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| |story name=Turn Left|
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| |image=[[Image:TurnRight.JPG|250px]]
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| |series=[[Doctor Who]] – [[List of television stories|TV stories]]|
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| |number= [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]|
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| |story number= 198
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| |doctor=[[Tenth Doctor]] (cameo) |
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| |companions=<ul><li>[[Donna Noble]]</li><li>[[Rose Tyler]] (guest)</li></ul>
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| |enemy=[[Time Beetle]]<br>[[Fortune Teller]]<br>
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| |setting= [[Shan Shen]]<br>[[Donna's World|Alternative London]], [[2007]]<br>[[Donna's World|Alternative London]], [[2008]]<br>[[Leeds|Alternative Leeds]], [[2009]]
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| |writer=[[Russell T Davies]]
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| |director=[[Graeme Harper]]
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| |producer=[[Susie Liggat]]
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| |broadcast date=[[21st June]] [[2008]]
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| |format= 1 × 50 minute episode
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| |production code=4.11 |
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| |previous story= [[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]|
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| |next story= [[The Stolen Earth]]
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| == Synopsis ==
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| [[Donna Noble|Donna]]'s entire world collapses, but there’s no sign of the Doctor. Instead, she finds help from [[Rose Tyler|a mysterious blonde woman]] - a traveller from a parallel universe. But, as they combine forces, are they too late to save the whole of creation from the approaching darkness?
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| ==Plot==
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| The [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble|Donna]] are on the planet [[Shan Shen]], mixing with the locals. Donna wanders away from the Doctor to explore. A [[Fortune Teller|mysterious fortune teller]] tempts Donna with a reading. The fortune teller searches Donna's past for a single event, finally choosing a moment in [[June]] [[2007]], where Donna and her mother are in a car at a T-junction arguing about her future. [[Sylvia Noble|Sylvia]] is trying to persuade Donna to turn right and ask businessman [[Jival Chowdry]] for a job; but Donna turns left to go to her planned temp job at [[H.C. Clements]]. As the fortune teller attempts to persuade Donna to turn right, something crawls onto Donna's back. Finally, under the fortune teller's persuasion, Donna turns right and alters the course of her life as well as the future of all existence.
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| It is [[24th December|Christmas Eve]] [[2007]], but in an alternate world where Donna, who now never worked for [[H.C. Clements]], has never met the Doctor. The [[Racnoss]] Webstar attacks London, and is destroyed by the army, at a terrible cost: near an ambulance and a group of [[UNIT]] trucks, Donna overhears a UNIT officer telling someone that they found a body. The Doctor's body. As Donna walks away, a blond figure suddenly appears: the Doctor's former companion [[Rose Tyler]] comes running down the street and asks for information about the body that has just been bundled into the ambulance. Rose is stunned to hear that it was the Doctor.
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| In [[April]] [[2008]], Donna is fired from her job in the photocopying firm. Meanwhile, the [[Royal Hope Hospital]] is mysteriously transported to [[the Moon]]. When it returns, there is only one survivor: a medical student named [[Oliver Morgenstern]], who relates the terrible events. As in the [[Smith and Jones|original timeline]], the hospital had been moved by the [[Judoon]] and infiltrated by a [[Plasmavore]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith]] (at the hospital with her son [[Luke Smith|Luke]] and his friends [[Maria Jackson|Maria]] and [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]]) attempted to fill the Doctor's role, and did manage to stop the MRI machine from irradiating the Earth--but, without the Doctor, the humans couldn't find a way back to Earth, and all suffocated. Medical student [[Martha Jones]] gave Morgenstern the last oxygen tank so that someone would survive to tell the story.
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| As Donna digests the terrible news, Rose reappears, and warns her to leave London for [[25th December|Christmas]] [[2008]].
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| Donna takes Rose's advice, and treats her [[Sylvia Noble|mum]] and [[Wilfred Mott|grandfather]] to a Christmas holiday in the English countryside. On [[25th December|Christmas morning]] [[2008]], they watch in disbelief as [[Titanic (spaceship)|a replica]] of the ''[[Titanic]]'' is reported to be heading straight for Buckingham Palace. The three run outside and watch, horrified, as a mushroom cloud rises above London.
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| Like many other refugees from London (and southern England, which was irradiated), the Nobles are forced to move to Leeds, since nuclear radiation from the crash showered over London. They are allocated a house that is shared with two other families.
