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|story number    = 2
|story number    = 2
|episode number  = 2
|episode number  = 2
|main character  = [[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]], [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
|scripturl      = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/class-episode-2-shooting-script-30.03.16-with-revisions.pdf
|featuring      = Frank Armitage|Armitage
|main character  = [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]], [[Andrea Quill|Quill]]
|featuring      = Frank Armitage
|featuring2      = Varun Singh
|featuring2      = Varun Singh
|enemy          = [[Tom Dawson|Coach Dawson]], [[Male Leaf Dragon]]
|enemy          = [[Tom Dawson]]
|setting        = {{il|[[Coal Hill Academy]],|[[Monday|Mon]] [[24 October|24]] - [[Thursday|Thur]] [[27 October]]<ref>{{Class Coach dating}}</ref> [[2016]]<ref>{{Class 2016}}</ref>}}
|setting        = {{il|[[Coal Hill Academy]],|[[Monday|Mon]] [[24 October|24]] - [[Thursday|Thur]] [[27 October]]<ref>{{Class Coach dating}}</ref> [[2016]]<ref>{{Class 2016}}</ref>}}
|writer          = [[Patrick Ness]]
|writer          = Patrick Ness
|director        = [[Ed Bazalgette]]
|director        = [[Ed Bazalgette]]
|producer        = [[Derek Ritchie]]
|producer        = [[Derek Ritchie]]
|release date    = [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]
|release date    = 22 October 2016
|network        = [[BBC Three]]
|network        = BBC Three
|format          = 1x45 minute episode
|format          = 1x45 minute episode
|production code = 1.2
|production code = 1.2
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{{you may|Tom Dawson|n1=the titular coach}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second episode of ''[[Class (TV series)|Class]]''. It was written by [[Patrick Ness]], directed by [[Ed Bazalgette]] and featured [[Greg Austin]] as [[Charlie Smith]], [[Fady Elsayed]] as [[Ram Singh]], [[Sophie Hopkins]] as [[April MacLean]], [[Vivian Oparah]] as [[Tanya Adeola]] and [[Katherine Kelly]] as [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second episode of ''[[Class (TV series)|Class]]''. It was written by [[Patrick Ness]], directed by [[Ed Bazalgette]] and released the same day as ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', on [[BBC Three]]. The story focused heavily on [[Ram Singh|Ram]], and how he dealt with the events that unfolded in the [[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|previous story]], and also saw the death of [[Coal Hill Academy]] head teacher [[Frank Armitage|Mr Armitage]], who began as a recurring character in ''[[Doctor Who]]'s'' ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'' [[Series 8 (Doctor Who 2005)|two years prior]].
 
It was released at the same time as ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'', on [[BBC Three]].
 
It saw the death of [[Coal Hill Academy]] head teacher [[Frank Armitage|Mr Armitage]], who began as a recurring character in ''[[Doctor Who]]'s'' ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'' [[Series 8 (Doctor Who)|two years prior]].
 
The story focused heavily on [[Ram Singh|Ram]], and how he dealt with the events that unfolded in the [[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|previous story]].
 
A subplot involving a [[The Inspector|robot inspector]] emerged in this episode. It was later revealed that the robot had been sent by a [[The Governors|mysterious organisation]], who seemed to be interested in the activities of [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]].
 
This is the only episode where [[Matteusz Andrzejewski|Matteusz]] is not present during the alien incursion, apparently being "grounded".


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
{{section stub|The plot section only covers as far as the title sequence.}}
{{Section stub}}
[[Ram Singh|Ram]] is in the middle of a [[football]] game, but fails to perform well due to new alien leg, disappointing his trainer [[Tom Dawson|Coach Dawson]], and his father [[Varun Singh|Varun]].
''to be added''
 
