"Attack of the Graske"
Doctor Who Game
The Graske claims another victim.
Cast
Doctor	David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)
Production
Writer	Gareth Roberts
Director	Ashley Way
Script editor	Simon Winstone
Producer	Jo Pearce Sophie Fante Andrew Whitehouse
Executive producer(s)	Russell T. Davies Julie Gardner
Series	Interactive episode (2005)
Length	14 minutes
Originally broadcast	25 December 2005
Chronology
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"Attack of the Graske" is a "Game" of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A special Game for the BBC's digital television service, it was available until midnight following the transmission of the Christmas special, "The Christmas Invasion", on 25 December 2005. This article is about the television series. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x753, 171 KB)Screenshot from the Doctor Who interactive digital episode Attack of the Graske. ... David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald[1] (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Gareth John Pritchard Roberts (born 1968) is a British television writer and novelist, best known for his work related to the science-fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Ashley Way is a film director born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1971. ... Simon Winstone is a British author and editor, known for his work on Virgins Doctor Who novels and on the BBC soap opera Eastenders. ... Producer of the third and fourth series of the BBC Wales drama series Belonging. ... Russell T Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... She was born on September 3, 1981 in Richmond, Virginia. ... Doctor Who episodes redirects here. ... is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doctor Who episodes redirects here. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the television series. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Digital television (DTV) refers to the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by means of discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV. Introduced in the late 1990s, this technology appealed to the television broadcasting business and consumer electronics industries as offering new... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... The Christmas Invasion is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Game is broadcast on two different video channels, with a digital teletext interface handling switching between them. The viewer uses the interface to make their decisions, and this switches between the channels. Except for the last decision, if the viewer fails, the Doctor steps in to move the story forward, and the two sequences then resynchronise.^[1] A BBC Ceefax page from the 10th September 1999. ...

Synopsis

The human race is in danger of being replaced by alien changelings. Only the Doctor can stop them with the help of his latest companion — the viewer. Trolls with the changeling they have raised, John Bauer, 1913. ...

Plot

The Tenth Doctor welcomes the viewer into the TARDIS. He tells them that he has been watching the viewer for some time, as they have been watching him, and that he has been impressed enough to want to take the viewer to help him on his next adventure. (His current companion, Rose, has been dropped off at Wembley in 1979 for an ABBA concert.) He then imbues the viewer's television remote control with the power of his sonic screwdriver, allowing the viewer to take part in the proceedings. The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The current TARDIS prop. ... Rose Marion Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Abba redirects here. ... For other uses, see Remote control (disambiguation). ... The Ninth Doctors redesigned sonic screwdriver from the 2005 series. ...

To start, the Doctor shows his new assistant a family of six celebrating Christmas in a living room, by means of the TARDIS scanner — a family, it seems, like any other, except that one of them is an alien imposter. By alternating between two different viewpoints, namely from within the family's television set and from the handheld digicam the daughter got for Christmas, the viewer has to determine who does not belong. For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... A sitting room in the UK. A living room, also known as sitting room (especially in the UK), lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities. ... Television set may refer to: Television, a device to display television programs Television studio, an installation in which television or video productions take place Set construction, theatrical scenery This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The Nikon Coolpix 950 Casio Exilim Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses an electronic sensor to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. ...

The mother's eyes briefly glow during the sequence, revealing her as the imposter. She is now alone with the father in the house's kitchen. A small alien transmats onto the kitchen table, where he uses a handheld device to zap the father. The Doctor tells the viewer that the alien is a Graske, a species that invades planets by replacing its population. When he is done, the Graske transmats away, leaving a changeling of the father behind to join that of the mother. Teleport redirects here. ... This is a list of aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ... Trolls with the changeling they have raised, John Bauer, 1913. ...

As the Doctor tracks the Graske through time, the viewer takes command of the TARDIS's controls, and activates the vortex loop, dimensional stabiliser and vector tracker as requested. Eventually, the Graske is located about 120 years in the past, somewhere in Victorian Britain. The viewer must use a map on the TARDIS scanner to pinpoint its location, as the screen blips where the Graske's DNA is found. After zooming in to the correct part of London, Christmas 1883, the viewer takes a quick walk around a square and must then uncover the Graske from its hiding place. The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Having been found, the Graske kidnaps a young street urchin by zapping him, and as before leaves a changeling in his place. Tracking the Graske, the Doctor takes the viewer to the Graske's base on Griffoth and guides them through the base. Having used number and logic puzzles to pass through the airlocks, the viewer arrives in a room filled with various beings in stasis pods; the Graske keep the originals to sustain the copies. The viewer also learns of the Graske's ultimate intention to replace every living, sentient creature in the universe with one of their doubles. This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... A glovebox for handling air-sensitive substances. ... Stasis (IPA: ), or hypersleep, is a science fiction concept akin to suspended animation. ...

However, the viewer is spotted, and must duck to avoid a Graske's weapon fire. Fortunately, the blast ricochets around the room and frees a Slitheen from a stasis pod, who then proceeds to vengefully chase the Graske who imprisoned it. The viewer thus has the opportunity to make one last crucial decision — either the teleport settings can be reversed, sending all the kidnapped beings back to their proper places in space and time, or the Graske's own stasis control can be used against them, freezing the Graske and everything else in their base. The Slitheen are a fictional family of massive, bipedal extraterrestrials from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and adversaries of the Doctor. ...

