Back El planeta imposible Spanish La Planète du Diable, première partie French 闇の覚醒 Japanese The Impossible Planet Korean The Impossible Planet Portuguese Невозможная планета Russian The Impossible Planet Turkish Неможлива планета Ukrainian Planet Nemögik Volapuk 不可能的星球 Chinese
| 174a – "The Impossible Planet" | |||
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| Directed by | James Strong | ||
| Written by | Matt Jones | ||
| Script editor | Simon Winstone | ||
| Produced by | Phil Collinson | ||
| Executive producer(s) | Russell T Davies Julie Gardner | ||
| Music by | Murray Gold | ||
| Production code | 2.8 | ||
| Series | Series 2 | ||
| Running time | 1st of 2-part story, 45 minutes | ||
| First broadcast | 3 June 2006 | ||
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"The Impossible Planet" is the eighth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 3 June 2006. It is the first part of a two-part story. The second part, "The Satan Pit", was broadcast on 10 June.
The episode is set on Krop Tor, a planet orbiting a black hole. In the episode, a human expedition group drilling on the planet is terrorised by a creature calling itself the Beast (voiced by Gabriel Woolf), which possesses the Ood slaves in the humans' base.