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The Power of Three was the fourth episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Synopsis

There have been many ways to invade the Earth, and the Doctor has seen them all – or so he always thought. And then the human race wakes up one morning and discovers the world has been overrun by… "very small cubes", which then proceed to… do nothing at all. A plan is afoot, humanity is endangered – but by what and how and, above all, when?

For the first time in his world-saving career the Doctor has to call upon one of the least of his virtues: patience. And the Ponds face something possibly more terrifying than any world-ending apocalypse: the Doctor is moving in!

Plot

to be added

Cast

Uncredited cast

Crew

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


References

Communication technology

Game consoles

Music

  • The song "Merry Xmas Everybody" by the rock band Slade is briefly heard in the hospital.
  • One of the cubes plays the infamously irritating Chicken Dance song (aka The Birdie Song), on an endless loop. The Doctor seems annoyed.
  • The song "Titanium" plays at the party Amy attends.

Culture

  • When Amy calls the Gallifreyan bedtime story about the Shakri weird, the Doctor remarks "You can talk. Wolf in your grandmother's night dress?" in reference to the story Little Red Riding Hood.
  • The Doctor tells Amy "Through the looking glass, Pond" in reference to Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
  • The Power of three is most likele a reference to th Unitet States American Tele Vision Series Charmed.

Energy and radiation

Foods and beverages

Individuals

  • When Brian asks the Doctor what happened to those who previously travelled with him, he tells him that some left him, some got left behind, and some died.
  • Amy accidentally marries Henry VIII.
  • While playing virtual tennis, the Doctor mentions the tennis player Fred Perry and a pair of shorts he borrowed from him.
  • The real physicist Brian Cox plays himself as he is interviewed on the news for an opinion about the cubes.

Species

  • There were Zygon duplicates at the Savoy when Amy, the Doctor and Rory visit.

Story notes

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The unique logo for The Power of Three.
  • For this episode, the Doctor Who logo's texture resembled the cubes featured prominently in the episode.
  • The working title for this episode was Cubed.[2]

Ratings

  • The episode received an overnight viewership of 5.49 million people in the UK.

Filming locations

Belle Vue Park, Albert Road, Penarth (filming took place on June 28 2012)

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.
  • In some shots when the cubes are counting down from 7, some cubes are missing the numbers in one shot and then have them in the next.This can be seen at 28:01 when the doctor is in the room with the cube, and when the nurse is removing the cubes from the hospital at around 25:44

Continuity

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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External links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Doctor Who Team (22 September 2012). Lord Sugar and Brian Cox: Who Knew?. BBC - Blogs - Doctor Who. Retrieved on 22 September 2012.
  2. ↑ sfx (July 2 2012). Doctor Who Series 7: New Episode 4 Reshoot Pics. SFX. Retrieved on 23rd September 2012.


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