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'''''The Haunting of Villa Diodati''''' was the eighth episode of [[series 12 (Doctor Who)|series 12]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
 
'''''The Haunting of Villa Diodati''''' was the eighth episode of [[series 12 (Doctor Who)|series 12]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
   
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== Synopsis ==
  
== Synopsis ==
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The Doctor and her companions visit [[Mary Shelley]] on the fateful night in [[1816]] when she creates ''[[Frankenstein]]'' but all is not as it seems. The rooms of [[Villa Diodati]] keep shifting around and [[ghost]]s are stalking the halls. And the group soon remember a familiar warning: "Beware the [[Lone Cyberman]]. Do not let it have [[Cyberium|what it wants]]". But why is [[Percy Shelley]] not where he should be according to history?
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''to be added''
  
   
 
== Plot ==
  
== Plot ==
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* [[Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] - [[Patrick O'Kane]]
  
* [[Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] - [[Patrick O'Kane]]
 
* [[Percy Shelley|Percy Bysshe Shelley]] - [[Lewis Rainer]]
  
* [[Percy Shelley|Percy Bysshe Shelley]] - [[Lewis Rainer]]
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* [[William Fletcher|Fletcher]] - [[Stefan Bednarczyk]]
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* [[Fletcher (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Fletcher]] - [[Stefan Bednarczyk]]
 
* [[Elise (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Elise]] - [[Sarah Perles]]
  
* [[Elise (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Elise]] - [[Sarah Perles]]
   
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== References ==
  
== References ==
 
=== Locations ===
  
=== Locations ===
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* [[Villa Diodati]] is located near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]]. [[Team TARDIS]] travel there to witness the creation of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' on a [[storm]]y and [[rain]]y night on a [[Tuesday]] in [[June]] [[1816]].
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* [[Villa Diodati]] is near [[Lake Geneva]].
  
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* [[Lord Byron]] cannot return to [[England]].
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* The Doctor almost says the boney hand is from the [[14th century]] before correcting, saying there's a "touch more [[umami]]", being [[human]], [[protein]] and [[collagen]].
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* Byron has the [[skeleton|skeletal]] remains of a [[15th century]] [[soldier (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|soldier]] from the [[Waterloo]] [[Battle of Morat]].
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* Polidori believes the Doctor to be from "the [[north]]".
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* Mary believes Percy has taken to their [[chalet]] [[Maison Chapuis]] by the [[shore]].
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* Percy described the "lake apparition" as a [[death god]] rising from [[Hades (location)|Hades]].
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* Byron wonders if the haunted villa is in reality [[Hell]].
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* The Doctor ponders if the [[Year Without a Summer]] blamed on [[volcano|volcanic]] [[ash]] was really something else.
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* The Doctor wants to return her friends back to [[2020]].
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* The following [[July]], Byron is reading one of his works to an [[audience]] of people.
   
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=== History ===
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=== The Doctor ===
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* [[Thirteenth Doctor|The Doctor]] says she's getting a [[vibe]] of evil from the villa.
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* The Doctor loves "a good [[plume]]".
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* The Doctor has a natural "[[Time Lord magnetism]]" that makes the [[Cyberium]] choose her as host.
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* The Doctor shows Percy a vision of himself drowning by using an "old [[Time Lord]] trick".
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=== Individuals ===
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* [[John Polidori]] calls the [[weather]] outside [[Dank (term)|dank]] and [[Frigid (term)|frigid]].
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* [[Fletcher (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Fletcher]] is the [[butler]] at the villa, and [[Elise (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|Elise]] is a [[nursemaid]].
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* [[Mary Wollstonecraft|Mary Shelley]] notes that [[Percy Shelley]] is not one for playing [[trick]]s.
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* [[Lord Byron]] recently separated from [[Annabella Byron|his wife]].
 
* Graham searches for the [[lavatory]], but finds that they're too early in [[history]] to enjoy the invention of [[toilet]]s.
  
