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'''''Last Night''''' was the fourth of five [[Night and the Doctor|''Night and the Doctor'']] shorts produced exclusively for the [[Doctor Who]]: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Bluray box sets. It is the second of a two-part story which began with "[[First Night]]". It was written by showrunner [[Steven Moffat]].
|writer         = Steven Moffat
|director       = [[Richard Senior]]
|producer       =  
|release date   = 22 November 2011
|format         = 1x4 minute, mini episode
|production code =  
|confidential   = Doctor Who Confidential: The Night's Tale|The Night's Tale
|prev            = First Night (home video)
|next           = Up All Night (home video)
}}
'''''Last Night''''' was the fourth of five ''[[Night and the Doctor]]'' shorts produced exclusively for the ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It is the second of a two-part story which began with ''[[First Night]]''. It was written by [[head writer|showrunner]] [[Steven Moffat]].
 
== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
With three River Songs wandering around the TARDIS, the Doctor needs two of him to sort matters.
The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.


==Plot==
== Plot ==
The Doctor lays a seemingly unconscious River Song on the floor of the TARDIS, panicking because he assumes she has been shot in the gunfight. But she is only holding her breath with her eyes closed, pretending to have been injured, and once he realises this she gets up and begins to flirt with and tease him.
[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] lays an unmoving [[River Song]] on the floor of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], terrified she is dead. He prepares to give her mouth-to-mouth, but realises she is only holding her breath with her eyes closed. She gets up to flirt with him.


When he demands to know who was shooting at her, she explains that, having been in the Stormcage prison facility for five years, she'd escaped and insulted a Sontaran war party by asking them if they were out on a Hen's Night, only for them to chase her halfway across the galaxy to a spot she knew the Doctor would eventually show up at. As he chastises her for this, she notices the gold dress he’d chosen for her for their first visit to Caldoran Beta five years ago, hanging near the console, and becomes suspicious that he has someone else on the TARDIS. She demands to know who, not realising that for him this is in fact the night of that first visit, that the 'other woman' is actually her younger self. She storms off up the TARDIS stairs to find the woman who would dare to wear that dress. Only seconds after that, an earlier River appears in another corridor, returning from the TARDIS cloak-room. She asks the Doctor who he is talking to, and he assures her there is no one else there, so she goes back down to the cloak-room. Hearing this exchange, the older River returns to the control room, demanding to know who the Doctor is speaking to. He then tells her he isn't speaking to anyone, and she resumes her hunt, leaving him alone a second time.
She has escaped from Stormcage and asked some [[Sontaran]]s if they were out on a [[hen night|hen's night]], only for them to chase her halfway across the galaxy. As he chastises her, she notices the gold dress he has chosen for her for their visit to [[Calderon Beta]] hanging near the console. She demands to know whom he has brought and storms up the stairs to find the hussy. A second later, the earlier River returns from the TARDIS wardrobe, demanding to know to whom he is talking. When he denies talking to anyone, she resumes her hunt.


Matters are further complicated when a third, even older incarnation of River enters the TARDIS, actually wearing the gold dress. She's pleased to see him, and playfully calls him a 'sentimental idiot' just as the second River had only moments before. This version of River was expecting to meet the Doctor here, but on seeing an identical gold dress hung by the console she is confused and asks him why he has bought another, not realising it's the very same dress she herself is wearing. Anxious that the three Rivers now in the TARDIS should not meet, the Doctor asks her to step outside again and check if the light on top of the TARDIS is working. Frowning, she does so.
A third River enters the TARDIS, actually wearing the gold dress. This River was expecting to meet the Doctor here, but on seeing the dress hung by the console, asks why he has bought another. The Doctor asks her to step outside to check if the light on top of the TARDIS is working. She does.


