uses an illegal device to transport herself and her attendants away.

With only a few minutes left until the Sun incinerates Earth and the

station, the Doctor and Jabe rush back down to the air-conditioning

chamber. The restore switch for the computer systems is at the other

end of a platform blocked by giant rotating fans. The Doctor protests

that the rising heat will burn the wooden Jabe, but she insists on

staying to hold down the switch that slows the fans. The Doctor makes

it nearly to the end before Jabe catches fire and burns. He closes his

eyes and concentrates, making it past the last fan and throwing the

reset switch. The force fields come up around the station just in time,

as the Earth explodes into cinders. The station's systems start to

self-repair.

However, several of the guests are now dead (including the Moxx but

not the Face of Boe), burned alive as the Sun's rays burst through

cracks in the windows. The Doctor is furious, and after finding

Cassandra's teleportation feed inside the ostrich egg, reverses it to

bring her back. She quickly regains her poise and starts taunting the

Doctor, saying that he cannot do anything about her. However, the

Doctor calmly notes that he has transported Cassandra back without her

moisturising attendants. In the raised temperature, she begins to dry

out. Cassandra begs for mercy and Rose asks the Doctor to help her, but

the Doctor coldly says that every thing has its time, and every thing

dies. Cassandra's skin stretches and tears, her innards exploding and

leaving only her brain tank and empty frame.

Rose is sad that in all the danger, the Earth's passing was not

actually witnessed by anyone. The Doctor takes her back to the present

in the TARDIS, telling her that people think things will last forever,

but they don't. He reveals to her that his was burned like Earth, but in a ,

and that he is the last survivor of the Time Lords. Rose says that he

still has her, and he smiles as she offers to buy him some chips — they

only have five billion years before the shops close.

Cast

— — Steward — Simon DayJabe — — — — Raffalo — Computer Voice — Alien Voices — ,

Cast notes

Cassandra is a

creation voiced by actress Zoë Wanamaker. Writer Russell T. Davies

revealed that Cassandra was inspired by the appearance of various

female celebrities at the . He said, "It was horrific seeing those beautiful women reduced to sticks. struck me in particular." Wanamaker reprised the role of Cassandra in the 2006 series' first episode, "." See also .

Continuity

The new TARDIS console has a rather thrown-together appearance and

includes the use of a bicycle-pump like mechanism, identified as a

"vortex loop" in "" (). Some earlier serials have stated that the on Gallifrey is the power source for the TARDIS. If it were destroyed along with Gallifrey, this may imply a certain amount of was done to overcome the problem.The Doctor explains that the TARDIS's field is what gives Rose the ability to understand and be understood by the aliens. This concept was first introduced in the serial (1976), described by the Doctor as a "Time Lord gift" he shares with his companions.The concept of a Doctor-supercharged communications device first appeared in (1972–73), where the modifies the 's radio telephone to allow him to contact his men through interference generated by . The Doctor also gives the Brigadier a " which he uses to summon the Doctor to assist with the events of (1975). In the "unofficial" animated webcast (2003), the uses a that is part of the TARDIS to communicate with the outside world even while falling into a black hole.This is the fourth time in the series that Earth has been burned by the Sun, the other occasions being sometime after the in (1975), two million years from the present in (1986) and ten million years from the present in (1966).The other guests attending Platform One, as announced by the

Steward, include the brothers Hop Pyleen, inventors and copyright

holders of hyposlip travel systems from the exalted clifftops of Rex

Vox Jax; the cybernetic hyperstar Cal "Sparkplug" MacNannovich (plus

guest); the

Mr and Mrs Pakoo; the chosen scholars of Class Fifty-five of the

University of Rago Rago Five Six Rago; and the Ambassadors from the

City State of Binding Light ( levels must be monitored strictly at all times in the Ambassadors' presence).In conversation with the , the mentions the " scenario." On the BBC's Bad Wolf website, it was listed as "the classic bad wolf scenario". (The subtitles of the

release give the phrase as "bad-move scenario", but this is probably an

error.) The phrase "Bad Wolf" is a recurring theme in the 2005 series.The Steward informs the Doctor that teleportation is banned under

