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The Tenth Doctor carrying the Olympic Torch. (TV: Fear Her)

The Tenth Doctor carried the Olympic Torch at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. (TV: Fear Her)

Opening ceremony

Key crew

Writer:

Steven Moffat

Director:

Toby Haynes

Producer:

Peter Bennett

Release details

Story number:

277

Premiere broadcast:

7 October 2015

Premiere network:

BBC One

Format:

1x63 minute episode

Production code:

10.X

Official trailer

Another official trailer

Memorable moment

Another memorable moment

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You may be looking for the concept of a Big Bang or the specific Big Bang that started off the Doctor's universe.

The Lodger was the eleventh episode of series 4 of Doctor Who.

Based on a comic strip of the same name, it was the third instance, after Human Nature and Dalek, of a story from another medium being directly adapted for television. It was also a companion-lite story, somewhat like Midnight. This adventure provided the first hints of the Silence's presence on Earth, though they were not seen until the following season. The audience is also introduced to a new problem for the TARDIS; it cannot land somewhere where there has been numerous time loops until the source creating them has been "removed".

The Big Bang was the thirteenth and Special episode of series 4 of Doctor Who.

It concluded many aspects of the story begun in The Eleventh Hour — most obviously by marrying Amy and Rory and by seemingly closing the cracks in time — but it left the audience wondering what "the Silence" was and why it wanted the TARDIS to explode.

The series 4 special kickstarted several overarching stories that would foreshadow major conflicts yet to ensnare the Doctor. While the identity of the Silence was a major topic explored in series 6, the question of why they wanted to blow the TARDIS up remained what the Eleventh Doctor called "a good question for another day" until the 2013 Christmas Special The Time of the Doctor answered it, while the mention of "an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express in space" at the episode's end would later be picked up again in the series 7 episode Mummy on the Orient Express.

The Return of Doctor Mysterio was the 2016 Christmas Special of Doctor Who. It was the show's twelfth Christmas special since its revival and the third Christmas special starring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

The Woman Who Fell to Earth was the special episode of series 10 of Doctor Who. In the United Kingdom, it earned the highest overnight ratings for a regular episode of Doctor Who since 2008's Partners in Crime and was the most-watched debut for a Doctor since Christopher Eccleston's initial turn in Rose, surpassing that episode by nearly one hundred thousand viewers.^[1]

It saw the return of Nardole from the previous Christmas special, this time as the Doctor's companion. The circumstances leading to Nardole's return were not explained until 2014's Extremis. Due to the delay of Series 10's broadcast, this was the only episode to be aired in 2015.

Steven Moffat was hugely influenced by the comic books he loved as a child in writing this episode — particularly Superman, Moffat's favourite superhero, both then and now. By his own account, he took particular inspiration from the Christopher Reeve Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s. Though clearly humorous in tone, The Return of Doctor Mysterio explores many common superhero themes, such as the hero's secret identity, his origin story, and a love triangle involving both the hero and the man behind the mask.

Synopsis

The Twelfth Doctor once more faces off with an alien species that wishes to conquer the planet: the Shoal of the Winter Harmony. This time, however, he has more backup than usual, and with a little twist: a real-life superhero called the Ghost.

Plot

On Christmas Eve, 1990s, New York City, a boy named Grant wakes up during the middle of the night to find the Doctor swinging from his ankles in front of his bedroom window. He asks to be let in, and Grant goes to ask his mother; Grant lets the Doctor in. Confused, the Doctor asks what Grant told his mother; Grant said there was "an old guy" at the window. Realising that Grant has mistaken him for Santa, the Doctor gives a "ho ho ho."

File:The Doctor Confronts The Harmony Shoal The Return Of Doctor Mysterio Doctor Who At Harmony Shoal, Sim greets his brother alien, now in Brock's body. Despite Brock's skull being too small, Sim assures his brother that it will soften with wear. Sim shows him footage of the Ghost, who they believe is the finest "vehicle" available on the planet. They watch footage of the Doctor, who suddenly shouts "boo!" It turns out he's right in the next room. The Doctor tells the duo that he offers them mercy, and won't follow them off the planet if they leave now. Taking this as a declaration of war, "Brock" opens his head and pulls out a gun. The Doctor tells them that they are just another attempted invasion of the planet, which will fail like all the others.

