"DOCTOR:" "Some planes have wi-fi." "I'm sorry?" "We must be one hell of a target right now." "(GASPS)" "You, me, box." "Now!" "NARRATOR"." "The Doctor has a new jacket, a new Tardis, and more importantly, a new companion." "Say hello to Clara Oswald." "But..." "But..." " But..." "But it's..." " Shut up." "Please, short hops are difficult." " Bigger on the inside." "Actually bigger." "(TARDIS WHOOSHING)" "NARRATOR"." "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?" " Not exactly." "(BOTH SCREAM)" "(DOCTOR WHOTHEME)" "NARRATOR"." "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 a companion is just a sort of lonely old guy pottering around." "But the Doctor with a companion, he's invigorated, he's adventurous, ignited." "Welcome, everybody." "This is so exciting 'cause I feel like we've said this so many times, 'cause we have, but this is Jenna's first read-through" "as the part of Clara." "Welcome, Jenna." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "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 is someone who is just excited to be on the Tardis." "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, optimised the photosynthesis in the main flower bed" "and, um, assembled the quadricycle." " Assembled the what?" "I found a disassembled quadricycle in the garage." "I don't think you did." "I invented the quadricycle!" "(CHUCKLES)" "He's got someone to share it with, which, I think, ultimately is what every human/Time Lord is looking to do." "I suppose in 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?" " Uh, 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..." "She really does hold her own." "Look, just get inside." " Both of us?" " Trust me." " You'll understand once we're in there." " I bet I will!" "In relationship to the Doctor, I suppose she is..." "She's a fellow traveller, a fellow adventurer, a student, a teacher, a friend." " Look, 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 in Doctor Who for a number of reasons." "You know, one, 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." "(scoffs)" "It makes the show richer." "If it was just the Doctor travelling on his own, he'd have no one to talk to, which I think would 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." "WOMAN: 130, take four." "DIRECTOR:" "And, action." "I lost the signal." "I got so close." "(DOOR SLAMS)" "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." "(STAMMERS) 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, they 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've got such a good planet, lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect." "Even though the Doctor is 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, I'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 are standing." "It must be completely invisible." "What?" "What is it?" "What?" "Oh." "Fantastic!" "DIRECTOR:" "And cut." "Now, Rose really develops in the respect that she becomes this girl who knows nothing about all the stuff, and then just becomes so used to it and such a world-saver, such an adventurer." "Right, then!" "I'll be off." "Unless..." "I don't know." "You could come with me." "This box isn't just a London-op, 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...anywhere." "She's the audience, really." "You know, the audience go on this journey with her, they learn with her." "Especially because it was the re-invention 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." "(DOOR CREAKS)" "NARRATOR"." "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 seven billion Earthlings to choose from, you have to stand out from the crowd." "So, what exactly is it the Doctor is looking for?" "DIRECTOR:" "Action!" "Twenty minutes." "I can do it." "Twenty 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?" "(CAR LOCKS)" "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." "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, um, be able to sort of be vulnerable at the same time. (LAUGHS)" "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. (LAUGHING)" "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!" "What do you mean?" "Doctor, what's that?" "What's that?" "That sort of thing. (LAUGHS)" "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 gonna run through those big blue doors and off into breakneck, insane adventures with a man who is clearly, however kind, however clever, absolutely mad?" "DIRECTOR:" "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 are 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 gonna 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've 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 and the first episode is called "Rose"." "And I think, at first, she was the protagonist, really." "We sort of learned about the Doctor at the same time as she did." "And then the show became sort of a two-hander." "It was as much about Rose as it was about the Doctor." "(DOG BARKING) -(TYRES SCREECHING)" "(IMITATING ELVIS) You going my way, doll?" "Is there any other way to go, daddy-o?" "Straight from the fridge, man!" "HEY. you speak the lingo!" "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 and Mum," "Cliff Richard movies every Bank Holiday Monday." "Cliff!" "I knew your mother would be a Cliff fan." "(SCOOTER REVVING)" "It looked real and I could buy into that." "And I think that's the key." "DIRECTOR:" "And, action." "DOCTOR:" "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." "Take a look." "NARRATOR"." "In Series 3, it was Martha Jones' feisty spirit and bravery that prompted the Doctor to offer her a place on board the Tardis." "But it's just a box." "But it's huge!" "How does it do that?" "It's wood!" "It's like a box with that room just crammed in." "It's bigger on the inside!" "Is it?" "I hadn't noticed." "FREEMA 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?" "DOCTOR: 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!" "(CREW CHATTERING)" "DIRECTOR:" "And, action." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "If you're a doctor, why does your box say "Police"?" "(COUGHS) That's disgusting." "What is that?" " An apple." " Apples are rubbish." "I hate apples." "You said you loved them." "No, no, no." "I like yoghurt." "Yoghurt's my favourite." "Give me yoghurt." "DIRECTOR:" "Cut there." "NARRATOR"." "Whilst some of the companions' relationships may only be short-lived, others spread across a lifetime." "So the first person to actually play, uh, the character of Amy Pond was not me, it was my cousin, Caitlin, (LAUGHS) who, uh, 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 had to just follow on from that." "Um, and, yeah, she could teach me a thing or two about attitude." "I hate yoghurt." "It's just stuff with bits in." "You said it was your favourite." "New mouth, new rules." "It's like eating after cleaning your teeth." "Everything tastes... (YELLS)" "I mean, there was this one line in it where it said," ""You're funny." -(DOCTOR GULPING)" " Funny." " Am I?" "Good." "She delivered it like, "Funny." (LAUGHING)" "I just think that's genius, like, um, to sort of think up that sort of thing." "And, yeah, so I think she did an amazing job." "DIRECTOR:" "Keep it going." "And, action." "I've got to get in there." "The engines are phasing." "It's going to burn!" "(PANTING) But..." "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." "Five minutes." "Give me five 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 fairy tale 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." "NARRATOR"." "The one thing that's consistent with the Tardis crew" "is that it never stays the same." "(WHOOPS)" "Doctor?" "The genius of the show, really, is that" "the actors change on a semi-regular basis, which means that it's fresh and new and exciting regularly." "So, that's a really clever concept." "Rive r?" "Yeah, Alex Kingston has to..." "I have to mention her in all of it because she is 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 time there's a new one." "DIRECTOR:" "And, action!" "They've gone into warp drive." "We're losing them!" " Stay close!" " I'm trying!" "Use the stabilisers." "It doesn't have stabilisers!" "The blue switches!" "The blue ones don't do anything, they're just blue." "Yes, they're blue." "They're the blue stabilisers!" "(TARDIS STABILISING)" "See?" "Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it?" "They're boring-ers." "They're blue boring-ers." "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?" "You know, the..." "(MIMICKING TARDIS WHOOSHING)" "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." "MAN: 348, take two, A camera ready." "DIRECTOR:" "Action!" "Wait!" "Environment checks." "Oh, yes, sorry!" "Quite right." "Environment checks." "(BIRD SQUAWKING) -(OCEAN WAVES CRASHING)" "Nice out." "You're always trying to stir it up a bit and just find new flavours in the Doctor's personality." "And having different companions can help to set that off." "AMY:" "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?" "NARRATOR"." "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 travelling companion of the Doctor for several yea rs." "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." "DIRECTOR:" "Action." "Doctor." "Oh, my God." "It's you, isn't it?" "There's always been an effort to sort of break the mould of Doctor Who companions just being people who sort of... just being pretty girls who stand there in tight costumes, going, "Ah!" "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." "DIRECTOR:" "Action." "What are you doing here?" "Well, UFO sighting, school gets record results." "I couldn't resist." " What about you?" " The same." "She had, you know, her own investigative abilities and her own mind and her own strengths." "I can't believe it's you." "(PIERCING SCREAM)" "Okay, now I can." "When Sarah Jane came back into Doctor Who, that was one of the most glorious fan moments for everybody." "I'd grown up watching Sarah, played by Liz, and suddenly there she was, part of my gang." "It was heady and slightly bizarre." "You grew up with this woman, and Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane..." "Sarah Jane was..." "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 learned 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 these cupboards and all these fell out on me." "Mickey meets Sarah Jane, and it was good for him to meet her and see a past companion, and see how her life's changed for the better and how things have gone for her in that she's constantly been, in a weird way, in love with this man" "that brushed into her life, 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!" "He's never mentioned you." "Oh, I must've done." "Sarah Jane." "I mention her all the time." "Hold on, sorry...never." "What?" "Not even once?" "He didn't mention me even once?" "Oh, 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..." "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." "It's sort of..." "In character progression," "I feel that's the line that's acknowledging now that your ex-girlfriend is now with someone else, because he can actually say, "The missus and the ex"." "You know, every guy's worst nightmare." "Yeah." "He could have said, "Plus, she's my ex, too,"" "but that would have been too complicated." "Can I come?" "Not with you, I mean, with you." "'Cause I'm not the tin dog and I wanna see what's out there." "SARAH:" "Oh, go on, Doctor," "Sarah Jane Smith and Mickey Smith, you need a Smith on board." "Okay, then." "I could do with a laugh." "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?" "MAN: 126, take two, A camera." "WOMAN:" "B marker." "NARRATOR"." "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 in the smoke, let's get out." " Where are we?" " A room." "A long room." "I don't know what room." "I haven't memorised every room in the universe yet, I had yesterday off." "We're in Hitler's office today." "The Tardis has crashed through the window and embedded itself in the wall." "I'm about to fire a gun as well, 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!" "(GUNSHOTS)" "(GRUNTS)" "Sit still." "Shut up." "DIRECTOR:" "Thanks very much." "Please 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." "HITLER:" "What are..." "What are you doing?" "And take your hand off me." " But I am the Fuhrer!" " Right, in you go." "Who are you?" "What's been amazing..." "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, such a brilliantly strong female character that for Rory to keep her, if he'd have stayed like that, I think she would 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." "DIRECTOR:" "Here we go." "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." "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 