Editing The Runaway Bride (TV story)

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companions= [[Donna Noble|Donna]] |
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setting= [[London]], [[Christmas| Christmas Eve]] [[2007]] |
writer= [[Russell T Davies]] |
director= [[Euros Lyn]] |confidential=[[Music and Monsters]]|
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'''''The Runaway Bride''''' was the second Christmas special of the [[BBC Wales]] era of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It marked the first change of [[companion]] since the [[2005]] revival had begun, and also introduced the concept of the "one-off", one-story companion. Though [[Donna Noble]] did later return for a full series of her own, the original plan was for her only to appear in this episode, thereby blazing a trail that others like [[Astrid Peth]], [[Jackson Lake]], [[Christina de Souza]] and [[Adelaide Brooke]] would follow.

''The Runaway Bride'' was also, from a production point of view, the start of the [[series 3 (Doctor Who)|third series]] of the programme.

== Summary ==
Killer Santas, exploding baubles, an alien spaceship shaped like a giant star - Christmas with the Doctor is anything but a silent night...

== Plot ==
[[Donna Noble]] prepares to walk down the aisle to her waiting groom, Lance Bennett, in her Christmas Eve wedding. Halfway down the aisle she is surrounded by a golden glow. She dissolves into a cloud of energy that goes flying up through the ceiling.

In outer space, the [[Tenth Doctor]] is orbiting a [[supernova]] and has finished his farewell to [[Rose Tyler]] when he looks up to see Donna in the [[TARDIS]]. He is flabbergasted as to how she ended up in the TARDIS.

Donna is irate at being stolen from her wedding and blames the Doctor, demanding answers. She yanks open the doors and finds herself staring out into deep space. Shocked back to her senses, she realises the Doctor is an alien and what she is seeing is real. The Doctor cannot figure out how she gained entrance to the TARDIS and Donna demands that he return her to the church. She spots Rose's jacket and accuses him of having abducted other women. The Doctor protests a bit then gloomily admits that "she's gone".