In the changing rooms, Dawson's [[assistant coach]] [[C. Caroll|Caroll]] is brutally mauled and skinned alive by a [[Leaf Dragon|dragon like creature]]. It leaves through a rift in time, just before Ram enters the room and discovers Carroll's body. Horrified, and remembering Rachael's death, he locks himself inside a toilet cubicle. When he emerges, he finds all traces of the murder gone. Dawson appears, still angry at Ram, and tells him to go home. When Ram leaves, Dawson is shown to have a large Dragon tattoo covering most of his back. He finds a drop of blood on the shower floor, and wipes it away with his foot, stating that "he is in control" as the camera zooms in to show blood on the Dragon tattoo's teeth. The dragon then blinks.
:''to be continued''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[The Inspector]] - [[Jami Reid-Quarrell]]
* [[The Inspector]] - [[Jami Reid-Quarrell]]
* [[P. Volkon|Cleaner]] - [[Cally Lawrence]]
* [[P. Volkon|Cleaner]] - [[Cally Lawrence]]
=== Uncredited cast ===
* Voice of the [[Leaf Dragon]] - [[Derek Ritchie]]<ref>https://twitter.com/BlairMowat/status/1246887191311200256?s=20</ref>


== Crew ==
== Crew ==
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|Electrician3=Stephen McLean
|Electrician3=Stephen McLean
|Electrician4=Andrew Williams
|Electrician4=Andrew Williams (electrician)
|StuntCoOrdinator=Crispin Layfield
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== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* April, Charlie and Tanya discuss what to call the tear in [[space-time]]: "Membrane of Time? Chasm? Fracture." Tanya: "Bunghole." April later carries on calling it the Bunghole of Time, to which Charlie objects.
* April, Charlie and Tanya discuss what to call the tear in [[space-time]], with suggestions including "Membrane of Time", "Chasm", "Fracture", and "Bunghole". April later carries on calling it the Bunghole of Time, to which Charlie objects.
* [[Our Universe Live]] is an event that takes place between [[23 May]] and [[31 May]].
* [[Our Universe Live]] is an event that takes place between [[23 May]] and [[31 May]].
* Ram suggests that the [[male dragon]] make [[Tom Dawson|Coach Dawson]]'s [[skin]] into [[leather]], "make a [[chair]] or something".
* Ram suggests that the [[male dragon]] turn Dawson's [[skin]] into [[leather]] and "make a [[chair]] or something" out of him.


=== Coal Hill School ===
=== Coal Hill School ===
* Miss Quill and Mr Armitage walk by a sign that says "the [[Barbara Wright Building]]", named after [[Barbara Wright]], companion of the [[First Doctor]] and teacher at Coal Hill in the [[1960s]].
* Miss Quill and Mr. Armitage walk by a sign that says "the [[Barbara Wright Building]]", named after [[Barbara Wright]], companion of the [[First Doctor]] and teacher at Coal Hill in the [[1960s]].
* Coach Dawson's office is [[Room G15]], Sport Science Office.
* Dawson's office is [[Room G15]], Sport Science Office.
* Coal Hill has a [[1st Team]] and a [[2nd Team]].
* Coal Hill has a [[1st Team]] and a [[2nd Team]] in [[football]].
* [[Coal Hill Academy]] offers [[physics]] booster classes.
* [[Coal Hill Academy]] offers [[physics]] booster classes.
* Tanya says [[maths]] is ridiculously easy this year.
* Tanya says [[maths]] is ridiculously easy in 2016.


