04x97 - Allons Y

[bunniefuu]

And...action.

It's the end of an era,
and Confidential takes you

behind the scenes
on a piece of TV history.

Live too long.

We've not made any secret of the
fact that this is my last episode

coming up, and that this is the
th Doctor's final shout.

And...action.

No, no, please don't. No, don't!

Please don't!

Please!

♪ The day I d*ed
was the best day of my life... ♪

It's my honour. ..

Argh...!

It's a big time for it, coming to an
end. There will be kids watching

who will remember it for the rest of
their lives. That's brilliant.

It's really been an honour
to write that.

There is a certain event
to when the Doctor changes.

I remember, as a kid, knowing
that Tom Baker's last episode

was an incredible,
thrilling thing to be tuning in for.

It was about giving David Tennant
the biggest goodbye...

Action.

..saying a huge, emotional,
terrifying goodbye to the Doctor.

Once you regenerate, you're gone.
The character has become

somebody else and you have to
pack your bags and go home.

♪ ..The day I d*ed
was the best day of my life

♪ The day I d*ed
was the best day of my life... ♪

And...turn over.

It's David Tennant's
last-ever episode...

..so the crew are determined to give
him something to remember it by.

, , , action.

MUSIC: "The Sweet Escape"
by Gwen Stefani

Agh!

Not the stairs, not the stairs!

Partly, it's me thinking,
"It's David's last episode,

"I'm going to make him suffer

"in every way possible."

That trolley thing isn't anything
that exists in the real world.

It's very uncomfortable,
because you're strapped back

and your neck is up,

and you really can't move at all.

It's literally the last chance
to have a laugh with the Doctor.

To do a funny escape is very rare
in action adventure things,

and I thought,
"That's my last burst of insanity
before the plot gets grim again."

Not the stairs...

Not the stairs!

Sometimes, the most seemingly
straightforward things end up being
the most complicated to sh**t.

To put that down a flight of stairs,
even a small flight,

as it was, was quite a number.

, , , action.

Oof! Ow! Ooh!

Agh...!

Worst...rescue...ever!

That's it. Good, well done.
Very good.

I think everybody knows that
David Tennant had to, erm...

stop doing Hamlet

because he had a back operation...

..so when I read the script and
discover there's an escape scene,

with the Doctor strapped in
a trolley,

where he has to be
wheeled down a set of steps,

I'm thinking, "What on earth
is Russell thinking?"

Action.

Oof! Agh!

You wouldn't believe the health and
safety measures that go into filming

someone tied to a trolley
going downstairs.

What we did, in the end, was that
we had a dummy which is actually

a pretty good double for David.

We had this full-size David Tennant
doll, which is a little bit weird.

It's very, very like David.

I've been taken unawares by it
several times thinking it was him

going, "God, he's being a bit rude,
he's ignoring me!" But it was
the dummy.

It was used so that they could
batter the thing down the stairs.

, , , action.

THEY LAUGH

Very good, well done. Excellent.

And if you look really carefully,
you'll see that the dummy's a bit

fixed like this, and when you cut to
the close-ups, it's David.

Worst...rescue...ever!

In the end, I think I ended up doing
most of it myself, to be honest.

I think I just had to grit my teeth
and get on with it.

♪ Doggone, my aching back... ♪

, , ...action.

Worst...rescue...ever!

Worst...rescue...ever!

Oof! Worst...rescue...ever!

They wouldn't let me near him,

because I'd have had him down
those stairs a bit quick. It went,

bump, bump, bump, bump, bump...
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..but if I'd done it, it would have
gone....

like that, you see.

Action. Hffffff&}

Oof! Agh! Oof!

Ooh! Ooh!

And...action!

Just stop! Listen to me!

'At that moment, in the basement,
when they came to a halt...'

..they had to be teleported

into the Hesperus space ship.

No, no, don't, don't!

OK, hold those positions, guys.

'When we got them to those positions,
hold your positions, take a photo...'
Thank you, sir. OK.

..and when we went to the Hesperus,
we were able to reconfigure

those exact positions.

You think so? 't!

Get me out of this thing!

We've had a good tradition
of that, and I love them.

We often use the factories
of South Wales to film in.

Action!

'We went to a place and sh*t
some very long corridors that
gave us a lot of the textures.'

We then designed those
textures into the set,

so that it all works together.

We've got to close it down!
home.

We're just a salvage team,
local politics has got
nothing to do with us.

