Series 18

### Written by:

Natalie Robyn, Katie Taylor, Sofia Fox, Cal A. King, Max Amato and Alex Stockbridge

### Directed by:

Ed Bye, Nida Manzoor, Lynne Ramsay, Edgar Wright, Charles Palmer, Eros Vlahos and Bryce Dallas Howard

### Producers:

Natalie Robyn, Katie Taylor and Logan Crimson

**Series 18** of Doctor Who, also referred to as ***Doctor Who: Embassy to Chaos***, starred Dev Patel as the Seventeenth Doctor and introduced Adelayo Adedayo as Taylor Bennett and Jessica Henwick as Luna Feng.

The series opened with *A Grand Day Out* and concluded with *Embrace the Chaos*. It was followed by a Halloween Special, *The Man Around Town*.

## Summary

From a Theme Park to Planet of the Squids to a town stalked by a Vampire; the Doctor aims to provide new companions Taylor and Luna with the craziest and most bizarre experiences of their lives, an adventure that they’ll never forget!

But a brewing war between the Alae Republic’s Temporal Intelligence Agency - an organisation that the Doctor knows well and respects - and two Tosan women back with a vengeance, Revir Ctharcourt and Mera Rakhal, threatens to disrupt the very foundation of space/time and despite their attempts to not get involved, the Doctor, Taylor and Luna will find themselves pulled right in the middle of the conflict... and the only way out is death.

## Overview

The series consisted of twelve stories and fifteen episodes. It was the third series for Dev Patel as the Seventeenth Doctor and introduced new companions Adelayo Adedayo as Taylor Bennett and Jessica Henwick as Luna Feng in the premiere, *A Grand Day Out*.

Katie Taylor was also brought on as a producer for solely this series.

Everything from *A Grand Day Out* to *The Man Around Town* was part of the Series 18 production block.

The main story arc for the series covered the war between the Temporal Intelligence Agency and Revir & Mera as the two attempted to gain dominance over all time and space.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dev Patel
* Taylor Bennett - Adelayo Adedayo
* Luna Feng - Jessica Henwick

### Recurring

* Suki Lóng - Gemma Chan
* Cory Lóng - George Young
* Kylita Strali - Cobie Smulders
* Revir Ctharcourt - Natasha Lyonne
* Mera Rakhal - Liz White
* Moerd Bosro - Steven Yeun

### Guest

* Alien Child - Dafne Keen
* The Horned Demon - TBC
* Bram Stoker - TBC
* Vampire - TBC
* Ranba - Jamie Clayton
* Lurala - TBC
* The Cybermen - David Banks (voice)
* Sophie Zero - TBC
* Sophie VII - TBC
* Idris Gelahyme - Elisha Applebaum
* Entity - Gideon Emery
* "Ted Shipman" - Joel McHale

## Aliens and Enemies

* Alien Child
* The Squids
* Revir Ctharcourt
* Mera Rakhal
* The Horned Demon
* A Vampire
* The Drahvins
* The Cybermen
* The Wirrn
	+ The Wirrn Queen
* The Rocket Men
	+ Idris Gelahyme
* Entity
* The Axons
* "Ted Shipman"

## Production Blocks

Production blocks were arranged as follows:

## Adaptations and Merchandising

### Home Media

#### DVD

All episodes of Series 18 were released in boxset form by BBC Studios. The set contained special features such as; *Doctor Who Confidential*, cast and crew interviews, episode commentary, behind the scenes look, series trailers and teasers, image gallery, deleted scenes and special feature - Doctor Who and LGBT+ Representation with Jessica Henwick.

#### Blu-Ray

The series was also released as a complete blu-ray season release, with additional bonus features not included on the DVD release, such as; extended *Doctor Who Confidential*, video diaries and PDF files of scripts and production.

 **Series 19** | Regular Episodes | *The Skithra Entitlement* • *Work Hard, Die Hard* • *Doctor Who and the Dalek Paradigm* / *Escape of the Paradigm* • *Out of Sight, Out of Mind* • *Whatever Happened to the Crew of the SS Dahlia?* • *Meeting at Zaggit Zagoo* • *Planet TARDIS* • *Glittering Spheres* • *Submerged* • *Mechanical Heart* • *Oh Hell, It's Tari* • *I Predict a Riot* • *Doctor Who and the Moonmen* / *I Am The Doctor* • *Cryptomnesia* • *Final Destination*