After months of secrecy surrounding the title and details for the penultimate episode of Doctor Who’s fourth series, the BBC released the title and information about the story.
The title and the information could be considered SPOILER material…
And the title is… The Stolen Earth
Earth’s greatest heroes assemble in a time of dire need, in tonight’s penultimate episode in this series of Russell T Davies’s Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama. But can the Doctor’s secret army defeat the might of the new Dalek Empire?
With battles on the streets and in the skies, the Doctor and Donna must brave the Shadow Proclamation to find out the truth. However, a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows…
David Tennant plays the Doctor and Catherine Tate plays his companion, Donna Noble.
We already knew this stuff. No offence to you, Mr Hickerson, this is more directed at RTD, but pretty much everything in this press release is bleeding obvious, and has been since the third or fourth episode. RTD has basically taken the arc words, thrown them in a blender, poured the results onto a sheet of paper and handed it to the BBC saying “here’s the second-last episode!”. Last year was much better, with the ongoing mystery of “who is Mr Saxon?”.
In retrospect Bronzethumb’s reaction to this is intriguing given how this episode and the finale have now been officially acknowledged as the most successful Doctor Who episodes in history (and that’s history as in since 1963).