Doctor Who Extra (2014–2018): Season 1, Episode 1 - Deep Breath - full transcript
NARRATOR: Welcome to a brand-new
series of Doctor Who.
Not only do we have 12 exciting
new adventures for you,
but a thrilling new Doctor at the helm.
-DIRECTOR: Action!
-(GASPS) Oh!
You've got a dinosaur, too!
(ROARS)
NARRATOR: Planning for this epic
new series started in late 2013.
Since then, over 200 people
have been working flat out
to make this the biggest
and best series ever.
Hi, there!
Lucky for you, we've got exclusive
access to show you all the thrills,
spills and explosive action.
(EXPLOSION)
So get ready for a brand-new era,
I promise you're going to love it!
I know I would.
(DOCTOR WHO THEME)
Over 50 years old
and loved around the world,
Doctor Who fas picked up
millions of fans along the way.
And none more dedicated
than Peter Capaldi.
Announced to the world
as the Twelfth Doctor back in 2013,
Peter is now living his childhood dream.
But this isn't the first time
Peter has appeared in the show.
Five years earlier, he got a guest role
starring alongside the Tenth Doctor.
Lobus Caecilius.
PETER CAPALDI:
The script came in an email,
usually you read the script
and say, "Yes, I'd like to do it.”
But I said, "No, well, I'll just do it.”
(LAUGHS)
Yeah, it's great! I absolutely love it.
I could do this forever. It's a delight.
NARRATOR:
Well, his wish has definitely come true.
And we caught up with Peter
at his very first read-through
to see how the job's been going.
CAPALDI: It seems
to have been a long time
that I've been the new Doctor Who,
people keep saying to me,
"Oh, how's it going? What's happening?"
Well, I haven't done anything!
I've spent seven months
being the new Doctor Who
and not getting on with it.
NARRATOR: Well, Peter is obviously eager
to get stuck into his new role
but first things first,
time for some introductions.
-I'm playing Alf.
-I'm playing the policeman.
Dan Starkey playing Strax.
-You know who I am.
- (LAUGHTER)
Yes, well, it's quite
an extraordinary position to be in,
to sort of say, "Hello, I'm Peter
and I'm playing this, uh,
"iconic, historically
much-loved character
"that's been around for 50 years."
It's difficult to know
quite how to phrase that
other than to say...
I'm Peter Capaldi and I'm the Doctor.
(CROWD CHEERS AND CLAPS)
NARRATOR: Wow! What an exciting moment.
I wonder what lead writer
Steven thought about it?
The most exciting thing for me
was that it was the very first time
we saw Peter and Jenna together.
We're alive. Egomaniac.
You were talking about me?
We got to the read-through
of the big, long restaurant scene,
which always worried me a bit
because it's a long scene
with just two people talking.
Clara, what is happening right now,
in this restaurant,
to you and me, is more important
than your egomania.
Nothing is more important
than my egomania!
That was the first time we actually saw
the new Tardis team in action
and that was properly exciting.
The dynamic is unlikely friendship
but just totally works
and totally feels natural.
That's the way I feel that we get on
together really well like that,
unlikely friendship that just works.
BOTH: Geronimo!
NARRATOR: And now for a little treat.
Here's a snippet of Peter
playing the Doctor
for the very first time.
I never know where
they come from, the faces.
They just pop up. Whoosh, zap, face.
It's all right up until the eyebrows
and then it just goes haywire.
They're attack eyebrows!
You could take bottle tops
off with these!
(ALL LAUGHING)
CAPALDI: This is it.
The genie is out of the bottle,
so let's see what happens.
NARRATOR: So while Peter headed off
to get suited and booted,
we were poised and ready to capture
the very first day on set.
Three, two, one. Action!
Madame Vastra, thank God.
NARRATOR: And of course,
there are a few familiar faces.
NEVE MCINTOSH:
Ah, first day, first day of filming.
This... This is supposed to be
down by the Thames.
NARRATOR: Oh, and we couldn't forget
the big, angry dinosaur
-that turned up, too.
-(ROARS)
Yes, we're all looking rather skyward
because there's a huge dinosaur.
NARRATOR: So without an actual dinosaur
being on set,
is it tough to imagine one
actually being there?
No, no, no, of course not! It's my job.
Cut!
NARRATOR: Well the dinosaur itself
may be CGI,
but be careful where you put your hands.
