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Season Thirty-One: Fairytales First appearances of Amy, Rory and Dorium Maldavar. |
2011 Christmas Special: Home For The
Holidays First appearance of Madge. |
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2010-11
Specials: In The Deep Midwinter |
Season Thirty-Three Information forthcoming. |
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Thirty-Two: Death Comes To Time First appearances of the Silents and Madame Kovarian. |
2013 Special Information forthcoming. |
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Matt Smith has played the Doctor since The End Of Time in January 2010. He also appeared in Death Of The Doctor, part of The Sarah Jane Adventures. |
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Amy Pond met the newly-regenerated Doctor when she was seven years old; he later returned to save the adult Amy from the insidious Prisoner Zero. Amy was played Karen Gillan from The Eleventh Hour in April 2010 to The Angels Take Manhattan in September 2012. |
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Rory Williams was Amy Pond's fiance and later husband. He helped the Doctor and Amy defeat Prisoner Zero and later accepted the Doctor's invitation to join them aboard the TARDIS. Arthur Darvill played Rory regularly from The Eleventh Hour in April 2010 to The Angels Take Manhattan in September 2012. |
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| The Production Team |
| A new era for Doctor Who dawned as Russell T Davies, the man who had brought the programme back from oblivion, departed after six years. He was replaced as executive producer and showrunner by Steven Moffat. Executive producer Julie Gardner also chose to move on; her replacement as Head of Drama at BBC Wales, Piers Wenger, similarly took over her role on Doctor Who. In addition, Wenger brought Beth Willis aboard as the programme's third executive producer. Tracie Simpson remained as producer, alternating in those duties with former first assistant director Peter Bennett. In addition, Patrick Schweitzer -- normally the show's line producer -- shared Simpson's producer credit on The Vampires Of Venice and Vincent And The Doctor, which were filmed in Croatia. |
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The Eleventh Hour by Steven Moffat,
directed by Adam Smith
In the English village of Leadworth, a young Scottish girl named Amelia
Pond is frightened by a strange crack in her bedroom wall. When the
newly-regenerated Doctor crashlands in her back garden, he discovers
that the crack is actually a fracture in space and time, through which
an alien criminal has escaped. Before the Doctor can recapture Prisoner
Zero, he's forced to leave to stabilise the TARDIS, and accidentally
delays his return by twelve years. Now, with the help of the grown-up
Amy, the Doctor has to deal not only with Prisoner Zero, but with its
ruthless jailers as well.
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The Beast Below by Steven Moffat,
directed by Andrew Gunn
Hundreds of years in the future, the population of Britain has fled an
Earth ravaged by solar flares, aboard the mammoth Starship UK.
But the Doctor and Amy discover that something about the enormous vessel
is very wrong. The ship moves even though its engines aren't working,
whole sections are closed off under mysterious circumstances, and the
sinister robotic Smilers punish the disobedient. The Doctor finds
himself assisted by an enigmatic female vigilante, while Amy learns the
truth at the heart of Starship UK... but it's a truth that she
can't bear to remember.
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Victory Of The Daleks by Mark
Gatiss, directed by Andrew Gunn
Prime Minister Winston Churchill summons the Doctor and Amy to
Blitz-torn London. The British forces are at their lowest ebb, but a
scientist named Bracewell has come to Churchill with an amazing
invention: powerful miniature tanks he calls “Ironsides”.
The Doctor, however, recognises the Ironsides for what they really are:
the Daleks. With a Nazi bombing run closing in, and Churchill convinced
of the Ironsides' benevolence, the Doctor must learn Bracewell's secret
and uncover the Daleks' plans.
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The Time Of Angels / Flesh And
Stone by Steven Moffat, directed by Adam Smith
A message left on a museum artefact brings the Doctor to the rescue of
River Song, at a point in time before his first encounter with her, but
after her first meeting with him. River is helping the militant Father
Octavian investigate the Byzantium, a spaceship smuggling a
dormant Weeping Angel. By the time the Doctor, Amy and River catch up to
the vessel, however, it has crashlanded atop a ruined temple, and to
reach it, they must traverse a mortuary labyrinth filled with crumbling
statues. Too late, the Doctor realises that the Weeping Angel is not
alone -- and that he has walked into a trap.
