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202 – The End of Time
Doctor Who serial
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The Master presents "the Master race"
Cast
Special guest star
Guest stars
Production
Writer Russell T Davies
Director Euros Lyn
Script editor Gary Russell
Producer Tracie Simpson[35]
Executive producer(s) Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Production code 4.17 and 4.18
Series Specials (2009–10)
Length 2 episodes, 60 and 75 minutes[36]
Originally broadcast 25 December 2009–1 January 2010[37][38]
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by →
"The Waters of Mars" 2010 series
IMDb profile

The End of Time[39] is a two-part Doctor Who special broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010 in the UK,[37] on 26 December 2009 and 2 January 2010 on BBC America in the USA[40], and both parts on 2 January 2010 in Canada on Space.[41] For the first time since the revival of the series in 2005, both episodes have the same overall title, followed by "Part One" and "Part Two".[42] This is the last story for David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor prior to the character's regeneration into his eleventh incarnation, who will be played by Matt Smith.[43] It will also be the last Doctor Who story written by Russell T Davies,[44] who shepherded the series' return to British television in 2005 and has since served as the series' executive producer and chief writer.[1][43] Davies will be succeeded as executive producer and showrunner by Steven Moffat.[1][43]

Bernard Cribbins, who appeared in the story "Voyage of the Damned" and throughout Series 4 as Wilfred Mott, grandfather of Donna Noble, acts as a companion to the Doctor in this two-part story.[2] The special also features the return of many other actors to the show, including Catherine Tate,[11][12] Jacqueline King,[13] John Simm,[45][46][47] John Barrowman,[30] Jessica Hynes,[32] Russell Tovey,[30] Elisabeth Sladen,[33] Tommy Knight,[33] Billie Piper,[31] and Camille Coduri.[31]

The story also features the Time Lords, returning as a civilisation for the first time since The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986. Since the series returned in 2005 the race has been absent due to its loss in the Time War, appearing only in a brief flashback in "The Sound of Drums".

Contents

Plot

Part One

The Narrator tells of the last days of the planet Earth, when everyone had bad dreams, but no one remembered them, save Wilfred Mott, Donna Noble's grandfather. Wilfred is drawn into a church and meets a mysterious woman in white, who speaks cryptically of the Doctor.

Having been summoned to the Ood Sphere, the Doctor discovers the Ood have advanced further than expected in the hundred years since "Planet of the Ood". The Ood Elders share the dreams they have of the Master, Wilfred Mott, Lucy Saxon and two people—revealed later to be Joshua and Abigail Naismith—that he doesn't recognise. The Doctor explains that the Master is dead, but the Ood show him the Master's ring being picked up by a woman after his cremation in "Last of the Time Lords". The Ood also warn that something larger is emerging from the darkness and that the end of time is imminent. The Doctor races to the TARDIS to travel back in time to London on Christmas Eve, where the events that the Ood are dreaming about are starting to occur.

Lucy Saxon is in prison for killing her husband, the former Prime Minister Harry Saxon—the disguise the Master took previously. She is taken from her cell to meet the new governor, who is part of a group which still follows the Master and who had found the Master's ring. The group intend to use the ring, Lucy's biometric imprint and their own life force to resurrect the Master. However, Lucy was prepared for this and introduced a component to counter their ritual and disrupt the resurrection, causing her and the Saxon followers to be engulfed in an explosion. The Master escapes, but is left "ripped open", constantly feeding on anything edible including humans, and flickering into skeletal form, but with excess energy that allows him to fly and shoot energy bolts from his hands. He hides out in the industrial wastelands of London.

