Information
Writer: Paul Cornell
Director: Charles Palmer
Script Editor: Lindsay Alford
Producer: Suzie Liggat
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 26th May 2007
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 7.74m
Production Code: 3.8
Monsters/Villains: The Family of Blood, Scarecrows
Year Set: 1913
Location: Farringham School, Norfolk, Earth
Synopsis
It's 1913 in England, and an ordinary schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space and a mysterious blue box.
But, when lights in the sky herald the arrival of something strange and terrible, Smith's maid, Martha, has to convince him that he alone can save the world.
Cast
David Tennant – The Doctor
Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones
Jessica Hynes – Joan Redfern
Harry Lloyd – Jeremy Baines
Thomas Sangster – Tim Latimer
Tom Palmer – Hutchinson
Pip Torrens – Rocastle
Rebekah Staton – Jenny
Gerard Horan – Mr. Clark
Lauren Wilson – Lucy Cartwright
Matthew White – Phillips
Derek Smith – Doorman
Peter Bourke – Mr. Chambers
Monster File: Scarecrows
Home Planet: Earth
Life Form: Human
The scarecrows were made by the Family of Blood, who had come to Farringham School in 1913, to track down the Doctor, who was hiding as a human. They used them as their armies. They looked like ordinary English straw men, that were put in fields. They were not cybernetic in any way. They were just made of, simply, burlap and straw, and could not talk. According to Son of Mine, one of the Family of Blood, he made them using ‘molecular fringe animation, fashioned in the shape of straw men’. These scarecrows kidnapped Humans and took them to their spaceship to be used as bodies for the incorporeal Family. They were also used as an army to attack a boys school in 1913, where many were shot down. Eventually, they re-animated to do more of the Family's bidding. They were again inanimate after the family's defeat. Son of Mine was placed in suspended animation inside one of the scarecrows, by the Doctor, when they were defeated.
Life Form: Human
The scarecrows were made by the Family of Blood, who had come to Farringham School in 1913, to track down the Doctor, who was hiding as a human. They used them as their armies. They looked like ordinary English straw men, that were put in fields. They were not cybernetic in any way. They were just made of, simply, burlap and straw, and could not talk. According to Son of Mine, one of the Family of Blood, he made them using ‘molecular fringe animation, fashioned in the shape of straw men’. These scarecrows kidnapped Humans and took them to their spaceship to be used as bodies for the incorporeal Family. They were also used as an army to attack a boys school in 1913, where many were shot down. Eventually, they re-animated to do more of the Family's bidding. They were again inanimate after the family's defeat. Son of Mine was placed in suspended animation inside one of the scarecrows, by the Doctor, when they were defeated.
Preceded by: 42 - Followed by: The Family of Blood
