[ Star Whale singing ]
Some planes have WiFi.
Sorry?
We must be one hell of a target right now.
You, me, box,
now!
Lachele Carl: The Doctor has a new jacket,
a new TARDIS, and, more importantly,
a new companion.
Say hello to Clara Oswald.
But -- but it's --
Shut up, please. Short hops are difficult.
Bigger on the inside. Actually bigger.
But just what does it take to win that coveted place
on the TARDIS?
We've moved. It's a spaceship.
We flew away.
Away from the plane?
Ha ha, not exactly. Whoa-oa!
Oh!
[ "Doctor Who" theme plays ]
♪ Dr. Who Specials 2x06♪ The Companions Original Air Date on March 31, 2013
== sync, corrected by elderman ==
After 900 years of time travel,
you'd think the doctor would be able to go it alone,
so why, exactly, does he seek company?
Hello?
Hello!
I think the doctor without the companion
is just a sort of lonely old guy pottering around,
but the doctor with a companion,
he's invigorated, he's adventurous, ignited.
[ TARDIS engines ]
Welcome, everybody. This is so exciting
because I feel like we've said this
so many times, because we have,
but this is Jenna's first read-through
as Clara. Welcome, Jenna.
Clara is a huge amount of fun
and I think that she is someone
who isn't threatened by the Doctor.
I think that she's someone who is just excited
to be on the TARDIS and I think that,
although he probably is the cleverest man in the universe,
she's not intimidated by that.
She's smart, too, and I think that she doesn't suffer fools
and she is very much his equal,
in terms of their relationship.
Still parked in the front garden is the TARDIS.
I fixed that rattling noise in the washing machine,
indexed the kitchen cupboards,
optimized the photosynthesis
in the main flower bed,
and assembled the quadricycle.
Assembled the what?
Well, I found a disassembled quadricycle in the garage.
I don't think you did.
I invented the quadricycle. Ha.
He's got someone to share it with, which, I think,
ultimately, is what every human/Time Lord
is looking to do.
Coleman: I suppose, approaching the part, you begin to think
"What kind of person would run off
with a man in a blue box, offering to take you
anywhere in time that you want to go?"
What happened to me?
Don't you remember?
I was scared.
Really scared.
Didn't know where I was.
Do you know now?
Yes.
Then you should go to sleep.
Because you're safe now, I promise.
It has to be somebody who's very open and curious,
a sense of fun and adventure,
somebody who's kind of fearless, and all these things,
I've been trying to incorporate into Clara.
Are you guarding me?
Well...yes. Yes, I am.
She's definitely got a lot of feist.
She definitely holds her own.
She definitely finds the doctor absolutely amazing,
but wouldn't necessarily tell him so.
Are you seriously going to sit down there all night?
Yeah, I promise. I won't budge from this spot.
Well, then.
I'll have to come to you.
Eh?
What's quite interesting, in the dynamic, so far,
is that she kind of really does hold her own.
Look, just get inside.
Both of us?
Oh, trust me, you'll understand
once we're in there. I bet I will!
In relationship to the doctor, I suppose she is
a fellow traveler, a fellow adventurer,
a student, a teacher, a friend.
Clara, please!
What is that box, anyway? Why have you got a box?
Clara.
Is it like a snogging booth? A what?
Is that what you do? You bring a booth.
There's such a thing as too keen.
I think the companions are really important
to "Doctor Who," for a number of reasons.
You know, (1) It stops him from going mad.
I choose my friends with great care.
Otherwise, I'm stuck with my own company,
and you know how that works out.
[ Chuckle ]
It makes the show richer.
If it was just the Doctor traveling on his own,
he'd have no one to talk to,
which I think could make quite quiet TV.
The role of the companion in the "Doctor Who" series
is hugely important because
it's what the audience identifies with.
130, take 4.
And...Action!
[ Sigh ]
I've lost the signal.
I got so close!
We've moved. Does it fly?
