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| Ruby and the Fifteenth Doctor |
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 After his introduction at the end of the previous season, in "The Giggle", this is the first full season of stories for the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and introduces his new traveling companion Ruby Sunday played by Millie Gibson.
On the 27th January 2023, Russell T Davies spoke to GQ Magazine about the new season, saying ‘I’m really proud of it. Oh my god, there are some strong episodes coming up’.
On the 30th September 2022, when David Tennant spoke in an interview with BBC News about his and Catherine Tate's return to the show for the 60th anniversary specials, he also praised incoming Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, saying he is ‘brilliant’ and ‘really talented’.
Millie Gibson’s role as new companion Ruby Sunday was revealed at the Children in Need charity event on the 18th November 2022. Speaking of her new role, Millie Gibson said: ‘Whilst still being in total disbelief, I am beyond honoured to be cast as The Doctor’s companion. It is a gift of a role, and a dream come true, and I will do everything to try and fill the boots the fellow companions have travelled in before me. And what better way to do that than being by the fabulous Ncuti Gatwa’s side, I just can’t wait to get started’.
Official promotional images of the new costumes for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday were revealed by the BBC on the 17th December 2022. At the same time the actors themselves posted a video of themselves revealing their outfits.
This season featured among its cast: Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday, Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday, Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood, Jinkx Monsoon as Maestro, Aneurin Barnard as Roger ap Gwilliam, Jonathan Groff as Rogue, Lenny Rush as Morris Gibbons and Indira Varma as the Duchess of Pemberton. It also sees the return of: Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble.
Bonnie Langford first played former travelling companion Melanie Bush between 1986 and 1987. As a companion of the Sixth Doctor and the Seventh Doctor, she also made a return in 2022 for the Thirteenth Doctor’s final story, "The Power of The Doctor". Bonnie Langford appeared with William Russell (Ian Chesterton), Katy Manning (Jo Grant - now called Jo Jones), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka) and Sophie Aldred (Ace) alongside newer companions in a touching scene to see out the Thirteenth Doctor.
Regarding Bonnie Langford’s appearance in this season Russell T Davies is quoted as saying: ‘Open those TARDIS doors wide, because Bonnie’s back! What an honour, delight and hoot to welcome back the character of Melanie, after too long away. And this isn’t just a cameo, Bonnie is right in the thick of the action, battling monsters and chaos and cliffhangers, right at The Doctor's side, just like the old days’.
Bonnie Langford has said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled to be bringing Melanie Bush back. To be part of the exceptional cast, crew and production team led by the force of nature that is Russell T Davies is a career highlight. I’m so privileged and proud to have been a member of the Doctor Who family since the classic era and to be included in the new generation is phenomenal’.
It was revealed on the 9th January 2023 that Jemma Redgrave would return as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart the head of UNIT. Jemma Redgrave first appeared as Kate in the 2012 Eleventh Doctor story "The Power of Three" - she last appeared in the 60th Anniversary special "The Giggle".
On the 9th January 2023 it was also revealed that Aneurin Barnard would appear as Roger ap Gwilliam. He appeared in "73 Yards" and was mentioned in the second episode of the two-part season finale "The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death".
Playing the part of the mysterious Mrs Flood is Anita Dobson who is best known for her role as Queen Vic Landlady, Angie Watts in the long running soap EastEnders. During this season no explanation is given to who Mrs Flood is and why twice she breaks the Fourth Wall - which is when a character looks into the camera and speaks directly to viewers.
Yasmin Finney returned to play the part of Rose Noble, who is the daughter of former companion Donna Noble (played by Catherine Tate). Yasmin Finney first appeared in the show in the 2023 Fourteenth Doctor story "The Star Beast".
Characters Carla Sunday (Michelle Greenidge) and Cherry Sunday (Angela Wynter) were regular members of the cast - being Ruby Sunday’s adoptive mother and grandmother.
Actress Susan Twist played a number of apparently unconnected characters during this season. She first appeared in "Wild Blue Yonder" and made a further, uncredited, appearance in "The Church on Ruby Road" before appearing in nearly every story of this season. The Doctor and Ruby eventually note a pattern occurring, as seen in "The Devil's Chord", "Boom", "Dot and Bubble", "Rogue" and by Ruby's alternate self from another timeline in "73 Yards". This season’s mystery of how all the characters, that have been played by Susan Twist, are all connected was finally revealed in the first episode of this season’s finale "The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death".
