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"[4], The name of the Carrionites derives from screenwriter Gareth Roberts' own New Adventures novel, Zamper (1995), which refers to a slug-like race known as "arrionites".
The ending featuring Queen Elizabeth was Russell T Davies's idea, who told Roberts to "make it a bit like the ending of The One Doctor", a Big Finish Productions audio drama also written by Roberts.[5]. A darkness is coming which brings with it The End of Time.
The episode was first broadcast at 7pm on 7 April 2007.
Other sequences include subtle references to much earlier episodes. Euros Lyn Lynley collapses on the ground dead.
75 min They decide to visit the architect of the theatre in Bethlem Hospital.
By the time of production, however, the title had been changed to "Theatre of Doom", according to David Tennant's video diary shot during production and included as a bonus feature of the Series 3 DVD set. [14] IGN reviewer Travis Fickett rated the episode 7.2 out of 10. "The Shakespeare Code" is the second episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who. David Tennant, In a Mars base the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. There are numerous other allusions to Shakespeare's plays. When a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song's squad and hurled into a chase across the galaxy. When Lynley, the Master of the Revels, demands to see the script before allowing the play to proceed, Lilith plunges a voodoo doll made of his hair into a bucket of water and stabs it in the chest. Roberts has said, "I always thought it was a nice word, and I was thinking of the witches as carrion creatures, so I bunged a C in front of it".
the Doctor nothing will ever be the same. The Christmas Invasion; Series 4 Edit. This has a sequel in Ian Potter's short story Apocrypha Bipedium in Short Trips: Companions, which concerns the young Shakespeare's anachronistic meeting with some of the characters he will later portray in Troilus and Cressida. Arthur Darvill, The Doctor confronts Lilith, who explains that the three witches were released from their banishment by Shakespeare's genius words after he lost his son Hamnet.
Available for 2 months; Add. | At one point, the Doctor uses the title "Sir Doctor of TARDIS," which had been awarded to him by Queen Victoria in "Tooth and Claw" (2006). The Doctor and her friends must protect the last of the human race against the Cybermen. Noma Dumezweni, TV-PG This is a reference to the enigmatic female character in Shakespeare's Sonnets, although Sonnet 18 is in fact one of those addressed to a male character, the Fair Youth. Season 9, Episode 0, TV-PG The following is a list of appearances of the Sycorax. David Tennant, The Doctor and Martha make numerous references to Shakespeare's appearance: she notes that he looks nothing like his portrait, and wonders why he is not bald, while the Doctor says he could make his head bald if he rubs it and later gives him a ruff to keep (calling it "a neck brace"). This is the name of an inn recommended in Twelfth Night. Nick Frost, The Doctor arrives in London on Christmas Eve in 1851 where he encounters the Cybermen and a man who claims he's a Time Lord called the Doctor. "The Shakespeare Code", along with "Smith and Jones" and "Gridlock" was released on a DVD on 21 May 2007. | There is indeed a novelisation of Back to the Future, written by George Gipe. By uttering the name Carrionite the Doctor is able to repel her.
Stars: Lilith compels Shakespeare to write a strange concluding paragraph to Love's Labour's Won before flying away on a broom. In a different version of the joke, the Doctor exclaims "Once more unto the breach", and Shakespeare initially likes the phrase, before realising it is one of his own from Henry V, which was probably written in early 1599. | Snow is evolving, turning into icy monstrosities, but this is no concern for the Doctor whose given up trying to save the universe, leaving it to a clever young governess named Clara to save the day.
Kylie Minogue, Adventure, Drama, Family. Shakespeare flirts with Martha multiple times during the episode, and ultimately composes Sonnet 18 for her, calling her his "Dark Lady". Douglas Mackinnon The newly-regenerated Time Lord is out of action, but the Sycorax are coming... JavaScript seems to be disabled.
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Stars: The Doctor answers cries for help from deep space, ancient Syria - and Sheffield. He went on to write several more books for Virgin Books and further Doctor Who spin-offs.
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A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth, a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed headed mastermind - it's just another Christmas for the Doctor... 2007 Christmas special guest starring Kylie Minogue. In the morning the Doctor, Martha and Shakespeare proceed to the Globe Theatre, and the Doctor asks why the theatre has 14 sides.
"The Shakespeare Code" is the second episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Just before the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS, he exclaims "Brave new world", from Act V Scene I of The Tempest. Matt Lucas, It was broadcast on BBC One on 7 April 2007. on Christmas eve, The doctor travels into the past of a bitter old man who has the power to save Amy and Rory but doesn't want to save them, so that he doesn't grow up to be mean and bitter. Discuss the list here, TV-PG
With the new TV series, Roberts again produced a tie-in novel (Only Human, 2005) and then various smaller jobs for the TV show, including the "Attack of the Graske" digital television interactive mini-episode and the TARDISODEs. [12] Digital Spy's Dek Hogan found the plot "ludicrous" but praised the production values and special effects.