It's the closest we, as the audience,
will get to the Doctor and understanding him --
through the companion.
And it's also the dream of everybody sitting, watching,
and being a fan of "Doctor Who."
They would love to be a companion
and to ride in the TARDIS
and there's very few of us who have had that privilege.
What's a police public call box?
It's a telephone box from the 1950s.
It's a disguise.
The companions that come with the new doctor
always bring that new energy, that new interest.
You have everything to rediscover again about them
and them about him.
And this living plastic, what's it got against us?
Nothing. It loves you.
You got such a good planet.
Lots of smoke and oil,
plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air --
perfect.
Even though the Doctor's the same guy,
there's always differences, there's always sorts of things
that he's discovering about himself
and, you know, that kind of thing really keeps freshness
in a show.
Any way of stopping it?
Antiplastic.
"Antiplastic"?
Antiplastic. But, first,
we've got to find where it is.
How can you hide something that big
in a city this small?
Hold on. Hide what?
The companion is always there as the audience's touchstone
and, on a very basic level, as the person to ask the Doctor
what's going on, so that you can just
keep moving the story forward and explaining the story
and sort of breaking it down
and making it transparent, what is happening.
The transmitter.
The consciousness is controlling
every single piece of plastic,
so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal.
What does it look like?
Like a transmitter, round and massive.
Somewhere slap-bang in the middle of London.
A huge, metal, circular structure,
like a dish, like a wheel,
close to where we're standing.
Must be completely invisible.
What?
What is it? What?
Oh.
Fantastic.
And cut.
Clarke: Rose really develops,
in the respect that she becomes this girl who knows nothing
about all this stuff and then just becomes so used to it
and such a worldsaver,
such an adventurer.
Right, then, I'll be off.
Unless, uh, I dunno,
you could come with me.
This box isn't just
a London hopper, you know,
it goes anywhere in the universe,
free of charge.
Don't. He's an alien, he's a thing.
He's not invited.
What do you think?
You could stay here,
fill your life with work and food and sleep,
or you could go, uh --
anywhere.
She's the audience, really.
You know, the audience go on this journey with her.
They learn with her, you know,
especially because it was the reinvention of the show
and I think it was a great portrayal
of a normal girl.
By the way, did I mention?
It also travels in time.
Thanks.
Thanks for what?
Exactly.
To be in with a chance of an invitation
to time-travel in the TARDIS,
the first thing a companion has to do is
impress the Doctor.
With over 7 billion earthlings to choose from,
you have to stand out from the crowd.
So, what, exactly, is it
the Doctor is looking for?
[ TARDIS engines ]
And action!
20 minutes.
I can do it.
20 minutes, the planet burns.
Run to your loved ones and say goodbye
or stay and help me.
No.
I'm sorry?
So, to be a companion, you need --
you might want to write this down.
You need to have a bit of attitude.
No!
Amy!
What are you doing?!
A bit of substance, and a bit of edge.
Sorry, Mr. Henderson. Official police business.
Amy! Are you out of your mind?
Who are you? You know who I am.
No, really, who are you?
Look at the sky. End of the world, 20 minutes.
Well, better talk quickly, then.
Amy, I am going to need my car back.
Yes, in a bit. Now, go and have coffee.
Right, yes.
And you need to...
Be able to sort of be vulnerable, at the same time.
Catch.
Look at it, fresh as the day you gave it to me.
And you know it's the same one.
I'm going to get laughed at so much
from Matt and Arthur for this,
but you need to be sassy and vulnerable at the same time.
It's true!
And you need to be able to show that through your lines
and, particularly, the amount of questions
that you will have to deliver, such as --
what was it? What do I do?
So can I open my eyes now? What is it?
"What's happening?"
What's happening? Just tell me!
Well, what do you mean?
"Doctor, what's that?" What's that?
That sort of thing. Ha!
Fairly obviously, the Doctor has to find brave people
to be his companions, brave, adventurous people
who are slightly bored where they are,
otherwise, they wouldn't run away with him.
