The Eleventh Hour ( TV story ) The Eleventh Hour was the first episode of the fifth series of BBC Wales " Doctor Who " . It was Matt Smith ' s first full story as the Doctor , as well as the debut of Karen Gillan as 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 producer s Steven 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 , . 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 . Synopsis . 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 capture the rogue alien before its jailers burn Earth to a crisp ? Plot . Suffering major damage after the Tenth Doctor ' s regeneration , the TARDIS flies wildly over London as it enters the atmosphere . An explosion on the console inside causes the doors to unlock and the new Doctor 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 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 ( " Are you trying to poison me ? " ) , baked bean s ( spit into the sink , saying , " Beans are evil ; bad , bad beans " ) , bread and butter ( after a hopeful smile , he ends up tossing the entire plate outside and roaring , " And " stay out " ! " ) . Searching Amelia ' s fridge , the Doctor rejects carrot s ( " Are you insane ? " ) before find 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 Amelia Pond — a great name , according to the Doctor , " like a name in a fairy tale " — is originally from Scotland , is orphaned , and 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 , like her mother used to make for her to help her like them . He thanks her and pockets the apple . 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 . Upon inspecting the crack closer , 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 shuts once more . 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 deduce s that he ' s missing something out of the corner of his eye . Before he can discover it , though , the Cloister Bell chimes . He rushes outside with Amelia , telling her that the TARDIS ' engines are in danger of phasing out of existence . Amelia wonders how a box can have engines , and the Doctor tells her his TARDIS is a time machine . She asks to come with him , but the Doctor says it ' s too dangerous now , and he ' ll do so after taking a quick five - minute trip into the future to begin repairs . Yelling " Geronimo ! " , the Doctor jumps back into the TARDIS and it dematerialise s before Amelia . Excited , the little girl returns to her bedroom to collect her things , not noticing that the door at the end of the corridor — the thing the Doctor was missing — has opened . . . The TARDIS returns in the daylight , with the materialisation giving off a great deal of smoke ; the wheezing sound it gives off is even worse than normal , due to the damage . The Doctor exits in a hurry , yelling to Amelia that he ' s figured out what he was missing ; however , Amelia is no longer outside waiting . The Doctor runs up to the door , finding it locked ; he gets the barely - functioning sonic to open the door . Rushing upstairs to the door he now knows exists , the Doctor yells Prisoner Zero is there with them . Trying to get the sonic working to open the door , the Doctor is unknowingly watched by someone from Amelia ' s room . Hearing someone approach , the Doctor asks if it ' s Amelia . However , he is instead greeted by a cricket bat to the face . Elsewhere , at the town hospital , nurse Rory Williams informs his supervisor , Dr Ramsden , that coma patients have been calling for her . She dismisses this , drawling that they are comatose . As she berates him , the patients repeatedly cry out " Doctor " much to her shock and horror . Back Amelia ' s home , the Doctor awakes to see he is handcuffed to a radiator ; he is confronted by a young woman in a police uniform , who informs him that he ' d better stay still as she just called for backup . The Doctor recalls being hit by a cricket bat , to which the police woman states he was breaking and entering . He then inquires to Amelia ' s whereabouts , wishing to apologise to her for being late coming back . The police woman informs him that Amelia ' s been missing for six months and that she lives there now ; she calls her sergeant , telling him that she has a suspect that might have information on Amelia Pond . At the hospital , Rory and Ramsden examine the patients carefully , but they still appear to be in comas . Rory attempts to inform his supervisor of other suspicious circumstances pertaining to the coma patients , even proffering his phone with the suggestion that the pictures on it can prove his theory . She impatiently orders him to take some time off . Back in Amelia ' s house , the Doctor orders the woman to count off all of the rooms on the floor ; she counts five , but the Doctor quickly informs her that there are , in fact , six — one is hidden by a perception filter . He tells her to look out the corner of her eye . The police woman oddly mutters that she ' s lived there her whole life and never noticed the door ; the Doctor asks to be uncuffed , only to be told that she lost the key . She approaches the door , despite