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[[Video:Doctor Who - Full Length Trailer for New Series 2011 - BBC One|thumb|250px|right|An official BBC One series 6 trailer]] [[Video:SheppardVoiceOver|thumb|250px|right|An official BBCA series 6 trailer]]
- For the 1968-69 series of the original Doctor Who, see Season 6.
Series 6 of Doctor Who, sometimes known as Season 32 to avoid confusion with Season 6, was aired in 2011. DWM 419 confirmed that it had been commissioned by the BBC, and producer Piers Wenger also announced the same at the BBC Press Launch for series five in March 2010.
Filming started in July 2010. This series was preceded by a 2010 Christmas Special, written by Steven Moffat. The series was split into two sections, with the first episode, The Impossible Astronaut airing on 23rd April 2011. It paused after the seventh episode, A Good Man Goes to War was aired. The series picked up with the eighth episode, Let's Kill Hitler, at the end of August and ran through to the final, thirteenth episode, The Wedding of River Song. Short prequels were released on the official site to publicise the series, the first time such brief productions had been made since the Tardisodes of Series 2.
Television stories
Christmas special
Episode Number |
Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
N/A | A Christmas Carol | Steven Moffat | Toby Haynes |
Comic Relief mini-episodes
Episode Number |
Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
N/A | Space | Steven Moffat | Richard Senior | |
N/A | Time | Steven Moffat | Richard Senior |
Regular season
Spring
Episode Number | Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
1 & 2 | Pt. 1: The Impossible Astronaut Pt. 2: Day of the Moon |
Steven Moffat | Toby Haynes | First appearance of the Silence and Madame Kovarian. Return of River Song. |
3 | The Curse of the Black Spot | Steve Thompson | Jeremy Webb | Moved from the Autumn half to Episode 3. Reappearance of Kovarian. |
4 | The Doctor's Wife | Neil Gaiman | Richard Clark | Changed from Episode 3. Reappearance of the Ood. |
5 & 6 | Pt. 1: The Rebel Flesh Pt. 2: The Almost People |
Matthew Graham | Julian Simpson | Reappearance of Kovarian and introduction of the Flesh concept. The question if Amy is pregnant or not is answered. |
7 | Pt. 1: A Good Man Goes to War | Steven Moffat | Peter Hoar | End of the Spring half of Series 6. Return of River Song, along with the Cybermen, Sontarans, Judoon, Silurians, Kovarian and Dorium. The origin and identity of River Song revealed |
Autumn
Episode Number | Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
8 | Pt. 2: Let's Kill Hitler | Steven Moffat | Richard Senior | Start of the Autumn half of Series 6. Conclusion to A Good Man Goes to War. |
9 | Night Terrors | Mark Gatiss | Richard Clark | Changed from episode four. |
10 | The Girl Who Waited | Tom MacRae | Nick Hurran | First time the Eleventh Doctor does not directly get involved. |
11 | The God Complex | Toby Whithouse | Nick Hurran | Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Amy and Rory leave the Doctor. Cameo appearance of the Weeping Angels.
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12 | Closing Time | Gareth Roberts | Steve Hughes | Reintroduction of the Cybermats and return of Craig Owens, Sophie and the Cybermen. Cameo return of River Song, Madame Kovarian and The Silence. |
13 | The Wedding of River Song | Steven Moffat | Jeremy Webb | Reappearance of Winston Churchill, Malohkeh, Charles Dickens, River Song, Dorium, The Silence and Madam Kovarian |
Mini-episodes
Doctor Who Confidential mini-episode
Episode Number |
Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
N/A | Death is the Only Answer | Pupils from Oakley CE Junior School | Jeremy Webb | Appearance of an Ood and guest appearance of Albert Einstein since Time and the Rani. |
Children in Need mini-episode
Episode Number |
Title | Writer | Director | Notes |
N/A | Children in Need special[1] | Steven Moffat | TBA |
Cast
Primary cast
Secondary cast
Guest cast
- Kazran Sardick - Michael Gambon
- Abigail Pettigrew - Katherine Jenkins
- Canton Delaware - Mark Sheppard
- Richard Nixon - Stuart Milligan
- Henry Avery - Hugh Bonneville
- Toby Avery - Oscar Lloyd
- Idris - Suranne Jones
- House - Michael Sheen
- Jennifer Lucas - Sarah Smart
- Miranda Cleaves - Raquel Cassidy
- Dorium - Simon Fisher Becker
- Colonel Manton - Danny Sapani
- Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh
- Jenny - Catrin Stewart
- Strax - Dan Starkey
- Lorna Bucket - Christina Chong
- Adolf Hitler - Albert Welling
- Mels - Nina Toussaint-White
- Young Amy Pond - Caitlin Blackwood
- Young Rory Williams - Ezekiel Wigglesworth
- George - Jamie Oram
- Alex - Daniel Mays
- Gibbis - David Walliams
- Rita - Amara Karen
- Craig Owens - James Corden
- Sophie - Daisy Haggard
- Val - Lynda Baron
- Charles Dickens - Simon Callow
- Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
- Malohkeh - Richard Hope
- Gantok - Mark Gatiss
Novels
Audiobooks
Aliens and enemies
DVD and Blu-ray release
The DVD release of Series 6 will be in two parts, unlike the past series, which was released in four to five parts over the duration of the series. Part One, which contains episodes one to seven was released on 11th July 2011, shortly after the airing of episode seven. Part Two will be released in the Autumn, shortly after episode thirteen is aired.[2] Both parts will be released as a box set in November.[3]