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The Vampires Of Venice by Toby
Whithouse, directed by Jonny Campbell
The Doctor escorts Amy and Rory on a date to sixteenth-century Venice.
No sooner have they arrived, however, than they become embroiled in the
mystery surrounding an enigmatic school for young women run by the
powerful Rosanna Calvierri. Those accepted to the school become
mysteriously changed, shunning the daylight and professing not to know
their former acquaintances. The Doctor begins to suspect that there are
vampires on the loose in Venice -- but could the truth be even more
sinister?
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Amy's Choice by Simon Nye, directed
by Catherine Morshead
The Doctor, Amy and Rory are confronted by a cryptic figure who calls
himself the Dream Lord. The Dream Lord has caused the three time
travellers to flit back and forth between two different realities -- one
in which they're stranded aboard a crippled TARDIS, the other in which
Amy and Rory have settled down in Leadworth and are about to become
parents. In both cases, the trio face a mortal danger... but they first
have to deduce which is the true reality, or risk becoming trapped in
the dream for the rest of their lives.
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The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood by
Chris Chibnall, directed by Ashley Way
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to the tiny Welsh village of
Cwmtaff in the year 2020. There, a drilling project seeks to burrow deep
beneath the surface of the Earth. Strange craters have begun opening up
near the drill site, however, dragging people into the ground -- and Amy
becomes the latest victim. Investigating, the Doctor realises that the
drill has awakened a tribe of Silurians from their aeons-long slumber.
Believing themselves to be under attack, the Silurians are now on a war
footing, preparing an offensive against the human race.
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Vincent And The Doctor by Richard
Curtis, directed by Jonny Campbell
At an exhibition of the works of Vincent Van Gogh, the Doctor and Amy
discover a disturbing image hidden in one of his paintings. Travelling
back to Provence in 1890, they discover that Van Gogh is plagued by a
ferocious monster called the Krafayis that only he can see. As the time
travellers struggle to deal with an invisible monster, they must also
navigate the tortured artist's swings of mood, knowing full well that,
within two months, he will have taken his own life.
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The Lodger by Gareth Roberts,
directed by Catherine Morshead
A strange force affects the TARDIS, stranding the Doctor on modern-day
Earth while Amy is trapped in the rapidly deteriorating time machine.
The Doctor traces the mysterious influence to a seemingly ordinary home
in Colchester, where the mysterious occupant of the top-floor apartment
lures people up the stairs, never to be seen again. Fortunately, the
downstairs tenant, Craig Owens, is advertising for a roommate. The
Doctor answers Craig's ad -- and proceeds to turn the young man's life
upside-down.
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The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
by Steven Moffat, directed by Toby Haynes
A message transmitted down through history draws the Doctor and Amy to
England in AD 102. There they find River Song waiting for them, with a
warning that a legendary prison called the Pandorica, hidden beneath
Stonehenge, is about to open. But the Pandorica is actually a trap set
for the Doctor by a legion of his oldest enemies. And meanwhile, a
mysterious force has seized control of the TARDIS, setting in motion an
explosion which threatens to destroy the entire universe. With the
Doctor imprisoned in the Pandorica for eternity, will silence fall
across all time and space?
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| Making History |
| 2010 saw almost everything about Doctor Who change. A new production team was in place behind the cameras, a new regular cast appeared on television screens, and even elements such as the logo, the TARDIS console room and the police box shell itself were revamped. Nonetheless, Doctor Who retained much of its popularity, even as Moffat pushed the programme in new directions with a storyline stretching beyond the confines of a single season. |
| 2010-11 Specials: In The Deep Midwinter |
| The Production Team |
| Tracie Simpson and Peter Bennett left Doctor Who after Season Thirty-One, to be replaced with caretaker producer Sanne Wohlenberg. The Comic Relief special, meanwhile, was produced by Annabella Hurst-Brown. |
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A Christmas Carol by Steven Moffat,
directed by Toby Haynes
Amy and Rory's Christmas honeymoon is interrupted when the spaceship on
which they're vacationing suddenly plummets through a maelstrom of fog
to the planet below. Miserly Kazran Sardick possesses a machine that can
control the fog and save the vessel, but he refuses to comes to its aid.
