04x95 - Xmas 2008

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This episode is a Gothic
cyber Victorian epic nightmare.

♪ I used to rule the world

♪ Seas would rise When I gave the word

♪ Now in the morning I sleep alone

♪ Sweep the streets I
used to own... ♪ Action!

The Cybermen are quite up there.

We haven't seen them
for a couple of years,

so it was great to see them
marching through the snow.

Who the hell is that? Hello.

His name, sir...

..is The Doctor.

We're filming the Christmas episode,

it's an early scene
when The Doctor arrives

in this courtyard and
meets the other Doctor.

Hold on, who are you? I'm The Doctor.

The one, the only, and the best.

We start out with a bit of a mystery

which again is unusual
for a Christmas special.

Who is this man?

If you could step back, sir,
this is a job for a Time Lord.

He's had information into
his head, so he's slightly

been brainwashed into a situation

where he believes he's someone else.

At the start, you
would absolutely believe

this is who The Doctor has become.

I love that conceit that The
Doctor's companion in this episode

would be himself.

THEY LAUGH

David Morrissey is in some ways
the great Doctor we'll never have.

I've been hunting this beast for
a good fortnight. Step back, sir.

We've just seen a
Cybershade jump on a wall.

The other Doctor and then The Doctor

grab onto the Cybershade with a rope,

and then get wheeched
up through a window.

I might be in a little bit of trouble.

So to make this happen,

we've put wires in the rope and
hung the actors off the wires.

Once more for a
rehearsal, please, folks.

Is there a way to get a bit more stable?

Wires are always fun the first couple
of times you get hauled up and down,

because it is a bit like flying.

But come take , when
your back starts to go

and other areas are
needing some attention,

it can start to feel like a long day.

Action!

Ah! I think I might
be in a bit of trouble.

Nothing changes. I've got you.

Hold it there. Thank you very much.

Reset, guys, please.

Being in a harness
for quite a long time,

usually in a pair of highly
padded cycling shorts to protect

um, what dignity you might have
left after three years of this.

Look at that. Sexy!

Actually, it was fine for
the majority of the day.

We were on there for four or five hours.

Then we broke and I
took the harness off.

Then we had to go back into the harness.

It was going back into the harness

and doing it again, that really hurts.

I don't know why. I
bruised all my thighs.

Good position? It is a good position.

That's a major cheat. We went up the
side of that building about times,

making it look three or four
times the length it actually was.

There can be some chafing and
there can be some unpleasantness,

but you forget about that
when it's cut together

and hopefully all looks exciting.

♪ Secrets of the universe

♪ The mysteries of life

♪ And the things That don't make sense

♪ All come clear cos the
music Takes me up... ♪

♪ The music takes me up... ♪

I'm not letting you out of my sight,
Doctor. Don't you recognise me?

No. Should I? Have we met?

It's not slapstick, but
it's quite a strange thing

that they have to go through.

This is hardly the right time

for me to go through my
social calendar. Argh!

We want these two men
to come together quickly.

They could do that through
dialogue but it's much better fun

to have them pulled along by a rope.

After that they're friends,
no matter what happens.

It's shorthand to bring them together.

THEY LAUGH

Oh!

THEY LAUGH RIOTOUSLY

It's quite a juicy part to cast.

Oh, that's new.

BOTH: Allons-y.

Every actor wants to create good
characters and be in good stories,

and Russell and his team here have
really created that with Doctor Who.

You ask a lot of questions.

I'm your companion.

Whenever there were articles written
about who's going to take over,

there's always four or
five names that crop up

and Dave Morrissey is usually in there.

That's not why we got him for this part.

Dave Morrissey's name crops
up because he's a great actor

and we wanted a great actor.

There's no way we thought,
"Let's play into the game

"of casting someone who
might be the next Doctor."

That's too complicated. You
just want to cast a great actor.

I've worked with David before.
We did a series called Blackpool.

Which was a musical, actually.
We danced the tango together...

..to These Boots Are Made For
Walking, a Nancy Sinatra number.

♪ You keep lying When
you ought to be truthing

♪ And you keep losing When
you ought to not bet... ♪

We had a really great time on that.

It was a very dark comedy-musical.

We all sang and danced.

♪ These boots are made for walking

♪ And that's just what they'll do

♪ One of these days these boots
Are gonna walk all over you. ♪

We were very good.

The Doctor at first thinks he's
another Time Lord and then gradually

he realises that this man
is working under an illusion.

But I'm The Doctor.

You became The Doctor. It

the next Doctor is in fact not a
Time Lord but a human, Jackson Lake.

Let me just check.

You told them you were The
Doctor. Why did you do that?

Oh, just...protecting you.

There's a tiny moment where
we cut some lines of dialogue.

The Doctor listens to his heartbeat
and originally in the script

you realised he was
listening to one heart.

We took that out just to
keep the mystery going longer.

I can't remember...

what happened to me. What did they do?

I approached it in that way of
a character who is suffering from

memory loss and is working on an
energy that is trying to get him

to block out something that
has been very painful for him,

that's happened to him.

JL.

The watch is Jackson Lake's.

