Throughout the fifth series Amy and the Doctor go on some truly extraordinary adventures including travelling to 16th-century Venice, exploring France during the 1890s and visiting the United Kingdom in the far future, now an entire nation floating in space.

However, the Doctor's enemies are never far behind him, including old nemeses the Daleks and Weeping Angels, plus new monsters such as alien vampires, humanoid reptiles and a silent menace that follows the Doctor and Amy wherever they go.

Guest Stars (in alphabetical order)

James Corden, Tony Curran, Arthur Darvill, Iain Glen, Alex Kingston, Helen McCrory, Ian McNeice, Sophie Okonedo, Bill Paterson, Meera Syal, Nina Wadia

Series 5

Episode 1 - The Eleventh Hour

The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has twenty minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

Episode 2 - The Beast Below

On board a floating spaceship the Doctor meets the chilling Smilers.

Episode 3 - Victory of the Daleks

The Daleks do battle with Winston Churchill.

Episode 4 - The Time of Angels / Episode 5 - Flesh and Stone

River Song reappears in a two-part story that explores the full power of the Weeping Angels. Part two - the Weeping Angels are closing and the clerics are dying one by one.

Episode 6 - Vampires of Venice

The TARDIS lands in 16th-century Venice where the Doctor and Amy tackle alien vampires

Episode 7 - Amy’s Choice

Five years have passed since Amy Pond last saw the Doctor. But when one day he reappears in her life, she faces a terrible decision.

Episodes 8 - The Hungry Earth / Episode 9 - Cold Blood

It’s 2015 and the most ambitious driling project in history has reached deep beneath the Earth’s crust disturbing a deadly danger from a bygone age. Two part story featuring the classic reptilian creatures, the Silurians.

Episode 10 - Vincent and the Doctor

The Doctor and Amy meet Van Goch and together they battle with a terrifying alien..

Episode 11 - The Lodger

The Doctor is stranded on Earth and cut off from Amy and the TARDIS. He has to pass himself off as a human being to solve the mystery of a staircase that people go up, but never come down.

Episode 12 - The Pandorica Opens / Episode 13 - The Big Bang

Two part finale featuring Stonehenge and the Daleks, Sonatarans and Cybermen. The Doctor’s friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what is inside, and can the Doctor stop it? The Doctor and Amy travel to Roman Britain and the first planet in existence for clues.

Writers

Steven Moffat (ep 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 13) / Mark Gatiss (ep 3) / Toby Whithouse (ep 6)/Simon Nye (ep 7) / Chris Chibnall (ep 8, 9) / Richard Curtis (ep 10) / Gareth Roberts (ep 11)

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