In all my years on Doctor Who,
it's been sort of characterised

by a rusting,
retro, clapped-out universe...

Where's your flight deck?
miles
above the earth.

..so, it's just rubbish until it
comes to a crisis, until the Doctor
discovers what's going on.

Then he's slamming the levers,
jamming everything together, and this

daft old bucket of a thing becomes
the salvation of Planet Earth.

You two, what did I say? Lasers!
the missiles.

The g*n turrets were
really very clever.

They were basically on hydraulics...

How does this thing work?

..so we would control the left and
right movements and the up and down,

and the actors themselves
were able to swivel the chairs.

Woah!

Woah! Woah!

Woah! Oh!

Woo!

I didn't really direct Bernard in
the g*n turret, he was off on one.

Come on, let's have you!

Over here, son... There you are!

Agh! Agh!

Wilf's an old soldier, so he's
got lots of skills from when
he was in World w*r Two.

Come on, Wilfred. That's it,

get it, get it!

He improvised all that dialogue
of being...

He says things like...

Oh, I want one of these
for my birthday! Ha-ha-ha!

Oh, if only Winston could see this!
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Whoo! I wish Donna could see me now!

The combination was just irresistible
of making Wilf like Luke Skywalker,

giving him the great big
AK-AK g*ns and f*ring away.

It's just joy, actually.
Bernard Cribbins, a great big laser,

saving the world
in the middle of a dogfight.

Come on!

, take one...
moments'

that were kind of
the last ever whatever it was.

'In that same sequence
on the Hesperus, I realised,

'"This is the last thing I do with
a sonic screwdriver, this is it."'

An endless w*r...

I considered announcing it
to everybody and having a moment,

but then I thought, "Shut up,
just get on with it."

But in my head, I realised
it was the last time that...

that my Doctor would sonic anything.

I had a little...

I had a little moment to myself.

Action! and crew are
back on the set of the gateroom,

preparing for a visitation...

On your knees, mankind.
ig screen.

OK, well done, everybody. Very good.

Ex-Bond actor Timothy Dalton
is here to play the Lord President.

He is Bond, always,
always, in my mind anyway.

He's really grounded and strong
and his voice

is just amazing.
You could just

close your eyes
and just...

have him read you, I don't know,
your breakfast menu, or something.

You'd just be like,
"Oh, Timothy, I love you!"

On your knees, mankind.

Ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba...
nt...

The approach begins.

Oh, we all raise our hands?

The approach begins.
ach of what?

Timothy Dalton - how marvellous.

I never thought we'd get him.
And we got him.

The most marvellous thing was, like
anyone who grew up in Britain, he had
fantastic memories of Doctor Who.

I didn't see them all,
but I can remember

William Hartnell at the beginning.

It's been part of
one's life, it's been
just about part of everybody's life.

We were so lucky, I'm sure he'd
tell you this story himself, but...

he had watched one of David's
Doctor Whos on BBC America.

He had caught it one night, when his
kids were watching it, or something,
and he'd found it

and said, "Doctor Who, I remember
that, let's have a look," and loved
it.

It's a hell of a series,
a hell of a series.

So when we got in touch and sent him
a script, it wasn't completely out of
the blue.

That's when you have the hardest time
casting, when they don't know what
you're on about,

and have never heard of the show.
It's a nightmare.

But we were very lucky, he had seen
it, he loved it, he read the script
and really was lovely about it.

I don't think I'd ever read a script
like it when I first read it.

It's like looking at seven or
eight different scripts in one.

It ranges from Coronation Street,
through , through almost
every genre. It's brilliant.

And...action.

Who else could play the
President of the Time Lords?
It had to be Timothy Dalton.

Thank goodness he said yes, I
don't know what we'd have done.

Wee Jimmy Krankie would have been
fine, but not quite as powerful.

I will not die!

Do you hear me?!

A billion years of Time Lord
history riding on our backs.

I will not let this perish.

I...will...not!

The Master, unusually, is behind
the times in this story, because

for him, the return of the Time Lords
is magnificent.

'It's a self-made empire
ready for him to rule.'

HE LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY

'This is magnificent,'

and it just proves that he wasn't
there at the end of the time w*r.

He did not know what the Time Lords
became and has no idea of their
power now. They undo his plan...

..with the click of a gauntlet.

So he's actually brilliantly
out of his depth, and I love
those scenes at the end of...

the Master improvising, trying to
stay on the right side.

