Rhyme from Night Terrors

Night Terrors featured a haunting nursery rhyme sung by the peg dolls that may have more to it than meets the eye.

The full rhyme was tweeted by writer Mark Gatiss:

Tick tock goes the clock
And what now shall we play?
Tick tock goes the clock
Now summer’s gone away?

Tick tock goes the clock
And what then shall we see?
Tick tock until the day
That thou shalt marry me

Tick tock goes the clock
And all the years they fly
Tick tock and all too soon
You and I must die

Tick tock goes the clock
We laughed at fate and mourned her
Tick tock goes the clock
Even for the Doctor

Tick tock goes the clock
He cradled her and he rocked her
Tick tock goes the clock
Even for the Doctor…

Matt Smith introduces Night Terrors

Producer Marcus Wilson and Matt Smith introduce Episode 9, Night Terrors.

More Teasers for Night Terrors

SFX have released some teasers for the upcoming episode Night Terrors, by Mark Gatiss.

1 It’s 99.9% arc plot free

2 It’s a small-scale, intimate, claustrophobic episode. The main stars are the shadows

3 It’s a very simple tale. Perhaps too simple for some tastes. There’s little in the actual plot that hasn’t been done in telefantasy before a number of times before

4 On the other hand it’s rich in atmosphere, and the monsters are freaky

5 It has the best use of sound design in the show since “Midnight”

6 The direction and lighting make even the most mundane settings look eerie and otherworldly

7 The Doctor does something he hasn’t done in a while

8 There’s a twin dilemma

9 Amy’s hair makes her easy to spot

10 If you listen carefully to the soundtrack, you’ll discover that the episode isn’t quite as contemporary as it may seem 

11 Somebody doesn’t want to be Sherpa Tenzing

12 “Maybe it was junk mail?’

13 The Doctor has a post-modern rebuttal for his real world critics

14 Daniel Mays is excellent – he forms a very watchable partnership with Matt Smith and delivers one of the best, “Eh!?”s in the show’s history

15 The biscuit agenda is back!

16 Somebody gets floored

17 There’s a genuinely creepy transformation

18 Somebody can’t plump for Brian like he normally does

19 The show does something it was criticised for back in 1964… and does it big time

20 Listen carefully at the end

TV Trailer for Night Terrors

The TV Trailer for Night Terrors, written by Mark Gatiss.

More on Night Terrors

For The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex we've gotten a synopsis, quote, and some teasers. Now the same for Night Terrors.

Synopsis:

The Doctor follows a cry for help to an ordinary-looking housing estate on Earth. A little boy is scared of the dark. And of the monsters in his cupboard. And of baths, old toys and dusty dolls houses. And of the wheezing old lift next to his room, the witchy old woman across the way, and the gruff landlord pressuring his dad for this month’s rent. He’s scared of everything. And if the Doctor doesn’t save him from his fears, it could mean the end for Amy, Rory, and every human being on the estate…

Quote:

RORY: [glancing at the psychic paper] ‘”Please… save me from the monsters.’ Who sent that?”
THE DOCTOR: “That’s what we’re here to find out.”
AMY: “Sounds like something a kid would say.”
THE DOCTOR: “Exactly. A scared kid. A very scared kid. So scared that somehow its cry for help got through to us. In the TARDIS.”

Teasers:

• George’s mum and dad, Alex and Claire (Daniel Mays and Emma Cunniffe) tell him to put everything he’s scared of in his bedroom cupboard and shut the door…
• …All is fine until the Doctor opens it
• Amy and Rory are separated from the Doctor soon after arriving on the estate…
• …They find themselves in a mysterious abandoned house with creatures waiting in the shadows

Promo Pictures for Night Terrors

Some promotional pictures have been released by the BBC for Night Terrors by Mark Gatiss. The episode will air on September 3.

Teasers for Night Terrors

Some teasers for Night Terrors by Mark Gatiss have been released by CultBox.

- ‘Fear Her’, ‘The Eleventh Hour’, ‘The Beast Below’ and ‘Amy's Choice’ are all evoked here.
- Seriously? Did Rory just do that thing he does, again?
- Gatiss returns to a film reference he used in The League of Gentlemen.
- The Doctor loves a Sontaran story.
- A scene from ‘Rose’ is almost repeated.
- Rory thinks that The Doctor is in a long-running UK soap.
- A non-television Doctor Who story is directly referenced.
- Something that happened to Amy and Rory in ‘Let's Kill Hitler’ happens to them again.
- A flaw in the Sonic Screwdriver appears again.
- Is The Doctor thinking about ‘The Greatest Show In The Galaxy’?

