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The Doctor returns to a much grittier New Earth with Martha, eventually to meet the Face of Boe one final time. But the city has now been turned into a deadly trap, and when they find the streets being ruled by the sinister Pharmacists, they must brave the ordeal of the mysterious Motorway in order to discover the terrible secrets at the heart of the city. But what monsters lurk below the surface hidden in the fog?
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I'm giving my seal of approval to David Tennant now. After this episode, I finally like him more than Christopher Ecclestone. I hope he stays a few more years too. What a great episode!
The year five billion and fifty three is, as far as is known, the furthest into the future that the TARDIS has ever travelled!
It references
The Macra Terror from 1967, (an episode I don't really remember as I was only 5), and the beautiful description of Gallifrey's 'burnt orange skies and silver leaves' was first heard way back in the 1964 story
The Sensorites.
It is a much better story than
New Earth when Novice Hame and the 'Cats' last appeared or the 'Crap Cats' as they are called on other boards!
It answers the long awaited 'great secret' from the Face of Boe.
It has Martha Jones standing up for herself and asking him the right questions.
And it sets up at least two more episodes for the rest of this season. Daleks which the trailer shows are in Manhattan next week, and the fact that the Doctor is not the only TimeLord to survive the Time War, which we have already speculated means that Mr Saxon, may not be human.
And there was the best special effects I've seen in any BBC production (which have invariably been extremely naff!)
It also had Ardal O'Hanlon (who I loved in
Father Ted but can't abide in
My Hero.)
More interesting trivia from wiki:
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Some publicity has been given to the fact that Gridlock is the 727th episode of Doctor Who. This will break the record held by the various Star Trek series, which have a total of 726 combined episodes amongst them. Doctor Who has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running science fiction series in the world, based on the original series' 26-year continuous run and the 43+ years since the programme's 1963 debut. However, the Star Trek total includes all the various (live action) spin off shows - by the same logic, taking Torchwood and the two K9 episodes (in 1981 and 2007) into account, the record was broken by Day One, the second episode of Torchwood.
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I wonder how that equates in hours though. Star Trek episodes were 45 minutes long with full length 10 films. Doctor Who episodes were usually about 23 minutes long with the overlapping cliffhanger. Of course, if you include the 2 Doctor Who films... does it really matter anyway?