Series 6 of Doctor Who first aired on BBC One between 23 April and 1 October 2011. It opened with The Impossible Astronaut, concluded with The Wedding of River Song and featured Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond & Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams.
Overview[]
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Cast[]
Main[]
- The Doctor - Matt Smith
- Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
- Rory - Arthur Darvill
Supporting[]
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- Madame Kovarian - Frances Barber
- Canton Everett Delaware III - Mark Sheppard, William Morgan Sheppard
- The Silence - Marnix Van Den Broeke
- Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh
- Jenny Flint - Catrin Stewart
- Commander Strax - Dan Starkey
- Dorium Maldovar - Simon Fisher-Becker
- Henry Avery - Hugh Bonneville
- Toby Avery - Oscar Lloyd
- Cybermen - Paul Kasey (body) / Nicholas Briggs (voice)
- Carter - Richard Dillane
- Craig Owens - James Corden
- Sophie - Daisy Haggard
- Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
- Dr Malohkeh - Richard Hope
- Dalek - Nicholas Briggs
- Ood - Paul Kasey
- Kazran Sardick - Michael Gambon, Laurence Belcher, Danny Horn
- Abigail Pettigrew - Katherine Jenkins
- Idris - Suranne Jones
- House (voice) - Michael Sheen
- Jennifer Lucas - Sarah Smart
- Miranda Cleaves - Raquel Cassidy
- Colonel Manton - Danny Sapani
- Lorna Bucket - Christina Chong
- Adolf Hitler - Albert Welling
- Alex - Daniel Mays
- George - Jamie Oram
- Rita - Amara Karan
- Minotaur - Spencer Wilding
- Charles Dickens - Simon Callow
- Gantok - Mark Gatiss
Televised Episodes[]
| No. in Series | Title | Writer(s) | Director(s) | Date of Broadcast |
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| 2010 Christmas Special | ||||
| N/A | A Christmas Carol | Steven Moffat | Toby Haynes | 25 December 2010 |
| Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing starliner and the Doctor's only hope of saving them is changing the past and healing the heart of a misanthropic man who can allow it to land. | ||||
| Main Series - Part 1 | ||||
| #1 | The Impossible Astronaut | Steven Moffat | Toby Haynes | 23 April 2011 |
| Calling Amy, Rory and River to Utah, the Doctor's friends witness him gunned down by a mysterious astronaut, which leads them into a bizarre situation surrounding President Nixon in 1969. | ||||
| #2 | Day of the Moon | Steven Moffat | Toby Haynes | 30 April 2011 |
| Spending six fruitless months trying to learn about the Silence, the Doctor, Amy, Rory & River work with ex-CIA agent Canton Delaware III to bring draw their occupation out of the shadows. | ||||
| #3 | The Curse of the Black Spot | Steve Thompson | Jeremy Webb | 7 May 2011 |
| The Doctor, Amy and Rory land on a pirate ship in 1699, where every injured crew member, which soon includes Rory, are being marked for death by a deadly Siren with a black mark on their palms. | ||||
| #4 | The Doctor's Wife | Neil Gaiman | Richard Clark | 14 May 2011 |
| A Time Lord distress call brings the Doctor, Amy & Rory outside of the universe, where a trap has been set that endangers the Doctor, his companions and his beloved TARDIS. | ||||
| #5 | The Rebel Flesh | Matthew Graham | Julian Simpson | 21 May 2011 |
| The TARDIS is landed by an acid factory in the 22nd Century where the crew use Doppelgängers made of artificial flesh to safety work when a solar storm makes the facsimiles self-aware and terrified. | ||||
| #6 | The Almost People | Matthew Graham | Julian Simpson | 28 May 2011 |
| Amy faces conflicting feelings about the Doctor's erratic ganger, while the others besiege them from all around, with Rory unwittingly aiding them. | ||||
| #7 | A Good Man Goes to War | Steven Moffat | Peter Hoar | 4 June 2011 |
| Calling in an army to fight and rescue Amy and her daughter, the Doctor, in his angry charge, falls straight into a trap with many deaths, a shocking revelation and an even more devastating loss. | ||||
| Main Series - Part 2 | ||||
| #8 | Let's Kill Hitler | Steven Moffat | Richard Senior | 27 August 2011 |
| With no luck in finding Melody Pond, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are forced by an acquaintance of the Pond's to go back to 1941 and kill Hitler, a trip with many unexpected developments. | ||||
| #9 | Night Terrors | Mark Gatiss | Richard Clark | 3 September 2011 |
| Looking in on a terrified little boy, the Doctor is alarmed to find that the child's fears are far more than human. Meanwhile, Amy and Rory are trapped in what appears to be a child's playhouse. | ||||
| #10 | The Girl Who Waited | Tom MacRae | Nick Hurran | 10 September 2011 |
| Trying to rescue Amy from a facility in a faster timestream that the Doctor can't enter, the TARDIS arrives decades too late, and Rory finds his wife again, older, bitterer and unwilling to save herself. | ||||
| #11 | The God Complex | Toby Whithouse | Nick Hurran | 17 September 2011 |
| Lost in an endless hotel being chased by a minotaur that seems to feed on fear, the Doctor has a significant cost to pay in order to save as many people as he can. | ||||
| #12 | Closing Time | Gareth Roberts | Steve Hughes | 24 September 2011 |
| While on a 'farewell tour', the Doctor calls in on Craig Owens and his newborn son when he has to protect them from an invasion of Cybermen working to rebuild themselves. | ||||
| #13 | The Wedding of River Song | Steven Moffat | Jeremy Webb | 1 October 2011 |
| Time is broken, falling apart and everything is happening at once. So a mad soothsayer tells Roman Emperor Winston Churchill what is to blame for the disintegration of time; a woman. | ||||
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Filming[]
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Myths[]
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Stories set before this season[]
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Ratings []
- Average: 7.84 million
- Highest: 8.86 million (The Impossible Astronaut)
- Lowest: 6.72 million (The Rebel Flesh)
Note: 'Highest' and 'Lowest' ratings are only applicable to the main series, discounting the Christmas Special.
External Links[]
- Official A Christmas Carol page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Impossible Astronaut page on Doctor Who Website
- Official Day of the Moon page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Curse of the Black Spot page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Doctor's Wife page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Rebel Flesh page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Almost People page on Doctor Who Website
- Official A Good Man Goes to War page on Doctor Who Website
- Official Let's Kill Hitler page on Doctor Who Website
- Official Night Terrors page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Girl Who Waited page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The God Complex page on Doctor Who Website
- Official Closing Time page on Doctor Who Website
- Official The Wedding of River Song page on Doctor Who Website