The Pilot (TV story)

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The Pilot was the first episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It introduced the Twelfth Doctor's new companion, Bill Potts.

According to Steven Moffat in a video introduction, "series 10 sort of begins the show again. [The Pilot] introduces everything you need to know about Doctor Who, and tips you into the universe". Indeed, through Bill's eyes now, viewers are introduced again to the character of the Doctor, his TARDIS, his enemies the Daleks, and his versatile tool, the sonic screwdriver.

New viewers are brought into the show with all important information given, and meet the Doctor as a mysterious figure, much like they did through Rose Tyler in series 1's 2005 "pilot", Rose, or through Ian and Barbara in the original 1963 introduction, "An Unearthly Child". Much like Rose, The Pilot follows Bill around in every scene. This was Peter Capaldi's first, and, as of 2017, only, chance to introduce a new companion to the TARDIS.

This was also the first depiction of the Dalek-Movellan War since Resurrection of the Daleks, in 1984. The Pilot introduces St Luke's University, where the Doctor has been lecturing for over fifty years, and begins a plot thread surrounding what he and Nardole are hiding in a vault beneath the campus.

Synopsis

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Plot

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Cast

Crew

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References

Science

Technology

  • The Doctor has, in his office, several sonic screwdrivers, of various designs from his past.

TARDIS

  • The Doctor tells Bill that "TARDIS" stands for "Time and Relative Dimension in Space". (Other stories have it as "Dimensions".) Bill questions why this acronym only works in English.
  • Bill compares the TARDIS control room design to a kitchen.
  • She also asks where the toilet is.
  • While she discovers the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, Bill at first thinks it's a knock-through behind his office, then that it's a lift.

Culture

Locations

St Luke's University

Story notes

File:Introducing the New Companion... - Doctor Who - BBC File:Pearl Mackie & Steven Moffat - The Aftershow - Doctor Who The Fan Show

Ratings

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Filming locations

  • The Main Building, the Sir Martin Evans Building, and Tower Building of Cardiff University largely fill in for St Luke's University, while the Reardon Smith Theatre (within the National Museum of Wales) is where the Doctor gives his lectures.
  • The Cardiff Metropolitan University (Llandaff Campus)'s Atrium Cafe is where Bill serves chips.
  • The bar scene was shot at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
  • Bill runs into the bathroom in "Australia", in World of Boats in Cardiff.
  • CEMEX's Taffs Well quarry, just outside of Cardiff, is the exotic planet the TARDIS team travel to.

Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Continuity

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Digital releases

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External links

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Footnotes