4x07 The Unicorn and the Wasp - Doctor Who (UK) Episode Guide

Doctor Who (UK)

- Episode 04x07

Episode: 04x07
Title: The Unicorn and the Wasp
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: May. 17, 2008

Summary: The Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie, and help her to solve a murder mystery involving a giant shapeshifting wasp...

Donna Noble	played by Catherine Tate (II)
Agatha Christie	played by Fenella Woolgar
Lady Clemency Eddison	played by Felicity Kendal
Reverend Golightly	played by Tom Goodman-Hill
Colonel Hugh Curbishley	played by Christopher Benjamin
Robina Redmond	played by Felicity Jones (II)
Roger Curbishley	played by Adam Rayner
Greeves	played by David Quilter
Davenport	played by Daniel King (VI)

	Season 4 / Episode 7: - The Unicorn and the Wasp Agatha Christie: [upon meeting one another] Agatha Christie. Donna Noble: What about her? Agatha Christie: That's me.
	Season 4 / Episode 7: - The Unicorn and the Wasp The Doctor: [grabs Davenport] Ginger beer! Davenport: I beg your pardon? The Doctor: I need ginger beer! Mrs. Hart: The gentleman's gone mad!

CONT: We're told thieves broke into the church on Thursday night, but in the flashback, the church is lit by daylight.
FAKE: This is said to be set the day Agatha Christie disappeared (December 3, 1926) but characters are shown outside in summer weather clothes with no coats.
FAKE: When the housekeeper is lying on the ground, the 'stone' statuary moves on her stomach as she breathes, and then it is moved by 'Agatha Christie' when she bumps it with her knee.
CHAR: SPOILER: The Doctor tells Donna that Roger will become an English Lord sometime in the future. Yet in the story, he is murdered.

When the body of Professor Peach is found, the Doctor remarks that the time of death was quarter past four. This is a reference to Agatha Christie's novel, "The Clocks" where there are clocks frozen at 4:13.
The anchovies that the Doctor pours down his throat in the kitchen were really mushrooms.
The casting of Fenella Woolgar as Agatha Christie was made at the suggestion of David Tennant (I).
The novel the Doctor produces is from a chest of items beginning with C, including a Cyberman chest-plate from The Age of Steel, and the crystal ball in which the Carrionites are trapped from The Shakespeare Code.
Daphne Oxenford filmed scenes as Dame Agatha Christie on her deathbed in 1976 but these were removed during editing.