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.
Neil Gaiman rebuilds the Cybermen as something genuinely frightening, gives Matt Smith a chess game against himself, and buries both under a derelict theme park.
A model village in Victorian Yorkshire is dipping people in prehistoric venom, and Diana Rigg is having the time of her life running it.
A salvage crew drags the TARDIS aboard and the show finally explores its own ship, then undoes every consequence with a magic reset button in the last minute.
A ghost hunt in 1974 turns out to be a rescue, and the monster in the pocket universe turns out to be looking for someone. The season’s best-shot episode.
A Soviet submarine thaws an Ice Warrior out of the Arctic ice in 1983, and Doctor Who produces the tightest, tensest bottle episode it has managed in years.
Clara’s first proper trip is an alien market, a girl who must sing to keep a god asleep, and a resolution built entirely out of a life that never got lived.
People are being uploaded out of their own heads through the Wi-Fi, and the Doctor finally meets the modern Clara — the third version of a woman he has twice buried.
Matt Smith is really starting to shine now … the newest installation of Doctor Who sees The Doctor and Amy in the far future of the human race where they…