Bad Wolf

Information

Writer: Russell T. Davies
Director: Joe Ahearne
Script Editor: Helen Raynor
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Mal Young

Originally Broadcast: 11th June 2005
Duration: 42 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 6.8m
Production Code: 1.12
Monsters/Villains: Killer Gameshows, Daleks
Year Set: 200,100
Location: The Gamestation (Satellite Five)

Synopsis

The TARDIS crew fight for their lives on the Game Station in Russell T. Davies' penultimate adventure through time and space.

The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack, have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station, but a far more dangerous threat is lurking, just out of sight. The Doctor realises that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching.

Cast

Christopher Eccleston – The Doctor

Billie Piper – Rose Tyler

John Barrowman – Captain Jack

Jo Joyner - Lynda

Jamie Bradley - Strood

Abi Eniola - Crosbie

Davina McCall - Voice of Davinadroid

Paterson Joseph - Rodrick

Jenna Russell - Floor Manager

Anne Robinson - Voice of Anne Droid

Trinny Woodall - Voice of Trine-E

Susannah Constantine - Voice of Zu-Zana

Jo Stone-Fewings - Male Programmer

Nisha Nayar - Female Programmer

Dominic Burgess - Agorax

Karren Winchester - Fitch

Kate Loustau - Colleen

Sebastian Armesto - Broff

Martha Cope - Controller

Sam Callis - Security Guard

Alan Ruscoe, Paul Casey - Androids

Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, David Hankinson - Dalek Operators

Nicholas Briggs - Dalek Voice

Spacestation File: Gamestation

Satellite Five, later known as the Game Station, was a spacestation in orbit around the Earth, which broadcasted 600 channels of non-stop news to humans. It had a central cylindrical structure ringed by three hoops. The purpose of the hoops was unknown. Satellite Five was 501 floors tall. Assuming a regulation floor height shown onscreen as five meters, and giving approximately two 'floors' on each terminus of the central cylinder for the 'caps' seen, this gives the Station a total height of 2,525 meters without the (unknown) hull thickness. It went online from the year 190,909, during the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. It lasted until the year 200,000, when Satellite Five shut down, due to the actions of the Doctor, after he realised that humanity was being manipulated by and unknown source, later found out to be the Jagrafess. This had actually made matters worse, as humanity was reduced to slavery. One hundred years later, Satellite Five had become the Gamestation, run by the Bad Wolf Cooperation and the controller. Any person, at any time would be teleported away from where they were, into a deadly, killer game show! The main aim of the game was to try and get yourself out alive! There were such shows as the Weakest Link and Big Brother. If you failed in the games, you were (supposedly) disintegrated. The Doctor, Rose and Jack ended up on the station. The Doctor found out that the Daleks had been in fact controlling humanity, hiding their transmissions within the Gamestation, and Satellite Five, helped from the Jagrafess. The Doctor realised that the Daleks were controlling humanity, the emperor harvesting humans collected from the shows, and so the humans had not actually died when they were 'disintegrated' from the Gamestation, and teleported onto the Dalek ships, to be made into new Daleks!

Preceded by: Boom Town - Followed by: The Parting of the Ways