Last Night (home video)

Last Night
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	River Song
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Release details
Release number:	Series 6 (DVD/Bluray exclusive)
Premiere broadcast:	22 November 2011
Format:	1x4 minute, mini episode
Confidential:	[[confidential::The Night's Tale|The Night's Tale]]

Last Night was the fourth of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Bluray box sets. It is the second of a two-part story which began with "First Night". It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

Synopsis

With three River Songs wandering around the TARDIS, the Doctor needs two of him to sort matters.

Plot

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Cast

• Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
• River Song - Alex Kingston

Crew

• Writer - Steven Moffat
• Director -Richard Senior (uncredited)

References

TARDIS

• Multiple versions of one person can coexist within the same TARDIS. While it can be claimed that this is contradicted by The Girl Who Waited, it should be noted that none of the River Songs that appear in this episode exist as a result of a paradox and are all from the "correct" timeline.

Story notes

• Second of a two-part story than began with First Night.
• The title makes reference to the fact that the future version of the Eleventh Doctor is the one that takes River on her final "night out" to the Singing Towers of Darillium before the events of Silence in the Library.
• This story is set entirely within the TARDIS.
• The first time two incarnations of the same Doctor are present in the TARDIS at the same time, the events of Space notwithstanding.

Myths and rumours

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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Continuity

• River asks the Doctor, "How many hands do you have?" The answer was, at one point, three. DW: The Christmas Invasion, DW: Utopia, DW: The Stolen Earth, DW: Journey's End)
• River was being chased by Sontarans.
• The Doctor asks River to see if the TARDIS bulb needs changing. Amy Pond previously raised the question of whether or not the bulb needs to be changed shortly after arriving on the TARDIS. (DW: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Episode 1)
• The TARDIS is mistaken by the third River Song as belonging to "her" Doctor when it technically belongs to another. Previously, Susan Foreman and the First Doctor had mistaken the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS for theirs. (DW: The Five Doctors)
• River's mind races with the possibility of two Doctors in the same place. Jack Harkness previous had a similar line of thought when in the presence of the Tenth Doctor, the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, and the Doctor Donna. (DW: Journey's End)
  • Coincidentally, Jack Harkness first appeared in DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Steven Moffat's first story for the revived series (although he was created by then-showrunner Russell T Davies).
• The two Doctors mention River's death. Later, River remarks that the Doctor will be the death of her. (DW: Silence in the Library)
• First chronological instance of River using the word "Spoilers."
• At no point are any of the three Rivers aware of each other.

Timeline

For the present Eleventh Doctor

• This story takes place after DW: First Night.
• This story takes place before DW: Prequel (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe).

For River no. 1

• This story takes place immediately after DW: First Night.

For River no. 2

• This story takes place at least five years after her first version's appearance in DW: First Night and immediately after her second version's appearance in DW: First Night.

For the future Eleventh Doctor

• This story takes place before his trip to the Singing Towers.

For River no. 3

• This story takes place after her final scene in DW: The Wedding of River Song.
• This story takes place before DW: Silence in the Library.

Home video releases

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External links

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