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[[Michelle Ryan]] portrays Lady Christina de Souza, the daughter of a recently impoverished aristocrat and [[adrenaline junkie]]. Christina is a "typical" ''Doctor Who'' companion, Davies electing to draw parallels from the [[Time Lady]] [[Romana]] rather than new series companion [[Rose Tyler]]. Roberts described her as an "[[wikt:adventuress|adventuress]]" who is "upper class and glam, suited and booted, and extremely intelligent" which the Doctor could relate to because they both rejected their heritages. Comedian [[Lee Evans (comedian)|Lee Evans]] plays Professor Malcolm Taylor, a UNIT scientist devoted to his predecessor, the Doctor. Davies created Evans' character to serve as a [[foil (literature)|foil]] for [[Noma Dumezweni]]'s pragmatic character Captain [[Erisa Magambo]], who previously appeared in the episode "[[Turn Left (Doctor Who)|Turn Left]]".<ref name="desertstorm" /> Roberts noted after writing the episode that Evans' character had unintentionally become a "loving" caricature of ''Doctor Who'' fandom.<ref name="DWMroberts" /><ref name=BBCnews>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/090123_news_01 |title=All aboard for next special! |accessdate=25 January 2009 |publisher=BBC |work=Doctor Who microsite|date=23 January 2009 }}</ref> |
[[Michelle Ryan]] portrays Lady Christina de Souza, the daughter of a recently impoverished aristocrat and [[adrenaline junkie]]. Christina is a "typical" ''Doctor Who'' companion, Davies electing to draw parallels from the [[Time Lady]] [[Romana]] rather than new series companion [[Rose Tyler]]. Roberts described her as an "[[wikt:adventuress|adventuress]]" who is "upper class and glam, suited and booted, and extremely intelligent" which the Doctor could relate to because they both rejected their heritages. Comedian [[Lee Evans (comedian)|Lee Evans]] plays Professor Malcolm Taylor, a UNIT scientist devoted to his predecessor, the Doctor. Davies created Evans' character to serve as a [[foil (literature)|foil]] for [[Noma Dumezweni]]'s pragmatic character Captain [[Erisa Magambo]], who previously appeared in the episode "[[Turn Left (Doctor Who)|Turn Left]]".<ref name="desertstorm" /> Roberts noted after writing the episode that Evans' character had unintentionally become a "loving" caricature of ''Doctor Who'' fandom.<ref name="DWMroberts" /><ref name=BBCnews>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/090123_news_01 |title=All aboard for next special! |accessdate=25 January 2009 |publisher=BBC |work=Doctor Who microsite|date=23 January 2009 }}</ref> |
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The episode was influenced by several works: Davies described "Planet of the Dead" as "a great big adventure, a little bit [[Indiana Jones]], a little bit ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]'', a little bit ''[[Pitch Black (film)|Pitch Black]]''.";<ref name=RTDTelegraph>{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Colville |title=Russell T Davies Doctor Who interview: full transcript |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/robert_colvile/blog/2009/04/11/russell_t_davies_doctor_who_interview_full_transcript |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=11 April 2009 |accessdate=11 April 2009 }}</ref> the relationship between the Doctor and Christina was influenced by 1960s films such as ''[[Charade]]'' and ''[[Topkapi (film)|Topkapi]]'', which included [[Cary Grant]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]] "being witty and sophisticated together, and then running for their lives";<ref name="desertstorm" /> and the Tritovore were influenced by 1950s and 1970s science fiction [[B-movies]] such as ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' and Davies' habit of including recognisable aliens such as the [[Judoon]].<ref name="DWC">{{cite episode | title = Desert Storm | series = [[Doctor Who Confidential]] | network=[[BBC]] | station = [[BBC Three]] | seriesno=2009 |number=1 | airdate = 11 April 2009}}</ref> The Doctor's rejection of Christina at the end of the episode was influenced by his recent losses in "[[Journey's End (Doctor Who)|Journey's End]]": under other circumstances, Christina would travel in the [[TARDIS]] with the Doctor; and Carmen's warning was a "classical" and "chilling" science-fiction prophecy which evoked memories of the [[Ood]]'s warning to the Doctor and his then companion [[Donna Noble]] in the fourth series episode "[[Planet of the Ood]]", and served to foreshadow the remaining three specials.<ref name="DWC" /> |
