THE 60TH ANNIVERSAY SPECIALS
| PRINCIPAL CAST | INTRODUCTION TO STORY | OTHER |
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| THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY: PART ONE THE STAR BEAST | ||
| "Once upon a time...once upon a Time Lord...I had a best friend and her name was Donna Noble. A Time Lord and a human. We travelled the stars together. Donna save the entire universe by taking the power of the Time Lords into her mind - at a terrible cost. She had to forget everything she ever knew. She had to forget me. Because if Donna ever remembers me, she will die. I can never see Donna again. But now this face has come back. Why? I think the story hasn't ended yet." The Doctor arrives on present day Earth. While enjoying the sights and sounds he notices someone struggling with some boxes. Realising it is Donna, he tries to get away but she calls him back. She also calls out for Rose...her daughter, who has been buying some eyes. Eyes for her home based business - making cuddly toys. As Donna tries to sort out the boxes, everyone else notices what appears to be an airplane crashing but is in fact a spaceship. The Doctor sets off to investigate the crash. | - |
| THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY: PART TWO WILD BLUE YONDER | ||
| A short stop in England 1666 brings the Doctor and Donna into fleeting contact with Isaac Newton...and idea of mavity. The TARDIS crash-materialises inside a spaceship. The Doctor and Donna get out just before there is a massive blast of energy from within the TARDIS. The Doctor removes the lock and inserts the sonic screwdriver to assist the TARDIS to regenerate itself. While they are waiting, the Doctor and Donna decide to explore the spaceship around them. Spotting someone or something in the distance they move long in the direction of the object, unaware they are being watched. Hearing the TARDIS engines kicking in, they dash back only to see the TARDIS dematerialise. Donna discusses ways the Doctor can bring back the TARDIS such as clicking his fingers or whistling. The Doctor comments that there is one hope, that the Hostile Action Displacement System (HADS) is active: when there is danger the TARDIS goes away and when the danger is over the TARDIS will return. The problem is he doesn't really turn it on, the hope is that while the TARDIS is rebooting the HADS will operate. Donna remarks that they are on a ship containing something so bad the TARDIS "ran away". | - |
| THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY: PART THREE THE GIGGLE | ||
| Soho, London 1925: a man is searching for an item that he can use for a test of something that might change the world. He enters a shop which sells tricks, games and magic called Mr Emporium. The man in the shop begins his sales pitch, telling of the items he has and of the games with their rules. One puppet catches his eye: the shop owner remarks that the puppet has a family - a wife puppet and three children puppets. Nevertheless, the man only wants the one puppet - for his employer, John Logie Baird. The puppet will be used as the first televised image. In the present day, the world has gone mad - everyone thinks they are right, all of the time, doing whatever they want without regard to consequence. UNIT arrive on the scene to pick up the Doctor. After all the organisation has had to deal over the years, now they are faced with a battle against the human race. A signal is being broadcast across the world, without protective devices anyone exposed to the signal has the notion that their opinion is the only valid opinion and must be acted upon. An analysis of the signal leads to a basic tune and further analysis compares it to the giggle of a puppet - a puppet used by John Logie Baird to demonstrate television. | - |
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| 2023 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD | ||
| Just before midnight on Christmas Eve 2004 a hooded woman leaves a baby outside the door of a church on Ruby Road. The baby is taken in by the priest. The TARDIS arrives and the Doctor is just in time to watch the woman walk away. What her name is, the Doctor does not know, but he knows that the baby will be named Ruby after the road. On December 1st 2023, Ruby tells Davina McCall, who is hosting a TV show about tracing lost family, the story of being found outside a church, how she was fostered and then adopted by Carla Sunday. As Ruby goes into detail about her current life, recording is paused because voices are being picked up the sound engineers. When the whispering stops, recording resumes. However, strange creatures being moving objects around and when one person moves to retrieve her cup of coffee she trips over a cable and various lights are pulled over. Ruby narrowly avoids getting hit but a stretched cable finally pulls free and hits Davina on the back of her head. Three weeks later, Ruby is playing the keyboard at a gig. It is interrupted when a power cable is pulled out by a small hand. The following evening she attends a disco but while she is watching the people on the dancefloor, a small hand moves her glass. As she reaches for it, the glass falls only to be caught by a man she had noticed on the dancefloor - the Doctor. He is curious to know if she experiences a lot of accidents like that. Ruby admits it happens all the time but the Doctor suspects that something else is occuring. Watching over her, the Doctor prevents another, potentially more lethal accident from taking place. | - |
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