The Doctor tries to get to the church in [[Chiswick]], but accidentally lands the TARDIS near Oxford Street. Donna storms out of the TARDIS and tries to phone her family while the Doctor wonders how she could have gotten aboard. Donnas tries to get a taxi, but the taxi drivers believe that she is dressed for a fancy dress party, drunk and a drag queen in that order. She realises she has no money for a taxi, so the Doctor gets some from a nearby ATM.
[[File:Tardis_rescue_bride.jpg|thumb|left|A harrowing road rescue.]]
The Doctor notices familiar masked [[Robot Santa|Santas]]. They are the robotic scavengers from [[The Christmas Invasion|the previous year's Christmas]], levelling their weapons disguised as band instruments at him. He distracts them by using his [[sonic screwdriver]] on the ATM to make it spit out money, causing a crazed rush from the nearby crowd. He goes off in search of Donna and finds her taking off in a cab, its driver yet another of the robotic Santas. Donna quickly realises her cab is not taking her to the church, and finds the Doctor has engaged the TARDIS in pursuit of the cab on the highway. He manages to rescue her from the taxi, but the endeavour has put a strain on the TARDIS and he cannot use it for some time.
[[File:Doctor-and-donna.jpg|thumb|The Doctor gets to know Donna.]]
The Doctor gives Donna a [[bio-damper]] to stop the Santas tracking her and tries to learn more about her. She works at a security firm called [[H.C. Clements]], where she met her husband-to-be, [[Lance Bennett|Lance]]. The Doctor takes Donna to her reception, where Lance is dancing with [[Angelica]]. Donna is shocked and furious that her friends and family are having the wedding reception without her, and begins to argue with her mother and family. The shouting continues until Donna bursts into tears - with a big wink to the Doctor. The party continues and the Doctor borrows a cell phone to look up H.C. Clements. He learns the firm is owned by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. The wedding photographer's video footage shows Donna was infused with [[Huon particle|Huon particles]], a source of energy that hasn't existed for billions of years, since the beginning of the universe. The Doctor realises that Huon particles cannot be masked by a bio-damper. He grabs Donna and they run outside to find the hall surrounded by the Santas. They have rigged a Christmas tree's ornaments to fly explosively at the crowd. Using the sound system at the reception and his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor shakes apart the roboforms and traces their control to a star-shaped spaceship hanging above the city, then loses its signal.
[[File:Segways.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor acquires unusual transport.]]
The Doctor asks Lance to take Donna and him to H.C. Clements, learning that after Torchwood One's dissolution in the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], someone else took control of the company; Donna has no recollection of it, claiming she was in Spain, even when the Doctor mentions that there were [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] in Spain, as well. The Doctor finds a basement level not on the floor plans and the three go there, finding themselves in a long tunnel that leads to the [[wikipedia:Thames Barrier|Thames Flood Barrier]]. The Doctor discovers a laboratory where Huon particles have been manufactured and stored in liquid form. The Doctor determines Donna is full of them. The stress of her wedding day made the particles catalyse and activate, pulling her into the TARDIS. There is an immense hole in the floor of the room. The Doctor surmises it was dug by Torchwood's laser technology and extends to the centre of the [[Earth]].
[[File:Racnoss.jpg|thumb|The Empress reveals herself.]]
As they explore, a [[Empress of the Racnoss|half-humanoid, half-spider]] [[teleport|teleports]] into the lab. The Doctor recognises it as one of the [[Racnoss]], a race thought wiped out billions of years ago by the Fledgling Empires in the [[Dark Times]]. The Racnoss calls itself the Empress. She has fashioned a large web above the pit, where the body of H.C. Clements still hangs. As the Doctor talks to the Empress, Lance sneaks behind it with an axe, threatening to strike, until they both start laughing and he reveals he has been working with the Empress. He had spiked the coffee he gave to Donna every day with Huon particles to mature in her so the Empress can use their energy to regain her ancient power. However, as the Doctor and Donna are targeted by the roboforms under the Empress' control, the Doctor reverses the particle activity, causing the TARDIS to materialise around them so they can escape. The Empress is not thwarted. With the knowledge gained by dosing Donna, she knows how to achieve the same result with Lance. She begins to force feed him the Huon liquid while trapping him in her web.
[[File:Doctor_donna_watch_the_earth_form.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and Donna watch the formation of Earth and the solar system.]]
The Doctor takes the TARDIS to the creation of the Earth to learn why the Empress has dug into the core of the planet. He finds a Racnoss spaceship is the actual core of Earth, the rest of the planet forming around it. Were the Empress to use the Huon particles, she would reawaken those on the ship. As the Doctor puts this information together, the Empress uses The Huon particles now in Lance to attract Donna and the TARDIS. They begin to land near the Empress, but the Doctor uses the now integrated [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] to skip sideways into an empty corridor. As he fiddles with a door, Donna is captured and suspended in the Empress' web, while the Doctor is held at gunpoint. The Empress activates the Huon particles, which fall from Donna and Lance down the hole. Knowing her fellow Racnoss will be hungry, she severs Lance from the web, dropping him into the pit.
[[File:Webstar_destruction.jpg|thumb|The webstar wreaks destruction on London.]]
Meanwhile, [[webstar|the Empress' ship]] descends over the city, taken for a Christmas star until it fires on the city. The Doctor sneaks back into the laboratory. He gives the Racnoss a chance to take her kind to a planet where they will threaten no one. She refuses and the Doctor reveals himself as from [[Gallifrey]]. His long-gone race have defeated the Racnoss before and he will do so again, using the explosive Christmas ornaments to burst open the walls and flood the room with water from the Thames. The Doctor is caught up in events and doesn't move until Donna pleads that he stop. They escape into the TARDIS while the Empress teleports back to her ship, moments before it is blown out of the sky by tanks under orders of "[[Mr. Saxon|Mr Saxon]]".

The Doctor returns Donna home, but she is desolate, having lost her job and her fiancé the same evening. The Doctor uses a burst of energy from the TARDIS to make it snow, hoping to to cheer her up. He invites her to join him in the TARDIS. She declines, but encourages him to find someone, recognising he has just lost someone himself. The Doctor tells her briefly about Rose, and then disappears into his TARDIS.