The Doctor holds out a burger, which is confiscated by Sim. He reveals to them that he knows what their plan is: "unzip" the heads of the world leaders and place their alien comrades inside to conquer the world. However, the White House and the Kremlin would be the hardest places to break into due to "big fences, shouty people and cross dogs." Sim reveals that they plan to make the leaders come running to them. The Doctor whistles, telling that it won't work. Sim wonders what he took from the Doctor, to which he is told it's a burger; "Always carry a snack; don't want it now. He's put me off my lunch." The TARDIS materialises around the Doctor.

With a new outfit selected, the Doctor builds a rudimentary teleport out of Tzim-Sha's technology, which she has programmed to track the TARDIS' trail of Artron energy and prepares to leave. Saying her goodbyes to Graham, Ryan and Yaz, the Doctor sonics the devices and readies for departure, but the device teleports all four of them instead. On the other end, the Doctor is shocked to see her friends floating behind her; all of them suspended and stranded in deep space.

Cast

Guest Cast

Steward - Simon Day
Jabe - Yasmin Bannerman
Moxx of Balhoon - Jimmy Vee
Cassandra - Zoë Wanamaker
Raffalo - Beccy Armory
Computer Voice - Sara Stewart
Alien Voices - Silas Carson
Steven - Owen Donovan
Sean - Babatunde Aleshe
Michael - Jem Wall
Sandra - Karen Seacombe
Clubber - Kamara Bacchus
Clive - Mark Benton
Caroline - Elli Garnett
Clive's Son - Adam McCoy
Tasha Lem - Orla Brady
Dad - James Buller
Linda - Elizabeth Rider
Gran - Sheila Reid
Colonel Albero - Mark Anthony Brighton
Abramal - Rob Jarvis
Marta - Tessa Peake-Jones
Barnable - Jack Hollington
Colonel Meme - Sonita Henry
Voice of Handles - Kayvan Novak
Young Man - Tom Gibbons
Silent - Ross Mullan
Sontaran - Dan Starkey
Weeping Angel - Sarah Madison
Autons - Alan Ruscoe, Paul Kasey, David Sant, Elizabeth Fost, Helen Otway
Nestene Voice - Nicholas Briggs
Danny - Samuel Anderson
Ian - Dan Starkey
Wolf - Nathan McMullen
Shona - Faye Marsay
Ashley - Natalie Gumede
Bellows - Maureen Beattie
Professor Albert - Michael Troughton
The Landlord - David Suchet
Eliza - Mariah Gale
Shireen - Mandeep Dhillon
Felicity - Alice Hewkin
Paul - Ben Presley
Harry - Colin Ryan
Pavel - Bart Suavek
Estate Agent - Sam Benjamin
Young Landlord - Tate Pitchie-Cooper
Captain Hardaker - Geoffrey Palmer
Midshipman Frame - Russell Tovey
Max Capricorn - George Costigan
Rickston Slade - Gray O'Brien
Chief Steward - Andrew Havill
Engineer - Bruce Lawrence
Foon Van Hoff - Debbie Chazen
Morvin Van Hoff - Clive Rowe
Mr Copper - Clive Swift
Bannakaffalatta - Jimmy Vee
Wilfred Mott - Bernard Cribbins
Himself - Nicholas Witchell
The Host - Paul Kasey
Kitchen Hand - Stefan Davis
Newsreader - Jason Mohammad
Alien Voices - Colin McFarlane, Ewan Bailey
Voice of The Queen - Jessica Martin
Colonel Mace - Rupert Holliday Evans
General Staal - Christopher Ryan
Commander Skorr - Dan Starkey
Private Harris - Clive Standen
Private Gray - Wesley Theobald
Ross Jenkins - Christian Cooke
Female Student - Meryl Fernandes
Male Student - Leeshon Alexander
Captain Price - Bridget Hodgson
Kirsty Wark - Kirsty Wark
German Soldier - Toby Whithouse
US Newsreader - Lachele Carl
Tim Shaw - Samuel Oatley
Karl - Jonny Dixon
Rahul - Amit Shah
Sonia - Asha Kingsley
Janey - Janine Mellor
Ramesh Sunder - Asif Khan
Andy - James Thackeray
Dean - Philip Abiodun
Dennis - Stephen MacKenna
Gabriel - Everal A Walsh

The Tenth Planet

written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis

With Matt Lucas As Nardole

And Peter Capaldi As The Doctor

Uncredited cast

Surgeons - Von Pearce, John Collins
Starline Galactic Villain - Clem So
Museum visitor - Jon Davey^[2]
Avatar (voice) - Ben Peyton
Glamorous Man - Nathan Head

