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Synopsis

On a seemingly abandoned spaceship in the 51st century, the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey find themselves battling to save Madame de Pompadour from Clockwork killers. But as the mystery deepens the Doctor finds himself dabbing with something he's never done before- romance. 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 is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Mickey Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Noel Clarke. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Look up romance, romantic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Plot

"You are inside my mind!"

A woman in 18th century dress stares expectantly at a fireplace as people outside scream and run from something. A richly dressed man runs into the room and warns her to flee, as monsters are attacking the court. She refuses, telling him that she is just his mistress, and that he should go to his queen. The clock on the mantelpiece is broken, and she is expecting a visit from the only other man she has ever loved, someone who has watched over her throughout her life. She looks into the fireplace, calling out for the "Doctor". Image File history File links Download high resolution version (870x490, 49 KB) Summary The Tenth Doctor encounters an elegant android from the 2006 Doctor Who episode The Girl in the Fireplace. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (870x490, 49 KB) Summary The Tenth Doctor encounters an elegant android from the 2006 Doctor Who episode The Girl in the Fireplace. ... A royal or noble court, as an instrument of government broader than a court of justice, comprises an extended household centered on a patron whose rule may govern law or be governed by it. ...

The TARDIS materialises in a spaceship three thousand years later and two and a half galaxies away. The Doctor, Rose and Mickey exit, the Doctor remarking about the poor repair of the spaceship as Rose wonders where the crew is. The Doctor finds a switch that opens a skylight. Through it is a starscape set against a brilliant nebula, at which Mickey marvels. The Doctor examines the equipment and is puzzled; the warp drives are at full capacity, generating enough power to punch a hole in the universe, but the ship is motionless. The travellers wander further, smelling cooking, and find something out of place: an 18th century French fireplace, intact and properly constructed. The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS in the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space. ... It has been suggested that Types of Nebulae be merged into this article or section. ...

The Doctor looks through the fireplace, and sees a young girl looking back. He asks who she is, and she replies that her name is Reinette and that she lives in Paris in the year 1727. The Doctor confers with Mickey and Rose for a moment, telling them that it is probably a "time window" connecting the spaceship and 18th century France. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...

The Doctor pushes the side of the fireplace, and the wall rotates, taking him with it. Instead of finding himself on the outside hull of the ship, however, he ends up in Reinette's bedroom. He discovers from Reinette that months have gone by since she saw him last and remarks that there must be a loose connection. He also finds, to his concern, that the clock on the mantelpiece is broken, and yet there is still ticking in the room. The Doctor works out from the volume of the ticking that it must be emanating from something the size of a fully-grown man. Whatever it is had broken the clock so that its own ticking would not be noticed. He checks under Reinette's bed and the creature beneath it pushes him back, swiftly getting up on the other side: a clockwork man wearing a mask and period dress.

Examining Reinette, the Doctor discovers that the creature has been scanning her brain, and questions why the creature would punch a hole in the universe for a young girl's brain. Reinette, shocked, turns round and asks the creature, "You want me?" The creature replies, in a distorted electronic voice, "Not yet. You are incomplete." The Doctor questions this statement, but the creature simply walks round the bed robotically. The Doctor draws his sonic screwdriver, and in turn the creature extends a large blade from within its arm. The Doctor backs towards the fireplace and the clockwork man follows, slashing away until the blade gets caught on the mantel. The Doctor assures Reinette it is all a nightmare and not to worry, as even monsters have nightmares. When Reinette asks what monsters have nightmares about, the Doctor replies, "Me!" Pressing on the fireplace, he makes it rotate back into the ship. The Fourth Doctor and his sonic screwdriver (from The Sontaran Experiment). ...

Back on the spaceship, the Doctor gets a fire extinguisher gun from the wall and freezes the creature. Removing its mask, he finds, to his astonishment and delight, space-age clockwork. He remarks that it would be vandalism to disassemble such a beautiful machine, but says this would not stop him. Before he can do so, however, the clockwork man teleports away. Surmising it to be a short-range teleport and that it could still be on board, the Doctor tells Mickey and Rose not to go looking for it as he goes back through the fireplace. Once he is gone, however, the two companions immediately set off, armed with the extinguisher guns. Teleportation is the movement of objects or elementary particles from one place to another, more or less instantaneously, without traveling through space. ...

