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  1. Plot

  2. Production

  3. Broadcast and reception

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}{{Infobox Doctor Who episode
| number = 164b
| serial_name = The Doctor Dances
| show = DW
| type = episode
| image =
| caption = The army of "empty children" marches out of the hospital.
| doctor = Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
| companions =
  • Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
  • John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)

| guests =
  • Richard Wilson – Dr Constantine
  • Florence Hoath – Nancy
  • Luke Perry – Timothy Lloyd
  • Albert Valentine – Jamie (The Child)
  • Cheryl Fergison – Mrs Lloyd
  • Damian Samuels – Mr Lloyd
  • Robert Hands – Algy
  • Joseph Tremain – Jim
  • Jordan Murphy – Ernie
  • Martin Hodgson – Jenkins
  • Vilma Hollingbery – Mrs Harcourt
  • Noah Johnson – Voice of the Empty Child
  • Dian Perry – Computer voice[1]

| director = James Hawes
| writer = Steven Moffat
| script_editor = Elwen Rowlands
| producer = Phil Collinson
| executive_producer = Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
| composer = Murray Gold
| production_code = 1.10
| series = Series 1
| length = 2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
| date = {{Start date|2005|5|28|df=y}}
| preceding = "The Empty Child"
| following = "Boom Town"
}}

"The Doctor Dances" is the tenth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 May 2005. It is the second of a two-part story, following the broadcast of "The Empty Child" on 21 May.

The episode is set in London in 1941. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), the con man Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), and the homeless woman Nancy (Florence Hoath) investigate a spaceship which crashed the same time patients at a nearby hospital began turning into living dead beings with gas masks for faces.

The episode saw Jack join the Doctor as a companion. Together with "The Empty Child", it won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

Plot

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack are cornered in a London hospital during the Blitz by patients wearing gas masks fused to their faces asking for their "mummy". The Doctor orders them to go back to their room, and the patients shuffle off. Jamie, the index case of the "epidemic", also responded to this, leaving his sister Nancy alone. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack investigate the hospital room Jamie was treated at, and learn from recordings that the child is growing stronger with its powers and may become unstoppable. Jamie arrives shortly thereafter, having returned to "his room", along with other patients. Jack teleports himself, the Doctor and Rose to Jack's spaceship. The Doctor uses the ship's Chula nanogenes to heal his wounds while learning more about Jack's past.

Nancy returns to the site where the cylinder crashed near the hospital on the night Jamie had gained his powers, only to be captured by soldiers. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack return to the site, and discover the guards’ faces transforming into gas mask-wearing people, as the contagion becomes airborne. Examining the cylinder, the remains of a Chula medical ship, the Doctor deduces what has happened: as with Jack's ship, the Chula medical ship carried nanogenes. They had scanned the first human they encountered, Jamie, who died that night, and presumed it was a template for all humans, transforming them into the gas mask-wearing people. Meanwhile, the transformed humans approach the cylinder. The Doctor realises that Jamie is the template controlling all these humans, searching for his "mummy", and that Nancy is not Jamie's sister but his mother. The Doctor convinces Nancy to tell Jamie she is Jamie's mother. Nancy accepts Jamie into her arms; the nanogenes gather around the two, determine that Nancy is Jamie's parent and that her DNA is the proper template for humans. The Doctor directs the nanogenes to undo their previous transformations, returning everyone to normal, including restoring Jamie to life.

A German bomb approaches the site. Jack returns to his ship and uses it to tether the bomb and steer it away from Earth. The Doctor orders everyone to flee the area, setting the Chula medical ship to self-destruct to destroy the technical parts without changing the timeline. Jack is unable to stop the bomb or escape from it, but the Doctor comes to rescue Jack, who joins the Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS.

Production

The working title for this story was "Captain Jax".{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} In the DVD commentary for this episode, writer Steven Moffat reveals that up until a very late stage, the nanogenes in this story were called "nanites". However, script editor Helen Raynor decided this name sounded too much like similar nanotechnological devices in The Next Generation.[2] Moffat had first used the line "Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh" in the second series of his 1990s sitcom Joking Apart. He reused it here as he thought it was a good line, but laments that people quote lines from this episode instead of that one.[2][2] The Chula ships are named after Chula, an Indian/Bangladeshi fusion restaurant in Hammersmith, London where the writers celebrated and discussed their briefs on the scripts they were to write for the season after being commissioned by Russell T Davies.[3][4]

The climactic scene of the episode at the alien crash site was filmed on Barry Island, Wales.[5] Several scenes of this story were filmed at the Vale of Glamorgan Railway sites at Plymouth Road on Barry Island.[6]

Anachronistically, Jamie's voice is recorded on tape. While compact magnetic tape recorders were developed in Germany in the 1930s, the technology did not make its way to the rest of the world until after World War II. Wire recording was used by the BBC during this period, but recording gramophones, using wax discs as a medium, were more common. Steven Moffat acknowledges this mistake in the DVD commentary for "The Doctor Dances", but jokingly suggests that an ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart stole the machine from Germany to help with the war effort.[3]

