Midnight (TV story)

The Doctor and Donna visit the alien leisure planet, Midnight.

Midnight
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Donna Noble
Main setting:	Midnight
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T. Davies
Director:	Alice Troughton
Release details
Release number:	4.10
Premiere broadcast:	14th June 2008
Production code:	4.10

Synopsis

The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth – but as paranoia turns into a witch-hunt, Sky turns the Doctor's greatest strengths against him, and a sacrifice must be made...

Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
• Sky Silvestry - Lesley Sharpe
• Professor Hobbs - David Troughton

Production crew

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References

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Story notes

• This episode will mark Doctor Who's 200th story.
• This is the 50th episode of the new series to be filmed.
• Donna will be largely absent as Catherine Tate was filming Turn Left.
• This is a Donna-Lite episode
• The Last time the Doctor was on a shuttle bus was in the episode The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• The Doctor mentions the Lost Moon of Poosh, one of the six planets Russell T Davies said would be mentioned throughout Series 4.

Ratings

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Rumours

• The knocking is the drumming the Master heard.
• It will include a shuttlebus crash (as shown in trailer).
• This episode focuses on the Doctor and he is scared by the knocking on the wall.
• The monster is the planet! the planet is alive and the humans who have inhabited it are taking its beautiful look and its jewels away!
• It is rumoured that the Macra will return

Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

• 'Pools of diamonds and golden lakes' were mentioned about the leisure planet Midnight - and diamonds was last referred to in Last of the Time Lords, when Creet (as a Human and aToclafane) says: My mum told me the skies are made of diamonds and The skies were not made of diamonds

DVD and other releases

• It will be released on the Series 4 boxset DVD in November 2008.
• It will be released as Series 4 Volume 3 alongside Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead in August 2008.

See also

From an interview with episode producer Phil Collinson: The doctor and Donna arrive on a leisure planet (An intergalactic spa). Lesley Sharp plays a woman on holiday there. The Doctor and Donna end up stranded there with an alien threat all around. Lesley is described as "Brilliant" and "Terrifying" by Phil Collinson

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