Determined to rescue not only his friends but all four thousand people
aboard the ship, the Doctor travels back in time on a mission to change
Kazran's life for the better... but only if he can navigate the shoals
of bitterness and heartbreak which have made Kazran the man he is
today.
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Space / Time by Steven
Moffat, directed by Richard Senior
Amy distracts Rory while he's helping the Doctor repair the TARDIS,
causing the time machine to materialise inside itself. Time and space
start to behave in mysterious ways, and the three travellers realise
that they may be trapped within the ship for all eternity.
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On March 18th, 2010, at the press screening to launch the new season, Piers Wenger confirmed that the tradition of the Doctor Who Christmas special would continue into the era of the Eleventh Doctor. Doctor Who also resumed its strong connection with the BBC's charity telethons. This time, a special two-part mini-adventure would air during the Comic Relief appeal on March 18th, 2011 -- offering the dual appeal of raising funds for a worthy cause and starting the countdown towards the new season... |
| Season Thirty-Two: Death Comes To Time |
| The Production Team |
| Sanne Wohlenberg remained with Doctor Who for just the first production block of Season Thirty-Two (consisting of The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors). Marcus Wilson then took over the reins of the programme on an ongoing basis. |
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The Impossible Astronaut / Day Of
The Moon by Steven Moffat, directed by Toby Haynes
The Doctor summons Amy, Rory and River Song to the Utah desert... where
he is murdered by an astronaut who rises from a lake. It soon becomes
clear that this is a future Doctor, whose final message directs them to
travel back to 1969 with a younger version of the Doctor. There they
meet ex-FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware the Third and President
Richard Nixon, who is being haunted by phone calls from a mysterious
child, warning of an alien invasion. But the aliens are already on
Earth, unable to be captured by human memory -- and even the Doctor's
companions are not immune.
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The Curse Of The Black Spot by
Steve Thompson, directed by Jeremy Webb
The Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves aboard a pirate ship in the
17th century. The ship has been becalmed for days, marooned in waters
that seem to be haunted by a Siren -- a beautiful but demonic woman who
comes for those who are sick or injured. She sings a mournful, unearthly
melody, and her arrival is presaged by the appearance on the victim's
skin of a livid black spot. When Rory is cut, he is marked as the
Siren's next victim, and it's up to the Doctor and the reluctant Captain
Avery to unearth the creature's true nature.
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The Doctor's Wife by Neil Gaiman,
directed by Richard Clark
The Doctor receives a distress call from an old Time Lord friend,
summoning him to a place beyond the universe. Clinging to the hope that
there may still be Time Lord survivors, the Doctor pilots the TARDIS
through a rift, only to find the time machine suddenly lifeless. Landing
on a sentient planetoid called House, the Doctor discovers that he has
been lured into a trap. But as House tries to devour the TARDIS -- and
Amy and Rory along with it -- the Doctor finds an ally in Idris, a woman
with whom he shares a deep, personal and unexpected connection.
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The Rebel Flesh / The Almost
People by Matthew Graham, directed by Julian Simpson
A solar storm forces the TARDIS to land on a tiny island on 22nd century
Earth. There, a factory pumps out acid so corrosive that disposable,
artificial humans are created to do all the work, taking the form of the
real employees who control their doppelgangers remotely. These
“Gangers” have all the memories of the real humans, but
lose their sentience once the connection is broken... until the solar
storm causes the Gangers to stabilise. Now the Doctor finds himself
desperately trying to stop war from breaking out between the humans and
their Ganger selves.
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A Good Man Goes To War by Steven
Moffat, directed by Peter Hoar
Months ago, a newly-pregnant Amy was kidnapped by the Headless Monks and
their agent, the ruthless Madame Kovarian. Now she has given birth to
her daughter, Melody, who is to be taken away so that she can be used as
a weapon against the Doctor. But the Doctor and Rory have called in
favours and gathered a strike force to rescue Amy and Melody. Only River
Song refuses to heed the Doctor's summons. She knows that this is the
day of the Doctor's greatest victory, and his greatest defeat... and the
day that he will finally learn who she is.
