Series Two Episode Guide

[Abi]

From Outpost Gallifrey, heres some info about the indivdual episodes in the next series. It has the cast list too, so we can see whose in it. They all have a brief outline about what happens in that episode;

1: New Earth
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Zoe Wanamaker (Cassandra), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Michael Fitzgerald (Duke), Lucy Robinson (Clovis), Dona Croll (The Matron), Adjoa Andoh (The Sister), Anna Hope (The Novice), Sean Gallagher (Chip)

Set in the far, far future on a utopia-like, new planet, it sees David Tennant's recently-regenerated hip and witty Time Lord summoned to a futuristic hospital run by cat-like nuns. There he stumbles upon a frightening cover-up and crosses wits with his evil nemesis - the last (barely) living human, Cassandra, played once again by Zoe Wanamaker. Along the way, the Doctor and Rose are terrorised by hideous plague victims and meet up once more with the enigmatic Face of Boe who tantalizes the Doctor with a secret. And bodies are swapped, and swapped again before the bittersweet finale

2: Tooth and Claw
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Pauline Collins (Queen Victoria), Ian Hanmore (Father Angelo), Michelle Duncan (Isobel), Jamie Sives (Reynolds), Ron Donachie (Steward), Tom Smith (Host), Ruth Milne (Flora), Derek Riddell (Robert).

In Balmoral castle in historic Scotland, the Doctor must protect Queen Victoria from an alien onslaught.

3: School Reunion
Writer: Toby Whithouse
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Anthony Stewart Head (Mr Finch), John Leeson (K9), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Eugene Washington (Mr Wagner), Caroline Berry (Unknown), Rod Arthur (Unknown), Joe Pickley (Kenny), Lucinda Dryzek (Melissa), Heather Cameron (Nina), Benjamin Smith (Luke), Clem Tibber (Milo)

The Doctor is reunited with old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K9 at a mysterious school overrun by the evil Krillitanes and their Headmaster.

4: The Girl in the Fireplace
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Sophia Myles (Madame Du Pompadour), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Ben Turner (King Louis XIV), Jessica Atkins (Young Girl).

In 18th century France, the Doctor and Rose end up in the court of Louis XIV...

5: Rise of the Cybermen and 6:The Age of Steel
Writer: Tom MacRae
Director: Graeme Harper
Cast: Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler), Roger Lloyd-Pack (John Lumic), Andrew Hayden-Smith (Jake Simmonds), Mona Hammond (Rita-Anne), Raji James (Dr Singh), Colin Spaull (Mr Crane), Helen Griffin (Mrs Moore), Jules Bert (Photographer)

Two-part story
The Doctor and Rose face the terrifying Cybermen on an alternate Earth doomed to disaster!

7: The Idiot's Lantern
Writer: Mark Gatiss
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Ron Cook (Mr Magpie), Debra Gillett (Rita), Rory Jennings (Tommy), Marie Lewis (Mrs Gallagher), Sam Cox (Bishop), Jean Challis (Betty), Jamie Foreman (Eddie)

Set in England during the 1950's with an unusual sort of alien intelligence that travels through the airwaves on television broadcasts.

8: The impossible Planet and 9: The Satan Pit
Writer: Matt Jones
Director: James Strong
Two-part story
Cast: Will Thorp (Toby)
The Doctor and Rose visit a nightmarish alien world...

10 : Love & Monsters
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Dan Zeff
Cast: Peter Kay (victor Kennedy)

An offbeat episode featuring the Abzorbaloff, a creature created by a Blue Peter viewer

11:Fear Her
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Edna Dore (Maeve), Nina Sosanya (Trish), Abdul Salis (Kel), Abisola Agbaje (Chloe), Christopher Driscoll (Security Guard), Derek Acorah (himself), Trisha Goddard (herself), Erica Eirian (Neighbour), Tim Faraday (Dad), Stephen Marzella (Policeman), Richard Nichols (Driver)

The doctor and Rose drop in at the London 2012 Olympics

12: Army of Ghosts and 13: Doomsday
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Graeme Harper
Cast: Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Tracy Ann Oberman (Yvonne Hartman), David Warwick (Police Commissioner), Adam Shaw (Morris), Freema Agyeman (Adeola), Hadley Fraser (Gareth), Oliver Mellor (Matt), Rachel Webster (Eileen), Takako Akashi, Hajaz Akram, Maddi Cryer, Anthony Debaeck, Paul Fields, Kyoko Morita, Andrew Ufondu, Barbara Windsor (herself), Derek Acorah (himself), Trisha Goddard (herself)

The Cybermen have awakened in our universe, and together with something from the Doctor's past, the Earth isn't safe...

