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{{Infobox Doctor Who episode
| number             = 169
| serial_name        = Tooth and Claw
| show               = DW
| type               = episode
| image              =
| caption            =The Doctor and Rose in Torchwood House
| doctor             = [[David Tennant]] – [[Tenth Doctor]]
| companion          = [[Billie Piper]] – [[Rose Tyler]]
| guests             =
* [[Pauline Collins]] – [[Queen Victoria]]
* [[Ian Hanmore]] – Father Angelo
* [[Michelle Duncan]] – Lady Isobel
* [[Derek Riddell]] – Sir Robert
* [[Jamie Sives]] – Captain Reynolds
* [[Ron Donachie]] – Steward
* Tom Smith – The Host
* Ruth Milne – Flora
| director           = [[Euros Lyn]]
| writer             = [[Russell T Davies]]
| producer           = [[Phil Collinson]]
| executive_producer = Russell T Davies<br>[[Julie Gardner]]
| composer           = [[Murray Gold]]
| production_code    = 2.2
| series             = [[Doctor Who (series 2)|Series 2]]
| length             = 45 minutes
| date               = {{Start date|2006|4|22|df=y}}
| preceding          = "[[New Earth (Doctor Who)|New Earth]]"
| following          = "[[School Reunion (Doctor Who)|School Reunion]]"
}}
"'''Tooth and Claw'''" is the second episode of the [[Doctor Who (series 2)|second series]] of the British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which was first broadcast on [[BBC One]] on 22 April 2006.

The episode is set in Scotland in 1879. In the episode, a group of warrior monks intend to use an alien werewolf (Tom Smith) to take over the [[British Empire]] and start an "Empire of the Wolf" by turning [[Queen Victoria]] ([[Pauline Collins]]) into a werewolf.

This was also the first episode of Series 2 to include mention of "Torchwood", the reocurring mystery box arc of Series 2. This episode also establishes the origins of the Torchwood Institute, which was founded as a secret organisation in 1879 by Queen Victoria to investigate and fight extra-terrestrial threats, including the Doctor, within Britain after her encounter with the Werewolf.

==Plot==
The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] land on the Scottish moors in 1879. They encounter a carriage carrying [[Queen Victoria]], who has been forced to travel by roads to [[Balmoral Castle]] as a fallen tree has blocked the train line to Aberdeen, which is feared to be a potential assassination attempt. The Doctor poses as the Queen's protector, and he and Rose join the Queen as she travels to the Torchwood Estate, a favourite of her late husband [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]], to spend the night. The royal party is unaware that the Torchwood Estate has been captured by a group of monks led by Father Angelo, forcing its owner, Sir Robert MacLeish, to play into their ruse as they take the place of the house's servants and guards. The monks, having arranged for the fallen tree to force the Queen to the estate, have brought a man that turns into a werewolf, hoping to pass its nature to the Queen and create a new "Empire of the Wolf".

[[File:Tooth and claw (3133021620).jpg|thumb|left|The costume and set of the werewolf, as shown at the Doctor Who Experience.]]
The Doctor soon realises the trap they have fallen into, and helps to save Rose, the Queen, and Sir Robert from Father Angelo's men and the werewolf by taking shelter in the estate's library, its wood coated with oil of mistletoe wood to stave off the beast. They study the library and discover evidence collected by Sir Robert's father, a polymath, and Prince Albert which indicates the werewolf is an alien being that fell to Earth and inhabited multiple generations of hosts. The Doctor also realises that the estate was designed as a trap for the werewolf, as by use of its strange telescope along with the Queen's [[Koh-i-Noor]] diamond, its cut fashioned by Prince Albert, they can destroy the alien lifeform.

Sir Robert sacrifices himself to allow the Doctor, Rose, and the Queen to prepare the telescope in the observatory. They are able to trap and kill the werewolf in the concentrated light of the full moon collected by the diamond. The next day, the Queen gives the Doctor and Rose knighthoods before banishing them from the [[British Empire]]. In honour of Sir Robert's sacrifice and his father's ingenuity, she orders the creation of the [[Torchwood Institute]] to help defend Britain from further alien attacks, declaring that “if the Doctor should return, then he should beware, because Torchwood will be waiting.”