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| In 2009, The [[United States]] pledges to help Britain with monetary relief but must abandon the plan when their own crisis strikes: 60 million of their population are turned into [[Adipose]]. Since London no longer exists, Adipose Industries had targeted the [[USA]].
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| Some time later, Donna finds soldiers gunning at cars when the [[Sontaran]]s activate the [[ATMOS]] devices, covering the Earth with a poisonous fog. A soldier again notices something on Donna's back and holds her at gunpoint, but is released when nothing is apparently there. That night, Donna meets Rose for a third time. Rose explains that the [[Torchwood 3|Torchwood]] team, aboard the Sontaran ship, are trying to stop the catastrophe. Suddenly, the sky is cleared by an atmospheric converter. However [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]] had given their lives to achieve this, while Captain [[Jack Harkness]] has been stranded on the [[Sontar]]an homeworld.
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| Rose, who refuses to tell Donna her name and will say only that she has "crossed reality", tries to explain that Donna had saved the Doctor's life in an alternate timeline, though Donna insists that she had never met him. Rose warns Donna about the coming "darkness" that threatens every single universe. Donna tries to walk away, but Rose then tells Donna that she will have to go with her when she is ready and that she has three weeks to decide. Rose warns Donna that when she comes with her, Donna will die. Then she disappears.
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| Three weeks later, the genial Italian family in Donna's house is evicted as England is now "only for the English". Since the oceans are closed off, they must be taken to a "labour camp". [[Wilfred Mott|Wilfred]] says "That's what they called them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust last time]", alluding to the concentration camps of [[World War II]]. Later at night, Donna and Wilf talk about recent events. He notices that the constellation of Orion has gone, though there are no clouds. As the stars disappear throughout the sky, Donna realizes that Rose must be correct. She finds the younger woman, and tells her that she is ready.
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| Rose takes Donna to a UNIT base and shows her the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] - salvaged from beneath the [[River Thames]] - which is dying following the Doctor's death. Using technology researched from the TARDIS, Rose switches on a light which reveals what is on Donna's back: a '[[Time Beetle]]'. Rose explains that it "feeds off time by changing time" and that it is in a state of temporal flux and cannot be removed. Rose goes on further to state that Donna herself is also in a state of flux and has been since her birth. Donna is horrified and the light is turned off. In order to set things right, they prepare to send Donna back in time to stop her past self from turning right. Donna agrees to go, and is elated by the belief that rather than dying, "this whole world [will] blink out of existence [but] a better world takes its place." To this Rose remains silent. Donna desperately tries to get confiirmation of her belief, but Rose only replies solemnly "I'm sorry". Before Donna can learn what will happen, she is sent back in time.
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| Donna successfully lands back in [[June]] [[2007]], but realizes that she is a half a mile away from her past self and has only got four minutes to save the world. She tries to run to herself, but realizes that she will not make it in time. Donna realizes what Rose meant about her death and throws herself in front of a van; the fatal accident quickly causes a traffic jam that prevents Donna's past self from turning right. Right before she dies, Rose appears and whispers something into Donna's ear to tell the Doctor.
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| As the original timeline reasserts itself, Donna regains consciousness in the fortune teller's stall on Shan Shen. The frightened and baffled [[Fortune Teller|fortune teller]] flees, saying that Donna's will was "too strong."and first saying "what are you?", but then screaming "what will you be?!". The Doctor enters and an emotionally spent Donna collapses into his arms.
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| Upon examining the beetle, The Doctor tells Donna that it is part of the [[Trickster's Brigade]] and that normally it affects one person and the universe compensates (as [[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? |what happened to Sarah Jane Smith]]), but in Donna's case, it created a parallel universe. The Doctor then muses on all of the unique coincidences surrounding Donna: the fact that she had two parallel worlds that formed around her (this one and [[Forest of the Dead |the one in the CAL computer]]) and the fact that he's met her and [[Wilfred Mott |her grandfather]] twice. The Doctor concludes that they seem to be somehow linked. Donna tells the Doctor she is nothing special, but he counters saying that she's "brilliant". Hearing that trigger's Donna's memories of Rose on the parallel world and she starts to relate Rose's warnings to the Doctor. When asked if she remembered the blonde woman's name, Donna said she was never told it, but Donna does tell the Doctor the two words the blonde woman whispered into her ear: "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]". Horrified, The Doctor runs out into the market square to see the words Bad Wolf everywhere; on posters pasted onto the walls, on the ceremonial flags hanging over the market, even on the TARDIS itself. Inside the TARDIS itself, the control room is glowing red and the [[Cloister Bell]] is ringing ominously. When Donna asks what's going on, the Doctor replies, "It's the end of the universe."
