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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
*This episode | *This episode has marked [[Doctor Who|Doctor Who's]] 200th story. | ||
*Donna | *Donna was be largely absent as Catherine Tate was filming [[Turn Left]]. | ||
*Sky mentions The Lost Moon of Poosh, one of the six planets Russell T Davies said would be mentioned throughout Series 4. | *Sky mentions The Lost Moon of Poosh, one of the six planets Russell T Davies said would be mentioned throughout Series 4. | ||
*This episode was the 50th of the 'New Series' to be '''filmed''', not broadcast, which is why the shuttle is called 'Crusader 50'. ''Confirmed in DWM 396''. | *This episode was the 50th of the 'New Series' to be '''filmed''', not broadcast, which is why the shuttle is called 'Crusader 50'. ''Confirmed in DWM 396''. | ||
Revision as of 20:14, 14 June 2008
The Doctor and Donna visit the alien leisure planet, Midnight.
Synopsis
The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth – but as paranoia turns into a witch-hunt, Sky turns the Doctor's greatest strengths against him, and a sacrifice must be made...
Plot
Cast
- The Doctor - David Tennant
- Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
- Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
- Hostess - Rakie Ayola
- Sky Silvestry - Lesley Sharp
- Val Cane - Lindsey Coulson
- Biff Cane - Daniel Ryan
- Jethro Cane - Colin Morgan
- Professor Hobbes - David Troughton
- Dee Dee Blasco - Ayesha Antoine
- Mechanic Claude - Duane Henry
- Driver Joe - Tony Bluto
Production crew
to be added
References
- During Sky's constant copying of the Doctor, he mentions such things as Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, Martha Jones, Bananas and the Medusa Cascade.
Story notes
- This episode has marked Doctor Who's 200th story.
- Donna was be largely absent as Catherine Tate was filming Turn Left.
- Sky mentions The Lost Moon of Poosh, one of the six planets Russell T Davies said would be mentioned throughout Series 4.
- This episode was the 50th of the 'New Series' to be filmed, not broadcast, which is why the shuttle is called 'Crusader 50'. Confirmed in DWM 396.
- This is the first Television story since Genesis of the Daleks not to feature the TARDIS at all.
Ratings
to be added
Filming Locations
To be added
Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
- If you had to order your tickets in advance wouldn't someone send The Doctor off when he had no ticket (he couldn't have used the psychic paper as The Hostess said he 'just wandered on')
Continuity
- Rose Tyler is seen again this time in one of the shuttle buses screens.
- The Doctor states the words "Medusa Cascade" to see if Skye would repeat him.
DVD and other releases
- It will be released on the Series 4 boxset DVD in November 2008.
- It will be released as Series 4 Volume 3 alongside Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead in August 2008.
External links
to be added
