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The Doctor
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New Earth
New Earth is the first episode of the revival of Doctor Who to be set on a planet other than Earth.
The Sunshine Camp was a possible working title discovered briefly in a meta-tag on the BBC website (the tag was later removed).
The giant "BAD WOLF" graffiti written on a paved public area of Rose's estate (seen in The Parting Of The Ways) is still visible, though faded, at the start of the episode.
There have been several planets called "New Earth" in Doctor Who: the planet where Sarah was told she was being taken to in a spaceship in the serial Invasion of the Dinosaurs; a planet from the Fourth Doctor comic strip story Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (Doctor Who Weekly #1-# ; the homeworld of the Sixth Doctor novel companion Grant Markham and the setting of the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Time of Your Life by Steve Lyons; and the "New Earth Republic", a future Earth colony and the setting of the Past Doctor Adventures spin-off novel Synthespians™ by Craig Hinton.
New New York is also the name of the city in the animated series Futurama.
The hospital scenes were filmed inside the Wales Millennium Centre which appeared in the previous series episode Boom Town. When the Doctor asks about the shop and points to where he would put it, he points to the location of the centre's own Portmeirion shop.
The Sisters of Plenitude are not the first feline aliens to feature in the series. A race of Cheetah People appeared in the Seventh Doctor serial Survival.
The exterior shots of the lift car as Rose descends to the basement are reused footage from Rose.
The ailment that the Duke of Manhattan is dying from, Petrifold Regression — a disease that turns its victims to stone — is also mentioned in the Tenth Doctor Adventures novel The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner.
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD with The Christmas Invasion, reportedly on May 1, 2006.
This is the first Doctor Who episode to have an accompanying TARDISODE.
In a feature in the Radio Times (issue dated 8 April-14 April) Russell T. Davies said of New Earth "I promised Billie [Piper] an episode in which she'd be funny. So episode one of the new series is very much based around comedy for Billie."
The theme music in the closing credits features the reinstated bridge, or "middle 8", which was absent from the 2005 season and last heard in The Christmas Invasion.
Immediately after the episode, a commentary for the episode, featuring David Tennant, Russell T. Davies and Phil Collinson, was made available on the official website for viewers to download and listen to alongside the repeat, as it was for The Christmas Invasion.
In the commentary it was noted by Tennant that the TARDIS has moved since The Christmas Invasion. He speculates that there might have been many off-screen adventures, or perhaps that the Doctor "lived there for a bit".
According to Davies on the episode commentary, Cassandra's earlier self bases Chip on the man who had praised her beauty at the party — Chip himself. Where the "pattern" for Chip comes from in the first instance is thus unclear, creating an ontological paradox.
The producer's and director's credits have been amended slightly since The Christmas Invasion, so that now the credit is in lower case and the name of the crewmember is in capitals. This was the result of a suggestion from Doctor Who Magazine editor Clayton Hickman, who felt the previous arrangement had made the job seem more important than the crewmember.
Overnight ratings for the episode peaked at 8.3 million viewers.[1]
[b]Tooth and Claw
Tooth and Claw was also the name of a (most likely unrelated) story in the Doctor Who comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. The story ran from DWM #257 to #260, was written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Martin Geraghty and Robin Smith.
According to the Western Mail newspaper of Saturday October 1 2005, the role of Queen Victoria in this story will be played by Pauline Collins, who previously appeared in the series as Sam in the 1967 classic series serial The Faceless Ones. This makes Collins the third actor from the classic series to appear on-screen in the new series, following William Thomas (Remembrance of the Daleks and Boom Town) and Nisha Nayar (Paradise Towers and Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways).
According to the Sunday Herald, the Doctor and Rose intend to visit an Ian Dury gig in 1979 but arrive in 1879 thanks to a TARDIS malfunction[1].
According to a set report posted on fan site Outpost Gallifrey's news page, the Doctor identifies himself as "Doctor Jamie McCrimmon" and tells a guard that he studied under Dr. Bell.
According to an article from the NewsQuest Media Group service cited at Outpost Gallifrey, Treowen House in Dingestow, Wales was a site of filming for this episode, representing a castle in the Scottish Highlands.