[Katy]

im looking forward already. Zoe Wanamakers in the first episode,. That should be really good.

[Bryan]

im presuming episode 8 is the eastenders one?

[Abi]

Probably. When they put all the details up on OG, then i'll edit that one :)

Zoe Wanamaker back as Cassandra.... i've heard so many rumours as to how and why she's back.... i'm looking forward to that one the most. Then many the Queen Victorian one.

[dddMac1]

can't wait for the new series to start

[DaVeyWaVey]

Sounds good. Can't wait for Peter Kay to make an appearance :)

[Cornishbabe]

they arnt giveing much away are they? It sounds good though

[Abi]

No, they're not. I go onto a Doctor Who forum, and even they dont have many spoilers for the new series. The production team are keeping it very close-knit this series, which in a way is a good thing, because then the series will be better to watch.

A faint spoiler which i heard recently on Outpost Gallifrey, is that RTD said;


Series 2 will end in a ****ing collasial cliffhanger. I cant say much, but i hope they can get it all on camera

Or words to that effect :hmm:

[Abi]

Updates added 3rd April 2006 in RED

[***sharon rules***]

David tennant and billie piper have both signed up to stay for the thrid series aswell.

[Emmak2005]

5: Rise of the Cybermen and 6:The Age of Steel
Writer: Tom MacRae
Director: Graeme Harper
Cast: Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler), Roger Lloyd-Pack (John Lumic), Andrew Hayden-Smith (Jake Simmonds), Mona Hammond (Rita-Anne), Raji James (Dr Singh), Colin Spaull (Mr Crane), Helen Griffin (Mrs Moore), Jules Bert (Photographer)

Two-part story
The Doctor and Rose face the terrifying Cybermen on an alternate Earth doomed to disaster!



Yay. Andrew Hayden Smith is going to be in it - well for one episode anyway. Well he's certainly climbed the dizzy heights of fame very quickly. From Byker to co-starring in Dr Who. Anyway, I found a more in-depth look at the reasons why all 13 episodes were given those very titles.


Episode 1: New Earth

Last year fans of Dr Who saw the end of the world in the year 5 billion. And the first episode in the second series "New Earth" shows what happens to the human race after all that. As soon as the Earth got blown up, everyone started missing their home planet, so instead to compensate they've discovered a similar planet - same size, same atmosphere, same amount of gravity - and have begun to settle there. The doctor then takes Rose there and ofcourse it's packed and bulging full of trouble.

So basically New Earth is futuristic - with every design department pulling out all the stops to make it look like it's set millions and billions of years in the future. It also contains a mixture of prosthetics and CGI (Computer Generated Images) and design and costume and make-up.


Episode 2: Tooth & Claw

This story is a good old gothic scary horror about a werewolf. In series 1 there was Charles Dickens and ghosts. In this series there's going be Queen Victoria and a werewolf - which will be very much a companion piece.

Head writer of the show Russell T Davies says: "there's a certain comfort zone in watching Doctor Who and thinking, 'Oh, they're doing this sort of episode.' It's what I call a 'celebrity historical'.

"Shove a real famous person in there - one you will recognise at the drop of a hat. There's no point in doing Louis Pasteur, because what did he look like? With Queen Victoria - the big black dress and the hair - or Charles Dickens, you just recognise them immediately. It's almost like the Horrible History take on historical travel."


Episode 3: School Reunion

Elizabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane (the doctors 1970s companion) was loved not just by fans, but by an entire generation. Plus she looks exactly the same.

The doctors current companion Rose will bring more emotional weight to the series - as she starts to worry about what happens to the women who are left behind.

Plus there's a robot dog! The scenes with K9 are really joyful and funny and daft.

Episode 4: The Girl In The Fireplace

When Russell T Davies was writing Casanova (2005), he'd read about Madame de Pompadour and she fascinated him. "She was so modern and independent. She was king's official mistress, and you had to maintain your position in court as mistress by sheer wit and cleverness. It's a beautiful episode." He says of the 4th episode in this series.

The Girl In The Fireplace is a different take on the 'celebrity historical' because this time you're looking at a woman in history where everyone knows the name, but noone knows much about her. That's a really interesting thing to do because women in history tend not to exist in terms of power and authority, apart from the Queen.

