Girl, Deconstructed was the fifth serial of Season 55 of Doctor Who. It was written by Lisa McMullin, directed by Jamie Magnus Stone and starred Jemma Redgrave as the Fifteenth Doctor, Rebecca Root as Joanne Tilley & Ravin J Ganatra as Anderson Stenhouse.
Synopsis[]
Marnie is missing. But she hasn't run away, as her dad fears - Marnie is still very much at home. But not quite as she was.
The Doctor & her companions joins forces with Missing Persons detective Jana Lee to help solve the mystery of a girl who's gone to pieces.
Plot[]
To be added.
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Jemma Redgrave
- Joanne Tilley - Rebecca Root
- Anderson Stenhouse - Ravin J Ganatra
- DC Jana Lee - Pearl Appleby
- Marnie / The Serapheem - Mirren Mack
- Kurt - Forbes Masson
- Douglas - Benjamin Davies
Crew[]
To be added.
Worldbuilding[]
- The Doctor claims to like most flavours of jelly except rumbleberry.
- The Doctor describes Dundee cake as "dangerous" as he once took the final slice while having afternoon tea with Mary, Queen of Scots and nearly lost a finger upon finding out the hard way it was her favourite.
- The Doctor says that the empty house reminds him of Scooby Doo.
- Douglas mentions that Jana once fancied a boy called Simon Campbell who she later arrested for fraud.
- The Doctor was tracking the Serapheem across the Zenthantine star system and says that their "holiday traffic" is very busy around the Prism of Orion.
- The Doctor's TARDIS cannot translate the Serapheem, likening it to trying to talk to a swarm of bees.
- The Doctor quotes the Chuckle Brothers when moving Marnie's bed with Kurt and calls himself a fan.
- Marnie's old stuffed animals are called Billy and Bobby Bunnykins.
- Kurt likens talking to the Serapheem to "like something out of Star Trek", which the Doctor takes offence to.
- The Doctor claims that the birth of a Kotongasara is the strangest birth she knows, in which "everyone present turns blue and sings through their bottom for five days in celebration".
- The Doctor nicknames Jana the "time police".
- The Doctor does not believe in coincidences.
Notes[]
To be added.
Continuity[]
- The Doctor implies she is still a member of UNIT. (TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.)
- The Doctor's TARDIS can perform Block Transfer Computation. (TV: Logopolis)
Home video releases[]
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 55 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Fifty-Fifth Season in 2020.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 55 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Fifty-Fifth Season on Blu-ray in 2020.