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| ==Cast==
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| *[[Donna Noble]] - [[Catherine Tate]]
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| *[[Rose Tyler]] - [[Billie Piper]]
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| *[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]] (Brief)
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| *[[Wilfred Mott]] - [[Bernard Cribbins]]
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| *[[Sylvia Noble]] - [[Jacqueline King]]
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| *[[Rocco Colastanto|Mr Colastanto]] - [[Joseph Long]]
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| *[[Erisa Magambo|Captain Erisa Magambo]] - [[Noma Dumezweni]]
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| *[[Fortune Teller]] - [[Chipo Chung]]
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| *[[Mooky Kahari]] - [[Marcia Lecky]]
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| *[[Veena Brady]] - [[Suzann McLean]]
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| *[[Alice Coltrane]] - [[Natalie Walter]]
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| *[[Carl Harris|Private Harris]] - [[Clive Standen]]
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| *[[Jival Chowdry]] - [[Bhasker Patel]]
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| *[[Oliver Morgenstern]] - [[Ben Righton]]
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| *[[Spanish Maid]] - [[Loraine Velez]]
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| *[[Trinity Wells]] - [[Lachele Carl]]
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| *[[Jason Mohammad|Studio News Reader]] - [[Jason Mohammad]]
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| *[[Housing Officer]] - [[Sanchia McCormack]]
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| *[[Soldiers (Turn Left)|Soldier Number 1]] - [[Lawrence Stevenson]]
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| *[[Soldiers (Turn Left)|Soldier Number 2]] - [[Paul Richard Biggin]]
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| *[[Man in Pub]] - Neil Clench
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| *[[Newsreader (Turn Left)|Female Reporter]] - [[Catherine York]]
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| *[[Woman in Doorway]] - [[Terri-Ann Brumby]]
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| *[[Tish Jones]] - [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]] (Uncredited)
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| == References ==
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| *When examining the [[Time beetle]] the Doctor states that it's something to do with the [[Trickster's Brigade]].
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| *When Rose mentions the death of the Torchwood team, a variation on the Torchwood theme music can be heard.
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| ===Events in the [[Donna's World|alternate timeline]]===
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| *The Doctor dies and does not [[regenerate]] for some reason whilst defeating the [[Empress of the Racnoss]] under the [[Thames]].
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| *[[Harris (The Sontaran Stratagem)|Private Harris]] is at the scene when the Doctor's body is recovered from the Thames Torchwood complex.
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| *[[Martha Jones]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Maria Jackson]], [[Luke Smith]] and [[Clyde Langer]] all die in [[Royal Hope Hospital]] after it is transported by the [[Judoon]] to [[the Moon]], though Sarah Jane succeeds in stopping [[Florence Finnegan]]'s MRI weapon.
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| *The [[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]] crashes into [[Buckingham Palace]] killing everyone in the greater [[London]] area and contaminating southern England - bar [[Devon]] & [[Cornwall]] - with radiation.
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| *The destruction of London triggers a societal collapse in Great Britain, which becomes a police state that closes its borders and leads to the introduction of concepts such as concentration camps.
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| *The [[March of the Adipose]] occurs in [[America]] instead of the UK; without the Doctor to stop it, tens of millions are killed, preventing the US from aiding Great Britain and accelerating the UK's decline.
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| *[[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]] die whilst assaulting the [[Sontaran]] warship. Captain [[Jack Harkness]] is transported to [[Sontar]].
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| *There is no one to prevent the [[ATMOS]] devices from decimating the population of the Earth until Torchwood manages to set the gas on fire, although the UK is spared this as, due to the destruction of London, ATMOS never came into widespread use there.
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| *Non-UK citizens are placed in camps, as the borders have been closed to other countries.
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| *[[Rose Tyler]] appears to be working with [[UNIT]].
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| *On the television news it's mentioned that [[Sarah Jane Smith]] used to work for [[Metropolitan]].
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| *It is likely that, because of [[The Doctor]]'s death, [[The Master]] is stuck at the [[End of the Universe]] because the [[TARDIS]] never went there, possibly explaining the absence of [[Harold Saxon]] during these events.
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| == Story notes ==
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| * This is the first story to feature Rose in a starring role since [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''.
