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Doctor Who (series 9)
The ninth series of the Television in the United Kingdom, British science fiction on television, science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'' premiered on 19 September 2015 with "The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who), The Magician's Apprentice" and concluded on 5 December 2015 with "Hell Bent (Doctor Who), Hell Bent". The series was led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, alongside executive producer Brian Minchin. Nikki Wilson, Peter Bennett (producer), Peter Bennett, and Derek Ritchie served as producers. The series is the ninth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and is the thirty-fifth season overall. This is the second series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which is disguised as a British police box. It also stars Jenna Coleman as the Doctor's companion, Clara Oswald, for her third and final series in the role. Also playing a major recurring role in th ...
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Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldi (; born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, director, writer and musician. He portrayed the Twelfth Doctor, twelfth incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in ''The Thick of It'' (2005–2012), for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film ''In the Loop'', Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film ''Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life''. He went on to write and direct the drama film ''Strictly Sinatra'' and directed two series of the sitcom ''Getting On (British TV series), Getting On''. Capaldi also played Mr Curry in the family fi ...
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Clara Oswald
Clara Oswald is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. She was created by series producer Steven Moffat and portrayed by Jenna Coleman. Clara was introduced in the seventh series as a new travelling companion of the series protagonist, the Doctor, in his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. Coleman received top billing alongside Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi for the duration of her time as a regular cast member. A featured actress in the series seven premiere, she became a regular for the second part of said series (2012), the 50th anniversary specials (2013), all of series eight (2014) and series nine (2015). Coleman also reappeared briefly in the 2017 Christmas special. This makes her one of the longest-serving companions in the show's history. In the series' narrative, Clara is introduced in the seventh series as three distinct, though similarly named, people living in different eras. The first two incarnations, Oswin Oswal ...
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The Woman Who Lived
"The Woman Who Lived" is the sixth episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 October 2015. It was written by Catherine Tregenna and directed by Ed Bazalgette. Set in 1651, about 800 years after the previous week's episode, "The Girl Who Died", the episode follows the alien time traveller the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), while on the trail of an alien artefact that came to Earth, reuniting with Ashildr (Maisie Williams), the woman the Doctor made immortal in the previous episode. Ashildr, having renamed herself "Me", has isolated herself from mortal humans and seeks to use the artefact herself to travel to other planets. Plot Alone and on the trail of an alien artefact, the Twelfth Doctor interrupts a highwayman known as "the Knightmare" carrying out a highway robbery of Lucie Fanshawe in 1651 England. The Doctor finds the artefact in the coach's luggage but the vehicle drives off befo ...
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The Girl Who Died
"The Girl Who Died" is the fifth episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 17 October 2015, and was written by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat and directed by Ed Bazalgette. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman) have 24 hours to train a group of weak Viking villagers for a war against aliens called the Mire shortly after the Mire slaughtered all of the village's warriors and a woman called Ashildr (Maisie Williams) subsequently declared war. Plot The Twelfth Doctor and Clara are taken to a village by some Vikings. The Doctor claims to be Odin, but the villagers are not fooled, as a figure also claiming to be Odin appears in the sky, offering to take the warriors to Valhalla. A squad of warriors in armoured suits materialise, shooting the Vikings with weapons that appear to disintegrate them. Clara and Ashildr, a ...
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Doctor Who (series 6)
The sixth series of British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'' was shown in two parts. The first seven episodes were broadcast from April to June 2011, beginning with "The Impossible Astronaut" and ending with mid-series finale "A Good Man Goes to War". The final six episodes aired from August to October, beginning with "Let's Kill Hitler" and ending with "The Wedding of River Song". The main series was preceded by " A Christmas Carol", the 2010 Christmas special. The series was led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, alongside executive producers Beth Willis and Piers Wenger. Sanne Wohlenberg, Marcus Wilson, and Denise Paul served as producers. The series was the sixth to air following the programme's revival in 2005 after the classic era aired between 1963 and 1989, and is the thirty-second season overall. The series stars Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TA ...
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The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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Sarah Dollard
Sarah Dollard (born 21 January 1980) is an Australian television screenwriter, living and working in the United Kingdom. She made her start in writing for television on the long-running Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', before moving to the UK in 2008. She created and wrote the Welsh romantic comedy series ''Cara Fi'' (Love Me), which debuted on S4C in 2014. In December 2020 it was announced that Dollard would adapt Frances Hardinge's supernatural horror novel ''Cuckoo Song (novel), Cuckoo Song'' for Netflix. She is 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy nominated for her work as a Producer on ''Bridgerton''. Career ''Neighbours'' Dollard worked on ''Neighbours'' for four years, as a storyliner, a script editor, a story editor, and a writer of over thirty episodes. Before leaving Australia, she also worked in script development for popular children's television series ''The Saddle Club'', and in development on other children's shows with the Australian Children's Television Foundat ...
