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Behind the scenes of The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords (Part Ten) 

Excerpt from Doctor Who Magazine #385 - article by Benjamin Cook:

Now, this really is top secret: DWM is on st for the recording of the final scene of Episode 13, where the Titanic smashes though the TARDIS wall, leading seamlessly into this year’s Christmas Special, Voyage of the Damned. “Anyone who’s not supposed to be here, please leave,” requests Peter Bennett, the first assistant director.

“So where do I fall?” asks David. “If I flick a switch on the TARDIS, then - bang!”

“Let’s not kill ourselves,” suggests Colin, helpfully, as two colossal canons are filled with debris, flotsam, and jetsam, just itching to be fired all over David and the TARDIS set at Upper Boat. “If this works, we should play on. Now, where’s the lifebelt going?”

“We don’t wanna make it too obvious,” points out Phil Collinson, the producer. “We don’t want it to land bang on his head!”

David’s knees and elbows are padded for the take. “I feel like an armadillo,” he says.

“You fall here,” explains soundman Julian Howarth, “just in front of the microphone, and you say, ‘What? What?!” And then you pick up the lifebelt...”

“You do, I suppose,” considers David, when DWM asks him whether he has to be in good shape to play the Doctor, “but that’s partly choice as well.  I think you can choose how energetic you want your Doctor to be.” He runs this over in his mind. “I don’t know whether that’s true - there’s always gonna be a bit of running about, isn’t there?  I do tend to add in a bit of... no, do I? That’s probably not true either.” He bursts out laughing. “What is true is that the schedule is relentless, so you need to be disciplined. The scripts just keep coming, and the Doctor talks a lot, and sometimes it’s not the easiest stuff to memorise, so it’s difficult to keep on top of it all.”

Thank you to everyone who shared set photos!

Previous parts are available here: [one] [two] [three] [four] [five] [six] [seven] [eight] [nine]