1. To start at the very beginning, “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” is the sole episode of
Doctor Who since the 2005 relaunch not to feature any form of opening credits whatsoever. It’s also the only episode of
Doctor Who to feature the title music in the soundtrack of the episode (when the Doctor leaps up after crashing through the train roof).
2. The title of the episode works on three levels. It’s a play on the 1963 novel
The Man Who Fell to Earth by
Walter Tevis, which was made into a movie starring
David Bowie in 1976; it’s a reference to the Doctor’s first entrance after being unceremoniously thrown out of the TARDIS (in “Twice Upon a Time”), and it’s the story of how Ryan Sinclair (