The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)

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The Impossible Astronaut was the first episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who. It introduced the Silence as a species, building on the references of the previous series.

Synopsis

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. [1]

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

The Doctor

  • An older Eleventh Doctor, who is 1,103 years old, begins to regenerate, but is killed before the process completes.
  • The Doctor states his current age as being 909 years old.
  • The Doctor says that he is late for a biplane lesson in 1911 but gets confused and wonders if it is actually knitting.

Films

  • Amy Pond and Rory Williams watch a Laurel & Hardy film on television.

Fashion and clothing

  • The Doctor is also shown whilst wearing a fez in a Laurel & Hardy film.

Years

  • The Doctor states that the year 1482 is full of glitches, but also says 1969 is 'easy'. This may suggest that some years are harder to travel to than others.

TARDIS

  • The Doctor makes the TARDIS invisible when he materializes in the Oval Office. Although the Doctor walks into it afterwards when he tries to enter it again.

Story notes

  • This episode had the working title Year of the Moon[2]
  • This is the first two-parter opening episode of the revived series.
  • A prequel for this story was released on the offcial BBC website.[3]
  • The monsters in this episode were said to be "the scariest monsters yet".[4]
  • The episode was dedicated to Elisabeth Sladen, who had passed away four days before the episode's initial broadcast.

Ratings

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Myths

  • We will see River Song as a child.[5]
  • The second episode will air the day after the first.[6][7][8]This has been confirmed as false by a number of sources[source needed]

Filming locations

Production errors

to be added

Continuity

Home video releases

The DVD will be released in two halves. Part One, which will contain episodes one to seven will be released in Summer, shortly after the airing of episode seven.[9]

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://doctorwho.bbcamerica.com/seasons/6/episodes/1
  2. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-titles-and-date-16375.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_110325_01/The_Prequel_Has_Landed
  4. ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/s7/doctor-who/news/a289472/smith-teases-scary-who-monsters-for-us-eps.html
  5. ↑ http://tardisspoilers.blogspot.com/2010/10/will-we-see-river-as-child.html
  6. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/new-series-6-trailer-air-date-rumours-15879.htm
  7. ↑ http://tardisspoilers.blogspot.com/2011/03/talk-of-air-dates.html
  8. ↑ http://tardisspoilers.blogspot.com/2011/03/double-who.html
  9. ↑ http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-dvd-releases-15635.htm

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