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"The Eleventh Hour" is the first episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 3 April 2010. The episode, written by then-new head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith , saw a complete change in cast and production crew.
Apr 17, 2010 · The Eleventh Hour: Directed by Adam Smith. With Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Caitlin Blackwood. With his TARDIS in ruins, the newly-regenerated Doctor with the help of Amy Pond must save the world in less than twenty minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi.
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- 2010-04-17
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was the first episode of series five of Doctor Who. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by Adam Smith and introduced Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as the new companion Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as recurring character and future companion Rory Williams.
It further debuted the presence of cracks in the universe, and sparked the beginning of a critical plot thread that trailed deep into the Eleventh Doctor's tenure with three words: "silence will fall". This was compounded by the mention of a Pandorica which was fated to open.
Though not the first episode of the 2010 series filmed, it was the public's first full exposure to a new production ethos, as shaped by new executive producers Moffat, Piers Wenger and Beth Willis. It was also the public's first exposure to director Adam Smith's work on a Doctor Who universe programme. A new title sequence by Framestore debuted with this episode, along with yet another Murray Gold theme arrangement. The theme change, however, garnered significant public backlash in the United Kingdom, forcing the Doctor Who production team to respond to criticism in a long segment on the public comment programme, Points of View.
The episode was extensively previewed before broadcast, with theatrical screenings in several British cities as part of a promotional tour at the end of March 2010, and on the east and west coasts of the United States. The first minute of the episode was released as a special preview on the digital Red Button service a week before its first BBC One broadcast.
After a literally explosive regeneration, the brand new Eleventh Doctor survives a crash-landing to Earth. However, he has little time to recover. With a mysterious crack in a little girl's wall and a missing alien prisoner, the Doctor is in for an adventure. However, with the TARDIS damaged and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, can the Doctor captu...
Suffering major damage after the Tenth Doctor's regeneration in the previous adventure, the TARDIS flies wildly over London as it enters the atmosphere. An explosion on the console inside causes the doors to unlock and the Eleventh Doctor (still dressed in the ragged and torn remains of his predecessors' clothes) to fall out, barely hanging onto the edge of the entrance. He tries to pull himself up as the TARDIS momentarily stabilises, though it is still heading downwards. Getting halfway in, he notices the TARDIS is heading straight for Big Ben; using the sonic screwdriver, he diverts the TARDIS just enough to miss the clock tower's spire. Pulling himself back in and locking the doors behind him, the Doctor sighs in relief. However, another explosion throws him as the TARDIS spins madly off into the distance.
In 1996, Amelia Pond prays to Santa Claus in her bedroom; a crack in her wall frightens her, and she wants him to send someone to mend it. Suddenly, a crash outside catches her attention, and running to look, she sees the TARDIS lying sideways in her back garden, having crushed her shed on landing. She thanks Santa, and goes to investigate. The TARDIS doors swing open, and a grappling hook flies out, hooking onto a wheelbarrow. A soaking-wet Doctor struggles to pull himself out; he looks at the puzzled Amelia and gives her a reassuring smile, though it comes more off as goofy. He asks for an apple as they're the only thing he can think of; his regeneration is giving him a craving, which he's never had before. As he starts climbing out, he has a look down into the TARDIS, explaining that he'd had to climb up from the library. When Amelia points out that he's soaking wet, the Doctor explains that the swimming pool is also in the library right now. The Doctor has a momentary spasm, causing him to fall to the ground before breathing out a stream of golden energy. She asks him who he is, but the Doctor doesn't know yet himself; he's "still cooking". Amelia tells him about the crack, and the Doctor introduces himself, informing her to do what he says and not wander off; he promptly walks into a tree and knocks himself down — "Early days. Steering's a bit off".
Inside, the Doctor tries eating an apple but spits out the bite he took, saying it tastes terrible. He then requests yoghurt, but spits it out as well. Amelia is confused, as the Doctor had said it was his favourite. The Doctor explains, "New mouth, new rules". More food follows: bacon, baked beans, bread and butter all being asked for, prepared, tried and thrown out. Searching Amelia's fridge, the Doctor rejects carrots before he finds just what he needs: fish fingers and custard.
While the Doctor tries out his new delicacy, Amelia eats ice cream from the tub. The duo bonds. During their conversation, the Doctor discovers the child's name is Amelia Pond — a great name, according to the Doctor, "like a name in a fairy tale". He asks, based on her accent, if they're in Scotland. Amelia tells him that they're actually in England, where they had to move to and she doesn't like. When the Doctor notes that he'd have thought Amelia's parents would have been woken up by now, she tells him that she doesn't have a mum or dad but lives with her Aunt Sharon. Upon learning that her aunt is out, the Doctor notes that because Amelia is neither afraid of him nor his strange arrival in her garden, it must be one hell of a scary crack in her wall.
Amelia takes the Doctor up to her room to examine the crack in the wall. She also offers him an apple with a smiley face carved into it, as her mother used to make for her to help her like them. He thanks her and pockets the apple, "for later". The Doctor examines the crack, telling Amelia that even if the wall was removed, the crack would still be there; the crack exists in that space, not the wall, describing it as "two parts of space and time that should never have touched". Upon inspecting the crack more closely, the Doctor is astonished to hear a voice on the other side of the crack transmitting the message, "Prisoner Zero has escaped."