Back in the bedroom, the Doctor finds it very much changed, and calls out for Reinette before plucking on a harp stationed in the room. Whilst he is doing so, Reinette walks in — this time a beautiful young woman in flowing dress. The Doctor seems a bit flustered at how much she has grown, as she remarks how he has not aged. Reinette steps up to him and touches his cheek, determining that the imaginary friend of her childhood is indeed flesh and blood. She hears her name called again. With little time, she grabs the Doctor and kisses him passionately, breaking it and running off as she is called once more, as "Mademoiselle Poisson". Although startled, the Doctor still manages to place the name: Reinette Poisson, actress, courtesan, the mistress of King Louis XV and uncrowned Queen of France. A servant asks the Doctor who he is, and as he rotates the fireplace again he replies, laughing, that he is the Doctor… and he has just snogged Madame de Pompadour. A courtesan in mid-16th century usage was a high-class prostitute or mistress, especially one associated with rich, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for her services. ... Louis XV of France (February 15, 1710 – May 10, 1774), the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 until his death. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

On the ship again, the Doctor is annoyed to discover that Mickey and Rose have wandered off against his orders. He goes to find them, turning a corner only to discover a large grey horse, whinnying at him. Meanwhile, searching the ship, Rose and Mickey find a human eye inside a mechanical armature, acting as a surveillance camera. Hearing beating sounds, Rose opens a hatch to discover a human heart wired into the circuitry.

With the horse tailing him, the Doctor continues exploring the ship, opening a set of double doors that leads into another time window, this time into an open park in December 1744. He deduces that the doors are how the horse got onto the ship. He surreptitiously observes Reinette from behind a marble balustrade. Reinette is walking with a friend, Katherine, discussing the imminent death of King Louis' mistress, Madame de Châteauroux and how the king will be seeking a new one. He ducks out of the way when Reinette twice looks in his direction, seemingly sensing his presence. Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchesse de Châteauroux (October 5, 1717 – December 8, 1744) was a mistress of Louis XV of France, and the youngest of four sisters who served as courtesans in the royal court of France. ...

On the ship, Mickey and Rose stumble across another time window, this time a mirror. Joined by the Doctor and the horse, they observe Reinette's first meeting with King Louis in February 1745. The King leaves and Reinette checks her reflection in the mirror. A nearby clock is broken, but the sound of ticking still fills the room. Reinette turns to see a figure standing motionless in the corner, and she demands to know who it is. The figure turns to reveal a female android similar to the male one she encountered years earlier.

The Doctor grabs a fire extinguisher gun and steps through the time window, greeting Reinette before freezing the clockwork woman. However, this model starts to melt the ice almost immediately, and starts up again. The Doctor asks it to identify itself, but it does not answer. The Doctor then asks Reinette to order it to respond, since the clockwork man appeared to obey her. She does so, and the creature replies that the ship was damaged in an ion storm, but could not be repaired as they "did not have the parts". Since the clockwork androids were programmed to repair the ship at all costs, and no proper parts were available, they scavenged those parts from the crew, wiring their organs into the ship's machinery. The combination of flesh and heat from the machinery explains the smell of cooking the travellers encountered on the flight deck. The plasma in the solar wind meeting the heliopause For the British comic, see Solar Wind (comic). ...

However, one more part is required: Reinette, but they have not taken her because she is "incomplete". Rose asks why choose Reinette, but the clockwork woman simply replies that they are the same. Angered, Reinette orders the creature to leave, and it teleports away. The Doctor quickly orders Rose and Mickey back through the mirror to look for the creature, and to take the horse (which the Doctor has named Arthur) with them. However, Mickey and Rose are swiftly captured by the clockwork robots, who render them unconscious.

Meanwhile, the Doctor reads Reinette's mind to find out what the androids are looking for. He finds out that the clockwork creatures have not yet taken her because she is not old enough. Reinette starts referring to a lonely childhood, and addresses the Doctor by name although he has never revealed it to her. He realises in shock that she is also reading his mind, and that it is his childhood to which she is referring. Reinette calls him "my lonely Doctor", and asks him to dance with her. The Doctor refuses at first, but she tells him that there comes a time that "every lonely boy must learn how to dance". She pulls him out of the room.

