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Doomsday (Doctor Who)
177b – "Doomsday"
Doctor Who episode
The Daleks, the Cybermen and Torchwood battle
in Canary Wharf, in the first Dalek–Cyberman
encounter and conflict in the show’s forty-three
year history.
Cast
Doctor
David Tennant (Tenth
Doctor)
Companion
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
• Camille Coduri – Jackie Tyler
• Noel Clarke – Mickey Smith
• Shaun Dingwall – Pete Tyler
• Andrew Hayden-Smith – Jake Simmonds
• Tracy-Ann Oberman – Yvonne Hartman
• Raji James – Dr. Rajesh Singh
• Paul Kasey – Cyber Leader
• Nicholas Briggs – Dalek and Cyberman voices
• Catherine Tate – The Bride
Production
Writer
Russell T Davies
Director
Graeme Harper
Script editor
Helen Raynor
Producer
Phil Collinson
Executive
producer(s)
Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Series
Series 2
Length
2nd of 2-part story, 45
minutes
Originally broadcast 8 July 2006
Chronology
← Preceded by
Followed by →
"Army of Ghosts"
"The Runaway Bride"
IMDb profile
"Doomsday" is the thirteenth and final epis-
ode in the second series of the British science
fiction television series Doctor Who. It was
first broadcast on 8 July 2006 and is the con-
clusion of a two-part story; the first part,
"Army of Ghosts", was broadcast on 1 July
2006. The two-part story features the Daleks,
presumed extinct after the events of the 2005
series’ finale; and the Cybermen, who ap-
peared in "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The
Age of Steel". Both species unexpectedly ar-
rived on Earth at the conclusion of "Army of
Ghosts".
One of the most popular Doctor Who epis-
odes since the show’s revival, it features Bil-
lie Piper’s last appearance in the lead com-
panion role as Rose Tyler and the final regu-
lar appearances of Noel Clarke as Rose’s ex-
boyfriend and previous companion Mickey
Smith, and Camille Coduri and Shaun Ding-
wall as Rose’s parents Jackie and Pete Tyler.
Synopsis
The episode’s opening continues from the fi-
nal scene of "Army of Ghosts"; Dr Singh (Raji
James), Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and Rose
Tyler (Billie Piper) are trapped in a sealed
room within Torchwood Tower. Four Daleks,
accompanied by a device known as the "Gen-
esis Ark", have emerged from the void
ship.[1] A Dalek Supreme called Dalek Sec ex-
tracts information about Earth from Singh.
He discovers that a separate invasion is in
progress, and sends Dalek Thay out to invest-
igate. The Cybermen, who took control of
Torchwood, detect the Dalek technology and
offer an alliance. The Daleks decline, and the
two species declare war on each other.
While discussing humanity with the Doc-
tor (David Tennant), the Cyber Leader is des-
troyed by a strike team led by Jake Simmonds
(Andrew Hayden-Smith), from the same uni-
verse as the Cybermen. Jake takes the Doctor
to his universe and a parallel Torchwood.
Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall) tells him that the
Cybermen vanished and they have followed
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them. But the breach is causing the parallel
Earth to boil and must be closed. They return
to Earth and approach the Cybermen with a
truce.
Meanwhile, Rose tells Mickey they were
kept alive because, as time travellers, their
touch would activate the Ark. Sec explains
that the Cult cannot open the Ark because it
is stolen Time Lord technology. He demands
that Rose open it, but she refuses, and goads
the Daleks with her knowledge of the Time
War’s conclusion and the fact she annihilated
their Emperor[2] until the Doctor appears.
Upon realising that the Daleks are the Cult of
Skaro, he uses his sonic screwdriver to allow
the Cybermen to attack the Daleks, letting
the humans escape. Mickey accidentally ac-
tivates the Ark when escaping, and the
Daleks, after fighting off the Cybermen,
travel to the exterior of Canary Wharf to re-
lease the Ark’s contents: millions of Daleks
who were imprisoned during the Time War.
The Doctor and his companions flee into
the tower. En route, Pete rescues Jackie from
upgrading and the couple are reunited. As
the Dalek-Cyberman war rages outside with
humans getting massacred in the crossfire,
the Doctor brings everyone to the breach
room. He explains that crossing the Void
causes a traveller to become saturated in
Void material. If he opens the breach to the
void, any being saturated will be pulled in.
He will
then close the breach forever.
However, Rose and Mickey also crossed the
Void and are contaminated and vulnerable.
The Tylers and Mickey cross into the par-
allel universe, but Rose decides she would
rather be with the Doctor than her family and
jumps back to help him. They open the
breach and hold onto a pair of magnetic
clamps as the Cybermen and Daleks are
pulled in. Rose’s lever slips. She pushes it
back into position but loses her grip. Before
she falls
into the Void, Pete reappears,
catches her and jumps back to his world. Mo-
ments later, the breach slams shut forever,
leaving a devastated Rose trapped in the oth-
er world.
