NuWho - Series 7, Episode 13 - Nightmare in Silver - Season 33, Story 237

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"Well, here we are. Hedgewick's World. The biggest and best amusement park there will ever be, and we've got a golden ticket. Eh? Eh? Fun." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"No need to panic, my young friends. We all know there are no more living Cybermen. What you are seeing is a miracle. The six hundred and ninety ninth wonder of the universe, as displayed before the Imperial court, and only here to destroy you at chess." ~ Webley

The 11th Doctor: Insects. Funny insects. I should a them to my funny insect collection.
Clara: You collect funny insects?
The 11th Doctor: Yeah, I'm starting to, right now.

"Don't wander off. Now, I'm not just saying don't wander off, I mean it. Otherwise you'll wander off and the next thing you know, somebody's going to have to start rescuing somebody." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Cybermen. Technologically upgraded warriors. We couldn't win. Sometimes we fought to a draw, but then they'd upgrade themselves, fix their weaknesses and destroy us. It's hard to fight an enemy that uses your armies as spare parts." ~  Porridge

"That was a Cyberman. But they're extinct." ~ Captain Alice Ferrin

"I'm getting Angie, finding Artie and looking for funny insects. Stay alive. And you lot, no blowing up this planet!" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Firstly, if anybody's watching this, those children are under my protection. I'm coming to get them. And secondly, little metal machine, you are beautiful.  Not even a Cybermat any more, eh? Cybermites." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"We needed children, but the children had stopped coming. You brought us children. Hail to you, the Doctor, saviour of the Cybermen!" ~ Webley

Clara: I trust the Doctor.
Captain: You think he knows what he's doing?
Clara: I'm not sure I'd go that far.

"There. That was easy. The game has just started. Doctor, why is there no record of you anywhere in the databanks of the Cyberiad? Oh, you're good. Oh, you've been eliminating yourself from history. You know you could be reconstructed by the hole you've left." ~ The Cyber-Doctor

Porridge: You knew it was me.
Captain: I was in the Imperial Guard on Caspertine. Mostly just parades, but I had the honour to guard the old Emperor during the ice picnic.
Porridge: When the snow bears came and danced for us. That was a day.

Cyber-Doctor: Actually, he has no better than a twenty five percent chance of winning at this stage in the game. Some very dodgy moves at the beginning. Hello, flesh girl. Fantastic. I'm the Cyberplanner.
Clara: Doctor?
Cyber-Doctor: Afraid not. I'm working the mouth now. Allons-y. Oh, you should see the state of these neurons. He's had some cowboys in here. Ten complete re-jigs.

"It's time to get up. Wakey, wakey, boys and girls. Wakey, wakey." ~ The Cyber-Doctor

"Your move. But before you take it, just so you know, sacrificing my queen was the best possible move I could have made. The Time Lords invented chess. It's our game. And if you don't avoid my trap, it gives me mate in three moves." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Please stand by. You will be upgraded. Welcome to the Cyberiad. You will be upgraded. Welcome to the Cyberiad. You will be upgraded." ~ Cyberman

Clara: Do you think I'm pretty?
The 11th Doctor: No. You're too short and bossy, and your nose is all funny.
Clara: Good enough.

"Oh yeah. Nice ship. Bit big. Not blue enough." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Impossible girl. A mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that's just a little bit too tight. Oh yeah. What are you?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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The working title for this episode was The Last Cyberman.

According to "Behind the scenes...", the Cybermen were redesigned for this episode and got a variety of new abilities and features. These new Cybermen share several similarities with the Borg of Star Trek franchise - which were in turn originally based somewhat upon the Cybermen. The Cybermen's ability to adapt to attacks is reminiscent of the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Additionally, the Borg used nanoprobes to convert individuals, similar to the cybermites, and Webley's cyber-appearance is reminiscent of the Borg's "half machine, half human" face. And as of "Star Trek: First Contact" they, like these Cybermen, assimilated new members by use of something coming out of their wrists. Voice notifications for individuals to convert were also typical for the Borg and the Cybermen, both new and old.

This episode uses a camera technique known as "Bullet Time", popularised in the science fiction film The Matrix to frame out the high-speed movements of the new Cybermen, as shown in the "Behind the Scenes" featurette for Nightmare in Silver.

The Cyber-Planner makes its first appearance within the revived series. However, this is not the first time it has been incorporated into the elements of the revived timeline. Cyber-Planners previously appeared in the video game The Eternity Clock.

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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 8 - The Rings of Akhaten - Season 33, Story 232

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"Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way in that exact place so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And if just one of those tiny little things had never happened, I'd never have met you. Which makes this the most important leaf in human history." ~ Dave Oswald

"She's just a girl. How can she be? She can't be. She is. She can't be. She's not possible." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: I don't know. You know when someone asks you what's your favourite book and straight away you forget every single book that you've ever read?
The 11th Doctor: No. Totally not.

The 11th Doctor: Do you know, I forget how much I like it here. We should come here more often.
Clara: You've been here before?
The 11th Doctor: Yes, yes, yes. I came here a long time ago with my granddaughter.
Clara: Hang on!

"You're a thousand years old. You must have something you care about." ~ Clara

"Listen. There's one thing you need to know about travelling with me. Well, one thing apart from the blue box and the two hearts. We don't walk away." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: Did you just lock us in with the soul eating monster?
The 11th Doctor: Yep.

"All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Until eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: I say leg it.
The 11th Doctor: Leg it where, exactly?
Clara: Don't know. Lake District?
The 11th Doctor: Oh, the Lake District's lovely. Let's definitely go there. We can eat scones. They do great scones in 1927.

"I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Well, come on then. Eat up. Are you full? I expect so, because there's quite a difference, isn't there, between what was and what should have been. There's an awful lot of one, but there's an infinity of the other. And infinity's too much, even for your appetite." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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Unlike the previous episodes of Series 7, this episode does not introduce a new variation of the Doctor Who logo.

This is the first episode since her departure that does not have Amy Pond referenced and inadvertently affecting the plot or story. The word 'Pond' was what got the Doctor to come out of retirement in The Snowmen and an image on the cover of the book she wrote, Summer Falls, became a manifestation for a Spoonhead in The Bells of Saint John.

This is the first episode in Doctor Who history to have a musical theme.

The Doctor mentions bringing his granddaughter to Akhaten at some point in time, though she is not mentioned by name. Most likely referring to his granddaughter and past companion Susan Foreman, this would be the first explicit mention of her in the revived series.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 3 - A Town Called Mercy - Season 33, Story 227

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"I see Keep Out signs as suggestions more than actual orders, like Dry Clean only." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Anachronistic electricity, Keep Out signs, aggressive stares. Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Isaac: Says he wants us to give him the alien doctor.
Amy: But that's you. Why would he want to kill you? Unless he's met you.

