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Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife

The Doctor's Wife

Story Number: 216 (11.2.3)
No of Episodes: 1




Writer: Neil Gaiman
Director: Richard Clark
Executive Producer: Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis

Starring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Suranne Jones, Michael Sheen, Adrian Schiller, Elizabeth Berrington


BBC One (United Kingdom):
First Broadcast: Saturday 14th May 2011
Running Time: 45 minutes, 51 seconds

Average Audience: 7.97 Million   Average AI: 87




The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family.
The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion � what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.The Doctor is played by Matt Smith, Amy by Karen Gillan, Rory by Arthur Darvill and Idris by Suranne Jones.

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