Mr. Bartle (Doctor Who Series Four)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Four Episode Four: "Planet of the Ood"

Played By: Paul Clayton


The managing director of Ood Operations on the Ood Sphere, Mr. Bartle was murdered by his personal Ood- Delta- Fifty - after the latter had contracted "red-eye."


"Planet of the Ood"

Bartle watched an advertisement made by the cooperation, commenting to his boss- Klineman Halpen- over his communicator watch that he liked the directness of the phrase "buy one (Ood) now"  and the message that the Ood are nothing more than servants that had been shipped across the stars for human use. However he gets annoyed that the price for an Ood was "50 credits", trying to argue the cutting of the price. But Halpen tells him that this cut was due to a slump in sales and that he should "get going" with sales using the new price. He hangs up and angrily calls Halpen an idiot, claiming that he was "bleeding us dry."

Ordering his Ood to get him "last month's military export figures" making a side comment that "the army always needs more grunts" as he takes a seat behind his desk. He is contacted by his Solana Mercurio- head of marketing and galactic liaisons- (who he asked to call him earlier), telling her to "pitch like never before" to compensate for the lower price during a visit from potential Ood buyers, wanting to get rid of the Ood in large numbers/

Delta-Fifty returns with the domestic file and hands it to Bartle, who demands to get the right one. However the Ood throws down the file and tells him that the "file is irrelevant." When Bartle questions why his Ood is suddenly disobeying orders, the Ood uses his translator ball as a weapon and electrocutes him, sarcastically remarking that he has a "nice day."

Halpen (who has arrived to see what is happening with the Ood) witnesses the attack on the security footage and learns that after the Ood killed Bartle he fled the complex, but not before getting shot by security.