Tardisode 10

Tardisode 10
Main character(s):	Abzorbaloff
Main setting:	England, 2007
Key crew
Writer:	Gareth Roberts
Director:	Ashley Way
Producer:	Sophie Fante Jo Pearce
Release details
Story number:	10
Premiere broadcast:	10 June 2006
Format:	Internet broadcast
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Tardisode 10 was the tenth of the Tardisode series of mini-episode prologues to Doctor Who series 2. This Tardisode was a prelude to the episode Love & Monsters.

Plot

Sat in an office, a mysterious figure is using a Vaio brand laptop, on which he impatiently taps his fingers, to access a website titled L.I.N.D.A . It shows a hand-drawn sketch of the Doctor and the text "Who Is The Doctor?" followed by "Have You Seen Him?". The user clicks on the "Join L.I.N.D.A." button, causing the picture to change to a sketch of several people in a room, with the caption: "WE HAVE!"

Text appears that reads "Last Updated - WHOOPS! Ages ago, sorry - ELTON". The user clicks again on "Join L.I.N.D.A.", which makes the screen display the following text: "But L.I.N.D.A. is a secret organisation. So we can't tell you where... If you need us...You'll find us." The user forcefully bangs his cane before pointing a strange silver object at the laptop, which changes the display to read "PRIMITIVE COMPUTER PAGE". The screen displays a map and text saying "TRACK SOURCE". The map closes in on Maccateer Street before the screen goes blank. An old lady enters the office carrying a tray. As she turns around, her expression turns to horror, and she is bathed in a green light. The heavy breathing of the unseen figure turns into a slurping and growling and the old lady shouts "No!"...

Cast

• Victor Kennedy - Dean Harris
• Secretary - Olwen Rees

Story notes

• This is a precursor to the events of Love & Monsters.
• Victor Kennedy is seen using a Vaio brand laptop in this Tardisode. In Love & Monsters he uses a PowerBook G4.
• The room in which Victor sits in this Tardisode is identified as his office by The Time Traveller's Almanac.

Filming location

Insole Court, BBC Broadcasting House, Cardiff

Continuity

The absorbed secretary.

• What is left of the secretary's face after being absorbed is visible on the right shoulder of Victor Kennedy in TV: Love & Monsters. Unlike his more recent victims whose faces and sentience are still intact, the secretary is beyond that stage of absorption. Her identity and consciousness have vanished, and all that remains of her are the shrinking features of a mouth, nose, right eye, and right brow.

External links

• Tardisode 10 on the BBC Media Selector