The Doctor arrives after the prison was destroyed, and attempts to track the Master down, catching sight of him in the wastelands. The Doctor is interrupted by Wilfred and "The Silver Cloak", a group of elderly friends who have helped him track down the Doctor and the TARDIS. Together they go to a cafe, where Wilfred tells of the dreams he had of the Master. The Doctor is sure that Wilfred's involvement is more than a coincidence. He also tells Wilfred that he is destined to die soon, with the prophecy that, "He will knock four times," from "Planet of the Dead". Wilfred has also engineered things so that the Doctor catches a glimpse Donna Noble and her fiancé, Shaun Temple, in the hope that he will restore her memories he was forced to take away at the end of "Journey's End". But the Doctor refuses, as he cannot do it without destroying her mind.

That night, the Doctor confronts the Master, in the wastelands; the Master attacks him and subdues him. The Master complains that the drumming in his head continues, and uses a telepathic link to share the sound with the Doctor. The Doctor realises that the drums are real, not a product of the Master's insanity, and wonders where they are coming from. Troops descend by helicopter and capture the Master, wounding the Doctor and leaving him behind.

On Christmas Day, Wilfred experiences a brief vision of the woman in white who warns him that he may have to take up arms. Wilfred gets an old revolver from his room. He spots the Doctor outside and goes to meet him. The Doctor has lost the trail of the Master, but Wilfred's gift from Donna, a book by billionaire Joshua Naismith, gives him a name to put with the face he saw on the Ood Sphere. The Doctor realises that Donna is still subconsciously helping and he and Wilfred travel by TARDIS to Naismith's estate.

Timothy Dalton as the Narrator and Lord President.[48]

Naismith has an alien device that he calls "The Immortality Gate" and has captured the Master in the hope that he can restore it to full functionality so that it can give his daughter, Abigail, immortality. Two of Naismith's technicians are actually alien Vinvocci in disguise, tasked with salvaging the gate, which is a Vinvocci medical device designed to heal whole planets. The Doctor discovers this by confronting the Vinvocci, learning the device is tuned to the human species. The Doctor and Wilfred rush to prevent the Master from taking control of the gate. They are too late; the Master escapes his bonds and leaps into the gate.

All human beings (except for Donna, due to her half-human, half-Time Lord mind) start having visions of the Master. The Doctor isolates Wilfred from the visions by putting him in the control room of the gate's power supply. The Master uses the gate to transform the entire human race into copies of himself. Only Wilfred and Donna have escaped the transformation—seeing her mother and fiancé change triggers the return of Donna's memories. The Master triumphantly proclaims humanity has been replaced by "the Master race" as the Doctor looks on, powerless.

The Narrator reappears and asserts that the Master's removal of humanity is merely the prelude to an approaching conflict. The camera pulls back, revealing him to be a Time Lord addressing a chamber full of fellow Time Lords. He proclaims that this is, "the day the Time Lords returned, for Gallifrey, for Victory, for the End of Time itself!"

Part Two

The Master's plans are out of control, the sound of drums grows louder and an ancient trap is closing around the Earth. The Doctor faces the end of his life, as he and Wilf must fight alone and the prophecy warns: "He will knock four times."[37]

Writing

Davies described the story as "huge and epic, but also intimate."[49] Davies had been planning the story for some time, indicating that it continued the trend of series finales being progressively more dramatic:

“ I knew I'd write David's last episode one day, so I've had this tucked away. You do think: 'How can the stakes get bigger?' And they do. They really do. I don't mean just in terms of spectacle, but in terms of how personal it gets for him. ”

—Russell T Davies[47]

The Christmas specials constitute Davies' last script for Doctor Who and Julie Gardner's last job producing the series. It also is the last episode Tennant is appearing in, having elected to leave with Davies and Gardner to allow Davies' successor Steven Moffat to start with a clean slate.[50] In issue 407 of Doctor Who Magazine, Davies wrote about the night when he finished the script:

“ I've had these last pages ready in my head for months and months. Years, to be honest. It takes as long to write as it does to type. [...] So I keep rattling away until... The last words. Trouble is, last words don't really exist. In ten minutes time, I'll change my mind about Scene 25, and go back to write something different. Then I'll get up tomorrow and change all sorts of stuff, before sending it to the office. And then the proper rewrites start. [...] Even then, you keep writing; you keep writing; you think of lines people should have said for the rest of your life. Still, what the hell, let's allow a bit of ceremony. The last words.

