Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)

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Synopsis

Cast

David Tennant and Kylie Minogue in a promotional photo for the episode.

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Astrid — Kylie Minogue
• Captain — Geoffrey Palmer
• TBA — Clive Swift
• TBA — Debbie Chazen
• TBA — Clive Rowe
• TBA — Gray O'Brien
• TBA — Russell Tovey
• TBA — George Costigan
• TBA — Bernard Cribbins ^[6]
  • TBA — Jimmy Vee^[7]

  Cast notes

  • Clive Swift previously appeared as Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks.
  • Geoffrey Palmer previously appeared in Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Mutants. His son, Charles Palmer, directed four episodes of Series 3.
  • Bernard Cribbins previously appeared in the 1966 film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, based on the 6-part TV story shown 2 years previously.
  • Jimmy Vee previously appeared as the Moxx of Balhoon in "The End of the World", the Space Pig in "Aliens of London", the Graske in the interactive special "Attack of the Graske", and the "Child Slitheen" in the The Sarah Jane Adventures story Revenge of the Slitheen.

  Continuity

  The Titanic and Doctor Who

  The RMS Titanic has been mentioned a number of times previously, but this marks its first actual appearance.
  • In the Fourth Doctor story The Invasion of Time (1978), the Doctor claims that he "wasn't responsible" for the disaster. He also expresses a dislike for the term "impregnable" in Robot, comparing it to "unsinkable". When asked "What's wrong with unsinkable?", the Doctor says, "Nothing, as the iceberg said to the Titanic, 'Glug Glug Glug Glug'."
  • In "Rose", the Ninth Doctor is shown in an old photograph with "the Daniels family of Southampton" on the eve of their scheduled voyage aboard the Titanic. For an unspecified reason, they cancelled their trip, escaping the ship's fate. In "The End of the World", the Doctor himself makes reference to the Titanic, mentioning that he "was on board another ship once. They said that was unsinkable. I ended up clinging to an iceberg, it wasn't half cold."
  • The Titanic appeared in the Virgin New Adventures book The Left-Handed Hummingbird, written by Kate Orman. As with all spin-off media, the canonicity of this appearance is unclear.
  • The 1989 Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Follow That TARDIS! includes a sequence in which the Titanic is deliberately rammed into the iceberg in the mistaken belief that it is the Meddling Monk's TARDIS.

  Pre-broadcast publicity

  • Kylie Minogue was initially reported by tabloid newspapers to be appearing in this episode.^[8] Russell T Davies dismissed this story, but a statement by Minogue indicated that she would be in the episode.^[9][10] The BBC officially confirmed her role in early July.^[3]
  • On 19 July 2007, The Sun published a photograph of an actor on set in Wales, in make-up, supposedly playing a red, spiky creature called "Porg".^[11]
  • On 20 July 2007, the Paisley Daily Express reported that David Tennant's mother, Helen McDonald, had died from cancer,^[12] and SyFy Portal noted that filming had been delayed by one week so Tennant could attend his mother's funeral.^[13]
  • The includes a track named "The Stowaway", which Amazon.co.uk have confirmed is a song appearing in this episode, in the same vein as "Song for Ten" and "Love Don't Roam" in previous Christmas specials (both of which were on the ).^[14] The full song was released online at SilvaScreen Records' MySpace page.

  References

  1. ^ Jarrod Cooper. "Series 4 Writers Announced", Outpost Gallifrey, 2007-06-01. Retrieved on 2007-06-15. 
  2. ^ "Girls Girls Girls!", Doctor Who Magazine: p. 4, 22 August
  3. ^ "Step Back In Time", BBC, 2007-07-03. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.BBC&rft.date=2007-07-03"> 
  4. ^ "Tate to be Doctor's new companion", BBC News, 2007-07-03. Retrieved on 2007-07-06. 
  5. ^ "Kylie is pensioner's cup of tea", BBC News, 2007-08-01. Retrieved on 2007-07-31. 
  6. ^ id="CITEREF2007">"Into the Future!", Doctor Who Magazine: p. 4, 19 September
  7. ^ "Kylie Boards Titanic!", BBC, 2007-07-11.BBC&rft.date=2007-07-11"> 
  8. ^ "Christmas Episode 2007", Outpost Gallifrey, 2007-05-12. Retrieved on 2007-07-01. 
  9. ^ "Davies dismisses Kylie rumour", Outpost Gallifrey, 2007-04-27. Retrieved on 2007-07-01. 
  10. ^ "Kylie confirms Doctor Who role", Digital Spy, 2007-05-12. Retrieved on 2007-07-12. 
  11. ^ "Have you tried low tardis fags?", The Sun. Retrieved on 2007-07-19. 
  12. ^ "Tributes pour in for Helen", Paisley Daily Express, 2007-07-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. 
  13. ^ "'Doctor Who' Filming Delayed This Weekend", SyFy Portal, 2007-07-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. 
  14. ^ Doctor Who Original Music from Series Three. Amazon.co.uk (2007-10-13). Retrieved on 2007-10-14.
  
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