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rdfs:label
  • Love & Monsters (TV story)
rdfs:comment
  • From a production standpoint, it included a monster created by a child, nine-year-old William Grantham, for a Blue Peter competition. It was the first story in the programme's history written specifically to be recorded at the same time as another story — a process called "double banking". By minimising the appearances of the Doctor and his companion, the production team recorded fourteen episodes in the same time that it took to make thirteen. Russell T Davies was sufficiently pleased with the results that the concept — dubbed a "Doctor-lite episode" — would be a regular feature of each subsequent season.
StandbyCarpenter
  • Will Pope
ConstructionChargehand
  • Allen Jones
PracticalElectrician
  • Albert James
ProductionRunner
  • Glen Coxon
CostumeSupervisor
  • Rose Goodhart
CostumeAsst
  • Charlotte Mitchell
  • Fiona McCann
Electrician
  • Tony Hughes
  • Gavin Walters
  • Wayne Mansell
StoryboardArtist
  • Shaun Williams
PostProdCoOrdinator
  • Marie Brown
WithThanksTo
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales
PropsMaker
  • Penny Howarth
StandbyRigger
  • Zack Henderson
ASupervisingArtDirector
  • James North
ProstheticsDesigner
  • Neill Gorton
ProstheticsSupervisor
  • Rob Mayor
PropsStoreman
  • Stuart Wooddisse
StandbyScenicArtist
  • Julia Challis
SFXTechnician
  • Danny Hargreaves
  • Richard Magrin
ArtDepartmentDriver
  • Patrick Deacy
ProstheticsTechnician
  • Jo Glover
  • Martin Rezard
SpecialistPropMaker
  • Mark Cordory
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AsstEditor
  • Ceres Doyle
  • Matt Mullins
made next
  • The Runaway Bride
LocationManager
  • Gareth Skelding
  • Lowri Thomas
Make-upDesigner
  • Sheelagh Wells
ExecutiveProd
  • Julie Gardner
  • Russell T Davies
OnlineEditor
  • Matthew Clarke
PropertyMaster
  • Adrian Anscombe
BestBoy
  • John Best
OriginalTheme
  • Ron Grainer
FinanceManager
  • Richard Pugsley
confidential
  • The New World of Who
SoundEffectsEditor
  • Paul Jefferies
story number
  • 175
UnitManager
  • Rhys Griffiths
FocusPuller
  • Steve Rees
ProductionCoOrdinator
  • Jess van Niekerk
DubbingMixer
  • Tim Ricketts
AssistantProductionAccountant
  • Debi Griffiths
  • Kath Blackman
  • Bonnie Clissold
CastingDirector
  • Andy Pryor CDG
3rdAD
  • Sarah Davies
CastingAssociate
  • Andy Brierley
3DArtist
  • Chris Petts
  • Nick Webber
PostProdSupervisor
  • Chris Blatchford
  • Samantha Hall
BTS
  • Peter Kay & Marc Warren - Dr Who Confidential - BBC sci-fi
ProductionAccountant
  • Endaf Emyr Williams
StuntCoOrdinator
  • Bill Davey
ConstructionManager
  • Matthew Hywel-Davies
BoomOperator
  • Bryn Thomas
  • James Drummond
Make-upArtist
  • Claire Pritchard
  • Gill Rees
broadcast date
  • 2006-06-17
ProductionDesigner
  • Edward Thomas
made prev
  • The Satan Pit
VisualFXProducer
  • Will Cohen
VisualFXSupervisor
  • Dave Houghton
2DArtist
  • Russell Horth
  • Sandra Roach
ScriptEditor
  • Simon Winstone
SupervisingArtDirector
  • Stephen Nicholas
StandbyProps
  • Brian Henry
  • Harriet Jones
1stAD
  • Susie Liggat
StandbyArtDirector
  • David Morison
SoundRecordist
  • Jeff Matthews
2ndAD
  • Simon Morris
ProductionBuyer
  • Blaanid Maddrell
VisualEffects
  • The Mill
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Featuring
Editor
  • Alan Levy
Doctor
  • Tenth Doctor
Enemy
  • The Abzorbaloff
Gaffer
  • Peter Chester
Series
Graphics
  • BBC Wales Graphics
Producer
CostumeDesigner
  • Louise Page
ProductionManager
  • Tracie Simpson
Name
  • Love & Monsters
Prosthetics
  • Millennium Effects
CharCreatedBy1a
  • William Grantham
SoundEditor
  • Paul McFadden
  • Doug Sinclair
Colourist
  • Mick Vincent
Clip
  • The Doctor Defeats Abzorbaloff - Doctor Who - Love and Monsters - BBC
  • Victor joins LINDA - Doctor Who - Love and Monsters - BBC
DoP
  • Rory Taylor
Production code
  • 2.100000
Grip
  • Dai Hopkins
Season Number
Music
  • Murray Gold
Note
  • *William Grantham, the creator of the Abzorbaloff, was not a professional. Instead, he was the 9-year-old winner of the 2006 Blue Peter design-a-monster competition. On the commentary which accompanied the episode, producer Phil Collinson said Grantham was disappointed with the small stature of the finished monster. He claimed Grantham said, "It was meant to be as big as a double-decker bus." Some doubt has since been cast on this story by Grantham himself. In the BBC DVD documentary, Who Peter, an older Grantham expressed no misgivings about the creature's realisation, but rather claimed to have been "stunned" because the monster had been so well-realised by Millennium FX.
SpecialEffects
  • Any Effects
Format
  • 1
Companions
Setting
Character
  • Abzorbaloff
ArtDeptProdManager
  • Jonathan Marquand Allison
ProductionScriptSecretary
  • Claire Roberts
SFXCoOrdinator
  • Ben Ashmore
SFXSupervisor
  • Mike Crowley
  • Paul Kelly
DesignAssistant
  • Peter McKinstry
  • Al Roberts
  • Ian Bunting
AssistantPropsMaster
  • Paul Aitken
PREV
  • The Satan Pit
Continuity
  • Sarah Hayward
NEXT
  • Fear Her
Writer
Director
Network
PropsChargehand
  • Phil Lyons
abstract
  • From a production standpoint, it included a monster created by a child, nine-year-old William Grantham, for a Blue Peter competition. It was the first story in the programme's history written specifically to be recorded at the same time as another story — a process called "double banking". By minimising the appearances of the Doctor and his companion, the production team recorded fourteen episodes in the same time that it took to make thirteen. Russell T Davies was sufficiently pleased with the results that the concept — dubbed a "Doctor-lite episode" — would be a regular feature of each subsequent season. Because of this episode's Doctor-lite nature, it notably became the first (and currently only) full episode to showcase the Doctor's adventures from the perspective of their bystanders, who are usually overlooked in most stories. Tardisode 10, the prologue to Love & Monsters, shows a secretary falling victim to the main enemy of this episode.
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