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| *[[Billie Piper]] was seen at the end of ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', as well as a short cameo in ''[[The Poison Sky]]'' and another in ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''. The ''Partners in Crime'' cameo was filmed during production of ''Turn Left'', as was the short piece of footage used in ''Midnight'' and ''The Poison Sky''. This means no less than three directors would have been at work on the ''Doctor Who'' set during the production schedule of ''Turn Left'' - the main episode's director, [[Graeme Harper]], the director of ''Partners in Crime'', [[James Strong]], and the director of ''Midnight'', [[Alice Troughton]].
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| *Unusually, the episodes featuring Piper were filmed relatively early in the production of the season, which allowed a clip of Rose from this episode to be included in the cinema trailer released in advance of the season being broadcast.
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| *[[Chipo Chung]] last appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' as the [[Malmooth]], [[Chantho]]. She plays the fortune teller in this story.
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| *This is the 'Doctor-lite' episode of the series, similar to ''[[Love & Monsters|Love & Monsters]]'' and ''[[Blink]]'', albeit with a much darker storyline. Unlike previous Doctor-lite stories, however, the focus is given to the companion, rather than her also taking a minor role. They used the same scheduling trick in the previous episode, ''[[Midnight]]'', which featured virtually no Donna Noble. These episodes allow the production team to complete fourteen episodes (including the Christmas episode) in a schedule originally designed to complete thirteen. A second team can be filming the "extra" episode, with the main cast filming only a day or so. Their footage is judiciously spread through the episode to give the impression of a larger interaction, although in the case of ''Turn Left'', Tennant's participation was restricted to the opening scene and epilogue, with a body double used for the scene where Rose and Donna witness the Doctor's dead body on the stretcher.
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| *A reference to something on Donna's back was last heard in ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' when [[Lucius Petrus Dextrus]] saw into the future.
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| *In [[Doctor Who Magazine]] it said that Donna will receive a free tarot card reading and find out something bad is going to happen. When she is receiving it there will also be something behind her lurking in the curtains. The Tarot person will also look for a specific event in Donna's past. The episode, as broadcast, takes place on a Chinese-influenced alien world with no reference to Tarot.
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| *"The bees are disappearing" is quoted again in this episode, this time by Donna's mother, Sylvia Noble. ''This is a real-world phenomenon, called Colony Collapse Disorder, the incidence of which increased sharply in late 2006, and the cause of which has not been identified.''
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| *A recurring theme in previous episodes hinted that Donna would die in the future which occurs in this episode. However, this was an alternate reality Donna who sacrificed herself in order to prevent her past self from taking the wrong turn thus forcing her to meet the Doctor as was planned.
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| *Part of this episode is filmed in China Town, though not the one in London, but recreated in Cardiff. ''Chinese people living in South Wales were invited to be background extras via ''Facebook'' at the end of 2007. They had to reply to the Doctor Who casting crew with their name and sizes for costumes to be made for them and they were paid approx £70 for the day. David Tennant was seen in 'China Town' when he took time out of filming though staying on location to appear on Blue Peter to appeal to viewers to donate shoes to their Shoebiz appeal.''
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| *Donna is told she can have her fortune told for free because she has red hair. This is a reference to Chinese culture, since red is considered very lucky in China. ''It's also a common carny trick to draw people into the attraction; half off for lovely ladies, men wearing hats, anything that matches some characteristic of the person being appealed to.''
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| [[Image:DonnaReflected.jpg|thumb|[[Graeme Harper]] captures another distorted image of a main character.]]
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| *[[Graeme Harper]]'s penchant for including a distorted image of a main character is present in this story. Though not included in every single ''episode'' he's directed for [[BBC Wales]], it's seen often enough in the majority of his ''stories'' to be considered something of a directorial "signature". More typically achieved through the use of refraction (''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[Journey's End]]'' and ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''), here the motif is continued through the use of reflection. The theme of Donna's multiple worlds is caught through the simple use of mirrors, much as the notion of investigation was conveyed by the use of magnifying glasses in earlier stories.
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| *According to Russell T Davies on [[Doctor Who Confidential]] this episode is the "cheap episode", as he wanted the TARDIS to be on fire, but the budget didn't allow for the effect.
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| *A variation of 'The Wall Theme', (The Wall Theme is a variation of Rose's Theme, played in [[Doomsday]].) with added guitar parts, is played before Donna is sent back in time.
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| *Two pieces of background pop music return from other episodes. In the scene in which Donna goes out with her friends to celebrate her new job at [[Jival Chowdry|Chowdry's]] personal assistant, the song "[[Merry Xmas Everybody]]" by the glam rock band Slade can be heard (first heard on [[Mickey Smith|Mickey's]] radio in ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' This was also playing during Donna's wedding reception in [[The Runaway Bride]].