"Peace Treaty 5.4/Cup/15" (presumably the name of the treaty followed

by the year it was enacted). How exactly this dating system works is

never explained.The Doctor tells Jabe that he was once on another "unsinkable" ship

and wound up clinging to an iceberg, an apparent reference to having

been on the when she sank. Which incarnation of the Doctor did this is not specified, although the was on board the Titanic in the novel by (which is of uncertain canonicity). He did not, however, wind up on an iceberg in that story. In the story (1978), the Doctor claims that he "wasn't responsible" for the disaster. In "", Clive, a ,

shows Rose a photograph of the Ninth Doctor with "the Daniels family of

Southampton", on the eve of their scheduled voyage on the Titanic. For an unspecified reason, they canceled their trip and survived. At the end of "" the and the TARDIS are hit by the bow of the Titanic, which smashes through the TARDIS's walls.The Doctor pilots the TARDIS to two time periods before its

eventual arrival five billion years in the future: the year 2105, which

he claims is slightly boring, and the year 12005, which he calls the

New Roman Empire. The Doctor previously visited the 22nd century in .This episode is the first episode to appear in the year five billion timeline.The Face of Boe is revealed to be from the Silver Devastation, which is where reveals he is "from" in the episode "".

Production

According to the DVD commentary, many of the Platform One interiors were filmed at the in , . Sets were also built and painted to match the Temple's marble interiors.In the documentary series , Russell T. Davies joked that that there would never be such an expensive episode again (because of the large amount of

special effects). Both Cassandra and the robotic spiders — other than

an inactive one — are completely CGI generated creatures. The

documentary also reveals that there are 203 visual effects shots in

this episode, compared to "about 100" in the film .The "" (a ) that Cassandra unveils plays "" by and later "" by . "Toxic" was not actually released as a 7" . The production team mocked up a 7" single for use in the episode.Jabe's scan of the Doctor displays an animation by Drew Berry of , a process wherein a protein molecule is synthesised according to the genetic code carried by . A production sketch of the scanner drawn by Matthew Savage shows a scan of the Doctor indicating nine different samples — one for each incarnation.

 Broadcast

This episode begins with a ,

which from here on became a standard feature. This is a first for the

series, which previously used pre-credits teaser sequences sparingly in

special episodes such as the post- (1982); the 20th anniversary special, (1983); and the 25th anniversary story, (1988).According to a March 2006 interview with Russell T Davies, he

requested for this episode to be broadcast back-to-back with "Rose",

but the request was given to the BBC too close to transmission. However, the American did run the two episodes consecutively.

Rose Tyler is a shop assistant at Henrik's, a in present-day . One evening, she is about to go home when the security guard passes her a packet containing

money, presumably to be given to whoever runs the staff syndicate. Rose

goes to the basement to find Wilson, the chief electrician, but he is

nowhere to be found. She hears a noise and goes to see what it is,

entering a room filled with

store dummies. The door slams shut, locking her in, and the mannequins

come to life, backing her into a corner. Before the lead one can strike

her, someone grabs Rose's hand: a tall, strange-looking man in a

leather jacket and crew cut, who tells her to run.

Rose and the stranger burst through another set of doors and race

down the corridors of the basement, pursued by the dummies. They reach

the ,

and a mannequin's arm lunges through the closing doors. The stranger

grapples with the arm, and with a jerk, yanks it off. The doors shut,

and the stranger tosses the now lifeless plastic arm to Rose. She still

believes that it is some kind of student prank, but the stranger shakes

his head. They are living plastic, and Wilson is dead.

Reaching the ground level, the stranger disables the lift buttons

with a pen-like device that projects a high-pitched whine. The stranger

explains the plastic creatures are being controlled by a relay on the

roof, and he is going to destroy it with an explosive device. He ushers

Rose out and before he goes back into the building, he introduces

himself as .

He asks for her name, and she tells him it is Rose. "Nice to meet you,

Rose," the Doctor says, adding, "Run for your life!" Rose reaches the

other side of the street, still holding onto the arm, and looks up at

the Henrik's building as the top floors and roof explode. She runs off

in the confusion, not noticing an standing off to the side.

Later, Rose watches the report of the fire on television at her , her mother telling friends on the telephone about her daughter's narrow escape. Rose's boyfriend

arrives, expressing concern, but she tells him she is fine. Rose asks

him to dispose of the plastic arm, which Mickey tosses in a rubbish bin

at the foot of Rose's block of flats when he leaves.