* Graham searches for the [[lavatory]], but finds that they're too early in [[history]] to enjoy the invention of [[toilet]]s.
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* Mary has [[William Shelley|a child named William]].
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* [[Ghost maid (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|A ghost maid]] and [[Ghost girl (The Haunting of Villa Diodati)|a ghost girl]] are haunting the villa.
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* Byron uses the term [[Candid (term)|candid]].
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* Ryan mentions [[Grace O'Brien|his nan]].
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* Mary feels she is not as good a [[Author|writer]] as [[William Godwin|her]] [[Mary Shelley's mother|parents]].
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* Fletcher points Graham to a [[chamber pot]].
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* Ryan tells Polidori to stop [[Shooting daggers (term)|shooting daggers]].
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* Graham says the [[sleepwalk]]ing Polidori is like a [[zombie]].
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* The villa is described as [[demon]]ic.
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* The "lake [[apparition]]" turns out to be the [[Lone Cyberman]] looking for "[[Percy Shelley|a Guardian]]".
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* The Lone Cyberman's real name was Ashad, and he once had [[Ashad's children|children]], but he slit their [[throat]]s when they joined [[The Alliance (Fugitive of the Judoon)|the resistance]].
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* [[Claire Clairmont]] finally falls out of [[love]] with Byron.
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=== Languages ===
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* Elise speaks [[French language|French]].
   
 
=== Culture ===
  
=== Culture ===
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* Byron reads the book ''[[Tales of the Dead]]''. Characters in the book include [[Hildegarde the Death-Bride]] and a [[Count (character)|Count]].
 
* Graham begins "[[Pride and Prejudice|It is a truth universally acknowledged...]]", but the Doctor interjects "[[Jane Austen|wrong writer]]".
  
* Graham begins "[[Pride and Prejudice|It is a truth universally acknowledged...]]", but the Doctor interjects "[[Jane Austen|wrong writer]]".
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* The Doctor has instructed her friends not to mention ''[[Frankenstein]]'', or otherwise affect its inception.
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* The Doctor has instructed her friends not to mention ''[[Frankenstein]]'', or otherwise affect its inception.
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* Mary and her friends teach the guests [[Quadrille (dance)|quadrille]].
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* Mary Shelley wonders if [[Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] is a composite of multiple men (like the [[Frankenstein's monster|creature]] in her novel), and refers to his creators as a "Modern [[Prometheus (figure)|Prometheus]]" (the novel's full title is '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''). She watches him recharge via a [[lightning strike]]; in the novel, it is implied the monster is brought to life via electricity.
 
 
* Ryan plays "[[Chopsticks (composition)|Chopsticks]]" on the [[piano]].
  
* Ryan plays "[[Chopsticks (composition)|Chopsticks]]" on the [[piano]].
 
* The Doctor quotes Lord Byron's poem "[[She Walks in Beauty]]".
  
* The Doctor quotes Lord Byron's poem "[[She Walks in Beauty]]".
 
* Lord Byron believes that the Doctor is after the third [[canto]] of his work ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]''.
  
* Lord Byron believes that the Doctor is after the third [[canto]] of his work ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]''.
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* Mary Shelley wonders if [[Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] is a composite of multiple men (like the [[Frankenstein's monster|creature]] in her novel), and refers to his creators as a "Modern [[Prometheus (figure)|Prometheus]]" (the novel's full title is ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'').
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* The Lone Cyberman recites Percy Shelley's poem "[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]".
  
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**As witnessed by the Doctor, Ashad also recharges via a lightning strike. In the novel, the monster is implied to have been brought to life via electricity.
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* The poem read aloud by Byron at the end of the episode is "[[Darkness (poem)|Darkness]]".
  
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*The Lone Cyberman recites Percy Shelley's poem "[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]".
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* The poem read aloud by Byron to the audience is "[[Darkness (poem)|Darkness]]".
   