Some time later, Rose has a dream where
she hears the Doctor’s voice calling her. The
Tyler family follow the voice to a remote bay
in Norway called Bad Wolf Bay, where an im-
age of the Doctor appears, which he is har-
nessing the power of a supernova to transmit
through one of the final breaches. Because
the breach is to close permanently in two
minutes, the pair share one last conversation.
Rose breaks down in tears and tells him that
she loves him, but as the Doctor starts to
reply, the breach closes. In the TARDIS, a
tearful Doctor regains his composure and
sets a new course. He looks up to see a wo-
man in a wedding dress (portrayed by Cath-
erine Tate), who demands to know where she
is.[3]
Production
Conception
The concept of the Daleks and Cybermen ap-
pearing together on screen is not new; in
December 1967, the BBC approached Terry
Nation to have both races in a serial, but Na-
tion vetoed this idea. The concept came to
Davies while mapping out the 2006 series:
the story would both serve to resurrect the
popular Daleks and provide a suitable exit for
Piper, who had decided to leave Doctor
Who.[4] "Doomsday" is the first episode in the
history of Doctor Who where the Cybermen
and the Daleks appear on-screen together;
both Cybermen and Daleks were featured in
The Five Doctors and "Army of Ghosts", but
in separate scenes.[5][6]
The two-part finale was originally going to
take place in Cardiff on the time rift which
was the focus of the episodes "The Unquiet
Dead" and "Boom Town". When Torchwood
was commissioned in 2005, Davies decided to
base the spin-off
in Cardiff and relocate
"Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" to Canary
Wharf in London.[4]
An item of discussion between the produc-
tion staff was over who would rescue Rose;
Davies and Julie Gardner wanted Pete to res-
cue her, while Clarke and Phil Collinson
wanted Mickey. The position was ultimately
given to Pete, to emphasise that he had ac-
cepted Rose as a surrogate daughter.[4] The
Doctor’s intended reply to Rose was also dis-
cussed; Davies, who left the reply unspe-
cified, stated he didn’t know when asked by
Collinson on the commentary, and Gardner
vehemently believed the Doctor would recip-
rocate Rose’s love.[7]
Some elements of the story were inspired
by Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials tri-
logy. Pullman was "flattered" by the refer-
ences in the episode, and compared Davies’
actions to his own practice of referencing
works.[8]
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Filming
Southerndown beach in Wales was used as
the backdrop to the Doctor’s farewell to Rose
Tyler on Bad Wolf Bay.
To ensure that Clarke and Dingwall were
available for filming, the story was filmed in
the season’s third production block with
"Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of
Steel". Filming for the story started on 2
November 2005 on location in Kennington,
but did not become the primary focus of the
production crew until 29 November, when
filming began on the scenes in and around
the sphere chamber. The scene of the Tylers
driving through Norway was
filmed at
Bridgend on 6 December. Scenes in the lever
room, the main setting for the story, were
filmed between 12 December and 15 Decem-
ber, and 3 January and 5 January 2006.
Greenscreen work for Rose being sucked into
the void took place on 13 January and the
skirmish between the military and Cybermen
on the bridge was filmed on 15 January.[4]
The penultimate scene of the episode, the
Doctor’s farewell to Rose, was filmed on 16
January 2006; the last day of filming for
Clarke and Dingwall. Piper’s last scene was
Rose’s reunion with the Doctor in "The Satan
Pit" on 31 March,[9] but the shoot was rather
emotional,[7] to the point there were several
tears on set.[10] The last scene, Catherine
Tate’s appearance in the TARDIS as Donna
Noble (credited as "The Bride"), was filmed
on 31 March during the wrap party, and was
the last usage of the TARDIS set that had
been used since 2005. To ensure the secrecy
of Rose’s departure and Tate’s appearance,
only Piper and Tennant were given scripts of
the departure scene, and director Graeme
Harper was not informed of the final scene
until the last possible second.[4]
Music
As well as using existing music such as the
themes for the Daleks, Cybermen and Rose,
Murray Gold specially composed a piece of
music for Rose’s farewell, entitled "Dooms-
day", which
featured vocal work
from
Melanie Pappenheim. Instead of using the
swelling violins that Davies and the rest of
the production team had expected, Gold took
a minimalist approach. When pitching the
track to the production team, Gold described
the track as representing Rose’s unbridled
energy and determination as she searches for
the Doctor, later saying "I wanted to get that
kind of throbbing, sort of hurt sound of quite
emotional rock, because I thought that’s
what Rose would do if she was hurting and
ran up to her bedroom and locked herself in
her room and had a good old cry, really".[11]
The piece uses the same vocal work from
"Rose" when Rose first enters the TARDIS,
thus creating a bookend effect.[11] It is a fa-
vourite among fans, especially executive pro-
ducer Julie Gardner,[7] and is one of the reas-
ons, along with Pappenheim’s overall contri-
bution and the song "Song for Ten" from "The
Christmas Invasion", that the soundtrack of
both series was released several months
later.[12][13]
Broadcast, reception,
and legacy
Broadcast and pre-airing media
blackout
To protect as much information concerning
