Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)"Voyage of the Damned" is an episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. First broadcast on 2. December 2. 00. 7, it is 7. Christmas special since the show's revival in 2. ![]() Voyage Of The Damned Cast![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative continues from the final scenes of both "Last of the Time Lords" and the mini- episode "Time Crash", when a luxury space liner called the Titanic, a pastiche of the historical ocean liner, breached the walls of the TARDIS. The ship's captain, Hardaker (Geoffrey Palmer), sabotages the ship shortly after the Titanic's collision with the TARDIS. The Doctor (David Tennant) works with a waitress named Astrid Peth (Kylie Minogue) to prevent an imminent collision with Earth. The episode features the only performance in Doctor Who by the Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue. Executive producer and writer Russell T Davies described her casting as a "very exceptional case", having written the part of Astrid specifically for Minogue. On its original airdate, "Voyage of the Damned" was watched by 1. Voyage Of The Damned BookDoctor Who since the 1. City of Death and as of December 2. It was the second most- watched programme of 2. East. Enders which aired immediately after it. Critical opinion about the episode was divided; the writing and Minogue's performance were both praised and criticised. The episode opens immediately following the events of "Time Crash", with the bow of the Titanic crashing into the TARDIS. The Voyage Of The Damned 1976 Leonard Rossiter - Duration: 2:24. OfficialRossiter 10,120 views. 2:24. I would like to give this 4 or 4-1/2 stars but cannot. It's a true story worth telling as the last voyage of the MS St Louis and its captain were the brainchild of.
'Voyage of the Damned' is an episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. First broadcast on 25 December 2007, it is 72 minutes long and. The Doctor repairs the damage before landing the TARDIS on the ship. He discovers it's not the famed RMS Titanic, but instead is a starliner hailing from the planet Sto. The Titanic is orbiting present day Earth to observe the traditions of primitive cultures, specifically Christmas. The Doctor dons a tuxedo and joins the reception on board, meeting waitress Astrid Peth. The Doctor convinces Astrid to join him on a brief excursion to the surface of Earth. They are accompanied by married couple Morvin and Foon Van Hoff, a Zocci named Bannakaffalatta, and historian and guide Mr. Copper. While on Earth, specifically a commercial district of London, the Doctor notes that London seems abandoned, and questions a man in a newspaper stand about it. The man, Wilfred Mott, tells the Doctor that most people have left London because of the previous two years of alien activity in London on Christmas ("The Christmas Invasion" and "The Runaway Bride"). Back on the Titanic, Captain Hardaker dismisses the ship's officers from the bridge. Citing regulations, that require at least two officers remain on the bridge at all times, Midshipman Alonso Frame stays. After the group returns from their excursion, Hardaker drops the vessel's protective shielding and magnetises the hull. This causes nearby meteors to be pulled toward the ship on a collision course. ![]() Midshipman Frame attempts to reactivate the shields but is shot by Hardaker as the meteors collide with the ship. The collision causes hull breaches, most of the 2,0. Earth. The Doctor makes contact with the wounded Midshipman Frame, who stabilises and maintains the power from the damaged engines. The Doctor and the rest of the excursion party attempt to reach the bridge but are repeatedly attacked by the ship's Angel Hosts, androids resembling angels who were programmed to supply information but are now eliminating all passengers and crew. Morvin falls off of a ledge into the ship's engine, and the rest of the group are surrounded by Angel Hosts. Bannakaffalatta reveals that he is a cyborg, and uses his internal EMP device to disable the Hosts. The EMP burst drains the Zocci's power cells and he dies. Mr. Copper takes the EMP device, saying that if they can manage to recharge it, they can use it against the Hosts again. A lone Angel Host attacks them again, and Foon ties herself to it and throws them both into the ship's engine. The Doctor separates from the rest and attempts to reach Deck 3. Heavenly Hosts. He convinces the Hosts that he is a stowaway - neither passenger nor crew and thus not in the Hosts' kill mandate - and the confused androids take him to see their operator, Max Capricorn. Max explains that he planned the Titanic's inevitable collision with Earth to bankrupt the company that voted him out. To save the Doctor, Astrid uses a forklift to ram Max Capricorn and push him into the ship's engine. The forklift falls on top of him, seemingly killing Astrid as well. With Max Capricorn dead, the Heavenly Host divert to the next highest authority, the Doctor, and aid him in quickly reaching the bridge. Together with Midshipman Frame, he uses the heat from the entry into the Earth's atmosphere to restart the ship's auxiliary engines. The ship stabilises and narrowly avoids a collision with Buckingham Palace. The Doctor then realizes that Astrid was wearing a teleport bracelet when she fell into the