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Synopsis

Ghostly beings have been regularly appearing across the world and people, believing them to be their dead loved ones, are welcoming their visits with open arms. When the TARDIS arrives at the Torchwood Institute, the Tenth Doctor and Rose are taken prisoner. They are drawn into the investigation of a mysterious sphere kept in Torchwood Tower, and monstrous foes return as two universes collide. The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ... The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Rose Tyler was a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Plot

"They're bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the void, and into yours."

Rose Tyler narrates how her life changed when she met the Doctor, who showed her the universe, taking her on a journey she thought would last forever. Then came the army of ghosts, Torchwood, and the war. This is the story of how it all ended, and how she died…

The TARDIS materialises in a playground on the Powell Estate to visit Jackie Tyler. Jackie is overjoyed to see both Rose and the Doctor, but causes Rose concern when she says that she is expecting Rose's grandfather, Grandad Prentice, to come by any minute. Rose explains to the Doctor that her grandfather has been dead for ten years. However, true to Jackie's word, a blurred, ghost-like figure appears in her kitchen at ten past the hour. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x590, 90 KB)Screenshot from the Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x590, 90 KB)Screenshot from the Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts. ... Rose Tyler was a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ... Jackie Tyler, maiden name Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Prentice, (born February 1, 1967) is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Camille Coduri. ...

Outside, the Doctor and Rose witness more ghosts, walking among ordinary people, who are going about their daily lives calmly despite the manifestations around them. Jackie says that the ghosts will not be around long — the mid-day "ghost shift" only lasts a couple of minutes. At twelve past, somewhere else in London a white-coated technician pulls back a huge lever and the ghosts fade away. A blonde woman, Yvonne Hartman, steps out of her Torchwood Institute office and states that they measured the "ghost energy" at five thousand gigawatts, and congratulates her staff. This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ...

In Jackie's flat, the Doctor watches various television programmes such as EastEnders and Trisha, which reveal that the ghost phenomenon is international, and that people have accepted it as a regular occurrence. Jackie explains that it started about two months ago. At first, there was panic, but then they realised that they were spirits of their departed loved ones. Jackie says that the ghost she calls her father smells like the cigarettes he used to smoke, but Rose says she smelled nothing. Jackie says that she has to make an effort, and the Doctor notes that the more they want it, the stronger it gets. The ghosts are using their desires and beliefs to press themselves into existence. EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Trisha is a British chat show previously aired on ITV1 in the mornings. ...

At Torchwood Tower, Hartman contacts Dr. Rajesh Singh over the Bluetooth earpieces all personnel wear, asking him if he registered any reaction. Singh replies negatively, and reports that their most sophisticated instruments have not been able to read anything off "the sphere" — a large bronze globe floating above him. According to their readings, it simply does not exist. He reaches out to touch it, but an invisible barrier stops his hand. Bluetooth logo Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). ...

Two Torchwood workers, Adeola and Gareth, make a clandestine romantic rendezvous. Gareth suggests a secluded location, which is off-limits as it is apparently under renovation, but Adeola hesitates. However, when Gareth goes silent, she goes into the section to look for him. As she draws back a curtain, a Cyberman lunges at her and she screams. The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

The Doctor assembles a device to determine the ghosts' origin by triangulation. Rose asks if the ghosts might be related to the Gelth but the Doctor replies negatively. He sets up the device in the playground, while Rose monitors the energy levels in the TARDIS. At Torchwood Tower, Hartman cues for the next ghost shift, just as Gareth and Adeola return to their desks, but wearing two Bluetooth earpieces instead of one, the lights on the devices flickering actively. This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ...

Jackie, in the TARDIS, comments that Rose has changed a lot. Jackie wonders what will happen to Rose when she is gone and if she will keep travelling, and changing, until she is no longer Rose Tyler, or even human.

