Good Night (home video)

Good Night
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main setting:	Inside the TARDIS, 1994.
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Release details
Release number:	Series 6 (DVD/Bluray exclusive)
Premiere broadcast:	22 November 2011
Format:	1x5 minute, mini episode
Confidential:	[[confidential::The Night's Tale|The Night's Tale]]

Good Night was the second of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

Synopsis

When Amy wakes to find the Doctor carrying a euphonium guiltily, she uses the opportunity to ask a question that has been bothering her for a long time.

Plot

The Doctor returns from another night out with River Song with an euphonium. Amy, wide awake and sitting in her nightie on the stairs, catches him. She convinces him to tell her what he does while he's out at night, then tells him why she is finding it hard to sleep lately: her life doesn't make any sense. She is particularly confused as to how she can remember two versions of her life, one without her parents and one with. The Doctor comforts her and reminds her of the saddest moment of her life. It was at a fair when she dropped an ice cream. While recalling the event, she suddenly remembers a woman with red hair, dressed in a nightie, come to give her a new ice cream. When she finishes the anecdote, the Doctor is by the doors, ready to go with her to the fair.

Cast

• Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan

Crew

Writer - Steven Moffat

Director- Richard Senior (uncredited)

References

The Doctor

• The Doctor "gets a bit scared" on carnival Ghost Trains.

The Doctor's TARDIS

• The TARDIS' telepathic circuits can pinpoint a person's "saddest ever memory" and pilot the TARDIS to that point in space and time.

Story notes

• At 4 minutes and 51 seconds, this is the longest of the Night and the Doctor shorts.

Myths and rumours

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Filming locations

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Production errors

• The sound made by the euphonium as the Sonic Screwdriver is activated into the end is clearly a blowing sound.

Continuity

• The Doctor returns from a night out with River Song. (DW: Bad Night, DW: The Wedding of River Song)
• The Doctor calls a farewell to an unseen River Song from the TARDIS doorway. He also asks her to "tell Marilyn she'll have to use the biplane". Marilyn Monroe married the Doctor in DW: A Christmas Carol which was also the first episode he was shown wearing the white suit with the black tie that he wears in this clip and the Doctor remarked that he may have been late to a biplane flying lesson in DW: The Impossible Astronaut.
• Amy is once again seen in her sleeping attire. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, DW: The Beast Below, DW: Bad Night)
• Amy notes that her life "doesn't make any sense." The Doctor makes the same observation in DW: The Pandorica Opens and DW: The Big Bang.
• Amy remembers both versions of her life - the "original" version, where her parents never existed (DW: The Eleventh Hour) and the post-Big Bang Two version where they do. (DW: The Big Bang)
  • Amy will later remember two versions of the events at Lake Silencio during the collapsing timeline in DW: The Wedding of River Song.
  • This raises the question of whether or not Amy can remember the "starless" version of reality presented in DW: The Big Bang.
• The Doctor mentions that Rory was an Auton duplicate (DW: The Big Bang). Rory has told Amy he does not remember his time as an Auton, but the Doctor confirms that "sometimes you catch him just staring." The Doctor and Rory had previously discussed his time as an Auton in DW: Day of the Moon
• Amy realises that she interacted with her younger self in 1994 when she bought her past self an ice-cream at a carnival to replace the one she'd dropped. She previously interacted with a younger version of herself (albeit in an aborted, collapsing timeline) in DW: The Big Bang.
  • This would seem to contradict the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. The effect was similarly ignored in DW: A Christmas Carol.

Timeline

For the Doctor

• This story occurs after: DW: Bad Night
• This story occurs before: DW: The Impossible Astronaut

For River Song

• This story occurs at some indeterminate point after: DW: Last Night

Home video releases

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External links

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