05x11 - Extra Time

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This week on Doctor Who, Amy
finds herself stuck in the TARDIS.

So I join Confidential and hope to
take us out of this world at the
Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

Life on other planets...

could quite possibly exist?

- It's quite likely because there are
so many planets out there, but it may
not be life as we know it. - Excellent.

I actually can't
believe that's real. That's real.

And you can see the lines of
the constellation, and now
the Great Bear himself.

The
Doctor adopts the human touch...

..deals with tricky situations
upstairs and downstairs...

watches as everybody gets
a bit loopy over the time...

and proves a bit of a
star on the football pitch.

And it's Craig Owens
passing to the Doctor.

Nice footwork, impressive start
from the gangling Gallifreyan.

He's still going.

Look at this.

What a goal by the Doctor!

The King's Arms meet The Rising Sun
in the Battle of the pub teams,
that's coming up later in the show.

Best day's filming ever
on Doctor Who today.

Not because of JC,
but because we are playing football.

Hello, Confidential, it's me.

The Doctor was dealing
with the time loop, and Amy
was stuck in the TARDIS in space,

so I'm at the home of time and space
at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,

to find out all about time and space
and do time loops even exist?

- I'm meeting
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock... - Hello!

..who is a space scientist,
to find out what the time is.

- Ah. - So, Maggie, tell us why we're
here today.

As you said, Greenwich is
the home of time and space.

This is an active astronomical site.

We have an active telescope here
which is educating the public,

and the Astronomer Royal for the
UK used to actually live here.

So space and astronomy
play a vital role here.

But time is critical here, as well.

Every new day here on planet Earth
starts here at the Prime Meridian.

And what exactly is
this meridian line?

I can actually show you the Prime
Meridian. So step this way.

So, this is the meridian?

- No, no, this is the Prime Meridian.
- The Prime Meridian, I'm very sorry.

Meridians are imaginary lines that
run from the North Pole to the South
Pole, and we use them to gauge time.

The Prime Meridian is this line
and this is effectively the zero,

the baseline that we do
all other measurements from.

How we're standing at the moment -
you're in the western hemisphere and
I'm in the eastern hemisphere.

So we're having a conversation
over hemispheres?

Yes. This Prime Meridian line
divides east from west.

- So what happens if I do this? - Now
you are in both hemispheres at once.

Look at me, I'm in two hemispheres!
I'm like dancing over hemispheres.

Dancing across the hemispheres.

Cool, so, essentially this
is the line where time begins.

It is. This is where time begins.

Every new day starts along this line.

It could have been anywhere,
it doesn't have to be Greenwich.

Because in the old days, different
places had different times -

there could be a five-minute time
difference between Bristol and
London.

In the old days that didn't matter,
but as communication and
transportation got better,

people had to reset their watches
when they went
to a different town!

So people needed a universal time.

Across the world, you have different
times, but you need a baseline
to measure it from.

After a long, protracted
conversation and a vote, they
decided to put it here in Greenwich.

So this is a hugely
important little line.

- And you're walking along it. - Look,
I'm standing on this, which means
I will be the first person to...

- You'll be the first person
to see the new day. - Wow.

We'll return to the observatory
later to find out more about
the science behind Doctor Who.

On set, the cast and crew get ready
to sh**t what could be the beginning
of a beautiful relationship.

- So what's the plan tonight?
Pizza, booze, telly?
- Yeah, pizza, booze, telly.

- LOUD BANG
- What is he doing up there?

- Did you put the advert up yet?
- Yeah, in the paper shop window.

One furnished room available
immediately,

shared kitchen, bathroom with
year-old male non-smoker, &#; pcm,
suit young professional.

Pretty much any guy who's single
who has a really close female friend

who he always says,
"We're just friends,"

he's probably in love with her, and
that's no different than with Craig.

That's your mission in life,
Craig - find me a man.

Yeah, otherwise you'll
have to settle for me.

You'll have to settle for me, first.

I think it's a situation
everyone's been in at some point.

I'm sorry, but I really should go.

Do you mind if I go?

Yeah, no, just go.
No, go on, seriously, you should go.

- Of course not, go. - Because I could
stay. - No. - I mean we've got plans...

Just pizza.

- OK, right, I'm going. - Cool. - Yeah.

