


Cybermen - Aidan Cook and voiced by Nicholas Briggs.The Great Intelligence - Richard E Grant and additionally voiced by Ian McKellen.Daleks - operated by Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg and voiced by Nicholas Briggs.Clara Oswald - Jenna Coleman, Sophie Downham.To save the Doctor from having his victories undone by the Great Intelligence, Clara followed the Intelligence into the wound of the Doctor's timeline from his tomb on Trenzalore, sacrificing herself to save the Doctor many times over, influencing the outcomes of his many battles, and even making sure he stole the right TARDIS from Gallifrey when he originally left. He found and travelled with the original Clara from 2013, determined to solve the mystery of the "impossible girl". The Doctor, not knowing who Clara was, realised that both incarnations of her were the same woman and believed there would be more versions of her somewhere in the universe. The Doctor meets his wife, River Song, in the final episode of the first half of the series, which involved the Weeping Angels who separated him from Amy and Rory forever.Īs established in The Name of the Doctor, in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen and many other encounters with the Doctor before, echoes of Clara Oswald were sent through time with the purpose of saving the Doctor, dying in at least the lives in Asylum and The Snowmen.

During this time, the Doctor regularly visits Amy Pond and Rory Williams and also meets his grandfather-in-law Brian Williams. The first half is about the Doctor deleting himself from the universe to hide from the deadly Silence, who attempted to assassinate him in series 6 to stop him from answering the Question.

Series 7 has been described as being a series of "movies" squeezed into forty-five minutes, although The Snowmen was sixty minutes. This was the last full series with Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. The BBC first announced the new series, which contained fourteen episodes, on the official Doctor Who site on 8 June 2011 It was followed by a series of 2013 specials, in honour of the programme's 50th anniversary. This series was broadcast on BBC One between 20, and, like Series 6, it was split into two parts. It consisted of fifteen stories and episodes.
