Doctor Who: Series 6, Part 1

Adventures in time and space
The Doctor returns, alongside newlyweds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space. Together they find themselves in Sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then journey on the high seas of 1696 aboard a pirate ship, to solve the mystery of the Siren. In a bubble universe at the very edge of reality, the Doctor meets an old friend with a new face, and in a monastery on a remote island in the near future, an industrial accident takes on a terrible human shape. And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon's Run, and the Doctor's darkest hour. Can even the truth about River Song save the Time Lord's soul? Only two things are certain. Silence will fall. And a good man is going to die...

Episode 1
"THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT"
Four envelopes, numbered 2, 3 and 4, each containing a date, time and map reference, unsigned, but TARDIS blue. Who sent them? And who received the missing envelope numbered 1? This strange summons reunites the Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song in the middle of the Utah desert and unveils a terrible secret the Doctor's friends must never reveal to him. Placing his life entirely in their hands, the Doctor agrees to search for the recipient of the fourth envelope and figure out just who is Canton Everett Delaware the Third? Also what is the relevance of their only other clue: 'Space 1969'? Their quest lands them-quite literally-in the Oval Office, where they are enlisted by President Nixon to assist enigmatic former-FBI agent Canton in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious spaceman.

Episode 2
"DAY OF THE MOON"
The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison. Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI. With the help of new friend and FBI-insider, Canton Everett Delaware the Third, they reunite to share their discoveries and memories.

The world is occupied by an alien force who controls humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion and no one can be trusted. Aided by President Nixon and Neil Armstrong's foot, the Doctor must mount a revolution to drive out the enemy and rescue the missing little girl. No one knows why they took her. Or why they have kidnapped Amy Pond...

Episode 3
"THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT"
The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature, as the time-traveling drama continues.

Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the appearance of a mysterious Siren. The Doctor has other ideas but as every plan of escape is thwarted, he must win the trust of the implacable Captain Avery and uncover the truth behind the pirates' supernatural fears - and he must work quickly because some of his friends have already fallen under the Siren's spell...

Episode 4
"THE DOCTOR'S WIFE"
The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew.

But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion - what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

Episode 5
"THE REBEL FLESH"
A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a futuristic factory on earth where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid. A second wave hits and the 'Gangers' separate. They can remember every second of their 'originals' life and feel every emotion they've ever experienced. But are these memories stolen or have they been bequeathed? Are the Gangers merely faulty machinery that must be shut down or are they living, breathing, sentient beings? Can the Doctor convince the terrified humans to accept these 'almost people' and prevent an all-out civil war before the factory explodes?

Episode 6
"THE ALMOST PEOPLE "
As the solar storm rages, Jennifer, a Ganger driven mad by the memories of being 'decommissioned', is seeking revenge. She can remember every excruciating second of every 'execution' and is determined that the humans will pay. And she isn't just talking war, she's talking revolution.

As the crumbling factory fills with toxic fumes and drips lethal acid, the 'Originals' wait desperately for the shuttle from the Mainland to rescue them. But Jennifer has other ideas. Can the Doctor convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with their Gangers to overcome a monster of their own making?

Directed by Julian Simpson, Toby Haynes, Jeremy Webb, Richard Clark
Written by Steven Moffat, Matthew Graham, Neil Gaiman
Produced by Marcus Wilson , Sanne Wohlenberg
Executive Produced by Steven Moffat , Piers Wenger, Beth Willis
Original Music by Murray Gold
Film Editing by Richard Senior

"Smith has come into his own as the Doctor, shifting between amiable, zany and intense as the occasion demands, \ and Darvill is a particular delight as Rory, with a nice line in buffoonery and wounded affection" Daily Telegraph

"Brilliantly tense, we're on a rollercoaster, a ghost train and also a hall of mirrors" The Times

"This much-loved but essentially creaky old property is in danger of morphing into a very British Buffy, and praise doesn't come much higher than that" Independent