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| The Wooden Planet | |
| Season: | 1 |
| Story Number: | 2 |
| Doctor: | Scott D. Harris Doctor |
| Companions: | Whitney Anderson |
| Writer: | James P. Quick Scott D. Harris |
| Producer: | CP Studios |
| Release Date: | November 23rd, 2013 |
| Running Time: | 130 minutes, 54 seconds |
| No. Episodes: | 4 |
| Previous Story: | Las Pinturas Negras |
| Following Story: | Everything Stops for Tea |
Story[]
Cover Blurb[]
When a mechanical fault forces the TARDIS to make a crash landing, the travellers find themselves on a bizarre planet carved from wood and inhabited by an order of monks, led by the formidable Abbess. Found guilty of threatening the monks’ seemingly pastoral way of life, the crew are soon caught up in a race against time to escape both an inadvertently-started fire and the creeping evil hidden in the depths of the wooden planet...
Continuity[]
- It has been a week since the Doctor's regeneration. In that time, a new K9 model has been added to the crew, the travelers have had an encounter with Sil (a reference to the unmade story The Land of Luxury), and the Doctor has begun to keep a hip flask on his person "just after" that encounter.
- "Y3K, the Eater of Knowledge" is referred to as occurring around the time the monks left Earth. As the Doctor says, this is "no doubt the successor to Y2K", placing that event in the year 3000. Adding in the fact that the Abbess states at the tribunal that the Earth has been dead for 70 years, places this story around 3070.
- The Doctor makes mention of the events of The Ice Warriors, and Whitney is unfamiliar with them. The green giants themselves would appear at the end of the season in Flux Time.
- The Abbess is stated to be the "Pilot of the Colony". This same system was seen to be used for the colony shown in The Macra Terror. This would probably date that story in and around the late 2900s to early 3000s.
- Whitney is established to have a crippling fear of heights. The Doctor shakes her out of it by mentioning Florana, a planet with "effervescent seas" and "perfumed black roses". The Doctor previously visited the planet in his Third and Fifth Incarnations (The Hungry Bomb, The Elite).
- The sonic screwdriver is shown to work as a flashlight and, curiously, a kind of blowtorch. Series producer James P. Quick states that this was a direct rebellion against the New Series' edict that the screwdriver 'couldn't do wood'. "Well of course it can do wood. It just takes time since it has to sonically destabilize the atomic integrity of said wood," he claims.
- Also of note is that the screwdriver has returned to its original noise as heard in the Second Doctor's era.
- The Doctor references several unseen encounters with the Krynoids in, apparently, his Third Incarnation. He also references The Seeds of Doom and begins to reference Hothouse before being cut off by Zacharias.
- This was actually changed from the original outline, which had the Doctor mention the unofficial short story Little Acorns (featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria) as his first encounter with the Krynoids. Some similarities were maintained, namely the Krynoid's ability to interface with computers.
- Additionally, the Doctor's mentions of a race called the Alloxites (established in production documents as a platypus-like race, once war-like but then became a society of born-again religious types) is a reference to a once-planned story called Morning Glory.
Production[]
Cast[]
DOCTOR WHO: Scott D. Harris
WHITNEY ANDERSON: April Sadowski
ZACHARIAS COBB: Caith Donovan
SISTER LIANNE: Katie Parker
THE ABBESS: Monica Ballard
BROTHER EBENEZER: Matt Forrest
BROTHER AARON: Oliver Jenkins
SISTER NAOMI: Melanie Wilberforce
BROTHER HOSEA: Stephen Liddle
BROTHER PISON: Linwood Riley
BROTHER LEVI: David Nagel
BROTHER KENAN: Brett Gregory
BROTHER FELIX: James P. Quick
K9: Matt "Timey" Clarke
ANNOUNCER: Mindy Rast-Keenan
Crew[]
WRITTEN BY: Scott D. Harris and James P. Quick
FROM A STORY BY: Arco Chamber
SCRIPT EDITOR: Scott D. Harris
THEME TUNE BY: Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire
THEME ARRANGEMENT BY: Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer, and Peter Howell (Episode One)
Dominic Glynn and Keff McCulloch (Episode Two)
John Debney and David Arnold (Episode Three)
Delia Derbyshire and This Strange Engine (Episode Four)
FEATURING MUSIC BY: Styx
John Debney
Louis Febre
John Sponsler
Lorne Balfe
Jonathan Gibbs
Stephen Bell
Geoffrey Burgon
Jerry Goldsmith
Alistair Lock
James Newton Howard
Peter Howell
Tom Tykwer
Johnny Klimek
Reinhold Heil
Jim Mortimore
Jane Elphinstone
Heathcliff Blair
Malcolm Clarke
Atticus Ross
Russell Stone
Michael Giaccino
Dominic Brouillard
SOUND EFFECTS: Sounddogs and James P. Quick
GRAPHICS: Brett Gregory, Tepid Monkey, and Neale Davidson
KRYNOIDS CREATED BY: Robert Banks Stewart
COVER ART: James P. Quick
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Scott D. Harris
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY: James P. Quick
NUMBER CPDW102 © 2013 CP Studios
DOCTOR WHO © BBC Television 1963-2013
JURASSIC PARK © Amblin Entertainment 1993-2013
RENEGADE © A&M Records 1979-2013
Production Notes[]
- This story was based on a mock-Doctor Who Magazine review of a (nonexistent) James K Flynn Doctor story. The "review" also states it was originally meant for the Jym DeNatale Doctor but the murky circumstances regarding his departure from the role meant the script was changed. Several elements from the "earlier drafts" made it into this final product.
- This can be read here. Follow the table of contents to find the story.
- Episode Three was supposed to end with the Abbess entering the Forbidden Room with the travellers and Lianne before descending into babbling madness... followed by her head exploding from the pressure of the Krynoid's numerous vines and creepers filling her head. From there, the Doctor was to have tricked the newborn Krynoid over a nearby parapet into a pit. It soon hauled itself back up and chased the Doctor up the ladder as in the story.
- Arco Chamber is a pseudonym for Ewen Campion-Clarke.