The Torchwood machines power up, and the ghosts begin to appear as before. The Doctor traps a ghost within his device, looking at it through 3-D glasses and demanding to know where it comes from. As he adjusts the controls, Torchwood picks up the signal, and Hartman orders the ghost shift closed down. The Doctor has managed to locate the energy source required for the ghosts' appearance but Torchwood has also traced the interference to the Powell Estate. A CCTV camera picks up the TARDIS, and Hartman recognises it. The TARDIS dematerialises, with Jackie an unwilling passenger. Hartman, seeing this, realises the Doctor is on his way, and runs off excitedly. Stereo image anaglyphed for red (left eye) and cyan (right eye) filters. ... Surveillance cameras. ...

The TARDIS materialises in a Torchwood Tower loading bay, and is surrounded immediately by armed guards. Telling Jackie and Rose to stay inside, the Doctor emerges with his hands raised. Hartman rushes in and to the Doctor's surprise, begins to lead the squad in applause. Hartman greets him warmly, and seems to know a good deal about him: including the fact that he travels with a companion. The Doctor reaches back into the TARDIS and pulls Jackie out, introducing her as "Rose", who unfortunately stared into the heart of the time vortex and aged fifty-seven years. Rose stays hidden in the TARDIS, watching them through the scanner. Companion, in the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, is a term used to describe a character who travels with and shares the adventures of the Doctor. ... The TARDIS in the vortex. ...

Hartman welcomes the Doctor to Torchwood, bringing him around and showing him the advanced technology they have captured from alien ships and reverse engineered, all in the name of protecting the British Empire. She explains the Institute's motto: "If it's alien, it's ours," demonstrating it by carting the TARDIS away to a corner of the basement.

Adeola lures another worker, Matt, over to the work area, where she tells him to go towards a mysterious red light. He vanishes behind a plastic curtain and screams as sparks fly and saws whir. He returns to his post later with an extra earpiece. Meanwhile, Hartman reveals that the Doctor was written into the original Torchwood Foundation charter in 1879 as an enemy of the Crown. After his encounter with Queen Victoria and the werewolf, the Queen created the Torchwood Institute to keep Britain great and protect it against the alien horde. The Doctor is their prisoner, but will be kept comfortable; they hope to learn a lot from him. Tooth and Claw is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 22 April 2006. ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. ... Werewolves have featured a number of times in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its other media tie-ins. ...

Hartman leads the Doctor to the room with the Sphere, which the Doctor studies with the 3-D glasses before identifying it as a void ship, a hypothetical craft for travelling through the nothingness between parallel universes. That space was called "the Void" by the Time Lords; the Eternals called it the Howling; others call it Hell. When Singh asks how they can get into the Sphere, the Doctor tells them that they should not — they should send it back where it came from. This is a list of items from the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who. ... Enlightenment is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 1 to March 9, 1983. ...

Hartman explains that the void ship came through and the ghosts followed in its wake. She shows the Doctor where it came through, opposite her office; when they fire particle engines at the spot, the breach opens. They detected the spatial disturbance as a radar black spot years before, and built Torchwood Tower to reach it, hoping to harness its energy. The public at large know the skyscraper as Canary Wharf. One Canada Square seen from inside the adjacent shopping centre (2003) HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf is a large business development in London, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks...

The Doctor berates Hartman for trying to make the breach bigger, and warns her to cancel the next shift. He explains that when the sphere came through, it cracked the surface of this dimension. The ghosts have been bleeding through the fault lines, walking from their world to this one. However, too many ghosts and the surface will shatter. When Hartman insists on going through with the shift anyway, the Doctor abruptly changes gears, casually sitting to watch it happen. Hartman, disconcerted, stops the countdown, conceding that it may be prudent to get more intelligence. However, once they go into Hartman's office, Adeola, Matt and Gareth restart the countdown.

Meanwhile, Rose leaves the TARDIS and picks up a stray laboratory coat, making her way down to the room with the void ship where she uses the psychic paper to get through the door. When Singh questions her, she tries to bluff her way with the psychic paper; however, all Torchwood personnel have received basic psychic training and he sees it as blank paper. Singh calls for security and tells his assistant Samuel to check the locks. To Rose's surprise, "Samuel" is Mickey, who signals Rose to keep quiet. This is a list of items from the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... Mickey Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Noel Clarke. ...

