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Doctor Who
Season 6
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Starring
No. of episodes13 (+1 supplemental)
Release
Original networkBBC One
BBC One HD
Original release23 April (2011-04-23) –
1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)
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The sixth series of British science fiction television programme Doctor Who was shown in two parts. The first seven episodes were broadcast from April to June 2011, beginning with "The Impossible Astronaut" and ending with mid-series finale "A Good Man Goes to War". The final six episodes aired from August to October, beginning with "Let's Kill Hitler" and ending with "The Wedding of River Song". The main series was preceded by "A Christmas Carol", the 2010 Christmas special. The series was led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, alongside executive producers Beth Willis and Piers Wenger. Sanne Wohlenberg, Marcus Wilson, and Denise Paul served as producers. The series is the sixth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and is the thirty-second season overall.[1]

The series stars 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. It also stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill as his companions, newlyweds Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Alex Kingston also returns as River Song, a mysterious woman from the Doctor's future who is revealed throughout the series to be Amy and Rory's part-Time Lord daughter and the Doctor's wife. In addition to River, the series continues story threads from the fifth series, most notably the Silence, the cause of the TARDIS exploding in "The Pandorica Opens" / "The Big Bang".[2]

Episodes

See also: List of Doctor Who serials

This series was the first to include a mid-season broadcast break since Season 15, with 12 weeks between the transmissions of "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Let's Kill Hitler".

StoryEpisodeTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		UK viewers
(millions) [3]		AI [3]
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213–"A Christmas Carol"Toby HaynesSteven Moffat25 December 2010 (2010-12-25)2.X12.1183
'
214a1"The Impossible Astronaut"Toby HaynesSteven Moffat23 April 2011 (2011-04-23)2.18.8688
214b2"Day of the Moon"Toby HaynesSteven Moffat30 April 2011 (2011-04-30)2.27.3087
2153"The Curse of the Black Spot"Jeremy WebbStephen Thompson7 May 2011 (2011-05-07)2.97.8586
2164"The Doctor's Wife"Richard ClarkNeil Gaiman14 May 2011 (2011-05-14)2.37.9787
217a5"The Rebel Flesh"Julian SimpsonMatthew Graham21 May 2011 (2011-05-21)2.57.3585
217b6"The Almost People"Julian SimpsonMatthew Graham28 May 2011 (2011-05-28)2.66.7286
2187"A Good Man Goes to War"Peter HoarSteven Moffat4 June 2011 (2011-06-04)2.77.5188
'
2198"Let's Kill Hitler"Richard SeniorSteven Moffat27 August 2011 (2011-08-27)2.88.1085
2209"Night Terrors"Richard ClarkMark Gatiss3 September 2011 (2011-09-03)2.47.0786
22110"The Girl Who Waited"Nick HurranTom MacRae10 September 2011 (2011-09-10)2.107.6085
22211"The God Complex"Nick HurranToby Whithouse17 September 2011 (2011-09-17)2.116.7786
22312"Closing Time"Steve HughesGareth Roberts24 September 2011 (2011-09-24)2.126.9386
22413"The Wedding of River Song"Jeremy WebbSteven Moffat1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)2.137.6786

Supplemental episodes

Two, three-minute mini-episodes titled "Space" and "Time", directed by Richard Senior, were released on 18 March 2011, filmed under the sixth series' production cycle as part of BBC One's Red Nose Day telethon for the charity Comic Relief. The episodes form a two-part story, set entirely within the TARDIS, starring Matt Smith as The Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and were written by the programme's head writer Steven Moffat.

TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
"Space" / "Time"Richard SeniorSteven Moffat18 March 2011 (2011-03-18)
The episodes form a two-part story, set entirely within the TARDIS, starring Matt Smith as The Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and were written by the programme's head writer Steven Moffat. They received 10.26 million viewers.[4]
"Death Is the Only Answer"Jeremy WebbChildren of Oakley Junior School1 October 2011 (2011-10-01)
"Script to Screen" competition winning script, written by the pupils of Oakley CE Junior School.
Night and the DoctorRichard Senior (Episodes 1–4)[5]Steven Moffat21 November 2011 (2011-11-21) (home video release)
A series of five mini-episodes produced for the Series 6 DVD and Blu-Ray box set.

Prequels

A number of short prequel videos were released online prior to selected episodes' airings.

TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
"The Impossible Astronaut prequel"N/ASteven Moffat25 March 2011 (2011-03-25)
Nixon receives a phone call from the little girl who keeps calling him in the episode. She begs for the President to look behind him, but he asks how she got that number, which the 'spaceman' told her. She tells him it is about monsters, to which he replies "Young lady, there are no monsters in the Oval Office." He then hangs up and leans back. Behind him stands an out-of-focus Silent.
"The Curse of the Black Spot prequel"N/AStephen Thompson30 April 2011 (2011-04-30)
There is a short montage of atmospheric shots of the pirate ship, bridged by a narration in the form of Captain Avery's journal for "April the first, 1699; the good ship Fancy." Avery describes how his ship has been becalmed for eight days, and the crew are being taken one by one by "an enemy"; he fears that they are all doomed to die there.
"A Good Man Goes to War prequel"Marcus WilsonSteven Moffat28 May 2011 (2011-05-28)
Dorium talks to two Headless Monks. He gives them the brain of a Judoon, which contains a security protocol the monks need. Dorium tells them that he knows what they are up to, as he has heard rumours around the area. He asks them, "All this, to imprison one child? Oh, I know what you're up to, I hear everything in this place. I even hear rumours about whose child you've taken. Are you mad? You know the stories about the Doctor? The things that man has done? God help us if you make him angry!"
"Let's Kill Hitler prequel"Steve HughesSteven Moffat15 August 2011 (2011-08-15)
Amy calls the Doctor and leaves a message for the Doctor on the TARDIS's answer phone, begging him to find her child, Melody. Though Amy knows Melody will grow up to be River Song, she does not want to miss seeing her grow up. As she ends her message, it is revealed that a very upset Doctor was listening but did not pick up the phone, even though Amy had pleaded for him to.
"The Wedding of River Song prequel"Marcus WilsonSteven Moffat24 September 2011 (2011-09-24)
At Area 52, which has a clock stuck at 5:02 p.m., Silence are kept in stasis and River Song is wearing an eye patch in the same fashion as Madame Kovarian.

Casting

See also: List of Doctor Who cast members

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill continued their roles as The Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams. Darvill had appeared in the previous series in a recurring role, but became a regular in this series.[6] Darvill had his "fingers crossed" that he would become a regular.[7] Alex Kingston returned as River Song. James Corden also reprised his role as Craig Owens from "The Lodger" in "Closing Time",[8] and Simon Callow briefly reprised his role as Charles Dickens from the first series episode "The Unquiet Dead".[9]

"A Christmas Carol" guest-starred Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins.[10] Guest stars of the main series included Michael Sheen (voice),[11] Imelda Staunton (voice), Suranne Jones,[12] David Walliams,[13] Hugh Bonneville,[14] Lily Cole,[15] Mark Sheppard,[16] and Daniel Mays,[17]

Production

Development and writing

"Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. Last year, in a way, was all about saying, don't worry, it's still him, it's still the same show, nothing's really been lost. Losing a leading man like David Tennant is seismic – unless you gain a leading man like Matt Smith. It's been the biggest joy to see him stride in and just claim that TARDIS for his own. But now he's really here, and the part is his, and the bow tie is cool, he's ready to lead us places we didn't know existed. Last year we reassured you – this year, to hell with that, we're going to worry the hell out of you. How well do we really know that man, or what he's capable of? We're putting the "who?" back in the Doctor."

Steven Moffat[18]

The sixth series was commissioned in March 2010, before the fifth series aired.[19] Neither Peter Bennett or Tracie Simpson returned as producers, with Sanne Wohlenberg covering the role for the "A Christmas Carol" and the first two episodes filmed for the main series ("The Doctor's Wife" and "Night Terrors"). Marcus Wilson produced every other episode except "Closing Time", where Denise Paul produces and Wilson is credited as "series producer". Production designer Edward Thomas was replaced by Michael Pickwoad.[20][21] Lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat stated that the purpose of the previous series was to "reassure" the audience that the show was the same, despite the many production changes. However, he wanted this series to be more of a "ghost train" and "worry" the audience.[18] The series is much more serialised than previous ones; the arc-driven nature was inspired by positive reactions from fans when the Doctor from the fifth series finale "The Big Bang" appeared in the earlier episode "Flesh and Stone".[22] Moffat decided to "rest" the Doctor's arch-enemies the Daleks for the series, as being the "most frequent" enemies of the show made them "the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe".[23]

