The Master – John Simm
Wilfred Mott – Bernard Cribbins
Catherine Tate – Donna Noble
Jacqueline King – Sylvia Noble
Timothy Dalton – Narrator / Lord President
David Harewood – Joshua Naismith
June Whitfield – Minnie Hooper
General production staff
Production Executive – Julie Scott
Associate Producer – Catrin Lewis Defis
Location Manager – Gareth Skelding
Unit Manager – Rhys Griffiths
Production Co-ordinator – Jess van Niekerk
Production/Script Secretary – Kevin Myers
Production Accountant – Ceri Tothill
A/Production Accountant – Carole Wakefield
Camera and lighting department
1st Assistant Director – Peter Bennett
2nd Assistant Director – James DeHaviland
3rd Assistant Director – Heddi Joy Taylor
Floor Runners – Tom Evans, Chris Goding
Continuity – Non Eleri Hughes
Camera Operators – Joe Russell, Alwyn Hughes
Focus Pullers – Steve Rees, Jamie Southcott
Grip – Clive Baldwin
Boom Operators – Jeff Welch, Bryn Thomas
Gaffer – Mark Hutchings
Best Boy – Peter Chester
Electricians – Steve Slocombe, Clive Johnson
Art department
Chief Supervising Art Director – Stephen Nicholas
Supervising Art Director – Stephen Nicholas
Art Department Co-ordinator – Amy Pope
Associate Designer – James North
Production Buyer – Ben Morris
Set Decorator – Julian Luxton
Props Buyer – Adrian Anscombe
Storyboard Artist – Richard Shaun Williams
Design Assistant – Al Roberts
Standby Art Director – Keith Dunne
Property Master – Paul Aitken
Construction Manager – Matthew Hywel-Davies
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, Cathy Davies, Morag Smith
Prosthetics – Millennium FX
Movement
Stunt Co-ordinator – Lee Sheward
Choreographer – Ailsa Berk
Casting
Casting Associate – Andy Brierley
Casting Assistant – Alice Purser
General post-production staff
Post-production Supervisors – Samantha Hall, Chris Blatchford
Post-production Co-ordinator – Marie Brown
Assistant Editor – Carmen Roberts
Special and visual effects
VFX Editors – Matt Mullins, Joel Skinner
Colourist – Mick Vincent
Sound
Sound Recordist – Julian Howarth
Dubbing Mixer – Tim Ricketts
Supervising Sound Editor – Paul McFadden
Sound FX Editor – Paul Jeffries
Foley Editor – Will Everett
The Ood summon the Doctor with an urgent prophecy ΓÇö the Master will return, and something far worse follows. The Master is resurrected by a desperate cult in a fractured, unstable form, burning through life energy and consumed by hunger. Wilfred Mott, Donna’s grandfather, finds himself inexplicably and repeatedly drawn toward the Doctor with a sense of terrible purpose. Billionaire Joshua Naismith’s attempt to harness alien technology for personal immortality gives the Master the opening he needs. The episode ends with the Master using the Immortality Gate to overwrite every human on Earth with his own face and mind.
Part One follows the aftermath of the MasterΓÇÖs return and the growing prophecy of the DoctorΓÇÖs death. Strange signals known as the ΓÇ£drumsΓÇ¥ continue to influence events across Earth.
The Master has been resurrected in a weakened state but is rapidly destabilising reality. His presence is linked to a larger Time Lord plan involving Gallifrey.
The Ood act as messengers of warning, revealing visions of the DoctorΓÇÖs impending death and the return of the Time Lords.
Wilfred Mott is Donna NobleΓÇÖs grandfather and becomes an important companion figure to the Doctor, receiving prophetic warnings about the DoctorΓÇÖs fate.
This part begins the final story of the Tenth Doctor, building toward his regeneration and the return of Gallifrey in Doctor Who.
