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Doctor Who: Father's Day (2005)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 2005
Running Times: 45 mins
Format: colour     digital video
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC Wales
Executive Producers: Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Mal Young
Producer: Phil Collinson
Associate Producer: Helen Vallis
Production Manager: Tracie Simpson
Unit Manager: Llyr Morus
Production Coordinator: Jess van Niekerk

SCRIPT
Script: Paul Cornell
Script Editor: Elwen Rowlands

DIRECTION
Director: Joe Ahearne
1st Assistant Director: Gareth Williams
2nd Assistant Director: Sean Clayton
3rd Assistant Director: Dan Mumford

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ernie Vincze
Camera Operator: Martin Stephens
Focus Puller: Mark Isaac
Grip: John Robinson
Gaffer: Mark Hutchings
Best Boy: Peter Chester
Colourist: Kai van Beers

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Graham Walker
Online Editor: Matthew Clarke
Assistant Editor: Ceres Doyle
Post Production Supervisor: Marie Brown

MUSIC
Music: Murray Gold
Original Theme Music: Ron Grainer

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ian Richardson
Boom Operator: Damian Richardson
Dubbing Mixer: Tim Ricketts
Dialogue Editor: Paul McFadden
Sound Effects Editor: Paul Jefferies

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Linda Davie
Make Up Designer: Davy Jones
Make Up: Claire Pritchard, Steve Williams
Costumer Designer: Lucinda Wright
Wardrobe Supervisor: Yolanda Peart-Smith

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: The Mill
Visual Effects Supervisor: Dave Houghton
Visual Effects Producer: Will Cohen
2D Visual Effects Artists: Sara Bennett, Simon C. Holden, David Bowman
3D Visual Effects Artists: Chris Petts, Andy Howell, Mark Wallman, Jean-Claude Deguara, Nicolas Hernandes

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Supervising Art Director: Stephen Nicholas
Standby Art Director: Julian Luxton
Set Decorator: Liz Griffiths
Production Buyer: Catherine Samuel
Property Master: Adrian Anscombe
Standby Props: Phill Shellard, Tristan Howell
Construction Manager: Andrew Smith
Art Department Coordinator: Gwenllian Llwyd
Concept Artist: Bryan Hitch
Graphic Artist: Jenny Bowers
Logo Designers: Louise Hillam, Alison Jenkins, Hywel Roberts at the Graphic Design team at BBC Wales; Luke Davies, Paul Humphrey at Insect Design (all uncredited)

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Pam Humphreys
Finance Manager: Richard Pugsley
Production Accountant: Endaf Emyr Williams
Assistant Production Accountants: Debi Griffiths, Kath Blackman

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Lowri Thomas

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Lee Sheward
Stunts: Crispin Layfield, Seon Rogers, Bean Peel

CASTING
Casting Director: Andy Pryor
Casting Associate: Kirsty Robertson

CAST
Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor)
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler)
Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler)
Robert Barton (registrar)
Julia Joyce (young Rose)
Christopher Llewellyn (Stuart)
Frank Rozelaar-Green (Sonny)
Natalie Jones (Sarah)
Eirlys Bellin (Bev)
Rhian James (Suzie)
Casey Dyer (young Mickey)

SUMMARY

Rose persuades The Doctor to take her back to 1987 to be with her father, Pete, when he's killed in a traffic accident. But Rose saves his life, damaging the timeline and allowing through creatures who are determined to kill anything in their path. When The Doctor is killed by one of the creatures while trying to protect guests at a wedding, Pete realises that it's up to him to save the world...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Really quite brilliant. The new-look Who continues to explore areas that the original show rarely touched resulting in the most emotional story ever to bear the Doctor Who name. Cornell's script is outstanding (there are things that don't really make that much sense, but the dialogue sparkles throughout) and the performances of Ecclestone, Piper and Dingwall are quite simply amazing.

AVAILABILITY

Canada
Television Distributors: CBC

UK
Television Distributors: BBC

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

 


Last Updated: 1 January, 2009

 


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