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| *Billie Piper states in the accompanying ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' episode that she had forgotten how to play Rose, and needed to watch past episodes to remind herself.
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| *This isn't the first time a ''Doctor Who'' story has examined a "What if..." scenario involving the Doctor's influence on a person's life. A similar storyline involved [[Eighth Doctor]] companion [[Samantha Jones]], depicted in two wildly diverging timelines ([[EDA]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'').
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| *The revelation that the events leading to the creation of the alternate timeline originated from [[The Trickster]] is a direct reference to a character from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' and, indirectly, the events of [[SJA]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' in which [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was similarly taken out of time. This marks the first direct crossover between the spin-off and Doctor Who (discounting Sarah Jane's connection to the parent series, of course). The main cast of the spin off are also stated to have died during the events
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| *At one point the Nobles and the Italian family take part in a singalong to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". This tune has been the basis for two practical jokes featured on Who franchise-related blooper reels: a group of [[Sycorax]] are shown singing it in the Series 2 blooper reel, while the Series 2 gag reel for ''[[Torchwood]]'' shows the cast cutting up to the same song.
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| === Ratings ===
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| *Official [[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board]] (BARB) - 8.09 million viewers. 'Turn Left' was the 4th most watched across all channels on British television for the week.
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| ===Myths and rumours===
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| * Many fan reviews and discussions of this episode have noted that, for reasons unknown, Billie Piper speaks with a noticeable lisp in many of her scenes - a lisp not present when she was last on the show; a frequently cited example being when Rose tells Donna she's the most important woman in all of creation. Among the speculated reasons as to why is Piper's statement on ''Doctor Who Confidential'' (see above) that she had forgotten how to play Rose -- a character who speaks with a more working-class accent than Piper's natural voice. Rose is starting to speak more like the Doctor himself as she has become more like him in the sense of using [[technobabble]] and not wishing to accept salutes, nor does she reveal her name. The lisp is present, but less noticeable in the next two episodes and appears to be less noticeable (if not missing completely) in interior studio scenes as opposed to on-location filming. Also, the lisp is not present at all in Piper's ''Doctor Who Confidential'' interviews shot during production of the final three episodes, nor is it heard during the instalment of ''David Tennant's Video Diaries'' pertaining to the production of ''The Stolen Earth''/''Journey's End'' in the Series 4 DVD box set.
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| * The opening credits are reversed, showing the TARDIS moving in the opposite direction in the time vortex. ''As broadcast and released to DVD, the opening credits are presented normally. The feature of the TARDIS being reversed could also be a teaser as the episode skews off into another world, and Donna turns right instead of left.''
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| *It was rumoured that the episode was going to be named as ''''The Doctor's Death''''
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| *The sound and shaking of the Royal Hope disappearing is heard before it actually vanished, whereas in Smith and Jones the sound was heard during the incident
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| *In Voyage of the Damned it is stated that everyone in London had been evacuated because they are scared of alien invasions. However in this episode Silvia states that it's everyone they know is dead.
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| *During the events of [[Voyage of the Damned]] the Doctor is told that the nuclear engines on the ship would blow up the whole of [[Earth]] but in this episode it only effects [[London]].
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| == Continuity ==
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| * This is the second time Rose was present at the death of someone she knew, whom also ultimately died to correct the timeline. In [[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'', Rose was present at her father's death, which she prevented when she had come back in time with the Doctor. The resulting fracture of creating a parallel world caused chaos until that parallel Peter Tyler sacrificed his life to restore the original timeline. In this episode Rose is present at parallel Donna's death, which caused the younger Donna to turn left instead of right, restoring the timeline. Ironically, both parallel versions of Peter and Donna are hit by a car, and both die with Rose by their side.
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| *Among other uses of the phrase "Turn Left" in the series: In [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]'' the ATMOS kept saying Turn Left; Captain Jack mentioned telling someone they should have turned left during a joke in ''[[Boom Town]]''; Events leading to an alternate future, were due to people 'turning right' instead of 'turning left' in [[TWN]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets]]''.
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| *Like the TARDIS, Donna's car is blue. She often is seen wearing blue, and when leaving her job, she decides to keep a blue hole-punch, notable since for most of the series, the Doctor has been inadvertently punching holes in the fabric of the universe.
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| *Bad Wolf returns as a warning for the end of the universe. Bad Wolf was last heard in [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]' ''
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| *"The Bees are disappearing" is spoken again in this episode, this time by Sylvia Noble.