The next morning, Jackie suggests Rose take a new job or ask for

compensation. Rose hears someone at the door, and peeks through the

to see the Doctor's face. The Doctor seems as startled to see her — he

appears to have gotten the wrong signal. Rose drags him in, wanting

answers so she can tell the police. Jackie is fascinated by the new

arrival and tries, awkwardly, to seduce him. The Doctor simply says

"No," and steps away, to Jackie's irritation.

Rose fixes coffee while the Doctor waits in the living room, peering

at his own reflection in the mirror as if for the first time and

looking at everything. The Doctor hears a scuttling behind Rose's sofa,

and when he looks, the plastic arm which has somehow returned leaps up

to strangle him. Rose thinks the Doctor is just play acting with the

arm until it attacks her. Jackie, drying her hair in the other room,

hears nothing as the Doctor and Rose crash around with the arm.

Managing to pull it away from Rose, the Doctor uses the same pen-like

device — his — to shut it down.

Rose follows the Doctor as he leaves. The Doctor tells her that the

plastic arm was fixed on him as a target and only attacked Rose because

she got in the way. It was controlled by something that projected life

into the arm by thought, and he simply cut off the signal. Their

purpose is to destroy the human race. Rose does not believe him, but

the Doctor notes that she's still listening.

She asks the Doctor once again who he is as he walks towards a

police box. The Doctor tells her that it's like when you are a child

and are first told the world revolves. You cannot quite believe it

because everything looks like it is standing still. He takes her hand,

telling her that he can feel it, the turning, the world itself spinning around the ,

everyone falling through space and clinging to the surface of this tiny

planet, and if they let go... That's who he is. The Doctor tells Rose

to forget him and go home. She walks away but when she hears a strange,

grating sound and runs back, the Doctor and the police box have

disappeared.

Rose goes to Mickey's flat and uses his computer to search the

Internet for information about the Doctor. She finds a website, "Who is

Doctor Who?", which features a picture of the Doctor together with an

appeal for anyone who has seen him to contact the site's maintainer, a

man called Clive. Rose goes to see Clive at his house in suburban

London while Mickey waits, suspicious, in the car outside.

In his study, Clive tells Rose that the name of the Doctor keeps cropping up through the years in diaries, journals and .

No names, just the Doctor, perhaps a title that is passed along from

father to son. He shows her photographs that show the Doctor in the

crowd at the , at on the eve of the sailing, and in a drawing from that was washed up on the coast of after the eruption of . Clive explains that the Doctor is a name woven throughout history, bringing storms in his wake, death his constant companion.

As Mickey waits impatiently outside, he goes to investigate a

plastic rubbish bin that he saw moving on its own, but it is empty. As

he tries to return to the car, he finds his hands stuck to the lid, the

plastic stretching but not letting him go. He is yanked into the bin,

which shuts with a loud belch.

Clive warns Rose that they are all in danger. He believes that these

pictures all portray the same man, and that the Doctor is an .

Rose thinks Clive is delusional. She returns to Mickey's car and tells

him to drive somewhere for lunch, not realizing he has been replaced by

an auton.

At the restaurant, "Mickey" wants to know more about the Doctor. The

auton isn't quite perfect, and stutters, but she does not want to

discuss the Doctor, saying she thinks he is dangerous. A waiter offers

Mickey and Rose .

"Mickey" says they did not order any — then looks up and sees the

waiter is the Doctor. The Doctor pops the cork on the bottle, sending

it flying into "Mickey"'s head, which absorbs it, then spits it out.

"Mickey" morphs his hand into a heavy spade-shape, slicing the table in

half. The Doctor gets "Mickey" in a choke hold and manages to pull his

head off. The headless auton rampages through the restaurant. Rose

tells the other patrons to run, then follows the Doctor, who is holding

onto the head.

Reaching the yard, the Doctor seals the door behind them with the

sonic screwdriver, but the auton is soon pummeling it with inhuman

force. The Doctor suggests they go into the police box standing there.

Rose incredulously follows him in, but stops short as she sees the

interior. She runs around the box, assuring herself of its ordinary

size before going in again just as the auton breaks through.

