Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)

Mummy on the Orient Express was the eighth episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Writer Jamie Mathieson was approached to write the story while crafting another script for Steven Moffat. He was given the the title, chosen by Moffatt, which immediately led Mathieson to images of "Agatha Christie, Victoriana, lots of luxury". Frank Skinner's character was based on a friend of his, Perkins, a "train buff" from whom he acquired information about the Orient Express.

The original idea for the script had far more content, with the Express visiting the "Seven Wonders of the Universe", but, in recognition of the time constraints, this was removed.

Brian Minchin expressed early on to Mathieson that the Mummy might force the episode to be broadcast at a later time as the BBC judged it to be too scary. Minchin had repeatedly tried to have it shown in the series trailer, but the corporation would not allow it. (DWM 478)

Synopsis
As the Doctor takes Clara for a final trip aboard the Orient Express, they find it has a supernatural passenger...

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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
 * Clara - Jenna Coleman
 * Danny Pink - Samuel Anderson
 * Perkins - Frank Skinner
 * Captain Quell - David Bamber
 * Gus - John Sessions
 * Maisie - Daisy Beaumont
 * Prof Moorhouse - Christopher Villiers
 * Mrs. Pitt - Janet Henfrey
 * Singer - Foxes
 * Foretold - Jamie Hill

Story notes

 * This episode marks the fifth story of Series 8 not to feature Missy after Robot of Sherwood, Listen, Time Heist and Kill the Moon.

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Continuity

 * Following the wedding of Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Eleventh Doctor received a call informing him that an Egyptian goddess which was loose on the Orient Express in space, he proceeded to set a course for the Express with the newlywed couple aboard the TARDIS. (TV: The Big Bang)
 * The Doctor asks the Foretold "Are you my mummy?" in remembrance of The Empty Child ' s Jamie, an allusion that he previously made in The Poison Sky.
 * Once again, the Doctor's Respiratory Bypass System allows him to handle lack of Oxygen, considerably better than humans. (TV: The Ark in Space, TV Smith and Jones)
 * The last time the Doctor met mummies they were robots. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)

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