Story 201 # "The Waters Of Mars"

Season

SP

Writer

Russell T. Davies/Phil Ford

Book/CD

Episodes

1

Director

Graeme Harper

Vid

Story code

Producer

Phil Colinson

DVD

X

Episode Details

Episode

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In BBC Archive

1

62:03

15/11/2009

Y

Cast Details

Regular Cast
David Tennant (The Doctor)

Synopsis

"Hello mum. Suzie says hello, don't you sweetheart? That's it, give a little wave" Far away, Adelaide Brooke watches her daughter and infant grandchild on her computer screen, displaying a satellite feed that sadly proceeds little beyond the initial greeting due to solar flare activity. Defeated, she turns away. Elsewhere, on a desolate red landscape somewhere nearby, the TARDIS arrives and the Doctor, dressed in his spacesuit, wanders outside to revel in his latest destination - the red plane: Mars. Across the surface of Mars is the human colony Bowie Base One. Uri Kerenski, one of the crew, clambers outside to set up a solar device and takes the opportunity to amuse himself by erecting a 'No Trespassers' sign. His crewmate Mia Bennett, watching on a scanner, is highly amused but their superior Ed Gold is less so. Adelaide, their captain, also fails to see the funny side and blames Ed for this lack of discipline; assuming, much to his chagrin, that he is responsible. Back outside the Doctor arrives on a cliff top overlooking the base. However, before he can make more of his sightseeing a gun is pointed at his back. Turning to face his captor he discovers a robot standing before him...

1. The Doctor references the Ice Warriors, a Martian race previously seen in The Ice Warriors, The Seeds of Death, The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon.
2. When talking about GADGET the Doctor voices his dislike of 'funny' robots, with the exception of robotic dogs - a reference to K-9.
3. The Doctor talks about fixed points in time, and alludes to the events of The Fires of Pompeii. He also claims that Jack is a fixed point in time in Utopia.
4. Adelaide's encounter with the Dalek takes place during the events of The Stolen Earth / Journey's End.
5. The Doctor references Carmen's prophecy, made at the end of Planet of the Dead. The prophecy claims that 'he will knock four times' - the true meaning of this is revealed in the Tenth Doctor's final story - The End of Time.