Bad Wolf

"Bad Wolf" is the twelfth episode of the revived first series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 11 June 2005. It is the first of a two-part story. The concluding episode, "The Parting of the Ways", was first broadcast on 18 June 2005.

In the episode, set in the far future 100 years after the events of "The Long Game", the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his travelling companions Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) are secretly brought on board the game show broadcasting satellite Satellite Five by its controller (Martha Cope), so they can fight against the controller's "masters", the Dalek race.

Plot

The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack find themselves separated, waking up with temporary amnesia in various television game shows which are more fatal than their twenty-first century counterparts. On ''The Weakest Link'' and '' Big Brother'', anyone voted off will be instantly disintegrated. On '' What Not to Wear'', participants undergo brutal cosmetic surgery. The Doctor escapes ''Big Brother'' with a Housemate called Lynda, and Jack escapes ''What Not to Wear''. The Doctor discovers that they are on the space station Satellite Five, now known as "The Game Station", in the year 200,100. The station is now under the control of the Bad Wolf Corporation, which shares the name with a set of words that are following the Doctor and Rose through time and space. Lynda explains that 100 years ago, when the Doctor last visited, Satellite Five stopped broadcasting and the government and economy collapsed. The three search for Rose, hurrying up in a lift as Rose desperately attempts to answer questions. They find her just as she loses the final round of ''The Weakest Link'' and is promptly disintegrated by the Anne Droid.

The Doctor, Jack, and Lynda travel to the control room on Floor 500. There, they meet the Controller, a cybernetic human. The Controller uses the cover of a solar flare to speak directly to the Doctor, telling him that her masters cannot hear her during the flare. The Controller used a teleport called a transmat to hide the Doctor and his companions in the games as her masters do not watch them. The solar flare ends before she can tell the Doctor who is controlling her. Jack finds the TARDIS hidden in a restricted area, which he uses to figure out that the show's contestants are not actually disintegrated but transmatted off the station. The Controller begins giving the Doctor the coordinates that the transmat leads to, and is transmatted to her masters, which kill her. Rose wakes up on the floor of a spaceship and is approached by a Dalek. The Doctor and Jack discover a signal coming from the station that is hiding something at the edge of the solar system. They cancel the signal and reveal a fleet of Dalek spaceships. The Daleks open a communication channel to the Doctor, threatening to kill Rose if he interferes. The Doctor refuses to back down and vows to rescue Rose and wipe out the Daleks.

Production

A working title for the episode was "Gameshow World". It was the last of the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' episode titles to be revealed. Prior to this, the episode was referred to in promotional literature as "The Parting of the Ways (Part 1)", with "Part 2" eventually becoming simply "The Parting of the Ways".The Doctor Who Complete New Series Boxset
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The concept of the Anne Droid and a futuristic version of ''The Weakest Link'' was pitched by Russell T Davies in his second meeting with the BBC about bringing back ''Doctor Who'' in 2000 or 2001. The idea had come from his trip to New York City for the launch of the American version of ''Queer as Folk'', where he had seen "a vast screen in Times Square with a gigantic Anne Robinson blasting us tiny mortals with her voice" - This screen was promoting the American Version of ''The Weakest Link''.

The production team originally intended to show Jack's naked buttocks on screen. The scene was shot, but the BBC
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