his protests ; she enters the room . " Do I have one of those faces people ignore . . . again ? " the Doctor wonders . The Doctor checks his pockets for the sonic screwdriver , finding it ' s not with him . He yells for her to check and see if it ' s in there ; it could ' ve rolled under the door when she hit him . The sonic is there , but is stuck in a puddle of goo on the table . She yells to him that it " must have jumped on the table " , making the Doctor order her to leave at once . The woman picks up the sonic , but senses something is in the room with her . The Doctor orders her not to try looking at it as it will kill her if she sees it . Despite the warning , the policewoman manages to trick Prisoner Zero into revealing himself , seeing it ' s a serpentine alien multi - form . The policewoman runs back to the Doctor , closing the door behind her . The Doctor locks the door with the screwdriver and tries to free himself , but the thing is damaged from the goo . She asks if the door will hold Prisoner Zero , making the Doctor retort , " It ' s an alien multi - form from outer space ; they ' re all terrified of wood ! " Seeing a light coming from under the door , she asks what it ' s doing . The Doctor doesn ' t know , but tells her to run and radio for backup . However , the woman reveals herself to be a kissogram , whipping off her police hat to reveal long , red hair . Prisoner Zero breaks through the door , emerging as a man with a dog ; both mouths bark , much to the Doctor ' s amusement as it ' s having trouble figuring out which mouths are supposed to make the correct sounds . He then wonders where he would have gotten the pattern from as it would need to form a psychic link with someone , which takes years . The Doctor informs Prisoner Zero that the young woman called for backup on her police radio , but she reminds him that she can ' t ; the Doctor explains in annoyance it was a clever lie to save them . He then tries dissuading Prisoner Zero from violence as they pose no threat without backup . The prison guard is then heard broadcasting a message that Prisoner Zero has been found and will vacate the human residence . The Doctor decides to try one more time , telling Prisoner Zero that the he and the woman are safe due to the jailers coming for it . However , the prison guard is heard transmitting over and over : " Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence , or the human residence will be incinerated . " The Doctor finally succeeds in freeing himself , and they run away while Prisoner Zero is looking around for the source of the broadcast . He tries opening the TARDIS for equipment , but the doors won ' t open as it ' s still repairing itself . Suddenly , the Doctor notices the shed in the backyard , remembering he wrecked it when he previously crash - landed in the backyard . Licking it , he learns the " new " shed is 12 years old . He turns to the woman , demanding to know why she told him six months when it ' s been twelve years ; she angrily demands to know , " Why did you say five minutes ? ! " in a Scottish accent . The Doctor can only ask , " What ? " with increasing shock ; the woman is Amelia Pond ! Grabbing his arm , she pulls him out of the yard and towards town . In town , the Doctor inquires why Amelia hit him with a cricket bat ; she defends her action by explaining that their meeting led her to see four psychiatrists over the last 12 years . She bit them all when they told her he wasn ' t real . Their argument is cut short when they suddenly realise that the Atraxi message is broadcasting over all of the town ' s electronics , including mobile phone s , iPod s , even the speaker of an ice cream van . The Doctor sees the Atraxi are not focused on simply Amelia ' s house as the " human residence " , and immediately runs to the first house he sees with Amelia following . The house belongs to Amelia ' s friend Jeff Angelo and his grandmother . The Doctor uses the psychic paper to pass himself off as a television repair man . Mrs Angelo thinks she ' s met the Doctor before , but the Doctor tells her it ' s not likely , seeing as he ' s got a new face on . The Doctor then examines the TV and radio stations around the world with help from his sonic screwdriver , and realises , to his horror , that the warning is being broadcast all over the world in every language . The human residence is not just Amelia ' s town , but the entire planet ! The Doctor deduce s that the Atraxi will need twenty minutes , prompting Amelia to ask what for . The Doctor says , " The end of the world " . While the Doctor begins thinking of a plan , everyone else watches the Atraxi message replay on the television in disbelief . Above the Earth , the squad of Atraxi ships continue transmitting the message around the world as they search the planet for Prisoner Zero ; incinerating Earth to be rid of the menace is a last resort . However , it would seem they will never be able to find it on their own as they keep re - sending the message . Back on Earth , Jeff and his grandmother realise how they know the