Doctor Who/The Impossible Planet (1)

The Impossible Planet (1)
Season 28, Episode 8
Airdate	June 3, 2006
Written by	Matt Jones
Directed by	James Strong
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Doctor Who — Season Twenty-Eight

The Impossible Planet (1) is the eighth episode of the twenty-eighth season of Doctor Who, and the seven hundred fortieth episode overall.

It is the twenty-first episode of the 21st century version of Doctor Who. The Doctor and Rose land on a planet orbiting a black hole. They must figure out what's going on before they and everyone else are sucked into the black hole.

Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Billie Piper (Rose), Danny Webb (Mr. Jefferson), Shaun Parkes (Zachary Cross Flane), Claire Rushbrook (Ida Scott), Will Thorp (Toby Zed), Ronny Jhutti (Danny Bartock), MyAnna Buring (Scooti Manista), Paul Kasey (The Ood), Gabriel Woolf (The Voice of the Beast), Silas Carson (The Voice of the Ood)

Notes

• Time and Space: 43K2.1, Sanctuary Base Six, deep space.

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• School Reunion: Rose attempts to bond with the Ood who served her dinner.

I did that job once, I was a dinner lady. Not that I'm calling you a lady. Although, I don't know, you might be.

Trivia

The Show

• Goof: Celestial mechanics: The Doctor's amazement notwithstanding, it is of course possible to be in orbit around a black hole, it's just another gravity well.

Behind the Scenes

• Gabriel Woolf, who provides the voice of the Beast, appeared in a previous Doctor Who episode, 1975's Pyramids of Mars (as Sutekh).

Allusions and References

• Lays of Ancient Rome: Jefferson slightly misquotes from Thomas Babbington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), Horatius, st. 27:

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his gods.

Quotes

• Ida: Well, we've come this far, there's no turning back.

The Doctor: Aw, did you have to? "No turning back?" That's almost as bad as "nothing can possibly go wrong" or "this is going to be the best Christmas Walford's ever had."

• The Ood: We are the legion of the beast.