The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)

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The Tsuranga Conundrum was the fifth episode of Series 11 of Doctor Who.

Synopsis

As the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends end up stranded without the TARDIS on a hospital ship in space, with a strange and potentially deadly intruder on board, it is up to them, the crew, and the patients to figure out what it is, what it wants, and how to stop it before the creature tears the ship apart.

Plot

On Seffilun 27 in a Junk galaxy, the Doctor, Ryan, Yasmin, and Graham are hunting for something the Doctor desires to find with special detectors retrieved from the TARDIS parked nearby. While looking, they find something, the Doctor realising that it is a sonic mine, and accidentally triggers it and explodes just as Yaz asks how long they have.

The Doctor awakes on a hospital ship Tsuranga, finding the others alright despite her own apparent pain in her side.

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Cast

Crew

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References

The Doctor

Culture

  • Graham mentions how he has watched every episode of Call the Midwife, although he looks away at the squeamish parts.

Species

Technology

Sport

Story notes

  • Pretty much every scientific fact about anti-matter given by the Doctor in this episode is true to real science.[1] However, in reality, because antimatter is produced via pair production, energy gained by antimatter-matter reactions would not exceed the energy required to create it; therefore energy generation would have to be performed by captured antimatter that has not been manufactured.[2]
  • Tim Price receives a creator credit for the Pting, the first time such a credit is given on a creature or character's first appearance.

Ratings

  • 6.12 million (UK overnight)[3]

Filming locations

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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

Footnotes