A Night with the Stars


PRODUCTION INFO

Name

A Night with the Stars

Series

Special

First Transmitted

14/11/13

Final Ratings

N/A

BOXSET RELEASE

50th Anniversary Limited Edition

DVD RELEASE

50th Anniversary Limited Edition

GALLERY

CAST

Regular Cast

Matt Smith (The Doctor), Brian Cox (himself)

CREW

Written by Steve Thompson
Directed by Ashley Way
Produced by not credited

SYPNOSIS

With lecture notes in hand, Brian Cox enters the door to the make-up artist, into the TARDIS. The Eleventh Doctor is expecting him. The Doctor’s already seen the lecture he’s about to do, and thought it great. He gives Brian a gift, which Brian says must be over 250 years old, but The Doctor picked it up last Saturday tea-time. The Doctor tries to dematerialise, but the time rotor explodes.
Later, The Doctor’s under the TARDIS console trying to fix things, when Brian encounters a Silent on the TARDIS scanner. The Doctor explains who they are, and Brian wants to see more aliens. The Doctor asks if he’s applying for the job of his assistant, and finally dematerialises.

In the Time Vortex, Brian fiddles with a switch, causing another explosion. When The Doctororders him not to touch, Brian only agrees that the machine is complicated- “ish”. “Biggeron the inside than the outside doesn’t seem to be complicated to me.” The Doctor explains that he uses a black hole to power it, which Brian says would rip the ship to bits.”Read some Einstein.”

The TARDIS lands. The two have travelled together, and Brian says he wants to visit more alien worlds. The Doctor is firm, though, that he has a lecture to give. The Doctor hands him the gift from earlier. He explains why he chose to take Brian on a tourof the universe: there’s one girl in his audience with sad eyes, who loves science, and after today, she stops being ordinary and grows up to be extraordinary, a woman who changes the world. He wants him to inspire her.

The Doctor drops Brian back off where he got him, and decides to go on”one more adventure before tea”.

NOTES


  • The Doctor calls the TARDIS a “spaceship/time machine/swimming pool, optional hatstand”.
  • The Doctor mention’s the TARDIS’ dimensional transcendentalism, which Brian isn’t particularly amazed by.
  • The Doctor says he likes Albert Einstein, as he’s a bow tie wearer.
  • Upon returning Brian to his time and place, The Doctor asks for some merchandise: a lunchbox, maybe a t-shirt: slim fitting.
  • Brian tells The Doctor not to forget to twiddle the size of the event horizon.

MEDIA CLIP

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