Inside the much larger interior of the ship, the Doctor assures Rose

that nothing can get through the doors. He attaches the plastic head to

the console, telling Rose that the head can be used to trace the signal

back to the source. Rose asks if the ship and the Doctor are alien and

he answers yes to both questions. The ship is his

— Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Rose chokes back a sob, and

asks if "they" have killed Mickey. The Doctor is taken aback as he had

not considered this, and Rose is shocked he has not. "Mickey"'s head

starts to melt, and the Doctor frantically runs to the console, trying

to lock on to the signal before it fades. The TARDIS starts up, and

then stops.

The Doctor rushes through the doors, with Rose shouting that it is

not safe. When she follows him, however, they are not in the yard

anymore but on the banks of the .

The Doctor says the TARDIS is able to disappear and reappear in a

different place. He is angry because he has lost the signal. Rose is

worried about the automaton, but the Doctor says it would have melted

along with the head. Rose mutters that she is going to have to tell

Mickey's mother that he is dead, and when the Doctor asks who, Rose

realizes the Doctor has forgotten Mickey again. They have a

confrontation about his lack of empathy, the Doctor shouting that he is

more concerned about saving the life of "every stupid ape blundering

about on top of this planet." Rose asks if the Doctor's an alien, why

he sounds like he's from the North. The Doctor retorts that lots of

planets have a North. This seems to defuse the tension.

Rose stares at the exterior of the TARDIS and asks what a police

public call box is. The Doctor, cheerful again, explains that it is a

disguise, a for the police from the .

Rose, curious again, asks what the living plastic creatures have

against the Earth. The Doctor replies that they love the Earth because

it has plenty of pollutants. The

— the intelligence animating the plastic — lost its food supply during

a war, when all its protein planets rotted. Earth is dinner. Rose asks

if there is any way to stop it, and the Doctor produces a clear

cylinder of blue liquid. "Anti-plastic," he announces.

However, the Doctor has to find the Consciousness. He wonders aloud

that the transmitter to control the plastic has to be huge, and round…

Rose indicates behind him, and after a few puzzled glances over his

shoulder the Doctor notices the .

Hand in hand, they run across the bridge to it. Rose spots a hatchway

that leads below the Eye, and they both go below to find a giant vat of

pulsing, molten plastic — the Nestene Consciousness. The Doctor wants

to give it a chance and applies for an audience, citing Convention 15

of the Shadow Proclamation. The vat roars its assent in an

unintelligible alien language. Rose spots the real Mickey, sitting

terrified on one of the walkways. The Nestenes kept him alive to

maintain the replica.

The Doctor tells the Consciousness to leave Earth, brushing aside its claims of

rights and characterizing its actions as an invasion. The Doctor pleads

on humanity's behalf — they are primitive, but capable of much more.

However, two autons grab hold of the Doctor, one removing the container

of anti-plastic from his jacket.

The Doctor protests that the vial was just insurance and he is not

their enemy. The Consciousness responds by unveiling the TARDIS, and

makes an accusatory howl. The Doctor admits that it is his ship, but

says that it was not his fault — he fought in ,

but he could not save the Nestenes' world. The Consciousness does not

believe the Doctor and goes to the final phase of the invasion. Bolts

of electricity stab up across the London Eye as it pulses a signal

across London. Rose tries to warn her mother on her mobile phone, but

the call breaks up and Jackie, who is about to enter a shopping centre

called the , cuts it off.

Clive and his family are also at the arcade when the shop dummies

come to life, crashing through the windows. Clive realizes that all the

stories he has read are true, just as a mannequin's hand flips open,

revealing a weapon. He looks on sadly as the auton shoots him

point-blank. People scream as the automatons start killing everyone in

sight. Beneath the Eye, the stairs back up to the surface collapse.

Rose and Mickey rush to the TARDIS, but the door is locked. As she and

the Doctor lock eyes helplessly, outside in the streets the massacre

continues. Jackie is trapped by a group of mannequins in , who prepare to shoot her.

Mickey tells Rose to abandon the Doctor, but Rose rushes up a flight of stairs to a chain on the wall. She may have no , no job and no future, but she has a bronze medal in under-sevens . She frees the chain with a blow from a fire ,

and swings across to knock the auton holding the anti-plastic over the

railing. While the Doctor flips the one holding him over as well, the

anti-plastic falls into the vat, causing the Consciousness to writhe in

pain. The Eye stops transmitting, and the autons across London jerk

spastically and drop, including the ones menacing Jackie, leaving the

streets scattered with debris and the dead. The Nestenes' vat explodes

as Rose, Mickey and the Doctor enter the TARDIS and it dematerialises.