What sort of person is going to run
through those big, blue doors and off into sort of
breakneck, insane adventures
with a man who is clearly, however kind,
however clever, absolutely mad.
Action!
You pulled his arm off.
Yep.
Plastic.
The Doctor is fairly fussy about who he takes in the TARDIS.
I mean, I think that they all need to have
a spirit of adventure and a kind of
"What the hell, I'm going to try it" factor.
Very clever. Nice trick.
Who were they then, students?
Is this a student thing, or what?
Rose Tyler -- here, again, was a girl, she's a bit gutsy
and she wasn't going to stand down
and she kind of told the Doctor off,
but the Doctor had never had that before.
Why would they be students?
I don't know. Well, you said it. Why students?
'Cause to get that many people
dressed up and being silly,
they got to be students.
That makes sense. Well done.
Thanks. They're not students.
When "Doctor Who" came back in 2005,
the story was very much told through Rose's eyes.
The first episode is called "Rose" and I think,
at first, she was the protagonist, really,
and we sort of learnt about the Doctor
at the same time she did
and then the show became a sort of two-hander,
it was as much about Rose as it was about the Doctor.
[As Elvis] You goin' my way, doll?
Is there any other way to go, Daddy-O?
Straight from the fridge, man.
Ah! You speak the lingo.
Gillan: I thought the part was really believable,
but, mainly, it was because this is vital to the show.
It was the chemistry between her and David Tennant.
Yeah, well,
me, mum, Cliff Richard movies
every bank holiday Monday.
Oh, Cliff.
I knew your mother would be a Cliff fan.
Gillan: It looked real
and I could buy into that and I think that's the key.
And...Action.
It's called the TARDIS,
time and relative dimension in space.
Your spaceship's made of wood.
There's not much room.
We'd be a bit intimate.
[ Door squeaks ]
Take a look.
In series 3,
it was Martha Jones's feisty spirit and bravery
that prompted the Doctor to offer her a place
onboard the TARDIS.
But it's just a box.
But it's huge!
How does it do that?
[Knocking] It's wood.
It's like a box with that room
just rammed in.
It's bigger on the inside.
Is it?! I hadn't noticed.
Agyeman: I think, when the Doctor first meets Martha,
he's not actually looking for a new companion.
But what's interesting is, because of her reaction
and because of --
it's not that she's not afraid,
and many of the Doctor's journeys, you know,
are kind of quite risky
and there's an element of danger involved,
it's not that she's without emotion,
but it's how she deals with that.
Is there a crew,
like a navigator and stuff?
Where is everyone?
Just me.
All on your own?
I think he does look for certain things
and there are certain aspects that all
of the companions have in common.
Ready?
No.
Off we go.
[ Engines engage ]
And...
Action.
If you're a Doctor,
why does your box say "police"?
[ Cough ]
That's disgusting. What is that?
An apple. Apples are rubbish. I hate apples.
You said you loved them.
No, no, no, I love yogurt.
Yogurt's my favorite. Give me yogurt.
Whilst some of the companions' relationships
may only be short-lived,
others spread across a lifetime.
So the first person to actually play
the character of Amy Pond was not me,
it was my cousin Caitlin, [Chuckle]
Who set up the whole character, essentially.
And she set it up so well.
I mean, she was this sort of vulnerable little child
with a lot of attitude already there,
so it was kind of this amazing thing
where I just had to follow on from that.
And, yeah, she could teach me a thing or two about attitude.
I hate yogurt. It's just stuff with bits in.
You said it was your favorite.
New mouth, new rules.
It's like eating after cleaning your teeth --
everything tastes wro--
ah ah ah ah!
I mean, there was this one line in it where it said
"you're funny."
Funny.
Am I? Good.
She delivered it like "funny."
Like, I just think that's genius,
like, to sort of think up that sort of thing.
And, yeah, so I think she did an amazing job.
