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.

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.Donna

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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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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.