The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)

 was the first episode of series 11 of Doctor Who. It was written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Jamie Childs, and introduced Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair and Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan.

Synopsis
On one night in Sheffield, lives are changed forever as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky.

Plot
Ryan Sinclair is learning to ride a bike with his grandmother Grace and her husband Graham O'Brien, in Sheffield. He becomes frustrated and throws the bike into a forest. As he ventures to retrieve it, he sees glowing golden lines suspended in the air. He taps one and a purple coloured, plant-like entity emerges. Ryan calls the police.

Yasmin Khan, probation police officer, settles a petty dispute, before calling a superior. She asks for more demanding opportunities, and after much pestering, her superior gives her Ryan's case. As she arrives, her and Ryan quickly realise that they knew each other at school. They touch the entity, which burns them. Meanwhile, Grace and Graham are riding on a train with a man named Karl, there is a disturbance which causes the train to come to a screeching halt, they call for Ryan and Yazmin, before being encroached by an erratic, electrified tentacle creature. They are temporarily saved as The Doctor bursts through the ceiling and electrocutes the creature. It awakens and sends a surge of electricity through the passengers, before fleeing.

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Cast

 * The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
 * Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
 * Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
 * Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
 * Grace - Sharon D Clarke
 * Tim Shaw - Samuel Oatley
 * Karl - Jonny Dixon
 * Rahul - Amit Shah
 * Sonia - Asha Kingsley
 * Janey - Janine Mellor
 * Ramesh Sunder - Asif Khan
 * Andy - James Thackeray
 * Dean - Philip Abiodun
 * Dennis - Stephen MacKenna
 * Gabriel - Everal A Walsh

Crew
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Story notes

 * The episode doesn't feature an opening title sequence, but the new Doctor Who theme, composed by Segun Akinola, is partially played in the scene in which we are introduced to The Doctor and then over the credits, which have returned to a scrolling sequence, not seen since TV: The Time of the Doctor.
 * This is the third post-regeneration story to feature no scenes inside the TARDIS, following TV: Spearhead from Space and TV: Robot, and the first in which the TARDIS does not appear at all.
 * It is also the tenth television story in which the TARDIS does not appear, following Mission to the Unknown, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Mind of Evil, The Dæmons, The Sea Devils, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, Midnight, Heaven Sent, and The Lie of the Land.
 * This is the third TV story to not use the regular opening credits, following TV: The Day of the Doctor and TV: Sleep No More.
 * Like TV: Sleep No More, the episode title as well as the writer, producer and director credits are shown at the beginning of the end credits.
 * The end credits feature a preview of the remainder of the season, similar to TV: The Eleventh Hour and TV: The Pilot, including the names of several upcoming guest stars.
 * This is the first non-special episode not to air on a Saturday since TV: Survival.

Ratings
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Filming locations

 * Sheffield, England

Production errors
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Continuity

 * The Doctor makes her entrance by crashing through the ceiling of the stopped train, after having been dropped from the TARDIS. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
 * The Doctor recalls having just been a "white-haired Scotsman", and that her TARDIS is now missing. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
 * The Doctor emits regeneration energy while resting. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, The Eleventh Hour)
 * The Doctor previously fell from a great height before and survived. (TV: Logopolis, The End of Time)
 * The Doctor once again suffers from post-regenerative memory loss. (TV: Doctor Who, The Time of the Doctor)
 * Earth had been used as a hunting ground before. (AUDIO: Moving Target, COMIC: Bloodsport)
 * The Doctor makes her own sonic screwdriver. Amy Pond once did similar to create a sonic probe. (TV: The Girl Who Waited)

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