What’s the story of Dreamland?
“The Doctor arrives in a small one street town in Nevada called Dry Springs. He discovers a bar that has what they think is a piece of junk but they’re using it to attract tourists by saying that it’s a piece of a crashed UFO that landed there five years before. The Doctor rapidly discovers that actually it’s not a piece of junk but it really is part of a crashed UFO. That leads him into a confrontation with the US army, Men in Black and ten foot tall bug eyed monsters!” Where did the idea come from? “I just thought it would be quite cool to work that kind of established – if you can call it that – UFO mythology into Doctor Who. The Doctor’s never been to Dreamland or Area 51 – as far as I’m aware we’ve never done an episode set in America – and these animation episodes are all about doing stories we could never do in the live-action series. Doing a story set in Nevada and doing it with ten foot tall monsters and flying saucers and grey aliens just seemed like a great idea. I’ve always
