Series 7 of Doctor Who, sometimes known as Season 33 to avoid confusion with the original Season 7, was broadcast on BBC One between 2012 and 2013. Like Series 6, it was split into two parts. The BBC first announced the new series, which contained fourteen episodes, on the official Doctor Who site on 8 June 2011.

Series 7 began its run on 1 September 2012 with five regular, stand-alone episodes and a Christmas Special. These were followed by the remaining eight episodes in 2013.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Cast 2.1 Primary cast 2.2 Secondary cast 2.3 Guest cast 2.3.1 Introducing 3 Production 3.1 Crew 3.1.1 Producers 3.1.2 Writers 3.1.3 Directors 3.2 Filming 4 Television stories 4.1 Christmas special 4.2 Mini-episodes 4.3 Regular series 4.3.1 Autumn half 4.3.2 Christmas special 4.3.3 Spring half 4.4 Episode notes 5 Aliens and enemies 6 Adaptations and merchandising 6.1 Home media 6.1.1 DVD 6.2 Novels 6.3 Audiobooks 7 Footnotes

Overview Edit

Series 7 has been described at being a series of "movies" squeezed into forty five minutes, although The Snowmen was sixty minutes. The first half is about the Doctor deleting himself from the Universe to hide himself from the deadly Silence, who attempted to assassinate him in Series 6 to stop him from answering the Question. During this time, the Doctor regularly visits Amy Pond and Rory Williams and also meets his grandfather-in-law Brian Williams. The Doctor meets his wife, River Song, in the final episode of the first half of the series, which involved the Weeping Angels who separated him from Amy and Rory forever.

As established in The Name of the Doctor, in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen and thousands of other encounters with the Doctor before, echoes of Clara Oswald were sent through time with the purpose of saving the Doctor, dying in at least the lives in Asylum and The Snowmen. The Doctor, not knowing who Clara was, realised that both incarnations of her were the same woman and believed there would be more versions of her somewhere in the Universe. He found and travelled with the original Clara from 2013, determined to solve the mystery of the "impossible girl". To save the Doctor from having his victories undone by the Great Intelligence, Clara followed the Intelligence into the wound of the Doctor's timeline from his tomb on Trenzalore, sacrificing herself to save the Doctor many times over.

Cast Edit

Matt Smith, continued to play the Eleventh Doctor throughout all of Series 7.

Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond, and Arthur Darvill, who played Amy's husband Rory Williams, returned for the first five episodes, departing in The Angels Take Manhattan. This episode also featured River Song, played by Alex Kingston, who again returned for the season finale.

Jenna-Louise Coleman debuted as the original, 21st century version of Clara Oswald, the Doctor's newest companion, from The Bells of Saint John. Prior to this episode, echoes of Clara spread through time, known as Oswin Oswald in the Dalek Asylum and Clara Oswin Oswald in Victorian London, appeared in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen respectively, also played by Coleman, and dying at the end of each story. Other versions of Clara existing at various prior eras of the show were also played by Coleman in The Name of the Doctor.

Primary cast Edit

• The Doctor - Matt Smith

Secondary cast Edit

• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• Clara Oswald - Jenna-Louise Coleman
• Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh
• Jenny Flint - Catrin Stewart
• Strax - Dan Starkey
• Dr Simeon/Great Intelligence - Richard E. Grant

Guest cast Edit

• Madge Arwell - Claire Skinner
• Cyril Arwell - Maurice Cole
• Lily Arwell - Holly Earl
• Brian Williams - Mark Williams
• Queen Nefertiti - Riann Steele
• Solomon - David Bradley
• John Riddell - Rupert Graves
• Kahler-Jex - Adrian Scarborough
• The Gunslinger - Andrew Brooke
• Isaac - Ben Browder
• Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Voice of the Great Intelligence - Ian McKellen
• Latimer - Tom Ward
• Miss Kizlet - Celia Imrie
• Artie Maitland - Kassius Carey Johnson
• Angie Maitland - Eve De Leon Allen
• Merry Galel - Emilia Jones
• Captain Zhukov - Liam Cunningham
• Professor Grisenko - David Warner
• Skaldak - Spencer Wilding
• Alec Palmer - Dougray Scott
• Emma Grayling - Jessica Raine
• Gregor Van Baalen - Ashley Walters
• Bram Van Baalen - Mark Oliver
• Tricky Van Baalen - Jahvel Hall
• Winifred Gillyflower - Diana Rigg
• Ada Gillyflower - Rachael Stirling
• Porridge - Warwick Davis
• Alice Ferrin - Tamzin Outhwaite

Introducing Edit

• The Doctor - John Hurt

Production Edit

Crew Edit

Producers Edit

Before the airing of Series 7, it was announced that both Beth Willis and Piers Wenger would step down as executive producers. Willis' last credit was on The Wedding of River Song; however, Piers Wenger stayed for one episode longer, and produced The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

A new executive producer named Caroline Skinner joined Steven Moffat to produce The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe onwards, but it was announced before the broadcast of the spring half of Series 7 that she was departing the show after just one season and would be replaced by BBC Wales Head of Drama, Faith Penhale.^[1]

Writers Edit

Head writer Steven Moffat wrote seven episodes. He has written the 2011 Christmas special, episodes one and five in the autumn run, the Children in Need mini-episode, the 2012 Christmas special, and episodes six and thirteen of the spring run.

