The Ultimate Guide (CON episode)

The Ultimate Guide
Broadcast on:	BBC One
Broadcast with:	The Parting of the Ways
Series number:	1
Broadcast date:	18 June 2005
Runtime:	30 minutes
Key crew
Narrator:	Simon Pegg
Doctor Who Confidential
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The Ultimate Guide was a special documentary by the Doctor Who Confidential production team broadcast before The Parting of the Ways.

Like its precursor, Doctor Who: A New Dimension, The Ultimate Guide was broadcast on BBC One prior to its related episode rather than on BBC Three after it. This special was not shown under the Doctor Who Confidential banner, though it has been generally considered an episode of the series due to the presence of Confidential's production team as well as then-narrator Simon Pegg.

The Parting of the Ways was followed by its own standard Confidential episode, The Last Battle.

Aspects of production covered

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Additional topics covered

• The return of the Daleks (TV: Dalek, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)
• The strain of Mickey Smith and Rose Tyler's relationship after the arrival of the Ninth Doctor (TV: Rose - Boom Town)
• A short look at the previous eight Doctors
• Re-designing the Doctor's TARDIS
• Re-designing the sonic screwdriver
• The Doctor's battle with the Slitheen (TV: Aliens of London/World War Three, Boom Town)
• Rose's trip to 1987 to save her father (TV: Father's Day)

People interviewed

• Russell T Davies
• Christopher Eccleston
• Billie Piper
• Noel Clarke
• Julie Gardner

Elements retained in Cut Down

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Home video releases

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