Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.

Data lansării
2015-12-25
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (170)
Durată
1 h 0 min
Genuri
Dramă, SF, Comedie
Regizor
Douglas Mackinnon

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"The Husbands of River Song" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. First broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2015, it is the eleventh Christmas special since the show's revival in 2005. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon. The episode marks the return of Alex Kingston as River Song, making her first appearance alongside Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor and her last on-screen appearance to date. This also features the first appearance of Nardole, who would become a companion starting from the next episode.

Production

Showrunner Steven Moffat originally planned "The Husbands of River Song" to be his last episode for his run of Doctor Who, but it became clear he would stay on because his successor, Chris Chibnall, was busy with the third season of Broadchurch.

Setting the episode where River does not recognize the Doctor allowed Moffat to play around with the characters in ways unseen before, such as what River is like without the Doctor around and giving the Doctor his own "bigger on the inside" reaction to the TARDIS. The episode fills in a part of River Song's timeline, the singing towers of Darillium, previously described in "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead".

As for the villain of Hydroflax, Moffat commented, "I wanted to keep it simple, for Christmas: a big, bad, rather stupid man, who isn't much of a threat to anything because he's so thick".

In September 2015, it was announced that Alex Kingston would reprise the role of recurring character River Song for the first time since the 2013 episode "The Name of the Doctor". Moffat "had sort of thought we were done with River" but had been encouraged to bring her back by former showrunner Russell T Davies, who wanted to see her opposite Capaldi. Kingston said she did not expect to return.

In November, it was revealed that the special's guest cast would include Greg Davies as King Hydroflax and Matt Lucas as Nardole. Lucas was a fan of the show and Davies accepted the offer without reading the script, describing the role as "one of those jobs that validates the career to my own mother". Lucas shot the episode in between attending rehearsals for a BBC Cymru production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, where he played Nick Bottom.

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