Quotes
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"She's a feral child. I bought her for sixpence in Old Londontown. It was her or the Elephant Man." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"This body? Ten miles away. A weakling, heartsick boy, stolen away at night by the brethren for my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart." ~ The Host
"So far from home. Why would I leave this place? A world of industry, of workforce, and warfare? I could turn it to such purpose. I would migrate to the holy monarch. With one bite I would pass into her blood. And then it begins...the Empire of the Wolf! So many questions. Look inside your eyes, you have seen it to! The wolf! There is something of the wolf about you! You burnt like a sun, but all I require is the moon." ~ The Host
"Very much. Oh, completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? Not the scares and chills, that's just for children, but the hope of some contact with the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait. Come. Begin your tale, Sir Robert. There's a chill in the air. The wind is howling through the eaves. Tell us of monsters." ~ Queen Victoria
"You got any silver bullets? There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigourous jog. Good for the health. Come on!" ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Well, they were bald, athletic. Your wife's away, I just thought you were happy." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Imagine it. The Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles, fueled by coal and driven by steam. Leaving history devastated in its wake." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor? Good job my mum's not here. She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing." ~ Rose Tyler
"What if his father and your husband weren't just telling each other stories. They dared to imagine all this was true, and they planned against it, laying the real trap not for you but for the wolf." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"I have rewarded you, Sir Doctor. And now you're exiled from this empire, never to return. I don't know what you are, the two of you, or where you're from. But I know that you consort with stars and magic and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death. And I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good. And how much longer you may survive this terrible life. Now leave my world. And never return." ~ Queen Victoria
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Trivia
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David Tennant uses his natural Scottish accent at various points in this episode, the only time in the series that he does so.
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 at the time. 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!'"
This episode was originally scripted to be set at Buckingham Palace, and invloved Queen Victoria getting an alien insect in her eye. The setting was eventually changed to the Torchwood Estate and the alien being changed to a werewolf.
Pauline Collins (Queen Victoria) appeared previously in the series as Samantha Briggs in the Second Doctor serial The Faceless Ones (1967). She was invited to turn Samantha into a regular companion in 1967, but declined.
The Doctor identifies himself as "Doctor James McCrimmon of the township of Balamory" – Balamory is the setting of a CBeebies television program which, although designed for pre-school children, has gained a cult following in the UK. This town, however, is not entirely fictional – the children's TV show is filmed in a village called Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. And oddly enough Queen Victoria would usually take up residence in a town called Balmoral. Jamie McCrimmon, of course, was a companion of the Second Doctor.
In the same conversation, the Doctor holds up his psychic paper and states, "As you can see, a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. I trained under Dr. Bell, himself." Dr. Joseph Bell (1837–1911) was a real-life lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who served as his clerk starting in 1877, is said to have loosely based his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, on Dr. Bell.
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Trailer
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