He's desperately going,
"I'll side with you...
Oh, Doctor, I'll side with you."

He's just swinging any which way.

I'm on your side!

In some ways, this means more to the
Master than it does for the Doctor,

because it's where the noise
in his head comes from.

'It was always Rassilon calling
to the Master to set up this link

'that allows the Time Lords
to be brought back.'

A rhythm of four.

The heartbeat of a Time Lord.

So, actually, he was driven insane
by the Time Lords. It's that
personal in the end.

Listen.

With moments like this,
I'm never quite sure...

..where Russell's ideas have been
born and where they've ended up.

Because it seems like he's been
planning this since the Master
first reappeared.

It's just a headache, it's just this
noise inside my head, Doctor.

Constant noise. make
a sort of beautiful sense now.

When did it start? life. Every waking hour.

I don't know what order he puts
these plots together, and I don't
want to know, in a way,

because I like the sense that it's
all been planned from day one.

Still, no rest for the wicked.

I was thinking,
in bringing the Master back,

I have to avoid that scene where the
Doctor and the Master become allies.

Again, the old show did this a lot,

where they'd agree to join sides
to fight against a common foe.

I never believed that, you think,
"That's a bit mad."

But, right at the end,
I allowed myself a moment of that.

There we go... nd,
I think the Master'

has found a greater enemy

than the Doctor in Rassilon,
the Lord President.

OK, and er, shaking cameras, yeah?

The link is broken.

Back into the time w*r, Rassilon!

Back into hell!
you'll die with me, Doctor!

I know.

'sh**ting a scene like that,
you've got three fantastic actors.

'You've got David Tennant, John
Simm, Timothy Dalton, and they're all

'so into their roles, it makes it
easy to direct, in a way.

'They want to give you everything
that you could possibly wish for,'

so it's a brilliant adventure
to direct that kind of thing.

And...turn over.

That's driving you, despite
your exhaustion... Rrr! Rrr!

It's kind of pushing you along.

Your fury is driving you.

OK.

And...action!

'He has the realisation that it's
their fault, these awful Time Lords.

'The noise in his head, the t*rture,
his whole life is down to them.'

And because he's got this incredible
power coming out of his hands,

he can give them a right old battle
at the end.

Argh!

Argh!

Argh!

Good. Well done.

You did this to me!

All of my life!

You made me!

Argh!

So, he saves the Doctor
and he disappears,

fighting them...

into a void.

Which allows the Doctor to believe
that maybe he's cheated fate,
I think, as well.

Allows him to believe that if...

something so extraordinary is going
to happen, if the Master is going to

actually have a moment of
self-sacrifice, then maybe,
maybe, time was wrong.

Maybe the Ood were wrong
and maybe...

maybe he'll get away with it.

Erm...

He won't.

Stand by to sh**t.

We wanted the revelation that
the four knocks isn't what goes on
in the Master's head,

it's actually Wilf...

Take four...

..to be a surprise for the Doctor
and a surprise for the audience.

So, the way that we've constructed
the sh*ts around there,

there's a very slow tracking sh*t
that finds the Doctor alive...

I'm alive.

..and as the camera comes round
on him, he hears the four knocks.

FOUR KNOCKS

In that instant, he realises that
this is his fate, this is
his death being signalled.

We, the audience,
know that it's Wilf,

but the camera still tracks really,
really slowly across David.

David goes up on to his knees and
behind him, out of focus, we see
Wilf, still knocking on the glass.

They gone then?

There was an extraordinary kind
of feeling on the set the day that

we filmed that scene,
and the tapping,

that very gentle tapping that
Bernard Cribbins was doing
on the booth.

You kind of wanted to run on the
set and say, "No! Stop tapping!

"Don't do it!" It's a brilliant
scene for that, amazingly performed
by David and Bernard.

Very good,
just finishing checks, we're
ready. Stand by to sh**t, please.

, take one...

And...action.
KNOCKING

'There's a close-up of David
where he's broken and
it's utterly heartbreaking.'

They're gone then?

Yeah, good-oh.
If you could let me out...

Yeah.

'I think it's
a beautiful little plot twist,

'and I didn't see it coming when I
read the script for the first time.'

Everyone who's tuning in is
expecting it and waiting for it
and you're telling them,

"He will knock four times," and
the Master's coming back and
the Time Lords,

and all these things that will lead
to the Doctor's demise...

