The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...
- Tim Latimer
- (as Thomas Sangster)
- Lucy Cartwright
- (as Lauren Wilson)
- Peasant
- (uncredited)
- Scarecrow
- (uncredited)
- Scarecow
- (uncredited)
Do yourself a favor and watch this episode. Excellent doesn't begin to describe it. It is remarkable in the same vein as "The Lion King"'s final moments. Marvelous.
DVD_Connoisseur writes that this is the stuff of legends and he/she is absolutely right.
The episode cuts to the heart of exactly how lonely, and thoroughly *dangerous* the Doctor can be. The kind of danger that presents itself to a human being swimming next to a whale. If the whale turns, the human being can be destroyed without having been noticed.
Very dark, extremely serious, but thoroughly entertaining, and thought-provoking. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a Time Lord?
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaScriptwriter Paul Cornell based this serial upon his 1995 Doctor Who novel, "Human Nature", making this two-parter the first time in series history that an original Doctor Who novel was adapted for television.
- GoofsWhen the daughter looks out of the school building it's raining but when it cuts to Baines there is no rain.
- Quotes
Son of Mine: He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing... the fury of the Time Lord... and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind... He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star
[Shows Son of Mine's Father screaming wrapped in chains]
Son of Mine: He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy
[Shows Wife of Mine falling from the TARDIS' open doors into a bright light screaming]
Son of Mine: To be imprisoned there... forever. He still visits my sister, once a year, every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her... but there she is. Can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror. Every mirror.
[shows a little girl peering out from a mirror]
Son of Mine: If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you just for a second, that's her. That's *always* her. As for me, I was suspended in time and the Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England as their protector.
[Son of Mine suspended from a Scarecrow's crossbrace, the doctor puts a bag over his head]
Son of Mine: We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure we did.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Doctor Who Confidential: Bad Blood (2007)
- SoundtracksDoctor Who Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Ron Grainer
Arranged by Murray Gold
Performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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- Filming locations
- St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, South Glamorgan, Wales, UK(Village exteriors and dance hall)
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- Runtime45 minutes
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