American drag queen Jinkx Monsoon guest stared in the big, meaty role, as Maestro in "The Devil's Chord". Maestro is a godlike cosmic entity born to The Toymaker that The Doctor it seems is really afraid of.
Legendary Welsh actor Dame Siân Phillips also stars as Enid Meadows in "73 Yards". She is much-loved for her showstopping appearance in the BBC 1976 series I, Claudius - among dozens of other stage and screen roles. She has also lent her voice to a number of Doctor Who audio dramas. This though is the first time she has appeared in the television series. As revealed by Executive Producer Phil Collinson ‘Sometimes we’re so lucky to open the studio doors to an absolute legend. I think a shiver went through the whole production team when we welcomed in Dame Siân Phillips. There’s a wonderful documentary on the BBC iPlayer celebrating her 90th birthday, which I’d recommend. I sat in awe of everything she’s achieved. This is a proper joy and an honour. It’s amazing that Siân hasn’t been in Doctor Who before - she said, “I’ve been waiting to be asked!”’.
With this season being billed as a fresh start and to introduce new viewers to the world of Doctor Who, it was a bit of a surprise that the two-part season finale revealed the big villain of the season to be Sutekh, a villain who is not new to the show as this villain’s first and only previous appearance in the show was in the 1975 Fourth Doctor story "Pyramids of Mars".
Russell T Davies explained his decision to bring Sutekh back, saying that it was a deliberate choice to prove to fans that the Disney+ deal didn't mean the show was severing its roots: ‘Being on Disney+ now, this is a very deliberate choice to bring back an old BBC enemy - we've even cast the same actor - to prove that the show hasn't severed its roots. To delve into your backstory is a very fine thing. That's thrilling for new viewers, and for old viewers it's a great reward’.
Sutekh was originally created by Lewis Greifer and was voiced both in the 1975 story "Pyramids of Mars" and in this season’s "The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death" by Gabriel Woolf who was 91. Gabriel Woolf was also the voice of The Beast in the 2006 Tenth Doctor story "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit".
Six of the eight stories were written by Russell T Davies. Of the remaining two; "Boom" was written by former Executive Producer, Steven Moffat, and "Rogue" was written by newcomers, Kate Herron and Briony Redman.
As well as previously running the show Steven Moffat has previously written stories for Russell T Davies during his first time as showrunner, including the highly acclaimed 2007 Tenth Doctor story "Blink". Writing "Boom" means that Steven Moffat is the first previous showrunner for Doctor Who that has returned to write a story for a successive showrunner.
Of the five directors all but one (Mark Tonderai) were new to Doctor Who.
Dylan Holmes Williams directed the first filming block which consisted of "73 Yards" and "Dot and Bubble". These are his first Doctor Who stories. Dylan Holmes Williams is a writer-director based in London. His short film The Devil's Harmony won the Jury Prize for International Fiction at Sundance 2020 and was nominated for Best British Short at the British Independent Film Awards 2019. His short film Stilts premiered on Channel 4 in 2019.
Mark Tonderai directed the second filming block which consisted of the Christmas special, "The Church on Ruby Road". Mark Tonderai previously directed the 2018 Thirteenth Doctor stories "The Ghost Monument" and "Rosa".
Julie Anne Robinson directed the third filming block which consisted of "Space Babies" and "Boom". These are her first Doctor Who stories. Julie Anne Robinson is a BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated director. She has directed various network pilots that have gone to series, including The Middle and Selfie. Other credits include: Grey's Anatomy, and the critically-acclaimed, BAFTA, RTE and Golden Globe nominated mini-series Viva Blackpool for the BBC; as well as the BAFTA-nominated television movie Coming Down the Mountain.
