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.
Winston Churchill was perhaps Britain’s greatest Prime Minister. He led the country through World War II, at times standing alone against Nazi Germany.
Kate is one UNIT’s top people and the daughter of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, the military man who was such a good friend to the Doctor.
Riddell is charismatic, fearless and capable of adapting quickly to new environments. Far from being unnerved by landing on a vast interstellar craft packed with dinosaurs, he relished the expedition, delighted by the opportunity to pit himself against some pre-historic predators.
The Doctor believed that the Shakri were a myth, a fiction to keep ‘the young of Gallifrey in their place’. But the Shakri exist: enigmatic, powerful and ruthless slaves to the Tally.
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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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Winston Churchill was perhaps Britain’s greatest Prime Minister. He led the country through World War II, at times standing alone against Nazi Germany.
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Kate is one UNIT’s top people and the daughter of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, the military man who was such a good friend to the Doctor.
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Riddell is charismatic, fearless and capable of adapting quickly to new environments. Far from being unnerved by landing on a vast interstellar craft packed with dinosaurs, he relished the expedition, delighted by the opportunity to pit himself against some pre-historic predators.
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The Doctor believed that the Shakri were a myth, a fiction to keep ‘the young of Gallifrey in their place’. But the Shakri exist: enigmatic, powerful and ruthless slaves to the Tally.
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