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Overview

18:45, Saturday 28 May, BBC One

As the solar storm rages, Jennifer's Ganger seeks revenge and Rory is cut-off from the rest off the humans. As the crumbling factory fills with toxic fumes and drips lethal acid, Amy is about to find out if two Doctors really are better than one.

And as if that isn't enough, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are fast-approaching another crisis point. One that will change everything...

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The Fourth Dimension

  • The Fourth Dimension: The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People.

  • The read throughs for episodes 5 and 6 took place on Friday, 12 November, 2010.

  • The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People is the second Doctor Who adventure written by Matthew Graham. His first was Fear Her, the 2006 story featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose.

  • Marshall Lancaster, who plays Buzzer, has previously appeared in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, two BBC dramas which were co-created by Matthew Graham.

  • The Dusty Springfield song that features in The Rebel Flesh is called 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'. It's an English version of the Italian song 'Io che non vivo (senza te)' which means 'I, who can't live (without you)'.

  • The phrase 'reverse the polarity of the neutron flow' is most closely associated with the Third Doctor. The reference to jelly babies alludes to the Fourth Doctor, although in The Three Doctors we find that the Second Doctor also carries a bag of the sweets.

  • The name John Smith is mentioned in The Almost People. The Doctor has assumed this pseudonym in several stories, most notably Human Nature. We first saw him go by the alias in the 1968 adventure, The Wheel in Space.

  • Cybermats, mentioned by the Doctor's Ganger, are rodent-like killers created by the Cybermen. We first saw them in The Tomb of the Cybermen and most recently they appeared in Blood of the Cybermen.

  • Raquel Cassidy and Sarah Smart have starred opposite each other before, in the 2008 Poirot mystery, Mrs McGinty's Dead. The drama also starred Zoe Wanamaker - Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth.

  • Raquel Cassidy previously appeared in the BBC drama, Party Animals. The series was critically acclaimed and co-starred Matt Smith, about three years before he became the Doctor!

  • The Rebel Flesh premiered on 21 May, 2011 - that's the sixth anniversary of the broadcast of The Empty Child, the first episode of Doctor Who written by Steven Moffat - aside from The Curse of Fatal Death!

Credits

  • The Doctor Matt Smith

  • Amy Pond Karen Gillan

  • Rory Arthur Darvill

  • Eye Patch Lady Frances Barber

  • Jimmy Mark Bonnar

  • Buzzer Marshall Lancaster

  • Jennifer Sarah Smart

  • Foreman Cleaves Raquel Cassidy

  • Adam Edmond Moulton

  • Dicken Leon Vickers

  • Director Julian Simpson

  • Producer Marcus Wilson

  • Writer Matthew Graham

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The Almost People

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Last broadcast on Fri, 19 Aug 2011, 19:45 on BBC Three (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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Science fiction drama. The Doctor must convince terrified factory workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making.

Credits

The Doctor
Matt Smith
Amy Pond
Karen Gillan
Rory
Arthur Darvill
Jimmy
Mark Bonnar
Buzzer
Marshall Lancaster
Jennifer
Sarah Smart
Foreman Cleaves
Raquel Cassidy
Dicken
Leon Vickers
Eye Patch Lady
Frances Barber
Adam
Edmond Moulton
Director
Julian Simpson
Producer
Marcus Wilson
Writer
Matthew Graham

Broadcasts

  1. Sat 28 May 2011
    18:45
  2. Sun 29 May 2011
    20:00
  3. Sun 29 May 2011
    22:45
  4. Mon 30 May 2011
    04:15
  5. Fri 3 Jun 2011
    19:00
  6. Fri 3 Jun 2011
    19:00
  7. Sat 4 Jun 2011
    04:00
  8. Fri 19 Aug 2011
    19:45

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Episode 6 of 13 from

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Duration

45 minutes

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