In the trailer involving several clips from Series 2 shown at the end of The Christmas Invasion, David Tennant uses his natural Scottish accent when the Doctor introduces Rose to Queen Victoria.
Michelle Duncan and Jamie Sives were unable to attend the readthrough for this story, and their parts were read by David Tennant's parents, who happened to be visiting the Doctor Who set. Tennant told reporters at the series' press launch, "Because it's set in Scotland they were delighted to be asked to read in. My Mum played Lady Isobel and my Dad played Captain Reynolds and they were in seventh heaven. And they were genuinely cheesed off when they didn't get asked to play the parts for real! I was like 'chill-out Mum and Dad, back in your box!' "[2]
The werewolf in this story is computer-generated. Pauline Collins stated in a BBC press release that there were two performance artists who demonstrated the movements that the werewolf would do and talked about the problems of overacting in a situation where one was simply reacting to a green screen. [3]
At one point during filming, Billie Piper's hair caught fire[1].
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD along with School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace.
The estate where the Doctor and Rose stay with Queen Victoria is called Torchwood.
[/b]School Reunion
According to an interview with writer Toby Whithouse in Doctor Who Magazine #367, this episode had the working title Black Ops. The original storyline submission for the episode involved the Doctor meeting Sarah while investigating events at an army base neighbouring an isolated village. The change of location to a school was suggested by Russell T. Davies.
This is the first time that companions from the original series of Doctor Who appear in the new series. Sarah and K-9 were last seen in The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary special broadcast in 1983. They also featured together in K-9 and Company, an unsuccessful television pilot for a spin-off series in 1981.
Anthony Stewart Head's character was originally announced as the "Headmaster". This led to fan speculation that the Doctor's old enemy the Master might be making a return. On 28 August 2005 the fan site Outpost Gallifrey reported that these rumours were false.
Anthony Stewart Head auditioned for the role of the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.
According to an interview with Russell T. Davies in Doctor Who Magazine, at some point during this episode some people will be seen "flying" through a corridor. According to DWM #359, the episode also contains the phrase "secret squirrel" and the words "Aberdeen" and "Paradigm", and in it Rose asks, "So now what do we do?".
The plot supposedly involves a Krillitane being disguised as the school's headmaster and children at computer terminals. Krillitanes can shape-change. A shot taken from the "Coming Soon" montage at the end of The Christmas Invasion (showing Anthony Head with "evil" prosthetics and facial expression) would seem to corroborate this.
The montage also shows the Doctor being re-introduced to Sarah, Sarah finding the TARDIS in what looks like the school's basement and looking frightened, and the Doctor, Sarah, Rose and Mickey opening the boot of a car and finding the shut-down form of K-9 who is further seen in a quick clip skidding across a floor with the Doctor exclaiming "K-9!"
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD along with Tooth and Claw and The Girl in the Fireplace.
The primary location for the school filming was Duffryn High School in Newport. 70 pupils from the school worked as extras during the filming, and met the episode's stars.
On March 4, 2006 tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that a new children's series with K-9 and Sarah was being developed, but this has not been confirmed by the BBC.[1]
Recent teaser clips for Series 2 show winged monsters (possibly Krillitanes) flying through a school hall.
The BBC has registered the domain name sarahjanesmith.org.uk, although no website is active at that address yet.
Sarah mentions that she has encountered the Daleks (in Death to the Daleks and Genesis of the Daleks). She also mentions "mummies" (Pyramids of Mars), "lots of robots" (The Time Warrior, Robot, The Sontaran Experiment and others), "anti-matter monsters" (Planet of Evil), "dinosaurs" (Invasion of the Dinosaurs), and "the Loch Ness Monster" (Terror of the Zygons).
According to several interviews with Billie Piper and other cast members, reports say that Rose and Sarah Jane will have some sort of heated cat fight, and Rose will become very jealous and very clingy to the Doctor in this episode.
In a recent preview of the series, the Krillitanes have been revealed as odd gargoyle-like creatures. Anthony Steward Head speaks to the other disguised aliens by saying "Soon my brothers we will be gods..."
