Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was the tenth regular episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It was notable for marking the first time the Doctor told Clara Oswald about her multiple lives and deaths.
Synopsis
The TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes!
Plot
Clara is lost in the depths of the TARDIS which is invaded by an intergalactic salvage crew who want to sell it for scrap, but the Doctor threatens to destroy the TARDIS by putting it in lock down and activating the self destruct if the salvage crew doesn't help him find Clara.
Cast
- The Doctor - Matt Smith
- Clara Oswald - Jenna-Louise Coleman
- Gregor van Baalen - Ashley Walters
- Bram van Baalen - Mark Oliver
- Tricky - Jahvel Hall
References
Books
- The History of the Time War is a book unfolding the history of the Last Great Time War. Clara is reading the book while in The TARDIS' library.
Story notes
- The name of the episode was influenced by the novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth. This previously occured with The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, the title being based on the novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- This is the first televised story to include the word "TARDIS" in its title.
- This episode aired on Jenna-Louise Coleman's 27th birthday.
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Production errors
If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
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Continuity
- Clara briefly learns the Doctor's true name but then forgets it when the Doctor rewrites the entire adventure. This makes her the only person in the revived series, apart from River Song, who learns the Doctor's true identity. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
- Clara glimpses the TARDIS swimming pool. (TV: The Invasion of Time, The Eleventh Hour, Day of the Moon)
- Clara hides in the TARDIS's library. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
- Inside the library, the Doctor has kept a book outlining the history of the Time War. (Rose, The Unquiet Dead, et al)
- Clara comes across The Doctor's cot. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)
- As the TARDIS leaks the past many voices can be heard.
- The voices are, in respective order:
- The voice of Susan Foreman from TV: An Unearthly Child saying "I made up the name Tardis from the initials: Time and Relative Dimension In Space"
- The Third Doctor saying "The Tardis is dimensionally transcendental" and his companion, Jo, asking "What does that mean?"
- The Eleventh Doctor saying "You sexy thing!", then Idris replying "See, you do call me that! Is it my name?" followed by the Eleventh Doctor's exclaimation of "You bet it's your name!" from The Doctor's Wife (TV story)
- The Fourth Doctor saying "That's trans-dimensional engineering. A key Time Lord discovery." from The Robots of Death (TV story)
- The Ninth Doctor saying "The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, believe me they've tried." from TV: Rose
- Martha Jones saying "It's bigger on the inside" from Smith and Jones (TV story)
- Amy Pond saying "We're in space!".
- Ian Chesterton saying "It can move anywhere in Time and Space?" from TV: An Unearthly Child
- The voices are, in respective order:
- This is the third time the Doctor has forced others into helping him by threatening to blow the TARDIS up, the first was TV: Attack of the Cybermen the second was TV: Victory of the Daleks.
- Seventh Doctor's umbrella from Paradise Towers.
- The Eye of Harmony is seen within the TARDIS (TV: Doctor Who)
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