Partners in Crime (Doctor Who)

“Partners in Crime” is the first episode of the fourth series of Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008. It features the return of three recurring characters: Jacqueline King, Bernard Cribbins and Billie Piper. The episode’s alien creatures, the Adipsos, were created using the software MASSIVE.

About Partners in Crime (Doctor Who) in brief

“Partners in Crime” is the first episode of the fourth series of Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008. The episode reintroduced actor and comedian Catherine Tate as the temp Donna Noble, who had previously appeared in the 2006 Christmas Special \”The Runaway Bride\”. In the episode, Donna and the alien time traveller the Tenth Doctor meet while separately investigating Adipose Industries, a company that has created a revolutionary diet pill. Together, they attempt to stop the death of thousands of people in London after the head of the company, the alien Miss Foster, creates the Adiposes, short white aliens made from human body fat. It features the return of three recurring characters: Jacqueline King, Bernard Cribbins and Billie Piper. Critics’ opinions were split over the episode’s plot: opinion on executive producer Russell T Davies’ writing ranged from ‘pure pleasure’ to ‘the back of a fag packet’ The episode’s alien creatures, the Adipsos, were created using the software MASSIVE, commonly used for crowd sequences in fantasy and science fiction films. The Doctor and Donna prevent total emergency parthenogenesis occurring, which would have killed those who had taken the pill, and the remainder of the young Adipsose make their way to Adiposed Industries. The Adiposian First Family arrive in a spaceship and begin collecting their young.

The Doctor tries to warn Miss Foster about her safety, but she disregards him and is killed when the Ad Pipose drop her from their transport beam to her death, to cover their unsanctioned colonisation efforts. The Doctor refrains from killing the young Adipose because they are children, to which Donna remarks that his previous companion Martha made him more human. Donna makes a detour to leave her car keys in a litter bin, telling her mother Sylvia to collect them later. While there, she meets a woman who turns out to be Rose Tyler, who asks her to help Sylvia find the keys. The woman turns to be a blonde woman who fades from the area away from the scene. The scene that was not included in preview showings. was not part of the second series’ finale \”Doomsday\”, in a scene that had not been filmed for the show’s previously released filmmakers. The scenes were filmed for this episode for several weeks before actor Howard Attfield, who appeared as Donna’s father, died. He was cast as James Bond’s father in the episode but died before his scenes were completed for the remainder of the season. The actor later admitted it was ‘the furthest thing from his mind’ that he would ask about appearing in a biopic, but later said he would like to appear in this episode. He later appeared in several other episodes of the series.

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