Let’s Kill Hitler: A Cupboard, a Regeneration, and a Bill Coming Due
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.
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.
The Almost People gives the Doctor a duplicate of himself, asks whether a copy is a person, and ends on the most brutal cliffhanger of the Matt Smith era.
The Doctor’s Wife puts the TARDIS in a woman’s body and lets her talk back, and the show finally tells the love story it has been telling since 1963.
The Curse of the Black Spot strands the Doctor on a becalmed pirate ship where a singing woman in the reflections takes anyone who cuts a finger.
After the amazing, outstanding and superlative previous episode of Doctor Who – The Doctors Wife – it would be very difficult for anything that followed to measure up. Thankfully, The…
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.
A Christmas Carol turns Dickens into time travel, letting the Doctor rewrite a cruel man’s childhood while a starliner falls out of the sky above him.
The Lodger strands the Doctor in a Colchester house share with a terrible flatmate act, a football match, and something upstairs that shouldn’t exist.
Vincent and the Doctor takes Van Gogh to see his own exhibition, and then refuses to let that fix anything. The finest hour Series 5 has produced.
Amy’s Choice traps the Doctor, Amy and Rory between two realities and forces them to work out which one to die in, guided by a very nasty little man.
The Vampires of Venice drags Rory along to 1580 to save his engagement, and finds a house full of girls with fangs who turn out not to be vampires at all.
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.
The Daleks return in WWII London, serving tea to Churchill while hiding sinister motives. Matt Smith’s Doctor must uncover their true plan before history itself is rewritten.
The Eleventh Hour crash-lands Matt Smith’s new Doctor in Amelia Pond’s garden, in a debut with a few hiccups and a stellar Karen Gillan.