Get down! The doctor has not beenDid they see you?
I don't know. But did they see you? The doctor has become human.
This is not you. This is 1913.Good. This is 1913.
He is now living as a school teacher in England just before World War I.
Only Martha Jones has the secret.
Martha, this watch is me.
Pardon me, Mr Smith. The doctor asArgghh!
She's frustrated. I wish you'd come back.
There are aliens on his trail who are after a Time Lord's lifespan.
He's hiding from them, but they find him.
The teacher, he's the Doctor.
Come along with confidential as we go undercover with the doctor and Martha, alias Smith and Jones.
The doctor is hiding because the family of blood is after him.
They're following us! They can follow us wherever we go,
right across the universe. They're never going to stop.
Martha, you trust me, don't you?
Of course I do.Because it all depends on you.
Thank you. Shoot it next time, please.
Now... Turn over, please.
Ready? Six, season seven, take one.
And the good news is...? They can smell me, but they haven't seen me. So, we hide, wait for them to die.
It's the first time we've told a story in which the Doctor is hidden.
I never thought I'd use this. All the times I've wondered.
What does it do? Chameleon Arch.
It rewrites my biology. It literally changes every single cell in my body.
Cut!
The Chameleon Arch literally rewrites the doctor's biology, it changes him into a human being.
667, take 3.
Now, the Tardis will take care of everything -
invent a life story for me, find me a setting and integrate me.
Can't do the same for you, you'll just have to improvise.
There is no memory of the fact that this being was once the Doctor.
Good morning, sir. Yes, quite.
The Doctor has gone, really, to all intents and purposes.
John Smith has subsumed the Doctor's personality.
- Permission to give Latimer a beating, Sir. - Permission granted.
He's not the same man. He's a creation of the Tardis.
Thank you. Excellent. Steven?
I approached him as a new character, not as the Doctor.
I mean, it was very important for that story to make sense
that John Smith was not the Doctor, was somebody else, was his own man.
I dream, quite often, that...
that I have two hearts.
Well, then, I can be the judge of that.
Basically, he's no longer the Doctor,
cos he's unaware of Time Lords and spaceships and Daleks. I mean, he does have these dreams.
I dream I'm this...
adventurer...
this daredevil, a madman - "the Doctor".
When he's John Smith, he has no memory of being the Doctor,
apart from dreams that come backHe writes them down.
"Journal of impossible things". How wonderful.
Such imagination!
It's in his subconscious, he has an awareness that there is a Doctor.
Think how magical life would be if stories like this were true.
As far as John Smith is concerned, it's something from his imagination.
It's funny how dreams slip away.
He doesn't for a second imagine they're anything other than fantastic dreams that he has.
It all took place in the future,
in the year of our Lord 2007.
That's very important. The story wouldn't play if he suspected from the beginning
he was anything other than a man in 1913, being a school teacher.
What have I told you about entering unannounced?
In the middle of playing the same character,
to get to do something different, in a way was a liberation.
What other long-running show and character,
halfway through the series gets to be completely different from the way he was last week?
Inspector Morse doesn't become a transvestite shoplifter, you know? It wouldn't make sense.
It's not just aliens who are chasing John Smith - school matron Joan Redfearn has her eye on him, too.
I think Joan is very worldly wise.
I appear to be holding your books.Yes, so you are. Sorry, sorry.
She's quite forward of her age.
When it's with me, I'd rather you call me Nurse Redfearn.
So we made her a widow.
Though we've known each other two months, you could even say Joan.
She knows what it's like to be married
and so she quite consciously sets her eye on John Smith as a husband
and is going after him from the moment we first see them together.
She's forward for a woman in talking about her husband.
She's very open about her emotions, and they dance around each other.
MUSIC: "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas
Then, eventually, all leading up to the dance,
where they have the last possible nice time they can have
before Doctor Who world descends and monsters arrive and laserguns and rips them apart.
It's a precious time. It's the only chance they'll get to be happy.
With scores of performers on set,
the crew must choreograph what's seen on screen.
Martha and the matron are gonna have a little chat.
You guys will be scattered about having a good time.
A few people eating, drinking, chatting, dancing, all the rest of it.
The dance hall scene was quite complicated to do.
Working with that many extras is always difficult
cos it takes a long time to get anything done,
and they are all in period costume and make-up, so that takes a long time.
Nice and quiet, please. All eyes on the MC.
397, take one. "A" camera. "B" camera.
Thank you. Here we go, folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your partners for the waltz.
Don't have everyone waltzing round like The King And I.
These are ordinary village folk, not great dancers.
They're ordinary people in a nice, comfy little setting.
You can dance! I'm surprised myself.
One thing about Doctor Who is never have a party.
Don't go to a dance, cos a monster's gonna crash through the windows.
It's becoming a rule - "They're dancing, send in monsters!"
Right on cue, the aliens land to gatecrash the gathering.
They're more than ready for a hapless schoolboy to bump into them.
Right. Well, never mind that little toad, who's for beer?
You've got beer? Baxter's hidden a
Well, what you waiting for? Hurry back, I'm parched.
Look, in the sky!
The invisible space ship was no trouble because it was invisible.
cos originally there was a lot more money to be spent on that.
Later, we do see it very briefly.
Harry is a super actor and I did talk to him about having some...
Doing some mime work with our movement artist,
but we didn't do it in the end, and I think he does it terribly well.
Baines bumping into that thing, it becomes a mime act with his hands.
It's the sort of thing you can do in the schoolyard.
Then it leads him into somethingArghh!
Here we go, rehearsing. Nice and quiet.
Is that an aeroplane?
Are you chaps all right? Argh!
'That was a tricky day.'
First of all, because it was freezing and very wet.
Charlie, the director, came up to me that morning, and said, um...
"How are you at mime?"
And I said, "Well, I'm OK."
I still haven't seen it, so I don't know, but it felt a bit stupid,
but I think we might have got away with it,
with all the special-effects, they'll cover up my mistakes.
These aliens need some interesting spooky servants.
How about scarecrows?
Activate the soldiers.
The scarecrows are great. It's taking the mundane and making it creepy,
which is one of the sure-fire things that this show does very well.
They're peculiarly creepy.
The eyes aren't quite there. Fantastic creatures.
It's nice to have something very scary that can legitimately
stand there in the field, being completely ordinary.
I wish they had scarecrows like that these days. Freak kids out.
Help me!
You kind of think, "How can we not have done living scarecrows before?"
It seems such an obvious idea when you see it.
The only thing that was lacking was something to grab you.
So, I said scarecrows to Paul and he said no, and as with Paul, you just wait a day, and then he turns round
and says, "Oh, great idea."
This is great. I love spooky scarecrows, they're so gothic and wonderful and really English.
And the guys inside did such a great job, that, kind of, lolloping,
rolling gait, which somehow made them all the more creepy.
Notice the thermals.
Essential.
We decided that scarecrows should shamble.
Argh! Argh! Argh!
A little bit like with a vestige of the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, who lollops all over the place.
Argh! Argh!
That's what you expect a scarecrow should do, these monsters should do what you expect them to do.
And, action!
Help me!
Cut. They're silent as well, it just gives them...
It's just that shambling, it makes them a bit animal, a bit mindless.
I think that makes them terrifying.
Help me!
Cut there.
Give us a kiss. Thank you.