The Fourth Wall was the fifth serial of Season 48 of Doctor Who. It was written by John Dorney, directed by Ashley Way and starred Peter Capaldi as the Thirteenth Doctor, Gemma Chan as Kelsey Haule & Tom Ellis as Richard McIntyre.
Synopsis[]
Business is bad for intergalactic media mogul Augustus Scullop, whose Trans-Gal empire is on the rocks. But, having retreated to his own private planet, Transmission, Scullop is about to gamble his fortune on a new show, made with an entirely new technology. And the name of that show... is Laser.
Back in the real world, far from the realms of small screen sci-fi fantasies about monsters and aliens, the Doctor is interested only in watching Test Match cricket... but finds himself drawn into Scullop's world when his travelling companion, Kelsey, is snatched from inside the TARDIS.
So, while the Doctor & Richard uncover the terrible secret of Trans-Gal's new tech, Kelsey battles to survive in a barren wilderness ruled over by the indestructible Lord Krarn and his pig-like servants, the Warmongers. And the name of that wilderness... is "Stevenage".
Plot[]
To be added.
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
- Kelsey Haule - Gemma Chan
- Richard McIntyre - Tom Ellis
- Augustus Scullop - Julian Wadham
- Dr. Helen Shepherd - Yasmin Bannerman
- Nick Kenton - To be added.
- Jack Laser - Hywel Morgan
- Matthew Howland - To be added.
- Lord Krarn - Martin Hutson
- Olivia Sayle - To be added.
- Jancey - Tilly Gaunt
- Chimbly - To be added.
- Head Warmonger - Kim Wall
- Junior - To be added.
- Warmonger - Henry Devas
Crew[]
To be added.
Worldbuilding[]
Individuals[]
- The Doctor tells Richard that he is not as interested in cricket as one of his previous incarnation and notes that many of his other incarnations are "irritating."
- The Doctor is impressed by a reverse sweep in the match.
- The Doctor previously encountered Chimbly on Ballastron VII as well as several other planets.
- Xander Drexel was Augustus Scullop's business partner before he left Trans-Gal and created his own company, which proved to be considerably more successful.
Foods and beverages[]
- Kelsey makes popcorn using the TARDIS' food machine.
Planets[]
- Augustus Scullop has a home on an artificial planetoid called Transmission.
- The Porcians once attempted to invade Skaro.
Cultural references from the real world[]
- Kelsey compares Transmission to the Death Star from Star Wars.
- Kelsey refers to the James Bond film franchise.
- Kelsey states that the Warmongers are not exactly crack shots, comparing them to "terrorists trying to attack Bruce Willis".
- Kelsey tells Lord Krarn that she has seen more realistic looking weapons than the Warmongers' on Blue Peter.
- Kelsey states that Jancey's description of Earth's fate since the Warmonger invasion five years earlier sounds as if she was reading a summary of the plot on Wikipedia.
- The Doctor enjoys the "fifth One Day International between Australia and South Africa 2006" on the Time-Space Visualiser.
Time technology[]
- Trans-Gal's reality generator utilises dimensional transcendentalism to create the dimensional bubble.
Notes[]
To be added.
Continuity[]
- Nick Kenton refers to the Acteon Galaxy. (TV: Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders)
- The Porcians said that they shouldn't have taken a left turn at Delta Magna. (TV: The Power of Kroll)
Home video releases[]
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 48 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Eighth Season in 2012.
- This story along with the other stories in Season 48, Part 1 were released as Doctor Who: Season 48, Part 1 in 2012.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 47 were later released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Eighth Season on Blu-ray in 2012.
- This story along with the other stories in Season 47, Part 2 were released as Doctor Who: Season 48, Part 1 on Blu-ray in 2011.