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The mini-episode itself carries no on-screen title, however Russell T. Davies referred to it by the title ''Tonight's the Night'' in his June 2009 column in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #410.

[[Jack Harkness]] enters [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and discovers a blue-headed alien who claims to be a regenerated [[The Doctor|Doctor]]. The alien gives the game away when Jack notices that he's armed, something the real Doctor would never be. The alien identifies himself as [[Sao Til]], a literal arms dealer who trades in limbs. Jack draws his gun and the two enter into a Mexican standoff before...

[[David Tennant]] comes in through the TARDIS doors and asks John what he's doing. John introduces Tim Ingham of Stoke-on-Trent, who is pretending to be Sao Til. David then exits the set via the 'fourth wall', pausing briefly before he leaves to chide John for being in "my TARDIS". After a moment of giddiness at having seen David Tennant, John and Tim then carry on from where they left off, resuming their characters and pretending to shoot at each other as they run around the TARDIS set.

* [[John Barrowman]] - Himself

* [[Tim Ingham]] - Himself

* [[David Tennant]] - Himself

No crew are credited on-screen. However, [[Alice Troughton]] can be clearly seen directing the episode in the behind-the-scenes featurette that accompanied it.

* The skit has no opening or closing credits.

* Running just over 3 minutes in length, this is the shortest televised ''Doctor Who''-related production of all time. (The shortest canonical television story remains as [[SJA]]:''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love]]'', while the 2009 webisode ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'', running 3.5 minutes, stands as the shortest ''Doctor Who''-related storyline that could fall within canon.)

* As he was playing himself, not the Doctor, David Tennant spoke in his natural Scottish accent; he previously used his natural accent in [[DW]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]''.

* When first announced, it was thought the skit would be a potentially canonical mini-episode along the lines of ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'' and ''[[Time Crash]]'', but this turned out not to be the case. According to Davies in his column ''Doctor Who Magazine'' #410, he did initially intend to write such a mini-episode, but on realising this would be the last ''Doctor Who'' story he'd likely ever write, he couldn't bring himself to create something canonical in this context.

* No DVD release of this skit has to date occurred. Although reference to the skit is made in David Tennant's Video Diaries, a special feature in the 2009 Specials DVD/Blu-Ray box set, the skit itself is omitted. There has likewise been no announcement of a home video release of the ''Tonight's the Night'' series. Unless this happens, the skit will join the interactive mini-episode ''[[Attack of the Graske (video game)|Attack of the Graske]]'' as the only Tennant-era productions to not see home video release.

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