The Doctor's Wife (TV story)

The Doctor's Wife was the fourth episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who. It saw the TARDIS personified in human-form.

Synopsis

The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger. ^[1]

Plot

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Cast

Crew

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References

Rory asks the Doctor if the House is the "junkyard at the end of the universe", possibly a reference to Douglas Adams' "Restaurant at the End of the Universe".

Story notes

This episode was originally episode three of Series 6, but was changed due to unknown reasons.^{[source needed]}
It was also planned to be the eleventh episode of Series 5, but because of budget limitations, was delayed until Series 6.^{[source needed]}
During an interview with Neil Gaiman on BBC breakfast he revealed that his episode is "very spooky" and that fans "are likely to be biting their nails off by the end".
Michael Sheen is credited as Voice of House on-screen, and as House in Radio Times.
On his blog, writer Neil Gaiman released a short conversation between Amy and the Doctor that did not meet the final cut in the episode he wrote.^[2]
This episode had the working title of Bigger on the Inside.^[3]

Ratings

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Myths

Viewers will see more of the Doctor's TARDIS.^[4] Correct, we saw more corridors and a secondary control room, which was "archived" from the Ninth/Tenth Doctor's TARDIS
There are rumours this story will be set in a giant doll's house^[5] this also seems more likely due to the working title of his story being "The House of Nothing". Incorrect, House was an asteroid.
This story will contain something - or someone - that we have not seen since The War Games.^[6] Correct, we saw a hypercube.
The Ninth/Tenth Doctor's TARDIS will appear.^[7] Correct, it appeared as a secondary control room.
Suranne Jones' Idris is the Doctor's wife.^[8]Whilst Idris was not the Doctor's marital wife, she was his TARDIS in human form, and had many attributes of a wife.

Filming locations

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Production errors

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Continuity

An Ood appears and the Doctor mentions his continuing inability to save them. (DW: The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood)
The TARDIS previously took on the form of the Brigadier in BFA: Zagreus.
A hallucination of Rory mentions waiting 2000 years for a second time. (first was in DW: The Big Bang)
Amy's thought of delight is her wedding. (DW: The Big Bang)
The Doctor mentions he had an umbrella that resembled the patchwork of body parts that Uncle and Auntie both have. This is a reference to the Sixth Doctor
Behind the Doctor's back, Amy and Rory again discuss what they are going to do with him concerning them witnessing the death of his 1103 year old self. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut, The Curse of the Black Spot)
The Doctor previously took a message by hypercube. (DW: The War Games)
The previous TARDIS console appears for the first time since DW: The Eleventh Hour.
Previous TARDISes in human form include Marie in Alien Bodies and Compassion from The Shadows of Avalon to The Ancestor Cell.
The Doctor mentions an old Time Lord friend, The Corsair.
The Doctor offers to take Amy and Rory to the Eye of Orion. (DW: The Five Doctors)

Home video releases

DVD releases

This episode will be released with episodes 1 to 7 in summer 2011.^[9]

External links

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[1] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2011/wk20/sat.shtml

[2] ttp://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/08/turned-up-to-eleven.html

[3] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011884d

[4] ttp://tardisspoilers.blogspot.com/2010/10/more-tardis-for-series-6.html

[5] ttp://tardisspoilers.blogspot.com/2010/09/inside-doll-house.html

[6] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/gaiman-goes-back-to-the-void-10540.htm

[7] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/karen-gillan-on-ogrady-19534.htm

[8] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/idris-is-16888.htm

[9] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-dvd-releases-15635.htm

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