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Shakespeare is credited with adding two to three thousand words to the English language, including 'assassination', 'eyeball', 'leapfrog' and 'gloomy'. In an early scene a sign is glimpsed for an inn named "The Elephant". David Tennant, Bernard Cribbins, Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer. The Doctor quotes the line, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," from "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas — but warns Shakespeare he cannot use it as it is "somebody else's". A portal opens up, allowing the Carrionites back into the universe. Peter O'Brien, Lee Evans,
The special effects on the episode were done by The Mill, who have created the special effects on all Doctor Who episodes since its return in 2005. Timothy Dalton, Votes: Peter Capaldi, Lilith refers to the Eternals, a race introduced in the original series serial Enlightenment (1983).
There is a running joke throughout the episode in which the Doctor creates an apparent ontological paradox by inspiring Shakespeare to borrow phrases that the Doctor quotes from his plays. Michelle Ryan,
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The episode makes reference to the many debates about Shakespeare's sexuality. Tom Ward,
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Production started at the production team's Upper Boat Studios in Trefforest for the scenes in the Crooked House. Producer Russell T Davies and screenwriter Gareth Roberts have both stated that they were aware of these past references to meeting Shakespeare, but that they would neither be mentioned nor contradicted in the episode. Season 7, Episode 0. The Doctor claims Martha comes from Freedonia, a fictional country in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup - it was also used as the name of a planet in the Doctor Who novel Warmonger (2002) by Terrance Dicks. Television Edit Doctor Who Edit Series 2 Edit. ', There are several references to races from earlier Doctor Who episodes. Unfortunately, he's lying in a coma in Jackie's home... Director: James Hawes | Stars: David Tennant, Billie … Lilith credits the Carrionites' escape from the Eternals' banishment to 'new...glittering' words. Christopher Eccleston, The Carrionites and all the copies of Love's Labour's Won are sucked back through the closing portal. Season 3, Episode 0, TV-PG He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.
The Doctor helps him emerge from his catatonia long enough to reveal that the witches dictated the Globe's tetradecagonal design to him. When regressing the architect in Bedlam, The Doctor uses the phrase "A Winter's Tale", whilst the architect himself uses the phrase "poor Tom" in the same way as the 'mad' Edgar in King Lear. The Doctor identifies the witches as Carrionites, a species whose magic is based on the power of words which allows them to manipulate psychic energy. [1] According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.23 million viewers and was the fifth most popular broadcast on British television in that week. He found the plot "straightforward", but still said it was entertaining with a good performance by Kelly. [15], adding two to three thousand words to the English language, "The Shakespeare Code commentary podcast", "Historic Coventry – the visit of The Doctor! At the end of the episode, Shakespeare, the Doctor and Martha use a word from Harry Potter, "Expelliarmus", to defeat the Carrionites, and the Doctor exclaims "Good old J.K.!".
56 min These references include some metatheatrical humour, since David Tennant played the villain Barty Crouch, Jr in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Wiggins is named after Doctor Martin Wiggins, a distinguished academic in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and the editor of several editions of influential plays of this period. Lilith temporarily stops one of the Doctor's two hearts and flies to the Globe Theatre. In 1816, Lord Byron and the Shelleys prepare for a night of ghost stories.
Some of the words and names used are derived from other works. |
In SFX magazine #152, producer Phil Collinson called this episode the "most expensive ever", because of the large amounts of CGI and filming in Warwick, Coventry and London. Don Gilet, 2006 Christmas Special It was then re-released as part of the Series Three boxset in November 2007. [7], Production then went on a week of location night shoots, beginning in Coventry, including Ford's Hospital, for one night,[8][9] before moving to the Lord Leycester Hospital at Warwick. At one point, Martha says "It's all a bit Harry Potter", which prompts the Doctor to claim that he has read the final book in the series (which would not be released until three months after the episode was aired; the Doctor refers to it as "Book 7" because the title had not been made public at the time of filming). Director: With David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke.
The three Carrionites allude to the Weird Sisters from Macbeth (which was written several years after the setting of this episode); like them, the Carrionites use trochaic tetrameter and rhyming couplets to cast spells. The actors speak the last lines of the play. According to Roberts, "if anyone was gonna trip me after transmission it'd be him, so I thought I'd butter him up first".[5].