Tooth and Claw Details

Programme information for Week 17 (22-28 April) has now been released by the BBC Press Office, confirming that Episode 2, 'Tooth and Claw', will retain the 7.15pm timeslot established for 'New Earth' on 15 April, subject to any late running of a live football match that immediately precedes the episode.

As well as noting the launch of the new Tardisodes, the PDF documentfeatures a lengthy episode preview that concentrates on the return of Pauline Collins to the series after forty years. Commenting that Patrick Troughton (whom she worked with in 1966) was "a wonderful Doctor", Collins says that "having seen David Tennant in action, I believe he is going to be the best Doctor ever [...] He seems to combine authority and humour and quirkiness which, in a way, is an amalgam of all the very best Doctors. He’s terrific in it and I think he’ll be great." The interview also reveals that the episode's computer-generated werewolf was based on the movements of "two performance artists who demonstrated for us the sort of movements that the werewolf would do."

Further information on the episode (also a PDF) states: "The Doctor and Rose travel back to the year 1879 when an encounter in the Scottish Highlands with Queen Victoria and a band of Warrior Monks reveals a deadly trap, dating back centuries. Perhaps the local legends about a werewolf could really be true. David Tennant plays the Doctor, Billie Piper plays Rose Tyler, Pauline Collins plays Queen Victoria,Tom Smith plays The Host, Derek Riddell plays Sir Robert and Michelle Duncan plays Lady Isobel." The publicity material also includes a couple of previously uneen stills from the episode.