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Series 7 (Doctor Who 2005)

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Series 7 of Doctor Who, sometimes known as Season 33 to avoid confusion with the original Season 7, was broadcast on BBC One between 2012 and 2013. Like Series 6, it was split into two parts. The BBC first announced the new series, which contained fourteen episodes, on the official Doctor Who site on 8 June 2011.

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The Doctor Who Logo, as seen in the first episode of Series 7, Asylum of the Daleks.
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The title card used for the second half of the series.

Series 7 began its run on 1 September 2012 with five regular, stand-alone episodes and a Christmas Special. These were followed by the remaining eight episodes in 2013.

Overview

Series 7 has been described at being a series of "movies" squeezed into forty five minutes, although The Snowmen was sixty minutes. The first half is about the Doctor deleting himself from the Universe to hide himself from the deadly Silence, who attempted to assassinate him in Series 6 to stop him from answering the Question. During this time, the Doctor regularly visits Amy Pond and Rory Williams and also meets his grandfather-in-law Brian Williams. The Doctor meets his wife, River Song, in the final episode of the first half of the series, which involved the Weeping Angels who separated him from Amy and Rory forever.

As established in The Name of the Doctor, in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen and thousands of other encounters with the Doctor before, echoes of Clara Oswald were sent through time with the purpose of saving the Doctor, dying in at least the lives in Asylum and The Snowmen. The Doctor, not knowing who Clara was, realised that both incarnations of her were the same woman and believed there would be more versions of her somewhere in the Universe. He found and travelled with the original Clara from 2013, determined to solve the mystery of the "impossible girl". To save the Doctor from having his victories undone by the Great Intelligence, Clara followed the Intelligence into the wound of the Doctor's timeline from his tomb on Trenzalore, sacrificing herself to save the Doctor many times over.

Cast

Matt Smith, continued to play the Eleventh Doctor throughout all of Series 7.

Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond, and Arthur Darvill, who played Amy's husband Rory Williams, returned for the first five episodes, departing in The Angels Take Manhattan. This episode also featured River Song, played by Alex Kingston, who again returned for the season finale.

Jenna-Louise Coleman debuted as the original, 21st century version of Clara Oswald, the Doctor's newest companion, from The Bells of Saint John. Prior to this episode, echoes of Clara spread through time, known as Oswin Oswald in the Dalek Asylum and Clara Oswin Oswald in Victorian London, appeared in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen respectively, also played by Coleman, and dying at the end of each story. Other versions of Clara existing at various prior eras of the show were also played by Coleman in The Name of the Doctor.

Primary cast

Secondary cast

Guest cast

Introducing

Production

Crew

Producers

Before the airing of Series 7, it was announced that both Beth Willis and Piers Wenger would step down as executive producers. Willis' last credit was on The Wedding of River Song; however, Piers Wenger stayed for one episode longer, and produced The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

A new executive producer named Caroline Skinner joined Steven Moffat to produce The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe onwards, but it was announced before the broadcast of the spring half of Series 7 that she was departing the show after just one season and would be replaced by BBC Wales Head of Drama, Faith Penhale.[1]

Writers

Head writer Steven Moffat wrote seven episodes. He has written the 2011 Christmas special, episodes one and five in the autumn run, the Children in Need mini-episode, the 2012 Christmas special, and episodes six and thirteen of the spring run.

Chris Chibnall and Toby Whithouse, who had both written episodes for multiple previous series of Doctor Who, returned to contribute scripts for the Autumn run. Chibnall wrote episodes two and four, while Whithouse wrote episode three.

Mark Gatiss also returned, writing episodes eight and eleven.

Another returning writer was Steve Thompson, who wrote episode ten.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman (who previously wrote The Doctor's Wife), wrote episode twelve.

Luther creator Neil Cross made his Doctor Who debut with episode seven, as well as writing episode nine.

Directors

Returning director Nick Hurran directed episodes one and five. Douglas Mackinnon, another returning director directed episodes four and eight.

New director Farren Blackburn directed the 2011 Christmas special, as well as episode seven.

Saul Metzstein, another director new to Doctor Who, directed episodes two, three, eleven, thirteen and the 2012 Christmas special.

A handful of new directors directed one episode each in the spring half of the series. These are: Colm McCarthy, Jamie Payne, Mat King and Stephen Wolfenden, who directed episodes six, nine, ten and twelve representatively.