Russell T Davies revealed that ‘Julie Anne is a dream piece of crewing for me, because I’ve wanted to work with her ever since sitting in awe of the BBC’s Blackpool Julie Anne comes with the best reference ever - an actor called David Tennant, who starred in Blackpool and loves her! ’ Julie Anne Robinson directed three of the six episodes in this acclaimed 2004 series which was an early highlight in her career. She is also a producer as well as a director and a key member of the team behind the Netflix historical drama series Bridgerton, which launched in 2020 with an episode that she directed. Russell T Davies has revealed ‘After the success of Bridgerton, working with Julie Anne became an even more impossible hope so to realise the dream and get Julie Anne to Cardiff - on two wildly different episodes, by wildly different writers! - is an absolute joy’.
Ben Chessell directed the fourth filming block which consisted of "The Devil's Chord" and "Rogue". These are his first Doctor Who stories. Ben Chessell is an acclaimed writer-director who has divided his career between the UK, USA and Australia. He directed and co-wrote his first feature film, Sucker, in 2015, and more recently completed five episodes of the Netflix drama Surviving Summer. He is also known for The Only Person in the World (2002) and Deadloch (2023). As revealed by Executive Producer Phil Collinson ‘Our search for directors reached all the way to Australia, to find Ben’. One of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen on television is Joe Barton’s Giri/Haji for the BBC, with the spectacular finale directed by Ben. It broke all the rules of what television can achieve, so we knew he was a perfect fit for this two-episode block, which takes the whole show into genuinely new territory. We were all wondering how to achieve what’s on the page, but Ben has marched in to show us how!’
Jamie Donoughue directed the fifth filming block which consisted of the two-part finale "The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death". This is his first Doctor Who story. He also directed the extra scenes for the Tales of The TARDIS episode for "Pyramids of Mars". Jamie Donoughue is best known for The Last Kingdom (2015) and A Discovery of Witches (2018).
Jane Tranter, Joel Collins, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson and Russell T Davies all returned from the 60th Anniversary specials as Executive Producers. They were joined by Julie Anne Robinson (for the two stories she directed - "Space Babies" and "Boom") and Steven Moffat (for the story that he wrote - "Boom").
This season was announced before both previous seasons Season Thirty Nine (New Series 13) and Season Forty (60th Anniversary Specials) had begun broadcast.
It was revealed in issue 584 of Doctor Who Magazine that pre-production on this season began on the 26th September 2022. The new production crew was also revealed and that the Fifteenth Doctor's companion had already been cast and at the time this issue was published, Russell T Davies revealed that he was already working on the seventh story. Furthermore, Russell T Davies teased that ‘huge revelations to come and brand-new stories about a Time Lord’s life’ were yet to come.
On the 8th December 2022, Russell T Davies revealed to Doctor Who Magazine issue 585 that the new season would consist of eight episodes plus a special story. This special story would be the 2023 Christmas special, "The Church on Ruby Road", making this season having nine episodes over eight stories. He acknowledged that he is aware ‘That's fewer episodes than the last full season. But give us time. We have plans, and that's a promise!’.
On the 13th December 2022, during an interview with Total TV Guide, Russell T Davies revealed that viewers would ‘be staggered with the surprises we’ve got in store’ in the upcoming special, recalling the very first Christmas Special commission in 2005, saying: ‘It really felt like Doctor Who coming home’ and calling it a ‘tradition’.
Filming officially began on this season on the 5th December 2022 in Wolf Studios in Cardiff, Wales. Russell T Davies posted his reaction to the start of filming on his Instagram page, stating: ‘FILMING BEGINS on the next season! So many mysteries to come. Who is the X? What is the Y? And what the hell is the spinning Z?!? You’ll find out! On BBC One, BBC iPlayer and Disney Plus’.
Location filming began on the 13th December 2022 at the White Cross Inn in Groeswen, Wales for scenes in "73 Yards". Then during December 2022 filming continued on the Cardiff Bay Barrage in Penarth and inside the Capitol Shopping Centre in Cardiff. Then in January 2023 filming took place at the Swansea University Bay Campus in Swansea, Newport Market and Victoria Place in Newport, Cardiff City Stadium, Castle Arcade and the High Street in Cardiff.