Well, I'll see you...

soon.

It's really hard for Craig to declare
his love for Sophie because he knows
that once he does, it's out there

and it will change
their friendship for ever.

I love you. Oh, just...

Hey, I don't know if you knew...

When you're in that the situation,
it's quite galling.

When you're looking at it from
the outside, it's quite funny.

I love you.

Well, that's good,
because I'm your new lodger.

Gareth, a few years ago, wrote a
comic strip for Doctor Who Magazine.

The lodger was originally a comic
strip in the Doctor Who Magazine.

I actually e-mailed Russell and
said, "That is SO an episode.

"That would just be so brilliant".
It's funny, it's charming,
it's heart-warming...

It featured David Tennant's Doctor
having to stay with Mickey Smith
for a week

while Rose was trapped somewhere
in the TARDIS, and it was about
the sort of domestic arrangements.

But it was just too late,
because Mickey had left the show
and it was no longer possible.

I was fascinated by the idea of the
Doctor having to live a normal life.

I think the interesting thing is
to actually see him doing it.

It makes it quite a different episode
but also quite a fun one.

Relishing the opportunity to impress
as only a human can, and ensure that
the Doctor doesn't end up

with egg on his face, it's into the
kitchen for the new master chef.

You've got everything I need.
Omelette! Oeufs!

So, who's the girl on the fridge?

- My friend, Sophie. - Girlfriend?

Friend who's a girl.
There's nothing going on.

That's completely normal,
works for me.

- We met about a year ago at work
at the call centre. - Oh, really?

A communications exchange, how
interesting. That could be handy.

Craig is seduced by him - the talk,
his enthusiasm, AND the omelette.

The firm's going down, though. The
boss has a rubbish business model.

I know what they should do,
I've got a plan all worked out,
but I'm just a phone drone.

The whole idea was that the Doctor
should be quite messy because he
obviously doesn't do it very often.

Matt won Junior MasterChef
when he was nine...

He's sort of not said anything about
it, but he won Junior MasterChef,
so he's a pretty good cook.

Why am I telling you this?
I don't even know you.

Well, I've got one of those faces,
people never stop blurting out their
plans while I'm around.

Where's your stuff?

Don't worry, it'll materialise.
Ha-ha-ha!

We can call a pizza.

Cut.

I think he's going to go on the
next Celebrity MasterChef, he said.

He really loves it and he wants to do

as many of those sort of celebrity
reality shows as he can, really.

That's what he was
saying to me, anyway.

James Corden is very good at
spreading rumours, so I would
take it with a pinch of salt.

But being human doesn't come
that naturally to a Time Lord.

- Action. - All I've got to do is pass
as an ordinary human being. Simple.

- What could possibly go wrong?
- 'Have you seen you?'

That's how we greet each
other nowadays, isn't it?

Doctor? How long
are you going to be in there?

Ah!

Oopsie. Oh dear.

Come on, Amy, I'm a normal bloke,
tell me what normal blokes do.

They watch telly, they play
football, they go down the pub.

I could do those things.
I don't, but I could.

It is vital that this man upstairs
doesn't realise who and what I am.

So no sonic-ing. No advanced
technology. I can only use this
because we're on scramble.

To anyone else
hearing this conversation,
I'm talking absolute gibberish.

- Practical eruptin into chicken.
Degas Lombardi spiral.
- What are you doing here?

I've never worked in an office,
never worked in anywhere.

If that's your attitude,
Mr Lang, I suggest you take
your custom elsewhere.

- I can't say, "Hey, guys, this is my
new flat mate, he's called the
Doctor." - Why not? - Because it's weird!

- Hello, I'm Craig's new flatmate,
I'm called the Doctor.
- All right, Doctor?

I always think when people say the
Doctor's eccentric I think, no.

From him looking out he's
behaving completely normally,

and to us that know all about him,
if we follow the series,
we can sort of see that as well.

He's not behaving eccentrically,
he's behaving exactly as a character
would do in that situation.

Transferring the comic into a
TV script required a few changes.

Steven, Beth, Piers, Katharine the
director were saying, "Hold on,
he needs to get into that house.

"He doesn't have that relationship
the Doctor had with Mickey
in the comic strip."

But I only put the advert up today,
I didn't put my address.

Well, aren't you lucky I came along?
More lucky than you know.

