"It's a cold day in a Cardiff back alley and the Doctor Who team are making one of the most unusual episodes in the mama's history." "Whoa, whoa, hang on!" "For the first episode ever, the Doctor and his companion barely make an appearance, the monster has been designed by a nine-year-old child, and it's the comedian Peter Kay who brings that ogre to life." "Hi." "Come on, join us." "Dissolve into me." "So that's how it flies." "It's like a childish dream come true to be in Doctor Who and to be an alien." " "Give me the cane!" Then he snaps it..." " Yeah." "...and I go, "You stupid, man!" "Oh!"" "That's when I start getting sucked into..." "It's not that we got lots of time off while episode 1 O was being filmed." "We were doing episodes 8 and 9 at the time." "So it was weird to think that there was a whole other unit out and around Cardiff..." "He'll die." "...making an episode of Doctor Who that the Doctor and Rose really had very little to do with." "I had to come up with a story that had to have a logical reason for not having much of the Doctor and Rose in it." "It's Marc Warren's episode." "It's his story that we follow." "And Billie and I are, you know, visiting guest artistes, really." "He's a normal guy, he's a sweet guy." "You know, he's quite wide-eyed and innocent." "And he's, you know, just looking for the truth and trying to find out what happened to him when he was younger." "He thinks he'll find that by finding the Doctor and I think he finally, you know, finds a bit of wisdom at the end, you know." "It's like he sees the Doctor and becomes enlightened." "Well, that's who I'm playing anyway." "What appears as only a few seconds on screen actually involves an all-night shoot on the streets of Cardiff as Marc Warren begins his Doctor Who debut." "Today we've just done a scene where I'm walking by a load of shops and the window explodes and these Autons come out." "ELTON"." "I was stocking up, you know, nothing special, all the usual stuff." "When all of a sudden..." "Action!" "...so here'?" "Susie, the girl that's lying down in front of the tables." " Yeah." " Can she be dead rather than in agony'?" "Actually still, totally still." "I had to run in front of that cab, but it's a stuntman called Bill, who I've worked with before actually." "He has to come up quite fast and you..." "As long as you hit your mark, he promises he won't break your legs." "MANI Cut!" "Again, one of the great things about Doctor Who is that it can embrace actors, every different type of actor." "You know, we can have someone like Pauline Collins or Simon Callow who are known as great, proper actors." "And then you can have Peter Kay, who's known as a comedian, a comic actor." "And yet, there's something about the elasticity of the show that it can take both of them on board and it seems equally right." "...it's some kind of herpes and it's took over me body." "I don't know what it is." "I'm like a walking, talking cold sore." " I can't compete with him." " Look at me." "Well, first of all, I saw Peter Kay." "That made me laugh." "And then I saw Peter Kay in this big, green, fat suit with a big, old mohican that started here and ended up halfway down his back." "That was funny." "And then he was playing this monster with a serious northern accent." "It was just one of the funniest days." "We meet at last, LINDA." "Back, back, all of you, further, further." "Thank you." "While the Abzorbaloff is in himself very funny, he's also very threatening." "He also is a genuine danger and ruins Elton's life." "So there is something genuine behind the Abzorbaloff and I wanted that for Blue Peter as well." "Yes!" "No, that's not fair!" "She tastes like chicken." "A year ago, the Abzorbaloff lived only in the mind of a nine-year-old child who had entered a Blue Peter competition." "Today, we go backstage as the Doctor goes face-to-face with the monsters he is yet to do battle with." "I'm on Blue Peter." "It's Wednesday, the something-th of August, and it's the final of the Doctor Who Design a Monster competition." "Okay, let's move on to the eights, nines and tens." "The one who's gonna win this grand prize, they're gonna come to the Doctor Who studios, they're gonna see their monster being made, come on set, meet me and Billie and everyone else." " Who is it'?" " It is William from Colchester!" "The Abzorbaloff is a green sumo creature and he absorbs his prey and digests them." "This is Abzorbaloff that was given to me by Peter Kay." "And it says here, "To William..." ""Best wishes, Peter Abzorbaloff Kay." "Peter Kay."" "And we've kept certain aspects, you know, he has, like, a mohawk hairstyle, and he's a big, large character and these funny black trousers and the faces in there, and he's green, you know." "There's a lot of key elements." "But, obviously, we've just had to tweak the look of him to just make him work a bit more." "They had added an extra touch of detail and done it well, and made him really looking like he's fat and everything." "And they made him look really fat with all the flubber." "You've got to keep a certain amount of Peter Kay, especially in the face, you know." "You can't change it so far beyond just a regular face that it becomes pointless having Peter Kay." "If you get Peter Kay being a Doctor Who monster, you want it to be Peter Kay." "It's been absolutely fantastic." "Fantastic." "And tomorrow, I get me alien costume." "Something amazing happened in the world of Doctor Who." "Because waiting for its return was the power of the internet, mobile phones and interactive TV." "And this power is in the hands of a brand-new generation." "Doctor Who was always ahead of its time." "It was about futuristic things that we didn't understand." "Whereas now, some of those futuristic things are just commonplace." "So you get extra bits of Doctor Who by pressing the red button or whatever, and that's only right." "Because Doctor Who' when it was off air, off the television, survived in different mediums." "You know, on the internet, in audio adventures, it's always been there." "And so, it's back on the telly, but all of these other avenues are still available to it." "Before Doctor Who came back, the BBC's Doctor Who website had an enormous audience of very, very dedicated fans of the old series." "And your typical audience member would be mid-20s, maybe up to mid-30s." "Most probably male." "Doctor!" "But where it all changes is the night the first episode went out, because we got 900 emails that night." "A lot of them were from proud parents." "Some of them had even taken pictures of terrified children." "That was week one." "By week three, we were getting emails from the kids." "That's more like it." "What I set out to do was to get people watching who don't watch science fiction, which is specifically women, and specifically younger kids watching as well, who wouldn't feel excluded from it." "So many young children are watching Doctor Who these days because it is so exciting." "It's just one big adventure for them." "It's very fast-paced, there's lots of exciting colors, the monsters are very scary, children love to be scared." "There's lots of grossness in it, and children, they love being grossed out." "Our readers are looking to read about the Doctor and Rose." "So it's been really, really popular in that sense." "We get lots of mail, lots of letters asking about Rose as a character, also about Billie as an actress." "She's still got this young appeal about her." "She's almost like a teenager herself, and I think that adds to her popularity." "And it's something that all of our readers really identify with." "Back in a sec." " He said not to look for it." " Yeah, he did." "They really love Rose because she's really cheeky and she's really daring." "And in their minds, they think that they could possibly be like her." "Now you're getting it." "I imagine our readers are running around attacking each other or trying to kill each other." "And it's always happened." "It goes back to when I was five, when you would play Doctor Who in a playground and have fun exterminating people and who was going to be the Doctor, who was gonna be the companion." "I imagine that's exactly the same in a playground now, thanks to Doctor Who coming back." "Is it flashing battery'?" "I'll be glad to see the back of it tonight and I can be human tomorrow." "And eat me dinner and use me mobile."