Information
Writer: Russell T. Davies
Director: James Strong
Script Editor: Brian Minchin
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 25th December 2007
Duration: 72 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 13.31m
Production Code: 4.X
Monsters/Villains: Max Capricorn, Heavenly Hosts
Year Set: Christmas 2008
Location: Titanic Cruiseliner
Synopsis
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race.
Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?
Cast
David Tennant – The Doctor
Kylie Minogue – Astrid Peth
George Costigan – Max Capricorn
Clive Swift – Mr Copper
Gray O'Brien – Rickston Slade
Russell Tovey – Midshipman Alonzo Frame
Debbie Chazen – Foon Van Hoff
Clive Rowe – Morvin Van Hoff
Jimmy Vee – Bannakaffalatta
Geoffrey Palmer – Captain Hardaker
Bernard Cribbins – Wilfred Mott
Nicholas Witchell – Himself
Paul Kasey – The Host
Jessica Martin – Voice of the Queen
Villain File: Max Capricorn
Home Planet: Sto
Life Form: Stoan Cyborg
Max Capricorn was the head of Max Capricorn Cruiseliners when the company was running smoothly. Max Capricorn was a cyborg (though only his head was still recognisably humanoid). He sabotaged one of his ships, the Titanic's voyage so he could get revenge on his company for sacking him! The fired him from his own company. On the Titanic there were robots called the heavenly hosts, which were made to look like angels, for the Christmassy feel. He reprogrammed them to his own orders, and ordered them to kill all witnesses on the ship, after he’d blackmailed the Captain to deactivate the shields, just before a meteoroid strike, and destroying part of it. Doing this, the engines would cut out, leaving the Titanic to fall into the Earth, and, due to the nuclear storm engines, would kill all life on Earth. Max Capricorn would be safe, as he kept in hiding in a omnistate impact chamber, in which nothing would harm him. The board members of his company would then be removed, being accused of mass murder. Using the money left behind, hee would retire then to the beaches of Penhaxico Two. Waitress Astrid Peth was able to stop him, but sacrificing herself. She used a forklift to lift his entire cybernetic casing and him over the side of one ot the Titanic's platforms. During the struggle Max' wheels cut off the brakes of the forklift. Both Max and Astrid tumbled down into the flaming engines far below.
Preceded by: Time Crash - Followed by: Partners in Crime