We actually needed
for Craig to really like him.

Outdoor, front door, your door.

My door. My place. My gaff.

Me with a key.

The television script went through a
few changes with the Doctor bringing
Sophie and Craig together,

whilst simultaneously defeating the
the spaceship's deadly autopilot.

Initially, Craig got the girl,
rescued her, and the Doctor
solved the technological plot.

Right, shields up, let's go.

There always was in this story the
fact that Sophie and Craig were sat
there in this unrequited love,

and what Steven rather wonderfully
did was say, "Why don't we make

"both stories resolve
together in the same way?"

I love you too, Craig, you idiot!

With two time-travel machines for
Amy to contend with this week,

I want to know if there really is
the possibility of life
on other planets.

And who better to ask
than a space scientist?

Here we are in the Planetarium
in the Royal Observatory.

So I'm still with Maggie, who
hopefully has all the answers.

You and the Doctor travel through
space-time, through science fiction,

but I want to take you
on a tour of the universe.

This is Planet Earth where we live.

Earth is quite amazing
because Earth is covered in water,

four fifths of the
Earth's surface is water.

About four-fifths of our body
is water, so we're very much a
product of the planet we live on.

We're zooming into the UK and zooming
into Scotland, and at the centre
of the screen should be Inverness.

We're in Inverness! Brilliant! And
where are we going from Inverness?

Right, from Inverness,
I think the next stop is the moon.

So I'm going from Inverness
to the moon.

The moon looks quite different
from the Earth. Firstly, no water,

and also the moon has no atmosphere.

We've zoomed into the centre of our
solar system, and here's the sun.

We've got a sunspot drifting past.

The sun provides us with virtually
all the energy we use on Earth,

so the Sun is the powerhouse, and it
keeps all the other planets orbiting.

And here we have the planets
of the inner solar system,
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Time's sped up here, because it takes
Earth a year to go round the sun and
here it's just taking a few seconds.

Next up, we want to
go and visit Mars.

- My retirement plan is to go and
retire on Mars. - Why would
you like to retire to Mars?!

Well, Mercury and Venus are horrible
places, really high temperatures.
Earth, well, I know that.

And Mars has a temperature of
around -, which is a bit nippy,
but I think I could survive that.

And also, it has water,
and we need water to live.

That means I could
just about live on Mars.

Life could potentially be on Mars?

- Yes, and we've been looking for life
on Mars, but we haven't found it to
date, but we keep on searching. - OK.

We're zooming out. We've got the sun
in the centre and now we're seeing
all the planets in our solar system.

What we want to do next is we want
to go and visit the planet Jupiter.

Jupiter is the largest
planet in our solar system.

In fact, you could fit ,
Earths into Jupiter.

- So it's pretty massive. - Pretty big.

But then again, you could fit
, Jupiters into the sun.

So that it means you could fit
million Earths into the sun.

So the sun is pretty huge.

So it is completely massive.

Yes. So we've seen the
sun, that's our local star.

But I wanted to go and see our
next-door neighbour star,
Proxima Centauri.

As we get close to it, you can see it
looks just like the sun, and that is
what some people don't realise.

All the stars we see in the night sky
are suns like our sun,

and could have
planets going round them.

We're zooming out
to our galaxy, the Milky Way,

and you can see that there is a
plethora of stars out there.

We live just on one of the spiral
arms, rather boringly,

but it's estimated that,
in the Milky Way,
there are about billion stars.

- It's a mind-boggling number! - What?!

So life
on other planets is quite possible?

We think it's quite likely, because
there are so many planets out there.

But it might not be
life as we know it.

But now I want to show you what's at
the edge of the universe.

This is something called the Hubble
Deep Field, and what
the Hubble space telescope did is,

it looked at a piece of what we
thought was empty space for about
six days, so a really long exposure.

Then we got the data back
and we realised

that what we thought was empty space
wasn't actually empty at all.

It actually had all these
points of light in it

and we thought,
"OK, there are stars out there."

But then we realised
that each one of those points
of light is another galaxy.

Right, so that's just...

- That's even more... - Yes.

..mind-boggling.

So, from this, we've tried to
work out how many galaxies are in

the whole of the universe, and we've
come up with a rather larger number.

There are approximately, give or
take a few, billion galaxies.