engine. In an emergency, the teleport bracelets were programmed to hold a person's molecular pattern in stasis until it can be recovered. The Doctor frantically attempts to retrieve Astrid's pattern, but the machine is too badly damaged. The Doctor reluctantly allows the ghostly remains of Astrid's atoms to dissipate into space. As the surviving passengers wait for rescue, the Doctor and Mr. Copper, who would otherwise be sent to prison for committing fraud in order to get a job with the company, teleport to Earth and find that the TARDIS landed unharmed, thrown from the ship after the collision. An ecstatic Mr. Copper is left to live on Earth with a credit card he preloaded with a million pounds, unaware of the conversion between pound sterling and Sto credits. Production[edit]Casting[edit]. Kylie Minogue, alongside David Tennant, wearing a "cigarette girl" costume, which she described as "the most comfortable [she] had worn in years"During the third series press launch in March 2. Will Baker, Kylie Minogue's creative director, about her appearing in the show. Executive producer Julie Gardner replied that Minogue could guest star if her schedule was free.[1] Minogue officially registered her interest on 2. March 2. 00. 7 and was subsequently given a one- off role as the Doctor's companion.[1][2] Minogue's appearance would allow the show to easily transfer the lead companion role from Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) to "Penny"—the intended companion for the fourth series, eventually replaced by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble—and provide a "big name" star to appear in the Christmas special.[1] Her casting was first reported in the News of the World in April 2. Davies initially dismissed the story, but Baker and Minogue contemporaneously confirmed she would star in the show.[2][4][5] Her role was officially confirmed on 3 July 2. Both Minogue and Doctor Who had acknowledged each other before: "The Idiot's Lantern" mentions Minogue as a real person; [7] and Baker, a fan of Doctor Who, included aspects of the classic series in Minogue's tours: the Raston Warriors (from The Five Doctors) in the Fever tour; and the Cybermen in the Showgirl tour.[2]Clive Swift and Geoffrey Palmer have had previous roles in Doctor Who. Swift portrayed Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks, while Palmer played Undersecretary Masters in Doctor Who and the Silurians, and the Administrator in The Mutants. Jessica Martin had played Mags in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. In addition, Bernard Cribbins played Tom Campbell in Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2. A. D., the second Doctor Who feature- film adaptation starring Peter Cushing as well as Arnold Korns in the audio play Horror of Glam Rock. Colin Mc. Farlane, who provided the voices of the Heavenly Host for the episode, went on to play General Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, before later reappearing in Doctor Who as Moran in "Under the Lake".[8]Minogue's costume[edit]Minogue met designer Louise Page four times during pre- production to discuss her costume. Page rejected a long dress because it was atypical to Minogue; she instead elected for a "cigarette girl" image, similar to a "1. Five costumes were made for different scenes and Minogue's stunt doubles, and each part of each costume was made separately to keep Minogue's role secret. After filming, Minogue told Page that the costume was "the most comfortable [she] had worn in years".[2]Writing[edit]The episode was primarily written by Russell T Davies after Minogue was cast. Davies described his pitch to Minogue as "busking".[2] The character of Astrid Peth was written for Minogue. Davies later stated that Minogue was a "very exceptional case"; he considered writing a role specifically for one actor "dangerous territory" because the desired actor may be unavailable or decline the part.[9] In early drafts of the episode, Astrid did not die. Davies decided Astrid's death was necessary to allow Minogue focus on her musical career.[2] Davies described the original nature of her death—falling over a precipice during a fight with Capricorn—as "fleeting".[1] He intensified the scene by changing Max from mobile to cybernetic and Astrid's attack from an altercation to a fork- lift truck.[1] Davies felt the revised scene was "such a beautiful image" and romanticised Astrid's "ultimate sacrifice".[1][2]Davies based the episode on the traditional disaster film format. He was highly influenced by the 1. The Poseidon Adventure: he considered "[turning] the spaceship upside down" before cutting the concept for monetary constraints; [1] and the character of Foon Van Hoff (Debbie Chazen) was heavily based on Belle Rosen (Shelley Winters). He diverged from the trope in its climax; the format of Doctor Who dictated the requirement of an antagonist: Max Capricorn, whose plan was to sabotage the ship as part of an insurance scam.[2] Davies based the portrayal of Kansas in the 1. The Wizard of Oz as an analogue for Sto.[1. The episode includes several references to outside the show's fictional universe: the episode is dedicated to Verity Lambert, Doctor Who's founding producer, who died on 2. November 2. 00. 7, a day before the show's forty- fourth anniversary; [1.
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