Action!

'coming from behind him.
And in that moment,'

suddenly, it all makes sense to him,
and it's Wilf, Wilf will knock
four times. It wasn't the Master.

Wilf has been waiting all along.

Action!

I always knew there would be a great
big palaver, in which you think
the Doctor's going to die.

But then, actually,
once they're gone -

which turned out to be the Time
Lords, Timothy Dalton, the Master -

it would all come down to
a really simple, personal thing,
which is just saving one man's life.

I'm sorry.

Sure.

Look, just leave me.

OK, right then, I will.

Because you had to go
in there, didn't you?

You had to go and get stuck!
Oh, yes!

And of course, he will sacrifice
himself for Wilf, and he has a rant

and a rage about it and he rails
against the dying of the light...

No, really, just leave me.

I'm an old man, Doctor,
I've had my time.

Well, exactly, look at you.

Not remotely important!

But me...

..I could do so much more!
So much more!

He doesn't want to let go, and that
passion for life and grief that

he's going to have to let everything
go, bubbles up in him like a rage.

Well, it's not fair!

'But of course, he's going to do it.

'There's never
a moment when he wouldn't
sacrifice himself for Wilf.'

Who wouldn't sacrifice yourself
for Wilf? It's Bernard Cribbins!

'The biggest achievement
in the whole thing is...'

always the acting.
This show isn't about the monsters

and the special effects
and the explosions.

I love the att*ck of the Hesperus.

For me, that's one of the most
exciting things we've ever done.

But actually, what it's really
about, it's David in the end.

It's David and Bernard, either side
of that glass door, with Wilf looking
so helpless and so proud

and so brave, willing to sacrifice
his life, and the Doctor raging.

What a performance. David just
giving it everything and pushing
the Doctor into a brand new area.

We've never seen
a Doctor act like that before,
or say those sort of things.

Live too long.

No, please, please don't. No, don't!

Don't! Please, don't! Please! t, really,'

is pushing.
Giving great actors such material

that they will just fly. And that's
really the stuff that will never,
ever be forgotten, that performance.

That's mission accomplished for me.

Wilfred...

..it's my honour.

Better be quick.

Three, two, one...

Agh!

Agh! Agh!

Agh!

Agh!

At the end, what you get is
what I call 'the Doctor's reward.'

You could almost put up a subtitle,
I think, an appendix to the whole
thing - which is the Doctor

knowing that he's dying,
but choosing to appear at a crucial
moment in his companions' lives.

Where are you going?

'It's a moment of grace
and a moment of dignity

'and a moment of immense sadness,
I think, as well,
that he can dip into their lives...'

To get my reward.

It's also to show that
life goes on, in a way.

You get new futures
for all of those people.

One by one, you get each of them.
You get Martha and Mickey.

Martha's left the unit
and is now tracking down aliens
as an independent.

There's a generation of children who
have grown up with these characters

and have loved them,
so it's nice to know where they are.

It's nice to know they're happy, to
be absolutely sentimental about it.

I don't know, but I suspect a lot
of these stories won't be told again.

There's a new production team taking
over, with Steven, who's brimful
of ideas.

He might use some old characters
one day, but he doesn't need them,
he's got his own stuff to invent.

So, in my head, I was thinking this
is probably the last time you'll see

Martha, Mickey, Donna,
Rose, all of those people.

So, it's nice to give them
a farewell.

Hey!

You get a simpler story with
Sarah Jane,

because obviously her story continues
in the Sarah Jane Adventures.

We just get a moment of
the Doctor saving her son's life.

That was the maddest Christmas,
Clive. Mum doesn't know what
happened.

That's an in-joke, because I always
tell them off on the Sarah Jane
Adventures

that whenever they cross the road,
the characters don't look to see
if there's any traffic coming.

Actors never do that,
because traffic has always
been stopped for filming.

But on a children's show, I think
it's absolutely wrong that characters

don't look left and right, so that
was my final salute.
CAR HORN WAILS

It's you.

You're...

Mum!

So that was a nice moment between
the Doctor and Sarah Jane.

I love the ending in that,
because she just knows.

He doesn't say a word to her, but
she knows what that appearance means.

She knows that's the last time she's
going to see the th Doctor.
It's lovely.

Then you find Captain Jack,

who of course is desolate,
cutting a lonely figure after the
events of the last Torchwood series.

From the man over there.

