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Doctor Who: New Earth
The Doctor takes Rose “further than we’ve ever gone before,” which turns out to be to New Earth and New New York, in the year five billion and thirty two, in the Galaxy M87. Once there, the Doctor tells Rose he has been summoned there by a psychic message he has received. Upon seeing a towering hospital in the distance, they head to it, in hopes of finding the answers there.
Little do they know that the hospital’s “ahead of its time” cures for most all deadly diseases holds a dark secret, which puts both the Doctor and Rose in great danger. Added to this is an old foe, who seeks revenge on the Doctor - and something more. Soon, everyone on the entire planet becomes imperiled, unless the Doctor can set things right.
Little do they know that the hospital’s “ahead of its time” cures for most all deadly diseases holds a dark secret, which puts both the Doctor and Rose in great danger. Added to this is an old foe, who seeks revenge on the Doctor - and something more. Soon, everyone on the entire planet becomes imperiled, unless the Doctor can set things right.
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Episode number: 2x1 Production Number: 14 Airdate: Saturday April 15th, 2006 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
The Doctor enters the TARDIS and prepares to depart, while outside, Rose says goodbye to Jackie and Mickey. As the TARDIS starts up, Rose runs inside and the two travelers smile at each other as the vehicle departs. The Doctor informs her that they're going further than they've ever gone before. The TARDIS arrives in the year 5 billion 23 on New Earth, near the futuristic city of New New York. The Doctor explains how the planet came to exist, unaware that someone is watching them via a mechanical spider drone. In the future, the planet has been built as a homage to Earth after the Sun went supernova. As they talk, a man named Chip watches on the monitors. He realizes that Rose has pure blood, and his mistress, Cassandra, recognizes the girl but says it's impossible that she's there. The Doctor suggests they go to see a nearby hospital and explains that someone in Ward 26 has sent him a plea for help via his psychic paper. As they go, Cassandra insists that Rose's presence is more than coincidence, and she can have her revenge...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Cardiff's Millenium Centre opera house stood in for the hospital lobby. It had previously appeared as itself in "Boom Town".
It was so hot inside the Duke of Manhattan's costume that his fat suit had its own cooling system.
It took nearly three hours to make-up a cat nurse. The faces were simply masks from a fancy dress shop.
The first time the pod scenes were shot, the pod doors fell off.
Scenes on the ladder had to be shot carefully. It wasn't long enough for three people.
This episode is a sequel of sorts with its connection to "The End of the World".
Date: 5,000,000,023
Location: New New York, New Earth, Galaxy M87
Location: New New York, New Earth, Galaxy M87
Episode Quotes
Rose: So where we going?
The Doctor: Further than we've ever gone before.
The Doctor: Further than we've ever gone before.
Rose: Can I just say, traveling with you, I love it.
The Doctor: Me too!
The Doctor: Me too!
The Doctor: Strictly speaking it's the fifteenth New York since the original. So that makes it New, New New New, New New New New New New, New New New, New, New York. (Rose stares at him) What?
Rose: You're so different.
The Doctor: New New Doctor.
Rose: You're so different.
The Doctor: New New Doctor.
The Doctor: Nice place. No shop, downstairs. I'd have a shop. Not a big one--just a shop. So people can shop.
(As the Doctor walks by an overly corpulent patient attended by his assistant)
Frau Clovis: Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission of the Senate of New New York!
The Doctor: (speaking of the patient’s disease) That’s Petrifobe Migration, right?
Duke of Manhattan: (weakly) I am dying, sir. A lifetime of abstinence and charity… and it ends like this.
Frau Clovis: Any statements made by the Duke of Manhattan may not be made public without official clearance!
Frau Clovis: Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission of the Senate of New New York!
The Doctor: (speaking of the patient’s disease) That’s Petrifobe Migration, right?
Duke of Manhattan: (weakly) I am dying, sir. A lifetime of abstinence and charity… and it ends like this.
Frau Clovis: Any statements made by the Duke of Manhattan may not be made public without official clearance!
Rose: What about the skin? I saw it. You got ripped apart.
Cassandra: That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back.
Rose: Right, so you’re talking out of your ar...
Cassandra: ...ask not.
Cassandra: That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back.
Rose: Right, so you’re talking out of your ar...
Cassandra: ...ask not.
Novice Hame: (about the Face of Boe) I can hear him singing sometimes. In my mind. Such ancient songs.
The Doctor: Am I the only visitor?
Novice Hame: The rest of Boe-kind became extinct long ago. He’s the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old. There’s all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret. He will speak those words only to one like himself.
The Doctor: What does that mean?
Novice Hame: It’s just a story.
The Doctor: Tell me the rest.
Novice Hame: It’s said he will talk to a wanderer… a man without a home… a lonely God.
The Doctor: Am I the only visitor?
Novice Hame: The rest of Boe-kind became extinct long ago. He’s the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old. There’s all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret. He will speak those words only to one like himself.
The Doctor: What does that mean?
Novice Hame: It’s just a story.
The Doctor: Tell me the rest.
Novice Hame: It’s said he will talk to a wanderer… a man without a home… a lonely God.
Matron Casp: Primitive species would accuse us of magic. But it’s merely the tender application of science.
The Doctor: How on Earth did you cure him?
Matron Casp: How on New Earth, you might say.
The Doctor: How on Earth did you cure him?
Matron Casp: How on New Earth, you might say.
Cassandra (in Rose): The Sisterhood are up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying? Never trust a nun. Never trust a nurse. And never trust a cat.
The Doctor: When you took your vows, did you agree to this?
Novice Hame: The Sisterhood had sworn to help.
The Doctor: What? By killing?
Novice Hame: They're not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence.