Doctor : he ' s the " Raggedy Doctor " that Amy used to draw cartoons of as a child . The Doctor is disappointed that , not only does she kiss people for a living , but she also dropped the name Amelia for Amy , citing its fairy tale quality — which the Doctor complimented on their last meeting — as its worst point . The Doctor and Amy head to the town square , and the Doctor is annoyed to discover that Leadworth , where Amelia lives , has no technology to help him . In the middle of remarking about a duck pond without duck s , the Doctor suddenly convulses and falls to the ground , protesting that it is " too early " and he ' s " not ready yet " . Suddenly , though , everything goes dark . The Atraxi have surrounded Earth in a force field to prepare the planet for boiling . Across the park , the Doctor notices Rory taking pictures of a man with a dog — whom the Doctor knows as Prisoner Zero — as opposed to the obscured sun , like everyone else . The Doctor gleefully announces he can save the world and offers Amy a choice : she can run home and say goodbye to her loved ones , or help him . Amy opts for a different option entirely : she slams the Doctor up against a nearby car , and locks his tie in the door , trapping him . She demands to know who he is , to which he tells her that she already knows . However , Amy doesn ' t believe him now since she grew up ; disheartened , the Doctor says she should never do that . The Doctor tosses her the carved apple , explaining that he ' s a time travel ler , and everything he told her twelve years ago is true . Amy can tell the apple is the exact same one , proving the Doctor is telling the truth . She releases the Doctor ' s tie , asking what they have to do ; the Doctor tells her " stop that nurse . " They run across the park to confront Rory . Amy introduces Rory as her " sort of " boyfriend , but the Doctor is not interested . He takes Rory ' s mobile phone , and demands to know why he was taking a picture of the man and dog rather than the sun . However , Rory is stunned to see the Doctor is real ; Amy forced him to dress up as the Doctor when they were little . Annoyed , the Doctor grabs Rory by the collar , demanding " Man . Dog . Why ? Tell me . Now . " He then gets an expected response : Rory tells him that the man can ' t be in the park because he ' s in a hospital in a coma . As the Doctor explains , a coma patient fulfills a multi - form ' s requirement for a living , but dormant , mind to form a psychic link with . The Doctor confronts Prisoner Zero as an Atraxi spaceship flies close to the surface of the planet ; Rory is shocked to learn Prisoner Zero is real as well . The Doctor reveals , " They ' re scanning for non - terrestrial technology , and nothing says non - terrestrial like the sonic screwdriver ! " He then begins using the sonic to overload technology all around him ; lamps breaks , car alarms sound , an old woman ' s mobility scooter goes flying by , a fire engine drives off without occupants , and a telephone box blows up . " I think someone ' s going to notice , don ' t you ? " However , the sonic is damaged and the strain of the task causes it to burn out completely . With a smirk , Prisoner Zero dissolves into a sewer as the Atraxi depart , making the Doctor rage at the incompetence of these alien jailers . Amy wonders about Prisoner Zero living in her house for 12 years ; the Doctor explains that " multi - form s can live for millennia , twelve years is a pit - stop " . Amy wonders why the Atraxi showed up on the same day as the Doctor did . He explains that they saw him through the crack and got a fix on him ; they ' re only late to search for Prisoner Zero because he went 12 years into the future . The Doctor is left to ponder how he can draw Prisoner Zero into the open ; he then has an idea , asking the name of her good looking friend - Jeff . Rory is feeling a little insulted . He instructs Amy and Rory to clear out the coma ward at the hospital ; Prisoner Zero will likely try to ensure his psychic links are not disrupted by killing the doctors tending to the patients . While Rory is still having trouble believing that the Doctor exists , Amy forces him to comply . Meanwhile at the hospital , Dr Ramsden is checking on a convulsing coma patient , wondering if he is aware . Prisoner Zero materialises through the vent above and bares its fangs , preparing to strike . . . The Doctor returns to Jeff ' s home , and uses his laptop to break in on a conference call between some of the most advanced scientific minds in the world ; he proves his intellect by producing multiple scientific theories and a joke . He uses Rory ' s phone to write a " slightly intelligent " virus that will turn every digital display in the world to " zero " at the same time ; in other words , it ' s more of an inconvenience than a threat . He uploads this virus to the web via the laptop , and encourages them to spread it across the world using every web program possible . He also gives Patrick Moore ' s number to Mrs Angelo , and advises Jeff to erase his internet history as he