Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet (2006)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 3 June 2006
Running Times: 45 mins
Format: colour     digital video
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PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC Wales
Executive Producers: Julie Gardner, Russell T. Davies
Producer: Phil Collinson

SCRIPT
Script: Matt Jones

DIRECTION
Director: James Strong

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Sheelagh Wells
Costumer Designer: Louise Page

CAST
David Tennant (The Doctor)
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Will Thorp (Toby Zed)
Shaun Parkes (Zachary Cross Flane)
Claire Rushbrook (Ida Scott)
Danny Webb (Mr Jefferson)
Ronny Jhutta (Danny Bartock)
MyAnna Buring (Scootie)
Paul Kasey (The Ood)
Gabriel Woolf (voice of The Beast)
Silas Carson (voice of The Ood)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Doctor and Rose arrive on a planet which shouldn't exist as it's in close orbit around a black hole. But they soon discover other things to worry about as they and a handful of drilling technicians stationed on the planet discover something impossibly old and evil stirring beneath the planet surface...

CASPULE REVIEW

A massive improvement over last week's underwhelming The Idiot's Lantern and one of the best episodes in the new incarnation of Doctor Who. Though it owes a lot to both Alien (1979) and Event Horizon (1997), it's also creepy, beautifully paced and designed and something of a welcome return to the old base-under-siege format of classic Who. The excellent cast help no end too.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributors: BBC

KEYWORDS

aliens, the devil, earthquakes, other planets, satan, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009