Doctor Who: The TV Series (2005 to 2007)

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

6:00 PM - Ep 5 & 6 Rise Of The Cybermen/Age Of Steel

Sunday, July 6, 2008

1:00 PM - Ep 5 & 6

Saturday, July 12, 2008

6:00 PM - Ep 9 The Satan Pit

7:00 PM - Ep 10 Love & Monsters

Saturday, July 19, 2008

6:00 PM - Ep 10 Love & Monsters

7:00 PM - Ep 11 Fear Her

Sunday, July 20, 2008

1:00 PM - Ep 10 Love & Monsters

2:00 PM - Ep 11 Fear Her

        TORCHWOOD previous schedule on BBC America, rated PG-14

April 26/27, no episode, replaced on BBC America by Robin Hood
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Doctor Who was originally created as a historically educational TV-series. This American copy, 21 hour-episodes on NBC 10/82 to 7/83, actually stayed more true to that original premise but failed to attract enough of an audience for a second season. Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) is a time traveler sent to Earth to correct the time stream. But his time travel device (disguised to look like a pocket watch) malfunctions, and he crashes into the Manhattan bedroom of Jeffrey Jones (Meeno Peluce). Jeffrey’s dog destroys Bogg’s instruction book, and he remembers almost nothing about Earth history, so he doesn’t know what’s wrong in order to correct it. Fortunately, Jeffrey is a history buff, so together they help Lewis and Clark, prevent Gen. MacArthur from getting killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, make sure baby Moses doesn’t drown, suggest to the Wright Brothers that they build a flying machine, prevent Teddy Roosevelt’s assassination, etc.

Eventually, like Doctor Who, Bogg is arrested and sent back to his home planet for trial (this time for making his identity known to Jeffrey and taking him along on adventures). At the end of each episode, Jeffrey would suggest that viewers go to the public library to learn about the time period visited that week. Like Who, one storyline was devoted to Marco Polo, and like the earlier American TV-series Time Tunnel, there was an episode in which they ended up on the Titanic. The final episode was “Arthur Conan Doyle & Nellie Bly.”

The following year Jon-Erik Hexum starred in the detective series “Cover Up” on CBS, but nobody impressed on him that a gun loaded with blanks (wax bullets fired by gunpowder) can be lethal at close range. He was playing Russian Roulette with one when it went off, the wax bullet killing him instantly. Cover Up co-starred Jennifer O’Neill, who told Focus On The Family that she had nine miscarriages after getting an abortion, and has become a pro-life activist. If I run across any other tragic stuff about famous people so the rest of us can feel better about our insignificant little lives, I’ll be sure to post it.