Hartman notices the ghost shift programme powering up, but despite her orders, the three workers continue their work. As the power rises, the void ship activates, shaking the whole room. The Doctor recognises that the workers are being controlled through the earpieces; he apologises, and uses the sonic screwdriver to disrupt the signal. The three cry out and collapse; Jackie accuses the Doctor of having killed them, but he replies that they were already dead. Hartman removes one of Adeola's earpieces, and to her disgust sees a long string of nerve tissue dangling from it, which means it was connected straight to her brain. The ghost shift is at ninety percent. The Fourth Doctor and his sonic screwdriver (from The Sontaran Experiment). ...

The Doctor traces the control signal to the work area and he and Hartman rush there, not hearing Singh's communication about the void ship, whose existence is beginning to register on Singh's instruments. The doors to the void ship room seal, locking in in Rose, Mickey and Singh. Mickey, more confident than he once was, assures Rose that they have beaten them before and they will beat them again. At the work area, the Doctor, Hartman and two soldiers investigate, and are quickly surrounded by the advance guard of Cybermen.

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The Cybermen lead the Doctor and Hartman as prisoners back to the breach, where they killed the technicians trying to shut the programme down. A Cyberman with black handlebars on its helmet — the Cyber Leader — orders the ghost shift be increased to one hundred percent.

All around the world, the ghosts shimmer into full existence, revealing themselves to be Cybermen. World-wide panic ensues as the Cybermen march across the face of the planet, killing people and breaking into homes. Hartman calls it an invasion, but the Doctor notes it is too late for that — it is a victory. In the void ship room, the sphere begins to open up. Mickey pulls out a large rifle from its hiding space and aims it toward the ship, expecting some sort of Cyber-Leader variant to emerge.

The Doctor asks the Cyber-Leader about the void ship, claiming that the Cybermen do not have the necessary technology to build one. The Cyber-Leader confirms that the sphere is not theirs and they do not know its origins. It broke down the barrier between worlds, and they merely followed.

As Singh, Rose and Mickey watch in horror, a black Dalek, and three other Daleks emerge from the void ship, along with a mysterious device. The black Dalek approaches the three humans; it announces the location as Earth, that lifeforms have been detected, and gives the order to exterminate, a command echoed by the other Daleks… The new Dalek from the 2005 series revival There are several variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The science fiction television series Doctor Who has presented various vehicles belonging to multiple races/societies. ...

Cast

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Rose Tyler — Billie Piper
• Jackie Tyler — Camille Coduri
• Mickey Smith — Noel Clarke
• Yvonne Hartman — Tracy-Ann Oberman
• Dr Rajesh Singh — Raji James
• Adeola Oshodi — Freema Agyeman
• Gareth — Hadley Fraser
• Matt — Oliver Mellor
• Peggy Mitchell — Barbara Windsor
• Indian Newsreader — Hajaz Akram
• French Newsreader — Anthony Debaeck
• Japanese Newsreader — Takako Akashi
• Weatherman — Paul Fields
• Police Commissioner — David Warwick
• Eileen — Rachel Webster
• Japanese Girl — Kyoko Morita
• Housewife — Maddi Cryer
• Himself — Derek Acorah
• Himself — Alistair Appleton
• Herself — Trisha Goddard
• Cyber Leader — Paul Kasey
• Dalek/Cyberman Voices — Nicholas Briggs
• Dalek Operators — Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Stuart Crossman, Anthony Spargo, Dan Barratt, David Hankinson

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Cast notes

• This episode features a number of cameo appearances by British television personalities, namely Alistair Appleton, Derek Acorah (commenting, "Well, no one needs me anymore."), Trisha Goddard and Barbara Windsor (as Peggy Mitchell), in the form of snatches from television broadcasts.
• In addition to Windsor and Oberman, Raji James has also appeared in EastEnders.
• David Warwick, who plays the Police Commissioner, previously appeared as Kimus in the Fourth Doctor story The Pirate Planet (1978).
• Footage of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor is shown, the first time the previous incarnation had appeared clearly during the 2006 series.
• In the episode Adeola (Freema Agyeman) is converted into a drone of the Cybermen and is eventually killed when the Doctor deactivates her earpiece. Agyeman returned in "Smith and Jones" (2007), the first episode of Series 3, as Martha Jones, Adeola's cousin (and the Doctor's new companion).