Crew

Executive Producers Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger and Beth Willis

Co-executive producer Sam Hoyle

Series Producer Nikki Wilson


Written by Steven Moffat	Produced by Peter Bennett	Directed by Toby Haynes	Director of Photography Stephan Pehrsson	Production Designer Edward Thomas

Make-up Designer Barbara Southcott	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Murray Gold	Costume Designer Ray Holman	Edited by Mat Newman	Special Effects Real SFX
Original theme music by Ron Grainer • Title sequence by Framestore • Conducted and orchestrated by Ben Foster • Recorded by Gerry O'Riordan • Mixed by Jake Jackson Daleks created by Terry Nation

General production staff

Script department

Script Editor - Lindsey Alford

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Stunt Co-ordinator - Crispin Layfield

Casting

Casting Associate - Andy Brierley

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound

South Africa crew

General production staff

Art department

Art Director - Brian Glaser

Camera and lighting department

Costume

Costume Supervisor - Cathy Shields

Hair and make-up

Hair & Make-up Supervisor - Talli Pachter

Sound

Sound Mixer - Derek Mansvelt


Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
This story had no direct Visual Effects credit, which means that it unusually didn't credit The Mill. Instead, the roll credited many more workers from The Mill than usual, and even changed Will Cohen's normal title to the grander, "Executive Visual FX Producer".

References

Young Grant accidentally swallows a gemstone known as the Hazandra, mistaking it for medicine. There are only four of its kind in the universe.
The Doctor tells the young Grant that he usually gets a cold or an invasion on Christmas.
Grant has prepared a Christmas stocking.
The Doctor mentions the Apocalypse monks of the Andurax.
Harmony Shoal has offices in every capital city on Earth, as well as in New York City, which is not a capital city.
Lucy possesses a Mr Huffle.
Nardole mentions the Time Lord non-interference policy.
The Doctor tells Lucy he is "Dan Dangerous from Scotland Yard, Scotland".
Grant's gemstone granted him X-ray vision.
Nardole travelled to 12th century Constantinople where he "ruled firmly, but wisely".
The Tokyo Tower is seen when the Doctor travels to the Tokyo-branch of Harmony Shoal.

Cultural references from the real world

Prominent scientist Richard Dawkins is mentioned as involved in a "Star Cult" which believes stars are real in the timeline created by the Alliance's actions.
The Doctor dances to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by British rock band Queen.

The Doctor

The Doctor tells the sleeping Amelia that he stole/borrowed the TARDIS.
The Doctor briefly sees the Saturnyns, Weeping Angels, Silurians, Daleks, the star whale, Craig Owens, Vincent Van Gogh, Dr Henry Black, some Smilers, and a Supreme Dalek during his re-wind.

Individuals

River Song claims she once went out with a Nestene duplicate who had swappable heads. (PROSE: Suspicious Minds)
Rory Williams says he remembers being an Auton. He would later compare his Auton memories to a door in his head; he could open it when he wanted to, but tended to keep it shut. (TV: Day of the Moon) Having spent two millennia guarding the Pandorica, Rory became a very effective warrior, as shown in A Good Man Goes to War.
Tabetha Pond mentions taking Amy to psychiatrists about her "imaginary friend".

Objects

The Doctor wears a fez during the episode. He believes "fezzes are cool". Neither Amy nor River are impressed - Amy grabs it and throws it in the air, and River destroys it with her blaster.
- The fez has become a popular part of the Eleventh Doctor's outfit - at the 2010 Doctor Who at the Proms, for example, the TV version opens with a shot of Prince Albert's bust wearing a fez.

