A Fact File book about the Slitheen has also been released. In the Series 3 finale of The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Gift, a pair of Slitheen-Blathereen from an intermarried line of the two families attempted to overrun Earth with Rakweed, a plant native to Raxacoricofallapatorius and used as an addictive vegetable. In the 2006 series episode "Love & Monsters", an alien called the Abzorbaloff, whose natural form is similar to that of the Slitheen, claims to be from Raxacoricofallapatorius's twin planet Clom. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Slitheen_family_-_list_of_appearances They have a highly developed sense of smell, able to track a single target across a few city blocks, smell adrenaline and hormones in people, and can sense if one of their own dies. They do not appear to have eyelids, but have a nictitating membrane. With Elisabeth Sladen, Yasmin Paige, Tommy Knight, Daniel Anthony. In 2005, the television show Doctor Who was revived after a sixteen-year hiatus. With Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Corey Doabe. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Known methods of delivery include a poisoned dart that is formed in the finger and then fired, and exhalation of poisoned breath. When the Ninth Doctor and Rose are arrested in the Justicia System in the year 2501, the Doctor shares a cell with Dram Fel-Fotch and Ecktosca Fel-Fotch Happen-Bar Slitheen, who claim that after the Earth incident, the remnants of the family went bankrupt and had become historians. In The Sarah Jane Adventures episode The Gift, members of the Slitheen-Blathereen family group are seen to have orange skin. The Blathereen were mentioned again in the Sarah Jane adventures episode Revenge of the Slitheen. The TARDIS crew take a holiday, but the Doctor encounters an enemy he thought long since dead. Raxacoricofallapatorians are vulnerable to acetic acid, which reacts explosively—and fatally—with their bodies, making Slitheen allergic to vinegar, ketchup and Coca-Cola. Examples include the names Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, and Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. One of the Raxacoricofallapatorian methods of execution is the lowering of the condemned into a cauldron of acetic acid, which is then heated to boiling. This causes the Slitheen to pass gas and, through the subsequent vibration, cause their stomach's to explode. Behind the scenes. Directed by Alice Troughton. Before the Slitheen could receive the launch codes, the Ninth Doctor arranged for a Harpoon missile to demolish 10 Downing Street, ending the scheme and killing all but one of them who managed to escape through an emergency teleport. It is mentioned that the Judoon have begun to force out the Slitheen, and the various other families have been working against them. Directed by Keith Boak. Blon was born on the Raxacoricofallapatorian homeworld Raxacoricofallapatorius to the Slitheen family. A Slitheen appears briefly in the Tenth Doctor novel The Nightmare of Black Island by Mike Tucker, created from Rose's memories, along with a Dalek and the Nestene Consciousness. Disguised by skin suits, the Doctor nevertheless got wind of their evil scheme to destroy the Earth. Read more. Doctor Who — Series 1, World War Three. They were under the command of Korst from Revenge of the Slitheen, who planned to avenge the deaths of his family. The first in the two-part story of the Slitheen was the most poorly received episode in the revived first season of Doctor Who.A few interesting ideas are at play at first, with Rose’s disappearance for an entire year kicking things off, before a modified pig driving a ship into Big Ben creates yet more mystery. The Doctor helps Mickey to hack into the controls and fire a non-nuclear missile at 10 Downing Street, where all the Slitheen conspirators are now gathered. Mickey joins the Doctor, Rose, and Jack for lunch. Harriet Jones was slightly annoying to begin with and this was a theme until the second part where she found a bit more of a backbone. The Doctor Who website features a segment called Captain Jack's Monster Files, narrated by John Barrowman, which provides information about alien species. This can also be caused by over-eating. Rose accused the Doctor (after his regeneration into the Tenth Doctor) of being a Slitheen in disguise in the 2005 Children in Need mini-episode and the Doctor makes a passing reference to the Slitheen and their skin-suits in "The Runaway Bride". When the Doctor and Rose defeat an attempted Blathereen takeover of the system, the Slitheen are pleased to see they can once again become the profit-holders of their race. Locusta was a real-life Roman poisoner who appeared in the Doctor Who serial "The Romans", portrayed by actress Anne Tirard. The Slitheen first appeared in the 2005 series episodes "Aliens of London" and "World War Three", and subsequently recur in later episodes of both Doctor Who and spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. This issue was overcome by new technology by the time of The Lost Boy, in which the skins of thinner people were used (by the time of "From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love" short people could also be used). They pl… The Ninth Doctor lands the TARDIS in Cardiff, using the energy of the Cardiff Rift to recharge the engines of the time machine. The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness are joined by Mickey Smith, Rose's boyfriend. The Slitheen are a crime family from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius. Adult Slitheen are 2.4 metres (8 ft) tall, rather fat with long forearms, powerful claws, and infantile face. Actress Georgia