Filming

Filming for series 7 began on 20 February 2012.[2] Episode three was filmed in Spain, [3] as were some scenes for episode one. Filming for episode five saw the crew return to America. This time, they were filming in New York.[4]

Television stories

Christmas special

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Director Prequel Notes
N/A The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe Steven Moffat Farren Blackburn Prequel|

Mini-episodes

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Director Notes
N/A Good as Gold The Children of Ashdene School Reappearance of a Weeping Angel.

Regular series

Autumn half

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Director Prequel Notes
1 Asylum of the Daleks Steven Moffat Nick Hurran Pond Life and Asylum of the Daleks Prequel Reappearance of the Daleks. First introduction and death of Clara Oswin Oswald.
2 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship Chris Chibnall Saul Metzstein Reappearance of the Silurians. First appearance of Brian Williams.
3 A Town Called Mercy Toby Whithouse Saul Metzstein The Making of the Gunslinger|
4 The Power of Three Chris Chibnall Douglas Mackinnon Reappearance of UNIT, Kate Stewart and Brian Williams.
5 The Angels Take Manhattan Steven Moffat Nick Hurran Reappearance of the Weeping Angels and River Song. Final appearances of Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Christmas special

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Director Prequel Notes
N/A The Snowmen Steven Moffat Saul Metzstein The Great Detective, Vastra Investigates and The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later Reintroduction of the Great Intelligence. Second introduction and death of Clara Oswin Oswald. Reintroduction of Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint

Spring half

The remaining eight episodes of Series 7 began airing on 30 March, 2013.

Episode
Number		 Title Writer Director Prequel Notes
6 The Bells of Saint John Steven Moffat Colm McCarthy The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel Reappearance of the Great Intelligence and UNIT. Third introduction of Clara Oswin Oswald.
7 The Rings of Akhaten Neil Cross Farren Blackburn
8 Cold War Mark Gatiss Douglas Mackinnon Return of the Ice Warriors.
9 Hide Neil Cross Jamie Payne
10 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Steve Thompson Mat King
11 The Crimson Horror Mark Gatiss Saul Metzstein Reappearance of Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint.
12 Nightmare in Silver Neil Gaiman Stephen Woolfenden Reintroduction of the Cybermen
13 The Name of the Doctor Steven Moffat Saul Metzstein She Said, He Said and Clarence and the Whispermen Reappearance of the Great Intelligence, River Song, Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint. Introduction of the Unknown Doctor.

Episode notes

  • This is the only series so far to have special 'movie' posters made featuring titles, cast and credits.
  • For the first time in Doctor Who, this series had no two-parters in it, however The Name of the Doctor ends with a "To be continued" cliffhanger leading into the 50th anniversary special.

Aliens and enemies

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

DVD

name Number and duration
of episodes 		R2 release date R4 release date R1 release date
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe		 1 × 60 min. 16 January 2012 1 March 2012 14 February 2012
Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 1
Asylum of the Daleks
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
A Town Called Mercy
The Power of Three
The Angels Take Manhattan		 1 x 50 min.
4 × 45 min.		 29 October 2012 14 November 2012 13 November 2012
Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 2
The Snowmen
The Bells of Saint John
The Rings of Akhaten
Cold War
Hide
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
The Crimson Horror
Nightmare in Silver
The Name of the Doctor		 1 x 60 min.
8 x 45 min.		 27 May 2013 22 May 2013 28 May 2013
Doctor Who: The Complete Series Seven [5]
 1 x 50 min.
1 x 60 min.
12 x 45 min.		 TBA TBA TBA

Novels

Audiobooks

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Executive Producer Moves On. BBC - Doctor Who. Retrieved on 13 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Morgan Jeffery (9 February 2012). 'Doctor Who' to resume filming this month, Saul Metzstein to direct. Digital Spy. Retrieved on 23 August 2012.
  3. ↑ The Doctor Who Team (16 July 2012). New Series: Dinosaurs and Mercy!. BBC - Blogs - Doctor Who. Retrieved on 7 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Marcus" (24 March 2012). Production: Convention News. Doctor Who News. Retrieved on 23 August 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C6ACVD6?tag=tvshowsondvdcom&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B00C6ACVD6&creative=373489&camp=211189
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