 
=== Food and beverages ===
  
=== Food and beverages ===
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* Graham notices a plate of [[hors d'oeuvre]]s on the table by the [[fireplace]].
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''to be added''
  
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* The Doctor notes that the Cyberman might need a [[breath mint]].
   
 
=== Technology ===
  
=== Technology ===
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* The Doctor attempts to use her [[The Doctor's psychic paper|psychic paper]] to pass herself off as someone else, but finds that the paper is blank and might need a [[blow drying|blow dry]].
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''to be added''
  
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* The Doctor scans the villa with her [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]].
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* Polidori want to fetch his [[pistol]] for a duel with Ryan.
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* The Doctor realises the villa has a [[perception filter]] all around it.
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* The [[Cyberman]]'s [[Cyber wrist blaster|wrist blaster]] is broken.
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* The Doctor notes that the Cyberman still doesn't have an [[emotional inhibitor]] yet.
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* The Lone Cyberman uses a [[lightning]] strike to recharge itself.
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* The Cyberman reveals that it is looking for the [[Cyberium]].
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* The Cyberium is an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] containing all the knowledge and complete history of all Cybermen, that fused itself to Shelley's [[cerebral cortex]].
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* The Lone Cyberman signals for [[The Lone Cyberman's ship|his ship]] to come.
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* The Doctor and her friends take off to stop the [[Cyber-Army]] from being built.
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* The Lone Cyberman makes a [[time jump|time hop]].
   
 
== Story notes ==
  
== Story notes ==
 
* The episode had a "[[cold opening]]".
  
* The episode had a "[[cold opening]]".
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* Curiously [[Nicholas Briggs]] went uncredited for his voicing of the [[Lone Cyberman]].
 
* Unusual to a normal set up, this particular episode did feature a [[cliffhanger]] but it wasn't set at the end of the episode, instead appearing before [[Team TARDIS]] head back to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], in the final scenes in [[Villa Diodati]].
  
* Unusual to a normal set up, this particular episode did feature a [[cliffhanger]] but it wasn't set at the end of the episode, instead appearing before [[Team TARDIS]] head back to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], in the final scenes in [[Villa Diodati]].
 
* In the real world, the competition to create the best [[ghost story]] took place over the course of three days, not one single night.
  
* In the real world, the competition to create the best [[ghost story]] took place over the course of three days, not one single night.
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* The Cyberman's incomplete [[Cyber-suit]] is a unique patchwork design consisting of a new [[Cyber-helmet]] atop a body mostly matching the 2013 design introduced in ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', lower legs matching the 2006 design introduced in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and a left [[arm]] resembling the recreated [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]] introduced in 2017's ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''.
 
* Although uncredited, the Cyberman's helmet design visibly appears to be based on [[Matthew Savage]]'s 2006 design.<ref>[https://mattsav-concept.blogspot.com/2016/06/cyberman-helmet.html 2016 blog entry] by [[Matthew Savage]]</ref>
  
* Although uncredited, the Cyberman's helmet design visibly appears to be based on [[Matthew Savage]]'s 2006 design.<ref>[https://mattsav-concept.blogspot.com/2016/06/cyberman-helmet.html 2016 blog entry] by [[Matthew Savage]]</ref>
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* [[Jodie Whittaker]] confirmed the line about losing "anyone else" to Cybermen was a deliberate reference to [[Bill Potts]] specifically.<ref>https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-02-18/doctor-who-bill-potts-cyberman-easter-egg/</ref>
   
 
=== Ratings ===
  
=== Ratings ===
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* 3.86 million (BBC overnight)<ref>[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/02/the-haunting-of-villa-diodati-overnight.html The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Overnight Viewing Figures]</ref>
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''to be added''
  
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* 5.07 million (BBC overall)<ref>[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/02/the-haunting-of-villa-diodati-official.html The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Official Ratings]</ref>
   
 
=== Filming locations ===
  
=== Filming locations ===
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== Trivia ==
  
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*There is a quote that the Doctor uses, it is 'Save the poet, save the universe', it comes from TV show, Heroes only the quote from the show says, 'Save the cheerleader, save the world.'
  
