The 816th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 117th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Michelle Gomez guest stars in the season eight opener.
This entry is forthcoming.
The 816th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 117th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Michelle Gomez guest stars in the season eight opener.
This entry is forthcoming.
written by Steven Moffat
directed by Ben Wheatley
music by Murray GoldCast: Peter Capaldi (The Doctor), Jenna Coleman (Clara), Michelle Gomez (Missy), Jami Reid-Quarrell (Colony Sarff), Julian Bleach (Davros), Jemma Redgrave (Kate), Jaye Griffiths (Jac), Harki Bhambra (Mike), Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (Bors), Joey Price (Boy), Benjamin Cawley (Kanzo), Aaron Neil (Mr Dunlop), Clare Higgins (Ohila), Nicholas Briggs (Dalek voices), Kelly Hunter (Shadow Architect), India Ria Amarteifio (Alison), Dasharn Anderson (Ryan), Stefan Adegbola (Newsreader), Shin-Fei Chen (Newsreader), Lucy Newman-Williams (Newsreader), Demi Papaminas (School Girl),
Barnaby Edwards (Dalek), Nicholas Pegg (Dalek), Jonathan Ojinnaka (Soldier)
Notes: In the best tradition of the Master’s frequent 1980s appearances, Missy returns with no sign of damage from the previous season’s finale. The mention of the Doctor’s involvement in “three possible versions of Atlantis” is a meta-reference to the fact that the series has destroyed Atlantis on three occasions on television alone (The Underwater Menace, 1967; The Daemons, 1971; The Time Monster, 1972). Julian Bleach last played Davros in 2008’s Journey’s End, and is only the second actor after Terry Molloy to play the part more than once on TV. The Shadow Proclamation was last visited in The Stolen Earth (2008), while the Doctor has visited the Dalek city on Skaro (and its Kaled precursors) too many times (The Daleks, 1963; The Evil Of The Daleks, 1967; Genesis Of The Daleks, 1975; Destiny Of The Daleks, 1979); the Doctor clearly starts that Skaro has been “rebuilt” (a reference to its apparent destruction in 1988’s Remembrance Of The Daleks; various novels and other media have posited multiple explanations for its survival or recreation). Remembrance‘s Special Weapons Dalek makes its second new series appearance (after 2012’s Asylum Of The Daleks) – which means that it has now appeared twice as many times in current Doctor Who than in the classic series. For the first time, new series Daleks and classic series Daleks are seen to be existing in the same place at the same time (the “classic” style Daleks having been built for 2013’s An Adventure In Space And Time).
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