===Continuity===
The Doctor introduces himself as "James McCrimmon". [[Jamie McCrimmon]] ([[Frazer Hines]]) was a young (fictional) [[Scottish people|Scottish]] piper from the 18th Century, and a companion of the [[Second Doctor]].<ref name="slant">{{cite web|first=Ross|last=Ruediger|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/doctor-who-season-two-ep-2-tooth-and-claw/|title=Doctor Who Recap: Season 2, Episode 2, "Tooth and Claw"|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=6 October 2006|access-date=15 April 2012}}</ref>

==Production==
Filming took place between 26 September and 27 October 2005. In the scene where the Doctor and Rose meet the Queen's guards, the Doctor slips into a [[Scottish English|Scottish accent]], which is a reference to actor David Tennant's heritage. Michelle Duncan and Jamie Sives were unable to attend the readthrough for this story, and their parts were read by Tennant's parents, who happened to be visiting the ''Doctor Who'' set. Tennant told reporters at the series' press launch, "Because it's set in Scotland they were delighted to be asked to read in. My mum played Lady Isobel and my dad played Captain Reynolds and they were in seventh heaven. And they were genuinely cheesed off when they didn't get asked to play the parts for real! I was like, 'Chill-out, Mum and Dad, back in your box!'"<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/03/30/doctor_who_press_launch_david_billie_feature.shtml  | title=David Tennant and Billie Piper Q&A | publisher=[[BBC]]  | date=3 April 2006 | access-date=3 April 2006}}</ref>

When the Doctor is asked to identify himself, he says: "I'm Dr James McCrimmon from the township of Balamory." This is a reference to the [[Second Doctor]]'s companion [[Jamie McCrimmon]] ([[Frazer Hines]]) and the [[CBeebies]] programme ''[[Balamory]]'', which is filmed in the town of [[Tobermory, Mull|Tobermory]] on the [[Isle of Mull]].<ref>https://doctorwho.guide/who_tv13.htm</ref><ref>https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/doctor-who-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-tooth-and-claw--1013725</ref>

[[Treowen]] House in [[Dingestow]], Wales, was one of the sites for filming this episode, representing Torchwood House in the [[Scottish Highlands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/treowenmanor|title=Treowen Manor|website=Doctor Who Locations|access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref> Exterior shots were filmed at [[Craig-y-Nos Castle]], [[Swansea Valley]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/swansea-valley-craig-y-nos-castle
|title= Walesarts, Craig-y-Nos Castle, Swansea Valley|publisher = BBC|access-date = 30 May 2010}}</ref> The monk fight scene was filmed at a courtyard in Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/dyffryn-gardens|title= Walesarts, Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas|publisher = BBC|access-date = 30 May 2010}}</ref>

At one point during filming, Billie Piper's hair caught fire.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Peter |date=9 April 2006 |title=Inside the Tardis: Doctor Who unplugged |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20060409/ai_n16175606 |access-date=23 January 2007 |publisher=[[Sunday Herald]]}}[http://hclairezon.tripod.com/dtint/id118.html]{{dead link|date=November 2016|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
Interviewed in ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', director Euros Lyn said that various martial arts films were viewed in researching the opening fight sequence, including ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.<ref name="confidential">{{cite episode|title=Fear Factor|series=[[Doctor Who Confidential]]|airdate=22 April 2006|network=[[BBC]]|station=[[BBC Three]]|series-no=2|number=2}}</ref>

The werewolf in this story is [[Computer-generated imagery|computer-generated]]. Pauline Collins stated in a BBC press release that there were two performance artists who demonstrated the movements that the werewolf would do and talked about the problems of overacting in a situation where one was simply reacting to a green screen.<ref>BBC Press Office (7 April 2006), ''Programme Information: Network TV Week 17, 22–28 April 2006''. Press release, PDF, pp. 4–5: "[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/pdfs/tv/week17/bbctvwk17_highs.pdf By Royal appointment]".</ref> A deleted scene was included on the boxset DVD, where the Doctor and Rose, after being knighted and exiled from the British Empire, run off towards the TARDIS.

===Cast notes===
[[Pauline Collins]] appeared previously in the series as Samantha Briggs in the Second Doctor serial ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'' (1967).<ref name="slant" /> This makes her the third actor from the classic series to appear in the new series, following [[William Thomas (actor)|William Thomas]] (''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and "[[Boom Town (Doctor Who)|Boom Town]]") and Nisha Nayar (''[[Paradise Towers]]'' and "[[Bad Wolf]]"/"[[The Parting of the Ways]]"). Collins had been offered a role as a companion in 1967, but had turned this down.<ref name="slant"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/doctor-who/pauline-collins-interview/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100109082820/http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/doctor-who/pauline-collins-interview/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-01-09|title=Pauline Collins interview|work=[[Radio Times]]|date=April 2006|access-date=16 June 2013}}</ref> According to the accompanying episode commentary, actor Tom Smith, who played the Host, attended drama school with David Tennant.

