Good Night (home video)

Good Night was the second of five Night and the Doctor shorts produced exclusively for the Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD and Blu-ray box sets. It was written by showrunner Steven Moffat.

Synopsis
When Amy wakes to find the Doctor carrying a euphonium guiltily, she uses the opportunity to ask a question that has been bothering her for a long time.

Plot
The Doctor walks into the console room with an euphonium. He opens the doors and shouts against the wind to River, telling her Marylin is too late and must use the biplane. Sonicking the euphonium, the Doctor becomes shocked to find Amy sitting on the stairs. Amy asks if he has extra adventures when she and Rory are asleep. The Doctor explains he doesn't need to sleep as much as humans, so he needs to keep busy. Amy then asks him to truthfuly tell her what he's been up to. The Doctor says he just finished helping a possessed orchestra on a moonbase, and so on. Amy then says that his companions are such as small part of the Doctor's life. However, the Doctor says they are a big part of his life; they're all he remembers.

Amy then brings up the subject about her life; it doesn't make sense. She can remember the reality of not having parents and the current one with them, but she can accept it. The Doctor points out that Rory is perfectly okay with the memories of the Last Centurian being contridictory to his current memory. He then goes on to explain that people can sometimes have memories of parties they've never been to; time is being rewritten all the time. She finds this ridiculous and the Doctor says Amy is understanding now.

He then has Amy place her hands on the telepathic circuits. Reading the monitor's information, the Doctor learns her saddest ever memory was at a fair in 1994. Amy doesn't remember at first why it was until she recalls dropping an ice cream; she finds it laughable that losing an ice cream is sad. However, the Doctor tells her remembering ice cream is always sad before asking her what happened next. Amy says nothing did, but then remembers herself as she is now handing her younger self a new ice cream.

Perplexed, Amy asks the Doctor what he is up to. The Doctor tells Amy that in 1994, Amy gave herself the best advice in the universe - "cheer up, have an ice cream". She then asks the Doctor if he's basicly telling her to get an ice cream, but he says that he wants he to get them ice cream. Walking out of the TARDIS, he asks Amy if she gets scared on ghost trains - he does and wants to know if he can hold her hand.

Cast

 * Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan

Crew
Writer - Steven Moffat

Director- Richard Senior (uncredited)

The Doctor

 * The Doctor "gets a bit scared" on carnival Ghost Trains.

The Doctor's TARDIS

 * The TARDIS' telepathic circuits can pinpoint a person's "saddest ever memory" and pilot the TARDIS to that point in space and time.

Story notes

 * At 4 minutes and 51 seconds, this is the longest of the Night and the Doctor shorts.

Myths and rumours
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Filming locations
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Production errors

 * The sound made by the euphonium as the Sonic Screwdriver is activated into the bell is clearly a blowing sound.

Continuity

 * The Doctor returns from a night out with River Song. (DW: Bad Night, DW: The Wedding of River Song)
 * The Doctor calls a farewell to an unseen River Song from the TARDIS doorway. He also asks her to "tell Marilyn she'll have to use the biplane". Marilyn Monroe married the Doctor in DW: A Christmas Carol which was also the first episode he was shown wearing the white suit with the black tie that he wears in this clip.
 * The Doctor remarked that he may have been late to a biplane flying lesson in DW: The Impossible Astronaut.
 * Amy is again seen in her sleeping attire. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, DW: The Beast Below, DW: Bad Night)
 * Amy notes that her life "doesn't make any sense." The Doctor makes the same observation in DW: The Pandorica Opens and DW: The Big Bang.
 * Amy remembers both versions of her life - the "original" version, where her parents never existed (DW: The Eleventh Hour) and the post-Big Bang Two version where they do. (DW: The Big Bang)
 * Amy will later remember two versions of the events at Lake Silencio during the collapsing timeline in DW: The Wedding of River Song.
 * This raises the question of whether or not Amy can remember the "starless" version of reality presented in DW: The Big Bang.
 * The Doctor mentions that Rory was an Auton duplicate (DW: The Big Bang). Rory has told Amy he does not remember his time as an Auton, but the Doctor confirms that "sometimes you catch him just staring." The Doctor and Rory had previously discussed his time as an Auton in DW: Day of the Moon
 * Amy realises that she interacted with her younger self in 1994 when she bought her past self an ice-cream at a carnival to replace the one she'd dropped. She previously interacted with a younger version of herself (albeit in an aborted, collapsing timeline) in DW: The Big Bang.
 * This would seem to contradict the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. The effect was similarly ignored in DW: A Christmas Carol.

For the Doctor

 * This story occurs after: DW: Bad Night

For River Song

 * This story occurs at some indeterminate point after: DW: Last Night

Home video releases
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