Who Reviews The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang by SF Cambridge

 

Starring Matt Smith as The Doctor, Alex Kingston as River Song, Karen Gillan as Amy & Arthur Darvill as Rory 

 

Liz Ten: “This is the royal collection. And I’m the bloody Queen. What are you doing here?” 

River Song: “It’s about the Doctor, ma’am. You met him once, didn’t you? I know he came here” 

Liz Ten: “The Doctor?” 

River Song: “He’s in trouble. I need to find him.” 

Liz Ten: “Then why are you stealing a painting 

The opening scene of The Pandorica opens, is by far one of my favorites as it explodes into a frantic race against time as friends of the Doctor are seen rallying around trying to figure out a way to contact him ending in an art heist conducted by River Song as she attempts to steal one of Van Gogh’s paintings from the queen aka Liz Ten, that Vincent painted entitled, “The Pandorica Opens” and depicts the TARDIS exploding. However, I did think at this point when I first watched it that it was a shame that Lady Christina couldn’t be the one to do the heist as its very much her M.O and would have been a nice way to let us all know that she is still out there fighting on behalf of the Doctor as in the case of Liz Ten, even so it was not meant to be and the intro worked out well. 

Obvious to everyone involved that the painting is a message, the Doctor with Amy eventually follows clues left for him by those trying to contact him to Stonehenge where the action really begins. 

We see Rory back from the dead and resurrected as a Roman Solider, Amy remembering who he is and all the alien forces, the Doctor’s enemies, in the galaxy coming together to set a trap for the Doctor, to finally put an end to him and stop him from stopping them with their plans for world domination. It’s quite funny to think that all of his enemies will work together to get rid of him because they are fed up with him ruining things for them. The end of the episode continues into the next episode The Big Bang and once again the Doctor saves the earth as were transported back in time to when Amy was the little girl, he first met years ago. We find out how Rory got his names Rory the Roman, the lone centurion and the last centurion and why he felt compelled to guard the Pandorica through time with his life. 

“According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken, throughout its long history, the Centurion would be there guarding it. He appears as an iconic image in the artwork of many cultures. And there are several documented accounts of his appearances. And his warnings to the many who attempted to open the box before its time. His last recorded appearance was during the London Blitz in 1941. The warehouse where the Pandorica was stored was destroyed by incendiary bombs. But the box itself was found the next morning a safe distance from the blaze. There are eyewitness accounts from the night of the fire of a figure in Roman dress carrying the box from the flames. Since then, there have been no sightings of the Lone Centurion. And many have speculated that if he ever existed, he perished in the fires of that night, performing one last act of devotion to the box he had pledged to protect for nearly two thousand years.” 

The Pandorica itself is a temporal prison and the light within it will keep whatever is imprisoned alive forever, even if it is seconds from death. The plan was to lock the Doctor in there forever to keep him out of the way but it turns out that the light is actually a resurrection field and restores the dead and dying. When the Doctor figures this out and realizes that he can’t stop the explosion from altering time and space and wiping out the universe, he flies the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion and reboots the universe with the resurrection light, restoring everything back to how it was but wiping out the memory of him from everyone’s lives. Just before his final moments happen, he goes back in time to tell young Amy a story as she sleeps. 

The episode ends with Rory and Amy finally getting married with a cleverly written piece of wedding tradition that involved the TARDIS. Something old, yet something new, something borrowed even though it was technically stolen, and something blue! This is the story that the doctor told Amy when she is a little girl and one he hopes will help her to remember him when he is gone. Amy’s memories are the key to bringing those she loves back to life and without them, neither the Doctor nor Rory would have come back from the dead. 

Amy: “When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend, the Raggedy Doctor, my Raggedy Doctor. But he wasn't imaginary, he was real. [shouting] I remember you! I brought the others back; I can bring you home too! Raggedy man, I remember you, & you are late for my wedding! I found you. I found you in words just like you knew I would. That's why you told me the story of the brand new, ancient blue box” 

I don’t think there is a Who episode starring Matt Smith that I don’t like, although I much prefer the dynamic he had with Rory and Amy than I do with Clara. He was part of Amy and Rory’s family having married their daughter and you always got that when watching them all together, even though he was 100’s of years older than them and not even human you still knew that they were a close family and he was their son even if it was completely impossible. 

