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"Planet of the Dead" is the second of five special episodes of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' broadcast between Christmas 2008 and New Years Day 2010. It was simultaneously broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 11 April 2009. The specials served as lead actor David Tennant's denouement as the Tenth Doctor. He is joined in the episode by actress Michelle Ryan, who plays Lady Christina de Souza, a one-off companion to the Doctor. The episode was co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts, the first writing partnership since the show's revival in 2005. The episode depicts Christina fleeing the police from a museum robbery by boarding a bus that accidentally travels from London to the desert planet of San Helios, trapping her, the Doctor, and several passengers on board the damaged vehicle. After the bus driver dies trying to return to Earth, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, headed by Captain Erisa Magambo (Noma Dumezweni) and scientific advisor Malcolm Taylor (Lee Evans), attempt to return the bus while preventing a race of metallic stingray aliens from posing a threat to Earth. At the end of the episode, one of the passengers delivers a warning to the Doctor which foreshadows the remaining three specials. "Planet of the Dead" was the first ''Doctor Who'' episode to be filmed in high definition, after a positive reaction to the visual quality of spin-off series ''Torchwood'' and the financial viability of HDTV convinced the production team to switch formats. To ensure that the desert scenes looked as realistic as possible, the production team filmed in Dubai for three days, sending several props, including a 1980 double-decker Bristol VR bus, to the United Arab Emirates for filming. After the bus was unintentionally damaged in Dubai by a shipping container, Davies rewrote the script to explain the damage in the narrative. The audience gave the episode an Appreciation Index of 88—considered excellent. ==Plot== A young, beautiful, thrill-seeking burglar, Lady Christina de Souza, steals a gold chalice once belonging to King Æthelstan from a London museum and narrowly evades the police by hopping on a 200 bus. The Doctor, who is tracking down a wormhole, joins her shortly before the bus suddenly passes through the wormhole and arrives on the desert planet of San Helios. The Doctor shows the passengers the wormhole and deduces the bus protected them like a Faraday cage. The bus driver tries to go through despite the Doctor's warnings. Seeing the driver's skeleton coming out on the other side of the wormhole, the police call in UNIT, commanded by Captain Erisa Magambo and aided by scientific adviser Malcolm Taylor. The Doctor manages to contact UNIT on a passenger's mobile phone and talks to Malcolm, who impresses him with his understanding of the wormhole. The Doctor and Christina quickly get to know the handful of other passengers on the bus: Angela, Barclay, Nathan, Lou and Carmen, who has low-level psychic abilities. The Doctor and Christina decide to scout the planet, spotting an approaching storm, while Nathan and Barclay try to fix the bus. The Doctor and Christina encounter a couple of Tritovores, a species resembling anthropomorphic flies, who take them to their wrecked spaceship. The Tritovores explain that they were making a routine goods collection with San Helios when they crashed, and that the planet very recently housed a hundred billion inhabitants and a thriving ecosystem. At the request of the Doctor, the Tritovores send a probe to investigate approaching cloud and discover a large swarm of stingray-like aliens who create wormholes by flying at terrific speed around planets, and are protected by their metal exoskeletons. They destroy the ecosystems of all the planets they visit as their biological imperative. The Doctor suspects that Earth may be the stingrays' next target due to the wormhole they passed through before, and makes to hasten their return to Earth. Christina uses her burglary skills to retrieve a crystal that powers the spaceship, together with the clamps attached to it. During this the Doctor discovers and recognizes the stolen gold chalice in her backpack, telling her that he knows she must have stolen it, but while he disapproves of the theft, he admits to her that it would be hypocritical to be too harsh on her about it, because, after all, he stole his TARDIS from his own people back in the day. Meanwhile, Christina accidentally awakens several stingrays that had caused the ship to crash in the first place, costing the life of the two Tritovores. Captain Magambo, who has also worked out that the earth is threatened, and that the wormhole is growing in size, orders Malcolm to close the wormhole but he refuses even at gunpoint to sacrifice the Doctor. The Doctor throws away the crystal and attaches the clamps to the bus's wheels and steering wheel. He finds the systems are incompatible and convinces Christina to let him use gold from the chalice of Æthelstan to connect the bus to the spaceship technology. The Doctor reveals that the clamps are anti-gravity clamps. This allows the bus to fly through the wormhole, with the stingrays in hot pursuit. Taylor closes the wormhole but three of the stingrays manage to pass through it. After UNIT shoots down the stingrays and the passengers have been debriefed, Christina pleads with the Doctor to let her travel with him, but he refuses because he has no wish to lose another companion. The characters part ways again. The Doctor recommends that UNIT hire Barclay and Nathan. Christina is arrested by the police for the theft and Carmen has a premonition that visibly unnerves the Doctor: As a final act of kindness, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to release Christina from her handcuffs, allowing her to escape in the bus. The pair part on good terms as she flies away and the Doctor leaves in his TARDIS. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Planet of the Dead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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