Doctor Who: Kittens of the Motorway

The Doctor Who episode Gridlock from the third season is one of my favorite episodes.

There is this huge enclosed motorway with hover-vans and the Doctor is rescued from the fumes by Thomas Kincade Brannigan, a cat-man married to a human woman, Valerie. The cat-man in his wife have a litter of kittens--- that scene is about 3 minutes in on the video. I swear I could hear one of the kittens meowing 'Ma-ma'. Pretty good for a two-month old. (Thomas Kincade Brannigan=tomcat)

But the kittens come in all sorts of colors and coat patterns. I always thought when you get a litter of kittens like that it meant that they had different daddies. Hope Valerie wasn't running around on Brannigan with another cat....

Another point of interest--- this film clip starts with Martha Jones in the car of her kidnappers. The girl kidnapper, Cheen, is the same actress who plays the ghost girl in Being Human, the BBC series about the werewolf, vampire and ghost who share a flat. The werewolf has also been in Doctor Who in two episodes where he plays Midshipman Alonso Frame.

You can see some funny clips from Being Human at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLN0HSVjbfk&feature=channel

Anyway, in searching YouTube for a clip featuring the motorway kittens, it looked like one could view the whole Gridlock episode in clips of about 9 minutes, just thought I would pass that along for the BBC-deprived....

QUESTION: In this episode, Brannigan tells of a woman who stood in the motorway and her head grew to 50 feet. Later on, we meet the giant head Face of Boe. In a later episode, Captain Jack Harkness tells the Doctor that his nickname used to be the Face of Boe. So, is this the explanation for how Captain Jack ended up being a giant head--- he stood too long in the motorway fumes?

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