After this River has stepped out, the youngest River reappears, certain that she heard voices. The Doctor tells her he was talking to himself, and she bustles off again. The second River then returns to the control room, likewise convinced that she heard the Doctor talking to someone. Frustrated, the Doctor brusquely activates her Vortex Manipulator and sends her back to prison, despite her protests. The third River then re-enters the TARDIS, saying that the light on the roof is fine. But she is followed in by a second, older incarnation of the Doctor (wearing a tuxedo), who tells her she's stepped into the wrong TARDIS, that his own is 'parked' around the corner. This incarnation of River is amused at the prospect of having two versions of her husband, but as 'her' Doctor ushers her out she calls back to explain to the younger Doctor that she and her Doctor are off to see the Singing Towers of Darillium, something he's been promising to do for a long time. She exits, and the two Doctors share a brief, sad moment, each knowing that the trip to the Singing Towers is the last they will ever see of her before she dies in the Library.
The youngest River reappears, certain she has heard voices. The Doctor tells her he was talking to himself and she bustles off again. The second River returns to the control room, likewise convinced she heard the Doctor talking to someone. The Doctor brusquely activates her [[River Song's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]] to return her to prison. The third River re-enters the TARDIS. She is followed by a second, older incarnation of the Doctor in a tailcoat, who tells her she's in the wrong TARDIS. River is amused at the prospect of two versions of her husband, but as 'her' Doctor ushers her out, she calls back to the younger Doctor that she and her Doctor are off to see the [[Singing Towers]] of [[Darillium]]. The two Doctors share a brief, sad moment, knowing that this is the spot the Doctor took her just before her ill-fated expedition to [[the Library]]. The younger Doctor reverently wishes his later self good luck on his final date. The older Doctor wistfully looks back at the past version of himself and wishes him the same.


As the older Doctor exits the youngest River returns to the control room in time to catch a glimpse of the two Doctors together. She is amused by this, but he will not tell her what has just transpired between them, because of 'spoilers'. He begins to escort her to the door to go on their date but she protests that she hasn't changed, to which he responds by telling her that she never will. Moving past him toward the door, River jokes that he will be the death of her, not realising that that is exactly what is weighing so heavily on his mind.
As the older Doctor exits, the youngest River returns to catch a glimpse of them together. Her Doctor will not tell her what has just transpired because of 'spoilers'. She expresses that she likes that word. He escorts her to the door to go on their date as she protests that she hasn't changed. He says she never will. River jokes that his secrets will be the death of her.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
* [[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]]
* [[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]]
== Crew ==
== Crew ==
* Writer - [[Steven Moffat]]
* [[Writer]] - [[Steven Moffat]]
* Director -[[ Richard Senior ]](uncredited)
* [[Director (crew)|Director]] - [[Richard Senior]] (uncredited)


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== TARDIS ===
''to be added''
* Multiple versions of one person can coexist within the same TARDIS. While it can be claimed that this is contradicted by ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]'', it should be noted that none of the River Songs that appear in this episode exist as a result of a [[paradox]] and are all from the "correct" timeline.


==Story notes==
== Story notes ==
*This is the second of a two-part story than began with ''[[First Night]]''.
* This is the second of a two-part story that began with ''[[First Night]]''.
*The title makes reference to the fact that the future version of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is the one that takes [[River Song|River]] on her final "night out" to the [[Singing Towers]] of [[Darillium]] before the events of ''[[Silence in the Library]]''.
* The title makes reference to the implication that the future version of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song|River]] are on her final "night out" to the [[Singing Towers]] of [[Darillium]], just before the events of ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]''. However, the Doctor does not follow through with the date, as revealed in ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]''.
*This story is set entirely within [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].
* This story is set entirely within [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].


