3.02: The Shakespeare Code

This is: Doctor Who: Series 3 - Episode 2

Title: The Shakespeare Code

Mon/Vil: Lilth, Mother Doomfinger, Mother Bloodtide & Carrionites

Synopsis: For Martha's first trip in the Tardis, the Doctor takes her back in time, to Elizabethan England, as the third series of Russell T Davies' Doctor Who continues. When they find William Shakespeare under the control of deadly witch-like creatures, they must battle forces from the dawn of the universe to stop history being changed for ever.

Writer: Gareth Roberts

Director: Charles Palmer

Producer: Phil Collinson

First Broadcast: 7th April 2007

Ratings: 7.2 Million

Duration: 45.32

Cast: Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman
William Shakespeare - Dean Lennox Kelly
Lilith - Christina Cole
Wiggins - Sam Marks
Doomfinger - Amanda Lawrence
Bloodtide - Linda Clarke
Richard Burbage - Jalaal Hartley
Will Kempe - David Westhead
Dolly Bailey - Andree Bernard
Lynley - Chris Larkin
Jailer - Stephen Marcus
Peter Streete - Matt King
Preacher - Robert Demeger
Queen Elizabeth - Angela Pleasence