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* KillItWithIce: The Stemza's body temperature is so low that it can cause lethal freezer-burn to humans just by touching them.
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After an exciting climax atop a crane which ends with both villainous aliens destroyed and sent back into space, and Graham's wife Grace dead on the floor below ''a la'' Fourth Doctor, the Doctor builds a teleporting device out of the Tenza's stray tech, hoping to get to her T.A.R.D.I.S.

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After an exciting climax atop a crane which ends with both villainous aliens destroyed and sent back into space, and Graham's wife Grace dead on the floor below ''a ''à la'' Fourth Doctor, the Doctor builds a teleporting device out of the Tenza's stray tech, hoping to get to her T.A.R.D.I.S.
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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing Tenza warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to [[HuntingThemostDangerousGame Hunt The Most Dangerous Game]] and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.

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Long story short, the freezing turnip Kiss is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing Tenza warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to [[HuntingThemostDangerousGame Hunt The Most Dangerous Game]] and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.
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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing Tenza warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to hunt TheMostDangerousGame and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.

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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing Tenza warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to hunt TheMostDangerousGame [[HuntingThemostDangerousGame Hunt The Most Dangerous Game]] and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Stemza responds to the Doctor's ultimatum by activating the DNA bombs he implanted in the humans... not realising the Doctor removed them and tricked him into absorbing them into himself using the data coil.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Stemza ritual of leadership involves hunting and killing a randomly designated human.




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* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor is not impressed when Karl knocks the Stemza from the top of the crane, telling him "You had no right to do that."

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Viewers are then treated to a thrilling CliffHanger as the teleporter lands them, ''sans'' spacesuits, in the void of space with no blue box in sight…

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Viewers are then treated to a thrilling CliffHanger as the teleporter lands them, ''sans'' spacesuits, in the void of space with no blue box in sight…
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Just after the Doctor activated the rig that would call for the TARDIS, it winds up teleporting her and her friends into the '''depths of space'''.

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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing alien warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to hunt TheMostDangerousGame and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.


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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing alien Tenza warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to hunt TheMostDangerousGame and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.

The Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham and its quarry. By sheer coincidence, it is also into that train that the Doctor, who has been falling from orbit for half an hour, makes a rough landing. Only barely noticing her changed gender, she assumes command (despite policewoman Yaz's weak protests that ''she'' is the authority here) and builds herself a new sonic screwdriver with which to save the day.

After an exciting climax atop a crane which ends with both villainous aliens destroyed and sent back into space, and Graham's wife Grace dead on the floor below ''a la'' Fourth Doctor, the Doctor builds a teleporting device out of the Tenza's stray tech, hoping to get to her T.A.R.D.I.S.

Viewers are then treated to a thrilling CliffHanger as the teleporter lands them, ''sans'' spacesuits, in the void of space with no blue box in sight…

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall.

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere Doctor, premiered on October 7, 2018. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall.


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Long story short, the freezing turnip is actually the travel pod of a tooth-stealing alien warlord-to-be who has come to Earth to hunt TheMostDangerousGame and thereby earn his warlordship. Only, he has no intentions of leaving anything up to chance, and has brought a sparking, electric Flying Spaghetti Monster to help him — meaning there are ''two'' deadly aliens roaming Sheffield. RedShirts beware.

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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Ryan talking about the greatest woman he's even known. We assume this is the Doctor, but the end of the episode reveals that he's talking about his grandmother, who died during the events of the episode.
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* BullyingADragon: See a dark, imposing creature that doesn't look like it even came from this world, and throw food at it. [[TooDumbToLive See what that does.]]
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We open on Ryan Sinclair on a video blog, where he says he'll tell us all about an amazing woman he met. It all begins with the fact that, at nineteen, he can't ride a bicycle. Scene change to his grandma and her new husband, Graham trying to teach him to ride (over rough ground near a cliff). After falling, he chucks the bicycle over the edge and into the woods below. And since Gran and Graham's train is leaving soon, it's up to Ryan to go retrieve the bike. Just as he finds it hanging in a tree out of reach, a pattern of light appears in the air nearby, with a glowing [[SchmuckBait button]] in the center, which Ryan of course touches. The lights disappear, and a giant Hershey's Kiss appears on the ground nearby. Which Graham also touches. It's burning cold. Ryan calls the police.
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* {{Retool}}: Also like "The Eleventh Hour", this is the start of another major retool for DW: New logo, format, theme, et al. In addition, Series 11 consisted of ten 50 minute stand-alone episodes airing on Sundays with little to no appearances from DW's RoguesGallery.