The things that he's invented,

particularly the TARDIS that he's
invented himself, save the day.

All that bravery.

Saving Rosita, defending London town.

Hm? The invention, building
a TARDIS, that's all you.

So actually in small ways, vital ways,

he becomes a proper Doctor
and helps to save the Earth.

At your service, Doctor. He would
have been a wonderful Doctor.

The point is in the end

that for the course of that
story he was The Doctor.

At one point my character,
when he is completely delusional

and does think he's a superhero,
he decides to lasso this Cybershade.

As an actor I have done very
little lassoing in my life.

So we got in this guy who taught me
how to lasso, and it was brilliant.

My name is Guido Louis.

Gonna catch a monster, be exciting.

I'm called in for the day to
show David Morrissey about roping.

Ha-ha!

It was really good. I spent
quite a lot of the morning

with him and his rope.

This is called a lasso.

You have the loop ready and now

you swing it above
your head in this way.

Throw it at the target,
hopefully you hit it.

That's good. The lasso we're
using today is not an actual lasso.

It's an ordinary rope.

Quite heavy, quite thick,

a lot heavier than I
would use for a lasso.

That's it.

But I will show him how
to lay it in his hands

and swing it above his head.

We can do it. We'll be all right.

I had to aim at the first
assistant and I got him first time,

which I was very happy about.

Ha!

Ha!

So yeah, my lasso
skills are up there now.

If I have to give up the
day job I can join a circus.

Excellent.

In an abandoned Welsh warehouse,

it's time for the two
Doctors to go on the pull.

Today I've been pulling The
Doctors along through the Warehouse,

which is linking from the
scene we were sh**ting yesterday

where I was pulling them
up a wall, Spiderman-style.

So Ruari, you're running down here.

We'll just track along in the
camera vehicle next to you, OK?

I wanted a great big
opening Christmas Day stunt.

I wanted it to be funny.

Obviously, ideally, you're on all fours,

but it's going to be impossible
so, um, it's to get as much speed,

but give the impression that you'reOK.

Then look back over your shoulder.

A little bit quicker.

That's good. Chuck some looks back.

Once they're off the vertical

and start going
horizontally, it's just funny.

I've got to run on all fours,
on the impression of all fours,

as quickly as possible,

while two people hold onto the rope
behind me, which is interesting.

In my head, I have rough practicalities.

Basically, I knew it
would be a nightmare.

They'd set up this rig on
the back of a quad bike.

Basically just underneath their bums

was a little saddle pad to sit on.

It was just kind of two little
seats on a kind of metal frame.

I sat strapped in one,
David in the other,

and we're holding these ropes

and we just get dragged
endlessly round this warehouse.

On days like that, when two actors
are being pulled across a warehouse

on a quad bike on their bums...

Oh! Oh!

That's why I don't go on set very often.

You write that stuff
and go, "Over to you!"

Three, two, one. Action.

It's the sort of thing that when
you're first told you'll be sitting

on a bit of tin being dragged
along the floor by a quad bike,

you can't quite imagine...

either that it's going to work or
that it's not going to k*ll you.

Cut there. Don't try that at home, kids.

It signals up the kind of
episode it's going to be.

A romp, slapstick, we'll
have fun along the way.

BOTH SCREAM

It was so funny. The two of them
just act their hearts out in that.

Imagine being pulled
along by a quad bike

and having to do all that acting
at the same time. It's brilliant.

It was really good fun.

We had real fun. Again it was
pretty uncomfortable the next day.

But David and I had quite a laugh.

So just what is it that makes

The Doctor Who Christmas
Special so special?

I love the Christmas specials.

Mums and dads and kids, more
than any other day of the year,

more than all the Saturdays, will
be sitting down and watching telly.

It's just the scale, the ambition
in the writing. Anything goes.

One part of you wants to make
it bigger and better each year.

At the same time, you
shouldn't go mad with that.

So long as you've got a good
story. That's the main thing.

Witness me, mankind. A CyberKing of all.

It's a CyberKing.

In some ways last year with
Kylie Minogue and the Titanic,

that's about as big as you can go.

It's tempting in a way
to try and copy that

but what would you have done?

You'd have Cheryl Cole on board
the Hindenburg or something...

Now I say that... HE LAUGHS

Record viewing figures! It's got
more intimacy than we've had before.

Then again, when you get the
CyberKing stepping on London,

it's not exactly subtle.

So we've still got the size as well.

It's got that Dickensian feel to it.

THEY SCREAM

Dickens, if he thought of
putting a great big robot

in A Christmas Carol,
he would have done it.

I like to think I've
improved on Dickens!

The graveyard scene was a
collective favourite for everybody.

We've been filming in
this graveyard in Newport.

We're saying it's a
Victorian funeral happening.

The visuals just popped
right off the page.

You always want to give the
Cybermen a nice big entrance,

some kind of barnstorming appearance.

What manner of men are they?

Cybermen.

You had people clashing
into each other from nowhere.

You have Cybershapes
leaping over their backs.

There's a lovely top sh*t where you
see people scrambling over graves.

Just nightmarish.

You monstrous witch!

