Information
Writer: Gareth Roberts
Director: Graeme Harper
Script Editor: Lindsay Alford
Producer: Suzie Liggat
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson
Originally Broadcast: 17th May 2008
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 8.41m
Production Code: 4.7
Monsters/Villains: Vespiform/Reverend Golightly
Year Set: 3rd December 1926
Location: Eddison House, Earth
Synopsis
In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 10 days. Was it amnesia? A nervous breakdown? Or a Giant Alien Wasp..?
The Doctor and Donna join forces with the world's most famous crime novelist to encounter a body in the library, poisoned cocktails and a Vespiform seeking revenge.
Cast
David Tennant - The Doctor
Catherine Tate - Donna Noble
Fenella Woolgar – Agatha Christie
Felicity Kendal – Lady Clemency Eddison
Felicity Jones – Robina Redmond
Christopher Benjamin – Colonel Hugh
Tom Goodman-Hill – Reverend Golightly
Ian Barritt – Professor Peach
David Quilter – Greeves
Adam Rayner – Roger Curbishley
Daniel King – Davenport
Charlotte Eaton – Mrs Hart
Leena Dhingra – Miss Chandrakala
Alexander McDonald – Footman
Monster File: Vespiform
Place of Origin: Silfrax Galaxy
Life Form: Insectoid
Vespiforms are an insectoid race that look like extremely over-sized wasps. They were able to transform into other species. When they did transform, they would give off a bright pink-purple glow, and left behind morphic residue. When they are in another form, they can breed with members of the species its form is. Vespiforms also had telepathic recorders, an essential part of their mind, which could record motivations for them. One such recorder, the Firestone, ended up in the hands of Clemency Eddison in 1885. In 1885, one arrived on Earth and had a child with Clemency Eddison. It drowned in the monsoon of that year. The child was sent to be adopted and eventually ended up as a reverend, Arnold Golightly. At the age of 40 in 1926, had discovered his Vespiform nature. Because of the influence of Agatha Christie's novels and the Firestone, Golighty started committing various murders before Agatha Christie controlled him to end up near a lake. Donna Noble arrived with the Doctor and threw the Firestone into the lake. Golighty (in Vespiform form) followed and drowned, but relieved Agatha of his connection with her in his dying moment.
Preceded by: The Doctor's Daughter - Followed by: Silence in the Library