 
== Continuity ==
  
== Continuity ==
 
* In another account, the [[Eighth Doctor]] was involved in this night's events. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
  
* In another account, the [[Eighth Doctor]] was involved in this night's events. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
 
** Mary also travelled with the Eighth Doctor for a time, as his [[companion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'', ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'', ''[[Army of Death (audio story)|Army of Death]]'')
  
** Mary also travelled with the Eighth Doctor for a time, as his [[companion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'', ''[[The Witch from the Well (audio story)|The Witch from the Well]]'', ''[[Army of Death (audio story)|Army of Death]]'')
 
** In one of their adventures, Mary encountered [[Bremm|another lone Cyberman]], popularly known as the Silver Turk, in [[1873]] [[Vienna]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
  
** In one of their adventures, Mary encountered [[Bremm|another lone Cyberman]], popularly known as the Silver Turk, in [[1873]] [[Vienna]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
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* In a second account, the [[Tenth Doctor]] saved Mary from a [[Zzazik|bandaged alien]] during her stay in Switzerland, at least partly inspiring her to write ''Frankenstein'', and certainly leading to the book's ultimate title. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Creative Spark (comic story)|The Creative Spark]]'')
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* In a second account, the [[Tenth Doctor]] saved Mary from a [[Zzazik|bandaged alien]] during her stay in Switzerland, partly inspiring her to write ''Frankenstein'', and certainly leading to the book's ultimate title. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Creative Spark (comic story)|The Creative Spark]]'')
 
* The [[Shelley Cabal]]'s encounters with the [[Mal'akh]] are detailed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]''.
  
* The [[Shelley Cabal]]'s encounters with the [[Mal'akh]] are detailed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]''.
 
* Although taking on Shelley's name, Mary and Percy are not yet officially married. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
  
* Although taking on Shelley's name, Mary and Percy are not yet officially married. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
 
* The Doctor mentions that she knows Byron's daughter, [[Ada Lovelace|Ada]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enchantress of Numbers (audio story)|The Enchantress of Numbers]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
  
* The Doctor mentions that she knows Byron's daughter, [[Ada Lovelace|Ada]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enchantress of Numbers (audio story)|The Enchantress of Numbers]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'')
 
* Team TARDIS recall Jack's warning about the [[Lone Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'')
  
* Team TARDIS recall Jack's warning about the [[Lone Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'')
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* The Doctor refuses to lose [[Bill Potts|anyone else]] to [[Cyber-conversion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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* The Doctor mentions that a single Cyberman has the potential to [[Cyber-conversion|convert]] thousands of humans into Cybermen as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'', ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
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* The Doctor alludes to having lost previous companions to the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''/''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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* Mary calls the Cyberman a "modern [[Prometheus (figure)|Prometheus]]"; this would form part of her title for ''Frankenstein''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Creative Spark (comic story)|The Creative Spark]]'' et al.)
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* Mary calls the Cyberman a "modern [[Prometheus (figure)|Prometheus]]"; this would form part of her title for ''Frankenstein''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Creative Spark (comic story)|The Creative Spark]],'' et al.)
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* Percy sees ahead to his future death at sea. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
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* The Doctor once again has a chance to permanently defeat an old enemy but sacrifices it for the common good. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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* The Lone Cyberman's emotional personality is similar to the [[Cyber-Controller (Assimilation²)|Cyber-Controller]] who crossed into the [[Federation universe]] and modified themself with the technology of the [[Borg (species)|Borg]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
   
 
== Home video releases ==
  
== Home video releases ==
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== External links ==
  
== External links ==
 
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== Footnotes ==
 
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The Haunting of Villa Diodati was the eighth episode of series 12 of Doctor Who.

