Kill the Moon (TV story)

Kill the Moon
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Courtney
Main setting:	The Moon, 2049
Key crew
Writer:	Peter Harness
Director:	Paul Wilmshurst
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	247
Premiere broadcast:	4 October 2014
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x45 minute episode
Production code:	4.7
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Kill the Moon was the seventh episode in series 8 of Doctor Who.

It saw the Twelfth Doctor take Coal Hill School student Courtney Woods on a trip in the TARDIS with him and Clara following her discovery of his true nature in the previous episode.

It also made a return to the apocalyptic period of mid-21st century Earth as well as the concept of time in flux, with the Doctor choosing to take a step back and leaving the future in the hands of his human company, a choice that would lead to a divide between the Doctor and Clara.

Synopsis

The Doctor, Clara and Courtney goes to the Moon in 2049, where they discover that the Earth's constant companion is not what it seems...

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Clara - Jenna Coleman
• Danny - Samuel Anderson
• Courtney Woods - Ellis George
• Hermione Norris - Lundivik
• Tony Osoba - Duke
• Phil Nice - Henry
• Christopher Dane - McKean

References

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Story notes

• This episode's original broadcast was followed by a teaser for the second series of fellow BBC Saturday night drama, Atlantis, confirming that it would indeed premiere on 15 November, the week following the Series 8 finale of Doctor Who.

Continuity

• Like the Second Doctor the Twelfth Doctor says "When I say 'run', run".
• The Doctor tells Courtney to use a disk in order to bring the TARDIS to him. He also says that she should hold to the console so she won't be left behind. This all happened before in TV: Blink.
• The Doctor says that he wouldn't kill Hitler. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
• The Doctor finds amniotic fluid, from which life comes from. (TV: City of Death)
• Earth of the mid-21st century is shown to be worse for wear enviromentally compared to the start of the century. (TV: The Waters of Mars, Aeolian)
• The Doctor chooses to take a step back in the face of an potentially apocalyptic event, leaving humanity to choose the future. The Ninth Doctor initially took a similar approach upon witnessing what appeared to be humanity's first contact with alien life. (TV: Alien of London)
• This is not the first time The Doctor has used a Yo-Yo to assess the gravity. (TV: The Ark in Space (TV story))

Home video releases

DVD releases

• The episode will be released as part of the Complete Series 8 box set in November 2014.

Blu-ray releases

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External links

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