The Doctor – David Tennant
Donna Noble – Catherine Tate
Professor River Song – Alex Kingston
Dr Moon – Colin Salmon
The Girl – Eve Newton
Dad – Mark Dexter
Node 1 – Sarah Niles
Node 2 – Joshua Dallas
Anita – Jessika Williams
Strackman Lux – Steve Pemberton
Miss Evangelista – Talulah Riley
Other Dave – O-T Fagbenle
Proper Dave – Harry Peacock
General production staff
Production Executive – Julie Scott
Production Manager – Debbi Slater
Location Manager – Jonathan Allott
Production Co-ordinator – Jess van Niekerk
Assistant Production Co-ordinator – Debi Griffiths
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
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 – Sarah Payne
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 – Paul Aitken
Senior Props Maker – Barry Jones
Props Maker – Nick Robatto
Construction Manager – Matthew Hywel-Davies
Practical Electrician – Gafin Riley
Graphics – BBC Wales Graphics
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 – Samantha Hall, Chris Blatchford
Post-production Co-ordinator – Marie Brown
On-line Editors – Mark Bright, Matthew Clarke
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
VFX Production Assistant – Marianne Paton
On-set VFX Supervisor – David Bowman
SFX Co-ordinator – Ben Ashmore
SFX Supervisor – Danny Hargreaves
2D Artists – Russell Horth, James Moxon, Julie Nixon, Greg Spencer, Arianna Lago, Lyndall Spagnoletti, Bryan Bartlett, Murray Barber, Adriano Cirulli
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
The Doctor receives a psychic distress call and takes Donna to the largest library in the universe ΓÇö a planet-sized repository empty of all human life for one hundred years. An archaeology team led by Professor River Song arrives, River greeting the Doctor as a dear old friend he has never met, her diary filled with their shared future. The Vashta Nerada ΓÇö microscopic carnivorous organisms living in shadows that can strip flesh from bone in seconds ΓÇö stalk everyone through the darkened stacks. The concept is among the most genuinely terrifying the series has produced.
ΓÇ£Silence in the LibraryΓÇ¥ follows the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble as they arrive on a planet-sized library that has been mysteriously evacuated. They discover a deadly unseen presence lurking in the shadows.
The Library is a vast planet-wide archive containing every book ever written. It has been completely evacuated due to a mysterious and dangerous phenomenon affecting its systems.
The Vashta Nerada are microscopic creatures that live in shadows. They consume flesh instantly when they swarm, leaving behind only empty spaces and skeletons inside suits.
River Song is a mysterious woman who appears to know the Doctor very well, despite the Doctor not recognising her. She plays a key role in guiding him through the dangers of the Library.
This episode introduces one of the most important ongoing mysteries in Doctor Who, particularly the character of River Song, and expands the mythology of the Tenth Doctor era with deeper time-travel complexity.