- I mean, that must just be...
a huge amount that's
very difficult to compute. - Yes.

Travelling from our star to the
next door neighbour star,

Proxima Centauri,
travelling at . miles a second,
will take , years.

So even if there is life out there,
the problem is getting out there.

Yeah, which is why I
wish the TARDIS was real.

- Yes, that would be fantastic. - Yeah, I
want the TARDIS to be real! - Me too.

Life back on Earth is a
little more complicated.

The Doctor offers Craig and Sophie
something you'd expect
from any good friend - advice.

The Doctor plays Cupid with both of
them and finally gets them to realise

that what's keeping them there is the
fact that they want to be together.

Cos life can seem pointless,
you know, Doctor.

Work, weekend, work, weekend. And
there's six billion people on the
planet doing pretty much the same.

Six billion people. Watching you
two at work, I'm starting to
wonder where they all come from.

- What do you mean by that? - So the
call centre, that's no good, then.
What do you really want to do?

Part of the Doctor's behaviour in
the scene where he inspires Sophie

to go away is to inspire her
to realise why she's not going.

Watching Sophie and Craig, he can
see a mile off they ought to be
together. He says about the keys...

You unlocked the door. How did
you do that? Those are your keys.

Yeah, but I... How do you know these
are my keys?

- I've been holding them.
- I have got another set.

- You've got two sets of keys to
someone else's house? - Yeah. - I see.

She is sort of waiting for Craig to
make the first move and he actually
seems incapable of doing it.

You must like it here, too.

He's been around the human
race for a very long time.

To him, this is like monkeys mating.

What do you really want to do?

Don't laugh.
I only ever tell Craig about it.

I want to work
looking after animals, maybe abroad.

- I saw this orang-utan sanctuary
on telly. - What's stopping you?

- She can't. You need loads of
qualifications. - Yeah, true.

They're quite happy where they are.

- Craig got offered a job in London,
better money, didn't take it. - What's
wrong with staying here?

I think they're both so terrified as
of change and, if you love someone,
what if they don't love you back?

You'll just have to stay here,
secure and just a little bit
miserable till the day you drop.

The Doctor knows that's a prompt to
her to get something going.

Perhaps, in the whole wide universe,
a call centre is about where
you should be.

- Why are you saying that?
That's horrible. - Is it true?

Of course it's not! I'm not staying
in a call centre all my life.
I can do anything I want. ..Oh!

Oh, my God, did you
see what he just did?

No. Sorry, what's happening? Are
you going to live with monkeys now?

It's a big old world, Sophie. Work
out what's really keeping you here.

Time travel is an
integral part of Doctor Who,

and I want to find out how the
Doctor and Amy manage to do this.

Maggie, do we think that time
travel is actually possible?

Most scientists would say
yes, they think it is.
I'll try and explain why.

This is a baby's rattle.

This represents D space.

So, as a scientist, I'll
say it's got x, y and z.

But to you and me, it's got up and
down, left and right, to and fro.

That's D space. But I want to talk
about space-time, so take D space

- and another fourth dimension -
which is time. - OK.

Einstein
came up with this idea of space-time.

So we can take the D
of space and time as well

and squish them all together into a
co-ordinates system, and so this
sheet now represents space-time.

Let's say you want to go from A to B
and A is our local star, the sun, and
B is our next door neighbour star.

- OK, so we want to get to
our sun to the next sun? - Yes.

Using conventional methods, you'd
have to go from A to B

in a straight line and that would be
the quickest way you could get there.

But if we can actually distort
space-time, which is what
you and the Doctor do,

you take A and B and put them
together and then form something like
a wormhole to travel between them.

Your wormhole will be a much, much
quicker way of getting there than
the conventional route from A to B.

That's a very handy short cut.

Yes! We talked about wormholes there,
and we believe that wormholes exist
because the mathematics indicates

that wormholes might exist,
but we haven't found them yet.

So time-travel is actually possible?

Yeah.
Now, there's one caveat on that.

If you travel backwards in time,
you start to create paradoxes,
and paradoxes are nasty.

There's this thing called
the grandfather paradox.

- If you go back in time and sh**t
your grandad... - Oh, don't do that.

Hypothetically, of course.

So you go back and k*ll your grandad,
then you'd cease to exist, so who's
gone back and sh*t your grandad?