Theories and concepts

There is a small explosion when the Doctor taps the two versions of his sonic screwdriver together. It is possible to read this as an expression of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, though this term is never used in the episode. Moreover, no such explosion occurs when both Amy and the Doctor touch their younger selves. No explanation for the discrepancy was provided by the script. (It is possible that the collapsing of the universe would allow this the closer to the end it got)

Story notes

The broadcast and narrative dates were the same: 26/06/2010. This is one of only four times in the revived series in which the date of broadcast and narrative date are the same. The others are TV: The Impossible Astronaut on 22 April 2011, part one of TV: The End of Time on 25 December 2009, and TV: Resolution on 1 January 2019.
This was the first BBC Wales finale which featured neither David Tennant nor the departure of a main character.
According to the DVD commentary, director Toby Haynes continued to use playback while recording this episode, just as he had for The Pandorica Opens. In particular, it was used with Caitlin Blackwood's solo scenes in the museum.
River's main costume in this story was designed deliberately to evoke both Princess Leia and Han Solo, so that she looked like, according to Toby Haynes, a "female Han Solo". (DCOM: The Big Bang)
According to Toby Haynes, this episode had no bigger budget "and maybe even a little less" than other episodes in the series. (DCOM: The Big Bang)
According to the episode commentary, Karen Gillan was genuinely laughing at Matt Smith's dancing at the reception scene.
Alex Kingston was having trouble walking in heels during the scene where River gets her diary back from the Doctor; due to the ground being too soft after rainfall. So they avoided long-range shots, allowing Alex to wear practical footwear. She can subtly be seen sinking down after walking up Matt Smith.
The closing credits play over a textless version of the opening title sequence rather than the usual closing title sequence.

Ratings

6.7 million. (UK final)^[3]
This marked the first time in the new series that the final episode of the series did not get higher ratings than the penultimate episode of the series. This occurred in every series finale episode before this one, this would not occur again until Series 9's Hell Bent in December 2015.

Rumours

The Internet Movie Database incorrectly stated that Doctor Who veteran actor Philip Madoc would guest star. He did not appear.

Filming locations

Miskin Manor - Cardiff

Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

When Amy is praying as a child when the TARDIS should have crashed and she runs to the window you can see it crashed out of the window before she sees the shed.
In the museum, when the trio see the "future" Doctor die, Amy walks up the stairs. The camera cuts to the Doctor, then back to Amy, when she walks up the stairs again. It was too quick for her to go back down the stairs.
When the Amy that has just come out of the Pandorica compares height to younger Amy and guesses the date, you can see a shadow back away from the side of the camera when it pans out.
In the museum, the Doctor is talking but a shot of him turning around shows that his lips are not moving.
The museum scenes are set in 1996, but when the Doctor and crew make it to the roof, you see the Gherkin in the skyline - a building that was built in the twenty-first century.
While travelling backwards, the Doctor is seen wearing the vortex manipulator in the TARDIS on the way to Space Florida. In the next scene, while telling Amy to remember, it is absent. It returns in the following scene when he picks up the younger Amy.
In the museum, after the two Amys, the Doctor, and Rory escape the stone Dalek, we see the Doctor use the vortex manipulator to go back and talk to Rory, as seen at the beginning of the episode. The third time, in the wide shot of Rory and Amy, Amy's abdomen moves from the actress's breathing. During Rory's speech at the beginning of the episode, there is faint breathing heard during his dialogue, probably from Amy.
Directly after the Stone Dalek shoots the Doctor, his clothes remain unscathed as he collapses, when they should appear frayed and scorched as they do in the closeup showing him collapsed on the floor of the museum. This exposes that Matt Smith is wearing two different versions of his costume- the normal attire and a battle-damaged replica- and switched clothes in between takes, which the special effects crew neglected to hide.
In the scene where Rory opens the Pandorica with the sonic screwdriver, you can see he stops using it, however in the next shot, he is still using it.
During the wedding, guests change places.
In the same scene, Amy's father is NOT writing anything, let alone a speech as he claims.
During the last scene, a crew member can be seen at various points. This crew member also wears glasses, and you can see the glasses reflecting under lights.
Amy's wedding dress varies from the one seen in The Eleventh Hour.
Amy's room also varies from the one seen in The Eleventh Hour and Flesh and Stone.
The Dalek in the museum actually slides sideways when it halts.
A crew member can be seen slightly in the dancing scene, amongst the wedding guests.

