Doctor Who: 9 Things You Didn't Realise About Series 1 Of NuWho

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The TARDIS team went on holiday to Cardiff in Boom Town which also featured the return of Annette Badland as Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen who was last seen wreaking all kinds of havoc in the earlier two-parter Aliens of London and World War Three. Rose Tyler also mentioned one of her previous adventures with the Doctor during this episode and you can be forgiven for taking it as nothing more than a passing remark. It actually served as the foundations for one of NuWho's first tie-in novels, The Monsters Inside, which was published a couple of week's before this episodes transmission in May 2005. In the novel, written by Stephen Cole, the Ninth Doctor and Rose journey to the star system of Justicia, a prison camp comprising the six planets in that solar system. Coincidentally, this adventure also features the Slitheen but Rose was just happy to somewhere other than Earth for a change. As she mentions in Boom Town, she didn't even need her passport to get into the Justicia System so their security can't have been that up to scratch. And they call themselves a prison camp? There's something else you may have never realised about Boom Town that's probably worth mentioning. The TARDIS landed in the Welsh capital in 2005 to refuel on the Rift and, as was later revealed, a future version of Jack who had travelled back in time (are you still with us?) was already working for Cardiff's Torchwood branch at this point. The Captain is smart enough to realise this, though, so he would've done his best to avoid bumping into his past self. It's a good job, too, because the world would probably implode - in more ways that one - if Captain Jack ever encountered himself. There's an X-rated fanfiction in there somewhere.