The Runaway Bride (TV story)

Summary
As Donna is about to marry her boyfriend Lance on Christmas Eve, she suddenly finds herself aboard the TARDIS. As the Doctor tries to get Donna to the church on time, the alien Empress of the Racnoss watches closely from the throne in her spaceship. How is Donna the key to an ancient plot to destroy the Earth? With time running out, can the Doctor solve the puzzle, defeat the Empress and stop her army of robot Santas?

Plot
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Cast & Characters

 * The Doctor - David Tennant
 * Donna (The Bride) - Catherine Tate
 * Empress of Racnoss — Sarah Parish
 * Lance Bennett — Don Gile
 * Geoff Noble — Howard Attfield
 * Sylvia Noble — Jaqueline King
 * Vicar — Trevor Georges
 * Rhodri — Rhodri Meiler
 * Nerys — Krystal Archer
 * Taxi driver — Glen Wilson
 * Little girl — Zafirah Boateng
 * Robot Santas — Paul Kasey, George Cottle

Story Notes

 * A controversy occurred during filming of this story as guests at a hotel were awakened and frightened by gunfire and explosions during filming of one scene in the street below.


 * Though set at Christmas, this story was filmed in late July, with an average temperature of thirty degrees, centigrade. David Tennant was quoted as saying he was "blinking boiling" during filming.


 * As part of the 2006 Children In Need concert, a four minute clip from this episode was shown. It features Donna riding in a taxi, unaware that it is being driven by a Robot Santa. The Doctor gives chase in the TARDIS down a motorway and tries to persuade Donna to jump between the two vehicles.

Ratings
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Myths
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Location Filming
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
This is only the third time (the two previous occasions being The Deadly Assassin and Doctor Who: The TV Movie) where the Doctor has gone through a whole story without picking up a companion or having one already. It should be noted that this will not happen again in the foreseeable future, as Martha Jones joins the series in the next episode.

Even though this episode takes place immediately after Doomsday in terms of the Doctor's timeline, almost six months have passed since the Battle of Canary Wharf. This makes it unclear what time the Bad Wolf bay scene in Doomsday took place in, presumably some time within these months.


 * ''Doomsday makes it clear that time does not pass at the same rate in the two universes involved.

Continuity

 * The Robot Santas previously appeared in The Christmas Invasion.

DVD Releases
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