The
Eleventh Hour is the first full episode featuring Matt Smith as
the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as companion Amy Pond in the
new series of Doctor Who. The first episode was 65 minutes in
length instead of the usual 45 minutes.
The Doctor, without time to recover
from his recent regeneration, meets orphan girl and new companion
Amy Pond. Together they have twenty minutes to save the world from
the Atraxi, a group of galactic policemen. In trying to signal the
Atraxi ship, the Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver is destroyed.
The end of the episode also sees the first appearance of the
new TARDIS redesign.
The episode was shown
in the US on BBC America on 17 April 2010. In Australia, the
episode was aired on the ABC on 18 April 2010.
2. The
Beast Below (1 Episode)
Writers:
Steven Moffat
Director: Andrew Gunn
The Doctor takes Amy on her first
trip in the TARDIS to the distant future, where she finds Britain
in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people, as
they search the stars for a new home. But as Amy explores, she
encounters the terrifying Smilers, a masked figure, learns a
deadly truth inside the Voting Booth and uncovers a secret so
dreadful, no one can remember it. Features Liz 10 (Queen Elizabeth
the Tenth) and the Star Whale.
At the end of the episode Amy is
about to reveal to the Doctor that she is engaged to be married
when the phone in the TARDIS rings. It's the Prime Minister,
Winston Churchill, who is in a spot of bother, as the shadow of a
Dalek glides into view.
3. Victory
of the Daleks (1 Episode)
Writers: Mark
Gatiss
Director: Andrew Gunn
The Daleks are hatching a
new master plan from the heart of war-torn London in the 1940s. It's the Second World War and
Britain has developed a new weapon: metal soldiers, built like
mini tanks, designed by an ingenious professor. They're called
Ironsides, they're deadly and they're here to help. But the
Doctor knows that's all a lie. They're Daleks and they have their
own agenda. But why don't they recognise him? Why are they
subservient to Winston Churchill? And what is the purpose of the
Progenitor? This time, there might not be a happy ending.
The Doctor has been summoned by an
old friend, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of
blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him,
as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back
but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?
This is the first appearance of the
Daleks alongside the Eleventh Doctor. It also introduces
radically redesigned Daleks, appearing in five different colours.
4. The Time of Angels (Part 1 - Episode
1)
Writers:
Steven Moffat
Director: Adam Smith
It is the first episode of a
two-part story penned by Steven Moffat, featuring the return of
the Weeping Angels from the Series Three episode "Blink". Alex Kingston will reprise her role
as River Song alongside Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. Story
features River Song and a crashed spacecraft labelled Byzantium.
River Song was previously seen in "Silence in the Library/Forest
of the Dead" in Series 4 with David Tennant (10th Doctor).
The Doctor discovers a message from
Doctor River Song, engraved in Old High Gallifreyan on the side of
a ruined flight recorder from the starship Byzantium 12,000 years
in the past. With Amy Pond, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to rescue
her before the ship crashes on the planet Alfava Metraxis. River
Song hurtles back into the Doctor's life but she's not the only
familiar face returning. The Weeping Angels are back! The Doctor
is recruited by Father Octavian to track the last of the Angels,
that have escaped from the Byzantium starliner, through the
terrifying Maze of the Dead.
5. Flesh
and Stone (Part 2 - Episode 2)
Writers:
Steven Moffat
Director: Adam Smith
There's no way back, no way up and
no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor
and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a
crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's
companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly
attack.
6. Vampires in
Venice (1 Episode)
Writers: Toby
Whithouse
Director: Jonny Campbell
The episode centres on the Doctor taking Rory
and Amy to Venice in the year 1580. The city is protected by the
House of Calvierri and bodies are being found with all their fluid
drained out of them. There's something in the Canal and the
beautiful Calvierri girls cannot be seen in mirrors.
Rory joins the TARDIS crew as a companion.
7. Amy's
Choice! (1 Episode)
Writers: Simon
Nye
Director: Catherine Morshead
It's been five long years since Amy
travelled in the Tardis with her mysterious doctor and when he
shows up again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, danger
is not far behind him. Amy is faced with a heartbreaking choice
that will change here life forever. The episode features the Dream
Lord.
