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Doctor Who
- 'New Earth'
Screenplay by
Russell T. Davies
A
BBC Wales production
First broadcast 15th April 2006 on BBC 1
Director: James Hawes
Assistant Directors: Jon Older; Steffan Morris;
Lynsey Muir
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producers: Russell T. Davies; Julie
Gardner
Associate Producer: Helen Vallis
Cinematography: Ernest Vincze
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Costume Designer: Louise Page
Makeup Designer: Sheelagh Wells
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Peter Brayham
Original Music: Murray Gold; Ron Grainer
Running time: approximately 45 mins
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Cast
(main cast,
in
alphabetical order) |
Adjoa Andoh.....Sister Jatt
Noel Clarke.....Mickey Smith
Camille Coduri.....Jackie Tyler
Doña Croll.....Matron Clasp
Michael Fitzgerald.....Duke of Manhattan
Sean Gallagher.....Chip
Anna Hope.....Novice Hame
Simon Ludders.....Patient
Billie Piper.....Rose Tyler
Lucy Robinson.....Frau Clovis
Struan Rodger.....Face of Boe (voice)
David Tennant.....The Doctor
Zoe Wanamaker.....Lady Cassandra O'Brien |
Production |
| The
newly-regenerated Doctor promises to take his travelling
companion, Rose, 'further than we've ever gone before'.
Together they visit New
Earth - a planet colonised by nostalgic humans after the
destruction of their original home - in the year five billion
and twenty-three. Across the bay from 'New' New
York
lies a state of the art hospital run by highly-evolved cat-women known as the Sisters of Plenitude.
Remarkably, the treatments provided by the sisterhood can cure
all known diseases. But the Face of Boe, the Doctor's
acquaintance from 'The End of the World' and now a patient at the hospital, is dying of old
age: 'one thing we can't cure', remarks kindly Novice Hame.
Separated from the Doctor, Rose encounters an old adversary,
hidden in the depths of the hospital. Lady Cassandra,
having spied 'that dirty blonde assassin', determines to enact
her revenge. Using a 'psycho-graft', operated by her
faithful servant, Chip, Cassandra claims Rose's body as her own
- 'it's goodbye trampoline and hello blondie!' |
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