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This season's notes from BBC.com:
* Landing the titular role on Doctor Who has made David Tennant a household name around the world, but many fans also associate him with another role: Barty Crouch Junior in the big-screen blockbuster Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Then in 1996, when he was just 25, Tennant joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. His turn as Touchstone in As You Like It was praised as the most memorable in years. He was also applauded for his Jack Lane in The Herbal Bed, his leading role in Romeo and Juliet, and his portrayals of Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (for which he received a a 2000 Ian Charleson Award nomination for Best classical actor under 30) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals. Tennant is now a respected classical stage actor and has added to his awards with the 2005 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Best Male Performance, as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger; a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award nomination for Best Actor for Lobby Hero; and a Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award for The Glass Menagerie. He also appeared in a number of British films and co-starred in BBC4's acclaimed live telefilm of The Quatermass Experiment in April 2005. And his Casanova was a triumph, described by the Observer as "a perfect fusion of Brad Pitt and Michael Palin"
* BILLIE PIPER (Rose Tyler) was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, in the West of England, on September 22, 1982. With her first release, "Because We Want To," in 1998, the 15-year-old Piper became the youngest solo artist to debut at #1 in the U.K. singles charts. The follow-up single, "Girlfriend," also shot to #1, making Piper the first U.K. female solo artist to have two #1 hits in the same year since Cilla Black in 1964. Piper's first album, Honey to the B, was released in 1998; it quickly went platinum and earned her the nickname "Pop Princess." More recently, Piper has forged a career as an actress and won acclaim for her roles in the BBC One productions Canterbury Tales (a modern adaptation of "The Miller's Tale") and Bella and the Boys. She also played the part of Hero in the BBC's 2005 reworking of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. In 2004, she played her first leading role in a feature, The Calcium Kid, opposite Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean). The following year, she appeared in the horror film Spirit Trap, with Dougray Scott and Emilia Fox.
* JOHN BARROWMAN (Captain Jack) was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but was raised in Joliet, Ill. Among Barrowman's many theater credits are A Few Good Men, Love's Labour's Lost, Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera. Barrowman can soon be seen in The Producers: The Movie Musical (2005). After a season on Doctor Who, he will be playing Captain Jack in Torchwood in 2006.
* For filming of Runaway Bride, Catherine Tate had to use assumed name while staying in hotels near location filming as she is well known as the star of BBC's comedy program The Catherine Tate Show and Wild West
* In the episode "Smith & Jones" you may notice a poster on the wall that reads, "Vote Saxon," a clue to the final 2-part episode of the season. The Doctor first used the pseudonym John Smith in The Wheel in Space and has adopted it occasionally ever since. When he was shot in the 1996 movie, his rescuer didn't know his name and put John Smith on the ambulance form. However, the name was first heard in the series in the first ever episode, An Unearthly Child - popular beat combo John Smith and the Common Men could be heard playing on the radio. The actress who plays the vampire lady was herself a victim in a previous Doctor Who episode: Anne Reid appeared in the 1989 story The Curse of Fenric; she played the ill-fated Nurse Crane, who had the blood sucked out of her!
* 42, according to The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. Douglas Adams, the author, was both a writer and script editor on the classic series of Doctor Who. 42 minutes is the approximate length of a standard episode of Doctor Who (minus titles and credits). 42 is the age that Russell T. Davies reached when Series 1 of Doctor Who began in 2005. The first Doctor Who story that current Director Graham Harper worked on was nearly 42 years ago, when he was a floor assistant on The Power of the Daleks. 42 was the age at which Elvis Presley died. 42 minutes was the length of The Beatles' last live gig, performed on the roof of their Apple Records HQ. This episode's premier in Britain was pushed back one week for coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
* "Allons-y!", a phrase much favoured by the Doctor of late, is French for "Let's go!" Actress Adjoa Andoh (Francine Jones) first appeared in Doctor Who under heavy make-up as the chief Cat Nun, Sister Jatt in New Earth.
* Mark Gatiss, who played Dr. Lazarus, has been a fan of Doctor Who all his life. He wrote The Unquiet Dead and The Idiot's Lantern, as well as a number of other Doctor Who books and audio adventures.
* On average, the Empire State Building is struck by lightning a hundred times each year. Due to efficient lighting conductors and other precautionary measures, the vast majority of strikes occur without incident - unless, of course, there's additional solar flare activity and a Time Lord clutching onto the mast.
* Three major theatre productions have featured the Daleks over the years: Curse of the Daleks (1965), Seven Keys to Doomsday (1974) and The Ultimate Adventure (1989)