Merry Christmas to you, too.

This time I thought, a
great entrance is the snow.

You had the white
snow, these men in black

and then the figure of Miss Hartigan

in this scarlet dress
coming through the snow.

So, all the components were there.

It was just a question of marrying
the seductiveness of Miss Hartigan,

and that femme-fatale element
and the horror of the Cybermen.

You've got the soft snow and the
cold chrome steel of the Cybermen.

Amid all the statues and
graves and this odd match

with all the silvers and
greys of the snow and the metal

all sort of worked together.

The Cybermen looked
right in that setting.

With the Cybermen, because
of the whole marching army

it's good to be a good team.

You work out little ways of how to
do things and how to count things,

and how we're all going
to stop at the same time

and what's the best way for everybody.

If I stay to the right,

this side, then hopefully it'll give
you enough room if you do pass me,

to take over, if I'm k*lling.

It's kind of funny, really. They're
a lovely, normal bunch of blokes

and they're sweating
away in those suits.

I think they have a
pretty tough time of it.

Mind you, I wore a really
tight corset all day

so it's uncomfortable
for everyone, really.

There's basically a number
of key choreographed elements

that were basically stunts that
I wanted to put into the action.

What if two guys clash?

They collide and fall over?

Then a Cyberman comes towards him

and the other one pushes
him to save himself.

It's quite restrictive
with the choreography

because the Cybermen
have got limited movement.

It's all about maximising
the space and the distance.

I went in with certain ideas

and Tom threw up other
things in the day.

We're just having you
two bump into each other,

like stumble, and then as Paul comes
you just do that with Nick, push him.

Rehearsing and action!

Basically, it was to make the
mayhem when the Cybermen att*ck

just look as chaotic as possible.

One leaps over the grave, clambers
over the earth, and legs it.

He falls down over the earth.

The other one comes up this
way and falls over. That way.

Takes a tumble and falls over.

Max, can you do me a favour
and run the other way, please?

I think we'll have four of
you, in a bit of a broken line

coming out from the mist up there.

We'll spread you out and
you'll start walking down.

It's very beautiful.

It's very Tim Burton, almost.

We had acres of snow,
it was a beautiful day.

It's very hard with the graveyard.

It was a great, big,
open Victorian graveyard

and that entire area has
to be covered in snow.

We've got a lot of dressed
snow, which is paper snow,

all around the graves as you can see.

This tree in the background
and these headstones.

♪ Deep beneath the cover
of Another perfect wonder

♪ Where it's so white as snow. ♪

As well as that we've
got falling snow and mist.

Just to create the sense
of that real moodiness.

It's basically tiny
little particles of paper,

which are just sprayed across
the set from this giant hose.

It looks fabulous but
it sticks to your shoes,

it goes up your trousers,
it gets everywhere.

If it rains, it turns to papier-mache.

Danny, just cover the
footprints just there.

They're starting to get into the
frame. You're starting to see them.

There's snow everywhere, I'm
quite lucky I'm not clearing it up.

It was a great scene, one
of my favourite scenes.

I really enjoyed doing it.

Take one, A camera.

sh**ting and...action!

You monstrous witch. Merry
Christmas to you, too.

Why are we spared?
What do you need us for?

Your children.

What makes that scene nightmarish
is that it's not the snow,

and it's not the Cybermen, not the
people screaming and running about,

it's the fact that
The Doctor isn't there.

That makes it without hope, that scene.

There's something really
remorseless and awful.

At the same time we've got a woman there

in a red dress with a parasol.

There's a bit of colour in there.

It was very dramatic

and it will be a very funny,
powerful and scary scene.

It's magnificent.

I remember when the rushes came in
and it just looked extraordinary.

It's funny now I think of
it, but in all these years

not one of you has asked my first name.

It's Mercy.

Dervla is somebody
we've talked about a lot

and who we really wanted
to find the right part for.

Your work is done.

She's got the red dress, she's
in charge of the Cybermen.

Delete them. Delete.

You could get too big for that part,

you want a proper, proper actor
who will take it seriously.

Those velvety tones that she has
worked so well for Miss Hartigan.

She kind of wheels you in and
then spits you out the other side.

Thank you, Doctor.

Dervla is so beautiful and we
could just see her in that dress.

I know I'm here, but I
can't believe that I am,

so it's great, it's really good.

A fairly immaculate
piece of casting, I think.

And she wears a red dress very well.

Oh, that is magnificent!

I think the Cybermen are terrifying.

Report.

There's something so
impenetrable about them.

You can't do this to me.

Incorrect, it is done.

That sense of there's
nothing to appeal to.

They're such a great monster.

Visually and emotionally.

Come on, Doctor!

They're on a level
pegging with the Daleks.

They look...

amazingly scary in their movements

and just the whole sheen
of them is quite horrible.

They're pretty scary creatures.

You can't really see what's
going on behind their eyes.

They're robots and monsters and they
are metal and they show no emotion.

I think the word iconic is over-used.

But I think that just about merits it.

I know why they fit the snow.

It's an image that's lodged in my head.

In the first Cyberman story,

they appeared out of the
snow in The Tenth Planet.