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Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. His work includes writing for and acting in the television series ''Doctor Who'', '' Sherlock'', and '' Dracula''. Together with Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson, he is a member of the comedy team ''The League of Gentlemen''. Early life and education Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, England, to Winifred Rose (née O'Kane, 1931–2003) and Maurice Gatiss (1931–2021). He grew up opposite the Victorian psychiatric hospital there, and later in Trimdon, before his father, a colliery engineer, took a job as engineer at the School Aycliffe Mental Hospital in Heighington.Mark Lawson Talks to Mark Gatiss His family background is working class. His passions included watching ''Doctor Who'' and Hammer Horror films on television, reading Sherlock Holmes and H.G. Wells, and collecting fossils. All those interests have influenced his creative ...
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Peter Harness
Peter Harness (born 1976) is an English playwright, screenwriter and actor. He has contributed to programmes such as ''McMafia'', '' City of Vice'' and ''Case Histories''. Early life He grew up in Hornsea, East Yorkshire and attended Oriel College, Oxford where he studied English. He is a former president of the Oxford Revue. He was one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow, 2007 and is a recipient of the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award. Early works ''Mongoose'', his first original stage play, was performed at the Southwark Playhouse in 2003 (directed by Thea Sharrock) and later at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh and the Trafalgar Studios, London. The text is published by Nick Hern Books. In 2005, he adapted the M.R. James short story "A View From A Hill" for BBC4. It was the first in a new annual series of BBC '' Ghost Stories for Christmas''. Harness went on to write several other single films for BBC4, including a biopic of Frankie Howerd, ''Rather You Than Me'', sta ...
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Catherine Tregenna
Catherine Tregenna is a Welsh playwright, television screenwriter and actress. She has written episodes for ''EastEnders'', ''Casualty'' and for the first four series of ITV1 crime drama '' Law & Order: UK''. Career Tregenna began as an actress. She played the character Kirsty McGurk, for several years, in ''Pobol Y Cwm'' and a doctor in Satellite City. In 2001, she wrote the comedy play ''Art and Guff''. After, she transitioned back into television as a writer, co-writing the series ''Cowbois ac Injans'' and four episodes of the BBC's science fiction drama and ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''Torchwood'': " Out of Time", " Captain Jack Harkness", "Meat" and "Adam". As well as writing Meat, she also created the meat props shown in the episode. "Captain Jack Harkness" was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. In November 2014, it was confirmed that she would be writing an episode for the ninth series of ''Doctor Who'', "The Woman Who Lived". Sh ...
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Jamie Mathieson
Jamie Mathieson (born 1970) is a British television screenwriter. A former stand-up comedian, he has written for a number of UK science fiction TV shows, namely '' Being Human'', ''Dirk Gently'', and for series 8, 9 and 10 of '' Doctor Who''. Career He scripted the sci-fi comedy film ''Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel'', starring Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wootton, and Anna Faris. It was released in the UK and Ireland on 24 April 2009. He wrote the drama pilot ''ALT'' for Channel 4 in 2014, but was not picked up for series. However, he did create and write the sci-fi miniseries ''Tripped'' for E4. It was announced in October 2014 that Mathieson will be the lead writer of French science fiction series ''Métal Hurlant: Origins,'' a sequel to '' Métal Hurlant Chronicles'', which is currently in development. It is based on the popular comics anthology A comics anthology collects works in the medium of comics, typically from multiple series, and compiles ...
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Toby Whithouse
Toby Lawrence Whithouse (; born 5 July 1970) is an English actor, screenwriter and playwright. His highest-profile work has been the creation of the BBC Three supernatural television series '' Being Human''. He also created the Channel 4 television comedy-drama series ''No Angels'', the BBC America/BBC Two espionage drama series '' The Game'' and has written seven episodes for BBC One's ''Doctor Who''. His work on ''Doctor Who'' was primarily for the Doctors played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. Early life After initially attending art college (SEEVIC) in Benfleet to become a book illustrator, Whithouse decided to drop out of the course and turn to acting as a profession, training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a regular in the cast of the early 1990s BBC One drama series ''The House of Eliott'' and had a small role in the 1993 film '' Shadowlands''. Whithouse also appeared on stage in the West End, co-starring with Gene Wilder in ''Laughter on the 23r ...
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