Midnight (Doctor Who)

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"Midnight" is the tenth episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Russell T Davies and directed by Alice Troughton, it was first broadcast on BBC One on 14 June 2008. The episode stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and features Catherine Tate as his companion Donna Noble, though the character appears only briefly. The story instead centres on the Doctor during a tourist shuttle journey on the hostile planet Midnight, where an unseen entity infiltrates the vehicle and begins possessing one of the passengers. Davies conceived "Midnight" as a deliberately claustrophobic bottle episode focusing on psychological tension rather than visual spectacle. Written as a response to the more optimistic portrayal of humanity in the earlier episode "Voyage of the Damned", the story explores how fear and paranoia can cause ordinary people to turn on one another. Much of the episode consists of a single extended scene in which the passengers...

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