On the 18th January 2023 filming took place on a moving Great Western Railway train which left from Cardiff Central and travelled to Swansea railway station. Further filming then took place in January 2023 including at Loudoun Square in Cardiff, Park Place, Bruton Place, Meridian Place and Frederick Place in Clifton, Bristol. The last filming in January 2023 took place on the Coast Path at Giltar Point in Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
Filming then returned to Wolf Studios in Cardiff in February. This was followed by more location filming, including at: Frederick Place and Kings Weston House in Bristol, the Golden Cross pub and the Pryzm Nightclub in Cardiff, in the graveyard of the Church of St. Mary in Nash, Newport, before returning again to Wolf Studios in Cardiff where filming continued into March 2023.
Location filming then continued in April 2023 at Mellon Street and Market Street in Newport, and then at Frederick Place and Clifton College in Clifton, Bristol.
Filming in May 2023 took place at The Parade in Cardiff, Tredegar House in Newport,
Margam Country Park near Port Talbot, Leigh Court in Bristol and The Parade in Cardiff.
Filming in June 2023 took place at the Sherman Theatre, One Central Square, Fitzalan Road,
Cardiff City Hall and Park Street all in Cardiff. Then, in July 2023 filming continued near the Academy Espresso Bar in Barry. Filming then went back to Wolf Studios on the 14th July 2023 before wrapping up with a party at the National Museum Cardiff on the 15th July 2023.
Late pick-ups for the Christmas Special were filmed late in the evening on the 18th September 2023 and continued into the early morning of the 19th September 2023 around St Marys Street and Wharton Street in Cardiff. More pickups were again filmed around this location late in the evening of the 3rd October 2023 and into the early morning of the 4th October 2023.
The very first bit of promotion for this season came on the 24th September 2021 with the reveal that Russell T Davies would be leading the show from the 60th anniversary and into the ‘series beyond’.
When the launch was announced to the press, Russell T Davies was reported as saying ‘At last, it’s my great delight to unleash a whole new season of The Doctor and Ruby’s adventures together. Monsters! Chases! Villains! Mysteries! And a terrifying secret that’s been spanning time and space for decades. Don’t miss a second!’.
After the Fifteenth Doctor’s first full-length adventure, "The Church on Ruby Road", which premiered on BBC One on the 25th December 2023, the remaining stories began broadcast again on BBC One on the evening of Saturday 11th May 2024.
Despite this season consisting of only eight episodes plus a Christmas special, this season actually has an identical number of episodes as Season Thirty Nine (New Series 13), which also consisted of a reduced episode count - but the reason for the reduction in this earlier season was due to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
All stories of the main part of this season were made available on BBC’s iPlayer, before the BBC One broadcast, from midnight and simultaneously on Disney+. Also, as part of this main season’s launch double-bill, "Space Babies" was broadcast alongside "The Devil's Chord" which aired immediately after. This is the first time in the show’s history that two stories (or even two episodes) have been broadcast on the same day.
After broadcast Doctor Who was praised in the BBC annual report as ratings for this season continue to grow on BBC iPlayer (it was reported that "Space Babies" had already been viewed by nearly 6 million viewers and continues to grow). The show is mentioned several times throughout the report, which spotlighted it as one of the shows driving the corporation's ‘huge audiences’, while also mentioning its ‘economic impact’ in Wales and across the UK.
Overnight ratings for this season though had been lower than is typically due to the show's new release strategy - which saw each story/episode debut on BBC iPlayer at midnight on Fridays, several hours before the BBC One broadcast on Saturday evening. A spokesperson for the show explained that this had always been the expectation, saying: ‘Overnight ratings no longer provide an accurate picture of all those who watch drama in an on-demand world’.
Two days before the second episode of the two-part finale was broadcast, the first appearance of Sutekh was re-broadcast on BBC Four in a Tales of the TARDIS episode that showed an edited version of the 1975 Fourth Doctor story "Pyramids of Mars" with updated special effects, bookended by new scenes with the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.
Before this season finished it was revealed that Doctor Who would next return with a Christmas special in December 2024 called "Joy to the World", which has been written by Steven Moffat and guest stars Nicola Coughlan. Season Forty Two (New Season 15) would then follow in 2025, introducing Varada Sethu as The Doctor’s new travelling companion.
It has also been reported that the long-rumoured spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea, started filming in September 2024.