There are also droids that are beautiful robot monsters. They tick and they tock. When they're in a room, you can hear: 'Tick-tock, tick-tock.' Very scary.


Episode 5 & 6 : Rise Of The Cybermen/The Age Of Steel (two-parter)

In this episodes viewers are led to a parallel Earth where there's another version of Jackie, of Mickey, and Rose's father (Shaun Dingwall) is still alive. So it's a very emotional setting.

Earth has become quite a fascist society, but nonetheless it's the modern world. It's a chance to play things on a big scale: London is invaded in a way that we might have trouble believing, but if it's set in a parallel world, then you get away with it.

You want monsters to connect with your life somewhere and the Cybermen are upgrades in the way that we upgrade our phone and computers every year.

Russell says of the Cybermen idea: "It's like, if the ultimate repository is the brain, how do you upgrade that in the end? You die and you don't download all the information in your brain. It just dies. So that is this society's solution, to provide a casing in which the brain can live for ever. At some point we were going to want a great big robot army -so bring on the Cybermen!"

Episode 7: The Idiots Lantern


The brief for this story was being set in the 1950s. Mainly to add a bit of rock 'n' roll to the science fiction side of it.

Russell says: "The coronation is one of those great legends. My generation all remember being told about everyone gathering around the television that day. You begin to think, 'Well if that's not a setting for a Doctor Who story, then what is?' It's brilliant. A really clever story. And very funny, as you would expect from Mark. Maureen Lipman has a lot of fun with it."


Episodes 8 & 9: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (two-parter)

We see a lot of sci-fi where the doors slide and uniforms are neat and they all have water, air and gravity. Russell wanted to put people in outer space and show how tough it is. Everything's greasy and dirty, and they're in danger. Everything is dangerous. It's a really frightening setting. He wanted to show the pioneering human spirit.

It's a really human story in very dangerous circumstances. With monsters. And the Satan Pit. There's something terrible buried under the surface of this planet. It's pushing the envelope as far as you can go in terms of monsters - it's fab!

Episode 10: Love And Monsters

Love & Monsters is very different. It's funny in places, but it's not just a comedy script. It touches people, absorbs them and their face actually appears in the body - terrifying!


Episode 11: Fear Her

Russell says he always wanted to do a story set on a housing estate with Edward Scissorhands houses - suburbia being marvellously sinister underneath. It's one of the classic settings the Dr Who team were always going to do. They came up with 2012, just to nudge it into the future; then the Olympics was in the air and suddenly the episode got a whole style of its own. There's a mysterious 'her' at the centre. It's a bit like a Twilight Zone tail of an ordinary family.

Episodes 12 & 13: Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday

Grown men will tear their garments watching the last episode says Russell.

"We began to get an idea of how big we could go last year and so I drove them to push it even bigger. It's putting modern-day Earth in danger. One of our greatest strengths is to bring the danger right to our doorstep in the here and now. It's not giving too much away to say the Cybermen are back, big time, en masse. And it really is epic. But it's also about the Doctor and Rose's mother, in particular. Whether they can survive a war on earth.


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Sorry about my pathetic attempt at a banner can someone please make me a better one? I'm rubbish at it. It looks like David Tennant has been slapping shaving cream on his head. :searchme:


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[Abi]

I can't wait for "school reunion", with K9 and Sarah Jane Smith coming into it. I've seen some clips of Rose's reaction- it looks histerical. She gets so jealous over Sarah :rotfl:

I'll do ya a banner if you want. I'll post it in my banners thread in the "Fan art and banners" forum, cause this isn't really the right place to do it... :)

[DaVeyWaVey]

Yay 4 more days to go. I can't wait!! :cheer:

[Lindy]

The Doctor investigates a London school which is being haunted
by strange, bat-like creatures at night, as the award-winning Doctor
Who continues.
While at the school, the Doctor finds his old friend, Sarah Jane
Smith, already working undercover. Both have old scores they
must settle, and Rose discovers the true legacy of being a Time
Lord’s companion.

David Tennant plays the Doctor, Billie Piper plays Rose, Noel
Clarke plays Mickey, Elisabeth Sladen plays Sarah Jane Smith,
Anthony Head plays Mr Finch and John Leeson plays K9.

[Tamzi]

The episodes sound very good, can't wait for the cybermen and the whole Satan style of episode 8 and 9. I was just listening to the commentary for episode and apparently there Torchwood mentions throughout the series and it will come to head in episode 12/13, so that will be interesting
xxx

[Cornishbabe]

which eppisode is the eastenders one?