- Right, yeah. - Because of these
paradoxes, we don't believe
you can travel backwards in time.

We think you can travel forward in
time, but not backwards in time.

- Wow, that's mind-boggling. - Yes.

Travelling through time
isn't the only thing the
Doctor seems to be good at.

It may come as a surprise, but
he's also got a nifty right foot.

Let's just sh**t some goals now.

Let's sh**t Matt scoring some goals.

The
football match was very easy to do

because Matt Smith's
so brilliant at football.

A bit of volley.
Comes in on the chest and I do...

Right.

Header would be great.

James, you're kind of waiting to
play but you never get the ball
cos he's just stolen the game.

I'm familiar with that feeling.

So I need James's POV of
the Doc scoring as well.

So I'll do it...

Whichever Simon wants to do first,
but we need to do his point of view
of Matt just taking over the game.

But let's do the set-piece
we've set up now, so let's
do some goal-scoring, yeah?

You can't escape the fact that
he's really good at football.

I think he used to
play for Leicester.

This looks like it's real,
but it's actually all CGI.

- I apologise if I hit anyone. - He
can't kick a ball to save his life.

So it looks real, but this is
all green screen. The ball isn't

even there. They've just put it in
with a computer so it looks like

he's chesting it,
kneeing it and volleying it.

- Saving in the tap-in for the Doc?
- Yeah. - Look.

There's not even a ball there.

This is all CGI.

He's never even seen
a ball in his life.

When we told him it was
football he was like, "What?"

I'm sure you've all read the stories.

"I played Leicester schoolboys."
He didn't.

It's all just
special effects, stunts.

Watch this.

- Stand by for a take.
- Do the computer-generated ball.

He's got some real skills. He was
scouted as a kid, so he's brilliant.

He's really, really good.

'James is a right laugh and I was
just playing football all day.'

I felt really lucky.

Chest and I'll put it high up.

Yeah, you chest it and put it higher.

To play football as the Doctor,
who scores all the goals and is
the quickest and the best,

it's like all the dreams coming
true at once in a way, I suppose.

Hello and welcome to a very
special edition of Football Focus.

The King's Arms broke new ground
this week and made history

with their signing of the
first football Time Lord.

Yes, it's the Doctor.

Great excitement
here at Victoria Park.

The King's Arms unveiling their new
stellar signing, it's the Doctor.

Hang on to your boots.
This could be out of this world.

Today, the Doctor comes and
plays for the King's Arms with

his flatmate, Craig.

And what a pairing
the King's Arms boast now

with Craig Owens in great form.

The Doctor and Owens, numbers
and , a pairing made in heaven.

But the planet-hopping
time-traveller had better beware.

He faces a formidable foe today.

It's the Rising Sun.

And the Doctor happy to muck in
for this one. What a game in store!

It's not only his debut for the
King's Arms. It's... Well, his debut.

Let the game begin.

With the Doctor making his debut
appearance, it's promised to be

the Pub League match to rival all
Pub League matches. The King's Arms
against the Rising Sun.

We can join Steve Wilson pitch-side
at Victoria Park in Cardiff
for highlights of the game.

It's been brewing for while now.
Attendance for this match,
cast and crew.

And this is how they line up.

The King's Arms has chosen
Craig Owens in his regular spot.

This is what we've all
been waiting for, though.

The Doctor making his debut
for the team,

and a lot resting on
his performance today.

And the Rising Sun looking
strong with a formation

we've seen them use before.

And it's Craig Owens
passing to the Doctor.

Oh, nice footwork.

Impressive start from
the gangling Gallifreyan.

He's still going. Look at this.

Oh, what a goal by the Doctor!
It's - to the King's Arms.

And he's off again.

Magnificent footwork.
And he's made it two!

He's in magnificent form today.

Nice ball in by the Doctor.

The Rising Sun have
barely had a kick yet.

Great excitement on the touchline.

Oh, what timing by the Doctor!

But what else would you expect?

It's -.

Fantastic play by Owens.

Oh, what a turn for a big man.

Unlucky.

The Doctor with a
follow-up to make it four.

Great chester by the
Doctor, and that's five.

It's six!

Extraordinary!
King's Arms seven. It's a free-kick.

