Doctor Who: Series 5 Episode Guide

Catch-up on the Doctor's adventures in the fifth series from Russell T.Davies. (Images ©BBC)

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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 just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.
Episode 2 - The Beast Below

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.
Episode 3 - Victory of the Daleks

The Doctor has been summoned by his old friend Winston Churchill but in the Cabinet War Rooms, far below the streets of blitz-torn London, he finds his oldest enemy waiting for him. The Daleks are back! And can Churchill really be in league with them?
Episode 4 - The Time of Angels

The Doctor is recruited by Father Octavian to track the last of the Weeping Angels through the terrifying Maze of the Dead. As the Time Lord faces the Lonely Assassins, last seen in Blink, River Song is by his side. But can she be trusted?
Episode 5 - Flesh and Stone

Time is running 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, Amy finds herself facing an even more deadly attack and the Doctor realises he has more than the Angels to deal with.
Episode 6 - The Vampires of Venice

The Doctor takes Amy and Rory away for a romantic break but terror awaits in 16th century Venice. Everything in the city is not as it should be, it has been sealed to protect it from the Plague and something sinister lurks within the House of Calvierri. When dessicated corpses begin appearing in the streets the Doctor suspects something is not right with the mysterious Rosanna.
Episode 7 - Amy's Choice

It's 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.
Episode 8 - The Hungry Earth

It's 2020 and the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper beneath the Earth's crust than man has ever gone before - but now the ground itself is fighting back. And when the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village it's not long before they find themselves plunged into a battle against a deadly danger from a bygone age.
Episode 9 - Cold Blood

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?
Episode 10 - Vincent and the Doctor

The TARDIS travels back in time but terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence and only a sad and lonely painter can see it... The Doctor and Amy join forces with Van Gogh but can the three of them defeat a powerful and deadly alien?
Episode 11 - The Lodger

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.
Episode 12 - The Pandorica Opens

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?
Episode 13 - The Big Bang

The Doctor is gone, the TARDIS has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all of reality, is a little girl who still believes in stars.