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

The Doctor wants to visit the Sapphire Waterfall, but Donna Noble would rather sunbathe back at the leisure palace, so The Doctor takes the shuttle bus without his companion. The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky silvestry 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

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 too much like 42. Very Unlikely

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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