"Infinity War" was a 6 part comic book published by Marvel comics. Tuckewell praised the production team for "the most beautiful [outer space shots] outside the Hubble telescope" and the direction which showed the Daleks "at their fearful best". Caan says, "He is coming. Caan ominously screeches, "Death is coming. One blind eye staring out; voice ancient, sing-song, mad. It was also rumoured that there would be a massive fight between the, It has been rumoured, but never confirmed, that Russell T Davies was originally planning to bring back, High Street, Penarth (The Doctor and Donna arrive back on Earth), Queen’s Road, Penarth (Rose materialises and runs to the Doctor), Arcot Street, Perth (Jack materialises and destroys the Dalek), Brook Street, Riverside, Cardiff (Daleks round up prisoners on the protesters’ house), South Wales Traffic Management Centre, Coryton, Cardiff (UNIT HQ in New York), Lower House, Michaelston-le-Pit, Cardiff (Harriet’s House), Wales Museum Collections Centre, Heol Crochendy, Parc Nantgarw (Martha is taken to Project Indigo), Cwrt-y-Vil Road, Penarth (Martha materialises at her mother’s house). Broadcasting House Cardiff (Trinity Wells' news report): C2 News Studio, Broadcasting House Cardiff: Trinity Wells' news report. The familiar sky is gone. He considered destroying the city but decided against it: I spent today considering one tangible thing: whether to destroy New York in 4.12. 6:05. Page designed the leather tunic—which Gorton thought was "a beautiful piece of costume ... which echoes the classic design"—and Gorton designed the ribcage. To be fair, ‘The Stolen Earth’ is not the best-scripted episode of the series. The Supreme Dalek protests, "The abomination is insane!" I may have helped to exterminate you. For this reason, Regeneration is usually considered a biologic process exclusive to Time Lords and a few other species. Suddenly, all the contacts vanish off of the screen. Gwen calls her husband, Rhys, and tells him to stay indoors and call her mother. Martha is horrified, understanding the purpose of the key. [2][7] To keep the return of Davros secret, the character was referred to as "The Enemy" or "Dave [Ross]" among the crew and was kept anonymous on the shooting scripts as much as possible; however, the Radio Times called the secret "one of the worst-kept ... in television history". The room promptly shakes and Martha rushes to the window in time to see dozens of Dalek ships descend and wreak havoc and destruction upon Manhattan. The Stolen Earth: Behind the Scenes. On board the Crucible, Caan says, "He is here...the Dark Lord is coming." Flying through the air: Krillitanes; Vespiforms; and Gelth. Murray Gold concurrently composed the score for the episode. Shadow Proclamation lobby: Night. Rose, Wilf, Sylvia, Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Sarah Jane, Luke, Mr Smith, Martha, Harriet, Francine then bursts into insane laughter. [82], The Independent's Thomas Sutcliffe gave the episode a negative review and expressed that the episode was "extermination without inspiration". As they step outside their home, Sylvia looks at the sky in horror. Jackie and Mickey? This t-shirt from film poster illustrator Joshua Budich commemorates the series 4 finale The Stolen Earth. Harriet introduces Torchwood to Sarah. Adjoa Andoh and Penelope Wilton reprise supporting roles as Martha's mother Francine Jones and former Prime Minister Harriet Jones respectively. [25], A week after he had written the Shadow Proclamation scenes, Davies decided to rewrite the scenes heavily because of monetary and script constraints. At UNIT, American UNIT leader General Sanchez enters and tells all soldiers and staff that Geneva has declared a Code Red Emergency. Director: "The Stolen Earth" is the twelfth episode of the fourth series and the 750th overall episode[3] of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In conjunction with new cues composed for the fourth series, Gold used some of his earlier work, such as Rose's and Harriet Jones' leitmotifs, the Ood's "Song of Freedom" from "Planet of the Ood", and the appearance fanfare for Mr Smith, the latter being played in diegesis. Caan continues the story, shrilly crying, "I flew into the wild, and the fire; I danced and died a thousand times." The team made two minor changes to the design: they removed Davros' microphone and completely redesigned Davros' headpiece. I think he's frozen in a moment of excrutiating [sic] ecstasy. The Daleks have detected the subwave network. It just seemed to fit, cos he's so insane! Sometimes we’ve held back a bit with the ugliness of the monsters. The stolen planets were twenty-seven astronomical bodies, comprised of twenty-six planets and one moon, that were made rogue planets when they were taken out of time and space and relocated to the Medusa Cascade by Davros and his New Dalek Empire. Series 4, Episode 12 The production team originally declined to comment to avoid the debate;[38] Davies later said that he believed that because the process wasn't completed, the Doctor did not use one of his regenerations. [81] Stephen Brook of The Guardian's media blog Organgrinder, thought the episode was "unbelievably good" and "genuinely scary and exciting". But Davros is a very unpleasant looking character, which makes his return all the more powerful. There is also no sneak peek of the, When Harriet Jones contacts Captain Jack, Martha Jones, and Sarah Jane Smith, the contact tone is the, For the first time, the opening credits incorporate not two or three names, but six, adding Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman and Elisabeth Sladen to the Tennant, Tate and Piper credits of the previous week. The Doctor and Donna rush to the doors and fling them open to find they are hanging in space. Because he was behind schedule, he was forced to cancel plans to attend Piper's wedding[33] and almost cancelled plans to celebrate the New Year with his boyfriend. [83], Mark Wright of The Stage posed the question: "How on Earth do you review that?". High Street–Arcot Street–Queen's Road–Paget Road intersection, Penarth (The Doctor and Rose's reunion): High Street–Arcot Street–Queen's Road–Paget Road intersection, Penarth: The Doctor and Rose's reunion. Feeling left out, Rose protests, "Who's she? [1][44][47] Davies's inclusion of the Daleks as part of the crossover was intended to create a "charged atmosphere" for the protagonists: Jack was killed by the Daleks; Rose and Martha were present at two of their apparent extinctions; and Sarah was present at their creation. Three days were allocated to filming for "The Stolen Earth": scenes in Donna's house were filmed on 26 February on Nant Fawr Road, Cyncoed, Cardiff;[location 3] the Crucible Vault set in the Upper Boat Studios was used on 3 March;[location 2] and scenes at the Shadow Proclamation were filmed at the School of Optometry at Cardiff University[location 4] on 8 March 2008. [24] The Doctor would win the argument by overloading the Judoon's translator machines (because he could speak six million languages simultaneously) and order them to allow him to see the Shadow Architect immediately. Twenty-six new planets have appeared in the sky. Harriet also makes contact with Sarah and decides they should be able to talk to each other. The team felt that the microphone was redundant because Davros did not "speak in a whisper and need something to make him more audible", and originally intended to leave Bleach's voice unaltered in post-production:[46] the decision to treat the voice was not made until late May 2008;[12] and Gorton thought the original headpiece "always seemed particularly weak" for "such a powerful character". On its original broadcast, it was viewed by 8.78 million viewers and was the second most-watched programme of the week; at the time of broadcast, it was the highest position Doctor Who had ever reached.