Doctor Who (series 6)
Episodes
This series was the first to include a mid-season broadcast break since Season 18, with twelve weeks between the transmissions of "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Let's Kill Hitler".

Doctor Who (series 6)

Section Title: Episodes
Table Section Text: This series was the first to include a mid-season broadcast break since Season 18, with twelve weeks between the transmissions of "A Good Man Goes to War" and "Let's Kill Hitler".

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI

Special

213	–	"A Christmas Carol"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	25 December 2010	2.X	12.11	83

A space liner containing 4,000 people and Amy and Rory on their honeymoon becomes caught in an electrified cloud. The Doctor, summoned by Amy, lands on the planet beneath and discovers that the atmosphere is controlled by the miserly Kazran Sardick who refuses to let the ship safely land.

Part 1

214a	1	"The Impossible Astronaut"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	23 April 2011	2.1	8.86	88

Amy, Rory and River Song receive invitations to the Utah desert where they meet the Doctor, who claims to be nearly 200 years older than when they had last seen him and says that he will take them to "Space: 1969".

214b	2	"Day of the Moon"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	30 April 2011	2.2	7.30	87

Amy's shot had missed and she, Rory, and River spend three months searching for the creatures, the Silence, while the Doctor and the TARDIS are held in Area 51.

215	3	"The Curse of the Black Spot"	Jeremy Webb	Stephen Thompson	7 May 2011	2.9	7.85	86

Following a distress signal, the TARDIS lands on a 17th-century pirate ship captained by Henry Avery, whose crew is terrorised by a Siren-like creature who marks crew members with black spots when they are injured and then seemingly disintegrates them.

216	4	"The Doctor's Wife"	Richard Clark	Neil Gaiman	14 May 2011	2.3	7.97	87

A distress signal from a Time Lord sends the Doctor, Amy and Rory outside the universe to a junkyard on an asteroid.

217a	5	"The Rebel Flesh"	Julian Simpson	Matthew Graham	21 May 2011	2.5	7.35	85

Caught in a "solar tsunami", the TARDIS crash-lands on a 22nd century monastery which been turned into a factory for pumping the deadly acid off an island.

217b	6	"The Almost People"	Julian Simpson	Matthew Graham	28 May 2011	2.6	6.72	86

Amy does not trust the Flesh version of the Doctor but accidentally tells it about his future death at Lake Silencio.

218	7	"A Good Man Goes to War"	Peter Hoar	Steven Moffat	4 June 2011	2.7	7.51	88

The Doctor assembles an army and he and Rory infiltrate the asteroid base Demon's Run, where Amy is held captive and her newborn child, Melody Pond, has been taken by the Eye Patch Lady, Madame Kovarian.

Part 2

219	8	"Let's Kill Hitler"	Richard Senior	Steven Moffat	27 August 2011	2.8	8.10	85

Amy and Rory summon the Doctor to Leadworth, and he admits he has not found Melody. They are met by Mels, their childhood friend responsible for Amy and Rory's relationship and whom Amy named Melody after.

220	9	"Night Terrors"	Richard Clark	Mark Gatiss	3 September 2011	2.4	7.07	86

The Doctor, Amy, and Rory make a "house call" to a boy named George who is terrified of almost everything, especially the wardrobe in his room.

221	10	"The Girl Who Waited"	Nick Hurran	Tom MacRae	10 September 2011	2.10	7.60	85

The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the planet Apalapucia, but they find that the planet is under quarantine as the two-hearted natives are susceptible to a deadly plague which will kill the infected within a day.

222	11	"The God Complex"	Nick Hurran	Toby Whithouse	17 September 2011	2.11	6.77	86

The TARDIS lands in what appears to be a 1980s hotel, which the Doctor recognises as a disguised alien structure. The layout of the hotel is constantly shifting, and they soon lose the TARDIS.

223	12	"Closing Time"	Steve Hughes	Gareth Roberts	24 September 2011	2.12	6.93	86

Nearly 200 years have passed for the Doctor, and as he nears his death at Lake Silencio he decides to visit his friend Craig Owens.

224	13	"The Wedding of River Song"	Jeremy Webb	Steven Moffat	1 October 2011	2.13	7.67	86

Understanding his death cannot be avoided, the Doctor gives invitations to Lake Silencio for Amy, Rory, River, and Canton to a Teselecta.

Sentence(s)

"The Impossible Astronaut" drew 8.86 million viewers in the UK.

final_sentence: "The Impossible Astronaut" drew 8.86 million viewers in the UK.