"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 | Family | 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 Episode | Alien | Companion | Time Lord | Tardis

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

Directed by
Joe Ahearne

Writing credits
Russell T. Davies		(written by)

Produced by
Phil Collinson	....	producer
Russell T. Davies	....	executive producer
Julie Gardner	....	executive producer
Helen Vallis	....	associate producer
Mal Young	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Murray Gold

Cinematography by
Ernest Vincze		(director of photography) (as Ernie Vincze)

Film Editing by
Graham Walker

Casting by
Andy Pryor

Production Design by
Edward Thomas

Art Direction by
Stephen Nicholas		(supervising art director)

Set Decoration by
Catherine Samuel

Costume Design by
Lucinda Wright

Makeup Department
Linda Davie	....	makeup supervisor
Davy Jones	....	makeup designer
Claire Pritchard	....	makeup artist
Steve Williams	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Marie Brown	....	post-production supervisor
Tracie Simpson	....	production manager
Lowri Thomas	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Howard Arundel	....	first assistant director
Steffan Morris	....	second assistant director
Dan Mumford	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Adrian Anscombe	....	property master
Jenny Bowers	....	graphic artist
Bryan Hitch	....	concept artist
Trystan Howell	....	stand-by props
Gwenllian Llwyd	....	art department coordinator
David Morison	....	stand-by art director
Joelle Rumbelow	....	production buyer
Phil Shellard	....	stand-by props (as Phill Shellard)
Andrew Smith	....	construction manager
Matthew North	....	forward dresser (uncredited)
Dan Walker	....	concept artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Paul Jefferies	....	sound effects editor
Paul McFadden	....	dialogue editor
Damian Richardson	....	boom operator
Ian Richardson	....	sound recordist
Tim Ricketts	....	dubbing mixer
Julie Ankerson	....	foley artist (uncredited)
Mark Ayres	....	sound remastering (uncredited)
Brian Hodgson	....	sound effects (uncredited)
Dick Mills	....	sound effects (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Charlie Bluett	....	prosthetics technician (uncredited)
Benjamin M. Esterson	....	special effects coordinator (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Astrid Busser-Casas	....	2D visual effects artist
Will Cohen	....	visual effects producer
Jean-Claude Deguara	....	3D visual effects artist (as Jean-Claude Deguarra)
Jennifer Herbert	....	2D visual effects artist
Simon C. Holden	....	2D visual effects artist
Dave Houghton	....	visual effects supervisor
Matthew McKinney	....	3D visual effects artist
Joel Meire	....	3D visual effects artist

Stunts
George Cottle	....	stunt performer
Tina Maskell	....	stunt performer
Kim McGarrity	....	stunt performer
Lee Sheward	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Peter Chester	....	best boy
Mark Hutchings	....	gaffer
Mark Isaac	....	focus puller
John Robinson	....	grip
Martin Stephens	....	camera operator
Gareth Hughes	....	camera operator: second unit (uncredited)
Anna James	....	second assistant camera (uncredited)

Casting Department
Kirsty Robertson	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Yolanda Peart-Smith	....	wardrobe supervisor
Joanne Hayes	....	costume assistant (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Matthew Clarke	....	on-line editor
Ceres Doyle	....	assistant editor
Paul Harrison	....	colorist

Music Department
Ron Grainer	....	composer: original theme music

Other crew
Kath Blackman	....	assistant production accountant
Dorothy Friend	....	continuity
Debi Griffiths	....	assistant production accountant
Gareth Lloyd	....	location manager
Richard Pugsley	....	finance manager
Elwen Rowlands	....	script editor
Jess Van Niekerk	....	production coordinator (as Jess van Niekerk)
Endaf Emyr Williams	....	production accountant
Faujja Singh	....	armorer (uncredited)

Distributors

• BBC America (2006) (USA) (TV)
• Cool TV (2006) (Hungary) (TV)
• Eén (2006) (Belgium) (TV)
• Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (VARA) (2006) (Netherlands) (TV)

Special Effects

• Any Effects (special effects)
• The Mill (visual effects)
• Millennium FX (prosthetics) (as Millennium Effects)

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG | USA:TV-PG

Trivia:

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

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: (at around 51 mins) When Captain Jack leaps over the tea trolley in the hallway, the springboard he uses is clearly visible on the floor.

Quotes:

Margaret Blaine:[raising her glass for the Blaidd Drwg project] A toast, to the future.
[crowd replies "To the future"]
Margaret Blaine:And believe me... it will *glow*.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Doctor Who Confidential: From Zero to Hero (#2.6)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Doctor Who Theme

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