The dinosaur spit is, er,
well it's real.
Honest!
Dinosaur gunk.
NARRATOR: Yes, this angry dinosaur
coughs up the Tardis. Nice!
Action!
A giant dinosaur from the distant past
has just vomited a blue box
from outer space.
NARRATOR:. But someone
is not deterred by dino slime...
If you wouldn't mind?
Strax is working with Madame Vastra
and Jenny now
and helps them out
with military situations like this.
I think Strax thinks everything
is a military situation.
Exit the box and surrender to the glory
of the Sontaran Empire!
NARRATOR: Well
if a huge dinosaur isn't enough
to scare the living
daylights out of you,
this episode introduced
an even more frightening new enemy.
JENNA COLEMAN:
Half-face Man is terrifying.
Bring her.
His physicality is brilliant.
You really watch his walk
and his movements. It's fantastic.
It's so finely tuned.
He's our sophisticated droid.
It looks like clockwork inside his head.
He's wearing a silicone prosthetic
to simulate this hollow part
that completes with the use of a dummy
and then CGI is going to put
everything together.
This is the dummy for the character
of the Half-face Man.
It takes a couple of months
to get to this
because they need to take
a life cast of the actor first
and then the manufacturing
of the mechanism.
NARRATOR: Well, it looks creepy to me.
Are you as freaked out as I am?
Probably not any more
but maybe the first days, yes. (LAUGHS)
NARRATOR: Well while Half-face Man
Is freaking us all out
with his scary eyeballs,
our costume designer Howard
has had his own
terrifying monster to deal with.
No, I don't mean the new Doctor.
I've had stress nightmare dreams
for the past two days.
NARRATOR: Yes, designing
the latest costume
for a brand-new Doctor isn't easy
but it's over now. Phew!
Fantastic. A great relief.
Peter said very early on
after I met him,
"You realise I'm going
to have to wear this
"for the rest of my life?"
No pressure. (LAUGHS)
But I think he looks fantastic
and he genuinely seems very happy.
NARRATOR: And Peter isn't just happy
with his new look,
he's over the moon.
I love it! I love the way
that it's very modern
but at the same time it invokes the past
and yet it also propels
the new Doctor into the future.
I'm the Doctor.
I've lived for over 2,000 years.
I love it! It's sharp, isn't it?
It's sharp and it's minimalist
and really cool.
What do you think?
I think Howard's done an amazing job.
It's really great.
HOWARD BURDEN: Everyone will find
something different in the look.
It will have a sort of
'60s feel for some,
it'll have an Edwardian feel for others.
What I tried to do is not be stuck
in any particular genre or period,
that it was really just contemporary
with a hint of something different.
CAPALDI: It wasn't deliberate
but I think I always wanted
something that was connected
to the darker kind of tones
of the earlier Doctors.
Yeah, yeah. It's very kind
of Jon Pertwee.
-Yeah.
-(ALL LAUGHING)
NARRATOR: Yes,
Peter's new costume echoes back
to some of the past Doctors' outfits.
Time to see what style he has in common
with some of his predecessors.
If you look closely, you can see
that the more sombre approach
of a long, dark coat
was favoured by the first two Doctors,
but the red lining
in the Twelfth Doctor's
has a touch of the Third about it.
And there's the simplicity that
harks back to the Ninth Doctor,
including his passion
for sturdy footwear.
The accessories so beloved
of earlier incarnations,
scarves, hats, celery or umbrellas,
they're all gone.
This leaves us with a costume
that's distinctive,
new, striking and stylish.
So what does the Peter think
of his new iconic costume?
It's stark.
It means business and I believe it.
It's the thing that most makes me
feel most like Doctor Who.
NARRATOR: So with a new costume
and a new set of scripts,
Peter has no excuse.
It's time for his
first moments on camera.
And someone is
more than a little chuffed.
MOFFAT:
It's rather exciting. Almost uniquely,
Peter Capaldi's first scene
in Doctor Who
is the first time that Peter
has popped out of the Tardis.
NARRATOR: This was to bring out
a raft of strong emotions
for a man who has loved Doctor Who
ever since he was a young boy.
CAPALDI:
Delight mixed with terror, really.
(BANGING ON DOOR)
But to actually finally get to be
Doctor Who was fantastic.
To sort of emerge from the Tardis
-for the first time, that's great.
