Wirrn Dawn was the second serial of Season 46 of Doctor Who. It was written by Nicholas Briggs, directed by Mark Everest and starred Robert Carlyle as the Twelfth Doctor & Freema Agyeman as Ashley Tannen.
Synopsis[]
The Doctor and Ashley land right in the middle of one of the human race's bloodiest periods of history. Trying to make a difference here would be like standing up and calling for a cease-fire on the Somme. Certain death...
Or Worse.
Survival can be a messy business.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- The Doctor - Robert Carlyle
- Ashley Tannen - Freema Agyeman
- Trooper Salway - Colin Salmon
- Delong - Daniel Anthony
- Farroll - Liz Sutherland
- Winslet - Ian Brooker
- Voice of the Wirrn Queen - Beth Chalmers
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Crew[]
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Worldbuilding[]
- Earth was abandoned centuries earlier.
- The Doctor mentions extensive fighting on the Somme.
- The Doctor compares the Wirrn to Ichneumon wasps.
Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- The Fourth Doctor first encountered the Wirrn on the Nerva Beacon (TV: The Ark in Space). The Ninth Doctor also encountered the Wirrn on Micawber's World in July 3999. (TV: Placebo Effect)
- The Doctor previously met GalSec colonists in the year 16087. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment)
Home video releases[]
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 46 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Sixth Season in 2010.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 46 were later released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Sixth Season on Blu-ray in 2010.