* There is an actual town of Hooversville, in Pennsylvania, though it probably doesn't have any daleks or pigslaves running around.
* The look of Ma and Pa (the characters who are attacked at the start of the episode Gridlock) is based on the figures in the famous painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic. Gridlock is the 727th episode of Doctor Who. This breaks the record held by the various series in the Star Trek franchise. They amassed a combined total of 726 episodes between them. It takes four days to make one Cat Nun prosthetic, and each can only be used once. A new face was needed for every new filming day.
* The Globe Theatre in Southwark was fitted out with specially fireproofed Welsh straw for location filming of The Shakespeare Code. Bedlam first admitted the mentally ill in 1403. It still exists today as the Bethlam Royal Hospital of London, and is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the world. It no longer has cells, straw or sadistic jailers. The Shakespeare Code was filmed in an exact duplicate of the Globe theatre. The original Globe theatre was destroyed by fire in 1613, the New Globe Theatre was completed in 1997. Its creation was instigated by the late Sam Wanamaker. Sam was the father of Zoë Wanamaker, who played Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth episodes. The title may refer to a popular movie last year, The Da Vinci Code.
* In the episode "Blink," the doctor only appears in a few scenes--in the early years of the classic series there were episodes where he didn't appear at all! The Doctor is entirely absent from The Keys of Marinus parts 3 and 4, Mission to the Unknown and The Massacre parts 2 and 3. On average, it takes between 300-400 milliseconds to blink. Depending on the circumstances, a human blinks between 3 and 30 times a minute. If confronted by a Weeping Angel, the time endured without blinking can be increased significantly.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was first broadcast in 1969 - the year that the Doctor, Martha and Billy were transported to by the Weeping Angels.
In addition to the Weeping Angels, the Doctor has encountered a number of other creatures which are nearly as old as the universe itself. These include the Carrionites (The Shakespeare Code), the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride), and Fenric (The Curse of Fenric). Not one of them has been friendly. Although the episode revolves around an "Easter Egg" from the Doctor in 1969, no Doctor Who DVD has ever had a real Easter Egg hidden on it. After the broadcast of Blink in the U.S. on 9/14/07, it was announced that the next Doctor Who DVD "Destiny Of The Daleks" (Tom Baker) will contain an Easter Egg when it is released in November 2007. Let's hope it's not from a trapped Time Lord.
* Human Nature/The Family Of Blood is a movie-length 2-part episode. Tom Baker once co-wrote a screenplay "Doctor Who Meets Scratchman" a tale of killer scarecrows, a giant game of pinball, the Daleks, and, Vincent Price
* In Utopia, the troubled Professor Yana hears the words and laughter of earlier incarnations of The Master. The Doctor has now encountered six versions of The Master. The actors who have played him are:
Master No. One - Roger Delgado (1971-73)
Master No. Two - Peter Pratt (1976) and Geoffrey Beevers (1981)
Master No. Three - Anthony Ainley (1981-1989)
Master No. Four - Eric Roberts (1996)
Master No. Five - Sir Derek Jacobi (2007)
Master No. Six - John Simm (2007)
For completists, however, Gordon Tipple played 'The Old Master' in the 1996 TV Movie, appearing very briefly in the pre-titles sequence and without dialogue. It is possible that he also played Master #3.
* In The Sound Of Drums, when the Master introduces Martha to her captive family, he does so in the style of the fondly remembered show This is Your Life. This will be the second US President that the Doctor has seen killed-- a photo seen in "Rose" implies that he also witnessed the assassination of JFK in 1963. Nostradamas predicted that three Antichrists would attempt to take over the world. The first would be French (Napoleon), the second German (Hitler), and the third is yet to come..."Peoples of the Earth, please attend carefully" is very similar to a famous line spoken by the Master in Logopolis: 'People of the Universe, please attend carefully.' The Master may be an insane psychopath, but you can't fault his manners. You are my Voodoo Child
By a strange coincidence (since these episodes had been planned all season), Tony Blair stepped down and was replaced as Prime Minister between Part 1 and 2 broadcasts of this episode in England
* In part 2, Last Of The Time Lords, the song that The Master is singing along to on the deck of his flagship Valiant is I Can't Decide by the Scissor Sisters (note: he doesn't get to the part in the song that has the F-word). The statue of The Master that he orders built is 200 feet tall, 10 times as tall as the one of Saddam Hussein that was pulled down by Iraqis. The Master adding his image to Mount Rushmore is similar to The Face of Evil when the god Xoanon added that of the 4th Doctor into a mountain. Earth was first referred to by its Gallifreyan name of Sol 3 in The Deadly Assassin. It's in Mutter's Spiral (the Gallifreyan name for the Milky Way). By the way, the U.S. Navy actually built two flying aircraft carriers in the 1930s. They weren't as big as the Valiant, but each rigid airship could carry 5 biplanes (lowered by a hook for landing or takeoff in flight). One airship crashed at sea and the other took off with no one aboard and crashed. Neither was ever rebuilt. Their giant hanger in northern California is slated to become a sports stadium sometime in 2008.
Full steam ahead to new season 4, just watch out for icebergs!