"Why would I be curious? It's a mysterious space cowboy assassin. Curious? Of course I'm not curious." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Kahler-Jex: But that wasn't the plan. He's not following the plan.
Amy: Welcome to my world.

"When he starts killing your people, you can use your justice." ~ The Gunslinger

"We'd been at war for nine years. A war that had already decimated half of our planet. Our task was to bring peace, and we did. We built an army that routed the enemy and ended the war in less than a week. Do you want me to repent, to beg forgiveness for saving millions of lives?" ~ Kahler Jex

"War is another world. You cannot apply the politics of peace to what I did. To what any of us did." ~ Kahler Jex

"Looking at you, Doctor, is like looking into a mirror, almost. There's rage there, like me. Guilt, like me. Solitude. Everything but the nerve to do what needs to be done. Thank the gods my people weren't relying on you to save them." ~ Kahler Jex

Amy: Oh, you're really letting him do this?
Rory: Save us all? Yeah, I really am.

Amy: This is not how we roll, and you know it. What happened to you, Doctor? When did killing someone become an option?
The 11th Doctor: Jex has to answer for his crimes.
Amy: And what then? Are you going to hunt down everyone who's made a gun or a bullet or a bomb?
The 11th Doctor: But they coming back, don't you see? Every time I negotiate, I try to understand. Well, not today. No. Today, I honour the victims first. His, the Master's, the Dalek's, all the people who died because of my mercy!
Amy: You see, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long. Well, listen to me, Doctor. We can't be like him. We have to be better than him.

"But that's how all this started. Jex turned someone into a weapon. Now that same story's going to make you a killer, too. Don't you see? Violence doesn't end violence, it extends it, and I don't think you want to do this. I don't think you want to become that man." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Frightened people. Give me a Dalek any day." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Kahler-Jex: You think I'm unaffected by what I did? That I don't hear them screaming every time I close my eyes? It would be so much simpler if I was just one thing, wouldn't it? The mad scientist who made that killing machine, or the physician who's dedicated his life to serving this town. The fact that I'm both bewilders you.
The 11th Doctor: Oh, I know exactly what you are, and I see this reformation for what it really is. You committed an atrocity and chose this as your punishment. Don't get me wrong, good choice. Civilised hours, lots of adulation, nice weather, but, but justice doesn't work like that. You don't get to decide when and how your debt is paid.
Kahler-Jex: In my culture, we believe that when you die your spirit has to climb a mountain carrying the souls of everyone you wronged in your lifetime. Imagine the weight I will have to lift. The monsters I created, the people they killed. Isaac, he was my friend. Now his soul will be in my arms, too. Can you see now why I fear death? You want to hand me over. There's no shame in that. But you won't. We all carry our prisons with us. Mine is my past. Yours is your morality.

Kahler-Jex: When this is over, will you go back?
The Gunslinger: How can I? I am a monster now.
Kahler-Jex: So am I.

The Gunslinger: I'm a creature of war. I have no role to play during peace.
The 11th Doctor: Except maybe to protect it.

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Working titles for this story included The Gunslinger and Mercy.

This was the first televised Western episode since The Gunfighters in 1966.

This was the first episode of the BBC Wales revival whose visual effects were not credited to The Mill. Although various episodes had, in the past, required help from other companies, The Mill had always managed to retain the main "Visual Effects" credit. The most notable recent example of this was The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, where some of the effects were done by Space Digital. There, Space received an "Additional Visual Effects" credit. Here, however, they become the first company other than The Mill to get the main VFX credit since Rose.

This is the first episode not to feature the TARDIS interior since The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Matt Smith recieved three riding lessons prior to the shoot.  This was his first time ever on horseback.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 6 - The Snowman - Season 33, Story 230

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"I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to." ~ Dr. Simeon

The 11th Doctor: Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how to make snowmen.
Clara: What, snow that can remember? That's silly.
The 11th Doctor: What's wrong with silly?
Clara: Nothing. Still talking to you, ain't I?

"I think winter is coming. Such a winter as this world has never known. The last winter of humankind." ~ Dr. Simeon

The 11th Doctor: This snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?
Strax: A grenade.

"Thank you, Strax. And if ever I'm in need of advice from a psychotic potato dwarf, you'll certainly be the first to know." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: Sontaran. Clone warrior race. Factory produced, whole legions at a time. Two genders is a bit further than he can count.
Strax: Sir, do not discuss my reproductive cycle in front of enemy girls. It's embarrassing.

"The Doctor is not kind. The Doctor doesn't help people. Not anyone, not ever. He stands above this world and doesn't interfere in the affairs of its inhabitants. He is not your salvation, nor your protector. Do you understand what I am saying to you?  He was different once, a long time ago. Kind, yes. A hero, even. A saver of worlds. But he suffered losses which hurt him. Now he prefers isolation to the possibility of pain's return." ~ Vastra

Great Intelligence: We are the Intelligence.
The 11th Doctor: Ooo. Talking snow. I love new things.
Great Intelligence: You are not of this world.
The 11th Doctor: Takes one to snow one.

Strax: Madame Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades?
The 11th Doctor: Grenades?
Strax: She might have said help.

The 11th Doctor: Don't be clever, Strax. It doesn't suit you.
Strax: Sorry, sir.
The 11th Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one.
Strax: Yes, sir.

Strax: Sir, one pulver grenade would blow these snowmen to smithereens.
The 11th Doctor: They're made of snow, Strax. They're already smithereens.

"That's the way to do it!" ~ Ice Governess

Clara: After you, I'm wearing a dress. Eyes front, soldier!
The 11th Doctor: My eyes are always front!
Clara: Mine aren't.

The 11th Doctor: So. Barmaid or governess, which is it?
Clara: That thing is after us, and you want a chat?
The 11th Doctor: Well, we can't chat after we've been horribly killed, can we?

Clara: How did we get up so high so quick?
The 11th Doctor: Clever staircase. It's taller on the inside.

Clara: Blimey, you really know how to sulk, don't you?
The 11th Doctor: I'm not sulking.
Clara: You live in a box!

Jenny: Well, we can't be in much danger from a disembodied Intelligence that thinks it can invade the world with snowmen.
Vastra: Or that the London Underground is a key strategic weakness.
The 11th Doctor: The Great Intelligence. Rings a bell.

