Information
Writer: Matt Jones
Director: James Strong
Script Editor: Simon Winstone
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 3rd June 2006
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 6.3m
Production Code: 2.8
Monsters/Villains: The Ood, The Beast
Year Set: 42nd Century
Location: Sanctuary Base 6, Krop Tor
Synopsis
Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole, in the first episode of this two-part story.
Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.
Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole, in the first episode of this two-part story.
Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.
Cast
Monster File: The Ood – Part 1
David Tennant – David Tennant
Rose Tyler – Billie Piper
Mr Jefferson - Danny Webb
Zachary Cross Flane - Shaun Parkes
Ida Scott - Claire Rushbrook
Toby Zedd - Will Thorp
Danny Bartock - Ronny Jhutti
Scooti Manista - MyAnna Buring
The Ood - Paul Kasey
The Voice of the Beast - Gabriel Woolf
The Voice of the Ood - Silas Carson
(second part in Planet of the Ood)
Home Planet: Ood-Sphere
Life Form: Humanoid/Oodkind
Life Form: Humanoid/Oodkind
The Ood were a telepathic humanoid species, who have slimy red tentacles on the lower portion of their faces. They have no vocal chords, and so speak to each other through telepathy. At the time of The Impossible Planet (43K2.1), every human had an Ood servant. They didn’t seem to mind this, as they said, if they didn’t serve, they would just die. There was a group, called Friends of the Ood, who believed the Ood should be free. In the story, the Ood became possessed by the Beast, and made them his ‘legion’, and took orders from him. Their eyes turned red, when the were possessed Their telepathic field raised to Basic 30, which meant that they were screaming in their heads, and then to Basic 100, which meant brain death! They started trying to kill the crew on Sanctuary Base 6. They were defeated when Danny Bartock, the expedition member in charge of them, broadcast a telepathic flare which reduced their field to Basic Zero. This created a "brainstorm" which caused them to collapse. When Krop Tor was sucked into the black hole, the Doctor was unable to save any of the Ood on the base, who had just been freed from the Beast.
Preceded by: The Idiot's Lantern - Followed by: The Satan Pit