Both songs heard in the episode are by Glenn Miller. They are "In the Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade". In a reference to Dr. Strangelove, Jack Harkness rides the bomb while it is held in stasis.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}

Broadcast and reception

"The Doctor Dances" received overnight ratings of 6.17 million viewers, a 35.9% audience share; this was the lowest figure yet for the series, but it was during a bank holiday weekend and was the most-watched programme on Saturday.[7] It received a final rating of 6.86 million viewers.[8]

SFX stated that the two-part story had "everything", particularly praising Moffat's script. They highlighted the ending of "The Doctor Dances" as "funny, surprising, heartwarming and life-affirming without slipping into syrupy schmaltz".[9] Dek Hogan of Digital Spy disliked Barrowman as Captain Jack,[10] but named the two-part story as the best episodes of the series.[11] Arnold T Blumburg of Now Playing gave "The Doctor Dances" a grade of A, writing that it "may be the production and plotting high point of the first series to date". He said that the episode "manages to smoothly present a ton of technobabble with clarity and precision" and praised the dialogue and the "exhilarating" climax.[12]

The scene where the child surprises the Doctor, Rose, and Jack in Room 802 was voted television's "Golden Moment of 2005" by viewers, as part of the BBC's 2005 TV Moments programme.[13] In a poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine in 2009, the two-part story was ranked the fifth best episode of Doctor Who.[14] The Daily Telegraph named the story the fourth best of the show in 2008.[15] In 2011 before the second half of the sixth series, The Huffington Post labelled "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" as one of the five essential episodes for new viewers to watch.[16]

"The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form).[17]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dianperry.com/contentcentre/DianPerryVoxCV.pdf|title=Dian Perry Official CV|publisher=dianperry.com|accessdate=2013-02-08}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
2. ^Steven Moffat, Joking Apart, Series 2 DVD audio commentary, Replay DVD
3. ^"The Doctor Dances", DVD audio commentary
4. ^"Waking The Dead" featurette on Doctor Who Series 1 DVD, 2Entertain
5. ^{{Cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/barry-island-railway|title= Walesarts, Barry Island Railway|publisher = BBC|accessdate = 2010-05-30}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/tours/events/pages/doctorwho_s1e9.shtml?1|title=The Empty Child – Location Guide|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2012-02-20}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php |title=Sunday Series Update |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050605075227/http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php |archivedate=5 June 2005 |publisher=Outpost Gallifrey |date=29 May 2005 |accessdate=29 November 2013 |deadurl=unfit }}
8. ^{{Cite book |last=Russell |first=Gary |title=Doctor Who: The Inside Story |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |year=2006 |page=139 |isbn=978-0-563-48649-7 |authorlink=Gary Russell}}
9. ^{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527015102/http://www.sfx.co.uk/tv_reviews/doctor_who_the_empty_childthe_doctor_dances|date=28 May 2005|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/tv_reviews/doctor_who_the_empty_childthe_doctor_dances|title=Doctor Who: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances|work=SFX|archivedate=27 May 2006|accessdate=28 April 2012}}
10. ^{{cite web|first=Dek|last=Hogan|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/dekstvdiary/a21373/no-love-for-the-island.html|title=No love for the Island|publisher=Digital Spy|date=22 May 2005|accessdate=28 April 2012}}
11. ^{{cite web|first=Dek|last=Hogan|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/dekstvdiary/a21920/the-global-jukebox.html|title=The Global Jukebox|publisher=Digital Spy|date=19 June 2005|accessdate=28 April 2012}}
12. ^{{cite web|first=Arnold T|last=Blumburg|url=http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/1622/47|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060404032625/http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/1622/47|archivedate=4 April 2006|title=Doctor Who – "The Doctor Dances"|work=Now Playing|date=1 June 2005|accessdate=27 March 2013}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tvmoments/winners.shtml|title=2005 TV moments|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2012-02-20}}
14. ^{{cite web|first=Lester|last=Haines|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/17/best_who_ever/|title=Doctor Who fans name best episode ever|work=The Register|date=17 September 2009|accessdate=2011-08-09}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3674193/The-10-greatest-episodes-of-Doctor-Who-ever.html|title=The 10 greatest episodes of Doctor Who ever|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 July 2008|accessdate=2012-02-11}}
16. ^{{cite web|first=Catherine|last=Lawson|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/09/doctor-who-5-essential-episodes/|title=Catch Up With 'Doctor Who': 5 Essential Episodes|work=The Huffington Post|date=9 August 2011|accessdate=2012-02-12}}
17. ^{{Cite web| url = http://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_HugoCampbellWinners.html |title = Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners| work = Locus Online| accessdate = 2006-08-27|date = 26 August 2006}}

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