The Eleventh Hour (TV story)

The Eleventh Hour is the first episode of Series 5. It is also the first full episode of the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond and the first episode with Steven Moffat as head writer.

Synopsis
After his explosive regeneration damages the TARDIS, the eleventh version of The Doctor crash lands on Earth. Awaiting his machine's regeneration, he and a young woman named Amy Pond take on a monster.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
 * Rory - Arthur Davrill
 * Young Amy - Caitlin Blackwood
 * Mrs Angelo - Annette Crosbie
 * Barney Collins - Marcello Magni
 * Coma Patient - Peter Moyes
 * TBA - Olivia Colman
 * TBA - Arthur Fox

Crew
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Story Notes

 * The opening episode seen filming, features Matt Smith in the Tenth Doctor's battered attire, with his sonic screwdriver and TARDIS. It is thought to deal with his post-regeneration trauma. The episode is set in the fictional location of Leadworth, and features Amy Pond in a police officers uniform.
 * In an interview in Doctor Who Magazine 417, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan talk about the "Scary" monster in episode one describing it as a "Face Tendril" and being used as a tennis ball on a stick in scenes, expressing them having to act scared with nothing scary there. This probably means the monster in episode one is computer generated.
 * According to Russell T. Davies in Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, Moffat informed him in January 2008 that he had begun writing the first episode of Series 5.

Ratings
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Filming Locations

 * The Cathedral Green, Llandaff, Cardiff - A red telephone box blows up here.

Rumours

 * Rumours say that the episode is set during the 1990s; however, a more detailed rumour says the Doctor meets Amy as a child in 1995 and as an adult in 2010.
 * This episode will actually be 60 minutes long rather than the usual 45 minute format. It is unknown if this will be the pattern for the whole series.

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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Continuity
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DVD Release
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