The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)

"The thrill is in the chase, never in the capture"

- Agatha Christie

Synopsis
In 1926, Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared, only to be found ten days later, with no memory of what has happened. Was it a nervous breakdown? A cry for help? Or perhaps a giant alien wasp..?

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - David Tennant
 * Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
 * Agatha Christie - Fenella Woolgar
 * Lady Clemency Eddison - Felicity Kendal
 * Reverend Golightly - Tom Goodman Hill
 * Colonel Hugh Curbishley - Christopher Benjamin
 * Robina Redmond - Felicity Jones
 * The Hon. Roger Curbishley - Adam Rayner
 * Greeves - David Quilter
 * Davenport - Daniel King
 * Professor Peach - Ian Barritt
 * Miss Chandrakala - Leena Dhingra
 * Mrs Hart - Charlotte Eaton

Production crew
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Story notes

 * Professor Peach is a reference to Professor Plum of the popular Cluedo murder mystery game.
 * David Tennant's father makes a cameo as a footman.
 * There are a lot of references to titles of the books of Agatha Christie.

Ratings
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Myths
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Filming locations
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Continuity

 * The Doctor mentioned to Martha Jones in Last of the Time Lords, that they could take a trip to see Agatha Christie, but was unable due to Martha leaving at the time. Ironically, Martha leaves in the episode preceding this one.


 * This is the third time a famous author has appeared in the revived series. The first being Charles Dickens, the second being William Shakespeare and now Agatha Christie.


 * The Doctor and Donna are mistaken by Agatha Christie to be a couple. This was previously done in The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Doctor's Daughter.


 * The Doctor brings out the Carrionite sphere and a Cyberman logo in a chest of things beginning with C.


 * This is the third time that the Doctor has told a companion not to imitate an accent/dialect of certain time/place on Earth. The first was Rose doing a (poor) Scottish accent in Tooth and Claw and the second was Martha doing Elizabethan English in The Shakespeare Code. This time, Donna tried a posh English accent and speech.


 * So far each companion (With the exception of Mickey and Adam Mitchell) has kissed the Doctor, this episode making Donna's first.


 * Donna says it's like seeing CHarles DIckens with ghosts on christmas day which happened in The Unquiet Dead

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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DVD and other releases

 * It will be released on the Series 4 boxset DVD in November 2008.