=== People ===
=== People ===
* Mr Armitage says that the [[education secretary]] thinks all teachers are [[monkey]]s.
* Mr. Armitage says that the [[education secretary]] thinks all teachers are [[monkey]]s.
* [[Ram Singh|Ram]] [[cigarette|smokes]].
* Ram smokes a [[cigarette]].
* Ram's father, [[Varun Singh|Varun]], continues to come to his [[football]] practices. He first taught Ram to play, and encourages him to practice with his new [[prosthetic leg]] until he gets it right.
* Ram's father, [[Varun Singh|Varun]], continues to come to his [[football]] practices. He first taught Ram to play, and encourages him to practice with his new [[prosthetic leg]] until he gets it right.
* Miss Quill asks Ram whether he was watching [[pornography|porn]] while doing his homework. Ram sarcastically answers that he was masturbating good and that he had to do homework one-handed.
* Miss Quill asks Ram whether he was watching [[pornography|porn]] while doing his homework. Ram sarcastically answers that he was [[masturbating]] and that he had to do homework one-handed.
* Ram thinks he may be suffering from [[Post-traumatic stress|PTSD]].
* Ram thinks he may be suffering from [[Post-traumatic stress|PTSD]].
* When trying to find [[the Inspector]] online, Quill at first found a [[Paul Smith (designer)|Paul Smith]] who was not him.
* When trying to find [[the Inspector]] online, Quill at first found [[Paul Smith (designer)|a different Paul Smith]].
* The Inspector poses as being from [[Ofsted]].
* The Inspector poses as being from [[Ofsted]].
* Mr Armitage asks Miss Quill not to misbehave in front of The Inspector as the [[Coal Hill governors]] would not like it.
* Mr. Armitage asks Miss Quill not to misbehave in front of the Inspector, as the [[Coal Hill governors]] would not like it.
* [[April MacLean|April]] plays the [[violin]], mostly [[folk music]].
* April plays the [[violin]], though mostly [[folk music]].
* [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]] has two brothers: [[Jarvis Adeola|Jarvis]] and [[Damon Adeola|Damon]], with whom she plays [[Xbox]].
* Tanya has two brothers: [[Jarvis Adeola|Jarvis]] and [[Damon Adeola|Damon]], with whom she plays [[Xbox]].
* [[Huw MacLean|April's dad]] calls her, but she doesn't pick up.
* [[Huw MacLean|April's dad]] calls her, but she doesn't pick up.
* While inspecting the robot parts that was the Inspector, Miss Quill discovers them to be property of [[the Governors]], and wonders who they might be.
* While inspecting the robot parts that was the Inspector, Miss Quill discovers them to be property of [[the Governors]], and wonders who they might be.


=== Technology ===
=== Technology ===
* Tanya, Charlie and April attempted to call Ram.
* Tanya's computer uses [[Windows Vista]].
* Tanya's computer uses [[Windows Vista]].
* Tanya is trying to hack into [[UNIT]]'s database.
* Tanya is trying to hack into [[UNIT]]'s database.
* Ram and Tanya are again video calling on [[Chat]].
* Ram and Tanya use [[Chattar|Chat]] to video call again, as do April and Charlie.
** Later on April and Charlie join.
* Miss Quill remarks, of the [[internet]], ''"Have you seen what [[human|this species]] puts about themselves online? So much [[genitalia]]."''
* Miss Quill remarks, of the [[internet]], "Have you seen what [[human|this species]] puts about themselves online? So much [[genitalia]]."
* At home, Charlie has an [[iMac]] computer.
* At home, Charlie has an [[iMac]] computer.
* Tanya downloaded the UNIT hack attempt off [[Reddit]].
* Tanya downloaded the UNIT hack attempt off [[Reddit]].
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== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
{{Section stub}}
[[File:Quill's inspection.jpg|thumb|right|An image of the Inspector's report on Miss Quill that was released on the official Class Facebook page.]]
[[File:Quill's inspection.jpg|thumb|right|An image of the Inspector's report on Miss Quill that was released on the official Class Facebook page.]]
* A working title for this episode was ''Skinned''. <ref>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674?hash=item21701ccde2%3Ag%3ANhQAAOSwCdVezDdN&nma=true&si=ffUps9UbcEm0J1KqCKkoyQKPpaU%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557</ref>
* A working title for this episode was ''Skinned''. <ref>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674</ref>
* The title is a play on the novel {{wi|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo}}.
* The title is a play on the novel {{wi|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo}}.
* During the scene when the sixth formers go to find Coach Dawson, "[[Y.A.L.A.]]" by [[M.I.A.]] can be heard.
* During the scene when the [[Coal Hill defenders]] go to find Coach Dawson, "[[Y.A.L.A.]]" by [[M.I.A.]] can be heard.
<!--A rock track plays during Miss Quill and The Inspector's escape from the dragon. Please add when identified.-->
* During the scene where April declines her dad's phone call, she is playing ''Amerikanische Wald Idyllen'' by Edward MacDowell on her violin.
* The morris dancing clip that Charlie finds when searching it up is audio of a morris dancing sequence from the [[Third Doctor]] serial, ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]''.
* The music under the scene where Mr. Armitage is killed by the Leaf Dragon is a deliberate pastiche of Bernard Herrman's score for ''[[Psycho]]''.


