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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
*The Doctor can speak baby. ([[DW]]:''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
*The Doctor can speak baby. ([[DW]]:''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')
*Posters seen in the department store indicate that Amy has taking up a modelling career. She is seen advertising a fragrance named "Petrichor" ([[DW]] :'' [[The Doctor's Wife]]''), which bears the slogan "For the girl who's tired of waiting" ([[DW]] : ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
*Posters seen in the department store indicate that Amy has taking up a modelling career. She is seen advertising a fragrance named "Petrichor" ([[DW]] :'' [[The Doctor's Wife]]''), which bears the slogan "For the girl who's tired of waiting" ([[DW]] : ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''; ''[[The Girl Who Waited]]''). She appears to have become quite popular as she's seen giving an autograph to a little girl.
*When the Doctor thinks that Craig has redecorated, he says that he doesn't like it, similar to the [[Second Doctor]]'s comments to the [[Third Doctor]] about redecorating [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]] ''and again when the Second Doctor saw [[The Brigadier]]'s office in [[DW]]: [[The Five Doctors]].
*When the Doctor thinks that Craig has redecorated, he says that he doesn't like it, similar to the [[Second Doctor]]'s comments to the [[Third Doctor]] about redecorating [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'' and again when the Second Doctor saw [[The Brigadier]]'s office in [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''. The [[Fifth Doctor]] similar expressed dislike for a TARDIS redecoration on [[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]''.
*The Doctor can make people quiet by simply saying "ssh!". This is not the first time he has used [[hypnosis]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sun Makers]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
*The Doctor can make people quiet by simply saying "ssh!". This is not the first time he has used [[hypnosis]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sun Makers]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
*Kovarian does not appear to be affected by the Silence's ability to make people forget their existence. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
*Kovarian does not appear to be affected by the Silence's ability to make people forget their existence. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
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*The Doctor tells Craig that he has forgotten his identity before. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
*The Doctor tells Craig that he has forgotten his identity before. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
*Sean and Melinda are mentioned. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
*Sean and Melinda are mentioned. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')
*Craig is unfamiliar with the Cybermen, suggesting that either the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] was erased by the [[Time Field|cracks]] and doesn't exist post-[[Big Bang Two]], ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') or Craig simply didn't see the Cybermen like [[Donna Noble|Donna]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
*Craig is unfamiliar with the Cybermen, suggesting that either the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] was erased by the [[Time Field|cracks]] and doesn't exist post-[[Big Bang Two]], ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') or Craig simply didn't see the Cybermen like [[Donna Noble|Donna]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'').
*Aware of his impending death, the Doctor goes on a "farewell tour". ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
*Aware of his impending death, the Doctor goes on another "farewell tour" ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'').


== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==

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Closing Time was the twelfth episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who.

Synopsis

In the last few days of his life, the Doctor pays a farewell visit to his old friend Craig, and encounters a mystery. People are going missing, a silver rat scuttles in the shadows of a department store, and somewhere close by the Cybermen wait.[1]

Plot

It starts in a department store, where a worker is checking the changing rooms for customers before they close. She hears something in one of the changing rooms. It is a Cyberman. She screams.

Meanwhile, Sophie leaves her house after making sure that Craig can cope with their son, Alfie. Craig hears a knock on the door. It is the Doctor standing on his doorstep who says hello and then starts to depart, until he sees the power flickering on Craig's road and decides to stay.

The next day Craig finds the Doctor working in a shop, searching for the cause of the electrical problems. People have been vanishing, and the Doctor is sure there's a connection to the flickering power. When the Doctor tries to get Craig and Alfie out of the shop in a lift, they arrive in the Cyber-Ship, where a Cyberman stomps towards them.

Cast

Crew

to be added

References

  • The Doctor mentions that a robot dog is "not as much fun as I remember". This is a reference to the multiple incarnations of K9.

Story notes

  • Part of the nursery rhyme from DW: Night Terrors is sung by Madame Kovarian, with some new lines added.
  • Closing Time is the first episode produced by Denise Paul who has previously acted as Associate Producer for several Eleventh Doctor stories.
  • This is the first time since the series revival in 2005 that episode 12 has not been the first of a two-part story written by the head writer, although the end of this episode does set up the series finale.
  • This is the first television story to feature the cybermats since the Fourth Doctor story DW: Revenge Of The Cybermen.
  • This is also the first regular-season episode since the series revival in which the Doctor does not have a regular companion with him at some point.
    • Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill were, however, credited in the opener as they had been during the rest of the season. This marks the first time in the series that any actor's name has appeared in the opening credits for less than one minute of on-screen appearance.
    • The BBC America and Space broadcasts also retained the opening sequence narrated by Amy Pond.
  • The "app" for disabling the Cybermat used one of the "bonus sounds" found on the toy version of the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver, unheard on the show until now.

Ratings

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Myths

Filming locations

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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

Home video releases

The episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray shortly after the airing of episode 13.[4]

External links

to be added

Footnotes