The episode was influenced by several works: Davies described "Planet of the Dead" as "a great big adventure, a little bit [[Indiana Jones]], a little bit ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]'', a little bit ''[[Pitch Black (film)|Pitch Black]]''.";<ref name=RTDTelegraph>{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Colville |title=Russell T Davies Doctor Who interview: full transcript |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/robert_colvile/blog/2009/04/11/russell_t_davies_doctor_who_interview_full_transcript |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=11 April 2009 |accessdate=11 April 2009 }}</ref> the relationship between the Doctor and Christina was influenced by 1960s films such as ''[[Charade]]'' and ''[[Topkapi (film)|Topkapi]]'', which included [[Cary Grant]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]] "being witty and sophisticated together, and then running for their lives";<ref name="desertstorm" /> and the Tritovore were influenced by 1950s and 1970s science fiction [[B-movies]] such as ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' and Davies' habit of including recognisable aliens such as the [[Judoon]].<ref name="DWC">{{cite episode | title = Desert Storm | series = [[Doctor Who Confidential]] | network=[[BBC]] | station = [[BBC Three]] | seriesno=2009 |number=1 | airdate = 11 April 2009}}</ref> The Doctor's rejection of Christina at the end of the episode was influenced by his recent losses in "[[Journey's End (Doctor Who)|Journey's End]]": under other circumstances, Christina would travel in the [[TARDIS]] with the Doctor; and Carmen's warning was a "classical" and "chilling" science-fiction prophecy which evoked memories of the [[Ood]]'s warning to the Doctor and his then companion [[Donna Noble]] in the fourth series episode "[[Planet of the Ood]]", and served to foreshadow the remaining three specials.<ref name="DWC" /> Tennant explained the prophecy meant that the Doctor's "card [had become] marked" and the three specials would thus be darker—characterising "Planet of the Dead" as the "last time the Doctor gets to have any fun"—and that the subject of the prophecy was not the obvious answer: |
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Directed by | James Strong[2] | ||
Written by | Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts[2] | ||
Script editor | Lindsey Alford[2] | ||
Produced by | Tracie Simpson[2] | ||
Executive producer(s) | Russell T Davies Julie Gardner | ||
Production code | 4.15[3] | ||
Series | 2009 Easter special | ||
Running time | 60 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 11 April 2009[1] | ||
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"Planet of the Dead" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was broadcast on 11 April 2009. It is the first of four specials to be broadcast throughout 2009 and early 2010.
The episode features David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, with Michelle Ryan playing special guest star Lady Christina de Souza. The episode sees a bus drive through a wormhole to a desert planet. The episode features UNIT, which has appeared sporadically since the 1969 story The Invasion, in a major role.
The desert scenes were filmed on the deserts of Dubai in February 2009; while being shipped over to Dubai, the double-decker bus, a Bristol VR, that would be used in filming was damaged by a crane. The damage to the bus was subsequently written into the episode.
Plot
The episode begins as Lady Christina robs a museum, stealing a gold chalice once belonging to King Athelstan; she then evades the police by riding on the same London bus as the Doctor, shortly before the bus, now pursued by the police, suddenly passes through a wormhole and arrives on the desert planet of Sanhelios. The Doctor and the other passengers find that the wormhole is still present, but deduce the bus had protected them like a Faraday cage after the bus driver is killed trying to cross back. The driver's skeleton causes the police to call in UNIT, commanded by Captain Erisa Magambo (Noma Dumezweni) and aided by scientific advisor Malcolm Taylor (Lee Evans), to close the wormhole. Trapped on a heavily damaged bus, the other passengers introduce themselves: Angela (Victoria Alcock) is a middle-aged mother travelling home; Lou (Reginald Tsiboe) and Carmen (Ellen Thomas) are an elderby couple who win £10 each time they play the National Lottery due to Carmen's low-level psychic abilities; Barclay (Daniel Kaluuya) was travelling to a friend's house to ask her on a date; and Nathan (David Ames) was travelling home to watch television. The Doctor and Christina decide to scout the planet and an approaching sandstorm while Nathan and Barclay try to fix the bus.