has apparently been visiting some sites of questionable taste . The Doctor commandeers a fire engine to the hospital , communicating with Amy ( stuck outside the coma ward due to Prisoner Zero ' s attack ) and instructing her to use her policewoman uniform to get past hospital security . Amy and Rory find the coma ward a mess , but oddly no corpses . They come across a mother and her two daughters , who claim to have survived Prisoner Zero ' s attack on the ward by hiding in the bathroom . Amy tells the Doctor that Prisoner Zero has beaten them back ; he encourages them to get out of the hospital . However , one of the daughters is now talking in her mother ' s voice — it ' s Prisoner Zero again . Admitting that it has trouble with figuring out which voice to use with multiple mouths and baring razor - sharp teeth , the alien chases Amy and Rory back into the coma ward . They use a broom to bar the handles , but Prisoner Zero manages to break in after some effort . Prisoner Zero taunts Amy , telling her that it watched her grow up ; it then adds that the Doctor will not be here this time to save her . Amy receives a text saying " Duck ! " ; she forces Rory down to floor with her . At that moment the fire truck ' s ladder rams through the window ; the Doctor climbs in , glad to have a few minutes left before the Ataxi burn them . He asks Prisoner Zero to remove its disguise . Prisoner Zero refuses , knowing the Atraxi would kill it this time anyway , and wants the entire Earth to die in flames with it . The Doctor then suggests it leave the same way it came by creating a crack , however Prisoner Zero explains it didn ' t create the crack ; the cracks exist in the skin of the universe , and Prisoner Zero is amused the Doctor doesn ' t know where they come from . It warns him that " " the Pandorica will open , silence will fall " " . The Doctor decides to set this aside and instead enjoys a victory speech as the virus takes hold of the clock on the wall and changes the counter to zero ; this occurs all across the world as a means of getting the Atraxi ' s attention . The Atraxi trace the virus back to Rory ' s phone , which holds pictures of all of Prisoner Zero ' s known human forms , thanks to Rory . The Doctor immediately uploads the photos to the Atraxi , gloating that he did all of this without the help of his TARDIS and sonic screwdriver , and with only two minutes to spare before certain doom — " Who da man ? " The Doctor ' s self - congratulatory slang gets a series of blank stares and the flustered Doctor mumbles , " Oh , it ' s , I ' m never saying that again , fine ! " Prisoner Zero tells the Doctor it will have to just take a new form . Amused , the Doctor tells it that he knows it ' s a bluff as that kind of link takes months to make ; however , Prisoner Zero adds that it ' s had years to make the link . Prisoner Zero starts glowing and Amy falls unconscious ; it formed a backup link with Amy just in case its main disguises were ever found out . The Doctor and Rory tend to Amy before turning to find Prisoner Zero has turned into a copy of the Doctor ; " Well that ' s rubbish . Who ' s that ? " the Doctor asks . Rory tells the Doctor that ' s what he looks like , being confused as to why he doesn ' t know ; the Doctor retorts " busy day . " The Doctor then asks Prisoner Zero why it ' s taken his form when the psychic link is with Amy ; a little girl ' s voice tells the Doctor that it ' s not taking his form . A young Amelia comes out from behind the faux Doctor , holding his hand ; it ' s mimicking both of them . Prisoner Zero laughs that Amy is still little Amelia inside , waiting for her magic Doctor to return ; it adds that he ' s been such a disappointment to her . The Doctor realises that Amy is dreaming about him because she can hear him , and her dream is enabling Prisoner Zero to take on his form . The Doctor uses his powers of telepathy to encourage Amy to instead dream of Prisoner Zero . Prisoner Zero yells in protest and fear , but begins changing form once again . Smirking , the Doctor congratulates the rogue on a perfectly imitating its true form . Prisoner Zero hisses in anger , as the Atraxi ' s searchlight finds it . Withing , the serpent is frozen by the light . As it slowly fades away , Prisoner Zero hisses its warning again " Silence , Doctor . Silence will fall . " The Atraxi leave , and Amy awakens . Rory wonders if the threat is over , and everything is back to normal ; the Doctor pats him on the head . Seeing the Doctor still using his phone , Rory wonders what he ' s up to ; the Doctor is tracing the call back . He apologises in advance for the phone bill , getting the Atraxi back on the line . He tells them that they were not given permission to leave , and that they ' re willingness to burn a Level 5 planet to get rid of a single criminal is a violation of Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation . The Doctor demands the return to the hospital ; tossing Rory back his phone , the Doctor says NOW he ' s done it . The Doctor walks out of the coma ward , telling Amy that