Series 6 (Doctor Who)

thumb|250px|right|An official [[BBC One series 6 trailer]] thumb|250px|right|An official [[BBCA series 6 trailer]] Series 6 of Doctor Who, sometimes known as Season 32 to avoid confusion with Season 6, was aired in 2011. DWM 419 confirmed that it had been commissioned by the BBC, and producer Piers Wenger also announced the same at the BBC Press Launch for series five in March 2010.

Filming started in July 2010. This series was preceded by a 2010 Christmas Special, written by Steven Moffat. The series is split into two sections, with the first episode, The Impossible Astronaut airing on 23rd April 2011. It then paused after the seventh episode, A Good Man Goes to War was aired. The series picked up with the eighth episode, Let's Kill Hitler, at the end of August and ran through to the final, thirteenth episode, The Wedding of River Song. Short prequels were released on the official site to publicise the series.

Primary cast

 * Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
 * Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill

Secondary cast

 * River Song - Alex Kingston
 * Madame Kovarian - Frances Barber

Guest cast

 * Captain - Pooky Quesnel
 * Kazran Sardick - Michael Gambon
 * Abigail Pettigrew - Katherine Jenkins
 * Co-Pilot - Micah Balfour
 * Eric - Nick Malinowski
 * Older Benjamin - Steve North
 * Chief Servant - Tim Plester
 * Isabella - Laura Rogers
 * Canton Delaware - Mark Sheppard
 * Richard Nixon - Stuart Milligan
 * Grant - Jeff Mash
 * Henry Avery - Hugh Bonneville
 * Toby Avery - Oscar Lloyd
 * Boatswain - Lee Ross
 * Siren - Lily Cole
 * Mulligan - Michael Begley
 * Idris - Suranne Jones
 * House - Michael Sheen
 * Uncle - Adrian Schiller
 * Auntie - Elizabeth Berrington
 * Nephew - Paul Kasey
 * Jennifer Lucas - Sarah Smart
 * Dicken - Leon Vickers
 * Miranda Cleaves - Raquel Cassidy
 * Jimmy - Mark Bonnar
 * Dorium - Simon Fisher Becker
 * Colonel Manton - Danny Sapani
 * Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh
 * Jenny - Catrin Stewart
 * Strax - Dan Starkey
 * Lorna Bucket - Christina Chong
 * Thin Man - Dan Johnston
 * Fat Man - Charlie Baker
 * Lucas - Joshua Hayes
 * Arthur - Henry Wood
 * Eleanor - Annabel Cleare
 * Headless monk - Claudio Laurini
 * Adolf Hitler - Albert Welling
 * Mels - Nina Toussaint-White
 * Young Amy Pond - Caitlin Blackwood
 * Young Rory Williams - Ezekiel Wigglesworth
 * Professor Candy - Paul Bentley
 * George - Jamie Oram
 * Alex - Daniel Mays
 * Claire - Emma Cunniffe
 * Mrs Rossiter - Leila Hoffman and Louise-Marie Bowmen (Peg Doll)
 * Julie - Sophie Cosson
 * Check-in-girl - Josie Taylor
 * Gibbis - David Walliams
 * Rita - Amara Karen
 * The Minotaur - Spencer Wilding
 * Craig Owens - James Corden
 * Sophie - Daisy Haggard
 * Val - Lynda Baron
 * Herself - Meredith Viera
 * Charles Dickens - Simon Callow
 * Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
 * Malohkeh - Richard Hope
 * Dr Kent - Emma Campbell-Jones
 * Gantok - Mark Gatiss

Aliens and enemies

 * Kazran Sardick
 * Sky shark
 * Sky fish
 * The Silence
 * Little Girl
 * Madame Kovarian
 * Siren
 * House
 * Nephew
 * Auntie
 * Uncle
 * Gangers
 * Headless monks
 * Dorium
 * Cybermen
 * Judoon
 * Sontarans
 * Silurians
 * Mels
 * Teselecta
 * Peg Dolls
 * Tenza
 * Handbots
 * Minotaur
 * Weeping Angels
 * Cybermats
 * Dalek
 * Pterodactyls

Novels

 * Dead of Winter
 * The Way Through the Woods
 * Hunter's Moon
 * Touched by an Angel
 * Paradox Lost
 * Borrowed Time
 * The Silent Stars Go By

DVD and Blu-ray release
The DVD release of Series 6 will be in two parts, unlike the past series which was released in four to five parts over the duration of the series. Part One, which will contain episodes one to seven will be released on 11th July 2011, shortly after the airing of episode seven. Part Two will be released in the Autumn, shortly after episode thirteen is aired. Both parts will be released as a box set in November.