On the ship, Rose and Mickey awaken to find themselves strapped down and at the mercy of the clockwork creatures. Just as one is about to cut Rose open, the Doctor enters, apparently drunk from a party. He is in sunglasses, holding a goblet, wearing his tie as a bandana and singing "I Could Have Danced All Night". In this apparently inebriated state, the Doctor reveals that the clockwork creatures are waiting for Reinette to age, because when she is thirty-seven she will be the same age as the ship — and her brain, they believe, will be compatible with the ship's computers. Suddenly, the Doctor shuts down one clockwork creature with multi-grade anti-oil that was contained in the goblet. Completely sober again, he flips a lever that switches the rest off before freeing Rose and Mickey with his sonic screwdriver. My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, based on George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion. ...

The Doctor tries to turn the other time windows off, but an override is present. A clockwork message comes in and he realises that there is still one creature in the 18th century with Reinette. The clockwork creatures power up again and declare, "She is complete. It begins." They teleport away; one of them has found the right time window.

Rose visits Reinette in 1753, five years before her thirty-seventh birthday, warning her that the clockwork creatures will be here sometime after that day. Rose tries to explain the situation and, impressively, Reinette quickly grasps the concept of the time windows and how the Doctor can move between the moments of her life without aging. Rose tells Reinette to stall the clockwork creatures when they arrive until the Doctor can get there. When she tells Reinette that her life was not supposed to have monsters, Reinette grows angry. She says that it may be that one cannot have the Doctor without the monsters, but one can tolerate demons for the sake of an angel.

Mickey emerges from behind a tapestry, telling Rose that they have found the time window for Reinette's thirty-seventh birthday and the clockwork creatures' return. Despite Rose's objections, Reinette pushes her way through the tapestry and onto the ship. She hears the screams from her future, the time when the clockwork creatures return, and realises that she must take "the slower path", living through the next five years, however much she is afraid. Before she leaves, she tells Rose what they both know: that "the Doctor is worth the monsters".

In 1758, the clockwork creatures terrorise the guests at the court. Reinette calls out into the fireplace for the Doctor. The androids come into the room, and order her to follow. She and the rest of the guests are forced into the ballroom by their attackers as the Doctor, Mickey and Rose watch helplessly through the time window, a mirror looking in on the ballroom. The clockwork creatures knew he was coming and blocked it off.

As the Doctor struggles to find a way to get in, Reinette commands attention and berates the guests for screaming in the royal ballroom of the Palace of Versailles, reminding them that they are French. She refuses to go with the clockwork creatures, saying she does not wish to set foot in their world again. They reply that they do not need her feet, and force her to her knees to decapitate her. She defiantly says that she does not fear them, for they are merely the nightmare of her childhood — and if her nightmare can return to plague her, so can theirs. The Château de Versailles, or Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, France. ...

As she speaks, a horse is heard galloping in the distance. It is the Doctor, on Arthur, riding through the time window — shattering it and breaking the portal back to the ship. Back on the ship, Mickey realises that they cannot pilot the TARDIS by themselves, and wonders how the Doctor will get back. Rose is despondent, and does not reply. Beyond the broken time window, a clockwork creature threatens the Doctor with its weapon, but the Doctor tells it to give up, for the link to the ship is broken, and thus they cannot access the parts on the ship they need to survive. After a few seconds, they all stop working.

In the 18th century, the Doctor is standing at a window, staring at the stars. Reinette joins him, and mentions how the Doctor saved her despite knowing that he would be trapped. The Doctor agrees, and starts to contemplate life in the 18th century, and how different it will be. Reinette then reveals that she had moved the original fireplace from her childhood room piece-by-piece, hoping that the Doctor would return. The Doctor sees in this an opportunity to get back to the ship. The movement would have severed the bond with the ship, keeping it undamaged whilst all the other time portals were destroyed along with the mirror. Hopefully, with the help of the loose connection, it will provide the way back.

The Doctor tries to see if the link is still there and it is, and so he asks Reinette to wish him luck as he returns. She refuses to do so even as the wall starts to rotate, and he realises too late that she does not want him to leave. He talks to her through the fireplace, asking her to pack a bag, give him two minutes and to "pick a star — any star". She goes, runs excitedly to a large window, and looks out at the stars in anticipation, and the Doctor gleefully runs off. He finds Rose and Mickey and tells them to get into the TARDIS, and he will explain later.

