The Eleventh Hour The first episode under Steven Moffat's tenure as head writer and executive producer, "The Eleventh Hour" is also the first full episode to star Matt Smith as the Doctor, and introduces Karen Gillan as companion Amy Pond, as well as recurring character Rory Williams, played by Arthur Darvill. Astronomer Patrick Moore makes a guest appearance as himself.

The episode picks up from the ending of The End of Time. The Doctor has just regenerated and is crashing back towards Earth. After narrowly avoiding a collision with Big Ben, the badly-damaged TARDIS crash lands in the back garden of the young Amelia Pond in the small village of Leadworth. Amelia takes him inside and helps him satisfy his strange food cravings (only being satisfied with fish fingers and custard) before taking him upstairs to show him the crack in her bedroom wall. The Doctor discovers it is not just a crack in a wall, but a crack in time and space itself, and on the other side is a prison run by the Atraxi. The Atraxi deliver a warning to the two: "Prisoner Zero has escaped," but before the Doctor can help further he is interrupted by the TARDIS's Cloister Bell: if not stabilised the engines will incinerate. The Doctor needs to pilot the TARDIS into the future to stop the engines from phasing. He promises Amelia he will return in five minutes, and leaves. She packs and begins to wait for him. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

The Beast Below The Doctor and Amy encounter the Starship UK, a colony ship from an Earth that evacuated following devastating solar flares, containing all of the United Kingdom except Scotland, who wanted their own ship. On board, the Doctor attempts to comfort 12-year-old Mandy, whose silent tears are unacknowledged by the other passengers because, as the Doctor surmises, they already know what is wrong.

Amy follows Mandy and encounters a "hole" guarded by a keep out sign. Entering, she finds a tentacle-like creature and retreats to be confronted by four hooded figures, another of whom had previously reported the Doctor's presence to a masked woman. As the Doctor explores the engine room, the same masked woman appears to him. Introducing herself as Liz 10, she confirms his suspicion that the ship is flying without engines. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Victory of the Daleks The TARDIS materialises in the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War, one month after Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) called for help at the end of "The Beast Below". The Doctor (Matt Smith) is greeted by the Prime Minister and recounts their past experiences. An arriving Luftwaffe squadron approaching London allows Churchill to show the Doctor his latest weapon, a high-precision energy weapon controlled by the "Ironsides", designed by Professor Edwin Bracewell (Bill Paterson), a Scottish scientist.

At the Doctor's request, Churchill and Bracewell show the Doctor an Ironside, in reality a khaki-coloured Union Flag-wearing Dalek. Despite the Doctor's protests about the Daleks' omnicidal past, Bracewell insists that he invented them and they are docile and readily performing menial tasks such as serving tea. The Doctor tries to ask his companion Amy Pond to tell Churchill about their invasion of the Earth in "The Stolen Earth", and is visibly unnerved when Amy has no recollection of the incident. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

The Time of Angels Doctor River Song, after investigating a vault located on the starship Byzantium, sends a message on a home box, a futuristic black box device. 12,000 years later, the Doctor and Amy receive the message whilst visiting a museum which has collected the homebox as an archaeological artefact. The Doctor arrives in the nick of time and catches River as she depressurises a section of the Byzantium. The TARDIS follows the ship, where it crash-lands on Alfalva Metraxis. There, River signals a group of soldiers who teleport to the planet and ask the Doctor what he knows of the Weeping Angels. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Flesh and Stone The Doctor, Amy, River Song, Father Octavian and his clerics find themselves standing on the nose of the Byzantium, looking down on the surface and the Weeping Angels, after having been caught by the ship's artificial gravity when the gravity globe burst. The group make their way to the secondary flight deck while being chased by the regenerating Angels, who have now also jumped up to the ship. All the while, Amy is counting downwards from ten without realising it. Angel Bob claims that this is a countdown to when they will kill her, after which they will take control of the universe. The Doctor asks the Angels where they can possibly expect to get the power from to take over the universe, but the Angels just laugh at the Doctor's ignorance of the situation. The Doctor turns around and then sees a giant crack in the ship's wall, identical to the one in Amy's bedroom in "The Eleventh Hour", and as seen in "The Beast Below" and "Victory of the Daleks", it's a crack in the universe... Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Vampires in Venice Following Amy's attempts to seduce him, the Doctor gatecrashes her fiancé, Rory's stag party and tells him the problem. Knowing full well that travelling with him has a habit of destroying his companions' lives and relationships on Earth, the Doctor decides to take Amy and Rory on a romantic trip to get their relationship back on track. The TARDIS lands in the city of Venice in 1580, but he quickly discovers all is not well, as according to the citizens, plague is running rampant, and the city has been placed under quarantine at the order of the city's patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri.

