Glory School (serial)

Glory School was the second story of Season 28 and was written by Tony Etchells & Ben Aaronovitch, directed by Alan Wareing and featured Richard Griffiths as The Doctor, Julia Sawalha as Katie Tollinger and John Banks as Henrick.

Synopsis
It’s 1915 and there’s a war on; the Trenches a place where no man wants to go. They wait every day to see if that letter arrives calling them up. At the start, people wanted to go but no one does now. One day James Black is called up and he is sent to Muggion House to be trained up. Back in the trenches, something odd is going on and it’s only a matter of time until James is there. Meanwhile, he has to deal with the odd happenings at the House as three mysterious travellers arrive.

Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Richard Griffiths
 * Katie Tollinger - Julia Sawalha
 * Henrick - John Banks
 * James Black - Ben Chandler
 * Captain Lawrence Jones - Chris Barrie
 * Mr Protecue - John Cleese
 * Otto Muller - Paul Harman Elliott
 * Oliver Richards - Martin Neil
 * Ian Solventson - Anthony Andrews
 * The Warden - Michael Kitchen

Crew

 * Writer - Tony Etchells and Ben Aaronovitch
 * Producer - Ian Fraser
 * Script Editor - Ben Aaronovitch
 * Director - Alan Wareing
 * Lighting -  Ian Dow
 * Designer - Martin Collins
 * Visual Effects Designers - Malcom James, Dave Chapman
 * Make-Up Designer - Christine Greenwood
 * Casting Director - Anne Henderson
 * Music - Dominic Glynn
 * Costume Designer - Ken Trew
 * Edited by - Hugh Parson
 * Vision Mixer - Shirley Coward
 * Original Theme Music - Ron Grainer
 * Title Music - Mark Ayres
 * Title Sequence by CAL Video

Memorable Quotes
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Production History
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Development

 * A working title for this story was A School for Glory.
 * This story was initially considered for Season 27 but was pushed back to Season 28.

Production
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Post-Production
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Reaction

 * Official BARB ratings: 7m for Part One, 6.8m for Part Two and 7.1m for Part Three.

Story Notes

 * For the first time since Mission to the Unknown, the Doctor nor his companions do not appear in all of the episodes, nor through the entirety of the story; not appearing at all in Part One and only showing up towards the end of Part Two.

Continuity
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Home Video Releases
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