The Doctor : Right then, follow me. Rickston Slade : Hang on a minute. Who put you in charge, and who the hell are you anyway? The Doctor : I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous.
I'm years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that? Rickston Slade : No. The Doctor : In that case, allons-y. Sign In. Doctor Who. Adventure Drama Sci-Fi. A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth, a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed headed mastermind - it's just another Christmas for the Doctor Read all A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth, a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed headed mastermind - it's just another Christmas for the Doctor Director James Strong.
Russell T. Davies showrunner Steven Moffat showrunner Sydney Newman uncredited. The second-most-watched programme of its week and indeed of the entire of , Damned took the crown from part two of The Ark in Space. However, it would be displaced about seven months later by Journey's End , which was the first episode of Doctor Who ever to win its week of original transmission. A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth , a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed-headed mastermind — it's just another Christmas for the Tenth Doctor Shocked by the sudden event, the Doctor recovers and examines a fallen life preserver from the wreckage, which bears the name Titanic on it.
He becomes even more alarmed, but immediately rushes to the console to reverse the breach. Upon exit, he steps into a room filled with people in fancy-dress, metal angels, and a little red alien walking casually among the crowd. The Doctor walks over to a window and realises from the view that the ship is actually a spaceship replica of the infamous sunken vessel.
An announcement over the PA informs that the ship has arrived at Sol 3 Earth , and welcomes everyone to Christmas. Sometime later, the Doctor reemerges into the dining area wearing a tuxedo.
He meets lively waitress Astrid Peth , who informs him that the ship has come from planet Sto to observe the humans celebrating their holiday. The Doctor tells her he travels a lot, to which Astrid envies; he reveals that he's a stowaway. Liking him, Astrid offers to get him a drink and not report him.
Seeing a robot angel, the Doctor asks it for information; the robot is called a Host , which gives information to tourists. The Host reveals that the ship's namesake is indeed derived from the notoriety of the human vessel. The Doctor then asks about the operating company, to which the Host starts sparking. The crew apologise and quickly remove the Host, mentioning recent complaints of these robots malfunctioning.
At the bridge, the captain grants his subordinates permission to take leave for drinks due to the holidays. However, midshipman Alonzo Frame stays behind, informing the captain that at least two crewmates are needed on deck at any given time.
The captain congratulates him on being thorough. Still roaming the diner, the Doctor enjoys the company of Morvin and Foon Van Hoff , sharing a meal with them and talking about one of Foon's favourite shows By the Light of the Asteroid. Foon won the trip from the show by correctly guessing a trivia question over the phone. They befriend the Doctor when he uses his sonic screwdriver to burst the cork on a wine bottle, wildly spraying a group of passengers who are mocking the Van Hoffs' clothes.
Hearing "Red 67" called, the Van Hoffs tell the Doctor that means that they're going on a trip to Earth to see how the humans celebrate. The Doctor decides to join them, using his psychic paper ; he even makes Astrid his plus one to help her see another world. The ship's historian and guide, Mr Copper , tells the Red 67 assembly that they will be visiting London , U. However, he then gives dated and mangled information about the country and Christmas: saying Santa Claus is their god and married to Virgin Mary, and that the people of U.
The Doctor, unable to believe Copper's incompetence, asks where he got his information from; Mr Copper explains he has a degree in Earthonomics. The red alien, Bannakaffalatta , arrives, being one of the Red 67s; the Doctor dissuades him to go down to Earth as he's not even disguised and will cause a panic. Mr Copper abruptly teleports the assembly onto a London street—surprisingly deserted. The Doctor is suspicious as the streets should be filled with shoppers on Christmas Eve.
Mr Copper tells everyone that he has a prepaid card to pay for trinkets if they wish; although he does warn them to watch out as "they start boxing any day now.
Astrid Peth finds herself in an alien city — London , on Christmas Eve. The Doctor and Astrid greet a newspaper stall owner named Wilfred. When asked about London's vacancy, Wilfred laughs and points up to the sky, stating everyone is worried about another alien attack at Christmas. The Sycorax and Racnoss attacks in the last two consecutive Christmases has instilled public fear.