I liked the edge they gave Rory, the man who keeps on dying and found a plausible way to bring him back to life for good so that he could watch over Amy for 2 thousand years. It was a great romantic gesture and a massive insight into their relationship to tell us all that true love knows no bounds, although I was pleased to see him become human again so that they could grow old together. There are just one too many immortal human companion’s courtesy of the Doctor, (Jack Harkness, Clara Oswald and Me) and I would have hated for Rory to carry on eternally after Amy had gone as his life would have no purpose so it was a welcome storyline for them both. 

I especially liked the fact that looking back on Amy when she was a little girl again that we see a different version of events as to the day she first met the Doctor. In the future time is ending and collapsing in on itself because the TARDIS exploded. The Silence planned to kill the Doctor by blowing up the TARDIS (to prevent him from reaching Trenzalore) but they did not know that River Song could fly the TARDIS. Thus, resulting in the TARDIS blowing up inside the Time Vortex instead 

“The universe is cracked, the Pandorica will open and silence will fall” Prisoner Zero 

The explosion was felt in space and time and changed the events of the past so that the stars went out. (Journey’s end – The stars are going out) and even though we know that the stars went out before for different reasons it’s still a nice way to tie the Doctors together. As the past begins to change to compensate for the explosion, stars become a myth, a story of what used to be that parents told their children, and young Amy had never seen a star before as there wasn’t any but she drew pictures of them from memory so even though she hadn’t met the Doctor in this time line, she still remembered him somehow. Confusing but at the same time, very nostalgic and completely amazing. 

Its these 2 episodes and the who Doctor / Amy / Rory storylines that showed off the brilliance of the writers who literally breathed life into the characters, entwining them throughout the years so that they would always be together, even years after Amy and Rory died in their future lives. It’s a dynamic rarely seen on screen within the Whoniverse now and the heart of the Doctor, or hearts of the Doctor completely solid in his foundations of everything the show inspired to be when it first started years ago. 

Thinking back on the immortal companions, it would be awesome for another DW spin off series starring Captain Jack and Me (Ashilda) if she hadn’t left the show in a diner shaped TARDIS with the undead Clara then I think the two of them would have worked brilliantly together but I guess its not meant to be. 

So, in conclusion, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang are like comfort episodes. Ones you can rewatch 10 times over and not get bored with them as they just seem to pack so much in that it’s a race against time from start to finish, 12 minutes at one point. 

The Doctor: “Right! I’ve got twelve minutes. That’s good” 

Amy: “Twelve minutes to live. How is that good?” 

The Doctor: “Oh, you can do loads in twelve minutes. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath.” 

Or even save the world with the big bang!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Who Reviews The Bells of St John by SF Cambridge

 

Starring Matt Smith as The Doctor & Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald. 

"Danger. This is a warning. A warning to the whole world. You're looking for Wi-Fi. Sometimes you see something, a bit like this. Don't click it. Do not click it. Once you've clicked it, they're in your computer. They can see you. If they can see you, they might choose you. And if they do... you die." 

Something in the Wi-Fi is killing people and The Doctor has taken up as a recluse in a monastery in Cumbria in 1207 whilst he mourns the deaths of Amy & Rory and tries to figure out who the heck Clara Oswald is as he keeps meeting her and she keeps dying. He seems to be a broken man when we first see him. A man needing the seclusion of his own mind to be able to work through the trauma’s life has given him up until that point. 

Meanwhile, In London in 2013, Clara has reincarnated into a nanny / babysitter for her deceased friend’s husband and looks after his kids whilst he’s at work. She can’t connect to the wi-fi as it keeps disappearing so she phones the helpline a lady in the local shop gave her which just so happens to be the direct number to the TARDIS, hence when the monks rush into the Doctor’s sanctuary they tell him “The Bells of St John are ringing” meaning, the TARDIS which has a St John’s ambulance sticker on the front of it, is ringing. The end!! Or maybe not! 

