Doctor Who 2.13: The Wedding of River Song review

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The Doctor: It’s time.

Production Code: 2.13.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep13). (Footnote [1]).
Story Number: 224.

Wow. Plot discussed obviously with this review…

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Doctor Who 2.12: Closing Time review

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The Doctor: I think it’s fair to say, in the language of your age, that I lived my dream. I owned the stage. Gave it a hundred and ten percent. I hope you have as much fun as I did, Alfie.

Production Code: 2.12.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep12).
Story Number: 223. (Footnote [1]).

The end?

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Doctor Who 2.11: The God Complex review

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Rory: I’d forgotten. Not all victories are about saving the universe.

Production Code: 2.11.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep11, Footnote [1]).
Story Number: 222.

Another corker of a story after the previous one…

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Doctor Who 2.10: The Girl Who Waited review

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The Doctor: If anyone can defeat predestiny… it’s your wife.

Production Code: 2.10.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep10).
Story Number: 221. (Footnote [1]).

A modern classic for the programme…

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Doctor Who 2.9: Night Terrors review

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The Doctor: And one thing I can tell you, Alex – monsters are real.

Production Code: 2.4. (Footnote [1]).
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep9).
Story Number: 220.

Kitchen sink Doctor Who, but for now Amy and Rory have a cuppa in the console room…

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Doctor Who 2.8: Let’s Kill Hitler review

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The Doctor: Never knowingly be serious — rule 27. You might want to write these down.

Production Code: 2.8.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep8).
Story Number: 219. (Footnote [1]).

It begins in a cornfield…

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Doctor Who: Prequel to Let’s Kill Hitler review

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Amy: Doctor…

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 219.

Something a bit different for this prequel…

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Doctor Who 2.7: A Good Man Goes to War review

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Rory: Oh don’t give me those blank looks.

Production Code: 2.7.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep7).
Story Number: 218. (Footnote [1]).

In the Doctor Who story The Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead, the Doctor exclaimed “Books! People never really stop loving books” – this episode really does hark back to that story in more ways than one…

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River Song — the story so far

Some thoughts on the Doctor Who stories (and plot details of those broadcast stories!) that have told the story of River Song, before today’s broadcast…River

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Doctor Who: The Prequel to Episode 7 review

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A character in the prequel: Gentlemen, good news…

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 218.

More mystery…

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Doctor Who 2.6: The Almost People review

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Rory: You’re going to have to start explaining some of this to me, Doctor.

Production Code: 2.6.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep6).
Story Number: 217b. (Footnote [1]).

Of course if you haven’t seen this don’t – don’t! – read this plot-detail-heavy review…

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Doctor Who 2.5: The Rebel Flesh review

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The Doctor: I’ve got to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose.

Production Code: 2.5.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep5).
Story Number: 217a. (Footnote [1]).

The first half of a story which seems to reaffirm the themes of this season and the previous season…

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Doctor Who 2.4: The Doctor’s Wife review

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The Doctor: Sayonara Squash Court Seven.

Production Code: 2.3. (Footnote [1]).
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep4).
Story Number: 216.

I would really emphasise that you watch this curiously-titled Doctor Who story before reading any reviews including this one…

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Doctor Who 2.3: The Curse of the Black Spot review

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Captain Avery: Wheel. Telescope. Astrolabe. Compass. A ship’s a ship.

Production Code: 2.9. (Footnote [1]).
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep3).
Story Number: 215.

Any Doctor Who story floats on an ocean of past and future Doctor Who stories…

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Doctor Who: Prequel to The Curse of the Black Spot review

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Captain: Eight days we’ve been stranded in these waters and still there is no wind to fill our sails.

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 215.

90 seconds of mystery on the high seas…

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Doctor Who 2.2: Day of the Moon review

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River: Your future is my past, your firsts are my lasts.

Production Code: 2.2.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep2).
Story Number: 214b. (Footnote [1]).

Again – wow…

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Doctor Who 2.1: The Impossible Astronaut review

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River: Hippy!
The Doctor: Archaeologist.

Production Code: 2.1. (Footnote [1]).
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep1).
Story Number: 214a.

Wow…

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Doctor Who: The Prequel to Episode 1 review

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Nixon: Hello this is the President of the United States, who is this?

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 214.

An intriguing couple of minutes…

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Doctor Who: Space and Time review

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Amy: What are you doing?
Rory: Helping the Doctor. Um, it’s humming. Is that okay?
The Doctor: Yeah, it’s fine we’re just entering conceptual space. Imagine a banana…

Doctor Who Season: Between S31 and S32 (scenes).
Story Number: n/a, though scenes between 213 and 214.

Reviews and Red Nose Day YouTube of the scenes after the jump…

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Doctor Who 2.X: A Christmas Carol review

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The Doctor: Halfway out of the dark.

Doctor Who Season: Between S31 and S32 (Christmas Special).
Production Code: Probably 2.X. (Footnote [1]).
Story Number: 213.

Doctor Who is not a show about time-travel…

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