Dreamland (Doctor Who)

Dreamland

Doctor Who animated serial

Cast

Doctor

David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)

Companions

Georgia Moffett (Cassie Rice)
Tim Howar (Jimmy Stalkingwolf)

Others

Lisa Bowerman – Saruba Velak
David Warner – Lord Azlok
Stuart Milligan – Colonel Stark
Clarke Peters – Night Eagle
Nicholas Rowe – Rivesh Mantilax
Peter Guinness - Mister Dread
Ryan McCluskey – Soldiers

Production

Directed by

Gary Russell

Written by

Phil Ford

Produced by

Ed Cross
(Interactive Producer)
Mat Fidell
(Senior Producer)

Executive producer(s)

Anwen Aspden
(Interactive)
Sarah Muller
(for CBBC)
Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Piers Wenger

Incidental music composer

Murray Gold

Length

1 episode x 12 minutes
5 episodes x 6 minutes
42 minutes total

Originally broadcast

21–26 November 2009
5 December 2009 (full story)

Chronology

← Preceded by	Followed by →
"The Waters of Mars"	The End of Time

List of Doctor Who serials

Dreamland is the third animated Doctor Who serial (based on the British science fiction television live action series) to air on television, and the second to air after the revival of the live-action series in 2005. It stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and aired in six parts (one 12-minute episode, followed by five 6-minute episodes) broadcast daily from 21 November 2009 on the BBC's Red Button service, the official Doctor Who website and the BBC iPlayer. It was broadcast in its entirety on BBC Two and BBC HD on 5 December 2009.

There have been two prior fully animated Doctor Who stories, Scream of the Shalka and The Infinite Quest. (Three earlier webcasts, Death Comes to Time, Real Time, and "Shada" had contained animation on a limited scale.)

13 June 1947: a spaceship, trying to escape from two others, is shot down and crashes on Earth near Roswell, New Mexico. Eleven years later in Dry Springs, Nevada, The TARDIS materialises at a diner, and the Doctor meets Cassie Rice and Native American Jimmy Stalkingwolf. He uses his sonic screwdriver to investigate an alien artifact. Detecting that the artifact has been activated, two Men in Black arrive demanding the artifact in question. The Doctor and the others escape, to investigate Jimmy's "space monster". The monster turns out to be a Viperox battle-drone and is destroyed by a rocket from a USAF helicopter which arrives on the scene. The soldiers take them to Area 51 (aka Dreamland). In Dreamland, Colonel Stark locks them in a cell with a gas that will wipe their memories. The Doctor manages to break free, stop the gas, and escapes with Cassie and Jimmy via a ventilation shaft. The alarm sounds and they run into a lab where they find a captured grey alien. After fleeing pursuing guards in a lift they are recaptured at the top of the lift shaft. Colonel Stark is revealed to be working with a Viperox leader named Lord Azlok.

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