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Doctor Who series 7
Series 7
No. of episodes15
Release
Original networkBBC One
BBC HD
Original releaseSeptember 2012 –
Spring 2013
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The upcoming seventh series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who will be broadcast on BBC One from autumn 2012 to early 2013, following the 2011 Christmas Special "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe", which was broadcast on 25 December 2011. There will be six episodes broadcast in 2012, including the 2012 Christmas Special; the remaining eight episodes will air in 2013.

This is the third series to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. In the first five episodes he will be joined by his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and her husband Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill); the fifth episode will feature their permanent departure from the programme. In the 2012 Christmas Special a new companion will be introduced, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman and reportedly called Clara.[3]

List of episodes

See also: List of Doctor Who serials
Story No. Episode Title Directed by[4][5] Written by[4][5] UK viewers[6]
(million) 		AI Original air date Production
code
224—"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"Farren BlackburnSteven Moffat10.7784[7]25 December 2011 (2011-12-25)—
The Doctor crashlands on Earth in 1938. He is helped back to the TARDIS by Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner), and promises to repay her for her kindness. Three years later, Madge's husband Reg (Alexander Armstrong) has disappeared while piloting a Avro Lancaster bomber in the Second World War, but as it is so close to Christmas she keeps it a secret from her two children, Lily (Holly Earl) and Cyril (Maurice Cole). The three evacuate London to stay at a house in Dorset, of which the Doctor masquerades as the caretaker. Cyril is lured through a large glowing present beneath the tree, which is in fact a portal to a winter planet the Doctor had planned to take the family to. Looking for Cyril, the Doctor and Lily and later Madge enter the box; Madge encounters miners, who plan to harvest the trees on the planet by melting them with acid rain. Meanwhile, Lily and the Doctor have followed Cyril's tracks to a tower where humanoid wooden creatures are trying to put a crown on Cyril, which will allow the souls of the trees to escape. When Madge arrives she is deemed "strong" enough to pilot the top of the tower to safety. When they land, Reg is alive as he had followed the light from the tower and landed safely. The Doctor turns down Christmas dinner with the family and instead visits his former companions and in-laws Amy and Rory, two years after he last saw them.
2251"Asylum of the Daleks"[9][10]Nick HurranSteven MoffatTBATBASeptember 2012 (2012-09)[11]3.1

This episode will feature "every kind of Dalek" seen so far from every era of the show. Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission – to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter… the Asylum. A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage. Steven Moffat has stated that they are 'the most reliably defeat-able aliens in Doctor Who' and that hopefully this episode shall make them scary again.

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2262"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"[13]Saul MetzsteinChris ChibnallTBATBATBA3.2
The Doctor lands on a spaceship that contains dinosaurs and is accompanied by Amy, Rory, Rory's father Brian (Mark Williams), Queen Nefertiti (Riann Steele), and an Edwardian explorer (Rupert Graves).[12]
2273"A Town Called Mercy"[13]Saul MetzsteinToby WhithouseTBATBATBA3.3
This episode will take place in the Wild West.[14]
2284"The Power of Three"[15][16]Douglas MackinnonChris ChibnallTBATBATBA3.4
This episode will feature the return of UNIT.[1]
2295"The Angels Take Manhattan"[19][20]Nick HurranSteven MoffatTBATBATBA3.5
Amy and Rory's final episode will take place in New York[17] and feature the Weeping Angels.[18]
2306"Episode 6" (Christmas Special)Saul MetzsteinSteven MoffatTBATBAChristmas 20123.6
This episode will introduce the new companion played by Jenna-Louise Coleman,[21] who will be joined by Tom Ward and Richard E Grant.[22]
2317"Episode 7"TBDSteven MoffatTBATBAEarly 20133.7
2328"Episode 8"TBATBATBATBATBA3.8
2339"Episode 9"Douglas MackinnonMark GatissTBATBATBA3.9
23410"Episode 10"Jamie PayneNeil CrossTBATBATBA3.10
23511"Episode 11"Saul MetzsteinMark GatissTBATBATBA3.11
23612"Episode 12"TBATBATBATBATBA3.12
23713"Episode 13"TBATBATBATBATBA3.13
23814"Episode 14"TBASteven MoffatTBATBATBA3.14

Supplemental episodes

Title Written by Original air date Production
code
"Good as Gold"Children of Ashdene School24 May 2012 (2012-05-24)—
Amy reminds the Doctor he needs to have an adventure once in a while, the Doctor complies and sets the TARDIS to its "adventure setting". After a series of malfunctions, the ship lands in the middle of the London 2012 Olympic Games, where they are visited by a panicked Olympic runner, who claims he is being chased. His pursuer is revealed as a Weeping Angel, who is seeking to seize the Olympic Flame and rob the planet of the good will and spirit it symbolises. The Doctor vanquishes the Angel with the sonic screwdriver, and the runner resumes his mission. Before he leaves, he gives the Doctor his gold medal. As the Doctor prepares to embark on another adventure with Amy, the Weeping Angel begins to reform.

