PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Lazarus Experiment" is the sixth episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 May 2007 and stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones as his companion, played by Freema Agyeman. On Earth, in present day London, The Doctor, Martha and her family attend a scientific demonstration by the aged Professor Lazarus. But when the experiment goes wrong, a horrific product of genetic manipulation is unleashed, leaving a trail of death in its mission to live indefinitely.
According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.19 million viewers and was the twelfth most popular broadcast on British television in that week.[1] Executive producerRussell T Davies has stated that he directed writer Stephen Greenhorn to base this episode on the typical Marvel Comics plotline: "a good old mad scientist, with an experiment gone wrong, and an outrageous supervillain on the loose."[2]
Plot
The Doctor returns Martha to her flat, twelve hours after she first stepped in the TARDIS. They listen to a message from Martha's mother Francine informing her that her sister Tish is on TV. They watch a news report that shows an elderly man named Professor Richard Lazarus who claims that he will change what it means to be human. The Doctor leaves briefly in the TARDIS, but immediately returns, intrigued by Lazarus's statement.
The Doctor and Martha go to the launch party at Lazarus Labs and meet up with Tish, who works there. Francine and Martha's brother Leo also join them, and Francine is immediately suspicious of the Doctor's interest in Martha. Their conversation is interrupted as Lazarus announces he will perform a miracle and steps into a capsule in the center of the reception room. The machine starts and surrounds the capsule with shining white light, and the Doctor quickly steps in when he believes that the system is overloading. As the machine comes to a stop, Lazarus emerges from the capsule as a much younger man. The machine appears to be able to manipulate the subject's DNA to make them younger, but the Doctor is concerned about unknown side effects. Martha points out that they obtained a DNA sample when Lazarus kissed her hand earlier, and they race to Lazarus's lab to examine the DNA. They find that it is fluctuating and unstable.
Meanwhile, Lazarus returns to his office with his partner, the elderly Lady Thaw. She insists that she be the next to use the machine so they can be young together, but he refuses. She threatens to have a "Mr. Saxon" pull their funding, but Lazarus transforms into a huge scorpion-like being which kills Lady Thaw. He returns to human form and to the reception, while the Doctor and Martha discover Lady Thaw's body and deduce that Lazarus must drain life energy to keep his DNA stable. Lazarus goes up to the roof with Tish and they talk for a few minutes until the Doctor and Martha run in and warn Tish. Lazarus transforms again and attacks them, but they manage to escape to the lift. The building security system locks down the entire building. The Doctor, Martha and Tish take the stairs, warn the guests of the danger and are quickly followed by the monstrous Lazarus. The Doctor gives Martha the sonic screwdriver so she can unlock the security doors and Lazarus kills a guest while the others flee in panic. The Doctor attempts to reason with Lazarus while being chased, but ends up trapped in the machine with Martha. The Doctor explains that Lazarus's transformation is the result of an evolutionary throwback locked away in dormant genes that are now becoming dominant. Lazarus manages to activate his machine but the Doctor reverses the polarity,blasting Lazarus with energy. They emerge to find Lazarus in his human form, naked and apparently dead.
As police and medical workers arrive to take care of the wounded, Lazarus's body is taken in an ambulance. The Doctor hears the ambulance crash and find that the drivers have been drained of life. The Doctor, Martha, and Tish chase Lazarus to the nearby Southwark Cathedral. The Doctor tries again to reason with Lazarus but is unable to stop him from transforming. Martha and Tish lure Lazarus to the top of the Cathedral's bell tower, and the Doctor manipulates the church's pipe organ to produce the maximum volume it can. The vibrations caused by the organ interfere with Lazarus's manipulated DNA and he falls to his death to the floor below, returning to his original form and age.
Martha and the Doctor return to her flat, and the Doctor invites Martha to come along for one more trip. She refuses, saying she doesn't want to travel with him as just a passenger. The Doctor agrees that she is more than that to him, and they leave together in the TARDIS. After they dematerialise, Martha's answering machine records a call from Francine warning Martha about the Doctor.
Continuity
Cultural references
Film and television
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The preview of the story in the Radio Times magazine claimed that the episode's conclusion, wherein a monster, mutated from a man, dies in a large London church, is a reference to that of the 1953 science fiction serialThe Quatermass Experiment.[3] David Tennant and Mark Gatiss appeared in the 2005 live remake of The Quatermass Experiment.
- While playing the church organ, literally pulling out all the stops, the Doctor declares "we need to turn this up to eleven." This figure of speech, which originates from the film This Is Spinal Tap, has come to mean "beyond maximum intensity".
- Martha likens the Doctor's appearance when wearing a dinner jacket to James Bond; the Doctor appears skeptical but flattered. The commentary track mentions the Doctor's loosening of his bow-tie as a "Daniel Craig moment".
- Tish refers to Catherine Zeta-Jones' marriage to Michael Douglas, comparing that situation of a big age gap to her own near-dalliance with Lazarus.
Literature
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Lazarus is a biblical character, mentioned in John 11:41-44, whom Jesus raised from the dead. When Lazarus escapes from the ambulance, the Doctor notes he should have realised Lazarus would return from the dead.
- Both the Doctor and Lazarus quote T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men. The Doctor completes Lazarus' quotation with the line, "Falls the Shadow" — which has been used as the title of a Doctor Who novel. There is also a Doctor Who novel called The Hollow Men featuring animated scarecrows. The Doctor later tells Martha that Eliot got it right in saying that it all ends "not with a bang, but a whimper". The Doctor also alludes to Eliot's reference to Lazarus in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead."
Source: www.wikipedia.org