'He had to do terrible
things and he's lost his family,
lost his friends, lost his lover.

'So, he's a very lonely man.

'It's like the Doctor is
forgiving him for what he did.
It's like the Doctor is sharing in

'Jack's lifestyle in a funny way,
never being judgmental of him.

'And there's Midshipman Frame,
from Voyage Of The Damned,

'and you think, "What a perfect
couple they would be." So it's a nice
tying together.'

So, Alonso...

..going my way?

Then you get just another little
grace note really, which is with
Jessica Hynes playing

the descendant of Joan Redfern,
from the Family Of Blood story.

Funny, that's the name he used.

'The Doctor, when he became human,
loved Joan.'

So, I thought it wasn't fair to wrap
up his life without a little nod
towards someone he truly loved.

Was she happy, in the end?

Yes. Yes, she was.

Finally, you get Donna Noble's
wedding, that we've been waiting for
for how long?

Three years, we've been waiting for
that? Finally, it happens.

I love the fact of the whole circuit
being closed.

SHE SHRIEKS WITH EXCITEMENT

Wilf has told us she's earning
nothing, so there's
the Doctor's present

of a lottery ticket that you just
know is going to be the winning one.

Then she'll be Donna Noble-Temple.
Donna Temple-Noble,
multi-millionaire.

I just wanted to give you this.

Wedding present.

Thing is, I never carry money, so
I just popped back in time, borrowed
a quid off a really lovely man.

Geoffrey Noble, his name was.

That's a nod to an actor who's no
longer with us - Howard Attfield,
who played Donna's dad originally,

who sadly passed away before
we could return him to the series.

"Have it", he said.

"Have that on me."

It's bringing everyone back
into the Nobles and saying...

they're part of that ending that sets
her up on high, so that's nice.

And then, right at the very end,

and it took me a long time to
think of this, because with Rose,

Rose is actually happy in a parallel
universe with a half-human Doctor.

Then I sort of thought, he can go
back to the year it all began

and the year it all began for us,
actually.

Happy New Year!

Don't stay out all night.

Try and stop me. year-old kids watching that,
who are now or , the great

memory of that, that they
see when this whole current
version of Doctor Who started...

What year is this? ave you had?

, January st.

..on Rose Tyler's estate,
in the snow.

Which is also where David
began, on Christmas Day,
in the snow on that estate.

It just all fitted together
and Billie agreed to come back.

It's just the final little note that
takes my Doctor Who around
in a great big circle

and closes it ready for it
to begin brand new stories.

I bet you're going to have
a really great year.

Yeah?

See you.

I think it was important the Doctor
said goodbye to all the companions,
because there's a completeness

about the Russell T Davies years and
the th Doctor years, by doing that.

It's a reward for the viewer
as much as, in story terms,
it's a reward for the Doctor.

It's a very sentimental, but very
emotionally appealing idea,

that before you die, you say goodbye
to all the people that you love.

There's just over a week
until the end of the sh**t,
and today is a momentous day on set.

It's the th Doctor's last
ever scene in the TARDIS.

It's all weird and sad.

The last few weeks have all
been very weird and sad.

We didn't sh**t the regeneration

on anything like my final day,
but it still feels...

you're still very aware that
you're sh**ting your last scenes.

It was a bit mad, watching
David regenerating into Matt.

I didn't quite like it, really.
I was a bit, "Oh, no, it
really is coming to an end."

Action!

♪ This used to be my playground

♪ This used to be my childhood dream

♪ This used to be the place I ran to

♪ Whenever I was in need

♪ Of a friend

♪ Why did it have to end

♪ And why do they always say

♪ Don't look back

♪ Keep your head held high

♪ Don't ask them why
Because... ♪

Take a look.

♪ Life is short

Ready?

♪ And before you know

♪ You're feeling old

♪ And your heart is breaking

I'll see you again, Mister.

♪ Don't hold on to the past

♪ Well, that's too much to ask. ♪

This script, now, is the first time
the regeneration has really been
called a death for the previous body.

I wanted that, I wanted
that size and significance.

It's not just like tripping over
a brick and changing your face.

It's a new life, it's massive.

A new life means a death of
the old one, so, personally,
I thought it was important

to up the status of regeneration, not
just make it like a little fireworks
show which you come out of

very easily. Actually, there's
a death, literally a death.

Onwards?

Onwards.

So, where are we going? gone before.

Allons-y!

