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Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp
The Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie, and help her to solve a murder mystery involving a giant shapeshifting wasp...
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x7 Airdate: Saturday May 17th, 2008 Special Airtime: 07:00 pm Alternate Airdates:
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Uncredited
Recap
The Doctor and Donna arrive in England in the 1920s and find themselves at an English manor. There's a party going on and the Doctor quickly decides to attend. Meanwhile, inside the manor, Professor Peach has arrived and goes into the library where he goes through some papers. As he finds a secret that he's looking for, someone comes in. Peach recognizes the person but then says "It isn't possible!" as the person beats him to death with a lead pipe...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Christopher Benjamin appeared in the original series as Sir Henry Gold ("Inferno") and Henry Gordon Jago ("The Talons of Weng-Chiang").
The Doctor's flashback to Belgium where Charlemagne is kidnapped by an insane computer is a reference to "The Lonely Computer," a short story published at the BBC's Doctor Who website.
David Tennant's father, Alexander McDonald, has an uncredited appearance as a footman.
Episode Quotes
The Doctor: Oh, smell that air, grass and lemonade, and a little bit of mint.Just a hint of mint, must be the 1920's.
Donna: You can tell what year it is just by smelling?
The Doctor: Oh yeah.
Donna: Or, that big vintage car coming up the drive gave it away.
Donna: You can tell what year it is just by smelling?
The Doctor: Oh yeah.
Donna: Or, that big vintage car coming up the drive gave it away.
The Doctor: A terrible day for all of us. The Professor struck down, Miss Chandrakala cruelly taken from us. And yet we still take dinner.
Lady Eddison: We are British, Doctor. What else must we do?
Lady Eddison: We are British, Doctor. What else must we do?
Donna: That poor footman. Roger's dead and he can't even mourn him. 1926? It's more like the Dark Ages.
The Doctor: She is the best selling novelist of all time.
Donna: But she never knew.
The Doctor: Well, no-one knows how they're going to be remembered. All you can do is hope for the best. Maybe that's what kept her writing. The same thing keeps me travelling. Onwards?
Donna: Onwards.
Donna: But she never knew.
The Doctor: Well, no-one knows how they're going to be remembered. All you can do is hope for the best. Maybe that's what kept her writing. The same thing keeps me travelling. Onwards?
Donna: Onwards.
Episode References
Among the items seen in the "C" chest are a Cyberman chestplate from "The Age of Steel" and the Carrionites' crystal ball from "The Shakespeare Code."
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | Russell T. Davies | Phil Collinson | Julie Gardner (1) |
| • Producer | Susie Liggat |
| • Production Designer | Michael Edward Thomas (3) |
| • Editor | Will Oswald |
| • Casting | Andy Pryor |
| • First Assistant Director | Gareth Williams (3) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Jennie Fava |
| • Music | Murray Gold |
| • Costume Designer | Louise Page |
| • Make-up | Pam Mullins | Steve Smith (8) | John Munro (2) |
| • Grip | John Robinson (3) |
| • Camera Operator | Steven Hall |
| • Set Decorator | David Morison |
| • Location Manager | Jonathan Allott |
| • Property Master | Paul Aitken (2) |
| • Production Coordinator | Jess Van Niekerk |
| • Assistant Editor | Carmen Roberts |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Chris Blatchford | Samantha Hall |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Paul McFadden |
| • Gaffer | Mark Hutchings |
| • On-Line Editor | Matthew Clarke (2) | Mark Bright (2) |
| • Director of Photography | Rory Taylor |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Abbi Collins |
| • Production Secretary | Kevin Myers |
| • Storyboard Artist | Shaun Williams |
| • Assistant Production Coordinator | Debi Griffiths |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Marie Brown (2) |
| • Production Management | Debbi Slater |
| • Special Effects | Will Cohen (3) |
| • Script Editor | Lindsey Alford |
| • Dubbing Mixer | Tim Ricketts |
| • Sound Recordist | Julian Howarth |
| • Third Assistant Director | Sarah Davies |
| • Costume Supervisor | Lindsay Bonaccorsi |
| • Boom Operator | Jeff Welch | Bryn Thomas |
| • Art Department Coordinator | Anna Coote |
| • Visual Effects Coordinator | Rebecca Johnson (2) | Jenna Powell |
| • Main Title Theme | Ron Grainer |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | David Houghton |
| • Production Accountant | Oliver Ager |
| • Camera Assistant | Jon Vidgen | Tom Hartley |
| • Best Boy | Peter Chester |
| • Casting Associate | Andy Brierley |
| • Visual Effects Producer | Marie Jones (2) |
| • Special Effects Supervisor | Paul Kelly (4) |
| • Production Executive | Julie Scott (2) |
| • Unit Manager | Rhys Griffiths |
| • Foley Editor | Kelly-Marie Angell |
| • Colorist | Mick Vincent |
| • Assistant Costume Designer | Rose Goodhart |
| • Special Effects Coordinator | Ben Ashmore |
| • Continuity | Sheila Johnston |
| • Focus Puller | Duncan Fowlie | Steve Rees |
| • Prop Buyer | Christina Tom |
| • Supervising Art Director | Stephen Nicholas | Arwel Wyn Jones |
| • Standby Art Director | Ciaran Thompson |
| • Construction Manager | Matthew Hywel-Davies |
| • Standby Props | Nick Murray (2) | Phill Shellard |
| • Art Department Production Manager | Jonathan Allison |
| • Associate Designer | James North |
| • Design Assistant | Peter McKinstry |
| • Sound Special Effects Editor | Paul Jefferies |
| • Make-up Designer | Barbara Southcott |
| • VFX Editor | Ceres Doyle |
| • Costume Assistant | Louise Martin | Barbara Harrington |
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