=== Ratings ===
=== Ratings ===
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=== Filming locations ===
=== Filming locations ===
''to be added''
* Pinewood Studios Wales - filming for the gym hall, social/staircase area and Charlie's bedroom.
* Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff University - exterior and some interior filming for Coal Hill Academy
* Roath Lock Studios
 
=== Broadcasts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date
!Time
!Channel
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
|[[Monday]] [[9 January (releases)|9 January]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
|23:40
|[[BBC One]] except [[BBC One Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland]] & Northern Ireland HD
|
|-
|[[Monday]] [[9 January (releases)|9 January]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]
|23:50
|[[BBC One Northern Ireland]] & Northern Ireland HD only
|
|}


=== Production errors ===
=== Production errors ===
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The [[Autumn Prom|Prom]] is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Ram is still adjusting to his prosthetic leg. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* [[Rachel Chapman|Rachel]] is believed to be missing. Ram is reminded that he watched her die and was drenched in her blood. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* [[Rachel Chapman|Rachel]] is believed to be missing after the [[Autumn Prom]]. Ram is repeatedly reminded that he watched her die while drenched in her blood. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Ram is still coping with his prosthetic leg. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Charlie makes note of the "fascinating power" of [[human]]ity to forget when the Shadow Kin's attack on the prom goes unmentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously noted humanity's "capacity for self-deception", ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] also described forgetting as a "human superpower". ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'')
* Ram doesn't want to be part of the world-saving team. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Charlie mentions how everyone that he ever knew died, and April mentions sharing her heart with [[Corakinus|their killer]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]] mentions [[Ram Singh|Ram]] saving [[April MacLean|April]] from the [[Shadow Kin]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Ram doesn't want to be part of the [[Coal Hill defenders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Charlie mentions that everyone that he ever knew died. April mentions sharing her heart with [[Corakinus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Tanya mentions that the Doctor said Miss Quill was supposed to help them with the aliens. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* The [[Twelfth Doctor]] making Miss Quill Charlie's protector is mentioned. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Tanya mentions Ram saving April from the [[Shadow Kin]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* [[Barbara Wright]] is mentioned on a poster ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' - ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') as having a [[Barbara Wright Building|building]] named after her.
* The Doctor making Miss Quill the children's protector is mentioned by Charlie. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* The head teacher, [[Frank Armitage|Mr Armitage]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', et al.) is killed.
* Charlie mentions that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] said Miss Quill was supposed to help him. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* Charlie makes note of a "fascinating power" of [[human]]ity to forget such things as the Shadow Kin attack. The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously noted humanity's "capacity for self-deception". ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') The Twelfth Doctor also described forgetting as a "human superpower". ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'')


== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==
{{Section stub}}
=== DVD releases ===
=== DVD releases ===
''to be added''
* ''The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo'' was featured in the series one DVD boxset, which was released in the UK (Region 2) on 16th January 2017, followed by a Region 1 release on 11th July. The Region 1 release contained an additional blooper reel and various deleted scenes that were not present on the Region 2 release.
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
ClassDVD.jpg|Region 2 cover
</gallery>


=== Blu-ray releases ===
=== Blu-ray releases ===
''to be added''
''to be added''
== External links ==
{{chakoteya|Class/102.html|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo}}


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo was the second episode of Class. It was written by Patrick Ness, directed by Ed Bazalgette and released the same day as For Tonight We Might Die, on BBC Three. The story focused heavily on Ram, and how he dealt with the events that unfolded in the previous story, and also saw the death of Coal Hill Academy head teacher Mr Armitage, who began as a recurring character in Doctor Who's Into the Dalek two years prior.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ram Singh has seen too much. His girlfriend's dead, he lost his leg, and now he sees a gruesome corpse in the locker room. Meanwhile, he has trouble adapting to his new prosthetic leg, screwing up in football. Someone else dies. Is it all in his head, or is this the work of a skin-peeling dragon?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Please help by adding some more information.