-(SHUSHING)
And you shut the door
and it's completely black.
So you're sort of plunged
into the darkness,
with just me, Jenna and the guy
who's providing the smoke.
Sir?
So it was lovely to be inside that box
and to think, "Oh, this is mine now."
Bashful? Sneezy?
Grumpy!
NARRATOR: And being on set
is a real treat for Steven.
After months of only seeing
his new Doctor on paper,
it's time for the real character
to come to life before his very eyes.
Already I'm seeing how he is
choosing to move around the set,
how he's hitting a funny line,
how he's hitting a serious moment.
The fundamental Doctor is the same.
It's those flourishes, those moments,
the things they run with,
the way they move
that makes them different
and he's such a funny, inventive actor.
And simultaneously,
he's having an absolute ball
because he's playing the part
he's always wanted.
How do you know?
Well, come on, Clara!
You know that I speak dinosaur!
He's not Clara. I'm Clara!
COLEMAN: It's been amazing.
He was born to play it
and I just remember
there was the first line of one take
and in my head I was like,
"And off we go."
Why are you all going dark and wobbly?
COLEMAN: Clara kind of felt
a bit safer with the last Doctor.
He would always catch her
whenever she'd fall, but with
this Doctor, she doesn't quite know
how far he's going to go.
He's a bit more reckless
and she's totally kind of
on the back foot
and doesn't quite know how
to handle this new man, this new face.
So we see a complete change in her.
You need to calm down.
She kind of has to try
and keep in control
and he doesn't make that easy
and the situation
doesn't make it that easy,
so it's very different to how it was.
-I think something's gone wrong.
-I'm not flirting, by the way. Wrong?
What's gone wrong?
His physicality and his hands
and his run,
just everything about him is the Doctor
and it's such a different Doctor.
So that's been incredible, to see him
bring that Doctor to life
and come together
but it was there immediately.
NARRATOR: We really do have
an amazing new Doctor on our hands
and I wonder what Steven
thinks of his new time traveller?
He looks like Doctor Who,
he sounds like Doctor Who,
he's a Scottish Doctor Who
and somehow that's just so exciting.
Everybody just...
Everybody just take five!
NARRATOR: So that may be
the end of Peter's first day
but this is just the beginning
of a brand-new Doctor.
series of Doctor Who.
Not only do we have 12 exciting
new adventures for you,
but a thrilling new Doctor at the helm.
-DIRECTOR: Action!
-(GASPS) Oh!
You've got a dinosaur, too!
(ROARS)
NARRATOR: Planning for this epic
new series started in late 2013.
Since then, over 200 people
have been working flat out
to make this the biggest
and best series ever.
Hi, there!
Lucky for you, we've got exclusive
access to show you all the thrills,
spills and explosive action.
(EXPLOSION)
So get ready for a brand-new era,
I promise you're going to love it!
I know I would.
(DOCTOR WHO THEME)
Over 50 years old
and loved around the world,
Doctor Who fas picked up
millions of fans along the way.
And none more dedicated
than Peter Capaldi.
Announced to the world
as the Twelfth Doctor back in 2013,
Peter is now living his childhood dream.
But this isn't the first time
Peter has appeared in the show.
Five years earlier, he got a guest role
starring alongside the Tenth Doctor.
Lobus Caecilius.
PETER CAPALDI:
The script came in an email,
usually you read the script
and say, "Yes, I'd like to do it.”
But I said, "No, well, I'll just do it.”
(LAUGHS)
Yeah, it's great! I absolutely love it.
I could do this forever. It's a delight.
NARRATOR:
Well, his wish has definitely come true.
And we caught up with Peter
at his very first read-through
to see how the job's been going.
CAPALDI: It seems
to have been a long time
that I've been the new Doctor Who,
people keep saying to me,
"Oh, how's it going? What's happening?"
Well, I haven't done anything!
I've spent seven months
being the new Doctor Who
and not getting on with it.
NARRATOR: Well, Peter is obviously eager
to get stuck into his new role
but first things first,
time for some introductions.
-I'm playing Alf.
-I'm playing the policeman.
Dan Starkey playing Strax.
-You know who I am.
- (LAUGHTER)
Yes, well, it's quite
an extraordinary position to be in,
to sort of say, "Hello, I'm Peter
and I'm playing this, uh,
"iconic, historically
much-loved character
"that's been around for 50 years."