And some quotes:

- "Please save me from the monsters."
- "Planets, history and stuff - that's what we do!"
- "Maybe we should let the monsters gobble him up?"
- "The TARDIS has gone funny again, some time-slippy thing."
- "When I was your age - ooh, about 1,000 years ago - I loved a bedtime story."
- "I'm not as daft as I look. In fact, I'm not daft at all."
- "Off the scale... off the scale... off the scale..."
- "Bergerac? God help us!"
- "You see these eyes, they're old eyes."
- "What is it with these photos?" 

Source

Night Terror's Trailer

Let's Kill Hitler has aired, making a fantastic start to the second half of Series 6.
Next week is Night Terrors, by Mark Gatiss.



The synopsis:

The Doctor receives a distress call from the scariest place in the Universe: a child’s bedroom. Every night George lies awake, terrorised by every fear you can possibly imagine – fears that live in his bedroom cupboard. His parents are getting desperate – George needs a doctor. Fortunately for George, his desperate pleas for help break through the barriers of all time and space and the Doctor makes a house call. But allaying his fears won’t be easy; because George’s monsters are real.

Steven Moffat on Episode 9 and 10

Steven Moffat has given very high praise to The Girl Who Waited, written by Tom MacRae, who’s other work in Doctor Who includes Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel.

Moffat on the episode: 

“I’m going to boast now and say that Tom MacRae’s stylish and moving script is one of the best uses of time travel in any story anywhere.” He says. “Mind-blowing and heart-breaking in every twist and turn. The Doctor has been in Amy and Rory’s life for a long while now—far longer than he ever intended. What if something were to go wrong? When they step from the Tardis into a strange white waiting room, they’re all about to learn just how wrong time travel can go…”

He also talks about Night Terrors, written by Mark Gatiss:

“It began with Mark Gatiss and me chatting on the set of Sherlock. “I’d like to do scary,” he said. ‘Do you know where the scariest place in the universe is?’ I’ve known Mark for a while. If he’s decided to tell me where the scariest place in the universe is, I’d better listen. “Where?” I quavered from behind my rapid-deployment Doctor Who fear sofa. “A child’s bedroom” he answered. “Parents of Britain—sorry, and good luck!”

Thanks to The Whoniverse Blog for the heads-up

Title for Episode 13 is not The Wedding

A few days ago, the Daily Star speculated that the title for episode 13 would be The Wedding. It has been confirmed that this is not the case:

From their Twitter account: “The six stories are called Let’s Kill Hitler; Night Terrors; The Girl Who Waited; The God Complex; Closing Time; and something so secret we’re not allowed to say what it is yet. Sorry. It’s 5 words….”

It has been rumoured that the title will be announced tomorrow as The Wedding of River Song, will. This fits the five-word mark, although it is still unconfirmed.

Summary for Night Terrors

The BBC press office has released a summary for episode 9, Night Terrors. The episode is written by Mark Gatiss.

The Doctor receives a distress call from the scariest place in the Universe: a child's bedroom, as the time-travelling drama continues.  

Every night George lies awake, terrorised by every fear you can possibly imagine – fears that live in his bedroom cupboard. His parents are getting desperate – George needs a doctor.  

Fortunately for George, his desperate pleas for help break through the barriers of all time and space and the Doctor makes a house call. But allaying his fears won't be easy; because George's monsters are real.

The Radio Times on what to expect:

A little boy called George is terrified of something lurking in his bedroom cupboard…

The Doctor receives a strange letter, begging "Help me"…

And so begins Night Terrors, episode nine of the current Doctor Who series (which returns from hiatus on Saturday 27 August with episode eight, Let’s Kill Hitler)

Written by Mark Gatiss, it sounds like being an eerie, scary tale and (as you might expect from the man who presented BBC4 documentary series A History of Horror) it employs a reliable staple of supernatural movies - toys coming to life.

The creepy Peg Dolls – until now, heralded only by a brief appearance in the series six trailer (below) - are dead-eyed, implacable and relentless.

But what do they want with young George?

Daniel Mays (last seen in Outcasts and Ashes to Ashes) plays worried dad Alex, who teams up with the Doctor to help battle his son George's demons. But not before Rory and Amy find themselves miniaturised and sucked into the strange doll's house in George's cupboard.

What else can the Doctor and Alex do but follow them inside...?

 Thanks to The Whoniverse Blog for the heads up.