Following another alien invasion last Christmas Day, Elton looks for information on the strange goings-on and finds a photo of the Doctor at Christmas, looking exactly as he did all those years ago. A year later he watched as an alien ship crashed into Big Ben. Elton was caught up in the massacre by the Autons. He introduces himself and tells how, when only three or four years old, he came downstairs one night to find a strange man in his house: the Doctor. The young man, a typical Londoner by the name of Elton Pope, narrates his story via his video camera. The Doctor asks the man if they have ever met before. Tardisode 10, the prologue to Love & Monsters, shows a secretary falling victim to the main enemy of this episode.Īn ordinary man becomes obsessed with the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, and uncovers a world of living nightmares.Īn awestruck young man sheepishly approaches the Doctor's TARDIS to find the Tenth Doctor and Rose tackling a Hoix in a warehouse.
Russell T Davies was sufficiently pleased with the results that the concept - dubbed a " Doctor-lite" or " Companion-lite episode" - would be a regular feature of each subsequent season.īecause of this episode's Doctor-lite nature, it notably became the first (and currently only) full episode to showcase the Doctor's adventures from the perspective of their bystanders, who are usually overlooked in most stories. By minimising the appearances of the Doctor and his companion, the production team recorded fourteen episodes in the same time that it took to make thirteen. It was the first story in the programme's history written specifically to be recorded at the same time as another story - a process called " double banking". Love & Monsters was the tenth episode of series 2 of Doctor Who.įrom a production standpoint, it included a monster created by a child, nine-year-old William Grantham, for a Blue Peter competition. You may be looking for the reference book of the same name.