Empire of Death

This Story: Series 1 Episode 8. Production code 14.10
Overall: Story 311b Episode 889
Airdate: 22 Jun 2024
Written by Russell T Davies
Directed by Jamie Donoughue

Notes

• The screenshot of Carole Anne Ford as Susan Foreman comes from the recent colourization of the 1963 Serial “The Daleks“.
• Past references #1: The Doctor mentions a few times in the past he’s visited: 1066 (The Time Meddler), 1999 (The TV Movie), and 2005 (Rose).
• Past references #2: The Doctor mentions a few planets that are dead. They were Telos (Attack of the Cybermen), Karn (The Brain of Morbius), the Ood Sphere (Planet of the Ood), Skaro (several, starting with The Daleks).
• Past references #3: Towards the end of the episode, the Doctor mentions planets that have returned. They are: Vox (earlier in this story), Vortis (The Web Planet), Tigella (Creature from the Pit), Messaline (The Doctor’s Daughter), Calufrax (The Pirate Planet), Spiridon (Planet of the Daleks), Telos (Tomb of the Cybermen), Shan Shen (Turn Left), the Ood Sphere (Planet of the Ood).
• Past references #4: The Time Window shows scenes of the Tardis having landed in many places.  They are: Ribos (The Ribos Operation), Gallifrey (The Five Doctors), Thoros-Beta (Trial of a TimeLord: Midwarp), inside Paradise Towers, on ancient Earth (City of Death), San Francisco (The TV Movie), Bad Wolf Bay (Journey’s End), Cardiff (Utopia), the Statue of Liberty (Daleks in Manhattan), Mercy (A Town Called Mercy).

 

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