The Professor's experiment is to rejuvenate himself, and at first it appears he has been successful, emerging from the manipulator as a much younger man. The Doctor can't let a comment like that go without investigation and he and Martha set off to meet her family at the reception where the Professor is to reveal all to the world. Martha's sister Tish is working for the elderly Professor Richard Lazarus, a man who claims he will change what it is to be human. It first aired on BBC One on 5th May 2007. The episode was written by Stephen Greenhorn and directed by Richard Clark. Mark Gatiss appeared as Richard Lazarus with Adjoa Andoh as Francine Jones, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Tish Jones, Reggie Yates as Leo Jones and Thelma Barlow as Lady Thaw. The episode starred David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones. The Lazarus Experiment was the sixth episode of the third series of the relaunched Doctor Who. This is good honest fun for kids, interesting for fans with its nudges of mythology, but hardly essential viewing.The Throwback Thursday selection today is a set of promo photos for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment. Overall, The Lazarus Experiment is perfectly entertaining fluff with a nice performance from Mark Gatiss, some impressive visuals and a finale that just about eradicate your memory of how shallow everything else has been. I'd hate to see how The Doctor saves the universe should it ever get broken! I'm also continually frustrated these days by how The Doctor's all-purpose sonic screwdriver can be manipulated to do anything each week- here it helps with a system overload, restructures D.N.A over sound waves and locates a monster! It's just lazy writing and the skrewdriver is being used as a writer's crutch. Of greater interest is more mention of Mr Saxon, who appears to be a paymaster to Lazarus Labs, so it can't be coincidence that their company logo (of multiple circles) looks like Gallifreyan writing. This is by-the-numbers stuff that doesn't offer any surprises with its main plot. Without the layering of series 3 mythology this episode would be a competent but ultimately hollow experience. But it was even better to find that Martha's mother Franchine (the excellent Adjoa Andoh) is opposed to her daughter's relationship with The Doctor, a neat juxtaposition to Jackie Tyler's flummoxed approval, especially considering how dangerous being a companion to The Doctor clearly is! It's particularly nice to see sister Tish (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and brother Leo (Reggie Yates) avoiding the "annoying hanger-on" trap that ruined Noel Clark's Mickey in series 1 and 2. Unlike Rose's family, Martha's clan seem to be more interesting already. The entire episode is just an elongated chase with a CGI monster (a skeletal scorpion with a human face), although it was nice to see Martha's family given some development. The Lazarus Experiment is pure and simple stuff from writer Greenhorn, not particularly concerned with giving audiences anything more than an honest and straight-forward story. During his launch party one evening, Lazarus gives a demonstration of his system and accidentally unleashes a monster within. Mark Gatiss, one quarter of The League Of Gentlemen comedy troupe and a writer for Doctor Who, stars as the eponymous Lazarus, a 76-year-old genius who invents a machine that appears to be the fountain of youth. Martha arrives back home, only to find that her sister Tish is working for Professor Lazarus, a man who appears to have obtained immortality.Īfter the entertaining, yet ultimately underwhelming Dalek two-parter, the adventure continues courtesy of writer Stephen Clark (creator of Scottish soap River City) with The Lazarus Experiment. WRITER: Stephen Greenhorn DIRECTOR: Richard ClarkĬAST: David Tennant (The Doctor), Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish Jones), Reggie Yates (Leo Jones), Adjoa Andoh (Francine Jones), Mark Gatiss (Professor Richard Lazarus), Thelma Barlow (Lady Thaw), Lucy O'Connell (Party Guest) & Bertie Carvel (Mysterious Man)
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