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| *The Cloister Bell is heard, again as a warning, it was last heard in [[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]''.
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| *Two phrases said by [[Lucius Petrus Dextrus]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' come to fruition in this episode: "There's something on your back" and "She is returning".
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| * The characters from [[The Sarah Jane Adventures]] are named in the news report to be dead in the parallel timeline.
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| *A UNIT soldier refers to [[regeneration]]. UNIT has extensive knowledge of regeneration, having directly been involved with the aftermaths of the regenerations of the [[Second Doctor]] and [[Third Doctor]]s, plus [[The Brigadier]] himself is known to have met most of the Doctor's incarnations (both on screen and in the spinoffs), and UNIT was also involved with the newly regenerated [[Tenth Doctor]] in ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
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| *In [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', Colonel Mace and Captain Price saluted the Doctor but he said 'Don't salute, please'. When Captain Magambo saluted Rose, she told her not to salute as well. The difference is that this time Donna doesn't ask for a salute like she did in ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''.
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| *There is some similarity (in that they both hang invisibly on the back) between the time beetle and the spiders in ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'').
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| *Mirrors have been used for time travel in [[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'' and [[BFA]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]''.
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| *A circle of mirrors was also used to expose and reveal the Mara (as is used to reveal the beetle) in [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'', and a mirror was essential to the storyline of [[NSA]]: ''[[Martha in the Mirror]]'', and, in a sense, of [[DW]]: [[Timelash]].
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| *There have been a few other instances of the Doctor 'dying' and events taking different courses ([[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]], [[DWM]]: ''[[Final Genesis]]'').''
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| * In [[Army of Ghosts]] Adeola lures her colleague to his death by telling him to 'go to the left'.
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| *When Donna, Wilf and Sylvia are watching the news report the picture is said to be coming from the Guinevere range of satellites, which is the same range as the Guinevere space project first seen in ([[DW]]:''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
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| *Discounting minor modifications over the years, the replacement of the wording on the TARDIS exterior with "Bad Wolf" - and this appears to be a physical change given that the words are visible from the inside, too - marks the first time the TARDIS has been shown undertaking a physical change since ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''. Although not indicated in dialogue, the fact the TARDIS is now adorned with the words "Bad Wolf" - but the words are gone by the time the vessel returns to earth in the next episode - suggests the [[chameleon circuit]] came into play. This could also be the result of the TARDIS' translation ability. Having previously shown the ability to make words appear in a certain language, it stands to reason it could make the words on the TARDIS appear in any form it wants. Finally, the change could have been caused by Rose while she was the "Bad Wolf" as part of her spreading the words through time.
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| *Rose says to Donna "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," a phrase often uttered by the Tenth Doctor.
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| * The improbability of the Doctor meeting anyone twice by accident is remarked on. Previous examples of such coincidence are the reunion of the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] in ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' after Tegan's departure in ''[[Time-Flight]]'', and meeting Sarah Jane Smith in [[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]''. In the cases of Donna and Sarah Jane the reunion is less improbable than with Tegan, because they were both undertaking Doctor-like activities themselves.
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| * The scenes set on Shan Shen take place in the [[85th century]] according to [[REF]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'', although the book does not explain how this date was arrived at.
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| ==[[Tenth Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
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| *This story takes place after [[DW]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''
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| *This story takes place before [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''
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| == Home video releases ==
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| [[Image:Bbcdvd-s4-v4.jpg|thumb|120px|Series 4 Volume 4 DVD Cover]]
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| *Released in the [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] DVD boxset in [[November]] [[2008]] along with the rest of the Series.
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| *It was released as Series 4 Volume 4 alongside [[The Stolen Earth]] and [[Journey's End]].
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| ==See also==
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| *[[DW]]: ''[[Inferno]]''
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| *[[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]''
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| *[[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]''
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| *[[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''
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| *[[DWU]]: ''[[Sympathy for the Devil]]''
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| *[[DWM]]: ''[[Time & Time Again]]''
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| *[[DWM]]: ''[[Final Genesis]]''
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| *[[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]''
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| *[[EDA]]: ''[[The Domino Effect]]''
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| *[[EDA]]: ''[[Reckless Engineering]]''
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| *[[EDA]]: ''[[The Last Resort]]''
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| *[[PDA]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_11 BBC Episode Guide to '''Turn Left''']
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| *[http://www.thewriterstale.com/scr.html Original script], posted online by [[Russell T Davies]] in conjunction with the release of his book [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale]]''.
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