"It's a really fun episode." "It's quite different from the others because it's all about the tension and building up the suspense." "Crazy, eerie dolls creeping along, moving malevolently." "The demonic dolls are playing a spooky game of House." "And we get down and dirty in a vat of slime." "And the Doctor getting to have a bit of a double act with someone's dad." " We can't open the cupboard!" " God, no!" "No, we mustn't." "But it all hinges on the emotions of a little boy." "Doctor Who is scary, but this is the scariest of all time." " Whoa!" " Yo!" "It's a youth TV Confidential." " All right, come on, let's do it." " I like it." "So, yo, this is Arthur." "This is, uh..." "Oh, this is Karen." "All right, anyway, so here we are at Dyrham Park." "And what are we doing here, Arthur?" " Which isn't in Durham." " No." "Dyrham." "Uh, we are filming a doll's house." "Yeah, we're filming an episode about a doll's house." "Yeah." "Yeah, amazing place." "It was very nice." "It was sunny." "We got to sit outside in the garden." "That was rather glorious." "I travelled around South Wales, photographing all the Georgian houses." "But this one was quite fine and also had a lovely staircase with the archetypal black and white checked floor, which we didn't see anywhere else." "And it felt very dark and magical." "So that's why we came here." "Rory and I kind of get separated from the Doctor and we have to run around and try and figure out where we are." "And we don't know it's a doll's house." "And then these freaky looking dolls chase us around." "And they are freaky." "They've got, like, these big heads." "Oh, it's just..." "It's a dummy." "Oh, it's just a dummy." "Well, I've always been frightened of dolls, particularly China-faced Victorian ones with the hair missing and those holes where the hair's punched in." "Those terrible glass eyes." ""You ever seen a shark's eyes?" "Like a doll's eyes." ""Black, lifeless. " All that." "Don't run away." "We want to play." "No, no, no, no, no!" "Amy, come on!" " Rory!" " Amy, get up!" "Get up!" "There's a doll of me." "Which looks a bit like you, it's got the same-shaped face." " No, it doesn't!" " It does." "Apparently, I've got a moon head." "Do I have a moon head?" "If you shine a light on Karen's face, she looks like the moon." "Shut up!" "Stop it, I've got a really nicely shaped face." "Moon?" "Yeah, moons are all right." " Are they?" " They're all right." "Not craters, though, yeah?" "It was always a balance between making them credibly, like they could look like dolls, but then also making them scary." "And that was a constant trial and error approach with the clay." "So they would bake new clay models and then send through photos and stuff." "Small things changed quite quickly." "But we noticed that we wanted the features to feel slightly wrong." "The ones I've always found the most sinister are things that are slightly artless, not so finely detailed." "So, if you've got something which is meant to be a peg doll and if someone has painted the face like that and then, obviously, when they get big, in the process of that, something gets even cruder." "So, there's just something brilliant, I think, about..." "They feel like they've been sort of carved with a knife and there's something a bit cracked about them." "And their hair is like wool." "I mean, it's just a primal fear, I think." "I think they're going to be a real hit, actually." "Well done, Mark." "It's, again, brilliantly designed." "They have great colour and life to them." "I think the way they move and the way they slowly turn their heads is just really creepy and eerie." "A bit like the clockwork robots can sort of... you know, they have that slow, malevolent sort of feel to them." "Bergerac." "God help us!" "Thirty years old, that." "Where's the boxing?" "There's meant to be boxing on." "The delightful Mr Purcell gets a sinking feeling when he gets sucked into his carpet." "Never anything on, is there, Bern...?" "His only friend in the world is his dog, who he's actually rather soft about, I think." "But I love the way it's been shot." "It's worked out so well." "He's sort of crying for help and Bernard just sort of looks at him." "Help me, Bernard!" "Help!" "This sinking scene was a tough one, involving a vat of good old Doctor Who-style green gunge." "Oh!" "Oh, lovely." "This is the descending rig that sends our character through the floor." "And we've got this platform here, it's a hydraulic platform, and it basically descends on a variable control, and it sends our character down, looks like he's disappearing into the floor." "The things I do for this show." "There was endless discussions about how thick the goo needs to be." "And I was also worried about an actor going under it." "'Cause if it's too thick, you don't want to shove your head under kind