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The episode features a first-ever special effect for the series: a single camera shot following a character from the outside of the TARDIS, through the doors, and into the console room. A similar shot had been accomplished for the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS and the fan production Devious, but this was the first time it had been done in the series proper, according to the behind-the-scenes featurette uploaded to the BBC's Doctor Who website after broadcast.

In an interview published in DWM 455, published before the broadcast, actor Dan Starkey revealed that a scene was filmed showing what happened to Vastra, Jenny and Strax two days after the events of A Good Man Goes to War. Starkey says he wasn't sure if it was "a preview online, a DVD extra or what." (Ultimately, this ended up being the prequel, The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later.) The same article recalls that in DWM 438, an e-mail by Starkey was printed in which be accurately predicted the story line that would see Strax living in London in the 19th century as Vastra's butler.

The Doctor shows the Great Intelligence a lunchbox with a map of the London Underground, circa 1967. In The Web of Fear, which was filmed in 1967 and 1968, The Great Intelligence lures the Doctor to a trap in the London Underground.

The Doctor is shown living in 1890s London, which would place him in violation of the banishment handed down by Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 4 - The Power of Three - Season 33, Story 228

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Brian Williams: What if they're bombs? Billions of tiny bombs? Or transport capsules maybe, with a mini robot inside. Or deadly hard drives. Or alien eggs? Or messages needing decoding. Or they're all parts of a bigger whole. Jigsaw puzzles that need fitting together.
The 11th Doctor: Very thorough, Brian. Very, very thorough. Well done. Stay here. Watch these. Yell if anything happens.

"There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants." ~ Rory Williams

"All these muscles, and they still don't know how to knock. Sorry about the raucous entrance. Spike in Artron energy reading at this address. In the light of the last twenty four hours, we had to check it out, and the dogs do love a run out." ~ Kate Stewart

The 11th Doctor: Tell me, since when did science run the military, Kate?
Kate Stewart: Since me. UNIT's been adapting. Well, I dragged them along, kicking and screaming, which made it sound like more fun than it actually was.

The 11th Doctor: And all around the world, people are picking them up and taking them home.
Kate Stewart: Like iPads have dropped out of the sky. Taking them to work, taking pictures, making films, posting them on Flickr and YouTube. Within three hours, the cubes had a thousand separate Twitter accounts.
The 11th Doctor: Twitter?

"Bit of a shock, Zygon ship under the Savoy, half the staff impostors. Still, it's all fixed now, eh?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Brian Williams: What happened to the other people who travel with you?
The 11th Doctor: Some left me. Some got left behind. And some, not many but, some died. Not them. Not them, Brian. Never them.

"Whatever you are, this planet, these people, are precious to me. And I will defend them to my last breath." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"You sent me a message to my psychic paper. You know what? I'm almost impressed." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"I don't know. I don't know. I need to think. I need some air. Who has an underground base? Terrible ventilation." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country in one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them before they flare and fade forever. And it's all right. Our lives won't run the same. They can't. One day, soon maybe, you'll stop. I've known for a while." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Ah, portal to another dimension in a goods lift?" ~ Amy Pond

The 11th Doctor: The pest controllers of the universe, that's how the tales went, isn't it?
Amy: Wow. That's some seriously weird bedtime story.
The 11th Doctor: You can talk. Wolf in your grandmother's nightdress?

"My! A kiss from a Lethbridge Stewart. That is new." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: Dear me. I'd better get going. Things to do, worlds to save, swings to swing on. Look, I know, you both have lives here. Beautiful, messy lives. That is what makes you so fabulously human. You don't want to give them up. I understand.
Brian Williams: Actually, it's you they can't give up, Doctor. And I don't think they should. Go with him. Go save every world you can find. Who else has that chance? Life will still be here.

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The working title for this episode was Cubed.

The character of Kate was introduced in the 1995 made-for-video independent production Downtime.

Physicist Brian Cox plays himself as he is interviewed on the news for an opinion about the cubes.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 5 - The Angels Take Manhattan - Season 33, Story 229

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Rory: What's the book?
The 11th Doctor: Melody Malone. She's a private detective in old town New York.
Amy: She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips, and a vulnerable side she keeps well hidden.
The 11th Doctor: Oh, you've read it?

"You walk among fire pits, Centurion." ~ Amy Pond

"Beware the yowzah. Do not, at this point, yowz." ~ Amy Pond

"This city's full of time distortions. It'd be impossible to land the Tardis here. Like trying to land a plane in a blizzard. Even I couldn't do it." ~ River Song

The 11th Doctor: And if you read ahead and find that Rory dies? This isn't any old future, Amy, it's ours. Once we know what's coming, it's fixed. I'm going to break something, because you told me that I'm going to do it. No choice now.
AMY: Time can be rewritten.
The 11th Doctor: Not once you've read it. Once we know what's coming, it's written in stone.

"Okay, landing a plane in a timey wimey blizzard. I could push through, but if I'm out by a nanosecond, the engines will phase and I'll shatter the planet. I need landing lights." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

River: Oh, you bad boy. You could burn New York.
Grayle: What does that mean?
River: It means, Mister Grayle, just you wait till my husband gets home.

River: Mmm. Turns out the person I killed never existed in the first place. Apparently, there's no record of him. It's almost as if someone's gone around deleting himself from every database in the universe.
The 11th Doctor: You said I got too big.
River: And now no one's ever heard of you. Didn't you used to be somebody?

The 11th Doctor: Why did you lie to me?
River: When one's in love with an ageless god who insists on the face of a twelve year old, one does one's best to hide the damage.
The 11th Doctor: It must hurt. Come here.
River: Yes. The wrist is pretty bad too.

"That was a stupid waste of regeneration energy. Nothing is gained by you being a sentimental idiot. ~ River Song

"Never let him see the damage. And never, ever let him see you age. He doesn't like endings. ~ River Song

"The Angels take Manhattan because they can, because they've never had a food source like this one. The city that never sleeps." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"We got lucky. We could've blown New York off the planet. I can't ever take the Tardis back there. The timelines are too scrambled. I could have lost you both. Don't ever do that again." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: I'm sorry. Amelia, I'm so, so sorry.
Amy: No. No, we can just go and get him in the Tardis. One more paradox.
The 11th Doctor: Would rip New York apart.
Amy: No, that's not true. I don't believe you.

River: What matters is this. Doctor, don't travel alone.
The 11th Doctor: Travel with me, then.
River: Whenever and wherever you want. But not all the time. One psychopath per Tardis, don't you think?