And...Action.
I've got to get in there!
The engines are phasing!
It's going to burn!
[Panting] But...
Uh, it's just a box.
How can a box have engines?
It's not a box. It's a time machine.
When Amy first meets the Doctor,
she is a very young child and he crash-lands in her garden
and tells her that he's going to take her on a big adventure
and then doesn't come back for quite a while.
Can I come?
Not safe in here, not yet.
5 minutes. Give me 5 minutes.
I'll be right back.
But people always say that.
Am I "people"?
Do I even look like people?
Trust me.
I'm the Doctor.
So she's been waiting, which I think
is such a brilliant thing,
it's such a kind of fairytale thing.
It makes Amy's character
so feisty, because she's been waiting,
she's been so angry for so much of her life
because he's promised her the universe.
[ TARDIS engines ]
The one thing that's consistent with the TARDIS crew is
that it never stays the same.
Whoo!
Doctor?
[ TARDIS engines ]
The genius of the show, really,
is that the actors change on a semiregular basis,
which means that it's fresh and new and exciting,
regularly, so that's a really clever concept.
River.
Alex Kingston -- I have to mention her in all of it
because she's basically a companion to the Doctor
and a wonderful companion.
Follow that ship.
In many ways, the story of "Doctor Who"
is almost more the story of the companion,
each of them in succession, than it is about the Doctor,
which allows the show to renew itself
every me there's a new one.
And...Action!
They're going into warp drive.
We're losing them. Stay close.
I'm trying! Use the stabilizers!
It doesn't have stabilizers! The blue switches.
Well, the blues ones don't do anything, they're just...blue.
Yes, they're blue.
They're the blue stabilizers.
Ugh!
[ Cloister bell clangs ]
See?
Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it?
They're boringers.
They're blue... boringers.
Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?
You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!
We want to see as much as we can
from the actor playing the Doctor
and the way that we get that is through seeing him interact
with different people because different people
bring out different sides in the Doctor.
But...it didn't make the noise.
What noise?
The "waah! Waah!"
The --
It's not supposed to make that noise --
you leave the brakes on.
Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise.
I love that noise. Come along, Pond,
let's have a look.
It's a brand-new show every so often.
Actually, every really quite often, it's brand-new.
Somebody else comes aboard the TARDIS,
the Doctor himself changes radically.
It becomes a completely different show,
depending on, you know, to whom the Doctor
and the TARDIS is now happening.
Action!
Wait! Environment checks.
Oh, yes, sorry.
Quite right. Environment checks.
Nice out.
You're always trying to stir it up a bit
and just find new flavors in the Doctor's personality
and having different companions can help to set that off.
How come you can fly the TARDIS?
Oh, I had lessons from the very best.
Well, yeah.
It's a shame you were busy that day.
It has to change and it has to always.
If it becomes the same, in any way, every week,
then what would be the point?
And, every now and again,
a companion turns up who brings about change
on more than one occasion.
Hello, Sarah Jane.
It's you!
Sarah Jane Smith is very unique, in that she had been
a traveling companion of the Doctor
for several years, she'd been with him
when he was the third Doctor and the fourth Doctor
and then, years later,
Russell T. Davies, the writer,
had brought her back.
Action.
[Crying] Doctor.
Oh, my God, it's you, it's --
There's always been an effort
to sort of break the mold of "Doctor Who" companions
just being pretty girls who stand there in tight costumes,
going "aah! Help, Doctor! Tell me."
(A) "Explain what's going on" and (B) scream.
And I think there was, you know,
in giving Sarah Jane Smith a professional life,
there was an effort to sort of move away from that.
Action.
What are you doing here?
Well... UFO sightings,
school gets record results --
I couldn't resist. What about you?
Same.
She had, you know,
her own investigative abilities and her own mind
and her own strengths.
I can't believe it's you.
Mickey: Waaah!
Okay! Now, I can.