of really thick green goo." "That was one of the most..." "The trickiest bit, trying to get the viscosity right." "Interesting filming day, that one." "Settle." "And action!" "I liked the idea of having this very complicated, you know, technically complicated effects shot for him to sink into his grotty carpet." "I quite liked that sort of juxtaposition." "It feels rather good to me." "# Confidential" "# It's a secret" "# Don't tell anyone" "# You've got to keep it #" "Oh, and also, just so we're, uh..." " Oh!" "It's funny." " Oh, my God!" " Flicking through one of our..." " No!" "One of our..." "Oh!" " "Karen Gillan's Timeless Trends. " Oh, wow!" "Karen, look!" ""Fiery Karen shows us how to do retro chic with an edgy, modern twist." ""Whether it's a sleek jumpsuit, a natty scarf... "" "Shut up!" ""... or a flowing dress with a fierce tiger print bag. "" "You know nothing about fashion." ""Doctor Who's newest lady friend nails it. "" " What?" " Yeah, right?" "Nails it." "Oh, yeah." "The rising star at the heart of the episode is the young actor playing troubled child George." "Who are you, George?" "Jamie is brilliant." "I met him for the first time the other day." "And he is such a little personality." "And he's tiny." "He's so little, but he's hilarious." "He was like, "Hello, are you Karen?"" "I was like, "Yeah, hi, nice to meet you. "" "And he just started telling me all this stuff." "The thing." "You have to do the thing, Mum." "Jamie, who plays George, I think he's lovely..." "He's got a lovely little catch in his voice." "And he's very believably Emma and Danny's son." "I love that bit when the Doctor appears in the doorway and he says..." "I'm the Doctor." "A doctor?" "Have you come to take me away?" "And he actually sounds quite like an old lady." "I love it." ""Come to take me away?"" "He's very sweet." "It's still broken." "He's the most excitable, lively child I've ever met in my life." "He's very cool, he's very confident." "Apparently he likes sweet things, which I think he's been eating all lunchtime which is going to mean we're going to have a wonderful afternoon." "He doesn't stop talking." "I have no idea how he does it." "He just seems to..." "He's kind of the best conversationalist." "You could just say nothing to him and he'd just carry on." "He's brilliant, a fine addition to the Doctor Who cast." " So, is it..." " What's going on now?" "Um, well, I'm just sitting here enjoying myself." "Uh, I think I'm going to go back in to do more acting." " Right." "And how's that going?" " Yeah." "Good." " Good." " Good." "Right, I'm on my way." "Run it continuously and I will talk through it." "All right, let's go for that, then." "Jamie, well, again, you know, it's sort of unnerving to find young children that are quite astute and savvy." "And he's definitely that." "And a great energy and great enthusiasm." "And was a real hit among the set." "And I think he's turned in a really good performance." "What's it been like working with Matt Smith, then?" "Very nice." "He's a very funny chap." "Uh, I think we should give this a go." "You ready, Jamie?" "Right, where's..." "Does Jamie have an eye line upstairs?" "Yeah, so you pretend that's the Doctor, yeah?" "Take a tiny little step back, Jamie." "The thing that makes it snap, as they're all on the staircase inside the doll's house and the dolls are all converging on George..." "The Doctor realises that the nub of his problem is he thinks he's going to be rejected and that's the one thing he can't stand." "B camera one." "Action!" "Something's holding him back." "That's it!" "That's what the trigger was." "He thought he wasn't wanted." "That someone was going to come and take him away." "Well, we talked about it." "Yes, and he heard you, Alex." "A Tenza's sole function is to fit in, to be wanted and you were rejecting him." "We just couldn't cope, we needed help!" "Yes, but George didn't know that." "He thought you were rejecting him." "He still thinks it." "He's not... human." "Whatever you are, whatever you do, you're my son and I will never, ever send you away." "Dad." "And then, Alex, you know, knocks them aside like the good dad he is, and says, "You're my little boy, I'll never let you go. "" "It makes me cry." "Cut." "That'll do." "Good, well done, Jamie." "Well done." "That's good." "Now, did someone mention something about planets and history and stuff?" "We've shot that scene in the Tardis with a bit of the nursery rhyme, which has sinister implications for the Doctor." "The whole universe." "The universe is..." "Ooh!" "I wanted a prefiguring of the Doctor's death." "So I suggested to Mark, "Could you write a nursery rhyme?"" "So he went and wrote this rather wonderful Tick-Tock Goes the Clock." "All I know is the Doctor's going to die." "# Tick-tock goes the clock even for the Doctor #"