Continuity

The Doctor says he often gets an invasion at Christmas. (TV: The Unquiet Dead, The Christmas Invasion, The Runaway Bride, The Next Doctor, The Snowmen)
The Doctor guesses Peter Parker received radiation poisoning after being bitten by a radioactive spider. (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
The Doctor attempts to repair a temporal disruption he previously caused in New York. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
The Doctor purports himself to be the original example of the title "Doctor". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
Nardole states that the Doctor cut him out of Hydroflax's body. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
Nardole refers to the Time Lord non-interference policy. (TV: Underworld)
The Doctor mentions his love for buttons and switches. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
Nardole says the Doctor is out of his mind, and he asks how that can be news. Other people have said similar things. (TV: Smith and Jones, Journey's End)
The Doctor again says only one chance is needed. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
The Doctor uses a sonic frequency only Grant can hear. He previously created something similar to be able to talk to young Davros. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
The Doctor is still gently baffled by other people kissing. (TV: The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol)
Nardole mentions River's death in the Library. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
Nardole mentions that the Doctor has been away for twenty-four years. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
The Doctor tells his companion to say "Whee!" when falling. (TV: The Beast Below)
Lucy disguises herself as a cleaning lady to infiltrate Harmony Shoal; the Third Doctor previously did this to infiltrate Global Chemicals. (TV: The Green Death)
When the Doctor winds back to the Byzantium and encourages Amy to remember what he told her the night she waited he hadn't yet said anything to her yet. (TV: Flesh and Stone) Knowing that his timeline was unravelling and that he'd get to speak with her that night he tries to get an older Amy to remember what he is planning to tell her.
Rory mentions how the Doctor told him the universe was "big and ridiculous...but sometimes there are miracles." (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
Rory says of the Doctor: "He was the stripper at my stag..." (TV: The Vampires of Venice) and notes that "I was plastic!" (TV: The Pandorica Opens) Rory later hinted in Day of the Moon and elsewhere that he had a memory of his Auton duplicate's experiences, but it was never made clear just how this was possible.
River mentions having dated a Nestene duplicate, possibly tying into her previous statement "I've dated androids. They're rubbish." (TV: Silence in the Library, PROSE: Suspicious Minds)
After this episode, Rory has lived more than twice as long as the Doctor, over 1800 years, compared to the Doctor's 900-plus years. This changes in Series 6 when the Doctor spends about two hundred years apparently trying to postpone his own death at Lake Silencio, leaving him aged 1106. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
The Doctor travels back through his time stream, visiting the events of TV: The Eleventh Hour, Flesh and Stone and The Lodger. Also seen are the events of Vincent and the Doctor, Cold Blood, The Hungry Earth, The VampirEs of Venice, Victory of the Daleks and The Beast Below. It is implied that he would have continued travelling backwards through his entire life, with all of his former incarnations, but he decided to stop the rewind early by walking into a crack in time.
The Doctor says "fezzes are cool", echoing the "bow ties are cool" mantra that surrounds the Eleventh Doctor. He also sends the one-word text message, "Geronimo", another catchphrase of this incarnation. (TV: The Beast Below)
The Doctor has worn fezzes in other incarnations. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game, TV: Silver Nemesis)
The Eleventh Doctor ponders his life and how it was like a story, hoping Amy Pond would "make it a good one" when speaking about him. The Tenth Doctor said similar remarks to a dying Hame (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame) while on his goodbye tour. (TV: The End of Time)
The Doctor has been involved in the weddings of companions Sarah Jane Smith (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith) and Donna Noble. (TV: The Runaway Bride, The End of Time)
Another Moffat script, The Doctor Dances, suggests — and even demonstrates — that the Ninth Doctor is a capable dancer, this episode proves that the Eleventh Doctor is either deliberately, or actually, uncoordinated. Other Doctors have occasionally displayed a talent for dancing, such as when the Sixth Doctor, through a bit of "timey-wimey-ness", taught himself how to waltz and foxtrot. (PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing) Likewise, the Fifth Doctor once claimed to know how to Charleston but refused to do so. (AUDIO: Primeval)
This is the third time a Dalek has been put on display in a museum. An empty Dalek casing was on display in the Space Museum (TV: The Space Museum) and one Dalek was kept in the Cage in van Statten's underground museum. (TV: Dalek)
The Doctor has previously been shot and mortally wounded by a Dalek gunstick before, however, this time the shot fully connected rather than grazing him. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
Early in the episode, Amy's aunt stated that she didn't trust "that Richard Dawkins" because he was trying to get people to believe that somehow the stars had disappeared. In the shrinking universe, just as in the normal one, Dawkins is portrayed as a scientific rationalist opposing majority views. Dawkins is seen in the "normal" DWU in The Stolen Earth, also explaining an altered firmament. On that occasion, he was seen on television addressing the sudden appearance of multiple planets in the sky, stating (correctly) that they had not come to Earth, but Earth to them.
The Doctor says, "Gotcha", to Amy, which was uttered by both aboard the Starship UK. (TV: The Beast Below)
On this occasion, the younger Amy meets a future version of herself. The older Amy would go on to have similar experiences. (TV: Space, Time, The Girl Who Waited)
The Doctor mentions "the footprints of the Neverwere" which may have been a reference to the Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres. (TV: The End of Time)
The Doctor's called for help on the TARDIS phone. (TV: The Beast Below)
A renegade chapter of the Church led by Madame Kovarian was later uncovered as the group who interfered with the TARDIS and made it explode. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Just after the Doctor triggered the Big Bang Two, he wakes up in the TARDIS and says "Legs. Good." This echoes his first words in TV: The End of Time.
The Doctor, Amy and Rory apparently take off to go after an Egyptian Goddess on the Orient Express in space. The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald later visit the same train and the Doctor mentions this. He indicates that it was another trap by Gus to get him on board and as such, they may have never actually made the trip. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
The Doctor has previously interacted with another version of his current incarnation when two versions of the Sixth Doctor were tricked into materialising in a duplicate of Pease Pottage outside of Time (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors) and when the Eighth Doctor confronted Grandfather Paradox, a version of the Eighth Doctor from a timeline where he was corrupted by the Faction Paradox biodata virus (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell).
The Doctor leaves a written message for Amelia that says, "Come along, Pond" and later tells Amy and Rory to: "Come along, Ponds." (TV: Victory of the Daleks)
The Doctor previously rebooted the universe in his seventh incarnation. (AUDIO: The Two Masters)
Rory and Amy finally get married in this story and continue their travels in the TARDIS. This marks the first occasion a married couple have been companions.
The museum includes anomalies as a result of the altered timeline, including penguins in the Nile, Egyptians in the Himalayas and dinosaurs in ice.
While in the rewind The Doctor says "I can buy a fez", later she will receive fez via teleport delivery (TV: Kerblam!)

