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Thicker Than Water

Thicker Than Water

Series Episode Number: 73

First Broadcast: Fri 30 Sep 2005 - ~8:00pm UTC (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 97 minutes 26 seconds


Recorded on Mon 27 Jun 2005 in The Moat Studios



Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed.

Now elected Principle Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, Rossiter is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet by researching the technology the Killorans left behind. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts.

Politics has caused a rift between father and daughter, and as if that weren't enough, Sofia doesn't approve of her new step-mother either. Emotions soon boil over into violence, a violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

Friendships bind people close, but they say that blood is...