the episode as possible, the final scene of
"Army of Ghosts" was withheld, the BBC web-
site’s Fear Forecasters were not allowed to
see the episode before its airing,[14] and ac-
cess to copies was restricted. Despite this,
the Dalek Sec prop, which had been previ-
ously unused, had invaded the stage at the
2006 BAFTA Television Awards while the
production team were collecting an award.[7]
A similar moratorium would be placed on the
following series’ finale "Last of the Time
Lords".[15]
The episode’s finalised average viewing
figure was 8.22 million viewers and was, ex-
cepting World Cup games, the second most
watched television programme of the week,
behind an episode of Coronation Street, and
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eighth most-watched overall. The companion
episode of Doctor Who Confidential gained
just over one million viewers, making it the
second most watched programme on a non-
terrestrial channel that week.[16] The ratings
for the episode were higher than the follow-
ing World Cup match between Germany and
Portugal, which had a million fewer view-
ers.[17]
Critical reception and later
release
"Doomsday" is one of the most popular epis-
odes of the revived Doctor Who. It gained an
audience Appreciation Index of 89, which
was the highest figure for nearly two years; it
was surpassed by "The Stolen Earth", which
had an Index of 91;[18][19][20] and is the only
episode of Doctor Who to receive a perfect 10
rating on IGN,[21] who congratulated Davies
on making an action-packed episode so emo-
tional.[22] Television Without Pity gave the
episode an A+ rating.[23] The Stage commen-
ted that the Dalek-Cybermen conflict was the
"only thing worth watching" at the weekend,
overshadowing even the World Cup Final,
and that the parting scene was "beautifully
written and movingly played", with "not a dry
eye in the universe".[24] Dek Hogan of Digital
Spy stated that the episode was "beautifully
balanced and with moments of high excite-
ment and touching poignancy" and that the
single oil tear shed by the Cyberman version
of Hartman was a "nice touch", but criticised
Catherine Tate’s appearance as being unne-
cessary to end the episode and for "breaking
the mood".[25] Stephen Brook of The Guardi-
an thought that the episode was "a highpoint
of the modern series, highly emotional, scary
and genuinely exciting", Rose’s departure
was "brilliantly handled", and positively com-
pared the episode’s plot of a war between
"the greatest monsters in the programme his-
tory" against the film Alien vs. Predator.[26]
After its initial airing, the episode was re-
leased on DVD with "Fear Her" and "Army of
Ghosts" on 25 September 2006.[27] It was
first aired on CBC Television on 19 February
2007.[28] The story
("Army of Ghosts"/
"Doomsday") was one of three from the
second series of Doctor Who to be nominated
for the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic
Presentation, Short Form; the other stories
nominated were "School Reunion" and "The
Girl in the Fireplace",[29] the award won by
the latter.[30]
Impact on the show’s continuity
The episode’s events created a minor story
arc for the following series and spin-off series
Torchwood. The effects of the "cyber-conver-
sion" of humans to Cybermen were later ex-
plored
in
the
Torchwood
episode
"Cyberwoman", which focused upon charac-
ter Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) keeping
his partially converted girlfriend away from
his colleagues while he searches for a cure.
The spin-off novella Made of Steel, which fea-
tures the Doctor’s next companion Martha
Jones (Freema Agyeman), concerns several
Cybermen who, after being stranded on
Earth, try to bring the Cybermen from out of
the Void.
The loss of Rose was used several times in
the third series: the memory was used in an
attempt to weaken the Doctor
in "The
Shakespeare Code";[31] and was an annoy-
ance to companion Martha Jones[32]. The loss
of Rose upset him during "The Runaway
Bride",[3] but it also allowed him to "keep on
fighting" several times.[31]
The alternate universe and the Void were
further explored in several episodes in 2008:
the events of the last three episodes of the
fourth series, "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth",
and "Journey’s End" weaken the divisions
between the parallel universes, causing most
of the beings in the Void to perish. A small
group of Cybermen appear in "The Next Doc-
tor", having stolen Dalek technology and es-
caped from the Void into Victorian Lon-
don.[33]
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External links
•
Doomsday on TARDIS Index File, an
external wiki
• TARDISODE 13
• Episode trailer shown at the end of "Army
of Ghosts"
• Episode commentary by Russell T Davies,
Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson (MP3)
• "Doomsday" episode homepage
• "Doomsday" at the BBC Doctor Who
homepage
• "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" at Doctor
Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
• "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" at the
Doctor Who Reference Guide
• "Doomsday" at Outpost Gallifrey
• "Doomsday" at TV.com
Reviews
• "Doomsday" reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" reviews at
Outpost Gallifrey
• "Army of Ghosts" reviews at The Doctor
Who Ratings Guide
• "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" reviews at
The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
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