People all over the world are being killed as their consciousness and intelligence are being uploaded into a data cloud. The physical bodies are left behind and they appear on a screen looking scared not knowing who or where they are repeating the same thing over and over again. “I don’t know where I am” This reminded me a lot of the time Rose Tyler’s face was sucked off by The Wire and she appeared on a TV screen in Magpie’s shop. This is happening when the people are on their computers, trying to connect to free wi-fi. They see a weird looking link of alien looking symbols, click it and are uploaded and we find out later in the show that it was the handy work of the Great Intelligence, the man played by Richard E Grant who also appeared as the same character in The Snowmen. 

The main villain at this point seems to be Miss Kizlet who is in charge of all the data uploads and the people around her who work for her but she isn’t just in charge of them, we see with the help of a tablet device, she is also in control of them and can affect their personalities using a slider scale to her own benefit, giving some of her workers more of a pushy personality than they might need or slowing them down to accept her control and commands over them. We see at the end of the episode when the data cloud is destroyed, that the people being controlled suddenly come to their senses and revert back to who they were with no recollection of what has been happening. One man says he was a delivery driver and only came into the office to use the toilet and it looked as though he’d been there a long time. Most if not all of the workers had been abducted from their normal lives and used as puppets to do Miss Kizlet’s work. 

What made this episode great for me was Celia Imrie as Miss Kizlet. I’m a big fan of hers and she’s a great actress and it was especially sad towards the end when she reverted back to a child, lost and confused and stuck in a grown woman’s body, obviously taken by the Great Intelligence when she was very young and had her mind manipulated for all those years that she grew up thinking she was an adult. 

I’m not a big fan of Clara Oswald. I don’t know what it is about her that I do not like, but I just do not like her character at all. She was pretty cool as Oswin Oswald, the girl who’s mind fractured into tiny pieces when she became a Dalek in order to protect her from reality by creating a fantasy world for her to live in until she could cope, but that was about it for me. Job done, time to move on to the next companion. Yet she turned up again in the Christmas episode called The Snowmen and annoyed me greatly, and again in this episode just to add salt to my wounds. If the writers had left it at those two appearances and tied up all her loose ends so she wouldn’t need to appear again then she could be tolerated, but miss bossy boots know it all, ain't fazed by nothing and no-one became a permanent fixture on the show and somehow became The Impossible girl, a woman who’s lived and died several 100 times and followed the doctor throughout history saving his life! Which small child came up with that bizarre twist?! Probably the same person who thought she deserved her own diner shaped TARDIS to roam about space and time in. 

I digress. This episode wasn’t one of Matt Smith’s finest moments. I think he used them all up with Amy, Rory and River and in my mind it all seemed a little pointless. Obviously to reintroduce Clara back into his life using the Run you clever boy and remember me line but why here and why now? 

He’d met her twice before and he remembered both those times, yet according to the future revelation that she is the impossible girl, how come he never remembered her before especially when according to her she’d been there the whole time, pointing him in different directions, and whilst I’m rambling about it, how come she didn’t remember all the times before when she was there? She was born to save the Doctor apparently and she did for 10 regenerations but if she didn’t remember any of it, how did she know she was supposed to do it? AND, why is she not supposed to be doing it anymore? 

Whilst Clara isn’t that impossible to me, I do get that she needed a modern-day phenomenon to find her way back to the Doctor and nothing says modern day like issues with the wi-fi.  We got to know a bit about her history in her present life, watched her interact with a man who knew her yet she didn’t know him and she trusted him a bit too quickly for my liking, taking off on adventures with him in his “Snog Box” after saving the planet with him, taking it all in her stride as if she’d been there before, which she apparently has but doesn’t remember. 

I think The Doctor and Clara were such big personalities in their own right, that they never really fit right together. You always got the sense with Amy that although she was a feisty red haired ginger ninja, she was also quite vulnerable and needed the Doctor in her life which of course he had been there for all of her life, yet with Clara, she comes across as an adventure waiting to happen, as though she has all this energy for above and beyond the stars stored in her DNA waiting to take flight, waiting for the right ship to come along and take her away. Maybe that is the point of her, maybe she was born to be with the Doctor is some way, but to save him? If she had been a regeneration of Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, that could have worked. A Time Lady sleeper who had no idea of who she was until he came along and woke her up. I might have liked her a bit more then. 