The series continues to build the mystery of the Silence, which had been vaguely introduced in the fifth series. Moffat did not wish to end the arc in the previous series, as he felt it would be "more fun" to continue it.[24] Moffat had planned the revelation about River Song "for a long time"; when creating Amy's character, he chose "Pond" for her last name to create a link.[25] Moffat intended for the "answer to be as complicated as the question".[26] Moffat informed Kingston of the secrets of her character at the end of the previous series and she was not allowed to tell anyone; Smith, Gillan, and Darvill were unaware of the identity of her character.[27] River's identity was kept in top secrecy; the script read at the read-through of "A Good Man Goes to War" had a false ending, and only a select few were issued the real script.[26]

Matthew Graham was not able to write an episode as he was slated to for the fifth series because he did not believe he would have enough time. Moffat then asked him to write the two-part episode "The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People".[28] Neil Gaiman had written "The Doctor's Wife" for the previous series, but due to budget constraints it was replaced with "The Lodger".[29] This necessitated changes to the script, including the addition of Rory as a companion.[30][31] During the production process the order of the third, fourth and ninth episodes was changed.[32] "The Curse of the Black Spot" was swapped with "Night Terrors" because Moffat felt that the second half of the series was too dark.[32] This necessitated minor changes for the episodes to fit into the storyline, most notably in "Night Terrors".[33][34]

Moffat wanted to start the series with a two-parter that had gravity and a wider scope in plot.[35] He also aimed to make them some of the darkest episodes.[36] In contrast, the following episode, "The Curse of the Black Spot", would allow the characters to "kick back and have some fun".[37] Gaiman's episode was based around the TARDIS, and allowing the Doctor and the TARDIS to speak to each other.[30] Graham's two-parter was intended to lead into "A Good Man Goes to War", the mid-series finale, but have a main plot about "avatars that rebel". Graham took Moffat's pitch and added many of his own aspects, such as the monastery setting and the Flesh.[28][38] Then, in addition to revealing who River song is, "A Good Man Goes to War" presented the situation of the Doctor, who was typically a pacifist, being provoked enough to assemble an army.[26] Moffat described the ending as "game-changing cliffhanger" and split the series in two because such a climax could not be done at the end of a series, as it would be "too long before it came back".[39]

The mid-series premiere, "Let's Kill Hitler", was intended to be the opposite of the "grim and dark" tone of the series premiere.[40] Mark Gatiss wrote "Night Terrors" to be a scary episode, surprised that dolls had not been used in Doctor Who before.[41] "The Girl Who Waited" is a "Doctor-lite" episode[42] which allowed Tom MacRae to explore Amy and Rory's characters and relationship.[43] The concept of "The God Complex" was originally pitched by Toby Whithouse for the fifth series, but it was pushed back as Moffat felt that it was too similar to the stories in that series.[44][45] The penultimate episode, "Closing Time", is a sequel to series five's "The Lodger" and allows the Doctor to have some fun while building up to the finale.[46] Writer Gareth Roberts also wanted to bring back the Cybermen, there were no other returning monsters in the series and he thought "there should be a sense of history about the Doctor's final battle to save Earth before he heads off to meet his death".[47] The finale was described by Moffat as "a big roller coaster ride of Doctor Who madness" and concludes the Doctor's death arc,[48] though it intentionally leaves some mysteries.[49]

Filming

"Night Terrors" was the first episode to be filmed[33] in September 2010.[50] It was mainly filmed on a council estate in Bristol, Somerset, with some scenes filmed in Dyrham Park.[50] Production of "The Doctor's Wife" also occurred in September,[51] with some in October.[52] The two-part opening story was partially filmed in the United States, a first for the programme.[53] This production was done in Utah in November 2010.[35][53] The story was co-produced by BBC America, who provided extra money for filming in the States.[54] "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Almost People" was filmed in late November 2010 to January 2011, with much location shooting at Caerphilly Castle.[55][56] "The Curse of the Black Spot" was filmed in Cornwall as well as the Upper Boat Studios,[37] while some of "A Good Man Goes to War" was filmed in a hangar in Cardiff[26] and began shooting mid-January 2011.[57] "The God Complex" was mostly filmed on constructed hotel sets,[13] and the low-budget "The Girl Who Waited" was intentionally set in "big white boxes".[43] "Closing Time" was filmed at night in a department store, as well as a private home in Cardiff,[46] with some filming reports in March 2011.[58] "Let's Kill Hitler" featured Swansea and Cardiff's Temple of Peace as locations in Berlin.[59] Filming concluded on 29 April 2011 with "The Wedding of River Song",[49] though a scene from "Let's Kill Hitler" was delayed and filmed on 11 July 2011.[59][60]