* The first episode of every new series of Doctor Who since Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988 has featured a view of Earth from space.

* While all creatures from past series could turn up again, that doesn't include the Zarbi--they would be too scary in color. Producers Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson (Julie also produces Torchwood) were interviewed in Doctor Who Magazine in February, 2007. David Tennant asked them, "Are the Zarbi coming back?"
"The Zarbi were in a story [The Web Planet] in like 1965 or something," Phil explains. "They were great big giant ants, which were actually ballet dancers in black tights, with a fibreglass ant on top of them. They would look rather marvellous in colour, it's true to say, but I can exclusively reveal that we are not going to be bringing back the Zarbi, I'm sorry David. He's lobbied hard for them, but we just think they're going to be too frightening for young children." Perhaps they could feature in Torchwood? "Yes, I'll take them!" pipes up Julie. "Phil, hand me your Zarbi!"

* You haven't seen the last of Sarah Jane Smith. Russell T Davies created The Sarah Jane Adventures, a brand new spin-off series for CBBC 2006/2007 season (2008 in the U.S.), which already carries the animated Doctor Who TV-series.

Set in present-day West London, the series stars Elisabeth Sladen, continuing her much-loved role as Sarah Jane Smith. Yasmin Paige will join her as Sarah's 13-year-old neighbour Maria. A 60-minute special which will be broadcast in early 2007, with a series following later in the year. In the special, Sarah and Maria form an unlikely alliance to fight evil alien forces at work in Britain, and against the scheming Ms Wormwood, played by Samantha Bond. "I left Sarah Jane but she never left me," said Elisabeth. "I can't wait to return to Cardiff (where filming is based) to find out what's going to happen to her next." "Children's TV has a fine history of fantasy thrillers," added Russell T Davies. "I loved them as a kid, and they were the very first things I ever wrote. So it's brilliant to return to such a vivid and imaginative area of television." Filming on the special, written by Russell and Gareth Roberts, began in 2006, directed by Colin Teague and produced by Susie Liggat. The full series went into production the following spring and included a return visit of some familiar Doctor Who enemies in September, 2007. The Slitheen, a family of scheming monsters first seen in Aliens of London / World War Three are back - and out for revenge. Following on from a successful special screened on New Year's Day, the ten-part CBBC series stars Elisabeth Sladen as investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith. She'll be joined by young friends Maria and Luke plus new recruit Clyde. "It's great to be back enjoying Sarah Jane with some fantastic new adventures," Sladen revealed to the BBC's in-house Ariel magazine. "There's still so much more to find out about her after all these years." Executive Producer Davies added: "This is a wonderful opportunity, to use all our Doctor Who resources here in Cardiff for the making of a brand new drama for CBBC."

* Behind the scenes of Doctor Who while shooting the final episode of 2nd season (part 1 of 3) about a war between Daleks and the Cyberman...whoever wins, we lose
Sometimes filming a Doctor Who episode is like herding cats (Fear Her)

How to recreate the Titanic stopping for a little ice (behind the scenes)

* Torchwood was founded by Queen Victoria to investigate alien sightings after crossing paths with The Doctor. In fact, "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who." John Barrowman (Captain Jack) was born in Scotland, raised in Illinois from age 8, and returned to U.K. as a college student. He is openly gay, but not his character (so far), and was actually turned down for the American TV-series "Will & Grace" because he looked too strait. In the new series, we first meet Captain Jack during the aerial Battle of Britain. By the way, a pirated episode of "Rose" was put on the internet 3 weeks before its broadcast premier (the employee who did it was fired). After that, episodes were put in canisters code-named "Torchwood"

* During the first season, Christopher Eccleston is credited as "Doctor Who" however this is not really the character's name. Beginning with the second season - reportedly at the behest of the show's new star and life-long fan, David Tennant, the credit has been corrected to read simply "The Doctor"