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In-universe, Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town is written by River Song based on what happened to her in New York just before and during the events of The Angels Take Manhattan.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery is an e-book tie-in novel, written by Justin Richards, that segues into the events of River's book and TV: The Angels Take Manhattan. It was released on 4 October 2012.

This is the first episode to feature River Song that is neither part of a two-parter nor at least preceded by a cameo appearance of River in the previous episode.

As with all of the Series 7 part 1 episodes, this episode has individually stylized opening credits: the time vortex appears blue and grey, and the Doctor Who logo resembles the Statue of Liberty in colour and pattern.

The text inside Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town is visible for a second just after the Doctor and Amy bounce off 1938 and land in the graveyard. The book used in the episode is actually The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. Melody/River refers to her father as "the skinny guy" when describing his arrival in 1938. Hammett wrote hardboiled detective stories, and the film of one of them, The Maltese Falcon, is the original film noir, a genre which this episode pays extensive homage to.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 10 - Hide - Season 33, Story 234

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"So, where's the ghost? Show me the ghost. It's ghost time." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: Sorry. You went to the bank and said, you know that gigantic old haunted house on the moors? The one the dossers are too scared to doss in? The one the birds are too scared to fly over? And then you said, I'd like to buy it, please, with my money.
Palmer: Yes, I did, actually.
Clara: That's incredibly brave.

The 11th Doctor: Because I don't know, and ignorance is, what's the opposite of bliss?
Clara: Carlisle.
The 11th Doctor: Yes. Yes, Carlisle. Ignorance is Carlisle.

Emma: Is he really from the Ministry?
Palmer: Er, I don't know. He's certainly got the right demeanour. Capricious, brilliant.
Emma: Deceitful.

"Whisky is the eleventh most disgusting thing ever invented." ~ Clara

The 11th Doctor: Not what I thought she'd be.
Palmer: What did you think she'd be?
The 11th Doctor: Fun. Can I borrow your camera? Ta.

"Don't trust him. There's a sliver of ice in his heart" ~ Emma

"The Tardis is like a cat. A bit slow to trust, but you'll get there in the end." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: I mean, one minute you're in 1974 looking for ghosts, but all you have to do is open your eyes and talk to whoever's standing there. To you, I haven't been born yet, and to you I've been dead one hundred billion years. Is my body out there somewhere, in the ground?
The 11th Doctor: Yes, I suppose it is.
Clara: But here we are, talking. So I am a ghost. To you, I'm a ghost. We're all ghosts to you. We must be nothing.
The 11th Doctor: No. No. You're not that.
Clara: Then what are we? What can we possibly be?
The 11th Doctor: You are the only mystery worth solving.

"Non-psychic technology won't work where I'm going. Listen, all I need to do is dive into another dimension, find the time traveller, help her escape the monster. get home before the entire dimension collapses and Bob's your uncle." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Oh, come on! Let me in, you grumpy old cow!" ~ Clara

"What do you want? To frighten me, I suppose, eh? Because that's what you do. You hide. You're the bogeyman under the bed, seeking whom you may devour. You want me to be afraid. Then well done. I am the Doctor, and I am afraid." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Oh, I'm so slow! I am slow. I'm notorious for it. That's always been my problem. But, but I get there in the end. Oh yes." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"It's the oldest story in the universe, this one or any other. Boy and girl fall in love, get separated by events. War, politics, accidents in time. She's thrown out of the hex, or he's thrown into it. Since then they've been yearning for each other across time and space, across dimensions. This isn't a ghost story, it's a love story!" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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The "Cumbrian agenda" of series 7b continues in this episode with not only the positive reference to Kendal Mint Cakes, but also the negative one to Carlisle being the "opposite of bliss".

The TARDIS unlocks herself in order to allow Clara to enter, even though she doesn't yet have a key. She's done this before in The Doctor's Wife.

Working titles for the episode were Phantom of the Hex and The Hider in the House.

Filming for this episode was done at Margam Castle, which also appeared in season 4 as the Rattigan Academy in The Sontaran Statagem/The Poison Sky.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 12 - The Crimson Horror - Season 33, Story 236

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Strax: And how will she locate the Doctor?
Vastra: To find him, she needs only ignore all keep-out signs, go through every locked door, and run towards any form of danger that presents itself.
Strax: Business as usual, then.
Vastra: Business as usual.

"Jenny. Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny. Just when you think your favourite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid will never turn up. Jenny." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: You're making a habit of this, getting us lost.
The 11th Doctor: Sorry. It's much better than it used to be. Ooo, I once spent a hell of a long time trying to get a gobby Australian to Heathrow Airport.
Clara: What for?
The 11th Doctor: Search me. Anyway...Brave heart, Clara.

Jenny: But, Doctor. Clara's dead. Isn't she?
The 11th Doctor: It's complicated.

"Horse, you have failed in your mission. We are lost, with no sign of Sweetville. Do you have any final words before your summary execution? The usual story. Fourth one this week, and I'm not even hungry." ~ Strax

"Oh, great. Great. Attack of the supermodels. Time for a plan." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"I'm going to go play with my grenades." ~ Strax

"Do you know what these are? Ha, ha! The wrong hands." ~ Mrs. Gillyflower

The 11th Doctor: Hang on, I've got a sonic screwdriver.
Clara: Yeah? I've got a chair!

Mrs. Gillyflower: Forgive me, my child. Forgive me.
Ada: Never.
Mrs. Gillyflower: That's my girl.

"Maybe had enough of Victorian values for a bit." ~ Clara

Artie: Is he an alien?
Angie: Why would he be an alien?
Artie: The chin.

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This story is the first to feature Vastra, Jenny, and Strax that was not written by Steven Moffat.

This story marked the 100th Doctor Who episode since the programme's revival in 2005.

Diana Rigg is credited as "Dame Diana Rigg," the first time such an honourific has been included in a Doctor Who screen credit (by contrast, Sir Michael Gambon was not identified as such in A Christmas Carol).



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 9 - Cold War - Season 33, Story 233

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Griesenko: Oh, Vienna. Have I interrupted something?
Zhukov: We were about to blow up the world, Professor.
Griesenko: Again? Ultravox. I bloody love them. Got a friend who sends me the tapes.

Stepashin: Stranger on the bridge!
Zhukov: Who the hell are you?
Clara: Not Vegas, then.
The 11th Doctor: No. No, this is much better.

"You're going to let this madman give the orders?" ~ Stepashin

"Hair, shoulder pads, nukes. It's the Eighties. Everything's bigger." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Ah. It never rains but it pours." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: What is it, then?
The 11th Doctor: It's an Ice Warrior. A native of the planet Mars. And we go way back. Way back.
Zhukov: A Martian? You can't be serious.
The 11th Doctor: I'm always serious. With days off.

