Doctor who space whale. The sixth doctor previously encountered space whales. According to the sixth doctor they were the only known animals to live in outer space. The space whale was born at the tail end of two hundred of the worst years in the history of cetacean human relationships. He sought to end the whaling of these creatures.
Space whale was originally pitched by pat mills and his writing partner john wagner in 1980 as a fourth doctor adventure. A star whale or galeen was a giant space borne cetacean. If you were that old and that kind and the very last of your kind. Vengeance on varos the doctors temptation to renounce his name when faced with turning the star whale into a vegetable is a subtle indicator of a past incarnation that actually did.
Great hd clip from series 5 of doctor who. He replaced rinas original boyfriend john and would now leave with the doctor instead of rina because he claims that space travel is in his blood. When the production office showed some signs of interest wagner left the project 119 and the script was commissioned as a four part fifth doctor story for a scene breakdown on 7 september 1981 118 and full scripts on 2 december 1981. The song of megaptera the message also resembles that of the elections on varos.
The doctor decides the fate of the last star whale which helped humanity to escape to safety during the solar flares of the 29th century. Amy posits that like the doctor the whale had come to earth willingly to help save the remaining children and is helping starship uk. They were sentient and often came to the rescue of spacecraft in distress. It was decided that the song of the space whale would be the introductory story for new companion turlough.
The big finish doctor who audio the song of megaptera based on the unmade episode the song of the space whale not only has a space whale but space whalers.