This article is about the Doctor Who episode. For the title characters, see Family of Blood.
2007 Doctor Who episode
185b – "The Family of Blood"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
Doctor
David Tennant – Tenth Doctor
Companion
Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones
Others
Jessica Hynes – Joan Redfern (credited as Jessica Stevenson)
Harry Lloyd – Jeremy Baines
Thomas Sangster – Timothy Latimer
Tom Palmer – Hutchinson
Pip Torrens – Rocastle
Rebekah Staton – Jenny
Gerard Horan – Mr. Clark
Lauren Wilson – Lucy Cartwright
Matthew White – Phillips
Sophie Turner – Vicar
Production
Directed by
Charles Palmer
Written by
Paul Cornell
Based on
Human Nature by Paul Cornell
Script editor
Lindsey Alford
Produced by
Susie Liggat
Executive producer(s)
Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Phil Collinson
Music by
Murray Gold
Production code
3.9
Series
Series 3
Running time
2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast
2 June 2007 (2007-06-02)
Chronology
← Preceded by "Human Nature"
Followed by → "Blink"
List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
"The Family of Blood" is the ninth episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 June 2007.[1] It is the second episode of a two-part story written by Paul Cornell adapted from his Doctor Who novel Human Nature (1995), co-plotted with Kate Orman. The first part, "Human Nature", aired one week prior, on 26 May.
In the episode, aliens called the Family of Blood attack a public school and its surrounding village in 1913 to seek a fob watch which contains the essence of the long-lived alien time traveller the Doctor (David Tennant).
In a Doctor Who Magazine interview, Executive Producer Russell T Davies characterised the "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" two-parter as perhaps being too dark for the programme's audience.[2] In 2008, both "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[3]
^"Doctor Who UK airdate announced". News. Dreamwatch. 27 February 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.
^"Doctor Who Magazine". Doctor Who Magazine (386). August 2007.[page needed]
^"2008 Hugo Nomination List". Denvention 3: The 66th World Science Fiction Convention. World Science Fiction Society. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
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