However, when he returns through the fireplace after barely two minutes, Reinette is not there to meet him. Instead, he finds King Louis at the window, who tells him in a sombre voice that the Doctor has just missed Reinette — she is on her way to Paris — and gazes out of the window at her departing carriage. As the King continues to speak, recalling what Reinette has told him about the Doctor and how much she was looking forward to seeing him, the Doctor realises that Reinette has recently died. Six years have passed since that last meeting; it is now April 1764. The Doctor then sees the carriage, which is the hearse carrying Reinette away from Versailles for the last time. King Louis gives the Doctor a parting letter from Reinette. He asks what she wrote in the letter, but the Doctor puts the envelope into his jacket pocket without answering. King Louis understands, and the Doctor quietly returns to the future, and the TARDIS. Funeral carriage, Museum of Funeral Customs A hearse is a funeral vehicle, a conveyance for the coffin from e. ...

As he enters, Rose asks why the clockwork creatures thought they could repair the ship with the head of Madame de Pompadour. The Doctor replies that they will probably never know; perhaps it was a computer error. He continues, in muted tones, that the TARDIS will close the remaining time windows. Rose asks if he is all right. The Doctor replies, unconvincingly, that he is always all right. Mickey diplomatically suggests that Rose show him around the rest of the TARDIS, in order to leave the Doctor on his own for a while.

When they have both left, the Doctor reads the letter. In it, Reinette wishes that the Doctor will return, although she recognises that he probably will not. However, she continues to hope, and asks him to hurry as her days grow short, referring to him as "my love" and her "lonely angel". Slowly, he returns the letter to his jacket, and watches the TARDIS console screen, which shows the fireplace being put out, permanently severing the link. Since the 2005 revival of the long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, there are several recurring themes and motifs. ...

The TARDIS then dematerialises from the ship, revealing behind it a framed portrait of Reinette. As the now lifeless ship drifts through space, the reason the clockwork creatures believed they needed Reinette's brain is revealed in its name: the SS Madame de Pompadour.

Cast

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Rose Tyler — Billie Piper
• Mickey Smith — Noel Clarke
• Reinette — Sophia Myles
• King Louis — Ben Turner
• Young Reinette — Jessica Atkins
• Katherine — Angel Coulby
• Manservant — Gareth Wyn Griffiths
• Clockwork Man — Paul Kasey
• Clockwork Woman — Ellen Thomas
• Droid Voices — Jonathan Hart, Emily Joyce