And Craig Owens is ready to dispatch
this in the back of
the Rising Sun net.

Assessing his angles...
Oh, but the Doctor arrives.

And it's eight!

And Owens isn't happy.

The Doctor stole his
glory and he's hit eight.

What a performance, and what a game.

Owens doesn't look best pleased.

The King's Arms have a new hero.

It's the Doctor.

And back to you, Dan,
and the Football Focus studio.

Let's get some reaction to that.
Lee and Lawro have joined us in
the studio. What do we think?

An incisive pass there from
Craig Owens to the Doctor.

- Found himself unmarked,
didn't he, Lawro? - Nice dummy.

Defensive, not particularly good.
But look at how much time he's got.

- Great skill, mind.
- Loves his step-over.

Just b*at the on his
way through to the goal.

What a finish as well.

- Came from nowhere.
- Super, super strike.

That's the end of
the Rising Sun, that.

And in terms of the free-kick,
we thought the big lad
was going to take it.

That was a dodgy free-kick.

Watch this here now, Dan.
Absolutely brilliant. Look at that.

Not a chance, the goalkeeper.

Not so sure.
I think he should have saved that.

- Training ground move?
- Training-ground move, definitely.

Now we can hand back to
Doctor Who Confidential for
some post-match interviews.

Best day's filming ever
on Doctor Who today.

Not cos of JC,
but cos we're playing football.

Action.

THEY CHEER

The next thing we're going to do
is free kick, please.

It's been a while since I've played,
but to play today was just bliss.

- Step back. - Yeah, yeah.

And then he just
comes in and takes it.

The filming sections were
very choreographed,

so if it looks like I'm rubbish,
that's why.

It's not me. It's the...

There were a few moments I thought,
"Thank God I've got to be rubbish."

I really scuffed the ball and stuff
and I was just really in character.

Custard creams, football.
This is what...

Isn't it, Kieran, best day ever?

- I love this. - Yeah.

It's full time on the pitch,
but there's another important

time-related question
I need an answer to.

In this episode, the Doctor's
facing something called time loops.

Do we think those can exist?

Time loops are probably possible.

If we take your sheet of space-time
and you actually put a fold in it,

when you have a crease in space-time,
it's bringing two bits of space-time

that shouldn't be together together.

So each time you go across this, you
have a little jump in space and time.

I think in this episode
it's a jump in time.

People are dying up there!
People are dying! People are dying!

These two bits of space-time
aren't meant to be linked and yet
somehow they have been linked.

- It doesn't make sense. - No.
- That's what would happen physically?

So each time you go through,
you'll have that strange glitch.
So you set up these loops.

They're like glitches, but
they're loops that don't add up.

And what do we think will
actually happen during that?

You'll have discontinuities,
things won't make sense.

- So there is science behind
the scripts. - You sound surprised.

Sorry.

The time loop
in the football scene...

What we wanted was for the Doctor to
be able to be in the scene patently

not affected by the time loop, and
the Doctor is free of all that and
can observe it, cos he's realised

that whenever there's a time loop on
Earth, it affects Amy in the TARDIS.

We did this with a green screen
and put the Doctor in and then

he had to act the scene as
though everybody was in it.

Annihilate them, no. No v*olence.
Do you understand me? Not while
I'm around, not today, not ever.

We sh*t the scene without the
Doctor in it but with all

the football team in it, all acting
as though the Doctor was there.

Then the visual effects team take
over and they manage to marry
the two and make it so that

all the footballers repeat exactly
what they do the whole time,

but Matt in the middle
can act normally.

Action.

THEY CHEER

- Amy. - And cut.

Are you guys all right?
Is the camera all right?

LAUGHTER

Good job you put that poly on it.

A time loop in the Doctor's
world is a sign of sinister
goings-on in the flat above.

Craig goes into a time loop again,
and that's when the Doctor realises

that something is happening,
something very dangerous is
happening upstairs.

- Action. - Is this...
- A statement on modern society.

- Oh, ain't modern society awful?
- You've only been here three days.

- They've been the three
weirdest days of my life. - Your days
will get a lot weirder if I go.

'The Doctor is free
of the time loop.'

Time travel. It can
happen sometimes.

When it happens,
everyone is compelled to

repeat whatever action they're
doing or whatever they're saying.

People are dying up there!
People are dying! People are dying!