They were first seen marching
out of a snow blizzard.

It's right and proper that they
should be doing that again in .

They att*ck the North Pole, which
was the first time we saw Cybermen.

I remember watching that story.
I know I look impossibly young!

ROBOTIC VOICE: We are called Cybermen.

Cybermen? Yes, Cybermen.

The original Cybermen in the
' s come from fears that people

had about transplant surgery,
heart transplants were new then.

People feared that having a bionic arm

would make you have a bionic brain.

It was real body horror

and modern science fetishes
and fear coming out there.

Our lifespan was getting shorter
so our scientists and doctors

devised spare parts for
our bodies until we could be

almost completely replaced.

If they were just robots, I
think they'd be a bit dull.

But the fact that they were human,

that they wanted to make you like them.

Come to Mondas and you will
have no need of emotions.

You will become like us.

They were machines in some
way, but they were human,

but it's like there's
nothing that you can appeal to

or bargain with or reason with.

We need your power.

You need our mass intelligence.

Are you listening?

Do you understand me?

Now that I've released you... Aaagh!

Let me go.

I set you free! It was our plan.

You belong to us.

I remember watching
Tomb Of The Cybermen.

Look!

They wake up in tombs.

I was terrified.

Actually, the bit I genuinely remember,

hiding by the arm of
the settee, literally,

was when they wake up
the Cyber Controller.

They opened his door and out he steps

and he's got a flesh-like
brain on top of his head.

YOU BELONG TO US.

I've always tried to keep
that as part of the design,

because I remember being
stormingly terrified by it.

My brain fleeing out of my
head, it was just so frightening.

ROBOTIC BEEPING

Cybermen. Sshhh!

Where do they come from?

I don't know, Jamie, but
they are here, aren't they?

The invasion and the pods
and they cut their way through

and they were born out of eggs.

That sense of being born was
often there in the old ones.

There's a Peter Davidson story

called Earth Shock where
the Cybermen haven't been

seen for years and they made this
huge return with a huge redesign.

So...we meet again, Doctor.

In that they're wrapped in
cellophane and inside these tubes.

They force their way out of
the cellophane and metal tubes.

It's a great big return,

"We're back," and they
start to march en masse.

It's terrifying, really,
so they're a great creation.

Cybermen!

Emotion
- love, pride, hate, fear... Have you no emotion, sir?

YOU SHALL BE LIKE US.

You've no home planet,
no influence, nothing!

You never change, always
the perfect guests.

You're a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers

stomping about the galaxy
in an ancient spaceship.

But don't you care!?CARE?
NO, WHY SHOULD I CARE?

Emotions have their uses.

"FEEL-INGS", I DO NOT
UNDER-STAND THAT WORD.

When did you last smell
a flower, watch a sunset?

Good afternoon.

These things are irrelevant.

For some people, small, beautiful
events is what life is all about.

WE KNOW OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE.Oh,
thank you very much

EXPLODE THE b*mb.

expl*si*n

The Doctor is a formidable opponent.

WE WILL SURVIVE.

Run, Doctor! Now, Doctor!

But for now, let's leave the
cyber att*ck in Christmas present

and take a look at Christmas past.

I think the Christmas invasion's

always going to have
a big place in my heart

because of David Tennant
stepping out of the TARDIS.

Here we are then, London, Earth,
the solar system. Look at it!

The Christmas invasion is still
one of my probably top five

favourite episodes
that I've done, I think.

Rose! Rose! I've got you.

My Lord, my precious thing.

The Doctor, is he with you? No.

We're on our own.

Everyone is gathered and the
whole Earth is going to be doomed.

IT SNARLS

Now you're going to die.Leave
her alone! Don't touch her!

Just that sense that all is lost,

that we can't even tell what
the aliens are saying any more.

And then slowly, almost imperceptibly,

the leader starts speaking in English.

Then your world will be gutted...
Then your world will be gutted

..and your people enslaved...
..and your people enslaved.

Hold on, that's English.

And therefore, if you can understand
what he says, then that means

the TARDIS translation circuits
are working again, and that means

that The Doctor's woken up

and that means that there
might just be a hope after all.

And then the camera zooms in,

the doors open and there's
David Tennant in his pyjamas.

Did you miss me?

It was a whole new era of the programme.

My favourite bit of The Runaway
Bride is that bit on the motorway,

when the TARDIS bounces down the road.

You are kidding me.

It's something I've always wanted
to see, ever since I was a child.

I sat in the car and imagined
the TARDIS flying alongside.

When you get to put that on screen

with Catherine Tate in a wedding
dress being watched by two kids

in the car in front, and David being

his most heroic, and the
TARDIS being its most heroic.

It's pretty hard to b*at, really.

Oh!

And then, of course, there's the
old Christmas special from last year.

It ends with a replica Titanic
plunging towards Buckingham Palace.

And I don't think you can
get more Doctor Who than that.

That's just barmy.

Could you get me Buckingham Palace?

Only in Dr Who could you
get something that mad

and that heroic and that much fun.

And the Queen waving as it sails
over Buckingham Palace. That's Dr Who.