The TARDIS rematerialises on a side street, Mickey stumbling out,

still terrified. Rose calls up her mother on her mobile phone and

smiles in relief as she hears Jackie's voice. Rose hangs up without

saying anything, and tells the Doctor that he would have been dead if

not for her. The Doctor smiles from the TARDIS doorway in agreement and

thanks her. He then offers to take her with him to see the universe —

Mickey is not invited. Rose asks if it will always be this dangerous,

and the Doctor gleefully answers yes. Rose hesitates but declines,

saying that she has to find her mother and look after Mickey. The

Doctor nods, disappointed and closes the door. The TARDIS

dematerialises with a rush of wind filling the empty space where it was.

As Mickey and Rose turn to leave, the TARDIS appears again. The

Doctor pops his head out and asks Rose if he had mentioned that the

TARDIS also travels in time. Rose smiles, turning to Mickey to kiss him

goodbye, then runs happily into the TARDIS.

Cast

— — — — Clive — Caroline — Ellie GarnettClive's Son — Adam McCoy — , , David Sant, Elizabeth Fost, Helen OtwayNestene Voice —

Scream of the Shalka was a -animated serial based on the series . It was produced to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the series and was originally posted in six weekly parts from to on 's Doctor Who .

Although it was intended to be an "official" continuation of the

television series that had ended in 1989, the revival of the programme

in 2005 relegated it, and its "", to unofficial status.

The serial was scripted by veteran Doctor Who writer , with providing the voice for the Ninth Doctor and as the voice of an android made in the image of the Doctor's old enemy, . This performance followed years of rumours that Grant would play the in a film or new series, and indeed he had appeared as the Tenth "conceited" Doctor in the Comic Relief special in 1999. The Doctor's companion for this adventure, , was voiced by who a year later would be nominated for an for her performance in .

Previous Doctor Who webcasts had had limited animation and

were little more than a series of illustrations. Earlier in 2003, BBCi

had had some success with the original animated webcast Ghosts of Albion. The animation for that story was provided by Manchester-based animation studio , who were also hired to animate Scream of the Shalka.

This story was the first officially-licensed, fully-animated Doctor Who story.

//

Synopsis

The Doctor confronts Prime, War Chief of the Shalka Confederation, and her minions

The materialises in the village of Lannet in ,

disgorging an annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here

against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all

living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. An race calling themselves the

have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider

invasion. Despite his initial reluctance to get involved, the Doctor

finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an

old enemy who has become an ally.

Cast

The Doctor — Alison Cheney — Dawson/ Greaves — Conor MoloneyMax — Andrew DunnJoe — Mathilda Pierce — The Master — Prime — Major Kennet — Caretaker —

Continuity

Grant's incarnation of the (often referred to as the "REG Doctor" or the "Shalka Doctor" by fans) has since appeared in an online short story, The Feast of the Stone by and , although no further stories are planned.Major Kennet looks over a file with the Doctor.Toward the end of the

novel range, the "expanded canon" began to consciously diverge, with

the audio plays and novels intentionally contradicting each other. In

the final Eighth Doctor novel, ,

the idea is put forward that each of the separate narrative threads —

presumably books, comics, and audios, as implicitly suggested in

— has led to a different ninth incarnation of the Doctor. The

implication here, though not explicitly stated, is that the three

Doctors are the televised , 's Doctor from , and the Shalka Doctor. Some fans have used this "expanded timeline" theory to fit Scream of the Shalka into overall continuity.[]

Shalka

Shalka

Type

Bioplasmic entities

Affiliated with

Shalka Confederacy

Home planet

Unknown

First appearance

Scream of the Shalka

The Shalka appear to be a alien race made of living rock and ,

but they are actually bioplasmic entities, living plasma, their

physical appearance merely a "crust" concealing their true forms. They

breathe volcanic air and prefer high temperatures, being most

comfortable underground where lava meets .

They communicate through high-pitched screaming, which they can use for

a variety of effects, like tunneling through rock or mentally

controlling other life forms. They also use sound as a part of their

technology.

