"Doctor Who" Utopia (2007)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Graeme Harper

Writer:

Russell T. Davies (written by)

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (2005)

Original Air Date:

16 June 2007 (Season 3, Episode 11)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Soon after bumping into old friend Jack Harkness, Martha and The Doctor head off to Malcassairo, a distant planet where an old professor will do anything he can to keep his people alive...

Plot Keywords:

End Of The Universe | Severed Hand | Regeneration | Resurrection | Dying Repeatedly

Cast

David Tennant	...	The Doctor
Freema Agyeman	...	Martha Jones
John Barrowman	...	Captain Jack Harkness
Derek Jacobi	...	Professor Yana
Chipo Chung	...	Chantho
René Zagger	...	Padra (as Rene Zagger)
Neil Reidman	...	Lieutenant Atillo
Paul Marc Davis	...	Chieftain (as Paul Marc Davies)
Robert Forknall	...	Guard
John Bell	...	Creet
Deborah MacLaren	...	Kistane
Abigail Canton	...	Wiry Woman
John Simm	...	The Master

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

BBC Wales

Trivia:

man back then; the episode took place during the Christopher Eccleston's tenure as the Doctor.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In one of the shots in the hunt in the bottom right corner the shadow of two cameramen and a camera is clearly visible.

Quotes:

The Doctor: We're accelerating into the future. The year one billion, five billion, five trillion, fifty trillion... What? The year one hundred trillion? That's impossible!
Martha Jones: Why? What happens then?
The Doctor: We're going to the end of the universe.
[Captain Jack Harkness is seen in the time vortex hanging onto the TARDIS]
Captain Jack Harkness: [shouts] Doctor!

Movie Connections:

Features "Doctor Who: The Dæmons: Part 5 (#8.25)" (1971)

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At the known end of the universe, far FAR in the future where no Time Lord has traveled before, Martha and the Doctor meet up with Captain Jack Harkness whom hitched a ride on the outside of the TARDIS. It's not long before they're on the run from cannibalistic, Futurer-kind, and trying to help an enigmatic professor shuttle the last vestige of the Human race off to Utopia.

What a great opener to the three-part 29th series finale, it has long-running simmering plot-lines coming to a head in the most delightful of ways. The cliff-hanger which, sadly, in the internet age, one had to have his head firmly in the ground to not have been spoiled to, was great none the less and had me breathlessly awaiting the next two installments.

My Grade: A+