The Doctor Who Confidential episode "New New Doctor" showed a preview of the school being evacuated as gargoyle-like Krillitanes take over, K-9 saying "Master!" and the Doctor saying "So you remember me!" and K-9 shooting his red laser beam.
[b]The Girl in the Fire Place
The title The Girl in the Fireplace was reported in a forum posting on fan site Outpost Gallifrey and placed on their news page, and later confirmed by Doctor Who Magazine.
In a Production Notes column for Doctor Who Magazine #363 (November 2005), writer Steven Moffat stated that the working titles for the episode were Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of My Heart and Reinette and the Lonely Angel. He also stated the script contains the words "she", "kisses" and "him".
Moffatt has been quoted as saying that the story shows "a side to the Doctor you haven't seen, or not seen a lot", and is "quite a personal story, about someone he meets and his effect on her life."
In an interview with The Independent, Russell T. Davies described this episode as "practically a love story for the Doctor... It's very understated, very beautifully done, but it's nonetheless a Time Lord falling in love and Rose's reaction to him falling in love with someone else." [1]
In an interview with SFX magazine's website, Sophia Myles describes her character as "a bit of a goer" and says that the Doctor has visited her on multiple occasions since she was seven or eight years old[2].
One of the characters in the story is named Louis, but it is not yet known whether this is King Louis XV of France, as might be expected.
According to the Radio Times, Moffat will make "a simple tick-tock as scary as can be", in the same manner that "Are you my mummy?" was in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.
The "Coming Soon" trailer at the end of The Christmas Invasion included a scene of ballroom dancers being surrounded by humanoids with painted, doll-like faces, armed with guns. Fan speculation that these may be Autons aside, according to the December issue of SFX these are "elegant androids", and the Radio Times described them as "clockwork robots". The trailer can be seen on the official site here.
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD along with Tooth and Claw and School Reunion.
The BBC reported that this episode features a kiss "with a twist".
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
The story takes place on an alternate or parallel Earth. A parallel version of Earth was previously seen in the 1970 serial Inferno.
Doctor Who Magazine #368 confirmed that this story was inspired by the Big Finish Productions audio play Spare Parts, which Russell T. Davies had previously described (along with The Holy Terror) as "some of the finest drama ever written for any genre, in any medium, anywhere." Spare Parts author Marc Platt, has received a fee and will be credited in the end titles. However, writer Tom MacRae noted that his television story was not a simple rewrite of Spare Parts: "My story isn't the same — it's got a different setting, different themes, and different characters, cos once we started talking, the whole thing developed in a very different direction. But as Russell says, we wouldn't have started this whole line of thinking if he hadn't heard Spare Parts in the first place." (In the 2005 series, the audio play Jubilee was similarly adapted into the episode Dalek.)
According to an interview with Jules Burt (who has a walk-on role in the story as an early Cyberman victim) on Episode 15 of the Doctor Who: Podshock podcast, the Cybermen stand at about seven feet tall. They kill by grabbing their victims and electrocuting them.
Colin Spaull previously played "Lilt" in Revelation of the Daleks.
On 9 December 2005, Jonathan Ross revealed that he would be appearing as a Cyberman in the 2006 series (presumably in this story, but possibly in Army of Ghosts and/or Doomsday, if the Cybermen appear in that story as well).
According to The Sun guest-star Roger Lloyd-Pack broke his leg just days before filming began on the episode, requiring the scripts being rewritten to place his character, John Lumic, in a wheelchair.
The Cybus Corporation has a website at http://www.cybuscorporation.com/. However, this is a fan-produced site and not one of the tie-in websites produced by the BBC.
A teaser clip shown at the end of The Christmas Invasion shows a Cyberman coming to life. (The clip of the Doctor shouting "Bullets can't stop it!" comes from Tooth and Claw)
Producer Julie Gardner told BBC Radio Wales that Cybermen had been filmed "on the streets of Cardiff, in formation, marching". [1] Photos and set reports from filming can be found on Outpost Gallifrey's news page.
