Wild Blue Yonder (Unleashed episode)

	BBC Three
	Wild Blue Yonder
	2 December 2023
	30 minutes
	Steffan Powell
	David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Russell T Davies
	Jonathon Aiken
	Jo Pearce
Doctor Who: Unleashed
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Wild Blue Yonder was a documentary that covered the production of 2023's second 60th Anniversary special, Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"].

It was the second full-length episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed to be broadcast on BBC Three.

Main subject

The production of Wild Blue Yonder.

Topics covered

• Filming the studio-bound episode during the July 2022 UK heatwave.
• Millennium FX's creation of the Not-Thing's prosthetics (namely the long arms and Not-Donna's double knee) through digitally scanning David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
• The design, construction and the tour of the set detailing the ship in Bad Wolf Studios with Phil Sims.
• The filming of the Isaac Newton's "mavity" scene, with The TARDIS scene being filmed in a bluescreen set to be later composited into the real tree at Nathaniel Curtis's filmed scene in Dunraven.
• A tribute to Bernard Cribbins OBE (1928 - 2022) and the filming of his final scene in Camden Market.
• The production of the entire episode inside a greenscreen stage with virtual production and cinematography being applied for the CG corridors.
• Realtime's visual effects work on the CG corridors for later VFX compositing and keying.
• The role of Kudzai Dzokamushure as Camera Trainee.
• The preview of the next episode, The Giggle.

People interviewed

• Catherine Tate - Donna Noble
• David Tennant - The Doctor
• Phil Sims - Production Designer
• Bernard Cribbins OBE - Wilfred Mott
• Nathaniel Curtis - Isaac Newton
• Tom Kingsley - Director
• Nick Dance - Director of Photography
• Vicki Delow - Producer
• James Coore - VFX Supervisor
• Kudzai Dzokamushure - Camera Trainee
• Sophie Hardcastle - 2nd Assistant Camera

Crew

Executive Producer   Jo Pearce

Executive Producer Doctor Who   Russell T Davies

Series Producer & Editor   Ian Durham

Presented by   Steffan Powell

General production staff Archive - Panini Comics, Doctor Who Magazine, BBC Studios Assistant Producer - Alexandra Francis Head Of Production - Lucy Wo Production Accountant - Hannah Wells Production Assistant - Eleri Seaward, Alice Lewis, Sam Cook Production Manager - Derwena Burt	Camera and lighting department Additional Camera - Sam Birch Special and visual effects Graphics - BBC Cymru Wales	General post-production staff Assistant Editor - Owain Carbis Comissioning Editor - Rachel Ashdown, Pinki Chambers Online Editor - Dan Broughton Sound Dubbing - Tom Logan

With special thanks to Doctor Who Cast and Crew and Bad Wolf LTD.
Not every person who worked on this episode was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
Produced by Bright Branch with BBC Studios Productions

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