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|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[Sao Til]]/[[Tim Ingham]] | ||
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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
[[Jack Harkness]] enters [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and discovers a blue-headed alien who claims to be a regenerated [[the Doctor|Doctor]]. The alien gives the game away when Jack notices that he's armed, something the real Doctor would never be. The alien identifies himself as [[Sao Til]], a literal arms dealer who trades in limbs. Jack draws his gun and the two enter into a Mexican standoff before ... [[David Tennant]] | [[Jack Harkness]] enters [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and discovers a blue-headed alien who claims to be a regenerated [[the Doctor|Doctor]]. The alien gives the game away when Jack notices that he's armed, something the real Doctor would never be. The alien identifies himself as [[Sao Til]], a literal arms dealer who trades in limbs. Jack draws his gun and the two enter into a Mexican standoff before ... [[David Tennant]] comes in through the TARDIS doors and asks John what he's doing. John introduces Tim Ingham of Stoke-on-Trent, who is pretending to be Sao Til. David then exits the set via the 'fourth wall', pausing briefly before he leaves to chide John for being in "my TARDIS". After a moment of giddiness at having seen David Tennant, John and Tim then carry on from where they left off, resuming their characters and pretending to shoot at each other as they run around the TARDIS set. | ||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
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* Running just over 3 minutes in length, this is the shortest televised ''Doctor Who''-related production of all time. (The shortest canonical television story remains as [[SJA]]:''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love]]'', while the 2009 webisode ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'', running 3.5 minutes, stands as the shortest ''Doctor Who''-related storyline that could fall within canon.) | * Running just over 3 minutes in length, this is the shortest televised ''Doctor Who''-related production of all time. (The shortest canonical television story remains as [[SJA]]:''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love]]'', while the 2009 webisode ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'', running 3.5 minutes, stands as the shortest ''Doctor Who''-related storyline that could fall within canon.) | ||
* Also, as Tennant does not appear as the Doctor in this skit, it is the first ''Doctor Who'' story since ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'' in which the character does not appear, and it is the first and only time a televised story has featured the TARDIS, but no Doctor. Given the acknowledged non-canon nature of this skit, ''Mission to the Unknown'' remains as the only [[DW]] story to not feature the Doctor (when viewed as a stand-alone story independent of ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''.) | * Also, as Tennant does not appear as the Doctor in this skit, it is the first ''Doctor Who'' story since ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'' in which the character does not appear, and it is the first and only time a televised story has featured the TARDIS, but no Doctor. Given the acknowledged non-canon nature of this skit, ''Mission to the Unknown'' remains as the only [[DW]] story to not feature the Doctor (when viewed as a stand-alone story independent of ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''.) | ||
* There was no ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' for | * There was no ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' for the episode but there was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the skit followed its broadcast (on ''Tonight's The Night''). | ||
* Although it was broadcast after ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' (the first High Definition ''Doctor Who ''episode), the skit was the first time that the [[TARDIS]] interior was shown in High Definition. The [[TARDIS]] interior didn't feature in ''Planet of the Dead''. | * Although it was broadcast after ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' (the first High Definition ''Doctor Who ''episode), the skit was the first time that the [[TARDIS]] interior was shown in High Definition. The [[TARDIS]] interior didn't feature in ''Planet of the Dead''. | ||
*At the time this was written, Davies believed it would be the final ''Doctor Who'' story he would ever write (as he relates in [[DWM Issue 410]] and ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale]] - The Final Chapter''); ultimately, this ended up not being the case as it was announced in April 2010 that he would be writing an episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' featuring an appearance by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as played by [[Matt Smith]]. | *At the time this was written, Davies believed it would be the final ''Doctor Who'' story he would ever write (as he relates in [[DWM Issue 410]] and ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale]] - The Final Chapter''); ultimately, this ended up not being the case as it was announced in April 2010 that he would be writing an episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' featuring an appearance by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as played by [[Matt Smith]]. | ||
*Davies also said in DWM that he was originally going to have this story as "canon" with the Doctor in it | *Davies also said in DWM that he was originally going to have this story as "canon" with the Doctor in it – but changed his mind. | ||
* The complete script for the skit is reproduced in [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]''. | * The complete script for the skit is reproduced in [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]''. | ||
*As he was playing himself, not the Doctor, David Tennant spoke in his natural Scottish accent. | *As he was playing himself, not the Doctor, David Tennant spoke in his natural Scottish accent. | ||