== Cast ==

* [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] – [[David Tennant]]
* [[Donna Noble]] – [[Catherine Tate]]
* [[Empress of the Racnoss|Empress]] of the Racnoss – [[Sarah Parish]]
* [[Lance Bennett]] – [[Don Gilet]]
* [[Geoff Noble]] – [[Howard Attfield]]
* [[Sylvia Noble]] – [[Jacqueline King]]
* [[Vicar (The Runaway Bride)|Vicar]] – [[Trevor Georges]]
* [[Taxi Driver (The Runaway Bride)|Taxi Driver]] – [[Glen Wilson]]
* [[Nerys]] – [[Krystal Archer]]
* [[Rhodri]] – [[Rhodri Meiler]]
* [[Little Girl (The Runaway Bride)|Little Girl]] – [[Zafirah Boateng]]
* [[Roboform|Robot Santa]] – [[Paul Kasey]]

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== References ==
=== The Doctor ===
* According to the Doctor, the creation of the [[Earth]] is the furthest back he has ever travelled.  While the [[Fifth Doctor]] had travelled back to just before [[Event One]], the Doctor probably doesn't count that because the TARDIS was under the control of [[the Master]] at the time ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'').

=== Individuals ===
* "{{Simm|n=Mr Saxon}}" orders the destruction of the web star.
* Lance says that Donna talked excitedly about the [[Atkins Diet]].

=== Organisations ===
* There is a [[Torchwood Institute]] base under the [[River Thames]] extracting [[Huon particles]], which exist within the [[Heart of the TARDIS]].

=== Species ===
* The Doctor asks Donna if Lance is a bit overweight with a zip round his forehead - alluding to the [[Slitheen]].

=== Technology ===
* The Doctor uses the [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]], which seems to have grown into the TARDIS.
* The Doctor uses a bio-damper to keep Donna hidden from the Robot Santas.

== Story notes ==
* A controversy occurred during filming of this story as guests at a hotel were awakened and frightened by gunfire and explosions during filming of one scene in the street below, including one who had just returned from the conflict in Israel.
* Though set at [[Christmas]], this story was filmed in late July, with an average temperature of thirty degrees, centigrade. David Tennant was quoted as saying he was "blinking boiling" during filming.
* As part of the 2006 ''Children In Need ''concert, a four minute clip from this episode was shown. It features Donna riding in a taxi, unaware that it is being driven by a Robot Santa. The Doctor gives chase in the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] down a motorway and tries to persuade Donna to jump between the two vehicles. The unveiling of Christmas-special preview footage for Children in Need became an irregular tradition afterwards, with the 2008 campaign featuring a preview of [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' and the 2009 edition a preview of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part One]]''.
* This is the first appearance of companion Donna Noble. It is debatable whether Donna qualifies as an actual companion for this episode, though in the eyes of the show makers, she gains this status. She also receives a lead credit at the start which, normally, only the Doctor and his companion(s) receive. She returned in ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' and left in ''[[Journey's End]]'', both in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]].
* Catherine Tate was unable to attend the traditional first cast read-through of the episode. David Tennant's then-girlfriend, and former guest star [[Sophia Myles]] (''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') read the part of Donna Noble on this occasion.
* The reprise of the cliffhanger scene from ''[[Doomsday]]'' had to be refilmed for ''The Runaway Bride'' as the change of [[cinematographer]]s resulted in a discontinuity in terms of lighting between the earlier footage and that shot for the special. ([[DCOM]]: ''The Runaway Bride'')
* The "TARDIS car chase" sequence was the first part of the episode to be publicly screened when it was included in the ''Music and Monsters'' charity concert TV special, broadcast several weeks before the episode.
* In the DVD commentary it is confirmed that a scene filmed, but cut from broadcast, would have continued on from Donna pointing out a piece of Rose's clothing by showing the Doctor angrily throwing it through the open TARDIS doors and into space. Executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] explained to David Tennant in the commentary that it was cut as being too melodramatic. The cut scene was not included with the other deleted scenes on the DVD release.
* Two songs are heard during Donna's wedding reception: "[[Merry Xmas Everybody]]" by Slade, and an original song, "[[Love Don't Roam]]", which makes reference to Rose's disappearance. "Merry Xmas Everybody" would be heard again in the alternate timeline of ''[[Turn Left]]''. It was also heard previously in ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* It was suggested that the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' helicopter be used for certain shots by [[Patrick Schweitzer]]; this was turned down.
* The Doctor references [[Gallifrey]] by name for the first time on-screen since the revival of the series.
* The fake notes created for the episode featured David Tennant's face, which the official Doctor Who Facebook page would later post. They can be viewed [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509853782361987&set=a.182096918471010.52777.127031120644257&type=1&theater here].
* When the Doctor remembers Rose during the "Love Don't Roam" sequence, a very short clip of [[Billie Piper]] as [[Rose Tyler]] from [[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'' is shown; this is Piper's last physical appearance on the series until [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', although in the interim a drawing of her is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''.
* As is routine for Christmas specials, a "COMING SOON" trailer for the next series is shown at the end of the episode. This "COMING SOON" trailer features clips from the first half of [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'', ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'', ''[[Gridlock]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]''.

