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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Big Bang
Broadcast: Saturday 19th January 2013
7:45pm-8:40pm GMT < > « »
(actually broadcast at 19:47:00)
BBC Three
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Featuring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Caitlin Blackwood, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston

What's happened to the Doctor? Is the universe really collapsing? And does a little girl, who still believes in stars, have the answers?
Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Consolidated figures: 0.591m viewers (+7 days), 2.3% audience share, AI 89

Notes


DRAMA If you're craving for a Saturday-night fix of timey-wimey sci-fi, look no further than The Big Bang, the head-scratching season finale from 2010. The Doctor is sealed in the Pandorica, Amy has been killed by an Auton-centurion duplicate of Rory, River is trapped in and exploding Tardis and, to cap it all, the cosmos collapses... Yet lead writer Steven Moffat demolishes these dramatic dead-ends with bamboozling brio and reboots the universe.

A stone Dalek comes to life in a museum, Amy meets her younger self, the Doctor goofs about with a mop and a fez, and the Ponds at last get spliced - with something simultaneously old, new, borrowed and blue turning up their wedding.

Credit: Radio Times, p53