* Time Crash (2007) As revealed in The Caves Of Androzani, the Fifth Doctor wears a stick of celery on his lapel to warn him of gases in the Praxis range. He's allergic to them. This mini-episode was produced for the charity Children In Need, which can accept donations from outside Britain via PayPal
* Voyage Of The Damned: As explained in the Children In Need special scene Time Crash, the Titanic collided with the TARDIS because the Doctor left its shields down.
* Kylie Minogue's performance of Can't Get You Out Of My Head during her 2006/7 Showgirl: The Homecoming tour featured disco versions of the Cybermen joining her on stage. This was incorporated into the 2008 April Fool's Day BBC video
* Astrid is an anagram of Tardis. There was speculation that this might mean Astrid is a "human tardis." Not so. I'll put it this way: the ending is similar to the ending of Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). Her final line, "I resign," is similar to Dan O'Herlihy's "You're fired," to the evil Director in RoboCop, sealing his doom
* The bit where the malfunctioning Host stutters Max/Ma/Max/Max/Max is a nod to 1980's virtual presenter Max Headroom. Max would stutter when the computer program that generated him couldn't render his image fast enough.
* Composer Murray Gold and arranger Ben Foster both cameo as members of the Titanic's band, along with singer Yamit Mamo.
* During the location filming for the 'London' scenes, Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker visited the set as he was in Cardiff that week, performing in a play.
* Angels seem to be a recurring theme throughout the new series. The Doctor has been referred to as a Lonely Angel, faced The Weeping Angels and made use of the Master's mesmeric communication network, Archangel.
* There were actually six doctors on the real Titanic, only two of which were lucky enough to survive. There are a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the Titanic, none of them true: one even claimed that King Tut's mummy was aboard causing a curse (it wasn't)
* The episode is dedicated to the late Verity Lambert, the very first producer of Doctor Who and a legend in the TV industry. Verity died on 22 November 2007, one day before Doctor Who's 44th anniversary.
* There have been several references to the Doctor and the original Titanic - from pictures of him present at the launch (Rose), denial of any responsibility in its unfortunate fate - and how he survived its sinking by clinging to an iceberg (End Of The World)
* Voyage Of The Damned marks the first time in the new series that the Doctor has referred to Gallifrey being in the constellation of Kasterborous.
* Several of the cast of Voyage Of The Damned have appeared in Classic Doctor Who adventures. Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) played policeman Tom Campbell in the 1965 film Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD. Clive Swift (Mr Copper) played Jobel in the 1985 adventure Revelation of the Daleks. Geoffrey Palmer (Captain Hardaker) previously appeared in The Mutants and Doctor who and Silurians. He's also the father of Charles Palmer - director of episodes Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature and The Family of Blood. Jessica Martin, who voiced the Queen, played werewolf Mags alongside Sylvester McCoy in The Greatest Show In The Galaxy.
* Jimmy Vee played The Moxx of Balhoon in The End of World, the Space Pig in Aliens of London/Word War III and the Graske in the interactive episode Attack Of The Graske. He's also played the Graske and a baby Slitheen in episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
* Donovan's Brain has been filmed three times as a movie
* The Second Mate aboard the original Titanic later became a WW2 hero by evacuating 130 men (50 on deck, 80 below deck) from Dunkirk aboard his private launch, which was built with a capacity of under 30 passengers. He was the highest-ranking surviving officer and looked something like the young actor in Voyage Of The Damned

* Bernard Cribbins (79) has revealed he could have played the lead role in Doctor Who, over 30 years ago. Donna Noble’s grandad Wilfred in the 4th series, says “When Jon Pertwee was leaving (in 1974) I went to be interviewed with a view to perhaps playing Doctor Who. “I would love to have done it, I must say. We concluded the interview and I went home and didn’t get the job, obviously. Tom Baker got it.” But 42 years ago, he made his mark opposite a very different Doctor Who played by horror actor Peter Cushing in the 1966 movie Dalek Invasion Earth: 2150AD. “I played PC Tom Campbell who stumbled into the Tardis thinking it was an ordinary police box. As a result, he was transported into the 22nd century with the Daleks ruling the Earth. “Peter played the Doctor as an old fart. Working with David was so much more exciting. David’s the governor when it comes to Doctor Who, I have to say....I’m in six episodes and I thoroughly enjoyed this jaunt – it was a lovely job and I would love to do more, but I haven’t been told yet whether I’ll be involved in the four new specials.” Bernard first appeared briefly as stargazer Wilfred in last year’s Christmas special Voyage Of The Damned.

* EDDIE IZZARD, currently starring in top US drama The Riches, told The Sun (London) he was robbed when telly bosses gave the role of Doctor Who to Christopher Eccleston. The quirky comic is keen to step into the Timelord's shoes if or when David Tennant and his incredible performing eyebrows step down from the part. "I would accept the part if it was offered to me. I think David is doing a great job in the role. He may become even more popular than Tom Baker, who I thought was the best ever Doctor. Tom actually put my name forward for the part when the BBC brought the show back four years ago." Tom Baker said at the time: "Eddie would bring an alien quality to the part. He is so mysterious and strange and seems like he has a lot of secrets." For the Riches, the British entertainer mastered a Louisiana accent for the role by keeping up the lingo even when he wasn’t filming. “When I do it, I tend to keep American on the set in between takes and when I go home, I also talk like it, going into shops,” he said.