The Doctor and Christina encounter the Tritovore, an anthropomorphic fly species, who take them to their wrecked spaceship. The Tritovore explain that they were making a routine goods collection from the planet but crashed in an unfamiliar environment; a year previously, the planet housed a hundred billion inhabitants and a thriving ecosystem. The Tritovore send out a probe to investigate the cause, and discover a large swarm of metallic stingray-like aliens, who routinely create wormholes and destroy ecospheres as their biological imperatives. To rescue the Tritovore and the bus passengers, Christina uses her burglary skills to steal a crystal on a pedestal, unintentionally awakening a stingray that kills the Tritovore.
The Doctor attaches parts of the pedestal to the bus and uses the chalice of Athelstan as an interface to the technology. The technology allows the bus to fly through the wormhole, with the stingrays in hot pursuit. As soon as the bus—and three stingrays—travels through the wormhole, Malcolm closes the wormhole. After UNIT dispatch the stingrays, Christina asks the Doctor to travel with him; he rejects her because he does not want to lose another companion.
At the end of the episode, the characters part ways: the Doctor recommends that UNIT hire Barclay and Nathan; Christina is arrested by the police for the theft; and Carmen asks the Doctor take care of himself because of a prediction she tells him that visible shocks the Doctor:
You be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the Dark. And then... oh, but then... he will knock four times.
— Carmen, "Planet of the Dead"[4]
As a final act of kindness, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to release Christina from her handcuffs. She flies the bus away, making sure to leave the Doctor on good terms, as he enters his TARDIS and dematerialises.
Production
Writing and casting
Russell T Davies co-wrote the episode with Gareth Roberts, the first writing partnership for the show since its revival.[5] "Planet of the Dead" was a departure from Roberts' usual stories—Roberts had previously only written pseudo-historical stories—and instead consisted of "wild" science fiction elements from his literary career and teenage imagination. The episode had no clear concept—such as Charles Dickens and ghosts appearing in "The Unquiet Dead" or Shakespeare and witches in "The Shakespeare Code"—and instead was a deliberate "clash [of concepts] with many disparate elements". Roberts explained he was cautious to ensure that each element had to "feel precise and defined ... like we meant that", giving Arc of Infinity as an example where such control was not enforced.[6]
Unlike the Christmas specials, the theme of Easter was not emphasised in the story; the episode only contained a "fleeting mention" of the holiday instead of "robot bunnies carrying baskets full of deadly egg bombs". The episode's tone word—"joyous"—was influenced by Davies' realisation that "every story since "The Fires of Pompeii" [had] a bittersweet quality" and subsequent desire to avoid the recurring theme.[5] The starting point for the story was Roberts' first novel The Highest Science. Davies liked the image of a London Underground train on a desert planet and rewrote it to contain a bus. Davies nevertheless emphasised it was not an "adaptation as such" because tangential elements were constantly being conceived and added.[5]
Michelle Ryan portrays Lady Christina de Souza, the daughter of a recently impoverished aristocrat and adrenaline junkie. Christina is a "typical" Doctor Who companion, Davies electing to draw parallels from the Time Lady Romana rather than new series companion Rose Tyler. Roberts described her as an "adventuress" who is "upper class and glam, suited and booted, and extremely intelligent" which the Doctor could relate to because they both rejected their heritages. Comedian Lee Evans plays Professor Malcolm Taylor, a UNIT scientist devoted to his predecessor, the Doctor. Davies created Evans' character to serve as a foil for Noma Dumezweni's pragmatic character Captain Erisa Magambo, who previously appeared in the episode "Turn Left".[5] Roberts noted after writing the episode that Evans' character had unintentionally become a "loving" caricature of Doctor Who fandom.[6][7]
The episode was influenced by several works: Davies described "Planet of the Dead" as "a great big adventure, a little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Flight of the Phoenix, a little bit Pitch Black.";[8] the relationship between the Doctor and Christina was influenced by 1960s films such as Charade and Topkapi, which included Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn "being witty and sophisticated together, and then running for their lives";[5] and the Tritovore were influenced by 1950s and 1970s science fiction B-movies such as The Fly and Davies' habit of including recognisable aliens such as the Judoon.[9] The Doctor's rejection of Christina at the end of the episode was influenced by his recent losses in "Journey's End": under other circumstances, Christina would travel in the TARDIS with the Doctor; and Carmen's warning was a "classical" and "chilling" science-fiction prophecy which evoked memories of the Ood's warning to the Doctor and his then companion Donna Noble in the fourth series episode "Planet of the Ood", and served to foreshadow the remaining three specials.[9] Tennant explained the prophecy meant that the Doctor's "card [had become] marked" and the three specials would thus be darker—characterising "Planet of the Dead" as the "last time the Doctor gets to have any fun"—and that the subject of the prophecy was not the obvious answer:
- David Tennant
- Really, from this moment on, the Doctor's card is marked. Because when we come back in "The Waters of Mars", it's all become a little bit darker.