Moffett, daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison and who would later appear as the title role in the fourth series episode "The Doctor's Daughter", also auditioned for the role. It's hard work being a Slitheen. The Slitheen have infiltrated Parliament and have the Doctor and his friends trapped as the Doctor works to prevent them from starting World War Three. Female Raxacoricofallapatorians can produce poisons within their bodies to use against their enemies. Rose mentioned the Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorius in "The Christmas Invasion" (though her impromptu speech was a pastiche of phrases she had picked up on her travels with the Doctor). Instinctive hunters trained to kill at a young age, Slitheen are a ruthless criminal sect whose main motivation is profit. The Slitheen appear in John Smith's A Journal of Impossible Things in the episode "Human Nature". The original conception of Tyler was slightly different. When the Slitheen are in their skin suits they break wind loudly; they call this the gas exchange. the 'Doctor' takes the captive to a restaurant for what could be called her 'last supper' while 'Rose' and 'Micky' who had met up with the returning travellers, go for a drink, and catch-up. They are also convicted on their home world, not willing to return to their planet due to a death sentence. The Slitheen had not actually given up business, and were in conflict with a more influential family, the Blathereen. Greg Blakeman, headmaster at Park Vale School, Tim Jeffery, a science teacher at Park Vale School, Janine, a secretary at London Coldfire Construction, This page was last edited on 13 January 2021, at 02:55. Their intent was to instigate World War III and sell the radioactive remains of Earth to a depressed galactic economy as fuel for interstellar spacecraft. Ecclestone makes the best of some average material and Rose seems non-existent for the first part. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Some years after the events of "World War Three", in Revenge of the Slitheen (set in either 2008 or 2009)[1] another group of Slitheen infiltrated a construction company with plans to turn off the Sun and destroy Earth by draining the world's energy to avenge the deaths of the Pasameer-Days. The Slitheen are mentioned in the audio book Wraith World, when Clyde Langer remarks he cannot understand why Luke and Rani would want to read about made up adventures, when they have faced Slitheen. Criminal family from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius. Though the Slitheen do not appear in "The Time of the Doctor", the Doctor mentions them as among the forces gathered around Trenzalore. Another shorter adult Slitheen appeared in the 2009 "From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love", masquerading as a galactic diplomat in an attempt to steal Sarah Jane's robot dog K-9. The Slitheen names mentioned in "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" are: In The Sarah Jane Adventures story Revenge of the Slitheen: In The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Lost Boy: Individuals murdered by the family and used as skinsuits include: It is stated in "Invasion of the Bane" that K-9 Mark IV has been in a black hole for 18 months, "School Reunion" having taken place in 2007. explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slitheen&oldid=1000016177, Fictional characters with superhuman strength, Fictional characters with superhuman senses, Fictional characters who can move at superhuman speeds, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015, Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction from October 2017, All articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale and Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionery. The Doctor took the egg to the hatcheries on Raxacoricofallapatorius so she could be given a second chance at life. The kids escape from the Slitheen and meet up with Sarah Jane at her house. Stopping off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, The Doctor, Rose and Jack meet up with Mickey and encounter an old foe in the midst of … She was never a weak, vulnerable, screaming companion in Doctor Who and she continues that strong, intelligent, gutsy characterisation. Directed by Keith Boak. The exchange of gases that compression entails also builds up within the acquired skin, causing very loud flatulence in humans (the expelled gas smells like bad breath, which the Doctor noted was a form of calcium decay—though, in reality, bacteria that cause tooth decay are different from those that cause bad breath). The Slitheen are also briefly referenced by the Doctor in the same novel while speaking to a member of the Cynrog about hiding under human-like skinsuits. They are surrounded by soldiers and … In the later novel, The Last Dodo, when the Doctor is asked if he has ever had a dream, he claims to have a recurring one in which a Slitheen on a rocking horse chases him. In the intervening six months, "Blaine" was elected as Lord Mayor of Cardiff and planned to leave Earth by using the energy from a new nuclear power station to interact with the Cardiff Rift, unconcerned that the planet would be destroyed in the process. Initially the compression ratio was limited, so the disguises tended to be obese people. The acidity of the solution is formulated to dissolve the skin, allowing the internal organs to drop into the liquid while the condemned is still alive, reducing them to "soup" in a slow and painful death. The families Blathereen and Hostrazeen are mentioned as part of the Raxacoricofallapatorian ruling bodies, the Senate and the Grand Council. 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