I can't believe I'm doing this!
c&Hffffff&}

The stuff of legend.

I mean, the final line, saying,
"I don't want to go,"

of course it's
a very emotive final line.

I don't want to go.

We did four takes on David's
final line, "I don't want to go."

With each take, we pushed
the emotion and the grief further.

We tried being
very unemotional about it...

I don't want to go.

We tried a little...

a smur of an emotional moment.

I don't want to go.

And we also did one, a full-on
kind of breaking-down version.

I don't want to go.

My feeling on the day
was that we really wanted

to pull at the audience's
heartstrings at that point.

I wanted David to be
overcome with grief.

But, actually, that wasn't right.

I worry four's not
quite in character.

I just worry that if you
see him breaking down,
it stops you breaking down, as well.

There's always a danger
of that, isn't there?

If that's the final image and you're
left with him in total distress,
it's pretty grim.

That's not really who he is, is it?

I find three more

moving, actually. ng his death with bravery, yeah.

There's a stoicism to take three.

Which is more like him.
oicism.

In the end, we've got take three in
there, which is the take where
he's a bit more controlled.

He's a bit more like the Doctor,
in fact. He's brave.

You don't want him

to lose all that bravery
in that final moment.

There's something stoical
and long-suffering, and...

..strong about the Doctor that
I don't think he can get
too self-pitying,

even in a moment like that.

I don't want to go.

It was mixed emotions,
really, for everybody.

It felt like a really
big moment in TV history.

A lot of us have been with
David since he arrived,
and we'd gone through some really

tough times on set, and long hours,

so we all felt like a really
big family.

It really was quite
an emotional moment.

Nice and quiet, folks, please,

and turn over.

What's that ' '?

Notice that board.

I think it was
one of the camera boys, because
it was such a special occasion,

they decided to draw
a picture of David

with all the streams of energy coming
out of his hands and out of his head.

It was quite an nice touch.

Show David the picture.

I've seen it, it's good.

Could we drop your right arm
by an inch, David?

Action.

A lot of that day was about
green-screen sh*ts, and effects.

There becomes a huge, technical,
practical element which is about
standing in the right place

and being on a green screen and
hitting a mark, and all that...

David, can you turn your right hand
so that the thumb's slightly more
upwards?

Great. And, action.

..which stops you getting too
sentimental about it, because
you just have to be practical.

Just lean back by one centimetre,
David...

..and just lift you left arm up
by one centimetre

and bring it away from the front
of the TARDIS by one centimetre.

Obviously, when they regenerate, the
closer they are to the same position,
the smoother the transition.

David, if you just give a tiny bit
more tension in your limbs, please.

OK, a bit more...difficult?

OK.

Cut there.

There's a lot of CGI in that
final sequence, but actually,

there's an awful lot of
practical effects as well.

We did destroy one of the pillars,

and we blew the console up like
we've never blown it up before.

I wanted to trash the TARDIS.

It's like being on the beach
and you've built a sandcastle,

and at the end of the day you
can jump up and down on top of it.

There was a lot of practical
and CG effects to enhance that
regeneration moment.

Five, four, three, two, one...

Sparks and squibs, and we had
flame woofers and flame bars...

It was tricky for me,
because it was a one-off.
Once the column went, that was it.

The reset time on that would
have been hours and hours,
so we really had to get that right.

Logistically, it was quite
difficult, but we rehearsed
it time and time again.

The whole sequence was quite a number
in safety terms.

Guys, everyone come
to this side of the crane, please.

We had an exclusion zone, firemen
standing by, medical standing by...

There's quite a lot to think about.

Obviously, especially at such a late
stage in David's career with us,
it was important to keep him safe.

There were two tape marks
on the floor of the TARDIS.

They said, "Stand on these marks and
don't move, be very, very still."

It was very hot,
and there was a lot of stuff,
things falling from the ceiling.

I did get quite a lot of
stuff in my eyes, but I thought,

"You can't say cut now,
really, just suffer it,"

because we only had one take on
that, and you can't keep destroying
more pillars of the TARDIS.

OK, keep running and let David out,
please, don't break any more set.

Did you flinch, David? moment I think I blinked.

Yeah, great stuff, well done.

Let's go again, then.

It was a big, big old sequence.

Fantastic,
and great that we get to blow it up.

And then, some other bloke
walks in wearing your suit.
That's curious, too.

