The Christmas Invasion (TV story): Difference between revisions

* This is the first episode of ''Doctor Who ''to air on a Sunday.

* David Tennant is credited as "The Doctor", as opposed to [[Christopher Eccleston]] who was credited as "Doctor Who". The change in the credit was done at Tennant's request.

* Before this episode was broadcast, a fictional tie-in website for the ''[http://www.guinevere.org.uk Guinevere One]'' project was created and launched by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]. The site includes an introduction by Harriet Jones and an interview with the project director, [[Professor]] [[Daniel Llewellyn]]. The site claims that the probe was developed by the [[British Rocket Group]]. The organisation's logo partially appears in this episode, in the televised press conference with Professor Llewellyn. The name of the organisation was first mentioned in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and is a reference to the British Experimental Rocket Group from the ''[[Bernard Quatermass|Quatermass]]'' science fiction serials of the 1950s. David Tennant had previously starred in the 2005 BBC live remake of {{wi|The Quatermass Experiment (2005)|The Quatermass Experiment}} as Doctor Gordon Briscoe, and Quatermass' first line to Briscoe was changed by actor Jason Flemyng during the broadcast from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, ''Doctor''" — Tennant's casting as the Doctor was announced two weeks after ''Quatermass'' went to air, and his castmates would have been aware of the speculation during rehearsals.

* Just before the opening credits sequence, Jackie says the line, "Doctor? Doctor who?", continuing a [[The "Doctor Who?" running joke|long-running in-joke]].  Unlike many instances of the joke, however, the line primarily plays as a genuine question, since she has never before met the [[Tenth Doctor]] and knows nothing of [[regeneration]].

* The Tenth Doctor speaks with an accent similar to Rose's but unlike the Ninth Doctor's Northern one. In a radio interview broadcast on 23 December 2005, Tennant explained that a line of dialogue had been scripted for this episode which explained that the newly regenerated Doctor had imprinted on Rose's accent, "like a chick hatching from an egg", but the line was deleted from the final episode.

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