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The Eleventh Doctor | |
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Doctor Who character | |
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First regular appearance | The End of Time[1] |
Portrayed by | Matt Smith[2] |
Preceded by | Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) |
Information | |
Tenure | 2010[2] – |
Companions | Amy Pond[3] |
Chronology | Series 5 2011 series |
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The Eleventh Doctor is the eleventh and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, who appeared on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who beginning in 2010. Matt Smith plays this incarnation, replacing David Tennant's Tenth Doctor in the 2010 episode "The End of Time, Part Two".[4] As of 2010, the BBC has confirmed that Smith is to appear in at least two series,[5] the first of which began on 3 April.[6]
The Doctor is a centuries-old alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body but in doing so gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality. Smith portrays the eleventh such incarnation in the television series, in Doctor Who fictional books, and in the upcoming downloadable PC game Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
Overview
Although Steven Moffat expected to pick a middle-aged actor for the new Doctor,[7] at 27 years old, Smith is the youngest actor to portray the Doctor, two years younger than Peter Davison was at the time he began his role as the fifth Doctor.
Casting
Speculation about the identity of the Eleventh Doctor began on 28 June 2008; the penultimate episode of the fourth series, "The Stolen Earth", ended as the Doctor was regenerating after being shot by a Dalek's death ray.[8] The lack of a trailer for the second part, "Journey's End", prompted media and public speculation which helped Doctor Who attain the highest position in the weekly ratings in the show's history.[9] The rumoured replacements included Catherine Tate (then playing the Doctor's companion Donna Noble), Robert Carlyle,[10] Jason Statham, David Morrissey, Alan Davies and James Nesbitt.[11] The Daily Mail also reported the theories that two Doctors could be created—eventually proven to be correct.[12]
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Tennant announced at the National Television Awards on 29 October 2008 that he would be stepping down from portraying the Doctor because he felt that the four years he spent portraying the character was enough and to ease the transition from Russell T Davies' showrunning to Steven Moffat's.[13] At the time, BBC News published that Paterson Joseph, who appeared in the Doctor Who episodes "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways", was the bookmaker's favourite to succeed Tennant and if chosen would become the first black Doctor,[14] followed by David Morrissey, who would be appearing in the 2008 Christmas special, "The Next Doctor". Other candidates included Sean Pertwee, son of Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee;[15] Russell Tovey, who portrayed Alonso Frame in the 2007 Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned";[16] and James McAvoy.[17]
The Doctor is a very special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You need to be old and young at the same time, a boffin and an action hero, a cheeky schoolboy and the wise old man of the universe. As soon as Matt walked through the door, and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man."
Executive Producer Steven Moffat on Smith's casting.[18]
Smith was, however, one of the first actors to audition for the role, and the production team immediately singled him out based on his performance.[2] Show producers were cautious about casting him because they felt that a 26-year-old could not play the Doctor adequately; BBC Wales Head of Drama Piers Wenger shared the sentiment, but noted that Smith was capable enough to play the role.[2][18] Smith's casting in the role was revealed during an episode of Doctor Who's companion show Doctor Who Confidential, during which he described the role as "a wonderful privilege and challenge that I hope I will thrive on".[18]
Biography
The Eleventh Doctor first appears in the final minutes of The End of Time (2010). The Tenth Doctor, succumbing to radiation poisoning, sets his TARDIS into orbit around the Earth and regenerates. The resulting energy causes the TARDIS's windows to shatter and the console room to burst into flames, parts of it even collapsing as a result. The Eleventh Doctor inspects his new appearance — briefly panicking about his long hair in the belief that he has changed into a girl and then innocently confirming otherwise — before realising that the TARDIS is crashing. He clings to the TARDIS console, shouting, "Geronimo!" as the ship falls towards London before finally coming to rest in the backyard of a young Amelia Pond in the opening moments of "The Eleventh Hour." Amelia quickly befriends the Doctor — believing him to be a policeman who has come about the crack in her bedroom wall — and cooks him several meals in an attempt to satiate his post-regeneration hunger, all of which he rejects, before settling with fish fingers dipped in custard. After his meal and a quick inspection of the crack, the Doctor is interrupted by the sound of the Cloister Bell, indicating that the TARDIS's engines are "phasing" and that it will soon explode. In an attempt to vent the engines by travelling five minutes into the future, the Doctor overshoots his mark and travels twelve years instead. When he returns, he reunites with an adult Amy and puts an end to the Atraxi's threat to incinerate the Earth if they cannot find Prisoner Zero, a multiform who had escaped an Atraxi prison through the crack in Amy's wall. After the confrontation, the Doctor accidentally travels two years into the future while wearing in the new TARDIS engines, and convinces Amy to come travel with him since she has "waited long enough."
On Amy's first voyage in the TARDIS the two come across Starship UK, the floating population of the British people. The Doctor and Amy set free the last star whale, which the government had been torturing to fly the ship. After this, the Doctor gets a call from an old friend, Winston Churchill, asking for help while the shadow of a Dalek looms behind him. Arriving in London, the Doctor is tricked by the Daleks into helping them activate a 'Progenitor device' that allows them to create a new generation of Daleks, the Doctor being forced to allow the Daleks to escape to prevent a bomb from destroying Earth. During a meeting with River Song, the Doctor learns that he will meet her again - in her past and his future - at the "opening of the Pandorica", something that he calls a fairy tale. He also discovers that the crack in reality he discovered in Amy Pond's house is caused by a temporal explosion that will occur during Amy's present, which happens to be the next day - Amy's wedding day. After Amy tries to seduce the Doctor, who reacts badly to it, the Doctor finds Rory Williams, Amy's fiance, on his stag night and takes the pair of them to 16th-century Venice, and informs Rory of what happened between him and Amy. Whilst in Venice the Doctor encounters fish-like aliens, who are posing as vampires. As they leave Venice Rory and the Doctor encounter silence, which is what Prisoner Zero and the Angels warned the Doctor about.