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • April, Charlie and Tanya discuss what to call the tear in space-time, with suggestions including "Membrane of Time", "Chasm", "Fracture", and "Bunghole". April later carries on calling it the Bunghole of Time, to which Charlie objects.
  • Our Universe Live is an event that takes place between 23 May and 31 May.
  • Ram suggests that the male dragon turn Dawson's skin into leather and "make a chair or something" out of him.

Coal Hill School[[edit] | [edit source]]

People[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Mr. Armitage says that the education secretary thinks all teachers are monkeys.
  • Ram smokes a cigarette.
  • Ram's father, Varun, continues to come to his football practices. He first taught Ram to play, and encourages him to practice with his new prosthetic leg until he gets it right.
  • Miss Quill asks Ram whether he was watching porn while doing his homework. Ram sarcastically answers that he was masturbating and that he had to do homework one-handed.
  • Ram thinks he may be suffering from PTSD.
  • When trying to find the Inspector online, Quill at first found a different Paul Smith.
  • The Inspector poses as being from Ofsted.
  • Mr. Armitage asks Miss Quill not to misbehave in front of the Inspector, as the Coal Hill governors would not like it.
  • April plays the violin, though mostly folk music.
  • Tanya has two brothers: Jarvis and Damon, with whom she plays Xbox.
  • April's dad calls her, but she doesn't pick up.
  • While inspecting the robot parts that was the Inspector, Miss Quill discovers them to be property of the Governors, and wonders who they might be.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Tanya's computer uses Windows Vista.
  • Tanya is trying to hack into UNIT's database.
  • Ram and Tanya use Chat to video call again, as do April and Charlie.
  • Miss Quill remarks, of the internet, "Have you seen what this species puts about themselves online? So much genitalia."
  • At home, Charlie has an iMac computer.
  • Tanya downloaded the UNIT hack attempt off Reddit.
  • April has an iPhone and a keyboard.

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

An image of the Inspector's report on Miss Quill that was released on the official Class Facebook page.
  • A working title for this episode was Skinned. [4]
  • The title is a play on the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
  • During the scene when the Coal Hill defenders go to find Coach Dawson, "Y.A.L.A." by M.I.A. can be heard.
  • During the scene where April declines her dad's phone call, she is playing Amerikanische Wald Idyllen by Edward MacDowell on her violin.
  • The morris dancing clip that Charlie finds when searching it up is audio of a morris dancing sequence from the Third Doctor serial, The Dæmons.
  • The music under the scene where Mr. Armitage is killed by the Leaf Dragon is a deliberate pastiche of Bernard Herrman's score for Psycho.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Pinewood Studios Wales - filming for the gym hall, social/staircase area and Charlie's bedroom.
  • Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff University - exterior and some interior filming for Coal Hill Academy
  • Roath Lock Studios

Broadcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Date Time Channel Notes
Monday 9 January 2017 23:40 BBC One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
Monday 9 January 2017 23:50 BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

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.

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo was featured in the series one DVD boxset, which was released in the UK (Region 2) on 16th January 2017, followed by a Region 1 release on 11th July. The Region 1 release contained an additional blooper reel and various deleted scenes that were not present on the Region 2 release.
  • Region 2 cover

    Region 2 cover

Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑
    Thursday at 8:14 PM
    1. We see on Charlie's computer that the day of the confrontation with Coach Dawson is a Thursday. This story takes place over 4 distinct and consecutive days, so it must begin on Monday.
    2. We know from a poster in For Tonight We Might Die that the Autumn Prom took place on Friday, 14 October, during which Rachel Chapman died.
    3. Varun Singh says in this episode that it's been a week since she disappeared. Exactly a week after Prom would be 21 October, but that's a Friday, because the 14th was a Friday. Three days later is 24 October, the only Monday on which Varun could possibly say it's been a week since Prom. Thus, this story takes place between Monday 24 and Thursday 27 October.
  2. ↑ In The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, we see a plaque that tells us the Barbara Wright Building was completed in spring 2016. Additionally, Nightvisiting, set two years after Jasper Adeola's death, tells us he died in 2014. Finally, Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart confirms that Charlie and Miss Quill arrived on Earth in September 2016.
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/BlairMowat/status/1246887191311200256?s=20
  4. ↑ https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674
  5. ↑ https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/class-season-one-ratings/
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