The BBC has registered the following domain names: cybusindustries.com, cybusindustries.net, cybusindustries.co.uk, cybusfinance.com, cybusfinance.co.uk, cybusproperty.com and cybusproperty.co.uk
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this first episode will be released along with The Age of Steel and The Idiot's Lantern as a "vanilla" DVD. The second episode's title, The Age of Steel, was announced in DWM #367.
Micky Smith is rumoured to be left in parallel earth.
The Idiot's Lantern
The Idiot's Lantern is written by The League of Gentlemen co-writer Mark Gatiss, who also wrote the Ninth Doctor episode The Unquiet Dead as well as several spin-off audios and novels. A long time fan of the series, Gatiss also played the Doctor in one of three spoofs written by him for 1999's Doctor Who Night (which are featured as extras on the 2006 DVD release of An Unearthly Child).
"The Idiot's Lantern" was British slang for television in the 1940s and 1950s (compare to: the idiot box).
This story is rumoured to be about an alien intelligence that travels by sound and that attempts to invade the Home Counties using black-and-white television broadcasts.
The story is set at the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, due to its significance as the first key event televised across Britain. The Queen previously appeared (played by an impersonator) in the Seventh Doctor story Silver Nemesis (1988). According to a report in The Daily Mirror newspaper, Queen Elizabeth is a fan of the new series of Doctor Who, and requested DVDs of the 2005 series during her summer stay at Balmoral.
A poster on the forums of fansite Outpost Gallifrey was the first to report Maureen Lipman's appearance in this episode, writing, "I know she's in the ep, and I know she's filming her scenes at Alexandra Palace in North London (where original BBC transmissions used to be broadcast from in the 1950's) but it's my speculation that she plays the evil lady continuity announcer in the episode." This has not yet been officially confirmed, but Outpost Gallifrey editor Shaun Lyon has placed the information on the Outpost Gallifrey news page, which is generally regarded as a reliable source for Doctor Who news.
Mark Gatiss wrote the Eighth Doctor Big Finish Productions audio story Invaders from Mars, which involved alien invaders using Orson Welles' infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds as a conduit to a real invasion. This had led to fan speculation that the television story may be based on the audio story.
The 25 February 2006 edition of The Sun claims that Jamie Foreman's character is a "thug" [1].
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be realeased as a "vanilla" DVD along with Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel.
The Impossibel Planet/Satans Pit
Chris Evans is rumoured to be playing the part of the Devil in this two-part story.
Writer Matt Jones also wrote, as Matthew Jones, the Virgin New Adventures novel Bad Therapy, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej. He was script editor on Russell T. Davies's Channel 4 series, Queer as Folk.
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit will be released along with Love & Monsters as a "vanilla" DVD.
According to The Guardian on March 30, 2006, this episode is set on a "spaceship adrift at the edge of a black hole." [1]
In an interview with SFX magazine (#142), Russell T. Davies said that the characters in this story are "pioneers in a dangerous situation, like the Wild West."
The news item on the official BBC website confirming Will Thorp as playing Toby used the title The Satan Pit to refer to the two-parter as a whole. Whether or not this means he will only be in the second episode of the two-parter is unknown. [2]
At the press launch for the 2006 season of Doctor Who, David Tennant said, "Basically they find a 'darkness' which doesn't seem to have an explanation and even the Doctor is stumped by what is under the planet." Billie Piper also said, "The Ood are in this one." Press coverage described the Ood as "squid-like aliens".
Russell T. Davies and director James Strong have described this episode as "Just about as tense and scary as Doctor Who can get".
Love and Monsters
The Abzorbaloff was created by nine-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex, who won a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition held by the children's television programme Blue Peter. The prize was to have his creation appear in a episode of Doctor Who.
The title Love and Monsters was reported in the Bolton Evening News. This is the first time an ampersand has been used in a Doctor Who title, as opposed to the word "and".
Russell T. Davies cast Peter Kay in the role of Victor Kennedy after Kay wrote a fan letter in praise of the new series.
Several fan reports covering the filming of this episode have mentioned that both the Autons and Slitheen will be in this episode. Speculation is that the scenes involving these aliens will be flashbacks to the events of Rose and Aliens of London/World War Three as seen through the eyes of Elton Pope.
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released as a "vanilla" DVD along with The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit.