The Shalka arrived on Earth via meteorite, initially landing near , , subsequently establishing a beachhead for their planned invasion of Earth beneath the town of Lannet. They also created a stable for landing their invasion force, which could also be converted into a to dispose of their enemies, as they tried to do with the .

As they claimed to have done to billions of planets before, they

intended to implant Shalka larvae into key segments of the population,

mind controlling them into emitting a scream that would destroy the .

In this way, the Shalka intended to raise the surface temperature of

the planet to the point where the human race would perish but the

Shalka could thrive. The Shalka would then live beneath the surface,

with the rest of the universe believing that Earth's inhabitants had

died of self-inflicted ecological damage. The Doctor defeated their

plans with the help of the British military and a Lannet barmaid named .

Production

Doctor Who had suspended production in 1989, and aside from charity specials, had only resurfaced as an American-funded in 1996, which did not garner enough ratings to go to a regular series. When Shalka was announced in July, 2003 for planned broadcast in November, the possibiliy of Doctor Who

returning to television screens still seemed remote and BBC Worldwide

were continuing to shop around for another possible movie deal. As a

result, BBCi announced, with BBC approval, that the Doctor appearing in

Shalka would be the "official" Ninth Doctor. However, events rapidly overtook this.

In September , the Controller of , managed to persuade BBC Worldwide that as their plans for a Doctor Who film were nowhere near fruition, BBC television should be allowed to make a new series. A deal with to produce the new series was quickly struck, and on , the BBC announced that Doctor Who would be returning to in 2005, produced by . As a result, the "official" nature of the Shalka webcast was in doubt from even before it was webcast.

After the webcast, in February 2004, plans for sequels or a DVD

release were indefinitely shelved. For a period, it was unclear if the

new television Doctor would be the Ninth or Tenth Doctor, but this was

ultimately settled in April 2004 when in an interview with , Davies announced that the new television Doctor (played by ), would be the ,

relegating the Richard E. Grant Doctor to unofficial status. Davies

later commented that Grant had never been considered for the role in

the television series, telling Doctor Who Magazine: "I thought

he was terrible. I thought he took the money and ran, to be honest. It

was a lazy performance. He was never on our list to play the Doctor."

Production notes

The working title for this production was Servants of the Shalakor. This original story outline is included in the BBC Books novelisation (see below).Appearing in an uncredited cameo role in the serial as a caretaker was actor and Doctor Who fan , who in April 2005 was announced as the

in the television series proper. He was not originally cast in the

production, but Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a

neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded

next door managed to convince the director to give him a small role. would later play the Master again in the 2007 episode "".In the pub scene, the Cosgrove Hall Studios logo can briefly be seen on , advertising "Volunteer Ale."The used in titles and end credits (Industria) was the one used on the BBC's lines of Doctor Who video releases and at the time. It continues to be used on the classic series DVD releases.In 2006 was again to create a Doctor Who related animation, the two missing episodes of for that serial's DVD release. In 2007, some of the animation staff from these two productions went on to develop , a 13-part serial to be aired as part of the second series of . A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the Invasion episodes entitled Flash Frames includes footage from Scream of the Shalka -- the only footage from the production to see DVD release.

In print

Doctor Who book

Scream of the Shalka

Series

Release number

64

Featuring

and

Writer

Publisher

ISBN

Set between

Unknown

Number of pages

288

Release date

February 2004

Preceded by

Followed by

The novelisation of Shalka was written by Paul Cornell, the first novelisation of a Doctor Who serial (the notwithstanding) in nearly a decade (and the last so far, although novelisations based upon episodes of the spinoff were announced in 2007). The book also includes a feature on the making of the webcast, as well as the original Servants of the Shalahoa story outline. Given that the BBC and the producers of the televised Doctor Who have discounted Scream of the Shalka as being part of the franchise's continuity, this is one of the few Doctor Who novels for which the (or in this case, lack thereof) has firmly been established.

DVD release

The

has cleared all six episodes of the serial for release on DVD, but the

BBC has made no announcement about release of the story. As of March

2007, only clips from the serial have been released to DVD, as part of Flash Frames, a documentary on the DVD release of the restored The Invasion.

Scream of the Shalka webcast

at the at the

Scream of the Shalka novelisation

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