The Doctor heads to the Calvierri's palazzo, where he discovers that Rosanna runs a school for the betterment of young ladies which is highly sought after. However, as the Doctor watches, he sees a Venetian boat-builder called Guido, who had entered his daughter Isabella into the school several days before, trying to remove her. After Guido is turned away by the guards, the Doctor goes after him and learns that something evil is happening in the school, for his daughter didn't recognise him, and the girl who turned him away had a face like an animal.

Meanwhile, Amy and Rory, desperately trying to get along, hear a scream, and go to investigate, finding Rosanna's son, Francesco Calvierri, drinking blood from the neck of a flower girl. As Rory tends to the girl, Amy chases Francesco, only to lose him when he turns into an alley that opens on to the canal. Meanwhile, with Guido's help, the Doctor sneaks into the school, where he is ambushed by five beautiful girls. Upon noticing the girls have no reflections, and seeing their teeth are curved fangs, the Doctor quickly makes an escape and tells Amy, Rory and Guido the problem: there are vampires in Venice. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

The Hungry Earth The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to a small Welsh village called Cwmtaff in 2020, where Dr Nasreen Chaudhry is leading the deepest drilling of Earth's crust in history. But deep beneath, something else is drilling up.

In the trailer, we see a man being dragged beneath the ground, the Doctor 'testing' the floor, and a little boy featured running through a graveyard and asking the Doctor, 'Are you scared of monsters?' to which he replies, 'No, they're scared of me.' Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Cold Blood This second part starts with the Doctor and Nasreen walking along a bridge in the Silurian civilisation, as the Doctor marvels at the technological advances they have made since he last met them. They find themselves in a corridor covered with plants long thought extinct, and find an entrance. As soon as they walk through it, an alarm goes off and the pair are inevitably captured by the Silurian soldiers where they are taken to the same lab Amy and Mo are in. Amy is about to be dissected by the Silurian doctor Malohkeh, but he is called off moments before doing so by the alarm triggered by the Doctor and Nasreen.

Malohkeh had used a palm-sized device to lock Amy's hands into the cuffs and had placed it in his pocket. But while he is distracted by the alarm, Amy pickpockets him and steals the device. Amy quickly unlocks the clamps around her arms and frees Mo. As they walk around trying to find a way out, they stumble upon a chamber where the Silurians are keeping Elliot alive, but sedated, for observation. Mo, Elliot's father, is enraged and determines they need to find weapons to protect themselves and later get his son out. They then find two contiguous chambers, each with a Silurian warrior inside, although they appear to be immobile. Amy deduces that they are hibernation pods, with each warrior standing on a transport disc that can take them to the surface. Since they don't know how to work the transport discs, they take the hibernating Silurians' weapons instead to have something to fight with while looking for another exit. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Vincent and the Doctor The Doctor has taken Amy to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where they admire the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. As the art expert Dr Black tells his tour group about van Gogh's work, Amy thanks the Doctor for bringing her there, and wonders why he's taken her to a series of amazing places. In The Church at Auvers, the Doctor points out a seemingly alien figure that appears in one of the windows. Disturbed, the Doctor decides they must travel back in time so they can speak to Van Gogh himself.