Bring in the Time Lord.

And being the nation's favourite
Time Lord brings with it a whole

history of comic sketches, all
there to pay homage to The Doctor.

My old favourite, I don't know
if it still exists in the archive,

Crackerjack would do
little Dr Who sketches

and sort of pantos and things.

Dr Who! Don't forget the jewels.

APPLAUSE

All these jewels are ours!

I used to love it. As a
Dr Who fan, you'd sit up

cos it was your favourite show
being referenced. I loved it.

EERIE BLARING

Oh dear, what a funny
noise you're making!

You've been bolting your food again.

Good heavens, what is that?

It's a giant-sized money
box for putting coppers in.

Things like that would
crop up all the time,

like Emu's Pink Windmill show

did Dr Emu.

They did daft little sketches.

And later on, all those people

who did big formal
sketches, like Lenny Henry.

Doctor, what happened, what
happened? What's going on?

Doctor, where are you? What happened?

Doctor? Doctor...

Doctor, what's happened to you?

You're different! Doctor!

Doctor, what's happening?
Doctor, what...?

Penny? What? Shut up.

I used to think it was a compliment,

even though they are clearly
taking the mickey out of Dr Who,

but that's part of the fun of it.

So do Dr Who fans. It was like
lots of people were in on the game.

Because all the work is
now being done by robots.

You mean? The Daleks?No,
not them, the Cybermen.

Ah!

There's only one thing to do now,
but I can't remember what it is.

Run up and down lot of
corridors! That was the one.

There is, I don't know if you've got...

There's a French and Saunders
sketch that was never transmitted.

Welcome, Time Lord.

I must protest, questioner.All
in good time, Time...Lord.

I think it's on the Trial Of
The Time Lord set, larking about.

Now, we are on Syluria,
aren't we?Yes, we are.

And you know how we know that? How?

Because we're Sylurians.Yes. I know.

I have the seeds of
Agron in my possession.

He's very good, isn't he?

Tom Baker's my favourite, really.

Yes, yes, I like Patrick
Lichfield the best.

Two Ronnies, I remember vividly,
there's a sketch in The Two Ronnies.

It's one of their big
song-and-dance sketches at the end.

Gor, it's a bit of a mix up.
Who are you supposed to be?

I be Dr Who, that's
who I be. Who be you be?

No, you used to be Dr Who,
now you're Worzel Gummidge.

Oh, I must have got the wrong head on.

♪ Life can be terribly tame

♪ If you don't play
the game with two... ♪

I remember an episode
of the Generation Game

where Bruce says
"Bring on the dialects."

Could we have the
varied dialects, please?

This is a good game,
you'll really love this.

I said "Dialects!"

APPLAUSE

For a Dalek to appear out of the
blue was the most exciting thing.

A Dalek and Bruce Forsyth. Marvellous!

And the one I loved,

the one everyone always went on
about in school for years, everyone,

not just Dr Who fans, was
the Spike Milligan sketch.

HEL-LO DAR-LING,
I'M HOME!

LAUGHTER

You're late tonight.

I'M SOR-RY I'M LATE.

THE TUBES WERE FULL OF COM-MUTERS.

How did you get on then?

I EX-TER-MINA-TED
THEM.

It's got a little baby Dalek.

Johnny, have you finished your homework?

YES, I HAVE DESTROYED IT.

You used to be thrilled
when you saw that.

Who is it, Doctor?

I'm not very bright and I
haven't got my glasses on.

It's my old enemy, Crayola.

Hello, Crayola.

Doctor, it's been a long
time. Eons. As long as that?

You don't look a day over million.

How do you do it? Table tennis.

HE LAUGHS

We don't have much time.
I'll keep him talking,

you creep behind him and
disconnect his blademite tubing.

But we haven't got the ming mongs!

I just love it. It's like
an extra bit of Dr Who.

Even though they're not
legitimate Dr Who, you'd be chuffed

for that night that someone
was referencing Dr Who.

Here's a clip of The Who.

♪ People try to put us down

DR WHO THEME: # Dum di de dum

♪ Just because we get around. ♪

There's lot of stuff,
when you look for it.

Cat Deely, alien. Chris Tarrant, alien.

The Queen. ALL: Alien!

MUSIC: "Doctor Who Theme"

Where does the transporter arrive at?

In France. France?

France, Casterberus, or France, Neptune?

That would be France,
French... French land.

Good.

What are you doing here?

I work here.

You've been telling these people

that you're the train guard,
but you're really the Master.

You've been telling the humans that
they were going to the Eurotunnel,

when you were taking them into
the vortex of the black hole.

You're very naughty.

I'm going to the bathroom andOK.

You got lots of these sketches,
which are taking the mickey

out of Doctor Who, which is what
we do when we sit in the pub.

But it all sort of built up
to this Comic Relief thing,

written by Steven Moffat,
who you might have heard of,

and it's a great big,
Comic Relief sketch

called Curse of the Fatal Death.

Exterminate!

It's a beautiful piece of work, I
think, because it's having a laugh

with Doctor Who. The Master's in
it, Jonathan Pryce is the Master.

