2015: The most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper below the Earth’s crust than man has ever gone, but now the ground itself is fighting back. The Doctor,Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village and find themselves battling a deadly danger from a bygone age. Meera Syal, Stephen Moore and Neve McIntosh guest star.
The Great Intelligence is a deadly parasite – a malevolent force lacking corporeal form that uses human beings as its servants, sometimes willingly, but often against its victim’s wishes.
Featured in the episode The Beast Below.’ the Smilers are androids, mounted in booths all across the space faring version of Britain that left Earth in the 29th Century.
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The Hungry Earth
2015: The most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper below the Earth’s crust than man has ever gone, but now the ground itself is fighting back. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village and find themselves battling a deadly danger from a bygone age. Meera Syal, Stephen Moore and Neve McIntosh guest star.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
Tracy-Ann Oberman is a television, theater, and radio actress best known for her role on the long-running BBC soap ‘EastEnders.’
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The Great Intelligence is a deadly parasite – a malevolent force lacking corporeal form that uses human beings as its servants, sometimes willingly, but often against its victim’s wishes.
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Featured in the episode The Beast Below.’ the Smilers are androids, mounted in booths all across the space faring version of Britain that left Earth in the 29th Century.
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Amy is a feisty young woman who first met the Doctor when she was a little girl living in a sleepy old village.
MoreDr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock studied at Imperial College where she obtained her degree in Physics and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
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