It's difficult to know
quite how to phrase that
other than to say...
I'm Peter Capaldi and I'm the Doctor.
(CROWD CHEERS AND CLAPS)
NARRATOR: Wow! What an exciting moment.
I wonder what lead writer
Steven thought about it?
The most exciting thing for me
was that it was the very first time
we saw Peter and Jenna together.
We're alive. Egomaniac.
You were talking about me?
We got to the read-through
of the big, long restaurant scene,
which always worried me a bit
because it's a long scene
with just two people talking.
Clara, what is happening right now,
in this restaurant,
to you and me, is more important
than your egomania.
Nothing is more important
than my egomania!
That was the first time we actually saw
the new Tardis team in action
and that was properly exciting.
The dynamic is unlikely friendship
but just totally works
and totally feels natural.
That's the way I feel that we get on
together really well like that,
unlikely friendship that just works.
BOTH: Geronimo!
NARRATOR: And now for a little treat.
Here's a snippet of Peter
playing the Doctor
for the very first time.
I never know where
they come from, the faces.
They just pop up. Whoosh, zap, face.
It's all right up until the eyebrows
and then it just goes haywire.
They're attack eyebrows!
You could take bottle tops
off with these!
(ALL LAUGHING)
CAPALDI: This is it.
The genie is out of the bottle,
so let's see what happens.
NARRATOR: So while Peter headed off
to get suited and booted,
we were poised and ready to capture
the very first day on set.
Three, two, one. Action!
Madame Vastra, thank God.
NARRATOR: And of course,
there are a few familiar faces.
NEVE MCINTOSH:
Ah, first day, first day of filming.
This... This is supposed to be
down by the Thames.
NARRATOR: Oh, and we couldn't forget
the big, angry dinosaur
-that turned up, too.
-(ROARS)
Yes, we're all looking rather skyward
because there's a huge dinosaur.
NARRATOR: So without an actual dinosaur
being on set,
is it tough to imagine one
actually being there?
No, no, no, of course not! It's my job.
Cut!
NARRATOR: Well the dinosaur itself
may be CGI,
but be careful where you put your hands.
The dinosaur spit is, er,
well it's real.
Honest!
Dinosaur gunk.
NARRATOR: Yes, this angry dinosaur
coughs up the Tardis. Nice!
Action!
A giant dinosaur from the distant past
has just vomited a blue box
from outer space.
NARRATOR:. But someone
is not deterred by dino slime...
If you wouldn't mind?
Strax is working with Madame Vastra
and Jenny now
and helps them out
with military situations like this.
I think Strax thinks everything
is a military situation.
Exit the box and surrender to the glory
of the Sontaran Empire!
NARRATOR: Well
if a huge dinosaur isn't enough
to scare the living
daylights out of you,
this episode introduced
an even more frightening new enemy.
JENNA COLEMAN:
Half-face Man is terrifying.
Bring her.
His physicality is brilliant.
You really watch his walk
and his movements. It's fantastic.
It's so finely tuned.
He's our sophisticated droid.
It looks like clockwork inside his head.
He's wearing a silicone prosthetic
to simulate this hollow part
that completes with the use of a dummy
and then CGI is going to put
everything together.
This is the dummy for the character
of the Half-face Man.
It takes a couple of months
to get to this
because they need to take
a life cast of the actor first
and then the manufacturing
of the mechanism.
NARRATOR: Well, it looks creepy to me.
Are you as freaked out as I am?
Probably not any more
but maybe the first days, yes. (LAUGHS)
NARRATOR: Well while Half-face Man
Is freaking us all out
with his scary eyeballs,
our costume designer Howard
has had his own
terrifying monster to deal with.
No, I don't mean the new Doctor.
I've had stress nightmare dreams
for the past two days.
NARRATOR: Yes, designing
the latest costume
for a brand-new Doctor isn't easy
but it's over now. Phew!
Fantastic. A great relief.
Peter said very early on
after I met him,
"You realise I'm going
to have to wear this
"for the rest of my life?"
No pressure. (LAUGHS)
But I think he looks fantastic
and he genuinely seems very happy.
NARRATOR: And Peter isn't just happy
with his new look,
he's over the moon.
I love it! I love the way
that it's very modern
but at the same time it invokes the past
and yet it also propels
the new Doctor into the future.
I'm the Doctor.
I've lived for over 2,000 years.