Fear Her/Doomsday
This episode has been rumoured to feature the 2012 Olympics, which are going to be held in London.
This is a replacement for a script by Stephen Fry (which will be shown in series 3 because of logistical issues) and will be set on modern-day Earth, but be "different from anything we've ever seen before".
In the 15 April edition of the Radio Times, Russell T. Davies reported that "It's a bit like a Twilight Zone tale of an ordinary family."
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released with Army of Ghosts and Doomsday as a "vanilla" DVD.
Army of Ghosts
Nothing known as yet, although tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that the season finale would involve a war between the Cybermen and the Daleks [1]; this conflicts with Russell T. Davies' statement that the Daleks will not appear in Series 2. However, the BBC press release for Series 2 mentions that the Doctor and Rose will battle various aliens and monsters, and "maybe even a Dalek".[2] In the BBC Radio 2 program Regenerations, executive producer Julie Gardner said that "there may well be a climax between the Doctor and the Cybermen at the end of the series". The 15 April 2006 edition of the Radio Times of reported Russell T. Davies as saying "It's not giving too much away to say the Cybermen are back, big time, en masse." The 9 April episode of Doctor Who Confidential included a clip involving both Cybermen and actress Tracy-Ann Oberman (who does not appear in the earlier Cyberman story).
Cameo appearances:
Derek Acorah
Alistair Appleton
Trisha Goddard
Barbara Windsor
Cybermen were being filmed in Cardiff this year at about the same time as Boom Town was being filmed last year. This may suggest that they will appear at the season's finale.
The BBC announced that the production block of the Rise of the Cybermen two-parter would include two more episodes; these are believed to be Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
Russell T. Davies said in The Times supplement The Knowledge that Series 2 would end on a "collossal cliffhanger. It's so huge I can't describe it. I hope they can get it on film."
An article in the magazine Inside Housing mentions the production filming extras interacting with ghosts (PDF document). Television medium Derek Acorah stated that he had filmed a small role in Series 2 where the Doctor seeks his help when "spirits and ghosts have invaded the whole of the galaxy."[3]
According to SFX Magazine #139, the fact that the Doctor hangs his coat on a railing in the TARDIS will be "very important" to the story.
On 13 February 2006, The Daily Mirror reported that chat show host Trisha Goddard would be appearing as herself in an upcoming Doctor Who episode in which "the Earth is overrun by ghosts". The newspaper said that the Doctor would stumble upon Goddard's television chat show, in an episode called "I'm In Love With A Ghost". (This appears to be the name of the episode of the chat show within the programme, rather than the name of the Doctor Who episode.) The Daily Mirror also quoted an unnamed "insider" as saying that Trisha would ask, "Can you trust him if he's always appearing and disappearing?" [4]
The Sun reported that in one episode the Doctor will "land in EastEnders" and interact with the character Peggy Mitchell [5]. In Doctor Who Magazine #368, it was confirmed that Barbara Windsor, who plays Mitchell on EastEnders, would be making a cameo appearance in this story, along with other television celebrities. Producer Phil Collinson said, "these episodes are a bit cleverer than might first appear. The TARDIS absolutely does not land in Albert Square, nor does the Doctor step onto the Trisha show to sort out his relationship with Rose! These are great cameo appearances, but you'll just have to wait and see how they work."
Some fans have interpreted this episode's title as indicating the return of the Time Lords, who were supposedly destroyed in the Time War; or perhaps the Daleks, for the same reasons. Another rumour currently circulating involves the return of the spectral Gelth from The Unquiet Dead, allegedly escaping from their reality when the Cardiff rift was opened in Boom Town. There is as yet no basis for these speculations.
According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode will be released with Fear Her and Doomsday as a "vanilla" DVD.
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Zhord
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A lot to look forward to then!! 
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"Correctamundo! A word I have never said before and hopefully never will again" The Doctor in 'School Reunion'
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Deako
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| The Doctor wrote: | | a "vanilla" DVD |
Means no special features. 
| The Doctor wrote: | | "Doctor Jamie McCrimmon". |
Jamie McCrimmon was one of the second Doctor's companions.
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But boxset at end of year.
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Almost certainly.
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