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Lucky Day was the fourth episode of Series 15 (also marketed, globally, as Season 2) of Doctor Who. It premiered on 3 May 2025.
It was a Doctor-lite episode featuring the return of Ruby Sunday, after having departed as a companion in Empire of Death [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024). and after last appearing in a cameo in Joy to the World [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 15 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).. Kate Stewart, UNIT as well as Ruby's family return again after their last onscreen appearance in Empire of Death, with this story revealing Ruby had joined UNIT while also struggling to go about her life after parting ways with the Doctor. The story also introduces the Think Tank conspiracy and protest group, whose main goal is to prove and discredit UNIT as frauds despite the evidence against their claims with mentions to past incidents from previous stories in Doctor Who.
The Doctor only appears at the beginning and the end of the episode with Belinda Chandra appearing briefly at the beginning, as the story arc of the Doctor being unable to return Belinda to 2025 is continued with them getting back to Earth, but in the year 2007, explaining their absence in the story's main events. The Doctor's appearances in this episode have him meeting the story's antagonist Conrad Clark "out of order," similar to River Song. The Doctor's first appearance occurs after the events of The Well, his second appearance occurs shortly after The Devil's Chord and his appearance at the end occurs between the events of Joy to the World and The Robot Revolution.
Mrs Flood also briefly appears at the end of the story: this time, she is seen as the governor of the prison where Conrad is locked up and continuing the mystery behind her appearing in different locations and eras. It's also revealed that the Doctor first learned of Belinda from Conrad, first mentioned in The Robot Revolution, who had learned of her by meeting the Doctor and Belinda in 2007.
Synopsis[]
Ruby Sunday faces life back on Earth without the Doctor. But when a dangerous new threat emerges, can Ruby and UNIT save her new boyfriend Conrad from the terrifying Shreek?
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Cast[]
- The Doctor - Ncuti Gatwa
- Belinda Chandra - Varada Sethu
- Ruby Sunday - Millie Gibson
- Conrad Clark - Jonah Hauer-King
- Kate Lethbridge-Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
- Shirley Anne Bingham - Ruth Madeley
- Colonel Ibrahim - Alexander Devrient
- The Vlinx - Aidan Cook
- Mrs Flood - Anita Dobson
- Carla Sunday - Michelle Greenidge
- Cherry Sunday - Angela Wynter
- Louise Miller - Faye McKeever
- Trinity Wells - Lachele Carl
- Young Conrad - Benjamin Chivers
- Moira Clark - Kirsty Hoiles
- The Shreek - Gethin Alderman
- Jordan Lang - Kareem Alexander
- Elsa - Madison Stock
- Sparky - Paddy Stafford
- Jack - Blake Anderson
- Michelle - Aoife Gaston
- Alfie - Paul Jerricho
- Derek - Michael Woodford
- Audrey - Tina Gray
- Themselves - Reeta Chakrabarti, Joel Dommett, Alex Jones
- Influencers - Selorm Adonu, Calypso Cragg, James Craven
- Voice of the Vlinx - Nicholas Briggs
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Worldbuilding[]
- Cherry is fearful of villages due to watching The Wicker Man.
- Mel Bush is currently on her way to Sydney Harbour in Australia to investigate "something strange".
- Kate keeps a photo of her father, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, on her desk.
- Conrad names the Sycorax, Cybermen and Robot Yetis as alien attacks UNIT has falsified.
Story notes[]
- Millie Gibson gifted Jonah Hauer-King with a Mermaid blanket in reference to his role as Prince Eric in the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
- The Shreek produces the sounds of Velociraptors from Jurassic Park and also Godzilla's from the 1998 Tri-Star film.
- Originally, the climax would've played out on the helipad from The Giggle, but the set had been dismantled, and rebuilding it in Autumn weather would have been prohibitively expensive.
- The episode formed Block Two of Series 15 alongside The Robot Revolution. The Doctor's role was minimised due to Ncuti Gatwa filming that episode.
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Continuity[]
- The Doctor and Belinda walk past a poster for Carols in Camden. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005)., Voyage of the Damned [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2007 (BBC One, 2007).)
- Conrad first saw the Doctor and Ruby in Chez Alison, the same shop Donna Noble bought her wedding dress for her wedding to Lance Bennett. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 (BBC One, 2006).)
- Half an hour before dealing with the Shreek, Ruby and the Doctor were hanging with the Beatles. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)
- Ruby mentioned her encounter with the Shreek when telling the people of Cavia about her adventures with the Doctor. (PROSE: Caged [+]Una McCormack, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2024).)
- Conrad has photos of the TARDIS during the 2012 Olympics, (TV: Fear Her [+]Matthew Graham, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).) and the London UFO crash. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)
- Ruby tells Conrad on his podcast about finding her long-lost mother, and how she was introduced to her father afterwards. (TV: Empire of Death [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)
- UNIT had previously dealt with a "Think Tank" group known as the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research. (TV: Robot [+]Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1974-1975).)
- Conrad denounces the reports of "Yetis in the the Underground", referencing the London Event that saw the Great Intelligence send its Robot Yetis through the London Underground, (TV: The Web of Fear [+]Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, Doctor Who season 5 (BBC1, 1968).) an event that inspired the formation of UNIT. (TV: The Invasion [+]Derrick Sherwin, Doctor Who season 6 (BBC1, 1968).)
- Kate mentions UNIT's time window. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)
- Jordan is subscribed to a Youtube channel belonging to the Albion Party. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)
- Conrad asks the Doctor if he has met Belinda yet, inspiring him to go looking for her, though he would only tell her he was doing so because "someone" had told him about her and she "sounded important". (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 15 (BBC One and Disney+, 2025).)
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