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This season is notable for the introduction of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday - his new travelling companion. Ncuti Gatwa is undeniably compelling to watch - adding another dimension to The Doctor. Ncuti Gatwa grabs the opportunity, to play this iconic character, with both hands, gifting us a charismatic, empathetic, very funny but also at times a sad hero.
While as The Doctor’s travelling companion, Millie Gibson is every bit as watchable with Ruby's liveliness and sense of humour. There are at times shades of Billie Piper's Rose Tyler in Millie Gibson’s portrayal of Ruby. But Millie Gibson also brings her own characteristics and no-nonsense Northern attitude to the role, so refusing to play second-fiddle to The Doctor.
After his first appearance in the show, as the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa’s first full story was just over 2 weeks after his introduction at the end of "The Giggle". This was in the 2023 Christmas special "The Church on Ruby Road" that also introduced us to Ruby Sunday - who at the end of this story would become his travelling companion.
Being primarily an introduction for a new incarnation of The Doctor this story actually concentrated more on introducing Ruby Sunday and more importantly how, as a baby, she had been left outside a church and subsequently, as an adult, Ruby is trying to find out who her birth mother is - a plotline that would have significant bearing on the finale story of this season.
The main ‘villain’ of this Christmas special are the mischievous goblins whose antics steal the show. But the standout scene is right at the end when the mysterious Mrs Flood reveals that she seems to know a lot about the TARDIS as she encourages Ruby to join The Doctor and then unexpectedly, she faces the camera and breaks the Fourth Wall when she speaks direct to the viewers.
The first story, of the main part of this season, is "Space Babies" in which The Doctor and Ruby have to interact with talking babies that have been left behind on a space station and have to protect them from The Bogeyman that stalks the lower decks. But not all as it seems as The Doctor and Ruby soon find out. This story, despite its failings, is mainly used as a re-introduction for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby after the 20 week gap between this story and "The Church on Ruby Road".
The next story, that was broadcast on the same day as "Space Babies", was "The Devil's Chord" that had The Doctor and Ruby meeting The Beatles and Cilla Black but they also discover a world that has lost interest in music as they are confronted by the mysterious Maestro. The Doctor was to discover that Maestro was a godlike cosmic entity born to The Toymaker and that Maestro was seeking to consume music and grow strong enough to devour the Music of the Spheres, eradicating all life in the universe. Maestro is a big, meaty role, a show-stopping antagonist and a character that that The Doctor it seems is really afraid of. And then there is the ‘twist at the end’. Was it really necessary to finish this story with its musical references and multiple breakings of the fourth wall, with a big production number that even has everyone dancing and singing, with umbrellas, in the rain - but inside the music studio?
The next story is "Boom" that was written by Steven Moffat, who had previously been Head Writer and Executive Producer for Doctor Who from 2010 to 2017. This story revolves around the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday arriving on an alien planet in the midst of a large-scale war. But when The Doctor accidentally steps on a landmine, he is forced to come up with a solution to disarm the device before it detonates - without moving. Due to The Doctor being virtually incapacitated most of the action comes from Ruby - until she finds herself shot and seriously wounded.
This story though is possible the first indication that something strange was occurring in the cast list for the stories shown so far in this season - and that was with the inclusion of actress Susan Twist playing what appeared as seemingly disparate characters. Susan Twist portrayed the face on the screen of the Ambulances depicted in this story while she made appearances in other stories. She was a tea lady in the previous story "The Devil's Chord", an unnamed person in a nightclub in "The Church on Ruby Road" and as Mrs Merridew in last season’s Fourteenth Doctor story "Wild Blue Yonder".
This became an interesting sub-plot, throughout this season, that was further seen in the next story. In "73 Yards" Susan Twist played the part of a hiker that Ruby meets on a coastal path in Wales. "73 Yards" though turned out to be the story of the season with Millie Gibson taking the lead role in this Doctor-lite story.
"73 Yards" delves into Welsh folk horror, with The Doctor Ruby arriving on the Welsh coast in the TARDIS. But after The Doctor accidentally steps into a fairy circle, The Doctor disappears and Ruby sees a mysterious figure watching her from a distance - but Ruby is unable to approach the woman as she always stays exactly 73 yards away.