Casting

The seventh series will be the third starring Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor. Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, who portray Amy Pond and Rory Williams respectively, will depart the programme in the fifth episode.[17] The circumstances in which the pair leave was a mutual decision from Gillan and showrunner Steven Moffat.[23] The actress previously stated that she did not want to make return cameos to the show.[24]

On 21 March 2012, it was announced that Jenna-Louise Coleman would replace Gillan and Darvill as the next companion.[21] She auditioned for the role in secrecy, pretending it was for something called Men on Waves, an anagram for "Woman Seven".[25] Moffat chose her for the role because she worked the best alongside Smith and could talk faster than him.[26] He stated that her character will be different from previous companions,[27] though he is attempting to keep the details of her character a secret until she debuts in the Christmas special.[28]

Guest stars include David Gyasi, Rupert Graves, David Bradley, Riann Steele as Queen Nefertiti in Episode 2, Ben Browder, Adrian Scarborough, Garrick Hagon, Steven Berkoff, Ruthie Henshall, Jemma Redgrave, Michael McShane. Dougray Scott, Jessica Raine, David Warner, Liam Cunningham[29] cast in episode 12, and Rachael Stirling and her mother Dame Diana Rigg in episode 10.[4] Mark Williams will appear in the second and fourth episodes as Rory's father.[4][30] Alex Kingston will return to the series as her character River Song for Amy and Rory's final episode.[31] Richard E. Grant and Tom Ward have been cast in the 2012 Christmas special.[22]

Production

Matt Smith during filming of the fifth episode in Central Park, New York.

The BBC commissioned the fourteen-episode seventh series on 8 June 2011.[32] "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" was executive produced by Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger and Caroline Skinner.[33] Beth Willis left the BBC and stepped down as executive producer after series 6[34] and Wenger also departed following the Christmas special, leaving Moffat and Skinner as executive producers for series 7.[35] Production of Doctor Who relocated to the new Roath Lock studios in Cardiff midway through production of the series on 12 March 2012;[36][37] the first episode to be filmed there is the Christmas special in Block Four, with the debut of Coleman's character;[30] however it was reported that a later episode written by Neil Cross was the first Coleman filmed.[27][38] Moffat has stated that the introduction of the new companion will "[reboot] the show a little bit" and "make you look at the Doctor differently".[27]

Moffat has stated that the seventh series will be the opposite of the arc-driven nature of the sixth, consisting of mainly stand-alone stories. This was inspired by fan reactions to the title of "Let's Kill Hitler" when it was revealed at the end of "A Good Man Goes to War" with no plot details; he told the writers of the seventh series to "slut it up" with "big, huge, mad ideas" and "write it like a movie poster".[39] Toby Whithouse, writer of the Wild West-themed third episode, stated that each episode would have more of a specific genre, and his was developed from a one-line pitch from Moffat.[40] The stand-alone nature will mean that there are no two-part episodes or series-long story arcs.[41] According to Dan Martin of The Guardian, Moffat stated that the goal of the series is "compressed storytelling"; Martin remarked that "Asylum of the Daleks" told more than some of the four-parters in the classic series.[41] In keeping with the blockbuster theme, the title sequence will feature a different look to the titles and logo in the title sequence to reflect the concept of the episode.[42] The Time Vortex in the title sequence has also been tinted blue and green.[43]

The seventh series began shooting on 20 February 2012.[44] Episodes 2 and 3 were the first to enter production, directed by Saul Metzstein.[45] Much of the Wild West episode was filmed in March 2012 in Almería, Spain, a town which contains Wild-West style streets that have been used in the making of many Western-set films. Filming the episode in Spain was cheaper than constructing a set in the UK.[46][14] The fifth episode, Amy and Rory's last, was filmed in Central Park in New York City in April 2012,[47] as well as at Cardiff University[48] and a cemetery in Llanelli.[49] The fourth episode was then filmed next; the only episode in the third block of production.[30] Doctor Who Magazine reported that the Christmas special would be produced by itself in Block Four.[30] In late May 2012, Coleman was spotted at a manor in the Vale of Glamorgan, filming what was reported to be the Christmas special.[50] However, Neil Cross's episode, reportedly the first Coleman shot, was partially filmed in Margam Country Park, South Wales around the same time;[38] and it was reported that the manor location was also for that episode, and that Moffat was still writing the Christmas special.[27] The Christmas special officially began filming the week of 6 August.[51]

Promotion

Smith, Gillan, Darvill, Moffat, and Skinner all promoted the series at the official Doctor Who convention in Cardiff in March 2012.[52] At the convention the first trailer for the series premiered.[53] Three promotional images of Smith and Coleman were released on 8 June,[54] 11 June,[55] and 13 June.[56] New footage was shown at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International on 15 July,[57] consisting of a clip from the second and third episodes.[58] The second trailer for the series aired on the BBC on 2 August, as part of the coverage of the London Olympics.[59] The 90-second trailer and a promotional image were first be made available online the morning of 2 August.[60][61] "Asylum of the Daleks" was screened at BFI Southbank on 14 August,[9] and will be screened at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival during 23–25 August.[62] Following the BFI screening, around twenty high-resolution images from the first five episodes were released on the BBC's Doctor Who website.[63]

Broadcast

In September 2011 Doctor Who Magazine stated series 7 will air from late 2012.[64] The Doctor Who official Twitter account announced in March 2012 that it was planned that six episodes will be shown in 2012, including a Christmas Special, to be followed by eight in 2013.[65] In July 2012, Smith stated that it would start in August,[66] but Moffat later confirmed it was September.[11] Part of the reason the show was moved to the autumn was because Moffat felt the darker nights suited the atmosphere of the programme, as well as the classic series originally airing in the autumn.[67] He stated that the decision to split the series up originally came from the BBC, but he was open to anything that "shakes [the series] up" and that by making the audience wait would make it seem like an "event piece".[28]

DVD and Blu-ray releases

See also: List of Doctor Who DVD and Blu-ray releases

The first part of this series containing episodes 1-5 is planned be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 12 November 2012[68][69]

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