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}}'''''Voyage of the Damned''''' was the third [[Christmas]] episode of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. [[Kylie Minogue]] starred as one-off [[companion]] [[Astrid Peth]]. Peth's death at the conclusion of the episode was the first time a companion of the Doctor had died in the revived series. It marked the first appearance of [[Wilfred Mott]], future companion to the [[Tenth Doctor]] and grandfather to [[Donna Noble]]. | }}'''''Voyage of the Damned''''' was the third [[Christmas]] episode of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. [[Kylie Minogue]] starred as one-off [[companion]] [[Astrid Peth]]. Peth's death at the conclusion of the episode was the first time a companion of the Doctor had died in the revived series. It marked the first appearance of [[Wilfred Mott]], future companion to the [[Tenth Doctor]] and grandfather to [[Donna Noble]]. | ||
For a few months, ''Voyage of the Damned'' was the highest-charting episode in ''Doctor Who'' history. The | For a few months, ''Voyage of the Damned'' was the highest-charting episode in ''Doctor Who'' history. The second-most-watched programme of its week, ''Damned'' took the crown from part two of ''[[The Ark in Space]]''. However, it would be displaced about 7 months later by ''[[Journey's End]]'', which was the first episode of ''Doctor Who'' ever to win its week of original transmission. | ||
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