When Sarah Jane came back in to "Doctor Who,"
that was one of the most glorious
fan moments for everybody.
I'd grown up watching Sarah, played by Lis,
and, suddenly, there she was, part of my gang.
It was heady and slightly bizarre.
You grew up with this woman and, you know,
Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane.
Sarah Jane,
she was boisterous, she was gutsy,
she stood up to the Doctor, she was vulnerable.
She was put into situations that, you know,
those of us, as companions, look at and go "wow!"
And we learn something from her.
To have a little bit of Sarah Jane in your companion
is to be a good companion.
Sorry. Sorry, it was only me.
You told me to investigate,
so I started looking
through some of these cupboards,
and all of these fell out on me.
Mickey meets Sarah Jane and it was good for him
to meet and see a past companion
and see how her life's changed for the better
and how things have gone for her
and that she's constantly been,
in a weird way, in love with this man
that brushed into, that stormed into her life,
the Doctor, and then left, and it's kind of
an example of what he does, as the Doctor,
just storm into people's lives, change them forever,
and then go.
I don't mean to be rude or anything,
but who, exactly, are you?
Sarah Jane Smith.
I used to travel with the Doctor.
Oh, well, he's never mentioned you.
Oh, I must've done.
Sarah Jane, mention her all the time.
Hold on... Sorry.
Never.
What, not even once?
He didn't mention me once?
Ho ho, mate! The missus and the ex.
Welcome to every man's worst nightmare.
"The missus and the ex" line, again, is another great line,
but, you know,
it's got to be difficult for a guy to say, you know,
when that's his former girlfriend as well, you know?
"The missus and the ex" and it's sort of --
but, you know, in character progression, I feel,
that's the line that's acknowledging now
that your ex-girlfriend is now with someone else, you know,
because he can actually say "the missus and the ex",
you know, "every guy's worst nightmare."
Yeah. He could've said "plus, she's my ex, too,"
but that would've been too complicated.
Can I come?
Not with you. I mean with you.
Because I'm not the tin dog,
and I want to see what's out there.
Oh, go on, Doctor.
Sarah Jane Smith, a Mickey Smith.
You need a Smith onboard.
Okay, then, I could do with a laugh.
Clarke: Sarah Jane Smith,
she's instrumental in saying to the Doctor,
"Yes, do take Mickey on the TARDIS.
You need a Smith on the TARDIS"
when Mickey finally decides that he wants to go with them.
Rose, is that okay?
No, great. Why not?
B marker.
Why does the Doctor need a companion?
Could it be that, when you're saving the world
on a regular basis, you sometimes need
a helping hand?
Out, out, out! Everybody, out!
Don't breathe the smoke, just get out!
Amy: Where are we?! A room!
Rory: What room?!
I don't know what room -- I haven't memorized
every room in the universe yet -- I had yesterday off.
[ TARDIS engines ]
We're in Hitler's office today.
The TARDIS has crashed through the window
and embedded itself in the wall.
About to fire a gun, which is pretty big news.
And I get to punch Hitler in the face.
Good day, really. It's a good day.
This box -- what is it?
It's a police telephone box
from London, England.
That's right, Adolf:
The British are coming.
I'm about to punch Hitler in the face,
which is not something that happens every day.
No.
Stop him!
Sit still, shut up.
Thanks very much. Cut there.
Getting to punch Hitler in the face
was one of those things which,
I still haven't quite dealt with it, I don't think.
I still haven't quite come to terms with
the fact that I got the chance to do that.
I read it in the script and was just like "Oh, yes! Great."
He was going to kill me. Shut up, Hitler!
Rory, take Hitler and put him in
that cupboard over there. Now, do it.
Right. Putting Hitler in the cupboard.
Cupboard, Hitler. Hitler, cupboard.
Come on.
What are you doing? Take your hands off me.
But I am the Fuehrer!
Right, in you go!
Who are you?!
What's been amazing, you know --
some of the scripts, I've opened and gone
"Wow, this is great" -- is the fact that
he's had to kind of man up and grow with it.
