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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Yes, I'll just... step inside this police box and arrest myself. }}
A light-hearted [[Breather Episode]] with very little drama, written as a contrast to [[Doctor Who/Recap/
It's Easter. The Doctor has parked the TARDIS in the Buckingham Palace gardens ("she doesn't mind") and takes a bus trip around London. He tries to make small talk with [[Classy Cat Burglar]] Lady Christina, who's escaping from a heist and who's convinced that the Doctor's just a rambling hobo. However, their conversation is short-lived as the bus takes an impromptu ride through a wormhole, taking The Doctor, Christina and the rest of the passengers with it.
It turns out that the group have landed on San Helios, a desert-like planet with next to no life (except for some equally stranded [[Insectoid Aliens]]). The group have no way of leaving the wormhole -- as the bus driver unfortunately proves -- and there is a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]] on the horizon. Also, the passengers are getting suspicious of the Doctor, and he realizes he's in danger of [[Doctor Who/Recap/
However, it's the Doctor's lucky day: everyone, including the local merchant aliens, ends up trusting him. And instead of trying to save the day all by himself, he just quickly gets UNIT on the phone to deal with things back on Earth. [[Doctor Who/Recap/
The Doctor and Christina are forced to work together with the passengers to fight the hungry alien swarm that destroyed San Helios. The creatures are making a beeline for the wormhole that they created. Using Christina's [[Classy Cat Burglar]] skills and Malcolm's brilliance, the bus is turned into a flying bus, and the Doctor saves the day. Captain Magambo thanks the Doctor, Malcolm glomps him and tells him "I LOVE YOU" about a dozen times over, and the TARDIS is neatly delivered by UNIT. Christina even manages to snog the Doctor, although he refuses to take her with him as his next companion, no matter how much she begs. He's lost too many friends recently. He does, however, sneakily destroy her handcuffs when she's arrested about five seconds later, and she climbs into the bus and flies off.
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* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Christina
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** The Doctor's comment about "humans on buses, always blaming me"; a reference to [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** The prophecy in this special saying that the Doctor's song will be ending soon echoes the Ood's words from the end of [[Doctor Who/Recap/
* [[Death by Materialism]]: The only human character to die is the bus driver, who, at the beginning of the episode, accepted a bribe to help a criminal escape a police cordon. <ref>He agreed to go faster when the criminal offers him her diamond earrings.</ref>(The criminal herself, whose motivation is explicitly stated to be non-materialistic love of adventure, survives.)
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: The Swarm.
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: A literal example! At the end of the episode, Lady Christina escapes from the police by flying off in the bus, and the character has not been seen since.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The bus that was being shipped from Cardiff to Dubai was being unloaded at Dubai when someone dropped a cargo container on it. The damage was incorporated into the plot.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: "He is coming, [[Doctor Who/Recap/
* [[Shout-Out]]: The number of the bus, 200, reflects the fact that this is the 200th ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story, counting "Trial of a Time Lord" as one story and the last three episodes of Season 29 as one as well.
** Also to [[The Quatermass Experiment]] - David Tennant starred in a BBC adaptation of it.
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