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The Impossible Astronaut
Broadcast: Saturday 30th April 2011
7:30pm-8:15pm AEST (09:30 GMT) < > « » Premiere < > « »
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Featuring: Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Stuart Milligan, Mark Sheppard

The Doctor returns, alongside newlyweds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space. CAST: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill.

Press Release:
In this new series, The Doctor (Matt Smith) returns, alongside newlyweds Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill), to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space.

Together they find themselves in Sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then journey on the high seas of 1696 aboard a pirate ship, to solve the mystery of the Siren.

In a bubble universe at the very edge of reality, the Doctor meets an old friend with a new face, and in a monastery on a remote island in the near future, an industrial accident takes on a terrible human shape. And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon's Run, and the Doctor's darkest hour.

Can even the truth about River Song (Alex Kingston) save the Time Lord's soul? Only two things are certain. Silence will fall. And a good man is going to die...

*Note: This is the 2011 series synopsis available at time of print. The synopsis for Episode 1: The Impossible Astronaut will be available after April 4, 2011.

PRODUCTION DETAILS:
A BBC Production. Producers: Marcus Wilson, Sanne Wohlenberg; Executive Producers: Piers Wenger, Beth Willis; Lead Writer and Executive Producer: Steven Moffat
Synopsis Source: ABC
Broadcast Source: ABC

Ratings Information:


Initial figures: 0.865m viewers (overnight), 4th place day