Midnight (TV story)

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

	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
	Donna Noble
	Midnight
	Russell T. Davies
	Alice Troughton
	4.10
	14th June 2008
	4.10

Synopsis

A sapphire waterfall on the planet Midnight: an enormous glacier reaches the cliffs of Oblivion, and then shatters into sapphires, falling a hundred thousand feet into a crystal ravine. But Donna would rather lie back and sunbathe at Lesiure Palace, so The Doctor boards the Crusader 50 shuttle bus alone. Upon the bus he meets many people such as Sky Silvestry, a business women in her 40's, the shambolic Professor Hobbs and a nice couple on their holiday. But then it starts. The knocking. The knock-knock-knocking on the outside of the bus.

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.

Ratings

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Rumours

• The Doctor will disappear at the end of the episode leading onto Turn Left which is the Doctor lite episode. This is not true as the TARDIS visits the planet Shan Shen in Turn Left.
• It will include a plane or spaceship crash (as shown in trailer). It is not a plane or spaceship but a shuttle bus.
• 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!Far to much like 42. Very Unlikly

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

External links

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