You are piloting your
TARDIS into a deadly trap.

And even you will not suspect
until it's far too late.

Nyaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

If you're going to spy on me,
you should turn the speaker off.

It's sending up The
Doctor and the companion.

A girl more exciting than an
escape up a ventilation shaft,

a lover more thrilling than
an army of Cybernetic slugs.

Euw! There's lots of people
been marvellous as The Doctor.

Cute, sexy and
lick-the-mirror handsome.

Doctor?

Ah, you're my fiancee, aren't you?

Oh, dear.

Seem to be a bit shy of girls now.

You've come back to life and
this time, you're a woman.

Really? I've always wanted to
get my hands on one of these.

And it had, fleetingly, one of the
best Doctor Whos there's ever been,

which is Hugh Grant.

Oh dear, I've used up three whole
bodies in just under a minute,

and all because I
forgot to unplug first.

That really was terribly silly of me.

Sorry about that, my
dear, a bit unfortunate.

Oh, Doctor. Oh, assistant.

He's brilliant, he's
absolutely genuinely brilliant

and I wish he'd be a Doctor one day.

Look after the universe for me.

I've put a lot of work into it.

Actually, it's in love with
Doctor Who and really, genuinely

says beautiful Doctor Who things in it.

And you can see Steven's
love of Doctor Who coming out.

You're like Father Christmas,
the Wizard of Oz, Scooby-Doo,

and I love you very much, and we all
need you and you simply cannot die!

Before Donna Noble came
on the TARDIS full time,

you had Catherine Tate doing
sketches with David Tennant.

Is your name Lauren
Cooper by any chance?

Yeah.

Why? Your reputation precedes you.

Innit though.

He appears in the sketch as a
teacher. Can I ask a question?

Not just now. Can I ask a question?

Just wait.But can I
just ask you a question?

Can't I ask you a question?
I'm just asking you a question.

Can't I ask you a QUESTION?

What is it?

Are you The Doctor?

I like it when Doctor Who's involved
in this stuff. We actually enjoy it

and try to help as much we
can, because the more Doctor Who

in any shape or form
we get on the screen,

the better.

The plot thickens

and The Doctor, Jackson
and Rosita find themselves

at the hub of all the action.

Upon my soul...What
is it? It's an engine.

I wonder if anyone'll recognise The Hub

before they watch
Doctor Who Confidential

and realise that's what we filmed on?

I'd imagined it'd be a
location first of all,

that we'd find an old Cardiff
warehouse. When you think of it,

it's got so much design
in it, it's got CGI in it,

and it's got kids running about,

a lot of health and safety
issues and stuff like that.

Because Torchwood

were not filming at the time
that we were filming this story,

we basically rebuilt it.

I did sit there at the meeting going,

"As long as you can turn it
back to the original Hub."

In terms of scale and dimensions,
it offered everything we needed.

The shape's still here but, other
than that, it's unrecognisable.

Behind us is Captain Jack's office,

his lovely round window
is now a ser-tunnel.

It was unusual for me
cos I've done Torchwood,

so it was strange
stepping onto that set.

It really was unrecognisable actually

and I thought it was
fantastic what they did.

You've got to have a sharp eye
to spot it as the same place.

I don't think I'd have recognised
it. It was brilliantly done.

So all that's left it to
do is set the cogs in motion

and fill the place
with over-excited kids.

They do say you should
never work with kids.

Children! Pay attention!

♪ It's a hard-knock life, hard life

♪ It's a hard-knock life for us

♪ Steada treated we get tricked

♪ Steada kisses we get kicked

♪ It's a hard-knock life. ♪

I've spent many years

on set working with kids

and I've always found them
a very receptive audience.

Shelley and Amy, you stay there for me.

My AD Richard Harris, he was
fab. I workshop with him actually.

When she says that, pull
this lever with two hands.

Pull it back and
everything's going to begin.

We had to hit the ground
running and get a step ahead.

This is the first time
they've seen the set,

and they've found their
feet so they've done well.

Max, go down there, mate.

Thank you very much.
You're gonna help John,

so take a handle each... Not
too close to the edge, mate.

Take a handle each. Up
there, John. Ready, Max?

Come on, John. We can do this! And
turn it clockwise. Are you ready?

Is anyone listening? Anyone?

Anyone? All right, here we go. Ready?

He's like the Pied Piper, he's
brilliant. He remembers their names

and bonds with them. They
really respond well to him.

So, all face... All
face that way, please.

Turn round, and can you go round
the other side of that handle?

And if you go just one
behind... Watch your back.

Well done. So I'll count to three, OK?

Then we start walking round, OK?

Here we go. One, two, three. Good.

Not too fast. Slow down.

Brilliant. Well done, fellas. So, Jack,

you look after the speed of
that, all right? Not too quick.

And you need to be leaning, all right?

He knows how to deal with them, so
I felt in very safe hands with him.

And we're gonna put in
lots of extra effort,

so you're gonna be going
fast with that, Jack.

We'll shovel twice as hard.
You're gonna be pulling this down

as fast as you can.

Yeah, I enjoyed working with
them. The kids were fantastic.