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Continuity

• The opening of the episode, with the zoom down onto Earth, is the same as seen in "Rose", "The Christmas Invasion", and "The Runaway Bride" . The Ninth Doctor makes an appearance at the start of the episode, in a flashback to "Rose".
• The majority of this episode takes place in the Torchwood Institute, which is seen on screen for the first time. The Institute's logo, a series of hexagons in the shape of the letter T, also receives its first showing.^[1]
• Torchwood traces the Doctor's interference signal to the Powell Estate at postcode SE15 7GO. This is a fictional postcode, but London SE15 is Peckham and Camberwell, London.^[2] The postcode is the same given for Rose and Jackie's address (Flat 48, Bucknall House, Powell Estate, SE15 7GO) in the Doctor Who Annual 2006.
• Jackie Tyler travels in the TARDIS for the first time, albeit accidentally.
• According to the downloadable commentary for this episode, the Egyptian sarcophagus seen briefly in Torchwood's storage facility is a reference to the Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars.^[3]
• When describing the Void the Doctor says that the Eternals (seen in the serial Enlightenment) "call it the Howling". An elemental shade is said by the Doctor in "Love & Monsters" to have escaped from the "Howling Halls". The Void, as described, also bears some resemblance to the nothingness that the TARDIS found itself in when taken out of reality at the start of The Mind Robber.
• Jackie realises that Torchwood Tower is actually located within One Canada Square, better known as Canary Wharf Tower, a skyscraper in East London and the United Kingdom's tallest building. The rift through which the Cybermen enter is said to be 600 feet (183 metres) above sea level. Canary Wharf is actually 771 feet tall, so the spatial breach would have been positioned around Floor 40.
• As he disrupts the signals controlling Adeola and the others, the Doctor says, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." This expression has been used numerous times in the 2006 series, mostly by the Doctor, in the episodes "New Earth", "The Age of Steel", "The Impossible Planet" and "Love & Monsters". The President also said this to the Cybermen in "Rise of the Cybermen" and Mr Magpie said this to Rose in "The Idiot's Lantern".
• The commentary reveals the idea of the Cybermen breaking through plastic sheets came from their "history of breaking through polythene", as occurred in Tomb of the Cybermen, The Invasion and Earthshock.^[3]
• A Cyber Leader is seen for the first time in the new series. While not actually called a Cyber Leader on-screen, the Cyberman who gives the orders is sporting the characteristic black handles and receives a credit as "Cyber Leader". A Cyber Leader was also credited in "The Age of Steel" but did not appear with any distinguishing marks.
• A Black Dalek is seen for the first time in the new series. In the original series, all Black Daleks seen from The Chase onward were referred to as "Dalek Supreme". Much to the surprise of the production team, who wanted to keep the Black Dalek under wraps, the Black Dalek made an "accidental" appearance at the BAFTA Television Awards 2006.^[4]
• This is the first time since The Five Doctors that active Cybermen and Daleks have appeared in the same story. The producers of the original series had wanted to produce a story with the Cybermen and the Daleks together in 1967, but Dalek creator Terry Nation refused permission.^[5]
• The Doctor uses the phrase "allons-y" (French for "Let's go there"), and mentions how he would like to use it more, he goes on to use this phrase in the subsequent series.
• EastEnders previously appeared in Doctor Who in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time, although that episode portrayed EastEnders and Doctor Who inhabiting the same universe. While neither Peggy Mitchell nor Den Watts appeared Dimensions in Time, several family members did, including Grant and Phil Mitchell and Sharon Watts. The short story "Brief Encounter: Mistaken Identity" by Gary Russell also placed Doctor Who and EastEnders in the same universe, and featured Den Watts, who was mistakenly believed to be a ghost in this episode.