Production blocks were arranged as follows:

Block Episode Title Director Writer Producer Code
X "A Christmas Carol" Toby Haynes Steven Moffat Sanne Wohlenberg 2X
1 "Night Terrors"
"The Doctor's Wife"		 Richard Clark Mark Gatiss
Neil Gaiman		 Sanne Wohlenberg 2.4
2.3
2 "The Impossible Astronaut"
"Day of the Moon"		 Toby Haynes Steven Moffat Marcus Wilson 2.1
2.2
3 "The Rebel Flesh"
"The Almost People"		 Julian Simpson Matthew Graham Marcus Wilson 2.5
2.6
4 "A Good Man Goes to War"
"The Curse of the Black Spot"		 Peter Hoar
Jeremy Webb		 Steven Moffat
Stephen Thompson		 Marcus Wilson 2.7
2.9
5 "The God Complex"
"The Girl Who Waited"		 Nick Hurran Toby Whithouse
Tom MacRae		 Marcus Wilson 2.11
2.10
6 "Closing Time" Steve Hughes Gareth Roberts Denise Paul 2.12
7 "The Wedding of River Song"
"Let's Kill Hitler"		 Jeremy Webb
Richard Senior		 Steven Moffat Marcus Wilson 2.13
2.8

Promotion

File:Doctor who 2011 title.png
The Doctor Who title card for series 6, similar to that used for series 5, but with the addition of the BBC's logo.

The first trailer for the sixth series was shown directly after "A Christmas Carol".[61] In December 2010, BBC America began airing promotions for the new series with Smith and Gillan in character, announcing that they have landed in America.[62] A 15-second teaser trailer was shown on BBC One at 9pm, 22 March 2011. This was followed by a one-minute trailer on 30 March 2011.[63] BBC America followed with a one-minute trailer on 1 April.[64] In addition, two radio trailers were broadcast in the UK in April.[65][66]

On 10 June 2011, the BBC released a short 30-second teaser trailer for the second half of the series.[67] Smith and Gillan, alongside executive producers Piers Wenger and Beth Willis and "The God Complex" writer Toby Whithouse, attended the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in late June to promote the second half of the series.[68][69] There a one-minute trailer and a clip of "The God Complex" was show.[68] A 40-second trailer was released on 4 August 2011 for BBC One.[70] A 30-second trailer from BBC America was released on 12 August 2011.[71] An alternative trailer aired on CBBC in August 2011.[72]

In addition, the BBC released prequels on the Doctor Who official website to promote some of the episodes. The first, for "The Impossible Astronaut", was released on 25 March 2011.[73] Prequels were subsequently released to promote "The Curse of the Black Spot",[74] "A Good Man Goes to War",[75] "Let's Kill Hitler",[76] and "The Wedding of River Song".[77]

Broadcast

For storytelling reasons, the series was split into two halves, with the first seven episodes airing in the spring from Easter 2011 and the final six airing in autumn.[39][78] The first half aired in the United Kingdom on BBC One from 23 April 2011,[79] and the second half from 27 August.[80]

International broadcast

In the United States, the sixth series began airing on BBC America on 23 April;[81] following "A Christmas Carol", this is the first full series to air on the same day in the US as the UK.[82] However, "The Almost People" and "A Good Man Goes to War" were delayed by one week due to expected low numbers of TV viewers during the Memorial Day weekend.[83] Space aired the premiere on 23 April for Canadian viewers,[84] and "The Impossible Astronaut" was broadcast in Australia on ABC1 on 30 April.[85] The series started screening in New Zealand on Prime on 19 May 2011.[86]