=== Ratings ===
* 9.4 million viewers

=== Filming locations ===
* This is the first episode to be filmed in the new [[Upper Boat]] studios.
* Filming also took place in the [[Millennium Stadium]] in Cardiff (which represented the Torchwood base).

=== Production errors ===
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* In the scene when Donna asks the woman if she could borrow £10 as it's Christmas, you can clearly see that Donna is wearing sports shoes instead of her usual white wedding shoes; Catherine Tate had been wearing sports shoes between takes.
* When the TARDIS arrives back from the creation of the Earth, the Doctor and Donna rush out leaving the TARDIS door open; yet in the very next scene, the door is closed.
* Even though it is supposed to be Christmas, it is obvious that the special was filmed during the summer, because all the trees have leaves on them, etc.
* When Donna returns to the reception, and The Doctor borrows a gentleman's phone, you see a menu item that says "Play". It is obvious that the HC Clements search that The Doctor does is a movie clip on the phone.
* The mask of the Roboform which abducts Donna in the taxi has eye lenses on its Santa mask which change from plain blue to fake eyes like those seen on the masks of other disguised Roboforms.
* When the Doctor and Donna notice HC Clements' corpse cocooned to the ceiling, his legs are clearly fake legs.

== Continuity ==
* The tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator was first seen in [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]''.
* The Robot Santas previously appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* These events are referred to by {{Simm}} in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''.
* When the Doctor is standing waiting for the cash machine, the shop Henrick's is seen. [[Rose Tyler]] worked there in [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. A sign for Henrick's is also seen on the taxi Donna and the Roboform drive in.
* The episode [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' shows that in a world where Donna never met the Doctor he would have died in the process of stopping the Empress of the Racnoss' plan and failed to regenerate.
* The upstairs section of the bar where Donna had planned her wedding reception has a Manchester Suite, last referred to in [[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]''.
* Donna says, "St Marys, Haven Road, [[Chiswick]], [[London]], [[England]], [[Earth]], [[The Solar System]]!"; in [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' when they enter [[Pete's World]], [[Mickey Smith]] says, "London, England, Earth". When the Tenth Doctor first comes out of the TARDIS in ''The Christmas Invasion'' he says, "London, Earth, the Solar System!"
* The Doctor remembers [[Rose Tyler]], flashing back to a moment from their time on [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') 
* The Doctor shows that his pockets are "bigger on the inside." Although never stated outright, his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation's]] clothes were implied to have similar qualities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
* The Empress of the Racnoss calls the Doctor a "physician". He would later be known as "the Sainted Physician". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The Doctor references [[Gallifrey]] by name. ([[TV]]:''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', et. al.)
* The TARDIS starts to dematerialise and then takes off vertically into the sky. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]'')
* After the Doctor informs the Empress that he is from [[Gallifrey]], she screams in anger, shouting, "They [the Time Lords] murdered the Racnoss!" Ironically, she is killed when her ship is ordered shot down by Mr Saxon - in reality [[the Master]], another Time Lord.

== Home video releases ==
[[File:Bbcdvd-therunawaybride.jpg|thumb|The Runaway Bride DVD Cover]]
* This episode was released as the sole story on ''Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride'', alongside the full Children In Need 2006 concert. Extras include Music and Monsters and the Dr Who Confidential/ Children in Need 2006 Special Concert.
* It is also included in the Series 3 DVD box set.

== External links ==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2006/runawaybride.shtml BBC Episode Guide to '''The Runaway Bride''']
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