The 11th Doctor: Skaldak won't talk to you. You're an enemy soldier.
Zhukov: And how would he know that?
The 11th Doctor: A soldier knows another soldier. He'll smell it on you. Smell it on you a mile off.
Zhukov: And he wouldn't smell it on you, Doctor?

"I was Fleet Commander of the Nix Tharsis. My daughter stood by me. It was her first taste of action. We sang the songs of the Old Times. The Songs of the Red Snow. Five thousand years. Now my daughter will be dust. Only dust." ~ Skaldak

"This sub's stuffed with nuclear missiles, Zhukov. It's fat with them. What do you think Skaldak's going to do when he finds that out? How bad can it be? How bad can it be? It couldn't be any worse." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Stepashin: Both sides are capable of completely obliterating the other. It's a state we call mutually assured destruction.
Skaldak: Mutually assured destruction. But this has not occured.
Stepashin: No.
Skaldak: Not yet.

The 11th Doctor: I told you, Clara. Earth is like a storm waiting to break, right now. Both sides baring their teeth, talking up war. It would only take one tiny spark.
Clara: Yeah, but the world didn't end in 1983, did it, or I wouldn't be here.
The 11th Doctor: New. History's in flux. It can be changed. Re-written.

"Karaoke? Hen night? You speak excellent Russian, my dear, but sometimes I don't understand a word you're talking about." ~ Griesenko

Griesenko: And the Doctor, what he said. Is it true you're from another time? From our future? Clara?
Clara: Yes.
Griesenko: Tell me what happens.
Clara: I can't.
Griesenko: Well, I need to know.
Clara: I'm not allowed.
Griesenko: No, please.
Clara:: I can't!
Griesenko: Ultravox, do they split up?

"My distress call has not been answered. It will never be answered. My people are dead. They are dust. There is nothing left for me except my revenge." ~ Skaldak

"My world is dead but now there will be a second red planet. Red with the blood of humanity!" ~ Skaldak

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This story features some similarities to TV: The Ice Warriors. Both involve an Ice Warrior being frozen in ice, being found by a scientist, and then thawed out by someone who was impatient. Both scientists mistake their Ice Warriors for prehistoric Earth creatures — in Warriors it's a mastodon; here it's a mammoth. Both take place in extreme cold. Both have the Doctor initially saving a team of humans from an immediate crisis — in Warriors is an uncontrolled weather event; here it's the submarine sinking.

This story's ending has some similarities to TV: Battlefield. In both stories the antagonist is prepared to launch a nuclear weapon to destroy the world (in Battlefield it is Morgaine), and in both cases The Doctor helps talk them out of it.

This is the first televised story to feature the Ice Warriors since the Monster of Peladon in 1974, and the first to not be written or co-written by Brian Hayles.

1983 was indeed a point in which the the Cold War could have very easily run hot, due to the (alluded to) Able Archer '83 exercises that terrified the already paranoid Soviets. There were even several close calls throughout the year, including one famous incident where only the cool head of a Soviet radar operator deciding that the missile that appeared on his screen was not a launch but most likely an equipment malfunction prevented a full-scale nuclear launch.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 10 - Journey to the Centre of the Tardis - Season 33, Story 235

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Clara: Red flashing light means something bad. Get out of here fast? Or possibly, whatever you do, don't open this door.
[Clara opens the door. There is an explosion.]
Clara: Bad decision.

"My ship, my rules." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Don't get into a spaceship with a madman. Didn't anyone ever teach you that?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Computer: Everything.
Gregor: What? Report.
Computer: Everything, behind that door.
Gregor: Everything?
Computer: Sensor detects everything you could possibly want.

"No! No, no, stop! Please, don't. Don't touch it. Please. She won't let you touch it. I can feel a Tardis tantrum coming on."  ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Ever seen a spaceship get ugly?"  ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Smart bunch, Time Lords. No dress sense, dreadful hats, but smart." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: What do you keep in here? Why have you got zombie creatures? Good guys do not have zombie creatures. Rule one basic storytelling.
The 11th Doctor: Not in front of the guests.

Clara: Run?
The 11th Doctor: I'm liking how you're thinking.

Clara: Er, what happens if we stay longer?
The 11th Doctor: Our cells with liquefy and our skin will start to burn.
Clara: I always feel so good after we've spoken.

"The Eye of Harmony. Exploding star in the act of becoming a black hole. Time Lord engineering. You rip the star from its orbit, suspend it in a permanent state of decay. This way, quickly."  ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: It isn't just the past leaking out through the time rift. It's the future. Listen, I brought you here to keep you safe, but it happened again. You died again.
Clara: What do you mean, again?

"Hey now, Clara, I have piloted this ship for over nine hundred years. Trust me this one time, please. Okay. Okay. As well as all the other times."  ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: It's going to hurt?
The 11th Doctor: Things that end your life often do that.

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The name of the episode was influenced by the novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

This is the first televised story to include the word "TARDIS" in its title.

At seven words long, this episode shares the record for the longest televised story title to date with The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, which also is a title inspired by a book/film.

Although the action was normal in the classic series, this is the first time since the series restarted that the Doctor has closed the TARDIS doors from the console, rather than manually shutting them.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 7 - The Bells of Saint John - Season 33, Story 231

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Monk: They call him the mad monk, don't they.
Abbott: They shouldn't. He's definitely not a monk.

Abbott: The woman twice dead, and her final message. He was drawn to this place of peace and solitude that he might divine her meaning. If he truly is mad, then this is his madness.

The 11th Doctor: That is not supposed to happen.

Clara [on screen]: It's just a thing to remember the password, run you clever boy and remember.

Clara: When you say mobile phone, why do you point at that blue box?
The 11th Doctor [on screen]: Because it's a surprisingly accurate description.

Clara: Assembled a what?
The 11th Doctor: I found a disassembled quadricycle in the garage.
Clara: I don't think you did.
The 11th Doctor: I invented the quadricycle. Ha!

The 11th Doctor: There's something in the wifi.
Clara: Okay.
The 11th Doctor: This whole world is swimming in wifi. We're living in a wifi soup. Suppose something got inside it. Suppose there was something living in the wifi, harvesting human minds. Extracting them. Imagine that. Human souls trapped like flies in the world-wide web. Stuck forever, crying out for help.
Clara: Isn't that basically Twitter?

The 11th Doctor: Oh, trust me. You'll understand once we're in there.
Clara: I bet I will. What is that box, anyway? Why have you got a box? Is it like a snogging booth?
The 11th Doctor: Clara. A what?
Clara: Is that what you do, bring a booth? There is such a thing as too keen.