This episode warns of the dangers of wi-fi, yet seemingly encourages young girls to run away with a mad man in a blue box just because they can’t find anything decent enough about their life at that present time. There are a lot of trust issues and complications in this episode. The kids Clara looks after are not really that keen to have her around, the fact that she looks after them out of guilt, clicking open links in the wi-fi, running around with an alien just because he’s good looking and then leaving said kids she felt compelled to look after out of guilt. 

Lots of holes in my opinion and it’s not an episode I watch a lot of. Still, some great acting by great actors and it’s always nice to see such big stars willing to take up roles in Doctor Who.

Who Reviews The Doctor's Wife by S.F. Cambridge

 

Staring Matt Smith as The Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond & Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams 

The Doctor: “Sorry. Do you have a name?”

Idris: “Seven hundred years, finally he asks.”

The Doctor: “And what do I call you?”

Idris: “I think you call me… Sexy!”

The Doctor: “Only when we’re alone.”

Idris: “We are alone!”

The Doctor: “Oh. Come on then, Sexy” 

After receiving “space mail” directly to the TARDIS in the form of a small floating cube, The Doctor, Amy and Rory soon realise it’s a distress call from one of the Time Lords known as The Corsair and follow the signal to what looks like a junkyard planet which is sitting just outside the universe in what The Doctor calls, a pocket universe. 

Immediately after landing the TARDIS mysteriously shuts down and its matrix disappears as though it has been deleted. Somehow, during it deleting it gets placed inside a woman called Idris who becomes confused and disorientated from being outside its usual constraints of the TARDIS. 

Discovering the only inhabitants of the strange planet are Idris, two other beings called Aunty and Uncle and an OOD, The Doctor soon comes to learn that they are made up of body parts from dead Timelords and that the planet known as House, is actually alive and eats TARDISes by feeding on the rift energy bursting from them and that it has been using the distress calls of Timelords to lure them to him. As it did with The Doctor. 

House: “Fear me. I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords.”

The Doctor: “Fear me. I’ve killed all of them” 

The Doctor sends Amy and Rory back to the TARDIS to keep them safe and locks them in without realising that House has now transported itself into the empty Blue Box in order to plan it’s escape from The Doctor but upon finding Amy and Rory inside, it starts playing a deadly game with them as he chases them down corridors, playing with their minds before he decides to capture and kill them. 

Rory: “Killing us quickly wouldn’t be any fun. And you need fun, don’t you? That’s what Auntie and Uncle were for, wasn’t it? Someone to make you suffer. I had a PE teacher just like you.” 

The Doctor and Idris hatch a plan to save them when they find out that the junkyard is actually full of broken TARDISes which destresses them both but they overcome their grief and work together using their combined knowledge and Idris’ power of flight to construct a makeshift console that can travel through time and space and with their help, they managed to combine it with the TARDIS and save the day as well as Amy and Rory by putting the TARDIS's matrix back to the TARDIS and destroying House. 

The Doctor: “Yes. Yes, I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before, you know. I know what I’m doing.”

Idris: “You’re like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.”

The Doctor: “I always read the instructions.”

Idris: “There’s a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?”

The Doctor: “That’s not instructions!”

Idris: “There’s an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?”

The Doctor: “Pull to open.”

Idris: “Yes, and what do you do?”

The Doctor: “I push!”

Idris: “Every single time. Seven hundred years. Police box doors open out the way.”

The Doctor: “I think I have earned the right to open my front doors anyway I want.”

Idris: “Your front doors? Have you any idea how childish that sounds?” 

A remnant of the TARDIS's matrix, in Idris' body, states that she will not be able to speak to the Doctor again but will be there for him. Idris's body then disappears as the TARDIS matrix is fully restored. 

There are far too many spoilers…sweetie…. to go into with a full in-depth review as I think an episode like this is far better watched the first time without knowing the full details, but the above quote does beg the question and maybe the answer of how long The Doctor has been travelling since he left Gallifrey which appears to be for 700 years! 

