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First Aired: Jun. 14, 2008 on BBC One

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Season 4 » Episode #10 - Midnight

Summary: Location: Planet Midnight
Date: Unknown
Enemies: Unknown possessive creature

While visiting the planet Midnight, a beautiful and luxury planet, full of lavishes and high tech cities, a terrifying problem arises that leaves The Doctor powerless.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Hostess	played by Rakie Ayola
Sky Silvestry	played by Lesley Sharp
Professor Hobbes	played by David Troughton
Dee Dee Blasco	played by Ayesha Antoine
Val Cane	played by Lindsey Coulson
Biff Cane	played by Daniel Ryan
Jethro Cane	played by Colin Morgan (II)
Driver Joe	played by Tony Bluto

Episode Quotes

Sky Silvestry: So what is this? Chicken or beef?
The Doctor: I think it's both...

Donna Noble: Oy! And you be careful, all right?
The Doctor: Ahh, taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight? What could possibly go wrong?

Dee Dee Blasco: I'm just a second-year student, but I wrote a paper on the lost moon of Poosh. Professor Hobbes read it, liked it, took me on as researcher, just for the holidays. Well, I say "researcher," most of the time he's got me fetchin' and carryin'. But it's all good experience.
The Doctor: And did they ever find it?
Dee Dee Blasco: Find what?
The Doctor: The lost moon of Poosh.
Dee Dee Blasco: [laughing] Oh, no, not yet.
The Doctor: Well, maybe that'll be your great discovery one day. Here's to Poosh.
Dee Dee Blasco: [returning toast] Poosh.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): When the Doctor takes out his Sonic Screwdriver to disable the audio and video aboard the tour bus it's shown fully activated, yet in the next shot which shows Sky watching him, it's still in the process of activating.
Goof (revealing mistake): When the doors are sliding down at the beginning of the Crusader 50 trip, the wall panels can clearly be seen shaking.
Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the Doctor is talking Donna just before boarding the Crusader bus, a green screen can be seen behind him.

Trivia

The song that plays on the shuttle's entertainment system is "Do It Do It Again", by Raffaella Carrà.
Russel T. Davies wrote this episode in 3 days.
Two of the Tenth Doctor's common phrases are used to identify his voice: "allons-y" (French for "let's go") and "molto bene" (Italian for "very well" or "very good"), first used in Army of Ghosts and The Runaway Bride respectively.
Rose Tyler appears briefly on one of the shuttle's television screens shortly after the life-form attacks the transport, echoing a similar appearance in The Poison Sky.[2] In both instances, she silently shouts for the Doctor, who is not there to see the image in the first instance and is looking the opposite way in this episode. She also appears briefly in Partners in Crime. Rose is also mentioned by the Doctor by name along with Martha and Donna. In an early conversation with Sky about becoming recently single, the Doctor indirectly referred to Rose as one who "went to a different universe."
Dee Dee tells the Doctor that she has written a paper on the lost moon of Poosh, the third reference to a missing planet in the series, after Adipose 3 in Partners in Crime and Pyrovilia in The Fires of Pompeii. All three disappearances are explained in episode 12 and reversed in episode 13 of the series: the planets were snatched out of time and space by Davros and the Daleks. Whilst speaking to Sky, the Doctor also mentions the Medusa Cascade, where these planets were sent.