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Production

• The story was produced in the same block as "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel".
• A variation on the music first heard when the ghosts are seen to appear on the Powell Estate and later heard during other parts of the episode is used as the theme tune for the Torchwood spin-off series.
• A technical goof can be seen on Adeola's screen when she types the e-mail "god im bored." to Gareth; however, when Gareth receives the e-mail, there is no full stop at the end.
• The shot of One Canada Square is taken from the opening credits of The Apprentice.^[6]
• The news studio shown briefly for a shot of French news describing the appearance of ghosts is actually that of BBC Wales Today on BBC One and Newyddion on S4C.
• To keep the appearance of the Daleks secret, the final scene (with the sphere opening) was removed from all preview tapes handed to the press and replaced with a title card reading "FINAL SCENE WITHHELD UNTIL TRANSMISSION". Despite this, the preview from the previous week's "Fear Her" briefly featured someone getting killed with a Dalek gun, a scene that actually appears in "Doomsday".^[7]
• For the first time on a BBC broadcast, the credit With thanks to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation appears. This credit has been standard on international broadcasts since Series 1.
• The two-part story (both "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday") has been nominated for the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. ^[8]

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Outside references

• Trisha Goddard is seen interviewing a woman who is in love with a ghost. In a similar appearance in Shaun of the Dead, Goddard interviews a woman who has married a zombie.
• Alistair Appleton presents a show entitled Ghostwatch which provides updates about the ghosts' actions. Ghostwatch was the name of an infamous spoof ghosthunting documentary broadcast by the BBC in 1992. It is also a reference to the UK series Crimewatch. The tie-in website for the Doctor Who version of Ghostwatch can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment/ghostwatch/.
• A fictitious clip from the popular British soap opera EastEnders features in this episode, in which Peggy Mitchell confronts the ghost of Den Watts, who had been "killed off" in the 1980s, then been returned to EastEnders after an absence of 14 years, and then killed again by Chrissie Watts (who was played by Tracy-Ann Oberman) Peggy orders the ghost to get out of her pub. Furthermore, when, in Torchwood, the TARDIS is being traced on the computer the map on the screen is the same as the shot of the opening of Eastenders, which Oberman worked on.
• As the Doctor sets up the triangulation equipment to locate the ghosts' point of origin, he sings a line from the theme tune to the film Ghostbusters. The equipment he is carrying bears more than a passing resemblance to the proton packs used by the film's protagonists.

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Broadcast and DVD release

• Preliminary overnight viewing figures for this episode were at 7.66 million viewers, with an audience share of 43.2%.^[9] The final BARB figure was 8.19 million, making it the seventh most watched programme of the week on UK television.
• This episode and "Doomsday" were released in the UK, together with "Fear Her", as a basic DVD with no special features on 25 September 2006.

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References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/s2_12-13gallery/hires/torchwood_logo.jpg
2. ^ Map of SE15 United Kingdom. Retrieved on 2006-03-07.
3. ^ ^{a b} Russell T Davies; Matt Savage. Army of Ghosts commentary (MP3). Retrieved on 2006-09-16.
4. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/confidential/index13.shtml
5. ^ http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/sss.html
6. ^ Doctor Who Confidential 12 - "Welcome to Torchwood", BBC, URL accessed 2 July 2006
7. ^ BBC fear factor for Army of Ghosts. Retrieved on 2006-09-16.
8. ^ Nippon 2007 Hugo Nominees. World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
9. ^ Outpost Gallifrey: Army of Ghosts Overnights. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.

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External links

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• TARDISODE 12
• "The last story I'll ever tell" - episode trailer
• Episode commentary by Russell T Davies and Matt Savage
• "Army of Ghosts" episode guide on the BBC website
• "Army Of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
• "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• "Army of Ghosts" at Outpost Gallifrey
• "Army of Ghosts" at TV.com

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Reviews

• "Army of Ghosts" 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