Chris Chibnall and Toby Whithouse, who had both written episodes for multiple previous series of Doctor Who, returned to contribute scripts for the Autumn run. Chibnall wrote episodes two and four, while Whithouse wrote episode three.

Mark Gatiss also returned, writing episodes eight and eleven.

Another returning writer was Steve Thompson, who wrote episode ten.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman (who previously wrote The Doctor's Wife), wrote episode twelve.

Luther creator Neil Cross made his Doctor Who debut with episode seven, as well as writing episode nine.

Directors Edit

Returning director Nick Hurran directed episodes one and five. Douglas Mackinnon, another returning director directed episodes four and eight.

New director Farren Blackburn directed the 2011 Christmas special, as well as episode seven.

Saul Metzstein, another director new to Doctor Who, directed episodes two, three, eleven, thirteen and the 2012 Christmas special.

A handful of new directors directed one episode each in the spring half of the series. These are: Colm McCarthy, Jamie Payne, Mat King and Stephen Wolfenden, who directed episodes six, nine, ten and twelve representatively.

Filming Edit

Filming for series 7 began on 20 February 2012.^[2] Episode three was filmed in Spain, ^[3] as were some scenes for episode one. Filming for episode five saw the crew return to America. This time, they were filming in New York.^[4]

Television stories Edit

Christmas special Edit

Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Prequel	Notes
N/A	The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe	Steven Moffat	Farren Blackburn	Prequel|

Mini-episodes Edit

Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Notes
N/A	Good as Gold	The Children of Ashdene School		Reappearance of a Weeping Angel.

Regular series Edit

Autumn half Edit

Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Prequel	Notes
1	Asylum of the Daleks	Steven Moffat	Nick Hurran	Pond Life and Asylum of the Daleks Prequel	Reappearance of the Daleks. First introduction and death of Clara Oswin Oswald.
2	Dinosaurs on a Spaceship	Chris Chibnall	Saul Metzstein		Reappearance of the Silurians. First appearance of Brian Williams.
3	A Town Called Mercy	Toby Whithouse	Saul Metzstein	The Making of the Gunslinger|
4	The Power of Three	Chris Chibnall	Douglas Mackinnon		Reappearance of UNIT, Kate Stewart and Brian Williams.
5	The Angels Take Manhattan	Steven Moffat	Nick Hurran		Reappearance of the Weeping Angels and River Song. Final appearances of Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Christmas special Edit

Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Prequel	Notes
N/A	The Snowmen	Steven Moffat	Saul Metzstein	The Great Detective, Vastra Investigates and The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later	Reintroduction of the Great Intelligence. Second introduction and death of Clara Oswin Oswald. Reintroduction of Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint

Spring half Edit

The remaining eight episodes of Series 7 began airing on 30 March, 2013.

Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Prequel	Notes
6	The Bells of Saint John	Steven Moffat	Colm McCarthy	The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel	Reappearance of the Great Intelligence and UNIT. Third introduction of Clara Oswin Oswald.
7	The Rings of Akhaten	Neil Cross	Farren Blackburn
8	Cold War	Mark Gatiss	Douglas Mackinnon		Return of the Ice Warriors.
9	Hide	Neil Cross	Jamie Payne
10	Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS	Steve Thompson	Mat King
11	The Crimson Horror	Mark Gatiss	Saul Metzstein		Reappearance of Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint.
12	Nightmare in Silver	Neil Gaiman	Stephen Woolfenden		Reintroduction of the Cybermen
13	The Name of the Doctor	Steven Moffat	Saul Metzstein	She Said, He Said and Clarence and the Whispermen	Reappearance of the Great Intelligence, River Song, Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint. Introduction of the Unknown Doctor.

Episode notes Edit

• This is the only series so far to have special 'movie' posters made featuring titles, cast and credits.
• For the first time in Doctor Who, this series had no two-parters in it, however The Name of the Doctor ends with a "To be continued" cliffhanger leading into the 50th anniversary special.
• The finale revalved the Doctor's greatest serect.