=== Myths and rumours ===
=== Myths and rumours ===
''To be added''
''to be added''


=== Filming locations ===
=== Filming locations ===
''To be added''
[[Upper Boat Studios]]


=== Production errors ===
=== Production errors ===
''To be added''
''to be added''


=== Continuity ===
== Continuity ==
*River asks the Doctor, "How many hands do you have?" The answer was, at one point, three. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
* The Doctor distracts the eldest River out of the TARDIS by asking her to see if the roof bulb needs changing. She had asked him the same question at the cemetery in Queens moments before her parents were exiled into the past by the [[Weeping Angel]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') Among the questions rattled off to the Doctor by her mother, [[Amy Pond]], when she first boarded the TARDIS was if the bulb needed changing. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1 (TV story)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1]]'') The Doctor has also changed the bulb himself while parked in front of Amy and Rory's house. ([[WC]]: ''[[Pond Life (webcast)|Pond Life]]'')
*River was being chased by [[Sontarans]].
* The TARDIS is mistaken by the third River Song as belonging to "her" Doctor when it technically belongs to another. [[Susan Foreman]] and the [[First Doctor]] had similarly mistaken the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS for theirs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
*The Doctor asks River to see if the TARDIS bulb needs changing. [[Amy Pond]] previously raised the question of whether or not the bulb needs to be changed shortly after arriving on the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS#First Episode|Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Episode 1]])''
* The youngest and oldest Rivers' minds race at the possibility of two Doctors in the same place. She described such a situation to her father as "a whole other birthday". ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') [[Jack Harkness]] had a similar line of thought in the presence of the [[Tenth Doctor]], the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]], and the [[Doctor Donna]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Rory also had a similar idea about River's mother while on their honeymoon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time (TV story)|Time]]'')
*The TARDIS is mistaken by the third River Song as belonging to "her" Doctor when it technically belongs to another. Previously, [[Susan Foreman]] and the [[First Doctor]] had mistaken the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS for theirs. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
* The two Doctors mention River's death. Later, River remarks that the Doctor will be the death of her, which was also something she would speak about metaphorically to her father later in her timeline. The future version of the Eleventh Doctor wears a black tailcoat and a top hat to take the future version of River Song to the Singing Towers; she already talked about his different outfit during that final date. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') During her one adventure with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], River reveals that the Eleventh Doctor ultimately cancelled their date on Darillium after he met his other self, something she references briefly. He also repeatedly cancelled this date until the Twelfth Doctor took her on it after the crash of the ''[[Harmony and Redemption]]'' on Darillium. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')
* River's mind races with the possibility of two Doctors in the same place. [[Jack Harkness]] previous had a similar line of thought when in the presence of the [[Tenth Doctor]], the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]], and the [[Doctor Donna]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
* The Doctor wears a [[tuxedo]] with a black tie. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')
*The two Doctors mention River's death. Later, River remarks that the Doctor will be the death of her. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'')
* The dress that all three versions of River remark on is the same dress that River wears while investigating the Silence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
*First chronological instance of River using the word "Spoilers."
* The second River wears a [[River Song's vortex manipulator|vortex manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
*At no point are any of the three Rivers aware of each other.
* The Doctor ultimately postponed taking River to Darillium and continued to do so until the ''[[Harmony and Redemption]]'' crashed on the planet in his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')


==Timeline==
== Home video releases ==
===For the present [[Eleventh Doctor]]===
* This story was released in The Complete Sixth Series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011. It was also released in Series 1-6 on DVD in 2012 and in Series 1-7 on Blu-ray in 2013.
*This story takes place after [[DW]]: ''[[First Night]]''.
*This story takes place before [[DW]]: ''[[Prequel (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)]]''.


===For River no. 1===
== External links ==
*This story takes place immediately after [[DW]]: ''[[First Night]]''.
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===For River no. 2===
*This story takes place at least five years after her first version's appearance in [[DW]]: ''[[First Night]]'' and immediately after her second version's appearance in [[DW]]: ''[[First Night]]''.
 
===For the future Eleventh Doctor===
*This story takes place before his trip to the Singing Towers. It is likely that it takes place sometime after the final scene of The Wedding of River Song.


===For River no. 3===
*This story takes place after her final scene in [[DW]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]''.
*This story takes place before [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''.
== Home video releases ==
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Last Night was the fourth of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It is the second of a two-part story which began with First Night. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor lays an unmoving River Song on the floor of the TARDIS, terrified she is dead. He prepares to give her mouth-to-mouth, but realises she is only holding her breath with her eyes closed. She gets up to flirt with him.