- Julie Gardner
- And as we know, David, he really does knock four times.
- Tennant
- Yeah, absolutely, and if you think you've figured out what that means, you're wrong!
- Gardner
- But when you do figure it out, it's a sad day.
— David Tennant and Julie Gardner, Doctor Who: The Commentaries, "Planet of the Dead"[10]
Filming
Pre-production on the four specials started on 20 November 2008—four days before scheduled—because the episode's overseas filming in Dubai required the extra planning time.[11] Two weeks later, the production team was on a recce for the special and the final draft of the script was completed.[12] The production team examined overseas locations to film the episode because they wanted the scenery to feel "real" and thought that they would be unable to film on a Welsh beach in winter. After examining countries such as Morocco and Tunisia, the production team decided to film in Dubai because the area was more amicable to the filming industry and viable filming locations were nearer to urban areas than other locations.[13]
Production began on 19 January in Wales.[7][3] The special was the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in high-definition television resolution.[14] The move to HD had previously been resisted for two major reasons: when the show was revived in 2005, high-definition television was not adopted by an adequate portion of the audience to be financially viable; and special effects were considerably more expensive and difficult to film using HD cameras as opposed to normal cameras. "Planet of the Dead" was used to switch to HD because of the show's reduced schedule in 2009 and because the filming crew had become experienced with the equipment while they were filming Torchwood.[10]
Filming began at the National Museum Cardiff (51°29′12″N 3°10′15″W / 51.4866°N 3.1709°W), which doubled for the history museum depicted in the episode's first scene. To portray the tunnel the bus travelled into, the Queen's Gate Tunnel of the A4232 road in Butetown (51°27′44″N 3°10′15″W / 51.4622°N 3.1708°W) was closed for four nights to accommodate filming. The last major piece of filming in Wales took place in the closed Mir (formerly Alphasteel) steelworks in Newport, (51°33′28″N 2°57′46″W / 51.5578°N 2.9628°W) which doubled almost unaltered for the Tritovore spaceship. Filming took place at the peak of the February 2009 Great Britain snowfall, where the sub-zero temperatures slowed filming and had a visible effect on the cast. To accommodate for the adverse conditions, Davies included a line in the script that specified that the Tritovore spaceship cooled as external temperatures increase.[10]
Filming in Dubai (24°55′08″N 55°37′26″E / 24.919°N 55.624°E) took place in mid-February 2009. Two weeks previously, one of the two 1980 Bristol VR double-decker buses bought for filming had been substantially damaged when a crane accidentally dropped a container in Dubai City Port.[15][9]After an emergency discussion by the production team, they agreed that the damage was unintentionally artistic and decided to include the damaged bus in the episode;[9] instead of shipping the spare bus from Cardiff—which would have delayed the already hurried filming schedule—the production team decided to partially reconstruct the bus in Dubai, damage the spare bus in Cardiff to match the bus in Dubai, and rewrite part of the script to accommodate and mention the damage to the bus.[9][10][16][17] James Strong recalled the reaction of the production team to the damage to the bus in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine:
One morning in the first week of February, I was leaving my flat when Julie Gardner phoned. She said, "there's been a little accident with the bus [...] it's a disaster; the bus is fucked." When I got into the office, I was handed a photograph—and my initial reaction was absolute horror. We called an emergency meeting. Russell came in [...] and we discussed our options. We had bought an identical London bus to film on in Cardiff, so could we send that out to Dubai? We could have got it out in time if it'd left Cardiff, literally, the next day, but we'd have had to find a third bus, an exact replica, to film on in Cardiff a week later. It had taken us a month to find the one we had. It was even mooted that we'd have to forget Dubai and opt for a beach in the UK. But Russell's response was "Okay, let's embrace it. Let's say that the bus was damaged on its way to the alien planet. [...] He wove it into the narrative. We're not trying to hide the damage at all. In fact, we show it off, enhancing it with special effects, smoke and sparks. It works rather marvellously. That London bus, damaged and smoking, in the middle of the desert—yeah, it looks incredible, especially in gorgeous hi-def.