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Let's Kill Hitler by Steven
Moffat, directed by Richard Senior
The Doctor returns to Leadworth to update Amy and Rory on his search for
their daughter, Melody, only to have the TARDIS hijacked to 1938 Berlin
by Amy's friend Mels. But Mels is really a future version of Melody,
regenerated and brainwashed by the Silence into making an attempt on the
Doctor's life. And even as the Doctor hovers on the brink of death, a
new threat appears: a shapeshifting Justice Vehicle, sent back in time
and tasked with prosecuting Melody Pond for her ultimate crime: the
murder of the Doctor.
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Night Terrors by Mark Gatiss,
directed by Richard Clark
The Doctor receives a plea via the psychic paper from a little boy on
Earth: “Please save me from the monsters.” He, Amy and Rory
follow the distress call and meet Alex, who explains that his son George
is seemingly afraid of everything -- especially the cupboard in his
bedroom. The Doctor tries to help, but quickly realises that there
really is something strange lurking in George's cupboard. And this
mysterious force has already trapped his companions in a macabre
dollhouse, stalked by sinister toys who seek to make Amy and Rory become
like them.
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The Girl Who Waited by Tom MacRae,
directed by Nick Hurran
The TARDIS lands on a planet ravaged by a plague which is fatal to
beings with two hearts. With the Doctor consigned to the Ship, his
companions become separated across two time streams. Rory's stream moves
at a fraction of the pace of Amy's, because it's intended to allow loved
ones to watch a plague victim's whole life pass by. And when the Doctor
synchronises the streams, Rory finds himself confronted by an Amy who
has waited thirty-six years for rescue. As the Doctor tries desperately
to put things right, Rory must deal with an embittered Amy who may no
longer want to be saved.
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The God Complex by Toby Whithouse,
directed by Nick Hurran
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to what appears to be a hotel
on Earth in the 1980s. But the rooms and corridors in this hotel move
about, and the doors and windows open onto walls. Soon they encounter a
small band of human and alien survivors, and learn that somewhere in the
hotel is a room containing each person's darkest fear. Once they find
it, they will inevitably begin to worship a mysterious entity which
stalks the hotel, killing those who praise it. One by one, the hotel
claims its victims... and even Amy cannot resist its lure.
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Closing Time by Gareth Roberts,
directed by Steve Hughes
Having left Amy and Rory behind for their own safety as he prepares for
the end of his life, the Doctor pays a visit to Craig Owens. Craig is
now a father, struggling to bring up baby Alfie, and barely aware of the
strange events going on around him. People are going missing,
unexplained electrical surges plague the neighbourhood, and a mysterious
silver rat stalks the local shopping mall. Almost despite himself, Craig
helps the Doctor uncover the Cybermen and their Cybermats at work. But
is this an invasion, or something else?
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The Wedding Of River Song by Steven
Moffat, directed by Jeremy Webb
The Doctor is destined to die at Lake Silencio, Utah, at 5.02pm on the
22nd of April, 2011. However, River Song refuses to let history play out
as it was intended, and inadvertently fractures time in the process. The
Doctor now finds himself on an Earth where all history is happening
simultaneously, and only a special few -- including Amy and River --
remember time as it was meant to be. But even as the Silence spring
their final trap, the Doctor knows that to stop time from
disintegrating, he must still die on the shores of Lake Silencio...
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| Making History |
| Season Thirty-Two saw a wholesale change to the Doctor Who broadcast schedule, with transmission being split into two halves to avoid the summer months, when ratings traditionally dropped due to the sunny weather. This was not novel for Doctor Who: in the past, some seasons had taken an extended hiatus during the Christmas period. But the length of the break -- eleven weeks -- was unprecedented, as was the fact that the gap was integrated into the storyline, with A Good Man Goes To War ending on a major cliffhanger. |
| 2011 Christmas Special: Home For The Holidays |
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| The Production Team |
| Beth Willis left Doctor Who after two seasons, and was succeeded in the role of executive producer by Caroline Skinner. |
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The Doctor, The Widow And The
Wardrobe by Steven Moffat, directed by Farren Blackburn
Just days before Christmas during World War II, Madge Arwell's airman
husband is lost over the English Channel. Dreading to tell the truth to
her children, Lily and Cyril, Madge takes them out of London to a old
mansion house owned by a distant relative. The caretaker of the estate
turns out to be the Doctor, whom Madge rescued from a crisis years
earlier. His plan is to ease Madge's heartbreak by giving Lily and Cyril
the merriest Christmas ever. But when he opens a portal to a wintry
alien wonderland in the far future, the Doctor inadvertently places all
of them in terrible danger.
