Professor River Song – Alex Kingston
Dr Moon – Colin Salmon
Proper Dave – Harry Peacock
Strackman Lux – Steve Pemberton
Anita – Jessika Williams
Other Dave – O-T Fagbenle
The Girl – Eve Newton
Dad – Mark Dexter
Lee – Jason Pitt
Ella – Eloise Rakic-Platt
Joshua – Alex Midwood
Miss Evangelista – Talulah Riley
Man – Jonathan Reuben
General production staff
Production Executive – Julie Scott
Production Manager – Debbi Slater
Location Manager – Jonathan Allott
Production Co-ordinator – Jess van Niekerk
Production Secretary – Kevin Myers
Production Runner – Sian Warrilow
Production Accountant – Oliver Ager
Contracts Assistant – Lisa Hayward
Camera and lighting department
1st Assistant Director – Dan Mumford
2nd Assistant Director – Jennie Fava
3rd Assistant Director – Sarah Davies
Continuity – Non Eleri Hughes
Camera Operator – Joe Russell
Focus Pullers – Steve Rees, Jamie Southcott
Grip – John Robinson
Boom Operator – Jeff Welch
Gaffer – Mark Hutchings
Best Boy – Peter Chester
Electricians – Steve Slocombe, Clive Johnson, Ben Griffiths
Art department
Chief Supervising Art Director – Stephen Nicholas
Supervising Art Director – Arwel Wyn Jones
Art Department Production Manager – Jonathan Allison
Art Department Co-ordinator – Amy Pope
Associate Designer – James North
Set Decorator – David Morison
Props Buyer – Joelle Rumbelow
Storyboard Artist – Shaun Williams
Design Assistant – Peter McKinstry
Standby Props – Phill Shellard, Nick Murray
Standby Carpenter – Will Pope
Standby Art Director – Ellen Woods
Standby Rigger – Keith Freeman
Standby Painter – Julia Challis
Property Master – Phil Lyons
Dressing Chargehand – Matt Wild
Senior Props Maker – Barry Jones
Props Maker – Penny Howarth
Construction Manager – Matthew Hywel-Davies
Costume department
Costume Supervisor – Lindsay Bonaccorsi
Assistant Costume Designer – Rose Goodhart
Costume Assistants – Barbara Harrington, Louise Martin
Make-up and prosthetics
Make-up Artists – Pam Mullins, Steve Smith, John Munro
Prosthetics – Millennium FX
Prosthetics Designer – Neill Gorton
Prosthetics Supervisor – Rob Mayor
Movement
Stunt Co-ordinator – Tom Lucy
Choreographer – Ailsa Berk
Casting
Casting Associate – Andy Brierley
General post-production staff
Post-production Supervisors – Chris Blatchford, Samantha Hall
Post-production Co-ordinator – Marie Brown
On-line Editors – Matthew Clarke, Mark Bright
Special and visual effects
Visual FX Producers – Will Cohen, Marie Jones
Visual FX Supervisor – Dave Houghton
VFX Editor – Ceres Doyle
VFX Co-ordinators – Jenna Powell, Rebecca Johnson
On-set VFX Supervisor – David Bowman
SFX Co-ordinator – Ben Ashmore
SFX Supervisor – Danny Hargreaves
3D Artists – Matt McKinney, Chris Tucker, Mark Wallman
2D Artists – James Moxon, Julie Nixon, Lyndall Spagnoletti, Arianna Lago, Bryan Bartlett, Murray Barber, Greg Spencer, Adriano Cirulli, Simon C. Holden
Colourist – Mick Vincent
Matte Painters – Simon Wicker, Charlie Bennett
Sound
Sound Recordist – Julian Howarth
Dubbing Mixer – Tim Ricketts
Supervising Sound Editor – Paul McFadden
Sound FX Editor – Paul Jefferies
Sound Editor – Doug Sinclair
Donna flickers between the library and a virtual world where she has a husband and children she comes to love deeply, while the Vashta Nerada continue their carnage. The Doctor discovers the library’s terrible secret ΓÇö that its computer, CAL, downloaded the consciousness of four thousand people into virtual reality to save them from the swarm. River Song reveals she knows the Doctor’s true name and makes a devastating sacrifice to save him ΓÇö dying in a way that leaves the Doctor haunted by what she represents, a future he cannot yet see and will not fully understand for years.
ΓÇ£Forest of the DeadΓÇ¥ continues directly from ΓÇ£Silence in the LibraryΓÇ¥. The Doctor, Donna, and River Song uncover the truth behind the LibraryΓÇÖs computer system, where human consciousnesses are trapped in a virtual reality world.
The ΓÇ£forestΓÇ¥ refers to a digital afterlife created by the LibraryΓÇÖs system, where the minds of the dead are stored in a simulated reality, appearing as a peaceful world full of trees and life.
Donna experiences an alternate life inside the virtual reality, where she believes she has a family. She is eventually rescued, but the experience leaves a lasting emotional impact.
River Song sacrifices herself to save the people trapped in the Library system. Her actions reveal important truths about her connection to the Doctor and the future.
ΓÇ£Forest of the DeadΓÇ¥ concludes a major two-part story in Doctor Who, deepening the mystery of River Song and expanding the emotional and technological themes explored by the Tenth Doctor.
