Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut (webcast)

The prequel to The Impossible Astronaut was the first prequel produced by the BBC for the sixth series of Doctor Who. It contained the first visible appearance of a living, breathing Silent.
== Summary ==
In the Oval Office, a telephone rings. President Richard Nixon answers. There is no response until Nixon asks "Is it you?" A girl's voice tells him to look behind him. Nixon asks how she got the number. She says "they" are everywhere and people see them every day.
Nixon insists there is nothing behind him and again asks how she got the phone number. The girl says the spacemen told her. Nixon does not know what she means. She says it is not important, but the monsters are. Nixon says emphatically, "There are no monsters in the Oval Office." The phone hangs up. He leans back in his chair as a Silent stares at his back.
== Cast ==
* President Richard Nixon - Stuart Milligan
* Little Girl - Sydney Wade
* A Silent - Marnix Van Den Broeke
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Little Girl mentions the spaceman and the Silence.
== Story notes ==
* This is a prelude to TV: The Impossible Astronaut.
== Continuity ==
* Nixon later records the calls and plays them to Canton Everett Delaware III and the Eleventh Doctor, who find the source of the call. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
== External links ==
* The Prequel on the BBC Doctor Who site
Category:Series 6 (Doctor Who) prequels
Category:Stories set in Washington DC
Category:Stories set in 1969
Category:Silent webcasts
Category:2011 webcasts
Category:Television stories that use Murray Gold's 3rd main theme
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