Ascertaining that an alien prison lies on the other side of the crack, he opens it fully with the sonic screwdriver and is faced with the alien guard — which appears to be a giant eyeball — who sends him a message on the psychic paper before the crack finally shuts. The message reads the same thing: "Prisoner Zero has escaped." The Doctor, realising the prisoner has escaped through Amelia's bedroom, rushes out into the corridor to investigate and deduces that he's missing something out of the corner of his eye. Before he can discover it, though, the Cloister Bell chimes.
•The Doctor - Matt Smith
•Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
•Rory - Arthur Darvill
•Amelia - Caitlin Blackwood
•Dr Ramsden - Nina Wadia
•Barney Collins - Marcello Magni
The Doctor
•The Doctor has recently regenerated from his tenth incarnation. He spends most of the adventure wearing the tattered clothes of his predecessor. •The Doctor mentions "cowboys," a phrase used by his previous incarnation. •The Doctor calls the TARDIS "you sexy thing" and "dear".
Foods and beverages
•The Doctor doesn't like apples, yoghurt, bacon, beans or bread and butter. He rejects carrots without even trying them, but does like fish fingers and custard, a combination dubbed "fish custard". •Amelia eats ice cream. •Amy sends Mr Henderson to have some coffee. •The ice cream man sells Crumbles, Zzapp, Refresher and Fab.
Galactic Law
•Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation is cited by the Doctor against the Atraxi.
•There currently exist as many as four separate BBC-produced edits of this episode:
•The episode as broadcast, which is available on the BBC iPlayer.
•The edit seen on the home video releases. This is notable for using the BBC Worldwide logo over the opening shot of the TARDIS flying over London, as opposed to the standard BBC logo. This edit contains a number of changes, including the removal of the thunder/lighting sound effects in the opening titles, and the addition of a fire effect surrounding the TARDIS after the Doctor Who logo appears in the opening titles (both unique to this edit of this specific episode). The episode ends with the merchandise version of the new Doctor Who logo flying towards the screen before the closing titles, with the series 5 trailer cut.
•An edit identical to the one above but with the Series 5 trailer restored, but replaces the "DW" phone box icon with the aforementioned merchandise Doctor Who logo zoom. This edit was seen in the version of the Complete Fifth Series issued as part of the US series 1-7 Bluray gift set in 2013, and is also the edit used on HBO Max in the US.
•The edit seen on BBC America, which heavily edits the episode to fit in a 60-minute time slot with commercials. This edit is largely based on the broadcast version, but omits the series 5 trailer and significantly trims some scenes. One key cut is the removal of Prisoner Zero's "Silence will fall" statement toward the end. BBC America broadcast this edit for the season premiere, leading to anger from fans and some possible confusion when cut scenes were incorporated in flashbacks during later episodes such as The Impossible Astronaut. This edit has remained for repeat airings.
•Matt Smith revealed that there are five things in this story to look out for over the course of the series, the cracks being one of the five things.
•The TARDIS is crashing towards Earth after the Tenth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: •Perception filters are also used by the TARDIS keys (TV: The Sound of Drums) and the Torchwood Three lift. (TV: Everything Changes)
•The Doctor uses the phrase, "Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey". (TV: Blink, Time Crash)
•The Doctor opens the TARDIS by clicking his fingers. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
•The Doctor tells Amy Pond the "don't wander off" rule. The Tenth Doctor also told his companions this rule. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
•The Shadow Proclamation is again invoked. (TV: Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The Stolen Earth)
•Creatures appearing in the projected image included the Cybermen, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) the Daleks, (TV: Doomsday) a Pyrovile, (TV: The Fires of Pompeii) the Empress of the Racnoss, (TV: The Runaway Bride) the Ood, (TV: Planet of the Ood) the Hath, (TV: The Doctor's Daughter) the Sontarans, (TV: The Time Warrior) the Sea Devils, (TV: The Sea Devils) the Sycorax, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) a Reaper, (TV: Father's Day) and a Vashta Nerada victim. (TV: Silence in the Library)
received its international broadcast debut on 17 April 2010 when both BBC America in the US and Space in Canada broadcast it, followed by ABC1 in Australia on 18 April.
However, it had several pre-broadcast public screenings in North America prior to its official broadcast launch. On the west coast, it premièred on 3 April at WonderCon in San Francisco. Its east coast debut was on 14 April 2010 at the Village East Cinema in Manhattan. This latter screening was sponsored by BBC America, and was attended by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat, who fielded questions after the showing. An additional showing occurred on 16 April at the C2E2 convention in Chicago. In addition, there were also press screenings, such as the Canadian one held in Toronto 8 April after which Moffat participated in a Q&A via Skype.
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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.
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"The Eleventh Hour" is the first episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 3 April 2010. The episode, written by then-new head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith, saw a complete change in cast and productio