The 11th Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I'm an alien from outer space. I'm a thousand years old, I've got two hearts and I can't fly a plane! Can you?

The 11th Doctor: I'm from space and the future with two hearts and twenty seven brains.
Clara: And I can find them in under five minutes plus photographs. Twenty seven?
The 11th Doctor: Okay, slight exaggeration.

The 11th Doctor: You're young. Shouldn't you be doing, you know, young things, with young people?
Clara: You mean like you, for instance? Down, boy.
The 11th Doctor: No. No. I didn't. Shut up.

Kizlet: No one loves cattle more than Burger King.

The 11th Doctor: I rode this in the antigrav Olympics, 2074. I came last.
Man with Chips: The building is in lock-down. I'm afraid you're not coming in.
The 11th Doctor: Did you even hear the word, antigrav?

The 11th Doctor: But you don't run out on the people you care about. Wish I was more like that. You know, the thing about a time machine, you can run away all you like and still be home in time for tea, so what do you say? Anywhere. All of time and space, right outside those doors.

Clara: Is this actually what you do? Do you just crook your finger and people just jump in your snog box and fly away?
The 11th Doctor: It is not a snog box.
Clara: I'll be the judge of that.

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The title of this episode is a reference to the phone incorporated into the TARDIS police box disguise, and to the "St John Ambulance" logo on the door of this version of the TARDIS. The "Bells" part is referring to the police box phone ringing. It is also a reference to the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.

The title was originally announced as The Bells of St John, in keeping with the actual abbreviated spelling of "St John" on the logo.

To keep the reappearance of the Great Intelligence a surprise, Richard E. Grant was not credited in Radio Times. He was, however, originally listed on the BBC website, but was subsequently taken down.

The password for the Maitland family's wi-fi, 'rycbar123' is both an acronym of 'run you clever boy and remember' and a reference to the fact that this is the third version of Clara to appear.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship - Season 33, Story 226

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"Oh, Indira, I liked you before you said missiles." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: Don't move! Do you really think I'm that stupid I wouldn't notice? How did you get aboard, eh? Transmat? Who sent you?
Rory: Doctor. That's my dad.
The 11th Doctor: Well frankly, that's outrageous.
Rory: What?
The 11th Doctor: You think you can just bring your dad along without asking? I'm not a taxi service, you know.

"I know. Dinosaurs! On a spaceship!" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Brian: Sorry, sorry. Are you saying dinosaurs are flying a spaceship?
The 11th Doctor: Brian, please, that would be ridiculous. They're probably just passengers.

"A spaceship powered by waves." ~ Rory Williams

Amy: Well, I've spent enough time with the Doctor to know whenever you enter somewhere new, press buttons.
Nefertiti: What else have you learned from him?
Amy: Don't stop at button pressing.

"We're on an Ark. A Silurian Ark." ~ Amy Pond

"I will take you apart cog by cog and melt you down when all this is over." ~ Rory Williams

"Ah, the purple light. That's what it was. An IV system, identifying value. The database of everything across space and time allocated a market value. Argos for the universe. You were trying to find out how much I'm worth." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"You said Roxborne Peninsula, so why are you heading to Earth? You're on the wrong course. Oh, you don't know how. Brilliant. You couldn't change the pre-programmed course without instructions. The ship defaulted, returned home. Oh dear. The Silurians outwitted you even after you'd massacred them, so now you're a prisoner on the ship you hijacked.  Little bit of news, Solomon. You're being targeted by missiles. Get off this ship while you still can." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Go, Tricy. Run like the wind!  Quick, how do you start a Triceratops?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"No, I'm Rory's Queen. Wife. Wife. I am his wife. Please don't tell him I said I was his Queen. I'll never hear the end of it." ~ Amy Pond

"You're right, Doctor. I can't keep the dinosaurs and live myself. But I had the IV system scan the entire ship, and it found something even more valuable. Utterly unique. I don't know where you found it, or how you got it here, but I want it. Earth Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. A face stamped across history." ~ Solomon

"The ship does all the engineering. The controls are straight forward. Even a monkey use them. Oh look, they're going to. Guys, come on. Comedy gold. Where's a Silurian audience when you need one." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: No, come on, Pond. You'll be there till the end of me.
Amy: Or vice versa.
The 11th Doctor: Don't.

"You know what I want more than anything? A dinosaur tooth to take home. Dinosaurs ahead, a lady at my side, about to be blown up. I'm sure I've never been happier." ~ John Riddell

"Don't mess with Egyptian Queens." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Look, Solomon. The missiles. See them shine? See how valuable they are. And they're all yours. Enjoy your bounty." ~ The 11th Doctor

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The Doctor claims to be a Sagittarius, but qualifies this statement by adding, "Probably." Interestingly enough, November 23 (the first airdate of Doctor Who in 1963) falls during the time that Sagittarius is deemed by astrologers to be occupied by the sun using the tropical astrological calendar. In the sidereal astrological calendar, the sun was on the Libra/Scorpio border at the time of first airing.

In a moment of excitement, the Doctor kisses Rory on the mouth after Rory suggests checking if the Silurian Ark has defence systems. This is the second same-sex kiss featured in the series and the first initiated by the Doctor. The first kiss was between Captain Jack Harkness and the Ninth Doctor in The Parting of the Ways.

For this episode, the Doctor Who logo's texture resembled scales, like those of a dinosaur. It was also given a green hue. However, it might also be the Silurians; they are green reptiles as well.

According to the IV system, the Doctor doesn't exist. We later discover in The Angels Take Manhattan that the Doctor had been erasing any evidence of his existence from databases throughout time and space in his effort to "return to the shadows."

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NuWho - Series 6, Doctor and the Night - Up all Night (Season 32)

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Craig: "I still can't believe I'm allowed him."
Sophie: "He's your son."
Craig: "That's what I'm talking about. Who authorized this? It's the single most terrifying thing that's ever happened to me. I mean, what if I break him?"

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Up All Night was the fifth of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It was written by Tom MacRae and serves as a prequel to the events of Closing Time.

At 1 minute 56 seconds, this is the shortest of the Night and the Doctor shorts.

This is the only Night and the Doctor short not to feature the Doctor, nor any mention or appearance of River Song.

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NuWho - Series 6, Doctor and the Night - Last Night (Season 32)

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"Two of you? The mind races, does it not!" ~ River

"There's two of you.  The mind races." ~ River

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Last Night was the fourth of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It is the second of a two-part story which began with First Night. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

The title makes reference to the fact that the future version of the Eleventh Doctor is the one that takes River on her final "night out" to the Singing Towers of Darillium before the events of Silence in the Library.

