The Zygon Invasion (TV story)
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The Zygon Invasion was the seventh episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.
This story is the first to be a sequel to a previous story, in this case the 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor, having a sequence dedicated to show the beginning of the plot point of this story.
Synopsis
A long time ago, the Doctor made a deal in the Tower of London. 20 million Zygons walk among us, in human form, living undetected in peace and harmony. But cracks are showing in this delicate peace. Humans and Zygons are disappearing. In city apartment blocks, lifts are going missing, and far below the streets of Britain, alien pods are growing in secret caverns. To top it all off, UNIT's scientific advisor, Osgood, sends a desperate message to the Doctor - but since Osgood is long dead, how is that even possible?
The Doctor, Clara and UNIT must scatter across the world in a desperate bid to set her free. But in a world of shape-shifting aliens, who can you trust? And can the world be saved before it's too late?
Plot
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Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
- Clara - Jenna Coleman
- Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
- Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
- Jac - Jaye Griffiths
- Claudette - Cleopatra Dickens
- Jemina - Sasha Dickens
- Colonel Walsh - Rebecca Front
- Little boy - Abhishek Singh
- Little boy's mum - Samila Kularatne
- Hitchley - Todd Kramer
- Lisa - Jill Winternitz
- Norlander - Gretchen Egolf
- Hitchley's mum - Karen Mann
- Walsh's son - James Bailey
- Zygons - Aidan Cook, Tom Wilton, Jack Parker
Uncredited cast
- Bonnie - Jenna Coleman
- Voice of the Zygons - Nicholas Briggs[1]
Crew
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References
- A poster is hanging in the Osgood office which says that the White House appoints alien ambassador".
- The Doctor gave the Osgood's an Osgood Box.
- If it was ever to be used it would be because of the Nightmare Scenario and Operation Double was broken.
- Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is visited.
- Osgood hid in the police station.
- Osgood has the phone number to the TARDIS, and the photo on her contact is a question mark.
- The Brockwell Park is visited by the Drakeman Junior School.
- Dulwich is where Drakeman Junior is located.
- The Mexico border, North Asia, West Africa and Australia are mentioned as places the Zygons have invaded.
- Turmezistan is visited.
- Harry Sullivan was mentioned to have worked at Porton Down.
- UNIT Command Base in Turmezistan is controlling who comes in and out of the area.
- Jac was able to hack CCTV from Scotland Yard.
- West Main in Truth or Consequences is mentioned.
The Doctor
- A portrait of the First Doctor is hung in Unit Safe House in South London.
- The Doctor starts calling himself 'Doctor Disco' and 'Doctor Funkenstein'.
- The Doctor plays the tune to Amazing Grace on his guitar.
- The Doctor refer to Jemima and Claudette as "Monster High" and "Cinderella".
- The Doctor interacts with the [[Zygon control polyp.
Clara
- Clara's voicemail greeting says she's either on the tube or in outer space.
- Clara says she heard about the TV series Truth or Consequences on the game Trivial Pursuit.
Zygons
- After the Human-Zygon peace treaty, seen in TV: The Day of the Doctor it is revealed that 20 million Zygons were relocated around the United Kingdom. It quickly became clear that these Zygons had seized control of the UK and had slowly spread across the entire globe.
- The Zygons have training camps.
- The Zygons use pods to contain humans.
- Bonnie uses an A.A.P.L.S. B-Type Transponder weapon to fire at Boat One.
Story notes
- The Radio Times programme listing was accompanied by a small colour shot of Osgood and the Doctor, with the accompanying caption "Doctor Who / 8.15 p.m. Osgood is snatched by aliens, prompting a round-the-world rescue mission".
- Given that the "Clara" in most of this episode is a Zygon duplicate, this is the second consecutive episode in which the real Clara is only on screen for a brief portion.
Ratings
- BBC One: 3.87m
Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity
- The human/Zygon treaty is referenced (TV: The Day of the Doctor) Since then, a version of Osgood has died. (TV: Death in Heaven)
- Kate mentions a previous attempt at invasion by the Zygons which occurred in the 1970s or 1980s. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
- Kate still confuses the UNIT timelines. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Doctor mentioned that he snogged a Zygon once (as the Tenth Doctor). (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Doctor and Kate talk about there always having been two Osgoods ever since the ceasefire. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- Kate wants to bomb areas of the Earth, and the Doctor asks if that's always the solution, referring to her last solution to bomb the UK. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Doctor plays his electric guitar. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice, Before the Flood, The Woman Who Lived)
- The Doctor once again mention how the humans are the bad guys.[source needed]
- A portrait is seen of the First Doctor. (TV: An Unearthly Child et.al.)
- Osgood reminds the Doctor that he used to wear a lot of question marks on his clothes (TV: The Leisure Hive-Survival)
- One of the Osgoods wears a question mark jumper, an allusion to the Doctor's seventh incarnation. (TV: Time and the Rani)
- The Doctor says he never stopped wearing question marks as he wears question mark underpants. His eighth incarnation wore question mark boxer shorts. (PROSE: Seeing I, COMIC: The Glorious Dead)
- A weapon called the Z-67, confiscated by the Doctor, was invented by Harry Sullivan shortly after he left the Fourth Doctor. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
- Clara is once again shown has having authority with UNIT up to and including being able to command UNIT soldiers to use deadly force. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
- Clara is kidnapped by the Zygons and replaced with a Zygon duplicate called Bonnie. This is the fourth occasion that a companion or assistant of the Doctor has been copied by a Zygon (Kate Stewart and Osgood were both copied in The Day of the Doctor, whilst Harry Sullivan was copied in Terror of the Zygons and Lucie Miller in The Zygon Who Fell to Earth).
- The Doctor wears his sonic sunglasses. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar, Under the Lake/Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived)
- The Doctor resumes his title of President of Earth, and requests use of his presidential plane just so he can "ponce around". (TV: Death in Heaven, COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)
- Clara's flat (or, at least, the building) is seen. (TV: The Time of the Doctor, Dark Water) It does not, however, match the location where Clara is shown living when she rejoins the Doctor at the end of TV: Last Christmas.
Home video releases
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