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| Making History |
| At the Edinburgh International Television Festival on August 28th, 2010, executive producer Steven Moffat confirmed that there would be a 2011 Christmas special. |
| Season Thirty-Three |
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Twice, the Doctor met Clara Oswald -- once in the far future, once in the distant past -- and both times, he watched her die. He met her again in modern-day London, but the mystery of Clara's many lives remains unsolved. Clara has been played by Jenna-Louise Coleman since The Snowmen in December 2012. She also portrayed Oswin Oswald in Asylum Of The Daleks in September 2012. |
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Asylum Of The Daleks by Steven
Moffat, directed by Nick Hurran
Their relationship in tatters, Amy and Rory suddenly find themselves
kidnapped by the Daleks and reunited with the Doctor. They have been
brought together by the Emperor Dalek, who requires them to infiltrate a
prison planet called the Asylum which houses the insane outcasts of the
Dalek race. A spaceship has crashed there, offering a means of escape
for the million of inmates. To complicate matters further, there was one
survivor of the accident: a brilliant computer hacker named Oswin, for
whom the Doctor may be the only salvation from a world of crazed Daleks.
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Dinosaurs On A Spaceship by Chris
Chibnall, directed by Saul Metzstein
In 2367, Earth's security forces are on high alert as an unidentified
spaceship hurtles towards the planet. The Doctor assembles a team to
investigate, including the legendary Queen Nefertiti, a big game
hunter named Riddell, Amy, Rory... and, inadvertently, Rory's father
Brian. Materialising aboard the mystery ship, they're surprised to find
it populated by dinosaurs. With time running out before the ship is
blasted out of the sky, the Doctor must confront a vicious criminal
named Solomon, as the lives of his companions and the dinosaurs hang in
the balance.
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A Town Called Mercy by Toby
Whithouse, directed by Saul Metzstein
The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Mercy, a frontier town in the Old
West being terrorised by a murderous cyborg. The cyborg is searching for
Kahler-Jex, an alien surgeon who took refuge in Mercy after his
spaceship crashed in the desert nearby. The townsfolk -- led by their
marshal, Isaac -- are determined to safeguard Kahler-Jex, but supplies
and morale are beginning to run low. And, as the Doctor uncovers the
sordid history between Kahler-Jex and the cyborg, he begins to realise
that, sometimes, the line between victim and monster is very blurry
indeed.
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The Power Of Three by Chris
Chibnall, directed by Douglas Mackinnon
Amy and Rory awake one morning to find that the entire planet Earth is
overrun with little black cubes. The Doctor is already investigating,
suspecting an alien invasion, but the cubes are featureless and inert.
Even the assistance of Rory's father, Brian, and UNIT's Kate Stewart --
the daughter of the Doctor's old friend, the Brigadier -- brings the
Time Lord no closer to solving the mystery. And as the Doctor's stay
stretches into weeks and then months, Amy and Rory are forced to
confront their own future as adventurers in time and space.
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The Angels Take Manhattan by Steven
Moffat, directed by Nick Hurran
A restful stop for the TARDIS crew in modern-day Central Park becomes a
crisis when the Weeping Angels send Rory back to 1938. A pulp detective
novel suddenly begins narrating Rory's fate, providing the clues that
the Doctor and Amy need to come to the rescue. Reunited with River Song,
they discover that the Angels have overrun New York City and are using
it as an incubator for temporal energy, with Rory caught in the centre
of the trap. Only a paradox will defeat them, but to create one, the
Doctor may find himself separated from Amy and Rory forever...
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The Great Detective by Steven
Moffat, directed by Saul Metzstein
London in 1892 is protected by three mysterious detectives: the Silurian
Madame Vastra -- the so-called “Lizard Woman of Paternoster
Road” -- as well as her wife Jenny and the dimwitted Sontaran
Strax. It is also home to a fourth enigma: the former traveller in time
and space known as the Doctor. But, unlike Vastra, Jenny and Strax, the
Doctor is no longer interested in defending the Earth...
