Deep Breath (TV story)

Deep Breath
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Vastra, Jenny, Strax
Main enemy:	Half-Face Man
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Ben Wheatley
Producer:	Nikki Wilson
Release details
Story number:	241
Premiere broadcast:	23 August 2014
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x74 minute episode
Doctor Who television stories
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Deep Breath was the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. After a brief cameo in The Day of the Doctor and a short appearance at the end of The Time of the Doctor, this episode marks the full first appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.

Synopsis

When the Doctor arrives in Victorian London he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.

Plot

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Cast

• Peter Capaldi - The Doctor
• Jenna Coleman - Clara Oswald
• Neve McIntosh - Madame Vastra
• Catrin Stewart - Jenny Flint
• Dan Starkey - Commander Strax
• Paul Hickey - Inspector Gregson
• Tony Way - Alf
• Maggie Service - Elsie
• Peter Ferdinando - Half-Face Man
• Brian Miller - Barney
• Ellis George - Courtney
• Mark Kempner - Cabbie
• Graham Duff - Waiter
• Peter Hannah - Policeman
• Paul Kasey - Footman
• Michelle Gomez - Missy
• Matt Smith - The Doctor

Crew

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References

• The Doctor accidentally brings Clara to Glasgow.

Story notes

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Ratings

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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.

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Continuity

• The Twelfth Doctor often reflects that he finds the current situation of robots harvesting human organs to repair a ship to be naggingly familiar (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace), but his addled brain is unable to make the connection even when he notes that the ship- the SS Marie Antoinette- is the sister ship to the SS Madame De Pompadour.
• The Doctor mentions that he used to have a scarf, but adds that he now considers that ridiculous.
• The Doctor mentions Amy.
• After gaining a new regeneration cycle and regaining his youth in TV: The Time of the Doctor , the Eleventh Doctor took the time to phone Clara in the future before he regenerates; reassuring her about his new incarnation still being him and that he needs her help as he gets used to his new body, he also complains once he finds out from Clara that not only is his new incarnation older but that he also has grey hair.

Home video releases

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