Maybe I should sit here for hours, deliberating over them. But I know exactly what they are. I type them out. Times like this, typewriters would be better. Typewriters are romantic. A little metal letter should fly. It should hit the paper, whack! Tiny particles of ink should puff and settle. But no, there's just a plastic keyboard. I press the key. The final letter is n. Then a full stop. And that's it. Save. Done. Good.

 ”

—Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Magazine issue 407, Production Notes.[51]

When asked about the emotional impact of writing his last Doctor Who script, he said, "I would have thought that when I handed in the last script I might have burst into tears or got drunk or partied with 20 naked men, but when these great moments happen you find that real life just carries on. The emotion goes into the scripts."[1] Tennant and Julie Gardner separately said that they cried when they read the script.[43][52]

The last three specials of 2009 are foreshadowed in the episode "Planet of the Dead", when the low-level psychic character Carmen gives the Doctor the prophecy, "You be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then... oh, but then... he will knock four times."[53] This evokes memories of the Ood prophecy to the Doctor and Donna in "Planet of the Ood".[54] Tennant explained the prophecy meant that the Doctor's "card [had become] marked" and the three specials would thus be darker—characterising "Planet of the Dead" as the "last time the Doctor gets to have any fun"—and that the subject of the prophecy was not the obvious answer:[52]

“
David Tennant
Really, from this moment on, the Doctor's card is marked. Because when we come back in "The Waters of Mars", it's all become a little bit darker"
Julie Gardner
And as we know, David, he really does knock four times.
Tennant
Yeah, absolutely, and if you think you've figured out what that means, you're wrong!
Gardner
But when you do figure it out, it's a sad day.
 ”

Writing in his regular column in Doctor Who Magazine issue 416, Davies revealed that the original title for "Part One" of The End of Time was "The Final Days of Planet Earth", while "Part Two" was always referred to as "The End of Time".[55] Due to sheer scale of the story, however, it was decided that both instalments needed the same title, differentiated by part numbers.[55]

Filming

The first location filming for this story took place on Saturday, 21 March 2009 at a bookstore in Cardiff.[32][56] Jessica Hynes was filmed signing a book titled A Journal of Impossible Things, by Verity Newman.[32] Hynes previously played Joan Redfern in the 2007 Doctor Who story "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", in which the Doctor, transformed into a human with no conscious memory of his past adventures, wrote elements of his life as fiction in his "Journal of Impossible Things" and asserted that his mother's name was Verity. The name "Verity Newman" is derived from Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman and the show's first producer, Verity Lambert."[32] A pocket watch featured prominently in the plot of "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", and a pocket watch is featured on the cover of Newman's book.[32]

Filming also took place at Tredegar House in Newport,[location 1] which had previously been used for the filming of the 2008 Christmas special "The Next Doctor".[17][57] John Simm, who played the Master in the 2007 series finale episodes "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords", was spotted on location during the Tredegar House filming.[45][46] When asked about Simm's appearance, Davies said:

“ It's not quite as easy to guess what's happening as you think - there's nightmare sequences, and layers of fantasy, because the Doctor's coming to the end of his time. It's quite interesting to watch things being filmed, and think: 'Oh, I can see what that would look like...'[47] ”

Filming that took place during the Easter Bank Holiday was widely covered by the British press:[58][59][60] Catherine Tate filmed several scenes in the episode in Swansea, including one filmed in the Kardomah Café[location 2] and another depicting her character getting a parking ticket.[60][61] Other filming locations included Nant Fawr Road in Cyncoed, Cardiff[location 3] — the previously regular location used for the Noble household — where filming on 12 April showed Cribbins wearing reindeer antlers and boarding a minibus.[20][12][62] Filming took place in the following week on Victoria Road, Penarth,[location 4] in an area which is regularly used for a location for Sarah Jane Smith's neighbourhood in The Sarah Jane Adventures.[33][63][64] Elisabeth Sladen, who plays Sarah Jane Smith, and Tommy Knight, who plays her son Luke, were filmed on location with David Tennant.[33]