The second half of the series, beginning with "Let's Kill Hitler", was broadcast on 27 August 2011 on BBC America[87] and on Space.[88] ABC1 began the second run on 3 September.[89] On Prime, it began airing from 15 September 2011.[citation needed]

Some international broadcasts, including BBC America, contained an introduction by Amy before the opening credits. Moffat was asked to write the sequence; he called it a "bloody good idea" because it would make it accessible to new audiences, despite noting that diehard fans would not like it.[90] Previous showrunner Russell T Davies was also a fan of the sequence.[90]

DVD and Blu-ray releases

See also: List of Doctor Who home video releases

All of the episodes from the first half of the series ("The Impossible Astronaut" to "A Good Man Goes to War") were released on 11 July 2011 on DVD and Blu-ray, entitled Doctor Who: Series Six, Part 1. This set included two featurettes called "Monster Files", which looked into the Silence and the Gangers.[91][92] Doctor Who: Series Six, Part 2, covering episodes from "Let's Kill Hitler" to "The Wedding of River Song", was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 10 October 2011. It also contained two "Monster Files" on the Antibodies and the Cybermats.[93][94] A 6-disc boxset containing all 13 episodes of the series and "A Christmas Carol" was released on 21 November 2011 in Region 2,[95] 22 November in Region 1,[96] on 1 December 2011 in Region 4.[97] A limited edition box set was also released in the UK with a lifted image of a Silent on the cover and including five 3-D art cards.[98][99] Special features included in the box sets are commentaries on five episodes, "Space" and "Time", the prequels, trailers, "Monster Files", and the cut-down versions of the accompanying Doctor Who Confidential episodes.[95][96] Also included is Night and the Doctor, which comprises five made-for-DVD mini-episodes.[95]


Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series
Set details Special features
  • 14 episodes
    • Includes "A Christmas Carol"
  • 6-disc set
  • 16:9 aspect ratio
  • Subtitles: English
DVD release dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
22 November 2011 (2011-11-22) 21 November 2011 (2011-11-21) 1 December 2011 (2011-12-01)

Reception

Ratings

Final viewing figures for the 13 regular episodes of the series.

"A Christmas Carol" received final ratings of 12.11 million viewers, the fourth highest rated Christmas special behind "Voyage of the Damned", "The Next Doctor", and Part Two of The End of Time.[100] The ratings for the series dramatically increased once time-shifted viewers were taken into account.[101] "The Impossible Astronaut" premiered with a consolidated figure 8.86 million viewers in the UK,[4] and was reportedly the most recorded television event of all time.[102] It also received 1.379 million requests on BBC's online iPlayer for the month of April.[103] The series held a consistent viewership in the seven millions, with the lowest-rated episode being "The Almost People" with 6.72 million.[4]

The series also received a strong Appreciation Index, with all episodes aside from "A Christmas Carol" in the "excellent" category of a score of 85 or more. While "The Impossible Astronaut" and "A Good Man Goes to War" reached 88,[104][105] the finale only scored 86,[106] compared to 88, 89, and 91 of the previous finales of the revived series.[107]

In Canada on Space, "The Impossible Astronaut" was viewed by 538,000, the most-watched Doctor Who episode for the channel and its most-watched telecast thus far in 2011.[108] On BBC America in the United States, "The Impossible Astronaut" was the channel's highest-rated telecast with 1.3 million viewers,[109] increasing to 1.8 million when DVR recordings were taken into account.[110] The second half of the series, with Top Gear and Luther, contributed to the third quarter of 2011 being BBC America's highest rated.[111] Doctor Who also became the most-downloaded show of 2011 on iTunes in the US,[112] with the sixth series specifically topping the chart.[113]

Reviews

"Watching bits of the sixth season all over again, its inventiveness and cleverness remain paramount — and a few episodes, like "The Doctor's Wife" and "The God Complex," stand out as instant classics. Moffat's writing remains as funny and as whiz-bang clever as always — although this season's storyline, including Amy's captive pregnancy, River Song's messed-up childhood, and the plot to assassinate the Doctor, doesn't seem any more satisfying or fully realized the second time around, from a character standpoint. It's all fun stuff, as long as you don't worry too much about Amy and River as plausible characters."

io9's Charlie Jane Anders in a review of the DVD release.[114]

