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Doctor Who (2005) :: The Unquiet Dead (01x03)
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| Title: | The Unquiet Dead |
| Episode #: | 01x03 |
| Production Number: | 103 |
| Original Airdate: | Saturday April 09th, 2005 |
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 Ireland |
Apr 09, 2005 |
 Australia |
Jun 04, 2005 |
 US (Syfy) |
Mar 24, 2006 |
 DE (ProSieben) |
Feb 02, 2008 |
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Episode Summary |
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The Doctor and Rose travel by accident to 1869 Earth, and find that recently deceased corpses are returning to life, in a ghostly way. A mortician and his assistant know of the problem, but to keep their secret a secret, they kidnap Rose, who witnesses them collecting one of their ghostly corpses. The Doctor then must rescue Rose, and help the ghostly corpses return to there their own universe. He is aided in this effort by the aged Charles Dickens.
Things don’t go as the Doctor expects, and serious repercussions occur to those around him.
| Summary Available In: English | German
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Date: December 24, 1869
Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
| The Bad Wolf reference in this episode is: Gwyneth sees the Big Bad Wolf in Rose's thoughts
| Simon Callow is one of Britain's leading experts on Charles Dickens, having written several biographies about him. He has also played him on several previous occasions.
| The Doctor is a huge fan of Charles Dickens.
| Although it was based in Cardiff, this episodes was filmed in Swansea, as there are no surviving buildings in Cardiff from 1869.
| Eve Myles (Gwyneth) would later play Gwen Cooper in the spin-off series Torchwood.
| This episode reveals that the Doctor "pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party" on December 16, 1773.
| Charles Dickens' great-great-great-grandson, Harry Lloyd, later played Jeremy Baines/Son of Mine in the 2007 episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood".
| Working titles: The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels of Crippingwell.
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The Doctor: You’re brilliant you are, completely 100% brilliant. I’m such a big fan.
Charles Dickens: How exactly are you a “fan”? In what way do you resemble a means of keeping oneself cool?
| The Doctor: That a boy, Charlie!
Charles Dickens: Nobody calls me "Charlie."
The Doctor: The ladies do.
Charles Dickens: How do you know that?
The Doctor: I told you, I’m your number one…
Charles Dickens: Number one fan.
| Charles Dickens: There are more things on heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
| The Doctor: (to Rose) Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot, Barbarella!
| The Doctor: What about me? I saw the fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party, now I'm going to die in a dungeon!... In Cardiff!
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Mrs Peace's age of four-score years and six (86) would have been an incredible age for a lower-middle class woman in the 19th century, the average lifespan would have been only about 35 at the time.
| When the bodies of Redpath and Mrs. Peace rise from their coffins, one can see that there is a very non-Victorian light switch on the wall next to Rose; and when the Doctor rushes down the corridor to save her, one can see a central heating radiator on the wall.
| In real life, Charles Dickens had finished his final lecture tour months before the events of this episode. As a result, it is unlikely that he was in Cardiff in December 1869.
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Charles Dickens: God bless us, everyone!
Dickens says this at the end of the episode, these words are the same glad tidings of Tiny Tim at the end of A Christmas Carol.
| Charles Dickens: Maybe The Mystery of Edwin Drood...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the last novel on which Charles Dickens worked. He was unable to complete it before his death on June 9, 1870, six months after the events of this episode.
| The Doctor: (to Rose) Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot, Barbarella!
Barbarella was a movie made in 1968, in which Barbarella, played by Jane Fonda, wore very skimpy, very sexy outfits in her treks around the galaxy.
| Charles Dickens: What the Shakespeare is going on?
This is a play on the common phrase, "What the Dickens?" Which is in fact not a reference to Charles Dickens, but to the Devil.
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The Doctor: What about me? I saw the fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party, now I'm going to die in a dungeon!
The Doctor is referring to an episode of Doctor Who, The Myth Makers, in which the First Doctor and his companions become involved in the siege of Troy.
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