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Continuity

• This episode appears to follow immediately from School Reunion, since Mickey says he got a spaceship on his "first go" as he exits the TARDIS with the Doctor and Rose. Nevertheless, Moffat reveals on the commentary for this episode that when he wrote it he had not yet read the end of School Reunion, hence the lack of continuing animosity shown towards Mickey by Rose after he joins the TARDIS crew.^[1]
• The spaceship in this story is from the 51st century. This is a particularly significant period in the Doctor Who fictional universe, being the time of the Great Breakout, an expansionistic period where mankind headed for the stars (The Invisible Enemy) as well as the home era of Jack Harkness and K-9. Other historical events of the 51st century include a new ice age, a near world war, early experiments in time travel, the establishment of the Time Agents and the rise and fall of the villainous Magnus Greel (The Talons of Weng-Chiang).
• The idea of a time traveller drifting in and out of a person's life is also present in Moffat's Bernice Summerfield short story "The Least Important Man", published in the The Dead Men Diaries anthology. There, Bernice (who is from the 26th century) uses a quantum imager to recreate the life of a 20th century man, who then sees her as a ghostly figure appearing at key moments throughout his life.
• The Doctor responds to the question "What do monsters have nightmares about?" with "Me!" The Seventh Doctor said the same thing in Moffat's short story Continuity Errors (from Decalog 3), based on a line in Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War. Cornell also wrote the episode Father's Day.
• Writer Steven Moffat had (according to David Tennant) wanted Arthur the horse to become a companion, but this never happened.
• Before they are attacked by the clockwork androids, Rose and Mickey briefly discuss the women with whom the Doctor has had relationships, including Sarah Jane Smith, Madame de Pompadour and Cleopatra, whom Mickey claims the Doctor called Cleo.
• Clockwork robots and androids also appear in the Second Doctor story The Mind Robber, the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Anachrophobia by Jonathan Morris, the Ninth Doctor Adventures novel The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards, and the Big Finish Productions audio play Time Works by Steve Lyons.
• The Doctor reads Madame de Pompadour's mind in this episode — the first time that this specific power of his has been shown in Doctor Who, although it has been previously implied that Time Lords possess some degree of psychic ability. Susan Foreman showed psychic abilities in The Sensorites, and in The Deadly Assassin, the Doctor mentions that Time Lords are telepathic. In The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors, the various incarnations of the Doctor made telepathic contact to update each other on the situation. The TARDIS has telepathic circuits, the Doctor using these to contact the Time Lords at the end of Frontier in Space. The Doctor also contacted the Time Lords by going into a trance and creating an assembling box (suggesting telekinesis as well) in The War Games. In Love and War, the Doctor uses a similar method to read the mind of his companion Bernice Summerfield.
• After reading the Doctor's mind, Reinette says "Doctor who?", a reference both to the series' title and to the long-running mystery about the Doctor's actual name. She also says that it is "more than just a secret", but does not elaborate further. In the commentary, Moffat says that he wrote because he believes that, as the Doctor does not tell even his closest companions his name, there must be a "dreadful secret" about it.^[1] According to the commentary on the Complete Second Series DVD release, Sophia Myles admits she did not initially realize that the character's name is not "Doctor Who" and initially read the line as if she was stating his proper name.In the episode of Doctor Who Confidential that followed this episode on BBC Three Sophia Myles said she could not believe she had just kissed "Doctor Who".
• The method by which the Doctor reads Reinette's mind is similar to the "mind meld" used by Mr. Spock in Star Trek. Spock is mentioned as a fictional character in Moffatt's previous episode The Empty Child.
• Moffat revisits a number of elements from his earlier scripts for the 2005 series, like the theme of well-meaning but mistaken technology featured in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. More direct references include the use of "dancing" as a metaphor for sex, the Doctor's taste for bananas (he claims to have invented the banana daiquiri during the party in 17th century France) and him lamenting the fact that his companions are always wandering off on their own. The Doctor also alludes to having a lonely childhood in The Empty Child. Other references to the 2005 series include the Doctor describing Reinette as "Fantastic" and Rose recalling the Daleks' name for the Doctor ("The Oncoming Storm", from The Parting of the Ways).
• While trying to sever the time windows, the Doctor searches his person for "Zeus plugs". Zeus plugs were one of the tools the Fourth Doctor asked Sarah Jane Smith to hand to him while he repaired the TARDIS controls in her farewell scene at the end of The Hand of Fear.
• There is no Torchwood reference in this episode, unlike the earlier episodes in the 2006 series. According to the commentary, this is because Russell T. Davies did not tell Moffat to drop the word in the script.

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Production

• In a Production Notes column for Doctor Who Magazine #363 (November 2005), writer Steven Moffat stated that the working titles for the episode were Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of My Heart and Reinette and the Lonely Angel.
• In an interview with The Independent, Russell T. Davies described this episode as "practically a love story for the Doctor... It's very understated, very beautifully done, but it's nonetheless a Time Lord falling in love and Rose's reaction to him falling in love with someone else."^[2]
• Some of the scenes at Versailles, including the ballroom, were filmed at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire in late October 2005. The scene in the gardens of Versailles was filmed at Dyffryn Gardens near Cardiff, as were some other interiors.^[3]
• Two horses were used in the episode: one (named Bolero) for the scenes in close quarters on the spaceship, and another (actually named Arthur) for the jump. As seen in Doctor Who Confidential, the horse was not allowed to set foot in the ballroom in the climactic scene. The various elements of the Doctor riding Arthur through the mirror (the horse, the mirror breaking and the reactions of the extras in the ballroom) all had to be filmed at separate times and then composited together; Tennant's head was superimposed upon that of the stunt rider in post-production.^[1]
• Myles and Tennant started dating after working together on this story, according to an interview with Myles on GMTV (25 April 2006). They first met on the set of Foyle's War. It is rumoured she carries a "Doctor Who" doll in her handbag.^[4] Subsequently, Myles continued as a behind-the-scenes presence on the set; the Series 2 DVD release includes video diary entries by David Tennant that show Myles visiting the set during filming of other episodes, and Myles appears to have also been given Tennant's camera to film some segments (such as one in which Tennant gets his first look at his Doctor Who action figure). In the podcast commentary for The Runaway Bride, Tennant stated that Myles performed the role of Donna Noble during the cast's initial read-through because actress Catherine Tate was not available.
• According to Noel Clarke in the Doctor Who Confidential episode "From Zero to Hero", the art department had labeled the fire extinguishers in this episode with a warning: "Do not use to cool drinks, freeze food, win arguments, or create Christmas grotto decorations."
• The portrait seen at the end of this episode was painted by Cardiff-based artist Amanda Clegg.^[5]
• The script for this episode has been nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award.^[6]
• The episode has been nominated for the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. ^[7]

