02x10 - New World of Who

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It's a cold day
in a Cardiff back alley

and the Doctor Who team are making
one of the most unusual episodes

in the drama's history.

MUSIC: "Mr Brightside" by The K*llers

Whoa! Hang on!

For the first episode ever,
the Doctor and companion
barely make an appearance,

the monster has been designed
by a nine-year-old child

and it's the comedian Peter Kay
who brings that ogre to life.

Hi!
HE GIGGLES

Come on, join us!

Dissolve into me!

SOUND OF TARDIS TAKING OFF

So that's how it flies!

It's like a childish dream come true

to be in Doctor Who

and to be an alien.

"Give me the cane!" Then he snaps
it and I go, "Damn you, stupid man,

"Oh!" and I start getting
sucked into t'ground...

We didn't get lots of time off
while episode ten was being filmed,

we were doing episodes
eight and nine.

So it was weird to think
there was a whole other unit
out and around Cardiff,

making an episode of Doctor Who
that the Doctor and Rose
really had very little to do with.

I had to come up with a story
with a logical reason

for not having much
of the Doctor and Rose in it.

It's Marc Warren's episode,
it's his story that we follow.

And Billie and I
are visiting guest artistes, really.

He's a normal guy, a sweet guy,

quite wide-eyed and innocent and
he's just looking for the truth

and trying to find out what happened
to him when he was younger, y'know,

he thinks he'll find that
by finding the Doctor and I think

that he finally finds
a bit of wisdom at the end.

He sees the Doctor
and becomes enlightened, I think.

Well,
that's how I'm playing it, anyway!

What appears as only
a few seconds on screen,

actually involves an all-night sh**t
on the streets of Cardiff,

as Marc Warren begins
his Doctor Who debut.

Today we've just done the scene
where I'm walking by a load of shops

and the window explodes
and these Autons come out.

'I was stocking up, y'know, nothing
special. All the usual stuff.

'When all of a sudden...'

Action!

HYSTERICAL SCREAMING

Get up there!

Susie, the girl that's lying down
in front of the tables...

Can she be dead rather than in agony?
Actually totally still.

I had to run in front of that cab
but it's a stuntman

called Bill who I've worked
with before, actually.

He has to come up quite fast
and as long as you hit your mark,

he promises
he won't break your legs.

PANICKED SCREAMS

Again, one of the great things
about Doctor Who is, it can embrace
every different type of actor.

Y'know, we can have
someone like Pauline Collins
or Simon Callow who are known

as great, proper actors and
then you can have Peter Kay who's
known as a comedian, a comic actor,

and yet there's something about
the elasticity of this show that
it can take both of them on board

and it seems equally right.

Because it's some kind of herpes
and it's took over me body!

I don't know what it is!
I'm like a walking, talking...

I'm not saying anything!
..cold sore.

I can't compete with him.

Well, first of all I saw Peter Kay,
that made me laugh

and then I saw Peter Kay
in this big green fat-suit

with a big old mohican
that started here and ended up
halfway down his back.

That was funny. And then
he was playing this monster
with a serious Northern accent -

it was just
one of the funniest days!

MUSIC: "Can you Dig It?"
by The Mock Turtles

We meet at last...

..Linda.

Back! Back, all of you!
Further, further!

SNARLING

Thank you.

While the Abzorbaloff
is in himself very funny,

he's also very threatening,
he also is a genuine danger
and ruins Elton's life.

So there is something genuine
behind the Abzorbaloff and I wanted
that for Blue Peter as well.

YES! No, that's not fair!

She tastes like chicken.

"BLUE PETER" THEME TUNE

A year ago, the Abzorbaloff
lived only in the mind
of a nine-year-old child

who had entered
a Blue Peter competition.
Today the Doctor goes face to face

with the monsters
he has yet to do battle with.

I'm on Blue Peter. It's Wednesday,
the something-th of August

and it's the final of the Doctor Who
Design A Monster competition.

Indeed. OK, let's move on
to the eights, nines and tens.

The winner of this grand prize,
they're going to come down
to the Doctor Who studios,

see their monster being made, meet
me and Billie and everyone else...

WHO IS IT?! It is...

William!
CHEERING

The Abzorbaloff is
a green sumo creature, and, erm...

He absorbs his prey
and dissolves to digest them.

SHE SCREAMS

This is Abzorbaloff
that was given to me by Peter Kay

and it says here...

"To William, best wishes,

"Peter 'Abzorbaloff' Kay".
Peter Kay!

We've kept certain aspects...
He has, like, a mohawk hairstyle

and he's a big large character
in funny black trousers
and the faces in there,

and he's green...
There's a lot of key elements

but obviously we've just
had to tweak the look of him
to just make him work a bit more.

They had added an extra touch
of detail and done it well

and made him really looking like
he's fat and everything

and they made him look really fat
with all the flubber.

You've got to keep a certain amount
of Peter Kay, especially in the face,

you know, you can't change it so far
beyond just a regular face that it
becomes pointless having Peter Kay.

If you get Peter Kay
being a Doctor Who monster,
you want it to be Peter Kay.

It's been absolutely fantastic,
fantastic.

And tomorrow,
I get me alien costume.

Something amazing happened
in Doctor Who.

Waiting for its return
was the power of the internet,

mobile phones and interactive TV.

And this power is in the hands
of a brand-new generation.

MUSIC: "There's No Other Way" by Blur

Doctor Who was always
ahead of its time.

It was about futuristic
things we didn't understand.

Whereas now some of those things
are commonplace.

You get extra bits of Doctor Who
by pressing the red button

and that's only right, because
Doctor Who, when it was off air,

survived in different mediums.

On the internet, in audio adventures,
it's always been there.

And so it's back on the telly
but all of these other avenues
are still available to it.

Before Doctor Who came back,

the BBC's Doctor Who website
had an enormous audience

of very, very dedicated fans
of the old series.

And your typical audience member
would be mid- s,
maybe up to mid- s,

most probably male.

Doctor!

The way it all changed was the night
the first episode went out,

because we got emails
that night.

A lot of them
were from proud parents.

Some of them had even taken pictures
of terrified children.

That was week one.

By week three, we were getting
emails from the kids.

SING-SONG WAILING

That's more like it!

What I set out to do
was to get people watching
who don't watch science fiction,

which is specifically women
and younger kids watching as well
who wouldn't feel excluded from it.

So many young children

watch Doctor Who these days

because it's so exciting,

it's just one big adventure for them.

It's very fast-paced,
there's lots of exciting colours,

the monsters are very scary,
children love to be scared.

There's lots of grossness in it
and children love being grossed-out.

PARP!

SNARLING
Argh!

Our readers are looking
to read about the Doctor and Rose

so it's been really popular
in that sense. We get lots of mail

lots of letters asking about Rose
as a character,

also about Billie as an actress.

She's still got this young appeal
about her. She's almost like
a teenager herself.

And I think that adds
to her popularity

and it's something all our readers
really identify with.

Back in a sec!

He said not to look for it.
Yeah, he did.

They really love Rose
cos she's really cheeky and daring

and in their minds they think
they could possibly be like her.

Now you're getting it!

I imagine our readers are
running around attacking each other
or trying to k*ll each other,

and it's always happened,
it goes back to when I was five,

when you'd play Doctor Who
in the playground

and have fun exterminating people,
and who was going to be the Doctor,
who was going to be the companion.

I imagine that's exactly
the same in the playground now,
thanks to Doctor Who coming back.

MUSIC: "Mr Brightside" by The K*llers

HE LAUGHS
Flashing batteries!

I'll be glad to see the back of it
tonight and I can be human tomorrow

and eat me dinner and use me mobile.