— James Strong, Doctor Who Magazine issue 407.[13]
The damaged bus was not the only problem to filming in Dubai: the first of the three days was afflicted by a sandstorm which left most of the footage shot unusable.[13] The production team then struggled to complete three days of filming in two days; the last day was compared to "filming Lawrence of Arabia".[9] To complete the episode's filming, interior scenes in the bus were filmed in a studio in Wales. To disguise the fact they were using a translite—a 360-degree background image—, Strong utilised often-avoided techniques such as muddied windows and lens flares; the latter also served to create a warmer environment for the viewer.[10] After filming ended, editing and post-processing took place until two days before transmission, leaving the BBC to use an unfinished copy to market the episode.[10][9]
200th story
"Planet of the Dead" was advertised as Doctor Who's 200th story. Writer Russell T Davies admitted that the designation was arbitrary and debatable, based upon how fans counted the unfinished serial Shada, the season-long fourteen-part serial The Trial of a Time Lord, and the third series finale consisting of "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords".[18] Davies personally disagreed about counting The Trial of a Time Lord as one serial—arguing that it "[felt] like four stories" to him—and grouping "Utopia" with its following episodes, but agreed that it was only an opinion which did not override any others.[18] Gareth Roberts inserted a reference to the landmark—specifically, the bus number is 200[19]—and Davies emailed the show's publicity team to advertise the special as such.[18] Doctor Who Magazine's editor Tom Spilsbury acknowledged the controversy in the magazine's 407th issue, which ran a reader survey of all 200 stories.[20]
Broadcast and reception
Overnight figures estimated that the special was watched by 8.41 million people, a 39.6% share of the audience. An additional 184,000 watched the programme on BBC HD, the channel's highest rating so far. The initial showing had an Appreciation Index of 88: considered excellent.[21][22]. A BBC One repeat, two days later, gained an overnight figure of 1.8 million viewers.[21] The special was therefore the second most watched programme of the day, being beaten by the premiere of the new series of Britain's Got Talent.[22]
References
- ^ "Doctor Who, Planet of the Dead". BBC Programme Guide. BBC. 11 April 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f Writers Russell T Davies, Gareth Roberts, Director James Strong, Producer Tracie Simpson (11 April 2009). "Planet of the Dead". Doctor Who. BBC. BBC One.
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- ^ Colville, Robert (11 April 2009). "Russell T Davies Doctor Who interview: full transcript". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Desert Storm". Doctor Who Confidential. Episode 1. 11 April 2009. BBC. BBC Three.
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- ^ Evans, Catherine (30 January 2009). "Doctor Who plot rewrite after prop bus is wrecked". South Wales Echo. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
- ^ O'Grady, Paul; Ryan, Michelle et al. (8 April 2009). "Interview with Michelle Ryan". The Paul O Grady. Episode 33. Channel 4. Channel 4.
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External links
- Planet of the Dead on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki
- "Planet of the Dead" at the BBC Doctor Who homepage
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