Information
Writer: Russell T. Davies
Director: Colin Teague
Script Editor: Simon Winstone
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 23rd June 2007
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 7.51m
Production Code: 3.12
Monsters/Villains: The Master, The Toclafane
Year Set: 2008
Location: London, Earth
Synopsis
Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, and his reign of terror begins.
This is only the start of his ambitions, however, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Toclafane.
An audacious plan, spanning the whole of time and space, begins to close around the Earth.
Cast
David Tennant – The Doctor
Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones
John Simm – The Master
Adjoa Andoh – Francine Jones
Trevor Laird – Clive Jones
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Tish Jones
Reggie Yates – Leo Jones
Alexandra Moen – Lucy Saxon
Elize du Toit – Sinister Woman
Nichola McAuliffe – Vivien Rook
Nicholas Gecks – Albert Dumfries
Colin Stinton – President
Olivia Hill – BBC Newsreader
Daniel Ming – Chinese Newsreader
Lachele Carl – US Newsreader
Sharon Osbourne – Herself
McFly – Themselves
Ann Widdecombe – Herself
Zoe Thorne, Gerard Logan, and Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis – Sphere voices
Monster File: The Toclafane
Home Planet: Utopia
Life Form: Spherical Human-Based Cyborgs
The Toclafane are actually the humans from Malcassairo, from Utopia. Humans travelled to the planet Utopia, finding it dark, cold, and inhospitable. To survive, the Human-race evolved into the Toclafane, their final evolution. The Master flew there in the Doctor’s Tardis, with his wife, Lucy, and saw what the human race had become. He offered them the Earth, which was all part of his plan, and took them back in time! The Toclafane were cyborgs, the faces of Humans integrated into metal spheres that are sealed shut, making themselves "pretty". They became a hive mind, making themselves almost invincible, as well as evil and child-like in their personality. They are childlike because they tried degressing themselves into children. They could glide through the air, almost indestructible, even through space. Concealed within the sphere are spikes and blades that can extend. A Toclafane can use them to slice up a Human being. The spheres are also equipped with a laser that can turn Humans into ash. The spheres can be shot down by an electrical surge of 58.5 kiloamperes, transferred charge 510 mega joules precisely, however, this is most unlikely due to the amount of power and aming involved. The Master announced that he’d made contact with a race of friendly aliens. The Toclafane trusted the Master. The Master had, by this time, converted the TARDIS into a paradox machine, allowing the six billion Toclafane to invade Earth in their own past and change their own past history. With the Toclafane, the Master built the beginnings of a new Time Lord Empire with the army of six billion Toclafane.
Preceded by: Utopia - Followed by: Last of the Timelords
