S3.E9

The Family of Blood

Episode aired Jan 23, 2008
TV-PG
45m

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Gerard Horan, Harry Lloyd, Rebekah Staton, and Lor Wilson in Doctor Who (2005)

The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...

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David Tennant

The Doctor

Freema Agyeman

Martha Jones

Jessica Hynes

Joan Redfern

Rebekah Staton

Jenny

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Tim Latimer
(as Thomas Sangster)

Harry Lloyd

Baines

Tom Palmer

Hutchinson

Gerard Horan

Clark

Lor Wilson

Lucy Cartwright
(as Lauren Wilson)

Pip Torrens

Rocastle

Matthew White

Phillips

Sophie Turner

Vicar

Philippa Burt

Peasant
(uncredited)

Claudio Laurini

Scarecrow
(uncredited)

Ruari Mears

Scarecow
(uncredited)

Huw Rees

Old Tim
(uncredited)

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10/10

Brilliant script acted brilliantly

Others have said wonderful things about this so I don't want to repeat. One very effective thing was having actual children shown (actors playing their real age), thus having the impact of them as soldiers in The Great War in all its historically correct horror, although it was a fairly small part of the story.

That last 10 minutes packed a lot of emotional wallop, without being manipulative or treacly.

Those very dark punishments by The Doctor showed the high stakes. Downright creepy actually.

As great as this pair of episodes was, better stuff was yet to come the very next week.....

zerobeat
Aug 3, 2010
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Trivia
Scriptwriter Paul Cornell based this serial upon his 1995 Doctor Who novel, "Human Nature", making this two-parter the first time in series history that an original Doctor Who novel was adapted for television.

Goofs
When the daughter looks out of the school building it's raining but when it cuts to Baines there is no rain.

Quotes
Son of Mine: He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing... the fury of the Time Lord... and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind... He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star
[Shows Son of Mine's Father screaming wrapped in chains]
Son of Mine: He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy
[Shows Wife of Mine falling from the TARDIS' open doors into a bright light screaming]
Son of Mine: To be imprisoned there... forever. He still visits my sister, once a year, every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her... but there she is. Can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror. Every mirror.
[shows a little girl peering out from a mirror]
Son of Mine: If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you just for a second, that's her. That's *always* her. As for me, I was suspended in time and the Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England as their protector.
[Son of Mine suspended from a Scarecrow's crossbrace, the doctor puts a bag over his head]
Son of Mine: We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure we did.