I think it's been great because, you know,
Amy's such a feisty character
and such a brilliantly strong female character
that, for Rory to keep her,
if he'd have stayed like that,
I think she'd have left him ages ago,
but he's really stepped up and proved himself
and it's all through his love for her
and just wanting to make sure everyone's safe.
So he's become more and more
of the hero.
Settle.
And...Action!
Rory! Rory! No no no no no.
I've got to stop the bleeding.
How bad is it, Rory? What can we do?
Just look at me. Hey! Hold on.
Moffat: Rory gets good at it.
He makes himself good at being a "Doctor Who" companion
because that's the way he stays with Amy
and that's how he keeps her safe.
Rory just says "well, if I have to be good at it, I will
and I'm competent and I'm clever
and maybe cleverer than these two have ever noticed,
but I'm never, ever, going to particularly care about it."
At the end of season 3,
it was Martha's turn to quite literally
save the world.
Martha's journey with the Doctor was,
again, strange, but different.
What's your name, then?
Tom. Milligan.
No need to ask who you are.
The famous Martha Jones.
How long since you were last in Britain?
365 days.
It's been a long year.
She toughens up quite quickly, you know,
and becomes a very strong character in her own right,
goes through a lot herself
and is quick to become a freedom fighter.
There's a lot of people depending on you.
You're bit of a legend.
What does the legend say?
That you sailed the Atlantic,
walked across America, that you're
the only person to get out of Japan alive.
"Martha Jones," they say,
"She's going to save the world."
Bit late for that.
And so, again, you know, it's just an example
of how the Doctor can change lives.
And...Action.
I think it's time we had the truth, Miss Jones.
Legend says you traveled the world
to find a way of killing the Master.
Tell us --
is it true?
Four chemicals
slotted into the gun, inject him,
kills a Time Lord, permanently.
Four chemicals? You've only got three.
Still need the last one -- 'cause the components
of this gun were kept safe,
scattered across the world,
and I found them.
Martha has to go it alone,
save the world,
have her family in all sorts of trouble
and I think, at that point, she's a very different person
to the one we see at the beginning.
Martha.
Could you do it?
Could you actually kill him?
Got no choice.
You might be many things,
but you don't look like a killer to me.
And sometimes even the most unlikely candidate
steps up to the mark
and becomes a true hero.
Take 2. B-camera only.
Stand by. And...Action.
Mickey really came into his own and really, you know,
became a true "Doctor Who" companion
who was not, again, there for the reason of chasing the girl,
which is what he was originally there for,
he was there for the greater good.
Tennant: Mickey comes back
as a very different, very heroic figure,
someone who seems to have found who he is
and what he needs to be.
Keep back. We don't know what's in there.
I know what's in there.
And I'm ready for them. I got just the thing.
This thing is going to blast them to hell.
Samuel, what are you doing?
The name's Mickey.
Mickey Smith.
Defending the Earth.
That's not Cybermen.
Exterminate!
Cut!
What it enabled was
the character to go on this journey
that ended with him being a freedom fighter
and a bearded sort of hero by the end.
And the journey had everything in between
and you gradually saw that progression
of him changing.
Barrowman: He was there for the good of the planet,
for the good of humanity. It wasn't about himself.
It became about something bigger.
And I've hit on it again.
That's what makes the companions brilliant --
they realize they're there for a bigger purpose.
Push.
If you're going to be the Doctor's next companion,
you'll need to keep a strong rein
on the Time Lord when he gets out of control.
The companion just kind of humanizes the Doctor
and definitely keeps him in check
[ TARDIS engines ]
[ Sigh ]
[ Cries out ]
What happened to them?
They've had all the moisture
taken out of them.
I think the main thing, for Rory, you know,
being such a caring person -- he's a nurse,
he does want everyone to be safe --
the Doctor keeps putting people in danger.