Companions
The Eleventh Doctor's first companions are Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillan, whom he first meets as a little girl before accidentally travelling twelve years into the future while trying to repair the TARDIS, and Rory Williams, played by Arthur Darvill, Amy's boyfriend after his first 'jump';[19]. Amy travelled with the Doctor untill Rory joins them in "The Vampires of Venice"[20], the Doctor concerned- after Amy kissed him following a confrontation with the Weeping Angels- that Amy's time with him may have made it difficult for her to fit in to her 'normal' life with Rory, hoping that Rory joining them in their travels will give the two of them a chance to work on their relationship.
Appearance
The Eleventh Doctor spends most of his first episode, "The Eleventh Hour" in the tattered remains of the Tenth Doctor's costume. For twelve years, young Amelia Pond remembers, draws, and plays make-believe games about "the raggedy Doctor", whom she met as a child.
Near the end of "The Eleventh Hour" the Doctor acquires his clothes from the hospital's changing-room, raiding the lockers for a new outfit before his final confrontation with the Atraxi on the rooftop, defending the 'theft' on the grounds that he just saved Earth for "the millionth time". His third incarnation similarly stole his new costume from a hospital locker room in Spearhead from Space, as did the Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who (Although the Eighth Doctor's stolen attire was a fancy-dress costume while the Third's clothing belonged to a consultant who had come in to advise on the Doctor's strange condition).
Smith's costume consists of a brown tweed jacket, rose shirt, dark brown braces, bow tie, rolled up navy trousers and black boots.[21] A differently-coloured variation of this costume—still with the tweed jacket—can be seen in the trailer for Series 5; in addition, the trailer includes footage of the Eleventh Doctor wearing the tattered suit of the Tenth Doctor in several scenes.[22]
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Steven Moffat revealed that the Eleventh Doctor had an entirely different costume until close to the start of filming. The original look had a piratical feel which Benjamin Cook described as "a little like something Captain Jack Sparrow wears in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies". However, Matt Smith was unhappy with the costume as he felt it reflected how someone else would dress the Doctor, rather than how the Doctor would dress himself. The eventual costume, in particular the bow-tie, was influenced by Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor, after Matt Smith fell in love with the Troughton story The Tomb of the Cybermen.[23]
Appearances
Television
The Eleventh Doctor's first series began on 3 April 2010.[24] A 2010 Christmas special and a 2011 series have both been confirmed.[25]
The BBC have confirmed that, following the Tenth Doctor's appearance in "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith", the Eleventh Doctor and Jo Grant will feature in a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2010. [26]
Novels
New Series Adventures
- Apollo 23 by Justin Richards
- Night of the Humans by David Llewellyn
- The Forgotten Army by Brian Minchin
- Adorable Illusion by Gary Russell
- Nuclear Time by Oli Smith
- The King's Dragon by Una McCormack
Audiobooks
- The Runaway Train by Oli Smith[1]
Video games
References
- ^ "Last script for the doctor". Scotland on Sunday. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
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- ^ a b c d "The Eleventh Doctor". Doctor Who Confidential. Episode 15. 3 January 2009. BBC. BBC One.
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- ^ "New Doctor actor is youngest ever". BBC News. 4 January 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
- ^ "'Doctor Who' confirmed for Xmas, sixth series". Digital Spy. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
- ^ "'Doctor Who' airdate officially confirmed". Digital Spy. 19 March 2010.
- ^ Lewinski, John Scott (3 January 2009). "Announces Matt Smith as Next Doctor Who". Wired. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ Writer Russell T. Davies, Director Graeme Harper, Producer Phil Collinson (28 June 2008). "The Stolen Earth". Doctor Who. BBC. BBC One.
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- ^ Doctor Who: Robert Carlyle tipped to replace David Tennant Nicole Martin. Daily Telegraph. 30 June 2008
- ^ James Nesbitt: the new Doctor Who? Jason Deans. The Guardian. 2 August 2007
- ^ Revoir, Paul (5 July 2008). "Dr Who fever sweeps nation as 10million fans prepare to tune in for finale". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
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- ^ Who favourite talks Time Lords Tim Masters. BBC News Online. 20 November 2008
- ^ Sean Pertwee keen on 'Doctor Who' role Ben Rawson-Jones. Digital Spy. 2 December 2007
- ^ Stage actor Russell Tovey tipped as the eleventh Doctor Who Lucy Cockroft. Daily Telegraph. 16 September 2008
- ^ "Doctor Who: The runners and the riders". BBC News. 30 October 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
- ^ a b c "Matt Smith is the New Doctor". BBC Press Office. 3 January 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
- ^ http://tv.sky.com/three-new-companions-for-doctor-who
- ^ "Doctor Who Filming in Croatia". Digital Spy. Retrieved 03-12-2009.
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- ^ Doctor Who Magazine issue 418, 3 February 2010
- ^ "New Doctor Who Matt Smith hopes series wil 'Thrill'". BBC News. 19 March 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "2011 Series Confirmed". The Doctor Who News Page.
- ^ "The Doctor and Jo Grant join CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures in special episodes written by Russell T Davies". BBC Press Office. 2010-04-19. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
External links
- Eleventh Doctor on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki
- The Eleventh Doctor on the BBC's Doctor Who website