One of the best episodes of Matt Smith’s time as the runaway Timelord simply because of the chemistry between The Doctor and Idris (Played by Suranne Jones) was so intense that you could quite easily have believed that she was in fact his TARDIS in human form.

Complicated, funny and loyal, she was everything you would expect the TARDIS to be if it could in fact have spoken to The Doctor. Their banter was very true to form of any husband and wife and they seemed to connect instantly as if it was true love at first sight. 

I think this episode highlighted The Doctor’s loneliness and his need for a companion that was truly his own. His delight upon realising who Idris was, was a very special moment as was his complete sadness when he knew she had to go. It was a sad ending but a fitting tribute to the relationship that the two had developed over the years they had been travelling together. 

But…this wouldn’t be Doctor Who without a cliff-hanger and a forward look into Amy and Rory’s future as Idris had a clairvoyant way of seeing this seeing as she could see the whole of time and space, but not always in the right order which would explain why The Doctor never managed to get to the right place at the right time and perhaps why he and River Song met the day she died after knowing him for many years even though that day just so happened to be the first time he had ever met her. 

Idris: “The only water in the forest is the River” 

Funny, intriguing, hopeful, worrying, sad and heart racing energy. This episode has it all.

Who Reviews The Eleventh Hour by S.F. Cambridge

 

Staring Matt Smith as The Doctor & Karen Gillan as Amy Pond (Caitlin Blackwood as young Amelia Pond) 

The Doctor: “Can I have an apple? All I can think about is apples. I love apples. Maybe I’m having a craving. That’s new. Never had cravings before” (Takes a bite out of an apple and spits it on the floor) “That’s disgusting. What is that?”

Amelia: “An apple?”

The Doctor: “Apples are rubbish. I hate apples!”

Amelia: “You just said you liked them!” 

After the Tenth Doctor's regeneration and David Tennant’s dramatic exit from the show, the TARDIS suffers some major internal damage from the regenerative fallout and falls out of the time vortex and flies erratically all over the place, very nearly colliding with Big Ben in London, until it crash lands on its back in the garden of a house in Leadworth. The house belongs to a 7-year-old Amy Pond who lives with her aunt Sharon after she “loses” her parents and who at that precise moment was saying her prayers and asking Santa to help her with a rather disturbing crack in her wall. Seeing the TARDIS is actually a police box, she thanks Santa and runs outside to greet the policeman hoping he has come to help her. The Doctor who is now soaking wet and still wearing 10’s ragged torn clothes, climbs out of the swimming pool, which was in the library at the bottom of the TARDIS and drags himself out of the TARDIS looking dishevelled and disorientated because he is “Still Cooking” and after sitting with Amelia in her kitchen and trying out various foods he finds disgusting, he comes to the conclusion that fish fingers and custard is by far his favourite thing to eat. He then contemplates Amelia and after a discussion about her life, family and the crack in the wall concludes that it must be a pretty scary crack as she’s happy to sit with a strange man who fell out of the sky and eats fish custard in her kitchen rather than face what is going on upstairs. The Doctor eventually examines the crack closer and hears a voice on the other side of the wall transmitting the message, "Prisoner Zero has escaped” 

The Doctor uses his sonic to open the crack further and it is revealed that an alien prison lies on the other side with the guards taking on the appearance of a giant eyeball.  He then gets a message on his psychic paper which reads "Prisoner Zero has escaped." He then concludes that the prisoner must be in Amelia’s house somewhere but before he can help her, the Cloister Bell inside the TARDIS chimes signalling to him that there is a major problem and he runs off telling Amelia to wait for him and that he will be back in 5 minutes.

12 years later he returns to the house thinking he has only been gone 5 minutes and is greeted by a grown-up Amelia now calling herself Amy who hits him with a cricket bat when she thinks he’s an intruder. 

It turns out that the TARDIS was more damaged than the Doctor thought and it took him longer to stabilize her within the time vortex where there is no real concept of time. Things have changed a lot in 12 years. Amy is now a kissogram and she has a boyfriend called Rory who is a nurse at the local hospital. The Doctor finds out that as Amelia was growing up, she was referred to several doctors because she kept telling the story of her imaginary friend, the raggedy doctor and her aunt thought she was suffering some trauma from losing her parents. 

