Arachnids in the UK (TV story)

Arachnids in the UK was the fourth episode in the eleventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

The Thirteenth Doctor finally returns Graham, Ryan and Yasmin home, just half an hour after they had left unwillingly. Notably, the Doctor's new companions actively choose to travel with her at the end of this episode.

Synopsis
The Thirteenth Doctor finally manages to bring her friends home, but with more time alone on the horizon, she soon discovers that something unnatural has happened to the eight-legged population of Sheffield. Why have they converged on an unopened hotel, and why is there a man going around like he owns the place?

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
 * Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
 * Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
 * Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
 * Robertson - Chris Noth
 * Grace O'Brien - Sharon D Clarke
 * Najia Khan - Shobna Gulati
 * Dr Jade McIntyre - Tanya Fear
 * Hakim Khan - Ravin J Ganatra
 * Sonya Khan - Bhavnisha Parmar
 * Frankie Ellish - Jaleh Alp
 * Kevin - William Meredith

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People

 * The Doctor mentions an incident involving stopping an airplane with a pencil-thick strand of spider-web and Amelia Earhart.
 * The Doctor muses that The Mother Spider in the Ballroom could be the title of "the best novel Edith Wharton never wrote".

Locations

 * A Sheffield Supertram is seen travelling to the destination Malin Bridge.

Relationships

 * Najia assumes Yaz and the Doctor are "seeing eachother". She later has the same conclusion about her and Ryan.

Technology

 * The Doctor uses the psychic paper to identify herself to Robertson as a 'problem-solver'.

Story notes

 * This story introduced the new version of the Time Vortex as well as giving us a more in-depth look at it, showing an area of the vortex with several exits, implying each exit leads to a different time and place.

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Continuity

 * The Doctor once more refers to her TARDIS team as "fam". (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * The Doctor's bemusement to Ryan if she is being weird in public resembles the Tenth Doctor's similar aside to Rose Tyler about whether he acts rude. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
 * Najia Khan's wary attitude to the Doctor echoes that of other mothers of companions such as Jackie Tyler, (TV: Aliens of London) Francine Jones (TV: The Lazarus Experiment) and Sylvia Noble. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
 * The Doctor reiterates her dislike of guns, (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem, The Doctor's Daughter, The Impossible Astronaut, The Curse of the Black Spot, Into the Dalek, The Doctor Falls, The Ghost Monument)
 * The Doctor uses her psychic paper. (TV: The End of the World, et al.)
 * Graham is still grieving over Grace O'Brien. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * The Doctor has previously met large arachnid-like creatures, such as The Great One the Eight Legs, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) the Racnoss, (TV: The Runaway Bride) and spider germs. (TV: Kill the Moon)

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