![]() “Sleep No More” was supposed to have a follow-up story in Series 10 that was later scrapped in favor of “The Empress Of Mars”, a loose follow-up story to Series 7’s “ Cold War“. This episode does have a number of flaws: the found footage style of filming makes it hard to keep track of everything that’s happening onscreen, the villains of the week are not very threatening, and the ending doesn’t really have a strong enough pay-off to make up for all of its shortcomings. Some of his experiments are more successful than others, and “Sleep No More” is one of his most divisive outings that received a very mixed reception when it aired back in 2015 – some people admire it for its ambition, while other think it’s a boring slog. Something I admire about Mark’s writing style is that he always tries to tackle a different film genre in each of his episodes, and he never writes the same kind of story twice. “Sleep No More” is written by Mark Gatiss, who has returned to the series as a guest writer on an almost regular basis since Doctor Who returned in 2005. It’s also probably the adventure with the smallest sense of scale in this season, being set entirely inside a haunted space station that’s orbiting Neptune, though the ending of this episode does have some pretty large and morbid ramifications for the future history of the Doctor Who universe, which will always be left up to the audience’s imaginations. In a season full of two-part stories (and even a three-part finale), “Sleep No More” stands out as the only forty-five minute standalone adventure of the bunch, which would otherwise be the norm in any other season of Doctor Who. When the Doctor shows his chagrin at Clara naming a newly encountered species, he tetchily references the Silurians… The most likely explanation for his allusion is that after the Earth-based, reptilian species was discovered by mankind in Doctor Who and the Silurians, the Doctor didn’t call them the Silurians, suggesting it was a human who gave them their accepted name.“Sleep No More” is the penultimate episode of Doctor Who’s ninth season, the usual calm before the storm of the season finale. Tom Wilton played a Zygon in The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion and makes a speedy return to the show, here appearing as one of the Sandmen! You can see Nikki discussing the best part of her job in this Ask the Experts video! The voice of the computer is played by Nikki Wilson who also produced the episode. 11 in the UK charts and incidentally, The Chordettes were an all-female quartet, not entirely dissimilar to the holographic group we see singing the number in Sleep No More! 1 on the Billboard United States charts and no. Written by Pat Ballard and first recorded in May, 1954 by ‘Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra’, The Chordettes released the best known version of the hit 5 months later. Sandman’ is a popular song that exemplifies the sound of the 1950s. Nagata mentions ‘Space Pirates’ which to a Doctor Who fan instantly suggests the 1969 adventure, The Space Pirates! In that story, the pirates were commanded by Maurice Caven and his comrade in crime, Dervish and together they plundered aragonite - one of the most precious minerals in the galaxy.Ī Silurian from Doctor Who and the Silurians He is often depicted as a winged deity and the expression, ‘in the arms of Morpheus’ simply means to be sound asleep. In Greek mythology, Morpheus was the god of dreams who could appear in mortals’ dreams in any form. The episode is Reece Shearsmith’s first appearance in Doctor Who although he did play the actor who brought the Second Doctor to life - Patrick Troughton - in An Adventure in Space and Time, the drama about the show’s origins that was also written by Mark Gatiss. At the start of the adventure, of course, it’s revealed that the lab is in orbit around that planet… It’s never explicitly stated but it’s possible Le Verrier lab is named after Urbain Le Verrier (1811 –1877), the French mathematician who deduced the existence and position of Neptune using mathematics alone. Unusually, the credits for the writer, producer and director all appear after the episode’s action, directly preceding details of the cast. The show’s title sits amongst a jumble of other information but is slightly brighter than other text meaning it’s more easily discernible. Early on, however, the screen is filled with text and letters spelling out the words DOCTOR and WHO are momentarily visible. Sleep No More is unique insofar as it has no standard opening titles and prior to the end credits, no onscreen text to identify the adventure’s name. Reece Shearsmith as Rassmussen in Sleep No More ![]()
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