Season 28 - Series 2 (2006)

The Impossible Planet

Last Updated 28 Feb 2013 by Chuck Foster

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The Impossible Planet

6.32 Million

The Impossible Planet

Series Episode Number: 718

First Broadcast: Sat 03 Jun 2006 - 07:00:00pm
Running Time: 45 minutes 20 seconds

Appreciation Index: 85

Audience Share: 41%
Chart Position: 18
Recorded on Tue 28 Feb 2006 in Unit Q2 at these locations

The Doctor and Rose land in a base on an 'impossible planet'. But the TARDIS is missing, there's a killer in the base, and who are the Ood?

Characters include uncredited
The Doctor		David Tennant
Rose		Billie Piper
Zachary Cross Flane		Shaun Parkes
Ida Scott		Claire Rushbrook
Toby Zed		Will Thorp
John Jefferson		Danny Webb
Scooti Manista		MyAnna Buring
Voice of the Ood		Silas Carson
Danny Bartock		Ronny Jhutti
Ood		Paul Kasey
Voice of the Beast		Gabriel Woolf

Production Team
Writer		Matt Jones
Director		James Strong
Executive Producer		Russell T Davies
Executive Producer		Julie Gardner
Special Effects		Any Effects
Visual Effects Designer		Will Cohen
Producer		Phil Collinson
Stunt coordinator		Bill Davey
Incidental Music		Murray Gold
Masks by		Neill Gorton
Title Music		Ron Grainer
Visual Effects Designer		Dave Houghton
Film Editor		Mike Jones
Masks by		Millennium FX
Costume Designer		Louise Page
Production Unit Manager		Tracie Simpson
Visual Effects Designer		The Mill
Designer		Edward Thomas
Model Unit Supervisor		Mike Tucker
Director of Photography		Ernie Vincze
Make-up Designer		Sheelagh Wells
Studio Sound		Richard Dyer
Casting Director		Andy Pryor CDG
Associate Producer		Helen Vallis
Production Accountant		Endaf Emyr Williams
Script Editor		Simon Winstone

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