Upon meeting Rory, The Doctor finds out that there are several coma patients in his hospital who all seem to have fallen ill at the same time and the prisoner who had escaped 12 years ago was still on the run from an alien race known as The Atraxi. The prisoner was able to hide himself all those years by disguising himself as people within the town, the people who had been placed in a coma and when the Atraxi finally realised that prisoner zero was still on earth, they gave the doctor a 20-minute ultimatum. Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated. Meaning they would incinerate the earth.

Knowing he doesn’t have long and even though he’s still recovering from his last regeneration, The Doctor hatches a plan using all the scientific boffins across the world with the help of Amy’s neighbour Jeff and his laptop, and sends them all a computer code for them to upload at exactly the right and same time, this would set all the clocks in Leadworth to zero, highlighting the prisoner to them. His plan works, Prisoner Zero has been recaptured but as it is taken away back to its prison, it tells the Doctor a secret. “Silence will fall”, leaving him confused as to its meaning. The Atraxi leave satisfied that they have finally caught their prisoner but the Doctor isn’t happy that they thought to invade the earth in the first place and calls them back. He tells them off for thinking they could just blow up earth and that they are too scan him and see who he really is. They do and all 10 of his regenerations appear on screen which is a nice kind of homage to all the past Doctors and to the fans themselves and the Atraxi run away. 

The Doctor: “C'mon, then! The Doctor will see you now!”

Atraxi: [after scanning The Doctor] “You are not of this world.”

The Doctor: “No but I've put a lot work into it.”

Atraxi: “Is this world important?”

The Doctor: “Important? What's that mean, important? Six billion people live here, is that important? Here's a better question: is this world a threat to the Atraxi? Oh, come on, you're monitoring the whole planet! Is this world a threat?”

Atraxi: [after looking at a montage of world events] “No.”

The Doctor: “Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?”

Atraxi: [after viewing another montage about earth] “No.”

The Doctor: “Okay. One more, just one: is this world protected?”

[as the Atraxi views a montage of all the aliens who have attacked humanity in some way]

The Doctor: “You're not the first to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them?”

[Atraxi looks at a montage of the past ten Doctors. The Doctor steps through the montage when the 10th Doctor is shown]

The Doctor: “Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically. Run.” 

This is my favourite Matt Smith episode and a very brilliant introduction to the new 11th Doctor and of course his bow tie. What starts off as a man unsure of who he really is, still ends up as a man doing everything he can to protect the planet he loves. His new companions are Amy with Rory joining them at a later date and unknowingly at this point we have a lot of plot twists and emotional heartbreak coming our way, making the 11th Doctor one of the most successful Doctor Who storylines which I think goes a long way to soothing the uncertain thoughts most of us Whovians had when David Tennant announced he was leaving as to who could take on such a prevalent role. WHO, indeed!

Connections The Crown by DJ Forrest

2016 – present

In 2016, Netflix introduced us to a wonderful insight into the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from the time she was a young princess, to her marriage to Philip Mountbatten, and her role as our Royal Monarch, the Queen. It starred Matt Smith as Prince Philip, whose character I felt quite sorry for, in the fact that he’d given up so much for the Queen and the royal order, by which the House of Commons seemed to rule quite heavily in – of what was the ‘done thing’ back then. It’s probably quite understandable then, that Philip strayed a few times, although that doesn’t come to light until the second series of this wonderful drama. Claire Foy, plays the Queen, and she’s absolutely outstanding in her role. The actress who played her sister, Margaret, is uncannily like the real princess.

Naturally, my Doctor Who eyes were spotting quite a few of the cast of the show, but I was surprised at just how many more were in the series, than I’d first thought. Did you see them all?

Of course, as the show is likely to continue for another few seasons, and I’ve only listed those up to 2017, I may need to update this as time goes on.

But for now,

Cast 

Matt Smith played Philip, Duke of Edinburgh for 14 episodes from 2016-2017. Played the 11th Doctor from 2010 - 2014 for 54 episodes.

