"Doctor Who" Doomsday (2006)

Director:

Graeme Harper

Writers:

Russell T. Davies (written by)
Terry Nation (characters: "Daleks")

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (2005)

Original Air Date:

8 July 2006 (Season 2, Episode 13)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Earth becomes the battlefield for the greatest and deadliest war of all time, as the Daleks and the Cybermen clash with the whole universe at stake...

Plot Keywords:

Dalek | Reference To Stephen Hawking | Tardis | Cyberman | Alien

Cast

David Tennant	...	The Doctor
Billie Piper	...	Rose Tyler
Camille Coduri	...	Jackie Tyler
Noel Clarke	...	Mickey Smith
Shaun Dingwall	...	Pete Tyler
Andrew Hayden Smith	...	Jake Simmonds (as Andrew Hayden-Smith)
Tracy-Ann Oberman	...	Yvonne Hartman
Raji James	...	Dr. Rajesh Singh
Paul Kasey	...	Cyber Leader
Nicholas Briggs	...	Dalek / Cybermen (voice)
Barnaby Edwards	...	Dalek Operator
Nicholas Pegg	...	Dalek Operator
Stuart Crossman	...	Dalek Operator
Anthony Spargo	...	Dalek Operator
Dan Barratt	...	Dalek Operator

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Southerndown, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Trivia:

After explaining that he intends to send the Daleks and Cybers to hell, Rose asks the Doctor if she can help. The Doctor tells her to set the coordinates "all to six." Assuming the standard X, Y and Z axes, this would make the coordinates 6, 6, 6.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In the last shot on Dårlig Ulv Strand, a mystery foot appears and disappears by the rear wheels of the Land Rover.

Quotes:

Rose Tyler: [Rose is being threatened by the Daleks to place her hand on the Genesis Ark, thus awakening it] I can't let 'em.
Dalek Leader: Place your hand upon the casket!
Rose Tyler: [impatient] All right! You're gonna kill us anyway, so what the hell.
[pause]
Rose Tyler: If you... survived the Time War, don't you want to know what happened...?
Dalek Leader: Place your hand...
Rose Tyler: [interrupting] ... what happened to the Emperor?
Dalek Leader: [pause] The Emperor survived?
Rose Tyler: [staring into the Dalek's eyestalk] Well, until he met ME. Because if these are gonna be my last words, then you're gonna listen. I met the Emperor, and I took the Time Vortex and poured it into his head, and turned him into dust. D'you get that? The God of all Daleks, and I destroyed him! HA!
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums (#3.12)" (2007)

An amazingly powerful close to the episode.

If you take Rose Tyler out, you make an all to familiar error in episodic television. People want a face, a person, an emotional investment for the show to carry, cherish even protect. This show moves from danger to danger and a new generation of viewers is following and Rose is our steady link to this chaotic light speed introduction into "the Doctor's" world. With so many things that we're asked to accept you must give us our constant attachment to Billie Piper's face and Rose's innocence turned confidence in the face of multiple calamities. If you move on without giving us our face, I may still follow but you'll never get the same emotional investment nor the same desire to follow.

Billie Piper, oooh. Well played. I'm not some renowned critic or some stiff aristocrat spouting opinions in the Queen's English. I'm not going to effect your life in the slightest way with my feelings. But by golly that was some impressive acting, for TV or any other medium. Brava!