Under the Lake (TV story)

Under the Lake
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Main enemy:	Transmitter ghosts
Main setting:	The Drum, 2119
Key crew
Writer:	Toby Whithouse
Director:	Daniel O'Hara
Producer:	Derek Ritchie
Release details
Story number:	254
Premiere broadcast:	3 October 2015
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x45 minute episode
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Under the Lake was the third episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Synopsis

On an attacked underwater base, a frightened crew is threatened by the most impossible of things. It's up to the Doctor and Clara to rescue them

But what's all this fuss? Can it really be possible? Can the threat really be ghosts haunting them?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Clara - Jenna Coleman
• Moran - Colin McFarlane
• Cass - Sophie Stone
• Lunn - Zaqi Ismail
• O'Donnell - Morven Christie
• Mason Bennett - Arsher Ali
• Pritchard - Steven Robertson
• Prentis - Paul Kaye

Crew

Executive Producers   Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin

Written by Toby Whithouse	Produced by Derek Ritchie	Directed by Daniel O'Hara	Director of Photography Ali Asad	Production Designer Michael Pickwoad	Visual Effects Milk
Make-up Designer Barbara Southcott	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Murray Gold	Costume Designer Ray Holman	Edited by Selina MacArthur	Special Effects Real SFX
Original theme music by Ron Grainer  •  Titles by BBC Wales Graphics  •  With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sur-Film Production & Services S.L  •  Conducted and orchestrated by Ben Foster  •  Music mixed by Jake Jackson  •  Music recorded by Gerry O'Riordan

General production staff Head of Production - Gordon Ronald Line Producer - Tracie Simpson Production Manager - Adam Knopf Location Manager - Iwan Roberts Unit Manager - Iestyn Hampson-Jones Production Co-ordinator - Sandra Cosfeld Production Assistants - Sion Crowle, Jamie Shaw Production Secretary - Hannah Jones Unit Drivers - Sean Evans, Kyle Davies Unit Medic - Glyn Evans Production Accountant - Ceredig Parry Assistant Accountant - Justine Wooff Script department Script Editor - David P Davis Script Executive - Lindsey Alford Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Dan Mumford 2nd Assistant Director - James DeHaviland 3rd Assistant Director - Danielle Richards Assistant Directors - Gareth Jones, Chris Thomas Script Supervisor - Nicki Coles Camera Operator - Mark McQuoid 2nd Camera Operator - Steve Rees Focus Pullers - Jonathan Vidgen, Matthew Lepper Grip - John Robinson Assistant Grip - Sean Cronin Camera Assistants - Cai Thompson, Scott Waller Gaffer - Mark Hutchings Best Boy - Andrew Gardiner Electricians - Andrew Williams, Bob Milton, Gareth Sheldon, Gawain Nash, Matt Wilson	Art department Supervising Art Directors - Tristan Peatfield, Dafydd Shurmer Art Department Accountant - Bethan Griffiths Production Buyer - Sarah Frere Set Decorator - Adrian Anscombe Prop Buyers - May Johnson, Vicki Male, Rosy Pearce Storyboard Artist - Mike Collins Concept Artist - Chris Lees Graphic Artist - Matthew Clark Motion Graphics - Tom Munday Standby Props - Liam Collins, Ian Davies Standby Carpenter - Paul Jones Prop Hands - Scott Howe, Nigel Magni, Matt Watts Standby Art Director - Julia Challis Rigging - Shadow Scaffolding Head Scenic Artist - Clive Clarke Scenic Painters - Steve Nelms, Matt Weston, Paul Murray Storeman - Jamie Southcott Prop Master - Paul Smith Props Chargehand - Kyle Belmont Props Driver - Gareth Fox Props Makers - Alan Hardy, Jamie Thomas Construction Manager - Terry Horle Construction Chargehands - Dean Tucker, John Sinnott Construction Driver - Jonathan Tylke Practical Electricians - Christian Davies, Austin Curtis Draughtperson - Kartik Nagar Carpenters - Tim Burke, Lawrie Ferry, Matt Ferry, Chris Daniels, Julian Tucker, George Rees, Dan Berrow, Keith Richards, Campbell Fraser Title Concept - Billy Hanshaw Costume department Costume Supervisor - Simon Marks Assistant Costume Designer - Georgie Sayer Costume Assistants - Andie Mear, Ian Fowler, Jenny Tindle	Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Supervisor - Sara Anghard Make-up Artists - Megan Bowes, James Spinks Movement Stunt Co-ordinators - Crispin Layfield, Gordon Seed, Lucy Allen Stunt Performers - Sarah Lochlan, Belinda McGinley, David Grant, Nicholas Daines Casting Casting Associate - Alice Purser General post-production staff Post-production Supervisor - Samantha Price Assistant Editors - Becky Trotman, Steven Waltham On-line Editor - Geraint Pari Huws Special and visual effects VFX Editor - Dan Rawlings Special Creature Effects & Prosthetics - Millenium FX Colourist - Gareth Spensley Sound Sound Recordist - Deian Llŷr Humphreys Dubbing Mixer - Tim Ricketts Sound Maintenance Engineers - Tam Shoring, Christopher Goding Dialogue Editor - Darran Clement ADR Editor - Matthew Cox Sound Effects Editor - Paul Jefferies Effects Editor - Harry Barnes Foley Editor - Jamie Talbutt Foley Artist - Julie Ankerson

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.

References

Individuals

• The Doctor once had Peter Andre's song Mysterious Girl stuck in his head for two weeks, which drove him mad.
• The Doctor once met Shirley Bassey.
• According the Doctor, Clara once had an argument with Gandhi.

Languages

• The Doctor can no longer understand British Sign Language.

Story notes

• The sonic sunglasses can tune onto Wi-Fi.
• The Doctor uses cue cards to give apologies.

Ratings

• BBC One: to be added
• BBC America: to be added

Production errors

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.

Continuity

• The Doctor uses his sonic sunglasses. (TV:The Witch's Familiar)
• The remains of a Tivolian appears. (TV:The God Complex)
• The Doctor has previously landed in an underwater base, in which he met with a crew that were tackling a threat that would re-animate the dead crew. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada)
• The Doctor uses his psychic paper as proof of ID. (TV: The End of the World et al)
  • The psychic paper tells them that he works for UNIT.
• One of the Doctor's apology cue cards says: "It was my fault, I should have known you didn't live in Aberdeen". The Fourth Doctor dropped Sarah Jane Smith off in that city, rather than South Croydon. (TV: The Hand of Fear, School Reunion)
• Another of the cue cards says: "No one is going to be eaten / vapourised / exterminated / upgraded / possessed / mortally wounded / turned to jelly. We'll all get out of this unharmed." "Exterminated" is a reference to the Daleks, (TV: The Daleks et.al.) "upgraded" is a reference to the Cybermen, (TV: The Tenth Planet et.al.) and "possessed" is a reference to Satan. (TV: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)
• When the Doctor goes back on his insistance that the phantoms of the dead aren't ghosts, he notes that they aren't flesh avatars, (TV: The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People) Autons, (TV: Spearhead from Space et.al.) or "digital copies bouncing around the Nethersphere." (TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven)
• The Cloister Bell can be heard ringing throughout the base. (TV: Logopolis, Resurrection of the Daleks et al)

Home video releases

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