Nicholas Rowe played Jock Colville for 9 episodes in 2016. Was the voice of Rivesh Mantilax in Doctor Who: Dreamland in 2009 for 5 of the 6 episodes.

Pip Torrens played my least favourite character Tommy Lascelles for 9 episodes in 2016. Played Rocastle in Doctor Who episodes, The Family of Blood and Human Nature in 2007.

Jonathan Newth played Page at Buckingham Palace for 4 episodes in 2016. Played Orfe in Doctor Who story Underworld episodes 1 - 4 in 1978.

Ronald Pickup played the Archbishop of Canterbury for 4 episodes in 2016. Played the Physician in Doctor Who episode, The Tyrant of France in 1964.

John Woodvine played the Archbishop of York for 4 episodes in 2016. Played Marshal in parts 1 - 4 and 6 of Doctor Who The Armageddon Factor in 1979.

Patrick Ryecart played the Duke of Norfolk for 3 episodes in 2016. Played Crozier in Doctor episodes 5 - 8 of The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986.

Jo Stone-Fewings played Collins for 2 episodes in 2016. Played the Male Programmer in Doctor Who two parter Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways in 2005.

Anthony Edridge played Equerry at Clarence House for 2 episodes in 2016. Played the Pilot in Doctor Who episode The Bells of Saint John in 2013.

Bern Collaço played a Portuguese VIP for 2 episodes from 2016-2017. Played a Georgian Soldier in Doctor Who Thin Ice episode in 2017 and an Office Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio in 2016 both uncredited.

Michael Bertenshaw played Master of the Household for 1 episode in 2016. Played Mr Cole in Doctor Who episode, The Next Doctor in 2008.

Ian Porter played a U.S. Department Aide for 1 episode in 2016. Played the Foreman in Doctor Who two parter Daleks in Manhatten and as the Hybrid in Evolution of the Daleks in 2007.

Garrick Hagon played John F. Dulles for 1 episode in 2016. Played Harold Potter in Tale of a Timelord short in 2016. Played Abraham in Doctor Who episode A Town Called Mercy in 2012. Played Ky in All six episodes of The Mutants in 1972.

Simon Poland played Chief Scientist for the Met Office for 1 episode in 2016. Was the voice of the 456 voice in Torchwood: Children of Earth day 2 - 5 in 2009.

Anthony Flanagan played Thurman for 1 episode in 2016. Played Orin Scannell in Doctor Who episode 42 in 2007.

Michael Cochrane played Vice Provost Sir Henry Marten for 1 episode in 2016. Played Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Doctor Who story Ghost Light parts 1 - 3 in 1989 and Lord Cranleigh in Black Orchid in both parts in 1982.

Rebecca Benson played a Nurse for 1 episode in 2016. Played Kar in Doctor Who episode (new) The Eaters of Light in 2017.

Garry Lake played Journalist #2 for 1 episode in 2016. Played Vic in Torchwood episode Meat in 2008.

Catherine Bailey played Lady Elizabeth Cavendish for 1 episode in 2017. Played Miss Wyckham in SJA episode Lost in Time, part 2 in 2010.

Bertie Carvel played Robin Day for 1 episode in 2017. Played the Mysterious Man in Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment in 2007.

Richard Elfyn played Selwyn Lloyd for 1 episode in 2017. Was the voice of the Knights in Doctor Who episode Robot of Sherwood in 2014.

Richard Price played a member of the Scots Guard uncredited for 1 episode in 2016. Was uncredited for his Doctor Who roles as Wedding Guest and standard Guest in The Runaway Bride in 2006 and The Lazarus Experiment in 2007, a Passerby in Partners in Crime in 2008, A Takran Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter in the same year, and RTD and Modern Cybermen in 2017. Played a Passerby in SJA: The Mark of the Berserker parts 1 & 2 in 2008.

Film Editing

Úna Ní Dhonghaíle was film editor for 2 episodes in 2016. Was film editor for Doctor Who episode A Good Man Goes to War in 2011.

Makeup Department

Chris Lyons did special effects teeth for 3 episodes in 2017. Did Special Effects teeth for 8 episodes of SJA from 2009 - 2010.

