The Lodger
- Episode aired Jul 10, 2010
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
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After the TARDIS teleports without him, the doctor tries to find out what is stopping it from landing and traces it to a seemingly ordinary, two storey house.After the TARDIS teleports without him, the doctor tries to find out what is stopping it from landing and traces it to a seemingly ordinary, two storey house.After the TARDIS teleports without him, the doctor tries to find out what is stopping it from landing and traces it to a seemingly ordinary, two storey house.
Tom Baker
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jon Davey
- Call Centre Worker
- (uncredited)
- …
Christopher Eccleston
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
William Hartnell
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Andy Jones
- Avatar Young Man
- (uncredited)
Paul McGann
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jon Pertwee
- The Doctor
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ben Peyton
- Avatar
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Billie Piper
- Rose Tyler
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gareth Roberts
- Steven Moffat
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn about the middle, the Doctor goes to play in a game of football. When Matt Smith was 16, before he became an actor, he was a football player for Leicester City Football Club, but had to stop due to issues with spondylolysis.
- GoofsDespite the doctor filling the teapot with a whole box full of teabags, when he tips the liquid into Craig's mouth we can see into the teapot to see it's clearly only filled with water.
- Quotes
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. Well, they call me the Doctor; I don't know why. I call me the Doctor, too. I still don't know why.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Doctor Who Confidential: Extra Time (2010)
Featured review
Change of Pace, Small Comedy Episode
In between saving planets the Doctor takes a few days off to sort out a young man and woman who won't admit they love each other, and to deal with the thing at the top of the stairs.
Gareth Roberts' comic script, based on his comic-strip -- originally featuring the 9th Doctor and Mickey Smith -- is quite a bit over the top, but all the more amusing for that as the Doctor simply takes over the life of his flatmate and replaces him. With a title that suggests a Jack the Ripper story and a plot set-up that looks positively Lovecraftian, the monster of the week actually takes up only a small part of the plot. That seems to be par for this season as the new production team reinvents the Doctor -- as, indeed, almost every one has.
Matt Smith shows again in this one, he is a fine comic actor. I quite understand the complaints about his performances, but I think those derive, in no small part, from the increased complexity of writing for this season. Eccleston and Tennant, Smith's two predecessors in the role, and, really, the only standards that most viewers have, played the Doctor as big and emotionally simple, driven by only a few key issues -- that's the way the role was written and they performed engagingly with big performances. But Matt Smith has his role written as someone who has lived more than nine centuries and character notes from previous versions keep showing through. In this one he seems to be channeling William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, the first two doctors, with hints of other versions. James Corden makes a fine put-upon second banana.
I have missed the smaller, more overtly comic scripts. Under Russell Davies the stories kept getting bigger and bigger, each season topping the last in menace and threat. The constant insistence of saving the universe ignored the fact that most people, indeed, most villains, don't want to own everything. Sometimes they want a good meal or some money and are not too fussy as to how they go about getting them. Robert Holmes specialized in these small-time baddies and as a change of pace they helped the tone of the series and the complexity of the universe. Steven Moffat's game-changing strategy, including a clearer understanding of what frightens people and greater concentration on character is refreshing in more than one sense of the word.
Gareth Roberts' comic script, based on his comic-strip -- originally featuring the 9th Doctor and Mickey Smith -- is quite a bit over the top, but all the more amusing for that as the Doctor simply takes over the life of his flatmate and replaces him. With a title that suggests a Jack the Ripper story and a plot set-up that looks positively Lovecraftian, the monster of the week actually takes up only a small part of the plot. That seems to be par for this season as the new production team reinvents the Doctor -- as, indeed, almost every one has.
Matt Smith shows again in this one, he is a fine comic actor. I quite understand the complaints about his performances, but I think those derive, in no small part, from the increased complexity of writing for this season. Eccleston and Tennant, Smith's two predecessors in the role, and, really, the only standards that most viewers have, played the Doctor as big and emotionally simple, driven by only a few key issues -- that's the way the role was written and they performed engagingly with big performances. But Matt Smith has his role written as someone who has lived more than nine centuries and character notes from previous versions keep showing through. In this one he seems to be channeling William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, the first two doctors, with hints of other versions. James Corden makes a fine put-upon second banana.
I have missed the smaller, more overtly comic scripts. Under Russell Davies the stories kept getting bigger and bigger, each season topping the last in menace and threat. The constant insistence of saving the universe ignored the fact that most people, indeed, most villains, don't want to own everything. Sometimes they want a good meal or some money and are not too fussy as to how they go about getting them. Robert Holmes specialized in these small-time baddies and as a change of pace they helped the tone of the series and the complexity of the universe. Steven Moffat's game-changing strategy, including a clearer understanding of what frightens people and greater concentration on character is refreshing in more than one sense of the word.
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- boblipton
- Jul 11, 2010
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- Lanelay Hall Hotel, Pontyclun, Wales, UK(Craig's workplace)
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD
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