This story is set entirely within the Doctor's TARDIS.

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NuWho - Series 6, Doctor and the Night - First Night (Season 32)

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The 11th Doctor: "We've got ten minutes, get dressed."
River: "Oh that's so close the perfect sentence."

The 11th Doctor: "Did you bring the diary?"
River: "It's a diary?"
The 11th Doctor: "It is now because from now on there are rules."
River: "Oh, you've got all strict, not that I mind."
The 11th Doctor: "River, you and I, it's all in the wrong order, we never meet in sequence. You put everything in the diary so we know where we are."
River: "Put what in the diary? Sweetie, I'm in the highest security prison in all of the known universe."
The 11th Doctor: "River Song could walk in and out of that prison like the walls aren't there."
River: "I'm River Song."
The 11th Doctor: "Then you'll be fine."

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First Night was the third of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It is the first of a two-part story concluding with Last Night. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

This is the shortest of the Night and the Doctor to feature the Doctor, coming in at 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The shortest overall is Up All Night, which is just under 2 minutes.

This is also the only Night and the Doctor short to feature scenes both inside and outside of the TARDIS (aside from the view of the exterior side of the door at the end of Good Night).

The footage of the TARDIS flying through the solar storm is originally from The Rebel Flesh.

The first River Song is serving her first night of "twelve thousand consecutive life sentences" in Stormcage. From her perspective, this story takes place after The Wedding of River Song (aside from the garden epilogue) & her space-suited self's perspective in The Impossible Astronaut.

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NuWho - Series 6, Doctor and the Night - Good Night (Season 32)

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"Amy, time and space is never, ever going to make any kind of sense. A long time ago you got the best possible advice on how to deal with that." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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Good Night was the second of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

At 4 minutes and 51 seconds, this is the longest of the Night and the Doctor shorts.

The Doctor calls a farewell to an unseen River Song from the TARDIS doorway. He also asks her to "tell Marilyn she'll have to use the biplane". Marilyn Monroe married the Doctor in A Christmas Carol which was also the first episode he was shown wearing the white tuxedo with the black tie that he wears in this clip.

This story would seem to contradict the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. The effect was similarly ignored in A Christmas Carol.

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NuWho - Series 6, Doctor and the Night - Bad Night (Season 32)

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"You've got the serious face on. I always shout for Rory when you've got the serious face.  Rory! She's having an emotion!" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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Bad Night was the first of five exclusive-to-home-video shorts under the Night and the Doctor umbrella title. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

The Doctor denies sneaking away at night to be with River Song, which he subsequently contradicts when Amy asks how River's doing. The Doctor spending his nights with River is the theme of four of the five "Night and the Doctor" shorts and is also touched upon towards the end of The Wedding of River Song.


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NuWho - Series 6, Episode 13 - The Wedding of River Song (Season 32, Story 223)

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"Just the one. I had an argument with Cleopatra. Dreadful woman. Excellent dancer." ~ Winston Churchill

"Tick tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don't, do they? The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That's what you say. What you never stop saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand what happened to time." ~ Winston Churchill

"Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were were afraid and a long, long way from home, and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up and saw the face of the devil himself.  Hello, Dalek." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Hello again, the Teselecta time-travelling shape-changing robot powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"There are no rats in the transept. The skulls eat them." ~ Gantok

"On the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered." ~ Dorium Maldovar

"Suppose there was a man who knew a secret; a terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told.  How would you erase that secret from the world, destroy it forever, before it can be spoken?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Been running all my life. Why should I stop?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"I had to die. I didn't have to die alone. Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the girl who waited. However dark it got, I'd turn around, and there they'd be.  If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"And you've got an office on a train. That is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

River: Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.
The 11th Doctor: I always thought so.
River: She mentioned you.
The 11th Doctor: What did she say?
River: Put down that gun down.
The 11th Doctor: Did you?
River: Eventually.

"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian?  Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor...who else was I going to fall in love with?" ~ River Song

River: Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?
The 11th Doctor: I don't want to marry you.
River: I don't want to murder you.

"Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again. Die one last time and know she will never come back for you." ~ The Silence

"Tick tock goes the clock, he gave all he could give. Tick tock goes the clock, now prison waits for River." ~ Children

Dorium: And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?
The 11th Doctor: Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that's between her and me, eh?

"The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor Who." ~ Dorium Maldovar

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This episode pays tribute to Nicholas Courtney, who died in February. The Doctor learns his character, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, died peacefully in his sleep, fulfilling the prophecy made by the Seventh Doctor in the 1989 episode Battlefield. The episode also contains scenes in which "everybody was wearing an eyepatch"; this is a reference to an anecdote Courtney recounted frequently at Doctor Who fan events, about an incident while recording of the 1970 serial Inferno.

Meredith Vieira, co-host of the American morning news/chat programme Today, filmed her cameo during a visit to the Upper Boat Studios as part of a profile of Doctor Who produced for Today. The profile aired on 9 May 2011, contained several minor spoilers for this episode. It revealed the cameo appearance by Richard Hope as Malohkeh and the return of Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill. Appearances by several Cybermen served as a "false flag" spoiler suggesting they might also appear in the episode. They did not.

In The Impossible Astronaut the versions of the Doctor give their ages as 909 and 1103. The Doctor has apparently lived for almost two hundred years between these two episodes. Writer Gareth Roberts indicated in an interview that this is indeed two hundred years after The God Complex for the Doctor and he spent these years "waving" at Amy and Rory through history books

This was the last episode to be covered by Doctor Who Confidential due to that series' cancellation. Starting with The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, the official Doctor Who website would feature short making-of videos after each episode's transmission.

Mark Gatiss played Gantok in this episode, although he is credited onscreen as "Rondo Haxton".