Depending on the choice the viewer makes, there are two alternative endings to the episode:

• If the viewer decides to freeze the entire Graske base, the Graske are trapped, but so are all of their victims. We see the changeling mother and father talking mechanically with the rest of their family, and the daughter storms off to her room, believing that her parents are trying to ruin Christmas.
• If the decision is made to send the victims back, the viewer sees all the stasis pods being emptied, and the mother and father of the family are quickly glimpsed livening up the party at their house whilst "Another Rock And Roll Christmas" by Gary Glitter plays in the background. The universe — and the family's Christmas — is saved.

As the Doctor takes the viewer home, the programme evaluates the viewer's "score". Depending on how well they did, either the Doctor decides that his new companion is not quite ready for the job (but was not far off and should try again), or the Doctor comments on how impressed he is with the viewer, saying that perhaps one day he will call on their help to save the universe again. Gary Glitter (born May 8, 1944) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter who had a string of chart successes with a collection of 1970s glam rock hits including Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2, I Love You Love Me Love, Im the Leader of the Gang...

In either case, the Doctor then removes the sonic powers from the viewer's remote control and bids them farewell, firing up the TARDIS to go back for Rose.

Cast

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Mum — Lisa Palfrey
• Dad — Nicholas Beveney
• Girl — Mollie Kabia
• Boy — James Harris
• Granddad — Robin Meredith
• Grandma — Gwenyth Petty
• Graske — Jimmy Vee
• Older Man — Roger Nott
• Urchin — Ben Oliver
• Young Woman — Catherine Olding

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Cast notes

• David Tennant is not credited in the episode's end credits.
• Mollie Kabia, who played the girl in this episode, appeared in Totally Doctor Who in 2007 as a member of 'Team Tardis' participating in Doctor Who related challenges.

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Continuity

• This episode's visit to Griffoth, the Graske homeworld, marks the first on-screen depiction of a planet other than Earth in the new series. The Doctor and Rose have, off-screen, visited Raxacoricofallapatorius, Justicia and Woman Wept as mentioned in "Boom Town". They also visited Toop in the New Series Adventures novel Winner Takes All and Mars in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Cruel Sea (DWM #359-#362).
• The Graske keep the originals to maintain the copies. Other aliens who can create facsimiles but also need to retain the originals include the Nestene Consciousness and the Zygons.
• The entire episode is premised on breaking the fourth wall by directly addressing the television audience, the first time this has been explicitly done on Doctor Who since episode seven of The Daleks' Master Plan, where the First Doctor wished viewers at home a Happy Christmas. The Tenth Doctor also wishes the viewer a Merry Christmas in this episode.
• Although this was the first fully interactive episode of Doctor Who produced, the 1993 anniversary special Dimensions in Time allowed viewers to call in and choose which of two residents of EastEnders' Albert Square would save the Doctor.
• During the end credits, Tennant's voice told the viewer that the programme was on a "time loop" and they could play again. Time loops were previously mentioned in The War Games, The Claws of Axos and Image of the Fendahl, and later in Torchwood's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
• A Graske appears in a story of The Sarah Jane Adventures, entitled Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?.
• The orphan boy in Victorian England says he's saving money to buy a satsuma. The Doctor also finds a satsuma in his robe in The Christmas Invasion, and uses it to dispose of the leader of the Sycorax.

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Production

Shooting Attack of the Graske

• According to Doctor Who Magazine #366, this episode had the working title Changeling World.
• Executive producer Julie Gardner told Doctor Who Magazine that the mini-episode was treated as a "full-blooded, sophisticated production," with a new alien villain, new sets and new special effects. Whether or not this story is canonical, however, is uncertain, as is its placement in the series' running order. However, in the episode Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane Smith tells her friend Maria - presumably in 2009 - that there was some Graske activity recorded on Earth a few years ago.
• Unlike all other new series episodes (which are made in 16:9 widescreen format and shown in that ratio on digital television, and as 14:9 aspect ratio on analogue transmissions), this episode is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio.
• The countdown to the start of the segment uses a design based on the Gallifreyan script seen in the series, and includes both Arabic numerals and the Gallifreyan numerals used in the New Series Adventures. The countdown shown for the tasks is a simplified version of this which does not include the Gallifreyan numerals.
• Writer Gareth Roberts went on to write the episodes "Invasion of the Bane" (co-written with Russell T. Davies), Revenge of the Slitheen and Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? for the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures and the fully recognised Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code". He will also write an episode for the 2008 series.

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Music

• The music played during the countdown is the orchestral arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music which plays over the credits of "The Christmas Invasion".
• The musical cue used during the later challenge sequences is from "The End of the World".

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Outside references

• The Doctor mentions he dropped Rose off at Wembley in 1979 for an ABBA concert. ABBA played five concerts at Wembley Arena that year, from November 5 to November 10.
• The Doctor quotes the Status Quo song "Down Down", saying "Down, down, deeper and down."
• The Doctor references Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, claiming the Graske have "more doors than Jim Morrison."
• After removing the "powers of the sonic" from their remotes, the Doctor warns viewers that, as a side effect, the galaxy may implode if they switch to ITV that evening, referencing the traditional rivalry between that network and the BBC.

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Broadcast

• A total of 496,000 viewers played Attack of the Graske using their red buttons, and as of 30 March 2006 the game had an average of 41,000 hits every week on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
• The episode was available again following the New Year's Day repeat transmission of "The Christmas Invasion" on BBC Three.

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References

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