Aside from few people such as the Queen and her staff, BBC broadcaster Nicholas Witchell , and Wilfred himself, everyone has fled the city for the duration of the holiday due to the fear of another alien attack.
In the middle of the conversation, the party is abruptly returned to the ship due to a power failure. The Doctor investigates the failure's cause using an intercom and discovers that meteors are approaching, but the ship's shields are offline. The Doctor warns Captain Hardaker but is carried off by the steward, as he is unauthorised to use the system.
The Doctor breaks free and tries to warn everyone, but is forcibly taken away from the microphone and removed from the party. The Doctor gasps to a guest to look out the window. One of the passengers, Rickston Slade , sees a tiny meteor smash through the window and follows the Doctor and the others pleading to the steward.
Midshipman Alonso tries to get the shields back online, but is shot by the captain. The captain reveals that since he himself was dying implicitly due to illness , he took a bribe of money sent to his family in exchange for ensuring the ship is destroyed. Three meteors crash into the side of the Titanic , resulting in massive damage and casualties. The captain is killed in the wreck, and Alonso survives with a gunshot wound.
With the teleport system offline and the engines losing power, the Titanic approaches an extinction -level collision with Earth. The Doctor makes contact with Alonso and advises him to maintain the engines until the Doctor can arrive to the bridge.
The Doctor then assembles the present party to come with him to save the ship. Slade questions this initiative, to which the Time Lord adamantly reveals his identity and promises that he will save everyone. During the journey, the Doctor again questions Mr Copper's credibility on Earth knowledge.
Copper admits that after spending his life as a travelling salesman with nothing to show for it, he acquired fraudulent credentials for his job—a crime with a minimum 10 year sentence that he might risk when the facts come out during the ensuing investigation.
Slade is also complicating matters by only being concerned with his own well being, and insulting the Van Hoffs at every opportunity. The Doctor's party find a Host deactivated, the Van Hoffs attempt to repair it to help the party obtain more information, while the rest of the party clear off debris in their path.
Foon admits to Morvin that she only won the tickets because she phoned the competition five-thousand times, which racked up a 5, credit phone bill that will leave them deeply in debt.
Morvin laughs this matter off and tells her that they will find a way to pay it off. Astrid crawls through the blocking debris to follow Bannakaffalatta's lead, but finds him incapacitated. He confides to Astrid his identity as a cyborg , a marginalised group in Sto society. Astrid helps him up, noting that cyborgs have been given equal rights in recent times, and that he can live without shame.
Alonso receives a call from the chefs of Kitchen Number 5 and detects more survivors throughout the ship. Then, three Hosts appear and proceed to kill the chefs with their spinning halos. Hearing the deaths over the intercom, Alonso warns the Doctor that the Hosts have turned hostile. At that moment, the Van Hoffs activate their Host, who proceeds to strangle Morvin. The Doctor wrestles Morvin free, and the party retreats.
Mr Copper struggles to widen a gap in the debris for the Van Hoffs, forcing the Doctor to interrupt the Host with an information override. He inquires to the Host and learns that the robots are being controlled from Deck Mr Copper drops the gap, causing the rubble to crush the Host's head.
The party reach the engine room, in which there is a sheer drop to the engines below. The only way across is a narrow metal bridge that the party then begins to cross. When Morvin says that he and Foon will go last over the bridge, a part of the floor gives away, causing him to fall to his death. Foon, devastated, blames the Doctor for Morvin's death despite his promise to save them. More Hosts arrive, attempting to breach the door before taking the alternate route of flight into the chamber.
The party haphazardly defend themselves with bits of metal, with most of them still on the bridge. Bannakaffalatta then says that he is proud to be a cyborg, and emits an electromagnetic pulse from his cybernetic implants, eliminating the Hosts but using up all his power in the process. He dies in Astrid's arms, admiring her beauty. A lone surviving Host recovers, the Doctor frantically and correctly guesses another override. The Doctor learns that the Hosts have been instructed to kill the survivors to leave no witnesses aboard.
