The End of Time (TV story)

 

"It is said that in the final days of planet Earth, everyone had bad dreams".

Note: The title used for this article comes from the tagline used on the first teaser trailer unveiled at the San Diego ComicCon on 26th July 2009. It has not yet been confirmed by the BBC. As such, it is subject to change as the broadcast date approaches.

A two-part Doctor Who special will be broadcast during the 2009–2010 Christmas season. This will be the last story for David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor prior to the character's regeneration into his eleventh incarnation, who will be played by Matt Smith. It will also be the last Doctor Who story written by Russell T Davies, who shepherded the series' return to British television in 2005 and has been the series' executive producer and chief writer since. Davies will be succeeded as executive producer and showrunner by Steven Moffat.

 

CAST

• Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
• Wilfred Mott - Bernard Cribbins
• Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
• Sylvia Noble - Jacqueline King
• The Master - John Simm
• Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
• Lucy Saxon - Alexandra Moen
• Verity Newman - Jessica Hynes
• Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth Sladen
• Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
• Joshua Naismith - David Harewood
• Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
• Jackie Tyler - Camille Coduri
• Minnie Hooper - June Whitfield
• The Narrator - Timothy Dalton
• Unknown - Barry Howard
• Unknown - Karl Collins
• Unknown - Claire Bloom
• Unknown - Sinead Keenan
• Alonzo Frame (unconfirmed) - Russell Tovey

REFERENCES

The name of Jessica Hynes' character, Verity Newman, is a reference to Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman. This is the second time the revived series has honoured the two people who are considered among the primary creators of Doctor Who; a similar reference occurred in Human Nature when the Doctor, under his human guise, says his parents were named Verity and Sydney.

RUMOURS

Confirmed

• All the Tenth's Doctor's companions have been seen as appearing, except Martha and Mickey (so far).
• It has been confirmed that Jessica Hynes will appear as Verity Newman and published Journal of Impossible Things
• Bernard Cribbins, will return to play Wilfred Mott, grandfather of Donna Noble, will act as the Doctor's companion in this two-part story.^]
• Timothy Dalton was seen on set wearing Time Lord robes: this could mean the return of the Time Lords.
• The Ood will appear in this episode, as they may have been in the trailer.
• Timothy Dalton will play 'The Narrator'

Unconfirmed

• The Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor will appear
• It is rumoured that Dalton will be playing The Monk.
• It is rumoured that it will be revealed how the Eighth Doctor regenerated into the Ninth Doctor
• It is possible that the sequences featuring the Doctor's past companions may be part of a nightmare or dream. This is rumored from the End of Time trailer in which it mentioned those on Earth having bad dreams.
• The reason why the Ood has Red Eye is possibly that it could be possesed by the Midnight Entity