The Pandorica Opens (TV story)

The Pandorica Opens will be the twelfth episode, and first in a dramatic two-part finale of Series 5.

Synopsis
A Van Gogh painting ferried across thousands of years, communicating a disturbing prophecy to the Doctor, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a love that lasts a thousand years. In 102 AD England, Romans receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge conceals the Pandorica, a prison-box of legend. As it slowly unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens above. The fates are drawing close around the TARDIS. United, the Doctor's friends send him a warning, he deals with a message on a cliff, a mysterious box and a love story which spans over millennia. The Pandorica, which contains the most dangerous threat in the Universe, is opening. Only one thing is certain: "The Pandorica will open...silence will fall".

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
 * River Song - Alex Kingston
 * Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
 * Dr. Gachet - Howard Lee
 * Guard - Joe Jacobs
 * Dorium - Simon Fisher Becker
 * Claudio - Marcus O'Donovan
 * Commander - Clive Wood
 * Commander Stark - Christopher Ryan
 * Marcellus - David Fynn
 * Dalek Operator - Barnaby Edwards
 * Cyber-Leader - Ruari Mears
 * Dalek/Cybermen/Judoon (voice) - Nicholas Briggs
 * Vincent van Gogh - Tony Curran
 * Bracewell - Bill Paterson
 * Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
 * Liz 10 - Sophie Okonedo

Production Crew
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Continuity

 * The Van Gogh painting would return as it had something to do with these events. '(DW: 'Vincent and the Doctor')
 * Prisoner Zero and River Song (one who already experienced these events) previously mentioned the Pandorica opening. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, DW: Flesh and Stone)
 * The Cybus Cybermen last appeared in DW: The Next Doctor, and also appeared in DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday and (as an incomplete "Cyberwoman") in TW: Cyberwoman
 * The new, non-Time War Daleks return since they were last seen in DW: Victory of the Daleks
 * Many other enemies are featured or mentioned, specifically by River Song in the trailer, including:
 * The Sontarans (DW: The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, SJA: The Last Sontaran, Enemy of the Bane, DW: The End of Time)
 * The Judoon (DW: Smith and Jones, The Stolen Earth, SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon, DW: The End of Time)
 * The Hoix (DW: Love & Monsters, TW: Exit Wounds)
 * The Weevils (TW: Everything Changes, Day One)
 * The Blowfish (TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Fragments)
 * The Uvodni (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak)
 * The Sycorax (DW: The Christmas Invasion, The Shakespeare Code, The End of Time)
 * The Silurians (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians, Warriors of the Deep, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)
 * The Nestene and Autons (DW:Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons, Rose)
 * The Roboform (DW: The Christmas Invasion, The Runaway Bride)
 * The Drahvins (DW: Galaxy 4)
 * The Chelonians (NA: The Highest Science, Zamper, MA: The Well-Mannered War, The Crystal Bucephalus, The Empire of Glass, DWM: The Last Word, The Body Bank, VD: Fegovy)
 * The Zygons (DW: Terror of the Zygons)
 * The Atraxi (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
 * The Terileptil (DW: The Visitation)
 * The Draconians (DW: Frontier in Space)

Story Notes

 * This episode was incorrectly entitled Silver Sentence.
 * Many old enemies have been confirmed to appear or be mentioned in the episode, whether there to play an enemy part is still to be confirmed. The list of enemies include the Daleks, the Cybus Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, the Slitheen, the Hoix, the Weevils, the Uvodni, the Sycorax, the Silurians, the Autons, the Roboform, the Blowfish, the Nestene, the Chelonians, the Drahvins, the Atraxi, the Zygons, the Terileptils, the Slitheen and the Draconians.
 * Characters from throughout Series 5 who return in the finale include Vincent van Gogh, Winston Chruchill, Liz 10, and River Song, according to an interview with Karen Gillan

Ratings
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Rumours

 * The Original Cybermen will return.
 * Many fans believe Omega will return.
 * It is rumoured that either the Timoreen, the Ha'rik, or the Skarkish will appear – primarily because these were all listed as "new aliens" to appear in Series 5 and have not appeared yet.
 * If the Doctor's "Friends who unite to send him a terrible warning" are some characters seen through the series then it's possible that they are the following:
 * 1) Amy Pond (Who will appear)
 * 2) Rory Williams (Has been seen in trailers and pictures wearing a Roman uniform).
 * 3) Jeff and Mrs. Angelo
 * 4) Liz 10 (Who will appear in part 1 or 2, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
 * 5) Winston Churchill (Who will appear in part 1 or 2, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
 * 6) River Song (Who will appear)
 * 7) Father Octavian and the Clerics (Since they got absorbed by the Cracks)
 * 8) Eldane (Since he knows that the Doctor has greater losses to come)
 * 9) Tony, Nasreen, Mo, Elliot and Ambrose
 * 10) Vincent van Gogh (Who will appear, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
 * 11) Craig Owens and Sophie.

Filming locations

 * Stonehenge, England

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Production errors
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Continuity
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Home video releases
BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Four will feature The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. It will be released on Monday 6th September 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray.