ESSENTIAL INFO
Broadcast: 2 December 2023 (on BBC One in the UK and Ireland; on Disney+ in the rest of the world)
Starring: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]
Written by: Russell T Davies Directed by: Tom Kingsley
IN A NUTSHELL...
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna on a journey to a faraway, mysterious place and abandons them in the middle of Hostile Action.
QUOTE, UNQUOTE:
DOCTOR: … There’s one hope. A mechanism on board the TARDIS called the HADS. Hostile Action Displacement System. If the TARDIS is in danger, it goes away.
DONNA: Goes where?
DOCTOR: Anywhere. And it only comes back when the danger is gone. I turned it off, years ago. I mean, I’d never land anywhere. Once spent three years in orbit. I thought, oh, turn off the HADS. But if the TARDIS is rebuilding itself, maybe it clicked back on.
DONNA: But that means we’ve landed in the middle of Hostile Action?
DOCTOR: Yeah.
DONNA: There’s something so bad the TARDIS ran away?
DOCTOR: Yes. DONNA: Then we go and kick its arse!
ON TARGET:
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder novelisation written by Mark Morris. eBook release: 7 December 2023. Paperback release: 11 January 2024 by BBC Books.