Interesting Developments For "Doctor Who" [Spoilers].

[CaptainChewbacca]

The Angels are back. Should be awesome.

[Big Orange]

OK guys, I've got the 3-9 April issue of the Radio Times and here's the overview of Season Five and its episodes under the stewardship of the Grand Moffat:
Spoiler

The Ultimate Episode Guide
By Steven Moffat

The Who boss' series overview gives a tantalising taste of things to come

1 - "The Elevent Hour"
Writer Steven Moffat
Guest stars Annette Crosby, Nina Wadia and Arthur Darvill

Geronimo! A brand-new Doctor crashing to Earth. New face, new body, new man. And he’s barely staggered out of the blue box, before he’s found himself in the middle of the Crisis That Just Won’t Stop! No time to rest and recover, no TARDIS, no screwdriver - just six billion human beings about to die and only one man to save them. But the new Doctor encounters more than danger - this is the day he meets Amy Pond. Can he persuade her to trust him, when he’s been letting her down all her life?

‘Who da man?’

2 - “The Beast Below”
Writer Steven Moffat
Guest stars Sophie Okonedo, Terrance Hardiman

The Doctor takes Amy to the far future, and Starship UK. The British people, adrift among the stars on a giant spaceship, in search of a new home. But there are secrets here, in the rusting corridors and clanging hallways. A masked figure, who knows the Doctor of old, begs his help, while Amy encounters the terrifying Smilers, and encounters a secret so dreadful, no one can remember it…

‘Nobody talk to me! Nobody human has anything to say to me today!’

3 - “Victory of the Daleks”
Writer Mark Gatiss
Guest stars Ian McNeice and Bill Paterson

From the terrifying future of the United Kingdom to one of the darkest chapters of its past - World War Two. The Doctor and Amy find themselves in a top secret cabinet war room deep beneath the London streets. And there, gliding among the nicotine walls and Bakelite telephones, the Daleks are hatching their deadliest scheme yet. Only one man can help the Doctor - but whose side is Winston Churchill on?

‘I wanted to know what their plan was. I was their plan!’

4 - “The Time of Angels”
5 - “Flesh and Stone”
Writer Steven Moffat
Guest stars Alex Kingstone and Iain Glen

A two-part story. A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor’s life, and she’s brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the Weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. ‘Don’t blink!’ everyone tells Amy - but as Amy is about to discover, no blinking might just be the worst thing you can do…

‘Is River Song your wife?’

6 - “Vampires in Venice”
Writer Toby Whithouse
Guest star Helen McCrory

In Venice, even danger is beautiful. The House of Calvierri has the whole city under its protection, but something is very wrong. There are blood-drained corpses in the street, something lurks in the canal, and the Calvierri girls are the loveliest in town, except when you glance in the mirror…

‘You know what’s dangerous about you? Not that you ask people to take risks, but that you make them want to impress you!’

7 - “Amy’s Choice”
Writer Simon Nye
Guest star Toby Jones

It’s been five long years since Amy travelled in the TARDIS with her mysterious Doctor - and when he shows up again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, danger is not far behind him. Amy is faced with a heartbreaking choice that will change her life forever.

‘I know who you are. There’s only one person in the universe who hates me as much as you do’

Episodes 8 and 9(No official titles announced yet)
Writer Chris Chibnall (the Kenneth Biller of NuWho)
Guest stars Meera Syal, Stephen Moore and Neve Mcintosh

In 2015, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr. Nasreen Chaudhry and her team have reached 21 kilometres into the Earth’s crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there’s nowhere to run when you can’t even trust the ground at your feet.

‘While you’ve been drilling down… something else has been drilling up’

Episode 10
Writer Richard Curtis
Guest star Tony Curran

Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond find herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gough, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

‘Art can wait, this is life and death. We need to talk to Vincent van Gough!’

Episode 11
Writer Gareth Roberts
Guest stars James Corden and Daisy Haggard

The Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet - a flat share! People are disappearing on Aickman Road, and the Doctor must solve the mystery of a staircase that people walk up - but never down.

All I have to do is pass as an ordinary human being. What could possibly go wrong?’

Episode 12 and 13
Writer Steven Moffat

‘There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it - one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.’

And here's an interesting article from Lawrence Miles (who also felt NuWho went to shit/got repetitive 'round the Season Three mark):

In-Between Days

[Srelex]

I heard somewhere that the Silurians have been confirmed--I'd imagine they'd be in that drilling episode.

[Bedlam]

Seems to make the most sense that, maybe rather than hybernating like most of their kind they've been alive down there all the time, might explain why some of them look very different to the ones weve seen before.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Who wants to bet that in episodes 12 & 13 the mythical destroyer IS the Doctor.

[Stark]

Who wants to bet that in episodes 12 & 13 the mythical destroyer is remotely interesting?

[Shroom Man 777]

Hey mang, give Moffat a chance. He's usually given us the more interesting episodes, even in the shitter seasons of nuWho. At least it won't be like the crap from that other guy, whatshisface, with all the Rosey nonsense. Heh.

[Zac Naloen]

Episode 10
Writer Richard Curtis
Guest star Tony Curran

Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond find herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gough, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

‘Art can wait, this is life and death. We need to talk to Vincent van Gough!’

THE Richard Curtis?

[D.Turtle]

According to IMDB, yes.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Well shit

I like the sound of the Daleks, and Winston Churchill. Be interesting to see what relation these Daleks have to the Time War. I do hope we dont get another bullshit hand-wavy "we hid" excuse. Maybe they are the rebels, the Human Dalels from "Evil of the Daleks?" We never did find out what hapenned to them, just that the Doctor said the civil war was "the final end" of the daleks.

It sounds to me that episodes 8/9 are very similar to 3rd Doctors "Inferno." I hope its not just a re hash

[Bedlam]

Well shit

I like the sound of the Daleks, and Winston Churchill. Be interesting to see what relation these Daleks have to the Time War. I do hope we dont get another bullshit hand-wavy "we hid" excuse. Maybe they are the rebels, the Human Dalels from "Evil of the Daleks?" We never did find out what hapenned to them, just that the Doctor said the civil war was "the final end" of the daleks.

It sounds to me that episodes 8/9 are very similar to 3rd Doctors "Inferno." I hope its not just a re hash

I dont know Inferno was really good, a good rehast or sequal might work although I think you'd need to develop a good background cast before you can have all their evil twins turning up. I dont think it will relate to Inferno though, more likely Silurians (Ecocenes).

[Eternal_Freedom]

Quite probably, but it sounds like a very similar project. Thats why I said I hope its not a rehash, as in, I hope they do something different with it. I wonder if "Stahlman's Gas" will appear? SOrry to everyone if I mention lots of little bits from "Inferno", I watched it only two days ago