1x07 The Long Game - Doctor Who (UK) Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x07
Title: The Long Game
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 107
First Aired: May. 07, 2005

Season 1 » Episode #07 - The Long Game

Summary: Adam is taken in the Tardis to the distant future, a time when Earth rules a far-flung galactic empire dominated by the Satellite 5 broadcasting system. However, it's not long before the Doctor begins to suspect that this confident facade conceals sinister forces busily manipulating mankind for their own ends.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Adam	played by Bruno Langley
Head Chef	played by Colin Prockter
Cathica	played by Christine Adams
Suki	played by Anna Maxwell Martin
The Editor	played by Simon Pegg
Nurse	played by Tamsin Greig
Adam's Mum	played by Judy Holt
Satellite Five Patient	played by Aaron Fisher

Episode Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 7: - The Long Game The Editor: But the chips allow me to see inside their heads, find the smallest doubt and crush it!
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - The Long Game Adam: How does it work? The Doctor: Go and find out. Stop nagging me! The thing is, Adam, time travel's like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in - eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double, and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?

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TRIVIA

Bad Wolf Reference: On Satellite Five, the "Bad Wolf Channel" is broadcasting news that the Face of Boe is pregnant.
This episode was watched by 8.01 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 40.39% audience share.
Time travel is like visiting Paris. The last time The Doctor was seen visiting Paris was in the fourth Doctor episode City of Death where he also fought against an alien playing a long game, this one over 400 million years, the similarly named but unrelated Jagaroth.
The character of Suki Macrae Cantrell in "The Long Game" is named after Tom MacRae (II), a television writer and a good friend of Executive Producer Russell T. Davies. Davies later hired Macrae to work as a writer on series two.

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