* In the early 1930s, a Doc Savage novel was about a powerful monster that emerges from a volcano, though that one was invisible (which wouldn't have worked as well in a Doctor Who episode)

* Big Ben fell silent for the month of August, 2007, for maintenance and repair - workers even had to repel down the outside of the clock faces. No word yet on how long it took to get that UFO out of the river. Big Ben, recorded at 2pm. During the Blitz a Nazi plane shot down, apparently headed to attack the Royal Palace, was discovered recently on the river bottom. Big Ben as viewed from Parliament Square

* In 2003, Ripley's Believe It Or Not episode #418 reported on a man with two hearts. And 18-year-old Laura Moon of Winmoor, West Yorkshire, was born with 4 fully-functioning kidneys.

Check out the Judoon on the Moon musicvideo, nice tune but you can't dance to it
I Need A Hero
Or would you rather hear the new Doctor Who themesong for 2006 (full orchestra)

Top 10 BBC Programs in England as of 7/07
(source: www.Radiotimes.com)

1. Heroes
2. Cape Wrath
3. Coast
4. Doctor Who
5. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
6. Jekyll
7. Bones
8. Life on Mars
9. Dexter
10. Brothers and Sisters

(in case your're interested, a 12-month subscription to Radiotimes magazine to a U.S. address would be £180.00 - which is probably even more in our American money)

Talking to SFX magazine, Russell T Davies, the man behind the revival of Doctor Who: "Doctor Who is now one of the BBC's biggest flagship shows and this sort of pattern will guarantee it being on air for 20 years...it's no good looking at that American pattern of making seven years if you're lucky - that's just not going to work. Who wants it to die after seven years? It's much bigger than that."
While a fourth series of the new Doctor Who is due to air in April, in 2009 there will only be four special editions, due to Tennant being committed to a production of Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company. However, Davies said that taking a break until the fifth series in 2010 is crucial to the show's longevity. "It needs looking after, in the sense that it needs pauses, it needs its legend revamping every so often."

The final episode of 2007, Voyage Of The Damned

French & Saunders spoof of Dr. Who (1987)

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Attack of the Graske
So, you've seen every Doctor Who adventure so far and you're down to the bottom of this page. What now? I know, why not join the Doctor for an all-new adventure filmed specifically to be seen on your computer and available nowhere else as a webisode? It's Christmas and the demonic Graske are taking over by kidnapping people and replacing them with possessed look-alikes called changlings. The Doctor can't leave the Tardis so you'll have to help. Don't worry, he will show you what to do. Then we'll head for their home planet aboard the Tardis to free the prisoners. Episode credits will be at the end as usual. You may have to scroll down a bit at the start to find "click here" to start the video if you have a smallish videoscreen. If the trip is too scary, just click the Who Monsters photo on the upper left to return here. Stars David Tennant as the Doctor and you as the companion, with various other live actors in the present and Victorian era.
The adventure begins in a separate page.
Note: This mini-episode was shown only on digital television in England, immediately after The Christmas Invasion in 2005. The Graske returned the following year in a 2-part story on Sarah Jane Adventures. The Graske is played by Jimmy Vee, who also played the Moxx of Balhoon in "The End of the World" and the pig in "Aliens of London." When we reach the Graske's planet, most of its victims are unidentifiable because of the pods that hold them. However, a creature wearing a gold helmet with an eye slit in it can be seen: an ambassador from The City of Binding Light, as seen in "The End of the World."
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The Infinite Quest DVD, released on November 5, 2007, starring David Tennant and Freema Agyeman. Buffy star Anthony Head and Liza Tarbuck guest-starred in the thrilling tale of space pirates and really big bugs

BBC Warning! There have been several recent cases of people posing as David Tennant in internet chat rooms and forums - as well as setting up social networking profiles in his name. David would like to point out that neither he, nor Catherine Tate use these kinds of sites, chatrooms or forums, and wouldn't want fans to be disappointed or misled if they thought they were talking to the real actors. We would strongly advise all Doctor Who fans for their own safety to ignore any such postings and not be fooled by impersonators - it will never be David or Catherine online. Posted on BBC website, 29 August 2007

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