gonna particularly care about it."" "NARRATOR"." "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 a bit of a legend." "And what does the legend say?" "That you sailed the Atlantic, walked across America, that you were the only person to get out of japan alive." "Martha Jones, they say, she's gonna save the world." "A bit late for that." "And so again, you know, it's just an example of how the Doctor can change lives." "DIRECTOR:" "And, action." "PROFESSOR DOCHERTY:" "I think it's time we had the truth, Miss Jones." "Legend says you travelled 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." "NARRATOR"." "And sometimes even the most unlikely candidate" "steps up to the mark and becomes a true hero." "Take two." "B camera only." "WOMAN:" "Full rehearsal then." "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 was what he was originally there for." "He was there for the greater good." "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've got just the thing." "This thing is gonna blast them to hell." "Samuel, what are you doing?" "The name's Mickey." "Mickey Smith." "Defending the Earth." "That's not Cybermen." "Exterminate!" "Exterminate!" "Exterminate!" "Exterminate!" "Exterminate!" "Exterminate!" "Cut!" "CLARKE:" "What it enabled was the character to go on this journey that ended with him being a freedom fighter and, you know, 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 realise they're there for a bigger purpose." " Push!" " RORY:" "I'm pushing!" "NARRATOR"." "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 humanises the Doctor and, uh, definitely keeps him in check." "Oh..." "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." "And 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." "RORY:" "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 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's 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." "NARRATOR"." "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!" "In!" "In!" "Sarah Jane!" "Rose!" "Jackie!" "jack!" "Mickey!" "DIRECTOR:" "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, multi-sided 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!" "DIRECTOR:" "Okay, cut!" "Thank you." "Cut there." "At the end, when all the companions have come together, it was a really special time for us on set 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 the most iconic moments, not only for me as a fanboy, but also as Captain jack, because you realise that you were part of that team that would never, ever be there ever again." "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." "Sarah Jane, keep that down, keep that down." " Mickey, how are you doing?" " Yeah, I'm all right." "It's not just about monsters any more." "It's not just about the time travel any more, although it's a huge part of it still." "It's about the relationships and the character-building of those people." "We're gonna fly planet Earth back home!" "Right, then!" "Off we go." "(CHEERING)" "The Doctor's always gonna 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 'cause he gets bored and wants to move on." "It's because all these people have something to offer in their own way and they're all equally important in their own way." "And they mean a lotto 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 pictures." "NARRATOR"." "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." "See you later." "Six years later and counting, no doubt, um, 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." "I mean, 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, made me feel like part of the Who family from the minute I stepped on set." "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 go beyond it just being a drama." "BARROWMAN:" "If I can say just in one line," "Captain jack and Doctor Who changed my life and I really, really appreciate every day that I have because it's amazing." "146." "Take 1." "A camera only." " Back to work." " I really don't mind, though." "Come with me." "Had plenty of time to think that past year." "The year that never was." "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?" "(SIGHS)" "(SIGHS TEARFULLY)" "Don't worry, kid, your life is gonna change and you are gonna 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 any more." "NARRATOR"." "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." "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." "RORY:" "This is the right thing to do." "This will work." "If I die now, it's a paradox, right?" "The paradox killed the Angels." "Tell me I'm wrong." "Go on." "Please, because I am really scared." "Because 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." "DOCTOR:" "What the hell are you doing?" "AMY:" "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." "(BOTH GASP)" " Where are we?" "Back where we started." "You collapsed the timeline." "The paradox worked." "We all pinged back where we belong." "And the next stage, of course, is a restatement of that." "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 will be fine." "I know it will." "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 on, Pond, please." "And the Doctor for the first time realises 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," "DOCTOR:" "No!" "SMITH:" "It's sad to see them go." "It's Amy Pond, you know." "It's..." "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 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." "WOMAN:" "B camera mark." "DIRECTOR:" "Settle." "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's." "You're very rich, sir." "Oh, yes." "Keep collecting." "We need enough for breakfast." "Just popping back to the garage." "Garage?" "Next is 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 short cut." "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." "(HONKS)" "Whoa'.!" "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." "CLARA:" "Because it's made of wood?" "DOCTOR:" "Because it's the most powerful ship in the universe and I don't want it falling into the wrong hands." "Ah!" "Okay!" "By having somebody different, it's absolutely a different dynamic just in itself." "The exciting thing is that 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." "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." "(WHOOSHING)" "(DOCTOR WHO THEME)"