I love it! It's sharp, isn't it?
It's sharp and it's minimalist
and really cool.
What do you think?
I think Howard's done an amazing job.
It's really great.
HOWARD BURDEN: Everyone will find
something different in the look.
It will have a sort of
'60s feel for some,
it'll have an Edwardian feel for others.
What I tried to do is not be stuck
in any particular genre or period,
that it was really just contemporary
with a hint of something different.
CAPALDI: It wasn't deliberate
but I think I always wanted
something that was connected
to the darker kind of tones
of the earlier Doctors.
Yeah, yeah. It's very kind
of Jon Pertwee.
-Yeah.
-(ALL LAUGHING)
NARRATOR: Yes,
Peter's new costume echoes back
to some of the past Doctors' outfits.
Time to see what style he has in common
with some of his predecessors.
If you look closely, you can see
that the more sombre approach
of a long, dark coat
was favoured by the first two Doctors,
but the red lining
in the Twelfth Doctor's
has a touch of the Third about it.
And there's the simplicity that
harks back to the Ninth Doctor,
including his passion
for sturdy footwear.
The accessories so beloved
of earlier incarnations,
scarves, hats, celery or umbrellas,
they're all gone.
This leaves us with a costume
that's distinctive,
new, striking and stylish.
So what does the Peter think
of his new iconic costume?
It's stark.
It means business and I believe it.
It's the thing that most makes me
feel most like Doctor Who.
NARRATOR: So with a new costume
and a new set of scripts,
Peter has no excuse.
It's time for his
first moments on camera.
And someone is
more than a little chuffed.
MOFFAT:
It's rather exciting. Almost uniquely,
Peter Capaldi's first scene
in Doctor Who
is the first time that Peter
has popped out of the Tardis.
NARRATOR: This was to bring out
a raft of strong emotions
for a man who has loved Doctor Who
ever since he was a young boy.
CAPALDI:
Delight mixed with terror, really.
(BANGING ON DOOR)
But to actually finally get to be
Doctor Who was fantastic.
To sort of emerge from the Tardis
-for the first time, that's great.
-(SHUSHING)
And you shut the door
and it's completely black.
So you're sort of plunged
into the darkness,
with just me, Jenna and the guy
who's providing the smoke.
Sir?
So it was lovely to be inside that box
and to think, "Oh, this is mine now."
Bashful? Sneezy?
Grumpy!
NARRATOR: And being on set
is a real treat for Steven.
After months of only seeing
his new Doctor on paper,
it's time for the real character
to come to life before his very eyes.
Already I'm seeing how he is
choosing to move around the set,
how he's hitting a funny line,
how he's hitting a serious moment.
The fundamental Doctor is the same.
It's those flourishes, those moments,
the things they run with,
the way they move
that makes them different
and he's such a funny, inventive actor.
And simultaneously,
he's having an absolute ball
because he's playing the part
he's always wanted.
How do you know?
Well, come on, Clara!
You know that I speak dinosaur!
He's not Clara. I'm Clara!
COLEMAN: It's been amazing.
He was born to play it
and I just remember
there was the first line of one take
and in my head I was like,
"And off we go."
Why are you all going dark and wobbly?
COLEMAN: Clara kind of felt
a bit safer with the last Doctor.
He would always catch her
whenever she'd fall, but with
this Doctor, she doesn't quite know
how far he's going to go.
He's a bit more reckless
and she's totally kind of
on the back foot
and doesn't quite know how
to handle this new man, this new face.
So we see a complete change in her.
You need to calm down.
She kind of has to try
and keep in control
and he doesn't make that easy
and the situation
doesn't make it that easy,
so it's very different to how it was.
-I think something's gone wrong.
-I'm not flirting, by the way. Wrong?
What's gone wrong?
His physicality and his hands
and his run,
just everything about him is the Doctor
and it's such a different Doctor.
So that's been incredible, to see him
bring that Doctor to life
and come together
but it was there immediately.
NARRATOR: We really do have
an amazing new Doctor on our hands
and I wonder what Steven
thinks of his new time traveller?
He looks like Doctor Who,
he sounds like Doctor Who,
he's a Scottish Doctor Who
and somehow that's just so exciting.
Everybody just...
Everybody just take five!
NARRATOR: So that may be
the end of Peter's first day
but this is just the beginning
of a brand-new Doctor.