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The Snowmen by Steven Moffat,
directed by Saul Metzstein
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of old
allies such as Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax, he is determined to keep
out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled
upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of
her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr Simeon, who controls monsters
made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the
spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek
asylum...
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The Bells Of Saint John by Steven
Moffat, directed by Colm McCarthy
All over the world, people are being found dead, slumped next to their
computers. What no one realises is that the victims' minds are being
harvested, uploaded through an insidious new wi-fi network run by Miss
Kizlet on behalf of a mysterious client. Using mobile robotic servers
called Spoonheads, Miss Kizlet's reach extends virtually everywhere --
and to almost everyone. Her latest victim is a young nanny named Clara
Oswald. But, fortunately, Clara is the same woman the Doctor has already
seen die twice... and he's determined not to lose her a third time.
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The Rings Of Akhaten by Neil Cross,
directed by Farren Blackburn
The Doctor takes Clara to the Rings of Akhaten, a stunning asteroid belt
which is the gathering place for the people of many worlds. All of them
harbour a belief in a godlike being who must be appeased with song and
story. Central to these rites is the Queen of Years, a role currently
filled by a frightened young girl named Merry whom Clara befriends. But
when the Queen of Years' ceremony goes wrong, the Doctor's intervention
reawakens an ancient power -- forcing both time travellers to risk the
things they treasure most.
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Cold War by Mark Gatiss, directed
by Douglas Mackinnon
The year is 1983, in the midst of the Cold War between the United States
and the Soviet Union. The TARDIS materialises aboard a Russian submarine
carrying Professor Grisenko, who is returning to Moscow with a creature
he has discovered entombed in a block of ice. Against Grisenko's wishes,
however, the creature is freed... and turns out to be Grand Marshal
Skaldak, an Ice Warrior who has lain frozen for five thousand years.
When the Russians react with fear and hostility, Skaldak declares war on
the human race -- and the Doctor must stop him from taking control of
the sub's nuclear arsenal.
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Hide by Neil Cross, directed by
Jamie Payne
The Doctor and Clara travel to Caliburn House in 1974. The owner of the
estate, Alec Palmer, is investigating the Witch of the Well, a ghost
which has stalked the halls of Caliburn House for centuries -- and whose
legend dates back to before the mansion was even constructed. To assist
him, he has recruited an empathic telepath named Emma Grayling, who can
sense the ghost's immense loneliness. The Doctor discovers that the
Witch of the Well is a mystery which transcends time and space -- and
that the ghost is not the only thing haunting Caliburn House.
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Journey To The Centre Of The
TARDIS by Stephen Thompson, directed by Mat King
Aware that Clara is uncomfortable around the TARDIS, the Doctor sets the
Ship into a low-power mode to help Clara get accustomed to her new home.
However, this inadvertently leaves the TARDIS vulnerable to an
intergalactic salvage vessel, whose attempts to seize the time machine
critically damage the interior. With time and space running amok inside
the TARDIS, the Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with the
salvage team in order to rescue Clara, and keep the vessel's engine from
exploding.
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The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss,
directed by Saul Metzstein
In 1893 Yorkshire, Mrs Winifred Gillyflower and her disfigured daughter
warn of the impending doomsday, and recruit followers for a community
they have established called Sweetville. But something strange is afoot
in Sweetville: no one who moves there ever returns, and corpses have
been found floating downriver, their skin turned a hideous red. With the
body count rising, Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax are asked to
investigate Sweetville. But they soon discover that the latest victim of
the so-called “Crimson Horror” is none other than the
Doctor himself.
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Nightmare In Silver by Neil Gaiman,
directed by Stephen Woolfenden
When she isn't travelling in the TARDIS, Clara is a nanny to Angie and
Artie. And when her two charges figure out that Clara has become a time
traveller, the Doctor agrees to take them on a trip to the future to
visit Hedgewick's World of Wonders. Unfortunately, when the TARDIS
lands, they discover that the legendary theme park has been all but
abandoned. Lurking in the shadows are the universe's last Cybermen, who
see the Doctor as the final hope for the survival of the Cyber race.
Soon, the Time Lord finds himself duelling with the Cyber Planner for
control of his very mind.