In 1890, they manage to track down Van Gogh at a local café where the artist never pays for his drinks and has earned a bad reputation. The Doctor attempts to break the ice, but the distrustful artist rebuffs him angrily. Amy, however, ingratiates herself to him very quickly since he thinks her "cute", and thanks to her offer to share a bottle of wine with him. Over wine, the Doctor clumsily broaches the subject of the church painting, but the trio is interrupted when a woman wails for help. They rush into the alleyway to find a young girl dead, ravaged by some sort of beast, and her anguished mother blames van Gogh's madness for her daughter's fate. Pelted with stones, they run from the small crowd, and Vincent tells the Doctor that a similar murder occurred a week prior. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

Note: Richard Curtis was previously executive producer on the Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death, a one-off comedy special written for Comic Relief by current show-runner Steven Moffat.

The Lodger Amy discovers her engagement ring in the Doctor's pocket, previously featured in the episode "Cold Blood".

The TARDIS lands in Colchester rather than its intended destination, the fifth moon of Sinda Callista, and the Doctor finds himself stranded there with Amy left in the TARDIS. Meanwhile, passers-by are seen being lured into a nearby house by various voices seeking help, from the intercom at its front door. The door opens and they ascend the staircase to the first floor, entering the room which lies there; flashing lights are seen and screams heard emanating from the room.

The Doctor turns up at the house and rents a ground floor room from the flat's owner, a shy call centre worker called Craig Owens. Although Craig finds him odd, The Doctor quickly woos him and moves in. The Doctor tries to blend in his new environment with guidance from Amy, with whom he still manages to communicate through an earpiece. He also gets to know Craig who is locked in a platonic relationship with a colleague called Sophie and tries to manoeuvre them into declaring to each other.

Notes: On Craig Owens' fridge is a postcard advertising the Van Gogh exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, which the Doctor, Amy and Van Gogh himself visit in the previous episode. When the Doctor headbutts Craig, he transfers images of most of his previous incarnations, missing were the Sixth and Seventh Doctor. The crack is once again seen, this time in the wall in Craig's flat. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

The Pandorica Opens The episode begins in France,1890, where Vincent Van Gogh has horrific visions of the coming explosion whilst being tended to by Dr Gachet and Madame Vernet. He has painted a picture which ultimately proves to be a warning, showing the TARDIS destructing in a giant explosion with co-ordinates inscribed for the Doctor. In 1941 London, Edwin Bracewell shows the picture to Winston Churchill, advising him to warn the Doctor. Upon doing so, Churchill gets through to the Stormcage Containment Facility in the 50th Century, where an imprisoned River Song tells him that phoning the time vortex 'doesn't always work' and to 'speak quickly'. She then breaks out, and is next seen in the Royal Art Collection, where Liz 10 finds her and questions her. She reveals that she has to help the Doctor and revent the explosion. River then procures a Vortex Manipulator from a crooked dealer to reach the Doctor. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

The Big Bang In a universe devoid of everything but the Earth and its Moon, young Amelia Pond prays to Santa about the crack in her wall. In the rewritten timeline, the Doctor does not appear, however. The next day, she finds a museum pamphlet that has mysteriously appeared in the foyer of her house. On it is a message to go see the Pandorica. She convinces her aunt to take her, where she finds another note on the Pandorica itself that tells her to stick around. She hides until the museum closes. She approaches the Pandorica, which opens upon her touching it, and inside is Amy Pond from 102 A.D.

It turns out that, through time travel, the Doctor had given Rory his sonic screwdriver thereby allowing Rory to open the Pandorica just moments after his imprisonment. They then placed Amy in the Pandorica so that it would revive her and keep her in stasis until her younger self opened it. Rory adamantly chose to guard Amy through the intervening years, whilst the Doctor used River's Vortex Manipulator to travel directly to the museum where Amy and Amelia are. Upon arrival they are immediately attacked by a Dalek, which remained as an echo of the erased history of the collapsing universe before being revived from the light emanating from the Pandorica. Rory, who is now guarding the Pandorica as a security guard, saves them. The Doctor then travels back in time to give Rory his sonic screwdriver and to give young Amelia the messages that brought her to the Pandorica. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

A Christmas Carol (2010 Christmas Special) The crew of a space liner carrying more than 4000 passengers struggles to maintain the ship's course while travelling through the strange cloud cover of a human-inhabited planet that interferes with their controls. Amy and Rory, aboard the liner for their honeymoon, send a distress call to the Doctor to help. Read More! (Caution spoilers!)

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