This episode was written by Simon
Nye, best known for creating the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
8. The
Hungary Earth (Part 1 - Episode 1)
Writers: Chris
Chibnall
Director: Ashley Way
In 2015, the most ambitious
drilling project in history is under way. Dr. Nasreen Chaudhry and
her team have reached 21 kilometres into the Earth's crust, but
something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's
nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the Doctor and Nasreen are
surprised to find an immense Silurian civilisation stretching out
for miles in the caverns below the earth.
The Silurians, a reptilian race
were last seen in 1984's Warriors of the Deep with Peter Davison
as the Doctor.
9. Cold
Blood (Part 2 - Episode 2)
Writers: Chris
Chibnall
Director: Ashley Way
The second episode of the two-part
story, features the return of the Silurians. It also marks the
departure of Rory Williams as a companion, the character being
killed at the climax of the episode.
10.
Vincent and the Doctor (1 Episode)
Writers:
Richard Curtis
Director: Johnny Campbell
Terror lurks in the cornfields of
Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond
finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a
battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has bneve been
so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?
11. The
Lodger (1 Episode)
Writers:
Gareth Roberts
Director: Catherine Morshead
The Doctor forgets to set the
TARDIS controls leaving Amy trapped inside as she ends up
travelling one week into the future, without the Doctor. This
leaves the Doctor trapped on Earth as he awaits the return of his TARDIS. While the Doctor waits, he discovers there's a house on
Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down...
To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass
himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig
Owens.
The Doctor faces his greatest
challenge yet - a flat share! People are disappearing on Aickman
Road and the Doctor must solve the mystery of a staircase that
people walk up - but never down.
12. The
Pandorica Opens (Part 1 - Episode 1)
- 50 minutes
Writers:
Steven Moffat
Director: Toby Haynes
The Doctor is dealing with a message on the oldest cliff-face in
the universe, a puzzle box opening from the inside and a love that
lasts a thousand years. He has been warned
that the Pandorica, a repository of the most dangerous threats in
the Universe, is opening. This episode features the Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon and
Sontarans feature.
A Van Gogh painting ferried across
thousands of years, communicating a disturbing prophecy to the
Doctor, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a
love that lasts a thousand years. In 102 AD England, Romans
receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge
conceals the Pandorica, a prison-box of legend. As it slowly
unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens
above. The fates are drawing close around the TARDIS – is this the
day the Doctor falls? But there is just one certainty: Silence
will fall...
The episode title refers to the
Pandorica which was first mentioned in 'The Eleventh Hour' and once again
by River Song in the fifth episode of this series, 'Flesh and
Stone'. The Doctor believes it to be merely a fairytale.
13. The
Big Bang! (Part 2 - Episode 2)
- 55 minutes
Writers:
Steven Moffat
Director: Toby Haynes
This is the last episode of series
5. The Doctor is dealing with a
message on a cliff, a mysterious box and a love story which spans
over millennia. The Doctor is gone, the TARDIS has been destroyed,
Amy Pond has been shot by Rory Williams (Auton version) and the
universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little
girl who still believes in stars.
Some interesting quotes from second
part of the two-part season finale:
After the wedding, the Doctor gives
River the Vortex Manipulator to return to her time.
The Doctor: River... who are you?
River Song: You're going to find out very soon now. And I'm
sorry, but that's when everything changes.
River Song: I have a lot of
questions, but the first one has to be; what in the name of sanity
do you have on your head?
The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now, fez's are cool.
At the end of 'The Big Bang',
aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Amy and Rory that
unanswered questions remain about the destruction of the TARDIS
and the nature of 'the Silence' that will fall, but before they
can contemplate that, the Doctor receives a telephone call
alerting him to the presence of an escaped Egyptian goddess on the
Orient Express in space. Rory and Amy decide to join him and the
three leave on their next adventure.
The next story might be on December
25, 2010 on Christmas Day.
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