B camera.

Action.

Children! Pay attention.

Now, let the new
industrial revolution begin.

I want to see you work!

Go.

Thank you very much. Cut there.

OK, testing. One.

We've just been filming

a scene which involved a lot of
stunts and pyrotechnics and stuff.

My son?

Doctor, my son! What?

They took my son! No wonder

I can't escape those damned
Cybermen! They took my child!

Action.

Sorry. That's all right,
it's our fault. Sorry, mate.

That was real fun to do.

, and action. What are we gonna
do, Doctor? What are we gonna do?

Come on, Jackson.

You know me.

They're really full on

Indiana Jones hero scenes.

Oh, that's it! Hello!

Like any of our big set
pieces, everything's planned,

planned, planned and we break it down.

Action. Both Davids
were really up for it

and Tom Langford, who
was our little boy,

Frederick, was really brave and great.

I love, love going on the
wires but I hate heights.

I'm Frederick.

I'm, like, Frederick.

I don't know how old I am.

Um... But in real life I'm eight,

but in this I'm about five, I think.

Action.

I've been doing some
scenes with Dave Tennant.

I've been doing loads of
scenes with David Morrissey.

Thank you, gents.

Blue-eyed Frederick. He was lovely.

What was wonderful about him
was, when we were cutting it,

his reactions to all the explosions

were just really spot
on, and he was lovely.

He's the best child actor I've
ever seen. Big eyes! Fantastic.

He just had this kind of
cherubic quality that I think

you associate with these kind
of, you know, Victorian stories.

Hello! Now, hold on tight, don't
let go. 'There was more wirework'

for rescuing young Frederick.
Again, that's one of those scenes,

because The Hub set is quite tall,

and therefore the set that we had
for the Cyberbase was quite tall

and had three or four different levels.

Little Tom who played
Frederick had to be wired to me.

I had a sort of... This rig round,
all round me, quite a big rig,

which was then wired through the
front of my shirt onto the rope.

And then little Tom
was attached to my back

so that, if we fell, we
were going down together.

Russell's got a thing about up and down.

Perhaps if you could pull. I am!

In this position I
couldn't not pull, could I?

He believes that up and down is
more exciting than left to right.

He's probably right. He usually is.

I just love them somehow. I think

they're more exciting. Most
stuff goes from right to left.

Life goes right to left,
and chases tend to go

right to left on screen
and things like that.

When we take a sort of deep breath,

it's more thrilling. We're
all afraid of heights.

Woah! Gotcha.

When we take a chase and
have it going up and down,

then it becomes really, really exciting,

and, you know, everyone
fears a drop behind them.

He's always finding different ways
to send the characters up and down,

which usually means we're on wires,
like the lift shaft in New Earth.

You're completely mad!

I can see why she likes you.Going down!

THEY SCREAM

One of my favourite sequences
- Rose and The Doctor whizzing up and down.

That whole story actually
goes up and down the hospital,

all the time, but ends
classically in that slide down.

Well, that's one way to lose weight.

It's a bit of a motif
in Russell's scripts

that the characters will be...

will be on the vertical
as much as possible.

You've got to be kidding!Rose, get up!

Our very first Cyberman
story has an escape

up a rope ladder

flying from a zeppelin

above an exploding factory with
the Cyber Controller after you.

It doesn't get much more vertical!

It was people hanging on for dear lives,

and a Cyber Controller
pulling them down.

It wouldn't have been as exciting

if you did that on the horizontal.
Gridlock's a classic up-and-down.

And in it The Doctor breaks
the rules of the world.

Everyone's stuck in place and he
goes down through the motorway.

He's completely insane!

That, and a bit magnificent.

And the whole motorway has to go

up to escape, so it's got a great
sense of movement to it really.

The most vertical moment the Doctor had

was when he's stuck in the
bowels of an exploding Titanic,

and has to get out, which is
about to crash onto the Earth,

and The Host lift him
up, and he literally

travels through the story.
He cuts through the story

by going up through the bridge.

He flies, The Doctor flies,
in order to save the day.

I think it's the most vertical
moment The Doctor ever had.

It's something I love doing.

Back on location, and the
children are ready...to be afraid.

Very afraid.

Action!

THEY GASP

You will continue.

And cut.

The scenes where the
children were marched

into the factory with the
Cybermen and the Cybershades,

we sh*t in Monmouth. It was a
question of having heavily rehearsed

a lot of the stuff with the kids,
and Richard came into his own

in sort of getting a shape to it.

Turn round, please, face
the front, turn left.

To work with that amount of kids
under such a restricted timescale,

it helps to get a sense of the
shape of where you're going.

Obviously you get kids

between the ages of four and I think

on Doctor Who, so they're gonna be

really, really excitable! So it's hard

calming them all down.

But they have been fantastic

and when the work starts,
they're really professional.

Action.

Keep running!

Keep running! Keep running!

Put me to shame a bit.

DERVLA: They looked fantastic.

They're really well looked
after. They want to be there.

For any kid, if I'd had that experience,

to see how it all works

and to see the amount of different jobs

that go into making

a couple of seconds on film,
it's a great education, really.