- People are dying up there!
People are dying up there!
People are dying! - Amy.

SHE SCREAMS

They're being k*lled.

It's happening again right now.
Someone's up there.

I love that kind of thing, where
time is an unpleasant, dark force.

It's not just a passive thing that
you move through. I love all that.

- Action. - Someone's up there.

And there is definitely no time to
lose as the alien upstairs

has one very important victim.

Come on, Craig! Someone's dying.

- Sophie. It's Sophie!
- Wait, wait, Craig, wait.

I've got the plans.
It cannot be upstairs.

It's a one-storey building.

'There is no upstairs!'

What?!

Now I know a little bit about the
science behind the science fiction,

it's time to see if I can do a
little time travelling of my own.

We have something else for you.

- Really? - I'm going to introduce you
to the public astronomer here at

the observatory, Dr Marek Kukula, and
he has a very nice surprise for you.

- Then let us go. - Perfect.

Come on.

To travel back in time, Marek is
going to show me a star that

has quite a relevance to Doctor Who.

So, here we are and what we're
going to see is this star up here.

It's in the constellation of
Ursa Major, the Great Bear,

and the other thing we can do here
as well as having no clouds

is show you the shape of
the constellation,
that's what we're bringing up now.

- And you can see the lines of
the constellation and now
the Great Bear himself. - Oh.

The star that we're interested in
is right at the end of the bear's
front paw,

and it's the top of those two stars
just on the tip of his claws,

and it's called Iota Ursae Majoris,
or Talitha.

And that Starr is light years
away, which means the light that

we're seeing from it now has been
travelling towards us for years.

- years! - That's right.

And that's quite a special number,

because it means that the light
that we're seeing set out in .

And that's a special year
for Doctor Who, isn't it?

It is indeed, the year
that Doctor Who began.

So if there are aliens living
on planets around that star,

they would just be able to pick up
the first television transmissions of

Doctor Who if they're tuning their
receivers towards us at the moment.

Tune in, guys!

Brilliant! So we're looking at .

You are actually looking at .

So although we can't actually
take you through time physically,

we can actually show you the past.

The machine we do it with
is not the TARDIS,

it's a telescope, because the further
you look into space, the further
you're looking back into time.

That is incredible and mind-blowing.
We're looking back in time.

Yeah, that's right,
looking right back in time.

Of course, there are many different
stars at many different distances.

So as you choose a different
star, you're looking at a
different period of history.

So there are stars up there
where the light set out years
ago when you were being born.

Wow! Oh, my goodness!

So in a sense, it's like a
bit of a birthday star for you.

Yeah. Oh, cool!

Number ones, please.

The realisation of what's
upstairs comes as a surprise
to the Doctor and Craig.

There's a great deal of space
and a definite lack of time.

We're filming, I guess, sort of
the climax of the episode

where the Doctor and Craig,
my character, realise that this

spaceship, which is sort of
like another TARDIS,

has been on top of Craig's flat
the whole time.

Action.

What? What?

The crashed spaceship
was a massive set.

And in fact we decided
to make it even bigger.

Largely because it's, in principle,
very similar to a TARDIS,

in that it's larger on the inside
than on the outside.

Action.

What?

- What? - DOCTOR: Oh. Oh, of course.

It was just really exciting and
it was like an eight-page scene.

That day was a very busy day, because
there were eight pages of dialogue

and there were special effects and
pyrotechnics with smoke and sparks

and we just had to get our heads down
and get going.

The time engine isn't in the flat,
the time engine IS the flat.
Someone's attempt to build a TARDIS.

When you come on to a show like
this, you want those moments
when you're in a big spaceship.

There's always been an upstairs.

- Has there? Think about it. - Yes.

You've got to run around
and something's at stake.

- Aaarrgghh! - Sophie, Sophie! - Craig!
- It's controlling her, it's
willing her to touch the activator.

No, it's not going to have her.

What? Why's it letting her go?

The Doctor has realised now that
it's zapping people and trying to
get them to try and be the pilot.

Because we were on this raised
platform in the middle of the set

and the cameras were around
the outside, it's like

you're doing a play and you sort of
forget that you're filming, really.

Right, stop. Crashed ship, let's see.
Hello, I'm Captain Troy Hansen

of International Rescue, please
state the nature of your emergency.