Amy Riley was makeup artist for unknown episodes. Was make up supervisor for 5 episodes of Doctor Who in 2014 and makeup artist for one episode in the same year.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Michael Llewellyn Williams was crowd runner: dailies and crowd third assistant director for 5 episodes in 2016. Was uncredited as Barry Leonard in Torchwood episode, Reset in 2008. Was an uncredited Slab in Doctor Who episode Smith and Jones in 2007. Was assistant director credited as Michael Williams for Doctor Who episode Flatline in 2014.

Art Department

Richard Rowntree did additional greens for 6 episodes in 2017. Did additional greens for 41 episodes of Doctor Who from 2011 - 2015, all of which were uncredited.

Sound Department

Patrick Christensen was adr mixer for 6 episodes in 2017. Was ADR mixer for 7 episodes of Doctor Who from 2015 - 2017.

George Atkins was adr mixer for 1 episode in 2017. Was ADR mixer for two episodes from 2014 - 2017 and ADR recordist for one episode in 2013.

Special Effects

Peter Kersey was Special effects floor supervisor / special effects technician for 10 episodes in 2016. Was uncredited as special effects technician for Doctor Who movie in 1996.

Leon Harris was special effects technician for 2 episodes in 2016. Was special effects crew for 3 episodes from 2012 - 2013, and special effects for 2 episodes in 2013.

Mike Crowley was special effects technician for unknown episodes. Was special effects supervisor for 8 episodes of Doctor Who in 2006.

Chris Reynolds was special effects supervisor for unknown episodes. Was senior special effects technician for 4 episodes of Doctor Who in 1989, special effects technician for 1 episode in 1986 and special effects for 1 episode in the same year.

Visual Effects

Joseph Batten was digital compositor for 10 episodes in 2016. Was digital matte painter for 19 episodes from 2007 - 2010, and matte painter for 3 episodes in 2008.

Was digital matte painter for 4 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2008 and digital matte painter for SJA for one episode in 2007.

Roy Peker was roto/prep artist: One Of Us for 5 episodes in 2016. Was digital compositor for 3 episodes of Doctor Who in 2017.

William Phillips was matchmove artist for 4 episodes in 2016. Was a matchmove artist for 1 episode of Doctor Who - The Return of Doctor Mysterio in 2016 but was uncredited.

Frederic Heymans was digital compositor for 2 episodes in 2017. Was digital compositor for 8 episodes of Doctor Who in 2014.

Kim Phelan was visual effects producer for unknown episodes. Was visual effects co-ordinator for 4 episodes in 2006, and visual effects co-ordinator for 1 episode in 2006.

Was visual effects co-ordinator for 13 episodes in 2006 and 2D artist for 1 episode in 2005.

Camera and Electrical Department

Jeremy Braben was aerial director of photography for 7 episodes from 2016-2017. Was aerial director of photography for one episode of Doctor Who - The Day of the Doctor, uncredited in 2013.

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Rose Goodhart was crowd costume for 10 episodes in 2016. Was assistant costume designer for 20 episodes from 2006 - 2010 for Doctor Who and costume supervisor for 1 episode in 2006.

Barbara Harrington was wardrobe mistress for 1 episode in 2016. Was costume assistant for 28 episodes of Doctor Who from 2005 - 2010. Was costume assistant for Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres in 2008. Was costume supervisor for 1 episode of SJA in 2007.

Editorial Department

Ben-Roy Turner was digital intermediate operator for 2 episodes in 2017. Was digital intermediate operator for 5 episodes of Doctor Who in 2017.

Location Management

Andrew Ryland was location manager for unknown episodes. Was unit manager: London and uncredited for Doctor Who episode The Bells of Saint John in 2013.

Miscellaneous crew

Jonathan Wayre was film projection / newsreel camera technician / radio & broadcast equipment / vintage BBC radio equipment supplied by for 9 episodes in 2016. Was vintage lab equipment supplied by for one episode for Doctor Who in 2010.

Karen Jones was script supervisor for unknown episodes. Was also production assistant for 4 episodes of Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord parts 5 - 8 in 1986.