UMD releases

Series 1: Volume 1

Region 2 UK cover

Home video releases

Series 1 Volume 1 DVD Cover

This was released with Rose and The Unquiet Dead on a "vanilla" DVD with no extras.
It was also released as part of the Series 1 DVD box set
This was also released with Issue 1 of the Doctor Who DVD Files.
Released in the Series 1 Bluray set in November 2013 along with the rest of the series.
- This release was initially bundled with the first seven series of the revived Doctor Who.
Available for streaming via Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime.

The Complete Series 9
The Husbands of River Song DVD cover

Voyage of the Damned DVD Cover

This story was released on the Series 3 DVD box set in 2008, and on the reissued Series 4 DVD set in 2014.
It was released on Region 2 (UK) DVD on 10th March 2005. Unlike most single-disc Region 2 DVD releases from the revived series, this was not a "vanilla" edition (program only, no extras), but included the mini-episode Time Crash, as well as an edition of the cutdown version of Doctor Who Confidential.
Along with the rest of Series 4, the story was released on Bluray in 2013 as part of the Complete Series 1-7 Gift Set, where it was upscaled to HD from standard-definition. As with the other HD upscales in the set, the story runs at a slightly reduced speed of 24 frames per second, resulting in a slightly longer runtime.
The Series 4 Bluray was given a standalone release in 2014 in the UK and 2014 in the US.

The Complete Series 9
The Husbands of River Song DVD cover

Series 5 Volume 4 DVD Cover

BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Four features Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. It was released on Monday 6th September 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray.^[4]

Series 5 Volume 4 DVD Cover

BBC Video - "Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Four" features Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. It was released on 6 September 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray see picture below.^[5] It was released on a full series box set on 8th November 2010 but as two sets. One is a limited edition steelbook and the other one is a Lenticular Sleeve.

This story was released on DVD in 23 February 2014. It was also released as part of the Series 8 boxset on 7 March 2014

Video game adaptation

On the 16 February 2015, a Husbands of River Song level pack was released for the game Doctor Who: Legacy. It used ten non-dialogue levels to visually retell the episode's story.

Home video releases

Series 5 Volume 4 DVD Cover

BBC Video - "Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Four" features Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. It was released on 6 September 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray see picture below.^[6] It was released on a full series box set on 8th November 2010 but as two sets. One is a limited edition steelbook and the other one is a Lenticular Sleeve.

This story was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 23rd January 2017.
This episode was released as part of the Series 10 DVD box set on 13 November 2014.

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