The Girl Who Waited (TV story)

The Girl Who Waited (TV story)

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The Girl Who Waited
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond Rory Williams
Main enemy:	Handbots
Main setting:	Apalapucia
Key crew
Writer:	Tom MacRae
Director:	Nick Hurran
Producer:	Marcus Wilson
Release details
Story number:	220
Release number:	Series 6
Premiere broadcast:	10th September 2011
Format:	1x 45 minutes episode
Production code:	6.10
Confidential:	[[confidential::What Dreams May Come|What Dreams May Come]]

The Girl Who Waited (TV story) was the tenth episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who. It was a Doctor-lite episode and centred around Amy's relationship with Rory.

Synopsis

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague on Apalapucia – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine. Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• Check-in girl - Josie Taylor
• Voice of Interface - Imelda Staunton
• Voice of Handbots - Stephen Bracken-Keogh

Crew

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References

• Disneyland is mentioned
• The planet Clom is mentioned.

Story notes

• This was allegedly called The Green Anchor, but this was later denied by the writer.
• The episode's original title was The Visitors' Room. This changed to The Visiting Hour and later, the one-word title, Kindness. Despite many reports to the contrary, there was no late change to the adventure's title and at no point was it ever called The Green Anchor.

Ratings

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Myths

The episode was going to be called The Green Anchor. This was proven false and was also denied by the writer.

Production errors

• Several scenes show that apart from her face, Amy's skin has not aged in thirty-six years.

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.

Continuity

• Clom is mentioned. (DW: Love & Monsters)
• Rory mentions the Doctor's fez. (DW: The Big Bang)
• Amy previously met a future version of herself in DW: Space and Time, met a 7-year old version of herself in DW: The Big Bang, and saw a future version of herself in the distance in DW: The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood.

Home video releases

This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray shortly after the airing of episode thirteen.

External links

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