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Outside references

• The young Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson calls herself "Reinette" in 1728, whereas in reality the nickname (meaning "Little Queen") was not given to her until 1730.^[8]
• Steven Moffat states on the Doctor Who Confidential episode "Script to Screen" that the clockwork people were inspired by The Turk, a clockwork man who played chess around the same period (and which was later revealed to be a hoax).
• The plot for this episode is reminiscent of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, which describes a romance between a man who randomly jumps in and out of a woman's life at various points along her timeline (including her childhood), while she has to live her life linearly. The two-speed timeline appears in the children's novel Tom's Midnight Garden: the protagonist steps back in time and the girl he meets ages by years between each contact, while only days pass for him. In the novel Lightning by Dean Koontz, a time traveller from forty years in the past repeatedly jumps into a young girl's life to protect her. She comes to think of him as her "guardian angel" and they eventually fall in love when she is in her thirties and he visits her for the last time. A variation of the time-traveling visitor theme can also be found in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor".
• After discovering the link to Reinette's bedroom, the Doctor describes it as a "spatio-temporal hyperlink", a term which he then admits he just made up as he did not want to just call it a "magic door". In the Red Dwarf episode Stasis Leak, the crew find a similar portal back into the past, which Lister and Rimmer attempt to describe to The Cat in a series of technical and scientific explanations, none of which he understands, until they finally resort to describing it as "a gateway to the past" and he understands it as a "magic door".
• The plot element involving Arthur bears a resemblance to an incident in the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, written by former Doctor Who script editor Douglas Adams. In it, a horse ends up in 20th century Cambridge after accidentally wandering into a time machine belonging to Professor Chronotis. Whilst Chronotis's back-story is not given in the novel, the never-completed Doctor Who serial Shada (also written by Adams) features the same character, explicitly identified as a Time Lord and his time machine as a TARDIS.
• Throughout this episode, Mickey wears a T-shirt which has a picture of the Nintendo Entertainment System controller over the caption, "Know Your Roots". This particular T-shirt, a limited edition, could be obtained either by subscribing to the British Nintendo Official Magazine, or by being purchased at selected Gamestation outlets. In Doctor Who Magazine #367 Noel Clarke admitted to being a Nintendo fan and to being the owner of a Nintendo DS console.
• Halfway through the episode, the Doctor describes one of the repair droids as being "Mr. Thick, thick, thickity-thick-face from Thicktown, Thickania." This may be a reference to an episode of Coupling (3x06, The Girl with One Heart), in which Sally tells Patrick's date she's "slim, slim, slimmity-slim from Slimtown, Slimania." The Girl in the Fireplace was written by Steven Moffat, who also created, and wrote all episodes for, Coupling.

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Broadcast and DVD releases

• The final rating for the episode was 7.90 million, making it the thirteenth most watched programme of the week.^[9]
• This episode was released on 5 June 2006 as a basic DVD with no special features, together with Tooth and Claw and School Reunion, and as part of a second series boxset on 20 November 2006. This release included an audio commentary by David Tennant, Sophia Myles (Reinette) and producer Phil Collinson, recorded before the story aired. The version used to make the commentary did not include background music, misleading the actors into assuming that many scenes would involve dialogue alone.

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References

• "Who's this with Dr Who?: Look who's starring alongside David Tennant in one of the BBC's most popular programmes", This Is Plymouth / Plymouth Evening Herald, 2006-02-01. Retrieved on 2006-02-07.  Local newspaper article about child actor Jessica Atkins. (archived version of article)

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Footnotes

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