Reviewing the first half, Dave Golder of SFX praised the change in direction Moffat had taken with the show, calling it "more visually impressive and more narratively rewarding than anything we've had before".[115] The Guardian's Dan Martin was positive towards the first six episodes, despite calling "The Curse of the Black Spot" a "wasted opportunity" and noting that it would be a risk to serialise the story too much. He particularly praised the way Amy, Rory, and the Doctor had developed since the last series.[116]

Sam McPherson of Zap2it said that, despite a few "duds", the sixth series was the "strongest" since Doctor Who's revival in 2005.[117] Despite disliking the finale as a conclusion, The Independent's Neela Debnath praised the character development seen in the series as well as the "cinematic quality".[118] She also was positive to the dynamic between the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, as it was different from other characters seen previously on the show, and continuing with the same character allowed the series to feel more "multi-layered".[118][119] Charlie Jane Anders of io9 described it as "of the most unusual, and structurally ambitious, eras in Doctor Who's history" and praised the way the story revolved around the Doctor.[114] DVD Talk's John Sinnott gave the series four out of five stars, feeling that it "[didn't] quite hit the heights" of the fifth series but was "still pretty good (and light years past any other SF show currently in production)". Despite finding the solution "witty, unpredictable ... and very satisfying", he stated that the subplots were "a bit convoluted" and potentially confusing, and they "seem to drop the mystery of the person in the space suit for a large part of the season and [focus] on other odd events". He also noted that the plots of the consecutive episodes "Night Terrors", "The Girl Who Waited", and "The God Complex" were similar.[96]

Reviewing the whole series, SFX's Ian Berriman was more critical, giving it three and a half out of five stars. He heavily criticised the story arc, finding it too complicated and the solution unsatisfying, and noted that it lacked "emotional impact".[120] Anders felt that the story arc, especially the finale, suffered from Amy and River not being portrayed as believable characters.[121] Digital Spy named Doctor Who the eighth best show of 2011, feeling that the series was "something of a mixed bag" with episodes of varying quality but generally praised the acting of the cast "Matt Smith was firing on all cylinders – there's a confidence that comes with knowing you're a hit with viewers – while Arthur Darvill's Rory excelled in his first year as a series regular" [122] Gavin Fuller of The Daily Telegraph wrote that "The Wedding of River Song" was "an uneven ending to a slightly uneven series which at times has been in danger of overcomplicating itself, but still has been one of the most creative and distinctive series on television".[123] The series was also criticised by viewers and the press for being "too scary" for young children,[124] "too complicated",[125] and running the risk of alienating casual viewers.[126] Arnold T. Blumburg of IGN stated that the sixth series "inspired seriously divided reactions in fandom" and, in his opinion, "the show has never been more unevenly written or emotionally distant".[127]

Awards

"A Christmas Carol" was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), but lost to the fifth series finale "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang".[128] "The Doctor's Wife", "A Good Man Goes to War", and "The Girl Who Waited" were nominated for the same award for 2012,[129] with "The Doctor's Wife" winning.[130] "The Doctor's Wife" also won the 2011 Ray Bradbury award.[131]

At the 2012 BAFTA Cymru awards, the sound team was nominated for "Best Sound" for "The Wedding of River Song", and "The Impossible Astronaut" was nominated for "Best Television Drama". While both lost, the tie-in Doctor Who: The Adventure Games game "The Gunpowder Plot" won the category of "Best Digital Creativity & Games".[132] The series was also nominated for a Saturn Award for "Best Youth-Oriented Series on Television".[133] For his work on the series, Moffat received a nomination for Best Writer (Drama) for the Royal Television Society Programme Awards, though he lost to Peter Bowker of Eric and Ernie.[134] In Canada's Constallation Awards, Gillan was nominated for "Best Female Performance in a 2011 Science Fiction Television Episode" for her work on "The Girl Who Waited", while Doctor Who was nominated in the "Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2011" category.[135] In the 2012 TV Choice Awards, Smith has been nominated for Best Actor, Gillan for Best Actress, and Doctor Who for Best Family Drama.[136]

Soundtrack

Further information: Doctor Who: Series 6 (soundtrack)

Selected pieces of score from this series (from "The Impossible Astronaut" to "The Wedding of River Song"), as composed by Murray Gold, was released on 19 December 2011 by Silva Screen Records.[137] The music from "A Christmas Carol" was released separately on its own soundtrack.[138]

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