Information
Writer: Russell T. Davies
Director: Euros Lyn
Script Editor: Simon Winstone
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 25th December 2006
Duration: 60 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 9.3m
Production Code: 3.X
Monsters/Villains: Empress of the Racnoss, Roboforms
Year Set: Christmas 2007
Location: London, Earth
Synopsis
Bride-to-be Donna mysteriously vanishes as she prepares to marry her boyfriend Lance in a glittering ceremony on Christmas Eve. She suddenly appears, to her complete astonishment, in the Tardis with the Doctor.
As the Tardis races to get to the church on time, the Doctor and Donna are closely watched by the sinister figure of The Empress of Racnoss from her throne in her spaceship.
It soon becomes clear that Donna is the key to an ancient alien plan to destroy the Earth…
Cast
The Doctor – David Tennant
Donna Noble – Catherine Tate
Empress - Sarah Parish
Lance Bennett - Don Gilet
Geoff Noble - Howard Attfield
Sylvia Noble - Jacqueline King
Vicar - Trevor Georges
Taxi Driver - Glen Wilson
Nerys - Krystal Archer
Rhodri - Rhodri Meilir
Robot Santa - Paul Kasey
Monster File: Empress of the Racnoss
Home Planet: Unknown
Life Form: Racnoss
Life Form: Racnoss
The Empress of the Racnoss was the leader of the Racnoss empire, which the Gallifreyans destroyed 4.6 billion years ago, but the Empress was the only one of her kind that survived and didn’t hibernate in the Earth's core. Instead she thrived in her ship, the Webstar, orbiting Earth for billions of years until the Torchwood Institute developed Huon particles with which she could revive her race. She met the Doctor in a secret location under the Thames Barrier, trying to awaken her long-dead race ("her children") with the Huon energy within the bodies of Donna Noble and Lance Bennett after being fed it within drinks. Lance was originally affiliated with the Empress, however she sent him down to the centre of the Earth. The plan was stopped when the Doctor used controls stolen from a Robot Santa to stop the Santas shooting him and to bring bombs disguised as baubles from a Robotic Christmas Tree flying around the secret room and then detonating, crashing into pipes, and letting the Thames flood into the room and surrounding the Empress with fire, and then finally drowning the Racnoss with the Thames water. She teleported to her Webstar, however the lack of Huon energy left the Webstar defenceless and allowed the British Army to destroy it.
Preceded by: Doomsday - Followed by: Smith and Jones
