Hothouse was the ninth serial of Season 45 of Doctor Who. It was written by Jonathan Morris & Steven Moffat, directed by Alice Troughton and starred Robert Carlyle as the Twelfth Doctor, Sheridan Smith as Sally Ryder & Georgia Moffett as Nikki Williams.
Synopsis[]
Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Five vast, state-of-the-art biodomes, all steel and glass. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlowe has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary...
There's something growing inside the Hothouse. Something that could turn back humanity's tide. A voracious alien vegetable called the Krynoid. The Doctor and Nikki are going to have to stop it. Stop Marlow. Stop Marlow's fanatical acolyte, Sally Ryder...
Save the world. By any means necessary...
Plot[]
To be added.
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Robert Carlyle
- Sally Ryder - Sheridan Smith
- Nikki Williams - Georgia Moffett
- Alex Marlowe - Nigel Planer
- Christina Ondrak - Adna Sablyich
- Stefan Radek - Stuart Crossman
- Newsreader - Barnaby Edwards
To be added.
Crew[]
To be added.
Worldbuilding[]
- Britain's water reservoir levels are below 5%. Water is restricted to hospitals only.
- Hazel was present during a flood in Dhaka.
Governments[]
- The Eurozone has closed its borders.
Organisations[]
- Hazel Bright is part of the World Ecology Bureau.
- Hazel contacted UNIT to use the space-time telegraph to contact the Doctor.
- Alex Marlowe runs the League of Nature, an extremist ecology group.
Species[]
- Krynoids are affected by high pitched noises.
Notes[]
To be added.
Continuity[]
- The World Ecology Bureau has files on the Harrison Chase incident and the Doctor's involvement in that incident. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
- The space-time telegraph was first referred to in TV: Revenge of the Cybermen and was briefly seen in TV: Terror of the Zygons.
- The Eurozone is mentioned. (PROSE: Trading Futures)
Home video releases[]
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 45 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Fifth Season in 2009.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 45 were later released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Fifth Season on Blu-ray in 2009.