Aliens and enemies Edit

• Daleks
• Dalek puppets
• Dalek Prime Minister
• Nanogene
• Solomon
• Robot 1 and Robot 2
• Dinosaurs
• Silurians
• Kahler-Tek
• Kahler-Jex
• Shakri
• Weeping Angels
• Great Intelligence
• Walter Simeon
• Snowmen
• Spoonheads
• Miss Kizlet
• The Mummy
• Vigil
• Old God
• Ice Warriors
• The Crooked Man
• Time zombies
• Winifred Gillyflower
• Mr Sweet
• Cybermen
• The Whisper Men

Adaptations and merchandising Edit

Home media Edit

DVD Edit

name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe	1 × 60 min.	16 January 2012	1 March 2012	14 February 2012
Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 1 Asylum of the Daleks Dinosaurs on a Spaceship A Town Called Mercy The Power of Three The Angels Take Manhattan	1 x 50 min. 4 × 45 min.	29 October 2012	14 November 2012	13 November 2012
Doctor Who: Series 7, Part 2 The Snowmen The Bells of Saint John The Rings of Akhaten Cold War Hide Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS The Crimson Horror Nightmare in Silver The Name of the Doctor	1 x 60 min. 8 x 45 min.	27 May 2013	22 May 2013	28 May 2013
Doctor Who: The Complete Series Seven [5]	1 x 50 min. 2 x 60 min. 12 x 45 min.	TBA	TBA	TBA

Novels Edit

• Plague of the Cybermen
• The Dalek Generation
• Shroud of Sorrow

Audiobooks Edit

• The Empty House
• Sleepers in the Dust
• Snake Bite

Footnotes Edit

v • e Doctor Who television stories   Seasons 1-4: First Doctor Season 1 1963 1964 An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror Season 2 1964 1965 Planet of the Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler Season 3 1965 1966 Galaxy 4 • Mission to the Unknown • The Myth Makers • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve • The Ark • The Celestial Toymaker • The Gunfighters • The Savages • The War Machines Season 4 1966 The Smugglers • The Tenth Planet   Seasons 4-6: Second Doctor Season 4 1966 1967 The Power of the Daleks • The Highlanders • The Underwater Menace • The Moonbase • The Macra Terror • The Faceless Ones • The Evil of the Daleks Season 5 1967 1968 The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Abominable Snowmen • The Ice Warriors • The Enemy of the World • The Web of Fear • Fury from the Deep • The Wheel in Space Season 6 1968 1969 The Dominators • The Mind Robber • The Invasion • The Krotons • The Seeds of Death • The Space Pirates • The War Games   Seasons 7-11: Third Doctor Season 7 1970 Spearhead from Space • Doctor Who and the Silurians • The Ambassadors of Death • Inferno Season 8 1971 Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons Season 9 1972 Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster Season 10 1972 1973 The Three Doctors • Carnival of Monsters • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • The Green Death Season 11 1973 1974 The Time Warrior • Invasion of the Dinosaurs • Death to the Daleks • The Monster of Peladon • Planet of the Spiders   Seasons 12-18: Fourth Doctor Season 12 1974 1975 Robot • The Ark in Space • The Sontaran Experiment • Genesis of the Daleks • Revenge of the Cybermen Season 13 1975 1976 Terror of the Zygons • Planet of Evil • Pyramids of Mars • The Android Invasion • The Brain of Morbius • The Seeds of Doom Season 14 1976 1977 The Masque of Mandragora • The Hand of Fear • The Deadly Assassin • The Face of Evil • The Robots of Death • The Talons of Weng-Chiang Season 15 1977 1978 Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time Season 16 1978 1979 The Key to Time: The Ribos Operation • The Pirate Planet • The Stones of Blood • The Androids of Tara • The Power of Kroll • The Armageddon Factor Season 17 1979 1980 Destiny of the Daleks • City of Death • The Creature from the Pit • Nightmare of Eden • The Horns of Nimon • Shada (unbroadcast) Season 18 1980 1981 The Leisure Hive • Meglos • Full Circle • State of Decay • Warriors' Gate • The Keeper of Traken • Logopolis   Seasons 19-21: Fifth Doctor Season 19 1982 Castrovalva • Four to Doomsday • Kinda • The Visitation • Black Orchid • Earthshock • Time-Flight Season 20 1983 Arc of Infinity • Snakedance • Mawdryn Undead • Terminus • Enlightenment • The King's Demons Children in Need 1983 The Five Doctors Season 21 1984 Warriors of the Deep • The Awakening • Frontios • Resurrection of the Daleks • Planet of Fire • The Caves of Androzani   Seasons 21-23: Sixth Doctor Season 21 1984 The Twin Dilemma Season 22 1985 Attack of the Cybermen • Vengeance on Varos • The Mark of the Rani • The Two Doctors • Timelash • Revelation of the Daleks Season 23 1986 The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet • Mindwarp • Terror of the Vervoids • The Ultimate Foe   Seasons 24-26: Seventh Doctor Season 24 1987 Time and the Rani • Paradise Towers • Delta and the Bannermen • Dragonfire Season 25 1988 1989 Remembrance of the Daleks • The Happiness Patrol • Silver Nemesis • The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Season 26 1989 Battlefield • Ghost Light • The Curse of Fenric • Survival   TV Movie: Eighth Doctor TV Movie 1996 Doctor Who   Series 1: Ninth Doctor Series 1 2005 Rose • The End of the World • The Unquiet Dead • Aliens of London / World War Three • Dalek • The Long Game • Father's Day • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances • Boom Town • Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways   Series 2-4: Tenth Doctor Series 2 2005 2006 Mini-episode Children in Need Special Christmas special The Christmas Invasion Regular episodes New Earth • Tooth and Claw • School Reunion • The Girl in the Fireplace • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • The Idiot's Lantern • The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit • Love & Monsters • Fear Her • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday Series 3 2006 2007 Christmas special The Runaway Bride Regular episodes Smith and Jones • The Shakespeare Code • Gridlock • Daleks in Manhatten / Evolution of the Daleks • The Lazarus Experiment • 42 • Human Nature / The Family of Blood • Blink • Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords Animation The Infinite Quest Series 4 2007 2008 2009 2010 Mini-episode Time Crash Christmas special Voyage of the Damned Regular episodes Partners in Crime • The Fires of Pompeii • Planet of the Ood • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Doctor's Daughter • The Unicorn and the Wasp • Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead • Midnight • Turn Left • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End • The Next Doctor • Planet of the Dead • The Waters of Mars • The End of Time Mini-episode Music of the Spheres Animation Dreamland For the purposes of this list, "series 4" is considered to be the production series 4, which ran all the way from Time Crash to The End of Time.   Series 5-present: Eleventh Doctor Series 5 2010 Regular episodes The Eleventh Hour • The Beast Below • Victory of the Daleks • The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone • The Vampires of Venice • Amy's Choice • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Vincent and the Doctor • The Lodger • The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang Series 6 2010 2011 Christmas special A Christmas Carol Mini-episodes Space / Time Regular episodes Spring Half: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon • The Curse of the Black Spot • The Doctor's Wife • The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People • A Good Man Goes to War Autumn Half: Let's Kill Hitler • Night Terrors • The Girl Who Waited • The God Complex • Closing Time • The Wedding of River Song Mini-episodes Death Is the Only Answer Series 7 2011 2012 2013 Christmas special The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe Mini-episode Good as Gold Regular episodes Autumn Half: Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan Mini-episode The Great Detective Christmas special The Snowmen Regular episodes Spring Half: The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Ahkaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor Despite marketing language by the BBC, The Adventure Games are not televised episodes, and therefore are not included on this list. Deliberately not included are some stories which this wiki does not consider valid — such as the so-called "Pilot Episode", Dimensions in Time, A Fix with Sontarans, Search Out Space, The Curse of Fatal Death and the National Television Awards Sketch 2011.

