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Revision as of 14:24, 11 November 2013
The Great Detective was a minisode broadcast as a prequel for The Snowmen, the Doctor Who 2012 Christmas special. It revealed how badly the Eleventh Doctor was hurt by the losses of Amy Pond and Rory Williams, resorting to absolute retirement from his travels in the TARDIS as a jaded inhabitant of the Victorian Era.
It was first broadcast as part of Doctor Who's BBC's Children in Need charity appeal, and was followed by a trailer for the Christmas special. Both were introduced by Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Plot
Having learned of strange happenings, Madame Vastra, her wife Jenny Flint, and their Sontaran servant Strax meet with the Eleventh Doctor. However, he shows no interest in the cases they mention, informing them that he has since retired from investigating such matters.
Cast
- The Doctor - Matt Smith
- Strax - Dan Starkey
- Vastra - Neve McIntosh
- Jenny Flint - Catrin Stewart
- Narrator - Mark Gatiss
References
- Strax claims that he has "declared a war on the Moon."
- Vastra states there was a Meteor shower of unexplained timing. She thinks it might be alien intervention.
Story notes
- Unlike most minisodes, the episode has no opening credits, and as such writer Steven Moffat [1] is uncredited. The episode also uses a unique typeface for presenting the episode title.
- Jenny's last name, Flint, is revealed in this minisode. In her introduction episode, A Good Man Goes to War, she was known only as Jenny.
- It was followed by a second prequel, Vastra Investigates, which was released online in mid-December 2012.
- This is the first Children in Need special since Time Crash in 2007, 5 years earlier.
Ratings
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Filming locations
Corn Street, Bristol, UK (filmed on 20 Aug 2012)
Production errors
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Continuity
If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
- The Doctor is shown to be retired and living in the past. The Sixth Doctor had previously done this in PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity.
- Despite Jenny's assertion that The Moon is uninhabited, the Doctor once implied that there are species native to it although he could have been joking. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
- PROSE: The Dalek Generation (released 8 April 2013) ends with the Doctor growing weary of travel and is implied to be his last adventure before his retirement here.
- How Strax is alive after having been apparently killed off in TV: A Good Man Goes to War is left unexplained in both this minisode and the main The Snowmen. It is not until the web minisode The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later that it is fully explained how Strax survived.
Home video releases
DVD releases
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Blu-ray releases
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External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Doctor Who Team (14 November 2012). The Doctor Returns for Children in Need. BBC - Blogs - Doctor Who. Retrieved on 18 November 2012.
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