3x03 Gridlock - Doctor Who (UK) Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x03

Episode: 03x03
Title: Gridlock
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: Apr. 14, 2007

Season 3 » Episode #03 - Gridlock

Summary: The Doctor returns to New Earth with Martha, and finds that the streets are controlled by the Pharmacists and the city is in perpetual gridlock. What menace is lurking in the pollution filled depths of the Motorway?

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Brannigan	played by Ardal O'Hanlon
Novice Hame	played by Anna Hope (II)
Milo	played by Travis Oliver
Cheen	played by Lenora Crichlow
Valerie	played by Jennifer Hennessy
Alice	played by Bridget Turner
May	played by Georgine Anderson
Whitey	played by Simon Pearsall
Javit	played by Daisy Lewis

	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Gridlock Thomas Kincade Brannigan: This Martha, she must mean a lot to you. The Doctor: Hardly know her. I was too busy showing off.
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Gridlock The Doctor: New New York can start again. And they've got Novice Hame. Just what every city needs, cats in charge.

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TRIVIA

SPOILER: This episode contains two major references to "classic" Doctor Who episodes. The Macra first appeared in the 1967 episode "The Macra Terror", and the Doctor's description of Gallifrey is identical to that given by Susan in the 1964 episode "The Sensorites".
Rose Tyler mention: The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth and remarks he came to the same planet before with Rose.
Brannigan was offered to 'David Thelfall'.
As The Doctor and Martha exit the TARDIS onto New Earth, The Doctor pulls an arrow out of the TARDIS door, an arrow which Queen Elizabeth's men shot at them at the end of the previous episode, "Doctor Who" (2005) {The Shakespeare Code (#3.2)}.
The couple seen in the pre-credit sequence are made up to resemble the father and daughter in the Grant Wood painting, "American Gothic".