TDW 11
The 11th episode of Totally Doctor Who's first series premiered on the Thursday before the BBC One debut of Fear Her. It featured Russell T Davies.
This episode was broadcast 5 minutes later than usual, due to World Cup Match of the Day Live airing directly beforehand; this meant the episode was scheduled for 20 minute timeslot, however it had the standard 25 minute runtime.
Studio guest
This weeks studio guest was:
- Russell T Davies, Writer & Executive Producer
Liz & Barney present an exclusive preview clip from Fear Her.
The Totally Filing Cabinet
Liz & Russell T Davies open the filing cabinet, this weeks items were:
- a storyboard comic called "Rise of the Titanic" drawn by Jamie Langdale.
- a Doctor Who book written and illustrated by Bethany Lloyd, age 12.
- TARDIS & Tenth Doctor biscuits made by Zachariah Seaking.
- a poem called "The Curse of Freedom" written by Jasper Bone.
Liz informs viewers that the people whose items were shown will receive a Totally Doctor Who mug, and that you can send in your items via post[1] or email.[2]
Viewer competition
There was no viewer competition this week.
Behind-the-scenes featurettes
How to write a story
Liz visits Highcliffe St. Mark Primary School in Christchurch, Dorset[3] and meets a group of 10 children - five boys and five girls, to find out what they think makes a good story. She takes them to the woods and then the beach to find some inspiration, the children collect a variety of objects including an inflatable globe, a colander, a feather duster, a Santa hat, pop-out eye glasses, pom-poms, 2 bottles of bubble mixture & a CD player. Liz then challenges them to write a story about a monster inspired by the objects they collected, they brainstorm ideas writing them down with chalk on the playground, then present their ideas with Liz sneakily copying them down in her folder labelled "Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 1 by Liz Barker".
Love & Monsters location report
Barney visits the set of Doctor Who on location at St. David's Hall in Cardiff city centre[4] and becomes a supporting artist for the day. He boards a parked double-decker bus where the 40 supporting artists (SAs) needed for the days filming are waiting to go on set, and explains that each SA has to have a costume and make-up just like the main actors.
Barney receives his costume, then waits around on set where he has to to be very quiet whilst Marc Warren & Bella Emberg go over their lines, and tells viewers that because he's an SA he doesn't have any lines to remember. He then shoots his first scene playing a market stall customer.
The crew move onto the next scene in which Elton Pope reacts to the Slitheen craft crashing into Big Ben, with Barney playing a passer-by. He explains how everything SAs do is scripted and planned, and that a woman called Kate will be telling him where to walk, when to react etc. They have a rehearsal so that everyone's actions and reactions are timed just right, before shooting the scene.
The finished scene from the episode is then played in slow motion with Barney highlighted in the background, afterwards he wraps up at the end of day of filming saying he's going home to have dinner with a Slitheen (actually his grandma, same difference).
Companion Academy
Task 10: Say Really Long Words
The four remaining cadets are each shown four complicated words the Doctor has encountered on his travels to say out loud, in increasing difficulty. They are judged upon the speed and accuracy of their pronunciation.
- Kyra - Nanogenes, Moxx of Balhoon, Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer, Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. Score: 2 out of 4.
- Louise - Slitheen, Neuron Implosion, Cathica Santini Khadeni, Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorius. Score: 3 out of 4.
- Chrissie - Sycorax, Hop Pyleen, Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer, Tribophysical Waveform Macrokinetic Extrapolator. Score: 1 or 2 out of 4.
- Jamie - Gallifrey, Gelth Confederacy, Adherents of the Repeated Meme, Justicia and the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon. Score: 3 ½ out of 4.
Kyra and Chrissie both get the most wrong and the judges choose to dismiss Chrissie from Companion Academy.
Who-Ru
This weeks Question Master is Barney (on account of him being an extra in Love & Monsters) and the prize is a photo of himself on the Love & Monsters set signed to the winner, both also get a CBBC goodie bag; the contenders are Adam Rogerson & Emma Hallam-Worrall.
The final scores are Adam 7 and Emma 5; and so Adam is crowned Who-Ru.
Music list
- "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals
- "Brimful of Asha (The Norman Cook Remix)" by Cornershop
- "Monster" by The Automatic
- "Words" by Doves
- "S.O.S. (Skylark Vocal Remix)" by A-Studio feat. Polina
- "Release the Pressure (Album Version)" by Leftfield
- "God Is a DJ" by Faithless
Crew
- Presented by - Liz Barker, Barney Harwood
- Set Design - Edward Thomas
- Graphics - BDH
- Title Music - Tim Baker
- Lighting Director - John Walton
- Studio Cameras - John Archer, Mike Goodman, Chris Hatcher, Simon Jackson
- Studio Sound - Tony Burt, Glenn Jenkins, Ian Johnson
- Make Up - Eirias Ellyn
- Script Supervisor - Angie Dicks
- Vision Mixer - Ann Thomas
- Floor Manager - Richard Wyn Jones
- Studio Director - John Payne
- Location Sound - Heng Dan, Steve Hubbard, John McCombie
- Location Cameras - Nigel Bradley, Joe Cooper, Dewi Davies
- Offline Editors - Rahim Mastafa, Dean Smith
- Online Editor - Richard Moss
- Dubbing Mixer - Steve Miller
- Production Team - Catrin Honeybill, Alys Roberts
- Production Co-ordinator - Jacqui Shevki
- Researchers - Carrie Evans, Emily Knight, Lucy Lutman
- Assistant Producers - Jack Jameson, Susannah Udall
- Production Manager - Zoë Scott
- Executive Producers for Dr Who - Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner
- Executive Producer for CBBC - Reem Nouss
- Executive Producer - Mark Cossey
- Produced by - Ros Attille, Simon Hall
- Series Producer - Gillane Seaborne
Home video releases
No episode of Totally Doctor Who has ever been commercially released.