He keeps putting Amy in danger and him in danger
and I think he spends a lot of time,
throughout the whole of their relationship,
keeping the Doctor in check with that
and making sure that, you know,
when he's taken it a step too far,
to actually stand up for himself
and stand up for the situation.
Why did they die?
Why aren't they like the girls in the school?
Maybe not everyone survives the process.
You know what's dangerous about you?
It's not that you make people take risks,
it's that you make them want to impress you.
You know, you make it
so they don't want to let you down.
You have no idea
how dangerous you make people to themselves
when you're around.
Me and Matt have really enjoyed those scenes,
of having a bit of a spar and a bit of a head-to-head
because I think that's something --
because the Doctor can get so carried away with it all
that he forgets that it's people lives
that he's putting at risk
and Rory is there to tell him.
That's what the beauty of a companion is.
A companion that can teach the Doctor
something about himself, without directly
letting him know that they're doing it,
that is a good companion.
The Doctor really needs his companions.
They're as much a part of his life as his TARDIS.
He can't save the universe without them.
All of you, inside! Run! In, in, in!
Sarah, Jane, rose, Jackie, Jack,
Mickey!
Cut there.
One of the fun gags that Russell did in "Doctor Who" was to try
and account for the fact that the TARDIS has this, you know,
multisided console and there we have,
for the first time, you see it
being flown properly by all the companions at once.
It was a great celebratory moment of the Russell era,
where we saw all the companions
flying the TARDIS with the Doctor.
With two Doctors, in fact.
B-camera.
And! Off we go.
And cut!
Thank you. Cut there.
At the end, when all the companions have come together,
it was a really special time for us onset
to actually participate
and be present for that, as well as it be important
to the storyline and for the fans,
because that, you know,
had never happened, up until that point.
Who knows if it'll ever happen again?
Barrowman: Everybody is there.
It was one of the most iconic moments,
not only for me, as a fanboy,
but also as Captain Jack, because you realize
that you were part of that team
that would never, ever,
be there, ever again.
[ "Song of Freedom" plays throughout ]
We were all there around the TARDIS
and doing our individual bits
to help show how we all are parts
to one big machine, when it comes to the Doctor.
We're going to fly planet Earth
back home.
Right, then.
Off we go.
[ Cheering ]
The Doctor's always going to
come across new people to travel with,
learn new things from them, new things about them,
but it's always nice, every so often, to remind the audience
that there's a reason for that.
It's not just because he gets bored and wants to move on.
It's because all these people
have something to offer, in their own way,
and are equally important, in their own way.
And they mean a lot to him
and they're his friends, so it was a lovely day
and, hopefully, a lovely scene for fans.
Man: Stand back. Hold the line.
Everyone will get their picture.
Whilst the show will always evolve and change,
being part of the "Doctor Who" family
is something that will never change
for companions old and new.
Thanks, guys. See you later.
Six years later, and counting, no doubt,
after first being involved in "Doctor Who,"
it amazes me, how every day,
someone will talk to me about "Doctor Who"
like it was just last month.
And it was a long time ago,
but, in some ways,
it does feel like no time has passed at all.
Everybody, from the cast, David, the producers,
[crying] made me feel like part of the "Who" family,
from the minute I stepped onset.
We refer to it as "the 'Doctor Who' family"
because it is,
it's beyond just being a show.
It's kind of like
a family in the sense that the involvement
and the contributions and, you know,
go beyond it just being a drama.
Barrowman: If I could have a "Doctor Who" moment
and go back in time
and travel back to the moment
I got the job as Captain Jack,
what would I say to myself?
[ Sigh ]
[Crying] "Don't worry, kid,
your life is going to change
and you are going to have an amazing journey."
That's how it makes me -- and this would be it,
that's how it makes me feel.
I don't have to say anymore.
In 2012,
the Doctor sadly lost his two closest friends
and companions, Amy Pond
and Rory Williams.
Rory: I always wanted to visit
the Statue of Liberty.
