Night Thoughts was the second serial of Season 28 of Doctor Who. It was written by Edward Young, directed by Nicholas Mallett and starred Richard Griffiths as the Eighth Doctor, Julia Ormond as Raine Cunningham and Mark Greenstreet as Higgs.
Synopsis[]
A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Raine and Higgs.
Higgs, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed by the night-time appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition.
Raine tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed — she prefers to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit.
And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and — as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present — to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life...
Plot[]
To be added.
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Richard Griffiths
- Raine Cunningham - Julia Ormond
- Higgs - Mark Greenstreet
- Dickens - Bernard Kay
- The Bursar - Jane Asher
- O'Neil - James Bolam
- Sue - Holly Aird
- The Deacon - Jill Balcon
- Joe - Tim Bentinck
Crew[]
To be added.
Worldbuilding[]
Individuals[]
- Raine's maternal grandmother, Viktoriya Kerenskaya, died in 1973. She remembered that her mother Raina cried for days afterwards.
Cultural references from the real world[]
- Raine states that the Doctor is "smarter than the average bear".
Notes[]
To be added.
Continuity[]
To be added.
Home video and audio releases[]
VHS[]
- This story was first released on VHS.
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 28 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Twenty-Eighth Season in 2003.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 28 were upscaled in 1080i50 high definition and were released as Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 28 in the UK.