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Time Reaver was the seventh serial of Season 50 of Doctor Who. It was written by Jenny T Colgan, directed by Daniel O'Hara and starred Damien Molony as the Fourteenth Doctor & Kate Bracken as Heather McKenzie.

Synopsis[]

Calibris. The spaceport planet where anything goes. Where anyone who doesn't want to be found can be lost, and where everything has its price. Where betentacled gangster Gully holds sway at the smugglers' tavern, Vagabond's Reach.

The alien Vacintians are trying to impose some order on the chaos. Soon the Doctor and Heather discover why. An illegal weapon is loose on the streets. A weapon that destroys lives... Slowly and agonisingly.

The Time Reaver.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

Crew[]

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Memorable Quotes[]

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References[]

Food and drink[]

  • Heather wonders whether there's a coffee shop on Calibris. To the Doctor's surprise, the head office has been decorated to resemble one and also serves scones.

Planets[]

  • Vacintia, the home of the Vacintians, is in its final days. The sun that it orbits is now a red giant.
  • Calibris is a spaceport planet used as a crossover point by 60 million people every day.

Popular culture[]

  • The Doctor implies that he has visited the nightclub Sugar Hut on at least one occasion.

The TARDIS[]

  • Heather notes that there is a very limited range of women's clothing in the TARDIS wardrobe.

Weapons[]

  • Time Reaver guns can turn seconds into much longer time periods.
  • A Time Reaver Bomb had the same effect as a Time Reaver.

Story Notes[]

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Continuity[]

  • Heather borrows a "wench" style outfit from the TARDIS wardrobe. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, The Twin Dilemma, Home Sweet Home)
  • The Doctor requires a new fluid link for his TARDIS. (TV: The Daleks, The Web Planet, et. al)
  • When referred to as "Doc", the Doctor makes his dislike for the nickname very clear. (TV: The Time Meddler, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma, The Ultimate Foe)
  • The Doctor notes that he stole a Type 40 TARDIS because he was in a hurry to leave Gallifrey. (TV: An Unearthly Child, Logopolis)
  • Mere seconds before Heather thinks she is going to die, Donna says to the Doctor that she "wouldn't have missed it for the world". This mirrors the interaction between the Twelfth Doctor and Sally Ryder when she was about to die. (TV: The Time of the Daleks)

Home video releases[]

DVD[]

  • This story along with the other stories in Season 50 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Fiftieth Season in 2014.

Blu-ray[]

  • This story along with the other stories in Season 50 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Fiftieth Season on Blu-ray in 2014.
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