v • e Aliens and Enemies of Series 7 The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe Androzani tree (Wooden King • Wooden Queen) Good as Gold Weeping Angels Pond Life Sontarans • Ood (Unnamed Ood) Asylum of the Daleks Daleks (Parliament of the Daleks • Dalek Prime Minister • Supreme Dalek • Strategist Dalek • Drone Daleks • Oswin Oswald • Special Weapons Dalek • Dalek puppets) • Nanogenes Dinosaurs on a Spaceship Solomon • Robots (Robot 1 • Robot 2) • Tyrannosaurus rex • Pterodactyl • Ankylosaurus • Triceratops (Tricey) • Silurians (Bleytal) • ISA (Indira) A Town Called Mercy Kahler (Kahler-Tek • Kahler-Jex • Kahler-Mas) The Power of Three Shakri • Cubes • Orderlies The Angels Take Manhattan Weeping Angels (Statue of Liberty) • Grayle • Hood The Great Detective Silurians (Vastra) • Sontaran (Strax) The Snowmen Great Intelligence • Walter Simeon • Snowmen (Ice Governess) • Silurians (Vastra) • Sontarans (Strax) The Bells of Saint John Miss Kizlet • Spoonhead • Great Intelligence The Rings of Akhaten The Mummy, the Vigil, the Old God Cold War Ice Warrior (Skaldak) Hide Crooked Man Journey to the centre of the TARDIS Time zombies The Crimson Horror Red leech (Mr Sweet) • Silurians (Vastra) • Sontarans (Strax) Nightmare in Silver Cybermen • Cyber-Planner (Mr Clever) • Cybermite • Webley The Name of the Doctor Great Intelligence • Whisper Men • Silurians (Vastra) • Sontarans (Strax)

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