The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)

The Tsuranga Conundrum
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Main enemy:	Pting
Main setting:	Tsuranga, 67th century
Key crew
Writer:	Chris Chibnall
Director:	Jennifer Perrott
Release details
Story number:	280
Premiere broadcast:	4 November 2018
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x51 minute episode
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The Tsuranga Conundrum was the fifth episode in the eleventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Synopsis

As the Doctor and her friends end up stranded without the TARDIS on a hospital ship in space, with a strange and potentially deadly intruder on board, it is up to them, the crew, and the patients to figure out what it is, what it wants, and how to stop it before any more tragedies occur.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
• Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
• Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
• Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
• Astos - Brett Goldstein
• Mabli - Lois Chimimba
• Eve Cicero - Suzanne Packer
• Durkas Cicero - Ben Bailey-Smith
• Ronan - David Shields
• Yoss Inkl - Jack Shalloo

Crew

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References

The Doctor

• The Doctor claims she is a doctor of medicine, science, engineering, candyfloss, LEGO, philosophy, music, problems, people and hope, but mostly hope.

Culture

• Graham mentions how he has watched every episode of Call the Midwife, although he looks away at the squeamish parts.

Species

• Gifftan males and females can become pregnant, with males only birthing male children and vice-versa. Gifftan young are gestated for a week in a pregnancy sac before the sac is painlessly cut open during birth.
• Gifftan babies are born with two umbilical cords.
• Images of a Cyberman, an Ood, a Weeping Angel, a Raxacoricofallapatorian, a Sontaran, a Silent, a Silurian, and a Zygon appear on a console screen in rapid succession before Mabli selects a briefing on the Pting.

Story notes

• Pretty much every scientific fact about anti-matter given by the Doctor in this episode is true to real science.
• The TARDIS does not appear in this episode, making it the eleventh television story to do so, following Mission to the Unknown, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Mind of Evil, The Dæmons, The Sea Devils, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, Midnight, The Lie of the Land and The Woman Who Fell to Earth.

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 Doctor notes that she has "only just" recovered her TARDIS. (TV: The Ghost Monument)
• The Doctor says "snap" when her and the general say the same thing. She has said this in her second, sixth, (TV: The Two Doctors) tenth (TV: Time Crash) and twelfth (TV: Twice Upon a Time) incarnations.
• Ryan mentions how his dad did not come to Grace O'Brien's funeral. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
• Graham still calls the Doctor "Doc". (TV: Rosa, Arachnids in the UK)
• Graham once more tries to fist bump Ryan only for the man to refuse as it's "uncool" of him. (TV: Rosa)
• Ryan elaborates on his mother's death. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
• Graham mentions the fact that Ryan spends time on YouTube. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
• The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is once again eaten. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
• Once again, the Thirteenth Doctor loses possession of her TARDIS. (TV: Twice Upon a Time) She has also lost it several times during her tenth incarnation. (TV: The Impossible Planet, Blink, Utopia, The Poison Sky)

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Digital releases

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External links

• Official The Tsuranga Conundrum page on the Doctor Who website