Quotes
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"I'm the Doctor. Simply, the Doctor. The one, the only and the best. Rosita, give me the sonic screwdriver." ~ The Next Doctor
"Then observe the enemy. This man is dangerous. This man is our enemy. This man is the Doctor."~ Cyberleader
"Ah, don't blink. Remember that? Whatever you do, don't blink? The blinking and the statues? Sally and the angels? No? " ~ The Doctor
"I was holding this device the night I lost my mind. The night I regenerated. The Cybermen, they made me change. My mind, my face, my whole self. And you were there. Who are you?" ~ The Next Doctor
"Okay. I think we should run." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"With all the things a Time Lord has lost, everything he's seen, he must surely have bad dreams." ~ Jackson Lake
"A long time away, and not so far from here, the Cybermen were fought, and they were beaten. And they were sent into a howling wilderness called The Void, locked inside forever more." ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Whoa! That's cheating, sneaking up. Do you have your legs on silent?" ~ The Tenth Doctor
"Oh. Oh my word. Oh. Oh, goodness me. Well. But this is, but this is nonsense. Complete and utter, wonderful nonsense. How very, very silly." ~ Jackson Lake
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Trivia
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The episode was filmed during production of Series 4, the first time a Christmas special has been rolled into production of the preceding series. This allowed the Series 4 finale, Journey's End, to include a trailer for the episode. It is still considered part of Series 4, but was not included, for example, in the Complete Series 4 DVD set, but was instead later released in the Complete Specials box set. It is considered the fifteenth and final episode of Series 4 on Netflix (the first episode being Voyage of the Damned).
The DVD release of Series 4 included an alternate ending for Journey's End that would have had a cliffhanger involving the Cybermen suddenly appearing inside the TARDIS. This idea was dropped before broadcast and the opening scene of this episode gives no indication of the Doctor being in peril and at no point in the episode do Cybermen enter the TARDIS. In his book The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter, Davies credits Doctor Who Magazine writer Benjamin Cook with convincing him to drop the cliffhanger.
This is the first Christmas Special for which a new song was not written. The only song heard in the special is the standard "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" this has been the main Christmas carol for the Christmas specials and excluding Voyage of the Damned, it's been played at some point in all the rest of the new series Christmas episodes.
This is the first episode to be broadcast after David Tennant's announcement that he would leave the role of the Doctor in 2010. However, it is the last episode to be filmed and produced before the announcement, as Tennant was playing 'Hamlet' for the latter half of 2008 and early 2009; in fact, Tennant announced his depature at a live broadcast during the 2008 National Television Awards during the intermission of that night's production, in full costume and flanked by two Danish guards.
This episode contains no 'Next Time' trailer. This was because Planet of the Dead was not filmed until early 2009, after Tennant had finished playing 'Hamlet' opposte Patrick Stewart.
Russell T Davies revealed to Radio Times: "The Doctor finds himself staring at that inevitable day when his tenth incarnation must die..."
This episode was the subject of a quite heavy campaign of misinformation which included a false summary of the 'Fear Factor' which implied that two Doctors would be left in peril at the end. It also included misleading quotes from RTD's book and threats of not having a press screening.
Mickey Smith had previously used the term "Cyberking" in Army of Ghosts when speculating about the contents of the void ship.
To keep the mystery of the identity of David Morrissey's character a surprise, the actor was credited as 'the Doctor' in Radio Times and only as 'Jackson Lake' in the closing credits.
Russell T Davies chose the name Rosita for Jackson Lake's companion because it contained elements of 'Rose' and 'Martha'. It also happens to be Spanish for "Little Rose.
Dervla Kirwan wore special black contact lenses for the scenes of the transformed Miss Hartigan. Because the lenses didn't completely cover her eyes, however, special effects team at The Mill had to electronically paint out any glimpes of white eyeballs that appeared in shot.
This is the third time in the series that a Cybermen story (without Daleks) has directly followed a Dalek story (without Cybermen). Previous instances were The Tomb of the Cybermen following The Evil of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen following Genesis of the Daleks. The reverse has occurred once, when The Power of the Daleks followed The Tenth Planet. These observations disregard non-TV stories which take place between these stories, as well as the mini-episode Music of the Spheres, which was first broadcast on radio between Journey's End and The Next Doctor, and on television six days after The Next Doctor.
This episode was the first to feature the new BBC Wales logo following the credits.
This was the final Doctor Who story to be produced in "standard definition". Beginning with the next story, the show moved to high-definition production.
David Tennant is credited as "Doctor Who" instead of the usual "the Doctor".
This is the first episode of the revived series in which the Doctor's main companion is male rather than female. Thus it is also the first full episode where no female actors are credited in the opening titles. Prior to this, no female actors were credited in the title sequences of Attack of the Graske, Time Crash, and Music of the Spheres. This would also be repeated in The End of Time
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Trailer
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