With The Doctor having disappeared Ruby is left completely to her own devices. Unable to access the TARDIS she is forced to return home. But with the strange woman constantly following her Ruby finds that anyone who approaches the strange woman, on Ruby’s behalf, runs off leaving her increasingly more alone. Not only by her mother but also by UNIT.
We see Ruby at different stages in her life until a pivotal scene then takes place in a hospital, when Ruby is an old woman and about to pass away. The woman in the distance appears in the hospital room, right in front of Ruby. As they see each other, we are transported back to the clifftop to when The Doctor and Ruby first stepped out of the TARDIS - but this time we see things from the mysterious woman's perspective and this time, Ruby manages to stop The Doctor from breaking the fairy circle and so he doesn't disappear, and everything is set right so that the mysterious woman now disappears and the younger Ruby continues her travels with The Doctor seeming not to remember anything - except for the idea that she has visited Wales a third time in her life.
The next story "Dot and Bubble" is mainly seen from the perspective of character Lindy Pepper-Bean - one of several wealthy young adults, from the nearby Homeworld, that live in the city of Finetime. Like all the residents she lives through a social media-like interface, in the form of a Bubble projected around their heads by small floating robots called Dots, with the city's computer directing their every movement and decisions.
The Doctor and Ruby, via Lindy Pepper-Bean’s Bubble try to warn her of the danger she is in. At first, she ignores them - taking an instant dislike to The Doctor due (as it is heavily suggested at the end of this story) by the colour of skin. With the help of Ruby, The Doctor finally convinces Lindy to escape when she witnesses giant slugs consuming the population of Finetime. But not all is as it seems when The Doctor realises that the slugs are not just random creatures but have been orchestrated by the computer that runs the city and its population. As to the ongoing sub-plot, of Susan Twist’s appearances during this season, this time she appears on screen as Lindy’s mother Penny Pepper-Bean.
The penultimate story, "Rogue", has The Doctor and Ruby involved with the criminal, shape-shifting Chuldur species, in 1813’s England. There they encounter the mysterious Rogue - who turns out to be an intergalactic bounty hunter who is trying to locate and kill a member of the Chuldur Family. At first mistaking The Doctor as a member, due to The Doctor’s ability to regenerate, Rogue and The Doctor eventually join forces to defeat the Chuldur Family - but not before Rogue sacrifices himself to save Ruby.
Though not appearing physically in this story, actress Susan Twist still makes an appearance when her likeness is used in the form of a portrait, that Ruby sees hanging on a wall - so continuing the ongoing mystery behind all the characters Susan Twist has played during this season.
The finale two-part story "The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death" is notable for four things. Firstly, it resolves the ongoing mystery behind the seemingly disparate characters Susan Twist has played during this season. Secondly it picks up and the resolves who Ruby’s birth mother is, which she finally gets to meet at the end of this story. Thirdly, it reintroduces a villain last seen in the 1975 Fourth Doctor story "Pyramids of Mars" - namely Sutekh.
Sutekh is based on the Egyptian deity Set and this story notably retcons Sutekh's fate at the end of the 1975 story "Pyramids of Mars", revealing that rather than banishing him into the time vortex and aging him to death, as the Fourth Doctor initially believed to have done, Sutekh had actually evaded his entrapment within the space-time vortex, and has travelled with The Doctor on every single adventure since the "Pyramids of Mars" by latching onto and concealing himself on the TARDIS. In this story Sutekh is revealed to be ‘The one who waits’, mentioned by The Toymaker, in the 2023 Fourteenth Doctor story "The Giggle", and the leader of the Gods of Chaos, whom Maestro, that The Doctor faced in "The Devil's Chord", is also a member.
But the fourth, and most notable thing about this story, is the continued mystery behind Mrs Flood (as played by Anita Dobson). This mystery is not resolved but instead various scenes during this story hint that there again is much more to this character still to be revealed. But then in the very final scene as the TARDIS departs, on a roof top, Mrs Flood is seen dressed in white and with an umbrella and again breaks the Fourth Wall when she explains to the audience that, while Ruby got her happy ending, The Doctor’s story will end in ‘absolute terror’...
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