Amy's Choice (TV story)

Amy's Choice
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond Rory Williams
Main enemy:	The Dream Lord The Ecnodeen
Main setting:	Upper Leadworth, Earth, 2015 (dream) The TARDIS (Part Dream)
Key crew
Writer:	Simon Nye
Director:	Catherine Morshead
Release details
Story number:	208
Premiere broadcast:	15th May 2010
Format:	1 x 45 minute episode

Amy's Choice is the seventh episode of Series 5.

Synopsis

It's been five years since Amy Pond last traveled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life for ever. They will have to choose which is the dream world and which is reality.

Plot

Amy travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor five years ago. As she is just about to give birth, the Doctor returns and Amy has to make a life changing decision.

Cast

• Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• Dream Lord - Toby Jones
• Mr Nainby - Nick Hobbs
• Mrs Poggit - Audrey Ardington
• Mrs Hamil - Joan Linder

Production crew

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References

• The Doctor reveals to Amy and Rory that he threw the TARDIS Manual at a Supernova because he 'disagreed' with it.
• The Dream Lord brings up the Doctor's relationship with Elizabeth I.

Story notes

• The enemies the old folks play are a race known as the Ecnodeen.
• The title was confirmed in Radio Times. [1]
• Amy will be pregnant. [2]
• Two strange pictures for this episode have been released, one showing several pensioners who appear to be trying to remove the TARDIS from a garden, and another one showing an old lady with an axe, as if ready to attack someone. http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/amys-choice-4876.htm
• The Dream Lord traps the Doctor, Rory and Amy in an alternative world and Amy has to decide what is the real world.
• Technically, the entire episode took place in the TARDIS.
• The box under the TARDIS console the Doctor opens has the words: "TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Build Site: Gallifrey Blackhole Shipyard. Type 40. Build date: 1963. Authorised for use by qualified Time Lords only by the Shadow Proclamation. Misuse or theft of any TARDIS will result in extreme penalties and permanent exile." written on it.
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  The "Dream Lord" with the TARDIS

Ratings

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Rumours

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Toby Jones as The Dream Lord

• The 'Dream Lord' is rumoured to pretend to be the Doctor because of a shot of him inside the TARDIS wearing the Eleventh Doctor's costume in the trailer. He wasn't pretending to be the Doctor, he was the Doctor or to be more specific, his dark side.
• Aunt Sharon will appear. This was false

Filming locations

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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.

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Continuity

• The Doctor mentions again that bow ties are cool. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
• The Dream Lord refers to what happened between the Doctor and Queen Elizabeth I. (DW: The Shakespeare Code, The End of Time, The Beast Below)
• The Doctor initially assumes that the TARDIS has jumped a time track (DW: The Space Museum)
• The Doctor tries to jump start the TARDIS by kicking it. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)

DVD and Blu-ray release

BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Three will feature Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor. It will be released on Monday 2nd August 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray.

See also

The Dream Lord

External links

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