Campfire (TV story)

Campfire
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Donna Noble
Key crew
Director:	Richard Senior
Producer:	Red Bee Media
Release details
Type:	Narrative trailer
Release date:	28 March 2008

The Series 4: Campfire trailer was a narrative trailer advertising the fourth series of Doctor Who and the return of Donna Noble as a companion, who was last seen in The Runaway Bride.

Prior to the trailers release three 10 second teasers, each focusing on a different monster, began airing from 22 March 2008. The monsters featured were the Ood, the Sontarans and the Daleks.

On 22 June 2008, a fourth teaser focusing on the Supreme Dalek began airing to publicise The Stolen Earth.

Donna: There are things waiting in the darkness. Creatures of metal, fire and blood. But he's out there burning through time; facing a thousand dangers across the stars and never giving up. He looks like a man but he's a legend, and his name is The Doctor. He'll come back to save us and this time I'm gonna be ready. Then, just like that... (poof) we'll be gone.

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  Advertising The Stolen Earth.

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2009 Specials gallery

The graphic elements created for the Series 4 trailers continued to be used for the 2009 Specials.

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  Advertising Planet of the Dead.

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  Advertising The End of Time.

Cast

DWMSE 20 revealed the following credits:

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
• Ood - Jon Davey
• Sontaran - Alan Glet
• Dalek operator - Colin Newman
• Voice-over - Jo Butler

Crew

No crew were credited for this trailer.

Uncredited crew

DWMSE 20 revealed the following credits:

• Director - Richard Senior
• Creative Head - Matt Scarff
• Creative director - James Spence
• Executive producers - Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner
• Marketing - Georgina Pickard, Anna Skelton
• Production manager - Nadia Malik
• Production co-ordinator - Shelley Bradley
• Team Assistant - Jo Holloway
• 1st assistant director - Nick Britz
• 2nd assistant director - Jennie Fava
• Floor Runner - Tom Evans
• Director of photography - Clive Norman
• Camera assistant - Gary Dawes
• Gaffer - Peter Chester
• Sound recordist - John Thomas
• Costume designer - Louise Page
• Make-up - Barbara Southcott, Steven Smith
• Prosthetics - Millennium FX
• Prosthetics technician - Pete Hawkins
• Special effects - Any Effects
• Special effects supervisor - Paul Kelly
• Editor - Nial Brown
• Visual effects - Nial Brown
• Sound design - Raja Sehgal

Notes

End of the normal BBC One episode trailers.

• There were two versions of the trailer, a 40 second full length one and a 20 second "cut-down" one.
• This trailer featured a narrative and new material of Catherine Tate and David Tennant in character.
• The music used in the main trailer was "All the Strange, Strange Creatures".
• The music used in the teasers was "Accelerometer" by Mel Wesson, Bruce Fowler, Steve Kofsky & Hans Zimmer, Album: Directors Cuts: Outros DCD047
• Elements from these trailers were used for the normal BBC One episode trailers throughout Series 4 and the 2009 specials.
• The trailers were recorded in HD at Upper Boat Studios on Wednesday 12 March 2008.

Home video releases

• The complete set of teasers and trailers were included on the Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series DVD box set released on 17 November 2008.