Doctor Who: Season 5

2010 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.7

Series 5

What Season 5 of Doctor Who

The season picks up right where The End of Time left off. The Eleventh Doctor, freshly regenerated, lands on Earth in 1996 with the TARDIS wrecked by the shockwave, and touches down in front of Amy Pond's garden, where she becomes his new companion. Rory, Amy's fiancé, appears from the first episode, although it takes him six episodes to join the journey. River Song reappears twice. The conflicts take the Doctor from a 33rd-century spaceship to World War II, with the Daleks, the Weeping Angels, the Silurians and some vampires in Venice in 1580. The new showrunner, Steven Moffat, takes the reins of the series.

13episodes

Apr 3, 2010premiered

Jun 26, 2010latest episode

10.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 The Eleventh Hour
Apr 3, 2010 · 65 min · ★ 8.3
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 just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.
Directing: Adam Smith · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Arthur Darvill, Marcello Magni, Merin Monteath, Eden Monteath
5x02 The Beast Below
Apr 10, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
Amy Pond takes her first trip in the TARDIS when the Doctor whisks her away to the distant future and they discover Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people as they search the stars for a new home. But when Amy explores she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting Booth...
Directing: Andrew Gunn · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Hannah Sharp, Ian McNeice, Sophie Okonedo, Terrence Hardiman
5x03 Victory of the Daleks
Apr 17, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 6.8
The Doctor has been summoned by old friend Winston Churchill, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him, as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back – but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?
Directing: Andrew Gunn · Writing: Mark Gatiss · Starring: Bill Paterson, Ian McNeice, Nina De Cosimo, Susannah Fielding
5x04 The Time of Angels (1)
Apr 24, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Don't blink!" everyone tells Amy - but Amy is about to discover, not blinking might just be the worst thing you can do...
Directing: Adam Smith · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Alex Kingston, Iain Glen, Mark Springer, David Atkins
5x05 Flesh and Stone (2)
May 1, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.
Directing: Adam Smith · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Alex Kingston, Iain Glen, David Atkins, Mark Monero
5x06 The Vampires of Venice
May 8, 2010 · 49 min · ★ 6.8
Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the Tardis touches down once again. But 16th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...
Directing: Jonny Campbell · Writing: Toby Whithouse · Starring: Arthur Darvill, Alex Price, Lucian Msamati, Helen McCrory
5x07 Amy's Choice
May 15, 2010 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
It has been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life forever. They will have to choose which is the dream world and which is reality.
Directing: Catherine Morshead · Writing: Simon Nye · Starring: Arthur Darvill, Toby Jones, Nick Hobbs, Joan Linder
5x08 The Hungry Earth (1)
May 22, 2010 · 44 min · ★ 7.2
In 2020, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.
Directing: Ashley Way · Writing: Chris Chibnall · Starring: Arthur Darvill, Meera Syal, Robert Pugh, Neve McIntosh
5x09 Cold Blood (2)
May 29, 2010 · 46 min · ★ 7.3
It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony… or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he tries desperately to ensure Alaya's prediction of a massacre does not come true. Meanwhile, what fate will befall the captured Amy and can Tony and his friends be trusted?
Directing: Ashley Way · Writing: Chris Chibnall · Starring: Arthur Darvill, Meera Syal, Robert Pugh, Stephen Moore
5x10 Vincent and the Doctor
Jun 5, 2010 · 47 min · ★ 8.7
Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?
Directing: Jonny Campbell · Writing: Richard Curtis · Starring: Tony Curran, Bill Nighy, Andrew Byrne, Morgan Overton
5x11 The Lodger
Jun 12, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 7.4
There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens.
Directing: Catherine Morshead · Writing: Gareth Roberts · Starring: Owen Donovan, Jem Wall, Kamara Bacchus, Daisy Haggard
5x12 The Pandorica Opens (1)
Jun 19, 2010 · 49 min · ★ 8.3
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's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?
Directing: Toby Haynes · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill, Christopher Ryan, Tony Curran
5x13 The Big Bang (2) Season Finale
Jun 26, 2010 · 54 min · ★ 8.3
The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.
Directing: Toby Haynes · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill, Susan Vidler, Karen Westwood