The Host then reminds the Doctor that he had used up his three allotted questions, and resumes its rampage. Foon seizes the Host with a rope and drops off the bridge, weighing the Host down with her into the abyss below.
The Doctor then makes a grim promise that "no more" will die. The survivors take Bannakaffalatta's EMP unit with them as their only effective weapon against the Hosts. The Doctor decides to break off from the party to investigate Deck He advises them to head to the reception deck with the goal of transmitting an SOS signal, giving them the EMP unit and the sonic screwdriver.
Astrid, likely to be unemployed after the disaster, asks the Doctor if she could come with him after they escape, to which he agrees; as he departs, she steals a kiss. On the way to Deck 31, the Hosts corner the Doctor in a kitchen and he narrowly avoids death by using the override. While questioning, he guesses that the Hosts were ordered to kill all passengers and crew. However, he as a stowaway would belong into neither category, so he should be instead taken to whomever is currently in charge.
The Hosts confirm the Doctor's argument, and take him to their leader. Arriving at Deck 31, the Doctor sees that the rest of the ship's power is going to an indestructible " impact chamber ". It opens, revealing the cruise liner owner, Max Capricorn.
Max is a human cyborg surviving with only his head housed in a small wheeled vehicle, he hid from the public for decades due to the persecution of cyborgs. The Doctor stalls his own execution by verbally figuring out Max's motives: Max was forced out by the company's board of directors after running the company into ruin, and now he is seeking revenge by sabotaging the company's reputation with the potential planetary disaster.
Max congratulates this theory, saying that he will use the impact chamber to survive the crash, then eventually retire in luxury. The Doctor taunts Max, calling him a loser and saying that he can't even sink the Titanic.
Max laughs that he can remotely shut off the engines, the engines shut down and the ship begins falling toward Earth. Astrid, who had used a short-range teleport to arrive, seizes Max with a fork-lift truck. In the struggle, a Host's blade destroys the brakes of the fork-lift, forcing Astrid and Max to run off a precipice and fall into the fiery engine of the ship.
With the Hosts no longer under Capricorn's control, the Doctor becomes the next highest authority they must obey. Two Hosts hold his arms and fly him at rapid speed up to the bridge, punching their way through the floor just as the ship plunges into Earth's atmosphere. Working with Alonso, he uses the heat from the entry to try to start the ship's auxiliary engines, but discovers that they are headed straight for one of the few places in London currently inhabited: Buckingham Palace.
He quickly notifies the palace to evacuate the building, which the Titanic narrowly misses as the ship pulls up, now back under control. The Queen, in her dressing gown and curls, thanks the Doctor as he pilots the ship back into the sky.
With the danger over, the Doctor suddenly realises that there might yet be hope for Astrid after all. A safety feature of the ship's teleport system is that, in case of a lethal accident, it automatically dematerializes the user into stasis.
Since she was wearing a teleport bracelet upon her death, her pattern might still be stored in its buffers. Heavenly Host uncredited Johnathon Farrell Ship's Officer uncredited Murray Gold Band Member uncredited Lucy Hassan Teleporting Guest uncredited Nathan Head Glamorous Man uncredited Tobias James-Samuels Waiter uncredited Andy Jones Teleporting Guest uncredited Claudio Laurini Steward uncredited Tat Wa Lay Waiter uncredited Yamit Mamo Singer uncredited Laura Marklew Posh Guest uncredited Sally Martin Guest uncredited Ruari Mears Steward uncredited Roger Shepherd Ship's Officer uncredited Rachel Sophia-Anthony Posh Guest uncredited Emma Raine Walker Guest uncredited Produced by Phil Collinson German voice dubbing: Bernard Cribbins uncredited Richard Jenkins German voice dubbing: Kylie Minogue uncredited David Mansell Getting Started Contributor Zone ».
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