Spyfall (TV story)

Spyfall was the two-part opening story to series 12 of Doctor Who. It saw the Thirteenth Doctor and company team up with MI6, and re-introduced, now in a new incarnation played by Sacha Dhawan. This Master was also seen to make use of the Tissue Compression Eliminator, marking its re-introduction to the revived series.

Synopsis
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Part One
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
 * Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
 * Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
 * Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
 * - Sacha Dhawan
 * Daniel Barton - Lenny Henry
 * C - Stephen Fry
 * Najia Khan - Shobna Gulati
 * Hakim Khan - Ravin J Ganatra
 * Sonya Khan - Bhavnisha Parmar
 * Sniper - Melissa De Vries
 * Passenger - Sacharissa Claxton
 * Older Passenger - William Ely
 * Operative (US) - Brian Law
 * Tibo - Buom Tihngang
 * Sergeant Ramesh Sunder - Asif Khan
 * Mr Collins - Andrew Bone
 * Rendition Man - Ronan Summers
 * Ethan - Christopher McArthur
 * Seesay - Darron Meyer
 * Browning - Dominique Maher
 * Voice of Kasaavin - Struan Rodger

Crew
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Technology

 * Hakim tries and fails to use Alexa.

Popular culture

 * Hakim asks Alexa to play Rubber Soul.
 * Ryan decides that his spy name would be "Logan", and starts panicking upon realising he looks "nothing like Hugh Jackman".

Story notes

 * This was the first multi-part television story to be given one overarching title since 2009-10's The End of Time, and only the second such story in the BBC Wales era. Both stories aired in part on New Year's Day at the end of a decade: 2010 and 2020, respectively. Incidentally, both episodes also featured the Master.
 * The first part of this story was dedicated to the memory of the "masterful" Terrance Dicks.
 * Some scenes in this story were filmed in South Africa.
 * This story's title is a play on the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall.
 * According to one news source, the story also pays homage to Casino Royale, a 1967 Bond film centred on gambling and aristocracy.
 * The concept of MI6 members being known by a single letter, namely "C" and "O", may also be in reference to a similar feature ("M" and "Q") seen throughout the James Bond franchise, introduced by Ian Fleming. The fact the head of MI6 is known as "C" may also be a reference to the character of Control, from John Le Carre's novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Ratings
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Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity

 * A doctor offers Graham his condolences regarding Grace O'Brien's death. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * It has been four years since Graham's operation. Previously, in September 2018, he told the Doctor that he had been in remission for cancer for the past three years. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * As C claims to Team TARDIS, MI6 does not accept the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. However, the organisation has earlier been shown to be well aware of aliens, both making contact and using their technology. (COMIC: The Flood, Hunters of the Burning Stone)
 * When C dismisses the possibility of alien life, the Doctor tells him to ask the GCHQ, referring to the Dalek attack of New Year's Day 2019. (TV: Resolution)
 * The Doctor notes that both UNIT (TV: Resolution, PROSE: Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets) and Torchwood (TV: Doomsday, Children of Earth: Day One, AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers) are gone.
 * The Master, while still under the guise of O, refers to the Doctor as having once been a man. (TV: An Unearthly Child, Twice Upon a Time, et al.) Graham recalls the Doctor having made this claim, which he believed to be a joke. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * Graham is mistaken as the Doctor, (PROSE: The Good Doctor) and the Doctor herself is immediately dismissed, in favour of Graham, on account of her gender. (TV: The Witchfinders)
 * The Doctor refers to her regeneration to female form as an "upgrade", much as once did. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
 * The Master has used his Tissue Compression Eliminator to shrink the original O. (TV: Terror of the Autons et al.)

Home video releases
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