Pull To Open Podcast: The Unquiet Dead - Doctor Who
6How does a family show like Doctor Who do a zombie horror story? You start by subtracting (most of) the gore, then add a sci-fi twist. That’s good, but what would really make it stand out is if you take a real person from history and cast the best possible actor to play the role. The Unquiet Dead ticks all those eerie boxes, deftly telling a tale of walking corpses, teasing the show’s (then) new mythology of the Time War, and showcasing the show’s central premise of time travel by involving Charles Dickens himself. It’s all thanks to a promising writer named Mark Gatiss — whatever happened to him?
Commentary for The Unquiet Dead begins at 29:53.
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Story Essentials
Series 1, Episode 3
Story number: 162, per the The Pull To Open Codex https://bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Mark Gatiss
Director: Euros Lyn
Showrunner: Russell T. Davies
Aired 9 April 2005
Pull To Open: The Unquiet Dead
Season 4
Episode 22
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish https://bit.ly/3WagZRq