The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)
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Summary
The Doctor, Rose and Mickey arrive on a spaceship in the 51st Century and find that the Clockwork Robots who run the ship are fixated on Madame de Pompadour a girl from the 17th Century and have been opening up temporal windows so they can interact with her. The Doctor travels back to France through the time windows to save her falling in love during to process
Cast & Characters
- The Doctor — David Tennant
- Rose Tyler — Billie Piper
- Mickey Smith — Noel Clarke
- Reinette, Madame de Pompadour — Sophia Myles
- King Louis — Ben Turner
- Young Reinette — Jessica Atkins
- Katherine — Angel Coulby
- Manservant — Gareth Wyn Griffiths
- Clockwork man — Paul Casey
- Clockwork woman — Ellen Thomas
- Alien Voice - Jonathan Hart
- Alien Voice - Emily Joyce
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Notes
- This is Mickeys first real trip in the TARDIS
- n a Production Notes column for Doctor Who Magazine #363 (November 2005), writer Steven Moffat stated that the working titles for the episode were Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of My Heart and Reinette and the Lonely Angel
- Sophia Myles and David Tennant started dating after working together on this story, according to an interview with Myles on GMTV (25 April 2006). It is rumored she carries a "Doctor Who" doll in her handbag
- Throughout this episode, Mickey wears a T-shirt which has a picture of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller over the caption, "Know Your Roots". This particular T-shirt, a limited edition, could be obtained either by subscribing to the British Nintendo Official Magazine, or by being purchased at selected GameStation outlets. In Doctor Who Magazine #367 Noel Clarke admitted to being a Nintendo fan and to being the owner of a Nintendo DS console. He also comments upon the T-shirt in the commentary which accompanies the episode on the BBC Website
- As seen in the Doctor Who Confidential episode "Script to Screen", the horse was not allowed set foot in the ballroom in the climatic scene. The various elements of the Doctor riding Arthur through the mirror: the horse, the mirror breaking and the reactions of the extras in the ballroom, all had to be filmed at separate times and then composited together
Influences
- Writer Steven Moffat states on Doctor Who Confidential that the clockwork people were inspired by The Turk, a clockwork man who played chess around the same period (and which was later revealed to be a hoax).
- Casanova, with David Tennant in a French ballroom falling in love the whole episode had a similar feel to the Russel T Davies version of Cassanova.
- The Doctor Who Novels Love and War and The Witch Hunters. Love and War is referenced several times (see continuity) while the whole romance with the Doctor changing time zones has a similar feel to the Doctors relationship with Rebecca Nurse
- Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, which describes a romance between a man who randomly jumps in and out of a woman's life at various points along her timeline (including her childhood), while she has to live her life linearly.
- The plot element involving Arthur bears a resemblance to an incident in the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, written by former Doctor Who script editor Douglas Adams. In it, a horse ends up in 20th century Cambridge after accidentally wandering into a time machine belonging to Professor Chronotis.
Ratings
The Girl in the Fireplace - 7.4m viewers
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Public Releases
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD along with Tooth and Claw and School Reunion.
