First Night (home video)

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First Night was the third of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Bluray box sets. It is the first of a two-part story concluding with "Last Night". It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

Synopsis

The eleventh Doctor picks up River Song for their first date, but things soon become complicated.

Plot

Having been apprehended, taken to the 51st Century and incarcerated in the Stormcage prison facility to serve out twelve thousand consecutive life sentences for apparently killing the Doctor (DW:The Wedding of River Song), River is in her cell on first night, looking through the blue diary the Doctor gave her (DW:Let's Kill Hitler). She hears the TARDIS.

Entering it, she finds theEleventh Doctor in a white dinner-suit. He tells her that her parents are asleep and he is taking her to Calderon Beta, a boring planet apart from a four hundred foot tall tree growing out of a cliff-top in the middle of the sea, where intends to show her the night sky on the starriest night in the entire history of the universe, 12 December 2360. He asks if she’s brought the diary. She comments that she's not going to have much need of a diary in prison. He reminds her that she can easily break out because she is River Song. He explains that the book is to help them keep their encounters in the right order and tells her that he's chosen a dress for her, but that there are more in the wardrobe down the corridor if she wants to choose another. She hurries off to look while he pilots the TARDIS to their destination.

While she is off looking through the dresses, the Doctor lands the TARDIS and hears laser-gunfire outside. Opening the door, he is surprised as a second incarnation of River enters, calling him a nostalgic idiot for returning to this spot and collapsing into his arms.

Cast

Crew

References

Planets

  • Calderon Beta is described by the Doctor as "Boring. Planet of the Chip Shops". However it is home to a four hundred foot tall tree "growing out of a clifftop on the north side of a mountain in the middle of the sea". At 12:12am on21 September2360, you can see more stars in the sky from the top of the tree than in any other point in history. The Doctor notes that "You could read a book by it."

TARDIS

  • The wardobe is now "first right, second left, just past the Helter Skelter." This is significantly shorter (not to mention easier to remember) than the directions the Ninth Doctor gave Rose Tyler during DW: The Unquiet Dead.

Story notes

  • First of a two-part story, concluded in Last Night.
  • This is the shortest of the Night and the Doctor to feature the Doctor, coming in at 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The shortest overall is Up All Night, which is just under 2 minutes.
  • This is also the only Night and the Doctor short to feature scenes outside of the TARDIS.
  • The footage of the TARDIS flying through the solar storm is originally from The Rebel Flesh.

Myths and rumours

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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Continuity

Timeline

For the Doctor

For River no. 1

For River no. 2

  • This story takes place some time after the River no. 1 events in DW: First Night

Home video releases

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