The ship has crashed, the crew
are dead. A pilot is required.

You're the emergency crash programme.
You've been luring people
here to try them out.

You will help me, you will help me,
you will help me.

Matt was brilliant. Like, he was
doing this whole thing where his
body was lurching around.

♪ If you're ready for me, boy,
You'd better

♪ Push the button
And let me know... ♪

The correct pilot has been found.

And we're off.

He wouldn't fly it,
the whole solar system would burst.

I'm way too much for this ship.
My hand touches that...

The planet doesn't blow,
the whole solar system goes up!

He's trying not to touch it,
so he manages to get Craig
to touch it instead.

- Geronimo! - Aaargghh!

Finally, he gets Craig to admit,
which has taken the whole
episode, that he loves Sophie.

- Why don't you want to leave? - Sophie.

I don't want to leave Sophie.

I can't leave Sophie. I love Sophie.

Sophie then realises
that she loves him.

I love you too, Craig, you idiot!

They both put their hands on
the console of the space ship
and the whole thing blows up.

- Honestly, do you mean that?
- Of course I mean it. Do you mean it?

- I've always meant it. Seriously,
do you mean it? - Yes.

Oh, no, not now. Not again, Craig.
The planet's about to burn!

- For God's sake, kiss the girl!
- Kiss the girl!

- Doctor? You've done it.
- SHE LAUGHS

You've done it! Big yes.

Help me, help me, help me, help me,
help me, help me, help me, help me.

Emergency shutdown. It's imploding.
Everybody out. Go, go, go, now. Out!

It was a good scene to do because it
took all day. It felt very real,
the emotions of it and stuff.

I really enjoyed it.

The whole top floor just vanished.

There's one more treat in store
for me at the observatory,
as Marek lets me take a look

at the real sky at night, with
something truly out of this world.

So, Maggie promised you a
surprise and here it is.

- It's the biggest refracting telescope
in the United Kingdom. - How big is it?

Well, with telescopes, the important
thing is the size of the lens,
and this one has a lens which is

inches across, which is still
about as big as you can make them.

So even though this is almost
years old, it really was the
Hubble space telescope of its day.

Wow! So the bigger the lens,
the more we can see?

That's right. The bigger the lens,
the more light you can get through

so the further out
you can see into space.

That's great for doing astronomy,
where you want to explore

as far out into the universe
as you can possibly go.

So let's get the dome open and then
we can have a look at the sky.

Let's go.

Now we can see the sky,
so let's move the telescope down.

With the telescope in place,
I'm about to get the chance to
see something totally amazing.

I have no idea what it is,
but I'm very excited.

- Take a look and see what you think.
- What is it?

Oh, my goodness!

That's real.

I'm actually looking
at Saturn right now.

I can see... It's really clear!

I can see it's sort of like
a yellow ball with these
rings going round it.

SHE GASPS

I can't believe it! I really can't.

It's like... I don't know, it's
just really hard to compute that

that's actually out there right now.
It's kind of like a yellowy colour.

And how many moons does Saturn have?

It has at least moons, and it has
the rings, which are made

of billions of tiny, tiny icy moons,
all orbiting round the planet.

They're made of billions of bits
of ice, up to the size

of probably a car, down to the size
of a tiny pebble.

- They're all independently
orbiting around Saturn, like
billions of tiny moons. - I can't...

It's a pretty incredible sight.

It really is.
I mean, it just... Wow!

That is so incredible and I can see
the two moons as well.

♪ Everybody's starry eyed
And everybody knows

♪ Everybody's starry eyed
And nobody knows... ♪

OK, so I've got one
last thing to show you.

Behind me, you can see the meridian
line in the form of a laser.

Now, I've been told on a
good night it can stretch

for up to kilometres and it runs
right through London and into Essex.

So that brings me to the end
of our visit to the observatory.

I think it's fair to say that
my brain is ready to explode.

It's completely mind-blowing.
You know, probability suggests there

could be life on other planets,
and potentially, in the future,

time-travel could
actually be possible.

I find it so fascinating.

I guess I've got an invested
interest in it, because I've
been working on Doctor Who.

But this visit has given me a tiny
glimpse into the life of Amy Pond.

Thanks for joining me.

♪ Everybody's starry eyed... ♪