It was a jamboree, going from the
th Doctor to the th Doctor.

The only people not on set were
the caterers. Everyone was there.

It was like standing room only.

Everybody off the set,
go and get a cup of tea,

and relax, this is a lock-off,
leave all this for the moment.

We tried to thin it out about
and lose a lot of the crew

and the crowd, because everybody
was keen to see the new Doctor,
but it would have been unfair to him.

So, out of courtesy, we just
cleared the set of most people.

It was a funny day.

Whenever you plan these things too
much, they fall apart. Plan too much,
things shatter.

In order to clear the studio,
everyone goes outside and
stands outside the studio.

How does Matt Smith get to
the TARDIS? By walking through...

All the people who'd been cleared out
to avoid him, he had to walk through
in order to get to the TARDIS.

It must have been like
walking over coals for him.
I'd never met him before.

That's the first time I meet
him, as he's walking to the
TARDIS for his first scene.

I saw him coming and I thought, "He
doesn't want to stop and talk to me,
it's a big day for him,

"I'm old news, I want to get out of
the way". So I sort of turned away,
to get out of the way, and he saw me.

I thought, "I look really rude now
because I'm turning away to get
out of his way."

At the same time, I'm staring at him
because he's wearing David's suit,

and I think, "That's wrong,
he's got the suit on, no!"

And he was so lovely,
so polite and charming.

He came up and chatted to me
and then he went on and did it.

And then I walked out the door,
looked back and they started working

on the script. You think, "Wow!

"That was quick."

And I got in a car and drove off,
and everyone was still there because
there was still a bit to sh**t.

I think I must have had more
meetings to discuss Matt Smith's

last seconds of the episode,
than I did to prep the rest of
the two episodes put together.

There's so much riding on it. It's
the new Doctor's very first scene.

Everybody's concerned that it's
absolutely right, so we talked about
what sh*ts we'd use,

how we'd run the day,
were Confidential going to be there?

Was it OK that there's a camera
filming Matt doing his first scene,

or do we want to give him as much
peace and quiet as possible?

There's lots and lots
of stuff to think about.

The other thing, which I think is
really tough on Matt, is that it's
a really complicated scene.

Legs! I've still got legs!

It's a monologue, so he's got nobody
to bounce off.

Arms, hands, fingers, ooh, fingers,
lots of fingers. Ears, yes, eyes.

There's explosions going off left,
right and centre, there's fire...

Hair... I'm a girl! No! No!

He's just been through
a regeneration so he's not quite
right in the head at that point.

There's something else,
there's something

important. I'm...

crashing!

For an actor to be thrown into
the lion's den, that was
a hell of a scene.

Geronimo!

Excellent, Matt. Really fantastic.

That's when you realise
it's carrying on without you.

Part of goes, "Hang on, surely it
if I leave it all falls apart?"

But, of course, it doesn't, and of
course it shouldn't. That's great,

and that's what's thrilling
about this show.

That's why it's a legendary thing
to have been part of -
because it carries on

and it actually regenerates itself
and keeps moving.

It's th May - a turning point
in Doctor Who history.

It's David Tennant's
last day on set as the Doctor.

He was on ropes, because we were
flying him to do a sequence

where he crashes through
the ceiling of the gateroom.

It wasn't a huge dialogue scene for
him, he was acting by himself.

My final sh*ts were weird little
things on green screen with wires.

Very unsentimental,
very unemotional scenes, really.

When we did the final scene of
Satan Pit, which was the last thing
we sh*t of series two,

and Billie was leaving, that was
very emotional. You can see on
screen, we barely get through that.

I think, we b*at it,
that's good enough for me.

It said I was going
to die in battle.

Then it lied.

In a way, it was probably just
as well that my final scene wasn't

anything particularly emotional
or charged

because I found it hard enough,
really.

I was tantalised and thrilled that
David's last slate number was .

That felt really right,
and I was behind the monitor
saying to the script supervisor,

"Don't let them go to frame , .
It feels right that he's ending on
an emergency number, for a Doctor."

I got really obsessed by it.

Maybe I'm deranged,
but I was really obsessed.

And that was the slate number
he finished on.

David, we wrapped,
because we'd finished with him,

we'd sh*t all his stuff, and he goes
off to his trailer to change.

But, obviously,
it's his golden wrap,

so we can't just let him go
without making a fuss.

So, Pete, the first assistant
kind of makes up an extra sh*t
in order to call David back.