Amelia? When you go running,
you stay that side of that lamp

and you go running to that corner.

That's it. And then
you'll see a Cybershade

and you'll come running back. Well done.

As soon as we've got the frames
and done the lights, we'll rehearse.

There we go, folks.

Rehearsing, and action!

GASPING AND GROWLING

What I like about the scene

is it's one of the scenes you see
the Cybershades almost as guard dogs.

Which I think is the role
they play with the Cybermen.

Thank you.

sh**ting, and action!

So, what do we have here?

Walk to me slowly.
Don't let them touch you.

The Doctor meets Miss
Hartigan for the first time

and he initially thinks
that she's on his side.

Oh, but they wouldn't
hurt me, my fine boys.

They're my knights in shining armour

quite literally.

Well, he just assumes
that she's somebody

unwittingly caught up
amongst this Cyber business.

Even if they've converted you,

that's not a Cyber speech
pattern. You've got free will.

I'm telling you, step away!
There has been no conversion, sir.

Miss Hartigan is this, I guess,

this wonderful mix of a
classic Christmas villain.

In that red dress, she's
something for the dads.

At the same time, she's someone
for the kids to boo and hiss at.

Who are you? You can be quiet.

I doubt he paid you to talk.

RUSSELL: There's a hint

That she's a lady of the night,
shall we say, on Christmas Day.

There's a little bit of a past there.

I'm playing Rosita,

and she's basically really
sassy, really mouthy,

she doesn't take anything from
anyone, a tough East End girl.

This is hardly work for a woman.

Don't mind me saving your life!

That's work for a woman,
isn't it?The Doctor's companion

does what The Doctor says.

I've got another big scene coming
up and I get to punch the bad guy,

which is really good.
I can't wait to do it!

Can I say, I completely
disapprove? Come on!

Get up now!

We filmed that from nine in the evening

till five in the morning so, by
about four o'clock in the morning,

I am no good to anyone.

I was remarkably relaxed, because
I was absolutely exhausted,

and we had a stunt co-ordinator and
we practised it many, many times.

Drop into it, rather than
just going straight back. OK.

Hit and sort of stagger
and fall. OK, that's great.

Otherwise you'll just end
up going straight back. OK.

I've never done anything like that.
I'll see what they tell me to do.

Hopefully I won't make a mistake
- I don't want black eyes on set.

I'm gonna do it slowly, so I'm
kind of going across like that.

It doesn't have to be closer.
It's just the angle of the body.

I'm just gonna go for it.

♪ I want to get in trouble

♪ I wanna start a
fight na-na-na-na

♪ Na-na-na-na, I
wanna start a fight

♪ Na-na-na-na-na-na-na, I wanna
start a fight! ♪ Like that.

Camera...

and...action. One last thing.

Argh! Oh!

Can I say, I completely
disapprove? Come on!

RUSSELL: Rosita is designed to be

the archetypal companion. When
The Doctor meets the next Doctor,

he needs to look like The Doctor.

Give me the sonic screwdriver.
What?Quickly! Get back to the TARDIS.

In miniature, she's an absolutely
proper companion, and is brave

and fights and saves the
children. She's wonderful.

So, onwards.

Maybe you should go
back. Don't even try.

She's really good and
devoted and, in the end,

through the whole process, finds a
family and will find a proper home

with Jackson Lake

looking after Frederick. She
becomes the best of friends to him.

I love the end scene at Christmas.

For me it's always The Doctor and
a guest star, the TARDIS and snow.

The city will recover,
as London always does.

The Doctor is essentially
this lonely figure,

and the thing about Christmas

is it's a time for
sharing, for belonging.

And a new history begins for me.

I find myself a widower, but with
my son and with a good friend.

Now, take care of that
one. She's marvellous!

It shows, finally, how
The Doctor is alone.

He's rebuilt Jackson's life
and there's some sort of family

that's come back together, and The
Doctor's heading off on his own.

You won't stay?

No, you know me.

It's kind of a curse

being The Doctor, in some
ways, cos of that loneliness.

All those facts and figures

I saw of The Doctor's
life, you were never alone.

All those bright and shining companions?

But not any more?

No.

Just having wonderful relationships,
these wonderful bonds with people

but, ultimately, they have to end.

I suppose, in the end...

..they break my heart.

It's wonderful at the
end where they go off

into the sunset for Christmas dinner.

Action!

Merry Christmas to you, Jack.

Merry Christmas indeed, Doctor.

RUSSELL: He is a man alone,

and we're gonna be looking at
that in these final stories,

in David's last stories,

we're really gonna look
at him and focus on that.

You can never stop asking
yourself, "Who is The Doctor?"

It's called Doctor Who.

There's huge stuff to come -

epic stuff, heartbreaking stuff to come.

He's just the best
character in the world.

♪ Have yourself a merry little Christmas

♪ Let your heart be light

♪ From now on

♪ Our troubles will be out of sight... ♪

A bit of a legend, if I say so myself.

♪..Oh, have yourself a
merry little Christmas now. ♪

Merry Christmas, Mr
Smith.Merry Christmas, Doctor.