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The Name Of The Doctor by Steven
Moffat, directed by Saul Metzstein
The Great Intelligence kidnaps Vastra, Jenny and Strax in order to lure
the Doctor to Trenzalore -- the planet which, at some point in his
future, will become his last resting place. There, the Doctor's timeline
is laid bare, enabling the Intelligence to travel back and undo every
good deed and heroic act the Doctor has ever accomplished. Soon, Jenny
is dead and Vastra is menaced by a newly warlike Strax. It falls to
Clara to sacrifice herself in order to restore her friend, save the
universe... and uncover the Doctor's darkest secret.
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On June 7th, 2011, the BBC confirmed that there would be a thirty-third season of Doctor Who in 2012. This will consist of fourteen episodes: six (including the Christmas special) aired in the fall of 2012, followed by the remaining eight in the spring of 2013. It has also been suggested that this will form part of a “special run” leading into Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary in November 2013, and Moffat has confirmed that there will be further episodes in 2013 beyond the end of Season Thirty-Three. In addition, the season was bolstered by a “mini-sode” entitled The Great Detective which aired during the 2012 Children In Need appeal, and served as a prologue to The Snowmen. On July 24th, 2011 Karen Gillan confirmed that she will be returning to play Amy Pond for Season Thirty-Three. However, at the press screening for The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe on December 15th, Steven Moffat revealed that both Amy and Rory would be leaving Doctor Who during Season Thirty-Three. It was subsequently announced that their final story would be The Angels Take Manhattan, the last autumn episode before the Christmas special. On March 21st, 2012, it was confirmed that the new companion would be played by Jenna-Louise Coleman, a former regular on Emmerdale and Waterloo Road. She had a small role in the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger, and in 2012 was seen in the mini-series Titanic. The new introduction of the new companion was advertised for the Christmas special, The Snowmen. Kept secret until the season's debut was the fact that Coleman also appeared in the premiere, Asylum Of The Daleks, although the connection between the character she played in that story and the new companion has yet to be revealed. Season Thirty-Three began filming on February 20th, 2012. The first production block featured location work in Almeria, Spain for A Town Called Mercy (plus a small amount for Asylum Of The Daleks), while The Angels Take Manhattan boasted filming in New York. In addition to Steven Moffat (Asylum Of The Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The Bells Of Saint John, The Name Of The Doctor), writers for the season include:
Directors for Season Thirty-Three include:
Returning characters include the Daleks in Asylum Of The Daleks, the Weeping Angels in The Angels Take Manhattan, River Song (in The Angels Take Manhattan and The Name Of The Doctor), the Cybermen (in Nightmare In Silver), and the team of Vastra, Jenny and Strax (in The Great Detective, The Snowmen and other episodes). In addition, Cold War will feature the first appearance by the Ice Warriors in twenty-first-century Doctor Who. Moffat has noted that, whereas Season Thirty-Two was strongly linked by the running story arc, Season Thirty-Three will be much more standalone in nature -- although there will still be a build towards the season finale. |
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Episode 108 by Steven Moffat,
directed by Nick Hurran
Synopsis forthcoming
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With Doctor Who reaching its fiftieth anniversary on November 23rd, 2013, the centrepiece of the BBC's celebrations will be a special episode, likely to air on the anniversary itself. The special will be filmed in 3-D, and will also be screened in movie theatres. On March 30th, 2013, the BBC confirmed that Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman would be joined by David Tennant and Billie Piper. While they will presumably be reprising their roles as the Doctor and Rose Tyler, it is unknown whether their characters will emanate from some point in the Tenth Doctor's timestream, or whether they will instead play the half-human Doctor and Rose who were last seen in a parallel universe. The special will be written by executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran (The Girl Who Waited, The God Complex, Asylum Of The Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan). On March 13th, 2013, it was announced that executive producer Caroline Skinner was leaving Doctor Who with the completion of Season Thirty-Three, to join BBC Drama Production in London. She will be replaced on an interim basis by Faith Penhale, BBC Wales Head of Drama. Following the broadcast of the Season Thirty-Three finale, The Name Of The Doctor, on May 18th, the BBC confirmed that the fiftieth-anniversary special would be followed by a Christmas special, and then Season Thirty-Four in 2014. Steven Moffat had earlier presaged this announcement by revealing that he was already working on the new season. The same day, Matt Smith indicated that he will return for Season Thirty-Four, and that production would begin in late 2013 or early 2014. |
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