I actually told him that if
he could get out of his harness,

get changed, because I needed
him back for a lighting reference.

We'll just let him think
we're getting him back in onto
the green screen for a reference.

I don't know if David knew and was
pretending he didn't, or whether
it was a bit of a surprise to him.

I knew that I was finished.
There was some bit of flannel about,

"We'll need you back for
a reference sh*t."

I knew that wasn't the case. I was
fully aware of what the sh*ts were
and I knew that we'd sh*t them all.

More and more people kept appearing
in the studio,

until only the caterers,
again, weren't there.

David, just before we go,
just a quick reference.

Sorry, guys, we'll just get this.

And I just wanted to go. I thought,
"Please don't make me come in

"and everybody look at me,
because I'll only get upset."

But of course, they did,
and of course, I did.

Ladies and gentlemen, you'll all be
very sorry to hear,

that that's the golden wrap on
the th Doctor, Mr David Tennant!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This set of a cannon of confetti!

I wasn't expecting that!

It was very...
You know, I was very touched and, at
the same time, a bit shy, I suppose.

There you go.

I'm not going to say a speech!

Thank you, everyone.

I'm really not going to say a speech
because I'll get sad,

and I don't want to get sad, erm,
because I'm very happy to...

Oh, shut up! Stop it!

I'm very proud of this

and working with all you people...
Oh, this is ridiculous, stop it!

Argh!

I'm very proud
of everything we've done,
and thank you all very, very much.

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Never Forget"
by Take That

♪ We've come so far
And we've reached so high

♪ And we've looked each day
and night in the eye

♪ And we're still so young
and we hope for more

♪ We've come a long way

♪ But we're not too sure where
we've been

Come on!

♪ We've had success

K !

♪ We've had good times

♪ But remember this

Hi!

♪ Been on this path of life
for so long

That's beautiful.

♪ Feel I've walked a thousand miles

♪ Sometimes strolled
hand in hand with love

I'm b*ating out a samba!

♪ Everybody's been there

♪ With danger on my mind

♪ I would stand on the line of hope

You beauty!

♪ I knew I could make it

♪ Once I knew the boundaries
I looked into the clouds and saw

♪ My face in the moonlight

♪ Just then I realised what a fool
I could be

♪ Just cos I look so high
I don't have to see me

♪ Finding a paradise wasn't easy
but still

♪ There's a road going down
the other side of this hill

♪ Never forget where you're
coming from

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

♪ Someday soon this will all be
someone else's dream

♪ This will all be someone else's
dream

♪ Been safe

Oh, nonny, nonny.

♪ From the arms of disappointment
for so long

♪ Feel each day we've come too far

Bye, then.

♪ Yet each day seems
to make much more

Where are we?

♪ Sure is good to be here

♪ I understand the meaning of
"I can't explain this feeling"

What was that?

♪ Now it feels so unreal

♪ At night I see the hand that
reminds me of the stand I make

Don't blink. Don't even blink.

♪ The fact of reality

♪ Never forget
where you're coming from

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

♪ Someday soon this will all be
someone else's dream

Allons-y. Alonso.

♪ This will be someone else's dream

♪ We've come so far

I'm the Doctor.

♪ And we've reached so high

♪ And we've looked each day and night
in the eye

♪ And we're still so young
and we hope for more

Ancient Rome!

♪ But remember this

I bloody love you.

♪ We're not invincible
We're not invincible - no

♪ We're only people
We're only people

♪ We're not invincible
e

Soltaran!

♪ We're not invincible

Hello, Dad.

♪ So again I'll tell you

♪ Never forget where
you're coming from

You are wonderful.

Hello, sweetie.

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

♪ Someday soon this will all be
someone else's dream

One, two, three.

♪ This will be someone else's dream

♪ Never forget where
you're coming from

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

♪ Someday soon this will all be
someone else's dream

Merry Christmas.

♪ This will be someone else's dream

Bravo, Doctor.
lo, I'm the Doctor.

♪ Never forget where
you're coming from

No!

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

State your name, rank,
and intention.

The Doctor.

♪ This will be someone else's dream

♪ Never forget where
you're coming from

♪ Never pretend that it's all real

♪ Someday soon all this will be
someone else's dream

♪ This will be someone else's dream

♪ We've come so far
and we've reached so high

♪ And we've looked each day and
night in the eye

♪ And we're still so young
and we hope for more. ♪