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* {{Retool}}: Also like "The Eleventh Hour", this is the start of another major retool for DW: New logo, format, theme, et al. In addition, Series 11 consisted consists of ten 50 minute stand-alone episodes airing on Sundays with little to no appearances from DW's established RoguesGallery.
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* {{Retool}}: Also like "The Eleventh Hour", this is the start of another major retool for DW: New logo, format, theme, et al.

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* {{Retool}}: Also like "The Eleventh Hour", this is the start of another major retool for DW: New logo, format, theme, et al. In addition, Series 11 consisted of ten 50 minute stand-alone episodes airing on Sundays with little to no appearances from DW's RoguesGallery.
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* {{Retool}}: Also like "The Eleventh Hour", this is the start of another major retool for DW: New logo, format, theme, et al.
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'''The Doctor:''' Aahh… I remember! Sorry. Half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman.

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'''The Doctor:''' Aahh… Oh yeah… I remember! Sorry. Half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman.
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'''The Doctor:''' Of course I know my own name! I just can't ''remember'' it.

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'''The Doctor:''' Of course I know my own name! it! I just can't ''remember'' it.
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* MaamShock: An unusual example, relating to the Doctor's recent GenderBender:
-->'''Yaz:''' Hold on there madam, I need you to do as I say. This could be a potential cri–\\
'''The Doctor:''' Why are you calling me "madam"?\\
'''Yaz:''' ...because you're a woman?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Am I? Does it suit me?\\
'''Yaz:''' ...what?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Aahh… I remember! Sorry. Half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman.
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* AskAStupidQuestion:
-->'''Yaz:''' You don't know your own name?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Of course I know my own name! I just can't ''remember'' it.
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* AmnesiacHero: Even more than Twelve, regeneration puts some weird gaps in Thirteen's memory. She doesn't know the name for a tongue, and is under the impression that she's ''looking'' for someone called The Doctor.

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* AmnesiacHero: Even more than Twelve, regeneration puts some weird gaps in Thirteen's memory. She doesn't know the name for a tongue, and is under the impression that she's ''looking'' for someone called The the Doctor.



%%* ResurrectionSickness: The Doctor's regeneration sickness this time round is giving her memory problems bad enough that she can't initially remember her own name.

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%%* * ResurrectionSickness: The Doctor's regeneration sickness this time round is giving her memory problems bad enough that she can't initially remember her own name.
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* AmnesiacHero: Even more than Twelve, regeneration puts some weird gaps in Thirteen's memory. She doesn't know the name for a tongue, and is under the impression that she's ''looking'' for someone called The Doctor.
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%%* TemptingFate: "We don't get aliens in Sheffield."
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* AliensInCardiff: "We don't get aliens in Sheffield." Until ''now'', that is.
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%%* ResurrectionSickness: The Doctor's regeneration sickness this time round is giving her memory problems bad enough that she can't initially remember her own name.
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* CallBack: Like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]], the episode begins with a freshly-regenerated Doctor falling out of the sky and landing in an English municipality at night.

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018. The official synopsis:

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall.

The official synopsis:

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018.

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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018.
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''"We don't get aliens in Sheffield." In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien are about to have their lives changed forever, as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Can they believe a word she says? And can she help solve the strange events taking place across the city?''

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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To Walter Tevis' ''Literature/TheManWhoFellToEarth''.




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* ShoutOut: The title references the novel and film ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''.
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* CharacterTitle: Referring to the Doctor's situation at the beginning of the episode.
* TheNounWhoVerbed: "The Woman Who Fell to Earth".
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This is the first episode of Series 11, introducing Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. It will premiere on October 7, 2018.

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