The Doctor: What's the turnover, hmmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousand? For how many years? How many?!?
Novice Hame: The Sisterhood had sworn to help.
The Doctor: What? By killing?
Novice Hame: They're not real people. They're specially grown. They have no proper existence.
The Doctor: What's the turnover, hmmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousand? For how many years? How many?!?
The Doctor: If they live because of this, then life is worthless.
Novice Hame: But who are you to decide that?
The Doctor: I'm The Doctor. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority: there isn't one. It stops with me.
Novice Hame: But who are you to decide that?
The Doctor: I'm The Doctor. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority: there isn't one. It stops with me.
The Doctor: Hold on, I can understand the bodies, I can understand your vows. One thing I can't understand, what have you done to Rose?
Novice Hame: I don't know what you mean.
The Doctor: And I'm being very, very calm. You wanna be aware of that, very very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Rose's head, I want it reversed.
Novice Hame: I don't know what you mean.
The Doctor: And I'm being very, very calm. You wanna be aware of that, very very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Rose's head, I want it reversed.
Cassandra (in Rose): Over the years, I thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now that's exactly what I've got. One thousand diseases.
Matron Casp: Anything we can do to help?
Cassandra (in Rose): Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money.
Matron Casp: The Sisterhood is a charity. We don’t give money. We only accept.
Cassandra (in Rose): The humans across the water pay you a fortune. And that’s exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that’s all I want. And perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I will tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?
Cassandra (in Rose): Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money.
Matron Casp: The Sisterhood is a charity. We don’t give money. We only accept.
Cassandra (in Rose): The humans across the water pay you a fortune. And that’s exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that’s all I want. And perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I will tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?
Cassandra (in the Doctor): Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum! So many parts! And hardly used... ah.. ah! Two hearts! Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!
Rose: Get out of him.
Cassandra (in the Doctor): Ooh, he's slim. And a little bit foxy. You've thought so too. I've been inside your head...You've been looking... you like it!
Rose: Get out of him.
Cassandra (in the Doctor): Ooh, he's slim. And a little bit foxy. You've thought so too. I've been inside your head...You've been looking... you like it!
The Doctor: You were supposed to be dying.
The Face of Boe: There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.
The Face of Boe: There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.
The Doctor: That is enigmatic. That... that is... that is textbook enigmatic.
Matron Casp: (to the Doctor) The Sisters of Plentitude take a life long vow to help… and to mend.
Cultural References
New New York
New New York is also the name of a 31st Century city in the animated science fiction series Futurama. It is the main setting of the series. Unlike the New New York of this episode, however, that version is built on the ruins of the present day New York.
New New York is also the name of a 31st Century city in the animated science fiction series Futurama. It is the main setting of the series. Unlike the New New York of this episode, however, that version is built on the ruins of the present day New York.
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | Russell T. Davies | Julie Gardner (1) |
| • Producer | Phil Collinson |
| • Associate Producer | Helen Vallis |
| • Production Designer | Michael Edward Thomas (3) |
| • Editor | Liana Del Giudice |
| • Casting | Andy Pryor |
| • First Assistant Director | Jon Older |
| • Second Assistant Director | Steff Morris |
| • Music | Murray Gold |
| • Costume Designer | Louise Page |
| • Make-up | Steve Smith (8) | Moira Thomson | Anwen Davies |
| • Grip | John Robinson (3) |
| • Camera Operator | Julian Barber |
| • Set Decorator | Julian Luxton |
| • Location Manager | Lowri Thomas | Gareth Skelding |
| • Property Master | Adrian Anscombe |
| • Production Coordinator | Jess Van Niekerk |
| • Assistant Editor | Ceres Doyle |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Samantha Hall | Chris Blatchford |
| • Gaffer | Mark Hutchings |
| • On-Line Editor | Matthew Clarke (2) |
| • Director of Photography | Ernie Vincze |
| • Stunts | Dean Forster | Dani Biernat | Kim McGarrity | Maurice Lee |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Peter Brayham |
| • Production Secretary | Claire Roberts (2) |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Marie Brown (2) |
| • Production Management | Tracie Simpson |
| • Sound Editor | Doug Sinclair (2) | Paul McFadden |
| • Special Effects | Will Cohen (3) |
| • Script Editor | Helen Raynor |
| • Dubbing Mixer | Tim Ricketts |
| • Sound Recordist | Simon Fraser |
| • Third Assistant Director | Lynsey Muir |
| • Costume Supervisor | Anna Lau |
| • Boom Operator | Jeff Welch |
| • Visual Effects Coordinator | Kim Phelan |
| • Main Title Theme | Ron Grainer |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | David Houghton |
| • Production Accountant | Endaf Emyr Williams |
| • Best Boy | Peter Chester |
| • Casting Associate | Andy Brierley |
| • Unit Manager | Justin Gyphion |
| • Colorist | Mick Vincent |
| • Continuity | Llinos Wyn Jones |
| • Focus Puller | Mark Isaac | Terry Bartlett |
| • A/production Accountant | Debi Griffiths | Kath Blackman | Bonnie Clissold |
| • Production Buyer | Catherine Samuel |
| • Supervising Art Director | Stephen Nicholas |
| • Standby Art Director | Arwel Wyn Jones |
| • Construction Manager | Matthew Hywel-Davies |
| • Standby Props | Phill Shellard | Tristan Howell |
| • Production Runner | Debbie Meldrum |
| • Art Department Production Manager | Jonathan Allison |
| • Design Assistant | Ben Austin | Matthew Savage (2) |
| • Sound Special Effects Editor | Paul Jefferies |
| • Make-up Designer | Sheelagh Wells |
| • A/supervising Art Director | James North |
| • Costume Assistant | Barbara Harrington | Lindsay Bonaccorsi |
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