On the night of 20–21 April, Cribbins filmed a Christmas scene on Wharton Street[location 5] in Cardiff's city centre, with a large Christmas tree and brass band.[65]

The science fiction website io9 published a photograph showing Tennant alongside Simm and Timothy Dalton, with Dalton dressed in Time Lord robes.[66] Rumours of Dalton's involvement in the specials had previously appeared in British tabloids.[67] On 26 July 2009, io9 published an interview with David Tennant in which he confirmed Dalton's involvement in the specials.[68]

Trailers and previews

A teaser trailer, featuring Timothy Dalton's opening narration and brief shots of the main characters, was shown at Comic-Con 2009.[5] A 'Next Time' trailer, consisting some of the Ood Elder's monologue with excerpts from various scenes in part one, was included at the end of "The Waters of Mars". In November 2009 a special preview of the opening moments on the Ood Sphere was shown on the Children in Need telethon. The pre-Christmas publicity trailer and promotional clips also showed a selection of scene excerpts from part one.

Following the broadcast of part one, a trailer for part two was released on the BBC Doctor Who website. It begins with The Doctor saying that he thinks that a Time Lord can live too long and is quickly followed by a shot of Wilf manning what looks like a gun turret on a space ship shooting at something and creating an explosion. A voiceover of a woman explains that this will be the Doctor's final battle. Wilf is then shown tearfully handing his gun over to the Doctor claiming that he doesn't want him to die and then the Doctor at the controls of a crashing ship with the windows shattering everywhere. The Doctor is then shown brutally injured with the Master claiming that it "should be spectacular". The Narrator is shown in front of many cheering Time Lords saying "Gallifrey rises", followed by the Doctor saying that the Time Lords are returning. The Master is shown celebrating his victory, then the Narrator claims that "At last we are gathered for the end". Finally The Doctor and Wilf are shown before the trailer ends.[69]

The BBC also released the first two minutes (after the opening titles) of part two. The clip is set on Gallifrey, on the last day of the Time War. The Narrator, revealed as Gallifrey's Lord President, meets with the high council, who inform him that the Doctor has the 'moment', and will use it to destroy the Daleks and the Time Lords, ending the Time War, and killing them all. One of the council suggests that it is for the best, as millions are dying every second and are being resurrected to find new ways of dying. She then asks whether it wouldn't be better to finally end it. The President then kills the councillor, with a metallic glove that reduces her to dust, and declares that he will not die.[70]

Broadcast and reception

Overnight ratings placed part one as the third most-watched program of Christmas Day, behind EastEnders and The Royle Family with a provisional viewing figure of 10.0 million viewers. The episode achieved a 42.2% share of the total viewing audience.[71]

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Filming locations

  1. ^ Tredegar House, Newport: 51°33′42″N 3°01′41″W / 51.561572°N 3.028142°W / 51.561572; -3.028142 (Tredegar House, Newport)
  2. ^ Kardomah Café, Swansea: 51°37′13″N 3°56′43″W / 51.620235°N 3.945369°W / 51.620235; -3.945369 (Kardomah Café, Swansea)
  3. ^ Nant Fawr Road, Cardiff: 51°31′16″N 3°10′19″W / 51.521021°N 3.172055°W / 51.521021; -3.172055 (Nant Fawr Road, Cardiff)
  4. ^ Victoria Road, Penarth: 51°25′56″N 3°10′50″W / 51.432287°N 3.180515°W / 51.432287; -3.180515 (Victoria Road, Penarth)
  5. ^ Wharton Street, Cardiff: 51°28′47″N 3°10′38″W / 51.479795°N 3.177221°W / 51.479795; -3.177221 (Wharton Street, Cardiff)

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