Lucky Day

This Story: Series 2 Episode 4. Production code 15.3
Overall: Story 316 Episode 894
Airdate: 3 May 2025
Written by Pete McTighe
Directed by Peter Hoar

Notes

• Melanie Bush is mentioned in this episode, but does not appear.
• The events of the episode “The Devil’s Chord” are said to have taken right before this one (“we were just with the Beatles half an hour ago)
• Features the re-appearance of Lachele Carl as Trinity Wells a newsreader.  She had last appeared in the David Tennant episode “The Giggle“.
• Several old Doctor Who stories are mentioned as possible hoaxes – “The Invasion“, “Death in Heaven“, “The Christmas Invasion“, & “The Web of Fear“.
• Chez Alison is referenced here – this is the same shop that Donna Noble bought her wedding dress in in “The Runaway Bride“.  Speaking of Runaway Bride, the plot of that (Lance & Donna) is similar to Conrad & Ruby here.
• The conspiracy theory group in here called “Think Tank” is an intentional reference to a group of the same name from the 1975 story “Robot“.
• The scene at the end with Conrad and the Doctor on the set of the Tardis was filmed on 23 Nov 2023, the actual 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.
• UNIT’s Time Window is referenced – we saw that in “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” & “Empire of Death“.
• There is a good interview with the author Pete McTighe on the official Doctor Who site here where he speaks at length about this episode.
• ADMIN NOTE: This post was actually made on 30 Aug 2025.  It was back dated to appear on the date the episode aired.

Links

[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Official BBC Page | UK DVD | UK Blu-Ray | UK Steelbook ]