She has escaped from Stormcage and asked some Sontarans if they were out on a hen's night, only for them to chase her halfway across the galaxy. As he chastises her, she notices the gold dress he has chosen for her for their visit to Calderon Beta hanging near the console. She demands to know whom he has brought and storms up the stairs to find the hussy. A second later, the earlier River returns from the TARDIS wardrobe, demanding to know to whom he is talking. When he denies talking to anyone, she resumes her hunt.

A third River enters the TARDIS, actually wearing the gold dress. This River was expecting to meet the Doctor here, but on seeing the dress hung by the console, asks why he has bought another. The Doctor asks her to step outside to check if the light on top of the TARDIS is working. She does.

The youngest River reappears, certain she has heard voices. The Doctor tells her he was talking to himself and she bustles off again. The second River returns to the control room, likewise convinced she heard the Doctor talking to someone. The Doctor brusquely activates her vortex manipulator to return her to prison. The third River re-enters the TARDIS. She is followed by a second, older incarnation of the Doctor in a tailcoat, who tells her she's in the wrong TARDIS. River is amused at the prospect of two versions of her husband, but as 'her' Doctor ushers her out, she calls back to the younger Doctor that she and her Doctor are off to see the Singing Towers of Darillium. The two Doctors share a brief, sad moment, knowing that this is the spot the Doctor took her just before her ill-fated expedition to the Library. The younger Doctor reverently wishes his later self good luck on his final date. The older Doctor wistfully looks back at the past version of himself and wishes him the same.

As the older Doctor exits, the youngest River returns to catch a glimpse of them together. Her Doctor will not tell her what has just transpired because of 'spoilers'. She expresses that she likes that word. He escorts her to the door to go on their date as she protests that she hasn't changed. He says she never will. River jokes that his secrets will be the death of her.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

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

Myths and rumours[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

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

Upper Boat Studios

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

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor distracts the eldest River out of the TARDIS by asking her to see if the roof bulb needs changing. She had asked him the same question at the cemetery in Queens moments before her parents were exiled into the past by the Weeping Angels. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) Among the questions rattled off to the Doctor by her mother, Amy Pond, when she first boarded the TARDIS was if the bulb needed changing. (HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1) The Doctor has also changed the bulb himself while parked in front of Amy and Rory's house. (WC: Pond Life)
  • The TARDIS is mistaken by the third River Song as belonging to "her" Doctor when it technically belongs to another. Susan Foreman and the First Doctor had similarly mistaken the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS for theirs. (TV: The Five Doctors)
  • The youngest and oldest Rivers' minds race at the possibility of two Doctors in the same place. She described such a situation to her father as "a whole other birthday". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) Jack Harkness had a similar line of thought in the presence of the Tenth Doctor, the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, and the Doctor Donna. (TV: Journey's End) Rory also had a similar idea about River's mother while on their honeymoon. (TV: Time)
  • The two Doctors mention River's death. Later, River remarks that the Doctor will be the death of her, which was also something she would speak about metaphorically to her father later in her timeline. The future version of the Eleventh Doctor wears a black tailcoat and a top hat to take the future version of River Song to the Singing Towers; she already talked about his different outfit during that final date. (TV: Forest of the Dead, Day of the Moon) During her one adventure with the Twelfth Doctor, River reveals that the Eleventh Doctor ultimately cancelled their date on Darillium after he met his other self, something she references briefly. He also repeatedly cancelled this date until the Twelfth Doctor took her on it after the crash of the Harmony and Redemption on Darillium. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
  • The Doctor wears a tuxedo with a black tie. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
  • The dress that all three versions of River remark on is the same dress that River wears while investigating the Silence. (TV: Day of the Moon)
  • The second River wears a vortex manipulator. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
  • The Doctor ultimately postponed taking River to Darillium and continued to do so until the Harmony and Redemption crashed on the planet in his twelfth incarnation. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)

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

  • This story was released in The Complete Sixth Series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011. It was also released in Series 1-6 on DVD in 2012 and in Series 1-7 on Blu-ray in 2013.

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

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