he ' s heading to the roof ; however , he changes his mind , heading into a hospital locker room . He explains that because he ' s saving the world , he needs a decent shirt - " To hell with the raggedy ; time to put on a show ! " Despite Rory ' s protests , the Doctor discards the remains of his predecessor ' s outfit and begins trying on the clothes in the lockers . The Doctor tells them to turn their backs if they ' re embarrassed ; Rory does so , but Amy watches the Doctor get dressed . They reach the roof with the Doctor wearing a dress shirt with trousers held up with braces . The Doctor has Rory carrying coats , while a selection of ties hangs off his shoulders . Rory wonders why the Doctor has called the Atraxi back when they were leaving ; the Doctor explains that while leaving is good , he intends to make sure they never come back . He calls to the Atraxi waiting for him , it lowers and scans him ; it states that the Doctor is not of Earth . The Doctor admits that it ' s right , but he ' s put a lot of work into it . The Atraxi asks if the Earth is important , offending the Doctor ; he explains that 6 billion people live there . As the Atraxi are scanning the entire planet , he asks it if the humans are a threat ; a scan shows that they are not . He then asks if they are guilty of any Atraxi crimes ; another scan confirms they are not . The Doctor then asks his final question : is the Earth protected ? He then elaborates : " You ' re not the first lot to have come here . Oh , there have been " so " many . And what you ' ve got to ask is , ' What happened to them ? ' " The Atraxi display holograms of previous aliens that came to Earth and then of the Doctor ' s previous incarnations . The Doctor emerges from a hologram of his predecessor , now wearing a bow - tie and tweed jacket . With a smile , he coolly says , " Hello , I ' m the Doctor . Basically . . . " run " . " The Atraxi take the hint and flee the Earth in pure terror ; the Doctor will be the end of them if they ever threaten this planet without a just cause again . As the Doctor observes their departure , he realises that the TARDIS key is glowing ; the TARDIS has recovered and awaits him . Amy and Rory wonder if the Atraxi will be back again , but then notice that the Doctor has left . The Doctor returns to the TARDIS , which now has a brighter shade of blue and a new St . John sticker on the door . He opens the door , being awestruck by his new console room . He decides to take it on a quick hop to the Moon to run in the replacement engines . Amy returns with Rory to her garden just in time to see the TARDIS dematerialising ; she is devastated , believing that the Doctor has left her again . Amy dreams of her younger self awaiting the Doctor ' s return in her garden , but wakes up at the sound of the TARDIS rematerialising outside . Racing into the garden in her nightie , she is shocked the Doctor has come back again . Even more shocking is that he kept the clothes he stole , including the bow - tie — " Bow - tie s are cool . " She then angrily informs him that all of the events surrounding Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi happened two years ago ; thus , it has been fourteen years since fish fingers and custard , fourteen years since he first promised her a trip . Calling her " the girl who waited " , the Doctor muses that she ' s waited long enough and asks her to join him as a companion . Amy refuses the Doctor ' s offer , but changes her mind when the Doctor snaps his fingers , opening the doors of the TARDIS . He gestures inside , and she enters . She is in wonder at the TARDIS interior . To the Doctor ' s delight , a new sonic screwdriver pops up out of the console . Amy asks why the Doctor is offering to take her with him . He says he has become bored travelling alone ; he then adds taking to himself gives him an earache . A small image of the crack from her bedroom appears on the scanner , but the Doctor adjusts the scanner and the crack quickly disappears . Amy tells the Doctor that she had come to see him as a madman with a box after all these years , now thinking she was wrong . However , the Doctor tells her that , when travelling with him , there is one very important thing to remember : " I am " definitely " a madman with a box . " Amy then makes the Doctor promise to bring her back to Leadworth by the next morning for " stuff " , and they fly off into the Vortex — leaving behind the wedding dress that hangs on Amy ' s closet door . International broadcasts . " The Eleventh Hour " 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 . Home video releases . BBC Video - " Doctor Who Series Five - Volume One " was released on DVD and Blu - Ray on 7 June 2010 ( UK only ) , featuring " The Eleventh Hour " , " The Beast Below " , " Victory of the Daleks " , and the featurette " The Monster Diaries " . A full - series box set has been released . Of note , the " Next Time . . . " trail at the end of each episode has been excised from this and all future episodes for the DVD / Bluray releases up to " A Christmas Carol " .