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NuWho - Series 6, Episode 11 - The God Complex (Season 32, Story 221)

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"Let's go to Ravan-Skala, he says. The people are six hundred feet tall. You have to talk to them in hot air balloons and the Tourist Information Centre is made of one of their hats, he says. I'm sorry, but I don't see any huge hats." ~ Amy Pond

"Oh, you're good. Oh, she's good. Amy, with regret, you're fired." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Okay, this is bad. At the moment, I don't know how bad, but certainly we're three buses, a long walk and eight quid in a taxi from good." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Chop, chop, chop, chop." ~ Joe

Howie: You see, the US government has entire cities hidden in the Norwegian mountains. You see, Earth is on a collision course with this other planet, and this is where they're going to send all the rich people when it kicks off.
Rory: Amazing.
Howie: It's all there on the internet.
Rory: No, it's amazing you've come up with a theory even more insane than what's actually happening

"Listen, the Doctor's been part of my life for so long now, and he's never let me down.  Even when I thought he had, when I was a kid and he left me. He came back.  He saved me. And now he's going to save you.  But don't tell him I said that because the smugness would be terrifying." ~ Amy Pond

"Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone, I have this overwhelming urge to notify their next of kin." ~ Rory Williams

"I want to do is go home and be conquered and oppressed. Is that too much to ask?!" ~ Gibbis

"Bring me death! Bring me glory! My master, my lord, I'm here! Come to me. I'm waiting here for you. He has promised me a glorious death. Give it to me now. I want him to know my devotion. Praise him. Praise him. Let his name be the last thing I hear. Let his breath on my skin be the last thing I feel. I was lost in shadows, but he found me. His love was a beacon that led me from darkness to light, and now I am blinded by his majesty. Humbled by his glory! Praise him." ~ Howie

"Nothing personal. I just think we should take things slowly. Get to know each other. You take people's most primal fears and pop it in a room. A tailor-made hell, just for them. Why? Did you say they take? Ah, what is that word? The guard? No, the warden? This is a prison." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"So what are we, cell mates? Lunch? We are not ripe. This is what Joe said, that we weren't ready. So, what, what, you make us ready. You what? Replace? Replace what, fear? You have lived so long even your name is lost. You want this to stop. Because you are just instinct. Then tell me. Tell me how to fight you." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe." ~ Rory Williams

"Why is it up to you to save us?  That's quite a God complex you have there." ~ Rita

"Look, he'll work it out. He always does. Just let him riff and move anything expensive out of his way." ~ Amy Williams

"I can't save you from this. There's nothing I can do to stop this.  I stole your childhood and now I've lead you by the hand to your death.  And the worst thing is I knew...I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me.  I took you with me because I was vane, because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond. The girl who waited for me.  I'm not a hero.  I really am just a mad man in box. And it's time to see each other for what we really are. Amy Williams, it's time to stop waiting." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent.  Drifting in space through an endless shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be gift. I wasn't talking about myself." ~ The Minotaur

"It didn't want just me, so you must believe in some god or someone, or they'd have shown you the door too. So what do Time Lords pray to?" ~ Amy Pond

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The Doctor's room number was 11, a reference to the fact that Matt Smith is the Eleventh Doctor and that this story is the eleventh of the 2011 series. A similar "11' reference occurred in the eleventh episode of series 5. The distinct sound of the Cloister Bell can be heard in the Doctor's room.

Rita becomes the latest in a line of characters who are invited to become companions by the Doctor, only to die soon after.

David Walliams (Gibbis) previously played Quincy Flowers and Ned Cotton in the audio presentation, Phantasmagoria. His name had been linked to possibly portraying both the 9th and the 11th Doctor.

The Doctor fears that he will either get Rory and Amy killed or have to watch them die. These themes were also touched on in The Vampires of Venice and School Reunion respectively. Both episodes were also written by Toby Whithouse.

This is not the first time the Doctor has deliberately caused one of his companions to lose faith in him in order to save them. The Doctor emotionally devastated Ace by labelling her, among other things, an "emotional cripple" during his battle with Fenric. This was necessary in order for her to briefly abandon her belief in him, allowing the Ancient One to defeat Fenric in The Curse of Fenric.

The Minotaur's final words were a prophetic statement delivered both to and about a long-lived traveller, similar to the last words of the Face of Boe in Gridlock. It also foreshadowed the Doctor's death in The Impossible Astronaut.

The Doctor says that eventually, if his companions choose to continue to travel with him instead of willingly leaving, he'll have to be at their graves. This comes to pass in The Angels Take Manhattan. 

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NuWho - Series 6, Episode 10 - The Girl Who Waited (Season 32, Story 220)

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"Beautiful word, beautiful world. Apalapucia, voted number two planet in the top ten greatest destinations for the discerning intergalactic traveller." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Your mobile telephone?  I bring you to a paradise planet two billion light years from earth and you want to update Twitter?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades. It's a camera phone." ~ Amy Pond

"A week? I'm so sorry. Ah-ha. Same room, different times. Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Statement rejected. Apalapucia is under planet-wide quarantine. This is a kindness facility for those infected with Chen Seven." ~ Handbot

"Locking it on to Amy. Small act of vandalism. No one'll mind. Ah, that'll be the small act of vandalism alarm." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness. This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed." ~ Handbot

"Bit of Earth, bit of alien, bit of...whatever the hell that is." ~ Rory Williams

"I've been on my own here a long, long time. I've had decades to think nice thoughts about him. Got a bit harder to stay charitable once I entered decade four." ~ Amy Pond

"Hey, I don't care that you got old. I care that we didn't grow old together. Amy, come on, please." ~ Rory Williams

"And there he is. The voice of God. Survive, because no one's going to come for you. Number one lesson." ~ Amy Pond

"Don't you lecture me, blue box man flying through time and space on whimsey.  All I've had for 36 year is cold, hard reality. So no, I don't have a sonic screwdriver because I'm not off on a romp.  I call it what is it. A probe. And I call my life what it is.  Hell." ~ Amy Pond

Amy: They look ridiculous.
Rory: That's what I told him. Still, anything beats a fez, eh?

"Woman with a sword. Don't push it." ~ Amy Pond

"I will die. Another Amy will take my place. An Amy who never got trapped at Twostreams, an Amy who grew old with you, and she, in thirty six years, won't be me." ~ Amy Pond

"You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, and you meet them and think, not bad, they're okay. And then you get to know them, and their face just sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met." ~ Amy Pond

"You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for a boy." ~ Amy Pond

"Yes, except sometimes knowing your own future's what enables you to change it. Especially if you're bloody minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"This isn't fair. You're turning me into you." ~ Rory Williams

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Clom is mentioned in the episode as being a location of a future Disneyland.

When the Doctor looks for the glasses, a small tape player looking device activates on the TARDIS console and the 1963 Doctor Who theme can be heard, played backwards.

The lobby where Amy first encounters the Interface is identical to the lobby of the New New York Hospital seen in New Earth. Both were filmed at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.  Other locations used for this episode include Dyffryn Gardens, Uskmouth Power Station, and Mamhilad Park Industrial Estate.

The title, The Girl Who Waited, references the Doctor's nickname of Amy, given because she waited for him for so long after they first met.

The cast list for this episode is the shortest of any full length episode of modern Doctor Who.

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