[ TARDIS engines ]
The first stage of the end is the big moment
they take on the rooftop and, in a way,
in a way, that's when they leave the Doctor.
Although it's not quite the very end for them,
that's when they leave the Doctor.
This is the right thing to do.
This will work. If I die now,
it's a paradox, right?
The paradox will kill the Angels.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Go on, please, because I am really scared.
That is unequivocally, finally,
where Amy says "I'm with him
and not with the Doctor."
You said we'd both come to life.
"Money where your mouth is" time.
Amy, no!
Shut. Up.
Together.
Or not at all.
What the hell are you doing?!
Changing the future.
It's called "marriage."
Amy! Amy!
Amy!
So they take matters into their own hands,
they save the world, they defeat the Angels,
and, in doing so, make it absolutely clear
that they are together and he's standing over there.
And that's always been the case,
but, now, it's absolutely stated
in a very concrete way.
Whoa! Whoa.
Where are we?
Back where we started!
You collapsed the timeline. The paradox worked.
We all pinged back where we belong.
The next stage, of course,
is a restatement of that, of course.
He thinks, for a moment, he can cling to them,
oh, it's worked out all right.
Rory's flung back in time.
Doctor!
Ah!
And Amy is faced with the most stark choice --
one or other man, she can never see again.
I just have to blink, right?
No!
It'll be fine. I know it will.
I'll -- I'll be with him, like I should be.
And, of course, the man she chooses to see again --
and never even hesitates over it -- is Rory.
Just -- come back into the TARDIS.
Come along, Pond, please.
And the Doctor, for the first time,
realizes how terrible he finds that
because he will not see her again and knows it,
when she turns round and says "Goodbye, raggedy man,"
that that will be it, that he will never, ever see her again.
Raggedy man,
goodbye.
No!
Smith: It's sad to see them go.
It's Amy Pond, you know, it's the Doctor's
great love, I think, you know, for my Doctor.
And Rory as well, you know, and they became such a team,
such a gang, in space.
Even though it was a devastating way to go,
at the end of the day, she ended up happy
and so I think it's perfect.
Although, you know, we're very sad to leave,
we're also, you know, really excited to see
what happens next with it and I can't wait
to watch it without knowing what happens.
B-camera, mark.
And...Action!
Thank you!
Magic blue box.
All donations gratefully accepted.
Roll up, roll up, roll up. Give us your dosh.
Ooh, thank you very much.
1p, 2p, 3p. You're very rich, sir.
Oh! Yes. Keep collecting.
We need enough for breakfast.
Just popping back to the garage.
Garage?!
Smith: Next is kind of Jenna-Louise Coleman
and the character of Clara
and it's onward to new adventures.
So, so this is tomorrow, then.
Tomorrow's come early.
No, it came at the usual time.
We just took a shortcut.
Thank you! Thank you!
Tomorrow -- a camel!
Clara.
Coleman: It's so funny, joining a show like "Doctor Who,"
because it's everywhere and it's huge
and just being welcomed
into this world,
it's been amazing and mad
and every single day is different.
[ Honk-honk ]
Ooh-ooh-ooh!
Smith: Every time someone leaves,
you get to start again,
but you get to start again with potential
and prospect and adventure, and that is what the show
is about, at its heart, it's about adventure.
If you've got a flying time machine,
why are we on a motorbike?
I don't take the TARDIS into battle.
Because it's made of wood?
Because it's the most powerful ship
in the universe and I don't want it
falling into the wrong hands.
Ah! Again!
By having somebody different,
it's absolutely a different dynamic, just in itself.
Smith: The exciting thing is
the Doctor gets to meet someone new
and therefore we all get to meet someone new
and then we get to meet, you know,
a slightly different version of him
and it's just a sort of endless world of storytelling
which is very cleverly conceived.
Right, then, Clara Oswald,
time to find out who you are.
[ Engines engage ]
== sync, corrected by elderman ==