"Doctor Who" Utopia (2007)

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

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Dec. 28

8:00 AM

SYFY

Utopia

#3.11

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:

When Professor Yana examines his fob watch, voices of Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley taken from footage of "Doctor Who" (1963) are heard. Both actors portrayed the Master in the original series.

Goofs:

Plot holes: The Doctor left the Game Station in the episode The Parting Of the Ways without knowing Captain Jack's fate, so there's no reason for him to think Jack has somehow become immortal.

Quotes:

Martha Jones: What do you think it's going to be like in Utopia?
Creet: My Mum used to say the sky was made of diamonds.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: (#12.8)" (2007)

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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+