Doctor Who Sleep No More (2005– ) watch online HD
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Due to the episode's uniqueness and originality, plot and production details were kept very secret. Despite releasing paragraph length plot summaries for each episode in advance of its airing, all the BBC released for this episode was: "This is footage collected from a space rescue mission. If you value your life, your sanity, and the future of your species, DO NOT WATCH IT".
Mark Gatiss has spoken about the episode saying "Well, I've had this story in my mind for a long time. It's set in the future. It's all from different points of view, which has not been done before on Доктор Кто (2005). It's been quite a challenge to make because you have to break a lot of the usual rules in terms of what you can actually show. Anything you can do to shake the format up is very exciting and that's what we've done."
In order to get the character point of view, the camera operator dressed up as character, held props, and would recite lines of the character he was portraying.
The Great Catastrophe is the near-collision with the Sun that was first mentioned in Доктор Кто: Frontios: Part One (1984). In both episodes, the Doctor mentions the catastrophe and then tells his companion that they have all that to look forward to.
At one point in the episode, The Doctor says, "When I say run, run!", a commonly used phrase of the second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton. Reece Shearsmith, who plays Rassmussen in the episode, played Troughton in Приключение в пространстве и времени (2013).
This was supposed to be a two-parter, like most of the others in series 9, but Mark Gatiss felt it couldn't be sustained over two installments and making it a one-off gave it a sense of immediacy.
Producer Nikki Wilson also played the voice of the annoying computer that wouldn't allow Deep-Ando through a door unless he sang the Sandman song.
This is the first episode to have no opening titles.
The space station is named after Urbain Le Verrier, the French mathematician who predicted the presence of Neptune (the planet the space station orbits) from oddities in the orbit of Uranus.
Steven Moffat commissioned a follow-up story from Mark Gatiss before this one even aired, but it was ultimately replaced by Доктор Кто: Empress of Mars (2017) when Series 10 was actually produced.
This is the first episode to have its title in the end credits, although the "Doctor Who" logo can be seen vertically in the text-burst near the start. This was Mark Gatiss's idea, inspired by Ведьма из Блэр: Курсовая с того света (1999).
Reece Shearsmith has previously played Patrick Troughton/the Second Doctor in Приключение в пространстве и времени (2013).
The Shakespeare quote the Doctor recites is from the play Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2.
Mark Gatiss had visited the countries Japan and India prior to writing this episode, which in turn inspired the use of them in this episode.
This is the first episode to feature an openly transgender actor, Bethany Black.
The Doctor comments that letting Clara name the Sandmen was like the naming of the Silurians. However, while someone else deduced they came from the Silurian era, it was the Doctor who first called them "Silurians". After complaints from scientists that they couldn't come from that time, in Доктор Кто: The Sea Devils: Episode Two (1972), the Doctor admitted it was a misnomer.
This is the only episode in series 9, that couldn't be considered a part of two-parter or three-parter.
Clara asks if the Morpheus Machine is actually named after Morpheus, the god of sleep. The Morpheus hologram also uses the term 'in the arms of Morpheus', a phrase meaning to be in a deep sleep.
Whilst it is true this episode is the 'first of found footage,' the story itself, being told by flashback, isn't.
Previously done with Доктор Кто: Love & Monsters (2006).
This is the first Доктор Кто (2005) episode written by Mark Gatiss that is set in the future.
Reece Shearsmith is the last of the three main actors from Лига джентльменов (1999) to appear in Доктор Кто (2005). Mark Gatiss featured in Доктор Кто: The Lazarus Experiment (2007) (and three subsequent episodes) and a year later Steve Pemberton was in the two-parter Доктор Кто: Forest of the Dead (2008)/Доктор Кто: Silence in the Library (2008).
This episode takes place in the 38th Century.
The Radio Times programme listing was accompanied by a small colour head-and-shoulders shot of a helmeted Nagata, with the accompanying caption "Doctor Who / 8.15 p.m. / Found footage shows what fate befell the rescue mission led by Nagata (Elaine Tan)".
"Mr. Sandman" was previously performed in "Delta and the Bannermen".
Six feet eight inch tall Paul Davis, who played the King Sandman, has previously worked with Reece Shearsmith in horror short Him Indoors (2012), which Davis wrote and directed.
The space station in this story is named after French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier.
As of 2018, this episode holds the title of the lowest rated episode of the revival covered on IMDb (6.1 stars out of 10).
Reece Shearsmith is such a big fan of the series he is even a devoted fan of Доктор Кто: Timelash: Part One (1985), which is widely regarded as one of worst stories of the original run.
Sleep machines that compress a whole night's sleep into a few minutes is used in Judge Dredd stories to maximise the time the Judges spend enforcing The Law.
Those like Chopra who refuse to compress their sleep via the Morpheus process are referred to as 'Rips'-a reference to the short story "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving.
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| Episode cast overview: | |||
| Peter Capaldi | - | The Doctor | |
| Jenna Coleman | - | Clara | |
| Reece Shearsmith | - | Rassmussen | |
| Elaine Tan | - | Nagata | |
| Neet Mohan | - | Chopra | |
| Bethany Black | - | 474 | |
| Paul Courtenay Hyu | - | Deep-Ando | |
| Paul Davis | - | King Sandman | |
| Tom Wilton | - | Sandman | |
| Matthew Doman | - | Sandman | |
| Zina Badran | - | Morpheus Presenter | |
| Natasha Patel | - | Hologram Singer | |
| Elizabeth Chong | - | Hologram Singer | |
| Nikkita Chadha | - | Hologram Singer | |
| Gracie Lai | - | Hologram Singer |
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