When Sir Robert offers to precede the Queen out of the window, she calls him "my [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]]". Actor [[Derek Riddell]] had played Raleigh in the BBC drama ''[[The Virgin Queen (TV show)|The Virgin Queen]]'', screened earlier in the year. The script originally had Victoria refer to [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]], until Riddell pointed out that this would have been incorrect for the reference the Queen was making.

==Broadcast and reception==
Overnight ratings for the episode peaked at 10.03 million (during one five-minute segment). The audience [[Appreciation Index]] was 83.<ref>[http://www.gallifreyone.com/news-archives.php?id=4-2006 Tooth and Claw Overnight Ratings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503002207/http://www.gallifreyone.com/news-archives.php?id=4-2006 |date=3 May 2006 }} (23 April)</ref>  The episode received an average of 9.24 million viewers, taking the timeshift into account.<ref>[http://www.gallifreyone.com/news-archives.php?id=5-2006 UK Ratings and AI Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619192739/http://www.gallifreyone.com/news-archives.php?id=5-2006 |date=19 June 2006 }} (May  3)</ref>

This episode was released on 5 June 2006 as a basic [[DVD]] with no special features, together with "[[School Reunion (Doctor Who)|School Reunion]]" and "[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]", and as part of a second series [[boxset]] on 20 November 2006. This release included an [[audio commentary]] by writer Russell T Davies, [[visual effects]] supervisor David Houghton and supervising art director Stephen Nicholas.

Ian Berriman of ''[[SFX (magazine)|SFX]]'' was highly positive of the episode, calling it "frigging ace" and praising Collins' portrayal of Queen Victoria. He particularly praised Davies' writing and the tone of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ian|last=Berriman|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/tv_reviews/doctor_who_2.2_tooth_and_claw|title=Doctor Who 2.2 Tooth and Claw|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504115837/http://www.sfx.co.uk/tv_reviews/doctor_who_2.2_tooth_and_claw|archive-date=4 May 2006|work=[[SFX (magazine)|SFX]]|date=28 April 2006|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> [[IGN]]'s Ahsan Haque gave the episode a 7.8 out of 10 rating, highlighting the cinematography and special effects used on the werewolf. However, he thought that the story was "entertaining" and had a "few exciting moments", but it was unsatisfying with elements such as the werewolf chase feeling out of place for ''Doctor Who''.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ahsan|last=Haque|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/737/737887p1.html|title=Doctor Who: "Tooth and Claw" Review|publisher=[[IGN]]|date=9 October 2006|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> For the website in 2010, Matt Wales named "Tooth and Claw" the seventh best Tenth Doctor episode.<ref>{{cite web|first=Matt|last=Wales|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/105/1058228p2.html|title=Top 10 Tennant Doctor Who Stories|publisher=[[IGN]]|date=5 January 2010|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> However, Dek Hogan of ''[[Digital Spy]]'' was less positive about the episode, finding it a let-down after the [[New Earth (Doctor Who)|series opener]], though he thought the wolf "looked great".<ref>{{cite web|first=Dek|last=Hogan|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/dekstvdiary/a31985/hungry-like-the-wolf.html|title=Hungry like the wolf|publisher=[[Digital Spy]]|date=24 April 2006|access-date=29 April 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/04/02/svDrWho02.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615120939/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2006%2F04%2F02%2FsvDrWho02.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 June 2006 |title=''The Doctor will see you now'' |work=[[Daily Telegraph]] |date=2 April 2006 |author=Matthew Norman |access-date=5 August 2021 }} A father's account of bringing his young son to the set of "Tooth and Claw".
*{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16962759&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=where-wolf---name_page.html |title=''Where wolf?''|author=Paul English|work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]|date=19 April 2006}} Actor Derek Riddell discusses the filming of "Tooth and Claw".

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060423124116/http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/toothandclaw-commentary.mp3 Episode commentary by David Tennant, Simon Winstone and Derek Riddell] (MP3)
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2006/flash/homepages/index-tooth.shtml "Tooth and Claw" episode homepage]
*{{BBCDWnew | year=2006 | id=toothandclaw | title= Tooth and Claw}}
*{{imdb episode|0563002|Tooth and Claw}}

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