Series 15/Series 2 – Episode 6
StorylineWelcome to the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest in the year 2925. The Doctor and Belinda are delighted when the Tardis lands in the Harmony Arena space station but, as the entertainment commences, the show is sabotaged and the audience are expelled into space. The hijackers are led by Kid, a vengeful Hellion, whose home world Hellia was pillaged for poppy honey by the corporation promoting the contest. He plans to transmit a delta wave to wipe out the three trillion viewers. The Doctor intercedes with considerable rage, but is having strange visions of his granddaughter Susan...
CastThe Doctor – Ncuti GatwaBelinda Chandra – Varada SethuSusan – Carole Ann FordMrs Flood – Anita DobsonRylanGraham NortonKid – Freddie FoxMike Gabbastone – Kadiff KirwanGary Gabbastone – Charlie CondouCora Saint Bavier – Miriam-Teak LeeSabine – Julie DrayNina Maxwell – Kiruna StamellWynn Aura-Kin – Iona AndersonLen Kazah – Akemnji NdifornyenLiz Lizardine – Christina RotondoJeddy Kine – Abdul SeesayRunner – Imogen Kingsley Smith
RT review by Patrick Mulkern
This futuristic, interstellar spin on Eurovision is simply magnificent. From the epic stadium lightshow to the hordes of squealing fans, to snatches of quirky songs in the final to the soaring anthem that Cora sings. Even if the intercut reactions to the gawping cast edge it towards mawkish, Miriam-Teak Lee belts her song out of the arena. Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for & Juliet, she’s great casting here; and perhaps the new songwriting partnership of Russell T Davies, Juno Dawson and Murray Gold should be representing Royaume Uni. The burst of Bucks Fizz’s 1981 winning entry Making Your Mind Up, when the expelled crowds are being saved, is a total hoot.
Best of all, Ncuti Gatwa really is the Doctor here, fully formed and multi-faceted. Mercurial, in that he’s warm and fun-loving on arrival at the Harmony Arena, but also ice-cold when blasting painful retribution into the squirming Kid. He also dazzles everyone he meets with total conviction. Star quality. This is Gatwa’s finest episode yet.
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