The Family of Blood

185b – "The Family of Blood"
185b – "The Family of Blood"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
	Doctor David Tennant – Tenth Doctor / John Smith;
	Companion Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones;
	Others Jessica Stevenson – Joan Redfern; Harry Lloyd – Jeremy Baines; Thomas Sangster – Timothy Latimer; Tom Palmer – Hutchinson; Pip Torrens – Rocastle; Rebekah Staton – Jenny; Gerard Horan – Mr. Clark; Lauren Wilson – Lucy Cartwright; Matthew White – Phillips; Sophie Turner – Vicar;
Production
Directed by	Charles Palmer
Written by	Paul Cornell
Based on	Human Nature; by Paul Cornell
Script editor	Lindsey Alford
Produced by	Susie Liggat
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies; Julie Gardner; Phil Collinson;
Music by	Murray Gold
Production code	3.9
Series	Series 3
Running time	2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast	2 June 2007
Chronology
← Preceded by; "Human Nature"	Followed by →; "Blink"
	List of episodes (2005–present)

"The Family of Blood" is the ninth episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 June 2007.^[1] It is the second episode of a two-part story written by Paul Cornell adapted from his Doctor Who novel Human Nature (1995), co-plotted with Kate Orman. The first part, "Human Nature", aired one week prior, on 26 May.

In the episode, aliens called the Family of Blood attack a public school and its surrounding village in 1913 to seek a fob watch which contains the essence of the long-lived alien time traveller the Doctor (David Tennant).

In a Doctor Who Magazine interview, Executive Producer Russell T Davies characterised the "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" two-parter as perhaps being too dark for the programme's audience.^[2] In 2008, both "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.^[3]

^ "Doctor Who UK airdate announced". News. Dreamwatch. 27 February 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.
^ "Doctor Who Magazine". Doctor Who Magazine (386). August 2007.^{[page needed]}
^ "2008 Hugo Nomination List". Denvention 3: The 66th World Science Fiction Convention. World Science Fiction Society. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.

[1] "Doctor Who UK airdate announced". News. Dreamwatch. 27 February 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.

[2] "Doctor Who Magazine". Doctor Who Magazine (386). August 2007.^{[page needed]}

[Denv-3] "2008 Hugo Nomination List". Denvention 3: The 66th World Science Fiction Convention. World Science Fiction Society. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.

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