"Doctor Who"
Boom Town (2005)

Director:

Joe Ahearne

Writer:

Russell T. Davies (written by)

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (2005)

Original Air Date:

4 June 2005 (Season 1, Episode 11)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Stopping off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, The Doctor, Rose and Jack encounter an old foe in the midst of hatching a scheme that could destroy the entire planet.

Plot Keywords:

Fantasy | Dark Past | Man With No Name | Reincarnation | Christ Allegory

Cast

Christopher Eccleston	...	Doctor Who
Billie Piper	...	Rose Tyler
William Thomas	...	Mr. Cleaver
Annette Badland	...	Margaret
John Barrowman	...	Captain Jack
Noel Clarke	...	Mickey Smith
Mali Harries	...	Cathy
Aled Pedrick	...	Idris Hopper
Alan Ruscoe	...	Slitheen

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG | UK:PG

Trivia:

The extras were not actually on set with the cast. They were filmed separately and edited in afterwards.

Quotes:

Mickey Smith: [after the Doctor explains why the TARDIS resembles a Police Public Call Box] But that's what I meant, there's no police boxes anymore so doesn't it get noticed?
The Doctor: Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now stop your nagging let's go & explore.

Entertaining But Too Heavy Handed

I'll watch any old crap that's transmitted under the DOCTOR WHO banner but when The Sun newspaper revealed that The Slitheen would be making a return visit to the series I wasn't exactly ecstatic about watching Boom Town since the Siltheen are amongst the most silly aliens to have appeared in the show I mean farting aliens how stupid is that ? I'm also cynical enough to suggest that Russell T Davies introduced the aliens to start off a merchandising craze featuring these fat unlovable creatures . Terry Nation gave us The Daleks , RTD gave us The Slitheen . I'll leave you to decide who is the better writer

To be fair to Davies he knows he's writing for a family audience so he's brought back the Slitheen which he knows will appeal to kids while he's written a story with the death penalty at the heart of the subtext which will hold the interest of adult viewers . Unfortunately RTD has included camp elements of dialogue where Magaret Slitheen refers to people being bumped off who were going to stop the building of a nuclear station in Cardiff and Murray Gold's music in the chase sequence reminded me of the music in the show from the late 1980s and that's not a compliment . Thankfully director Joe Ahearne manages to stop everything falling into high camp unlike Keith Boak did with The Slitheen debut