The Name of the Doctor: The One Who Broke the Promise
The Doctor is dragged to his own grave on Trenzalore, Clara’s impossible existence is finally explained, and a stranger is standing at the end of his own timeline.
The Doctor is dragged to his own grave on Trenzalore, Clara’s impossible existence is finally explained, and a stranger is standing at the end of his own timeline.
The Weeping Angels farm New York for time energy, Rory finds himself dying of old age in a room upstairs, and the Ponds get the ending they choose together.
River refuses to kill the Doctor and time collapses into a single afternoon, in a finale with superb imagery, a beautiful tribute, and an escape hatch.
The Doctor spends his last free days babysitting with Craig Owens, in a warm, funny episode with a farewell running under every scene and a lazy resolution.
Let’s Kill Hitler shoves Hitler in a cupboard, regenerates Amy’s childhood friend into River Song, and explains why she can’t regenerate in the library.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 by killing the Doctor in the first fifteen minutes and introducing a monster you forget the moment you look away.
Flesh and Stone ends the Weeping Angels two-parter with a blind walk through a forest of statues and a crack in the universe that eats people whole.
Forest of the Dead explains what saved means, gives Donna a whole life she never had, and asks River Song to die for a man who has never met her.
Silence in the Library strands the Doctor on a planet-sized library where the shadows eat people, and introduces a woman who knows him far too well.