It offered an alternate account of the conception of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley to that of the audio story Mary's Story featuring the Eighth Doctor, though with the story acknowledging that what it was depicting was the result of history becoming unusually flexible around that night.

The episode featured the return of the Cybermen, in their first television appearance since 2017's The Doctor Falls and their first encounter with the Thirteenth Doctor. Specifically, the story properly introduced the Lone Cyberman, as well as its motivations, after he had been mentioned by Jack Harkness in Fugitive of the Judoon.

Synopsis

The Doctor and her companions visit Mary Shelley on the fateful night in 1816 when she creates Frankenstein but all is not as it seems. The rooms of Villa Diodati keep shifting around and ghosts are stalking the halls. And the group soon remember a familiar warning: "Beware the Lone Cyberman. Do not let it have what it wants". But why is Percy Shelley not where he should be according to history?

Plot

to be added

Cast

Crew

to be added

References

Locations

The Doctor

  • The Doctor says she's getting a vibe of evil from the villa.
  • The Doctor loves "a good plume".
  • The Doctor has a natural "Time Lord magnetism" that makes the Cyberium choose her as host.
  • The Doctor shows Percy a vision of himself drowning by using an "old Time Lord trick".

Individuals

Languages

Culture

Food and beverages

  • Graham notices a plate of hors d'oeuvres on the table by the fireplace.
  • The Doctor notes that the Cyberman might need a breath mint.

Technology

  • The Doctor attempts to use her psychic paper to pass herself off as someone else, but finds that the paper is blank and might need a blow dry.
  • The Doctor scans the villa with her sonic screwdriver.
  • Polidori want to fetch his pistol for a duel with Ryan.
  • The Doctor realises the villa has a perception filter all around it.
  • The Cyberman's wrist blaster is broken.
  • The Doctor notes that the Cyberman still doesn't have an emotional inhibitor yet.
  • The Lone Cyberman uses a lightning strike to recharge itself.
  • The Cyberman reveals that it is looking for the Cyberium.
  • The Cyberium is an AI containing all the knowledge and complete history of all Cybermen, that fused itself to Shelley's cerebral cortex.
  • The Lone Cyberman signals for his ship to come.
  • The Doctor and her friends take off to stop the Cyber-Army from being built.
  • The Lone Cyberman makes a time hop.

Story notes

Ratings

  • 3.86 million (BBC overnight)[3]
  • 5.07 million (BBC overall)[4]

Filming locations

to be added

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.

to be added

Continuity

Home video releases

to be added

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 2016 blog entry by Matthew Savage
  2. ↑ https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-02-18/doctor-who-bill-potts-cyberman-easter-egg/
  3. ↑ The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Overnight Viewing Figures
  4. ↑ The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Official Ratings
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Cyberman stories
For the purposes of this list, a "Cyberman story" is one in which one living, authentic Cyberman plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Dalek are absent due to only featuring deceased Cybermen on display. Stories like Carnival of Monsters, A Good Man Goes to War and The Vanquishers are also not included due to the Cybermen's appearance being of little consequence to the plot of the story.
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Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • Silver Lining • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus • The Reaping • The Gathering • The Blue Tooth • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • The Ultimate Adventure • Kingdom of Silver • Legend of the Cybermen • The Silver Turk • Last of the Cybermen • Return to Telos • The Isos Network • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver / Master of Worlds • Hour of the Cybermen • Conversion • Return of the Cybermen • The Gates of Hell • Scourge of the Cybermen • Altered Status • Monsters in Metropolis • Secrets of Telos • Way of the Burryman / The Forth Generation • Bad Day in Tinseltown • Willkommen • Wulf • Übermensch • Auf Wiedersehen • The Great Cyber-War • Sins of the Flesh

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Doctor
Thirteenth Doctor +
Episode code
1DW 12.08 +
Has image
File:The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story).jpg +
Season
Series 12 (Doctor Who) +
Series episode number
8 +