Doctor Who: Series 5
Doctor Who Season 5 continues the overarching saga across thirteen episodes. The Doctor takes part in epic adventures across space and time in that famous blue box. The Doctor is a Time Lord, a nine hundred year old alien with two hearts. The series features action, adventure, drama, and science fiction and fantasy elements. The character can change appearance, and the program is an in house production of BBC Televis
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The Doctor is a 900-year-old alien Time Lord with two hearts.
- The Doctor travels through space and time in a famous blue box.
- The series involves epic adventures spanning action, drama, and science fiction and fantasy.
- The central character has the ability to change their physical appearance.
Season overview
Doctor Who Season 5 continues the overarching saga across thirteen episodes. The Doctor takes part in epic adventures across space and time in that famous blue box. The Doctor is a Time Lord, a nine hundred year old alien with two hearts. The series features action, adventure, drama, and science fiction and fantasy elements. The character can change appearance, and the program is an in house production of BBC Television after attempts to find backing for a feature film. The series streams on platforms including BBC iPlayer and is documented across various international databases.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
The Eleventh Hour
Apr 3, 2010 · 65 min
The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has jus
The Beast Below
Apr 10, 2010 · 42 min
Amy Pond takes her first trip in the TARDIS when the Doctor whisks her away to the distant future and they discover Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British p
Victory of the Daleks
Apr 17, 2010 · 42 min
The Doctor has been summoned by old friend Winston Churchill, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for hi
The Time of Angels (1)
Apr 24, 2010 · 42 min
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 c
Flesh and Stone (2)
May 1, 2010 · 43 min
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner.
The Vampires of Venice
May 8, 2010 · 49 min
Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the Tardis touches down once ag
Amy's Choice
May 15, 2010 · 45 min
It has been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a
The Hungry Earth (1)
May 22, 2010 · 44 min
In 2020, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring
Cold Blood (2)
May 29, 2010 · 46 min
It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony… or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he
Vincent and the Doctor
Jun 5, 2010 · 47 min
Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a dead
The Lodger
Jun 12, 2010 · 43 min
There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human b
The Pandorica Opens (1)
Jun 19, 2010 · 49 min
The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can
The Big Bang (2)
Jun 26, 2010 · 54 min
The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.