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Title: The Eleventh Hour (17 Apr 2010)
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Matt Smith | ... | The Doctor | |
| Karen Gillan | ... | Amy Pond | |
| Arthur Darvill | ... | Rory Williams | |
| Caitlin Blackwood | ... | Amelia | |
| Nina Wadia | ... | Dr Ramsden | |
| Marcello Magni | ... | Barney Collins | |
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Perry Benson | ... | Ice Cream Man |
| Annette Crosbie | ... | Mrs Angelo | |
| Tom Hopper | ... | Jeff | |
| Arthur Cox | ... | Mr Henderson | |
| Olivia Colman | ... | Mother (as Olivia Coleman) | |
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Eden Monteath | ... | Child 1 |
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Merin Monteath | ... | Child 2 |
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David de Keyser | ... | Atraxi (voice) |
| William Wilde | ... | Prisoner Zero (voice) | |
Having Just regenerated the Doctor arrives in a small English village where he meets a seven year old Scottish girl called Amelia Pond. Fascinated and puzzled by the mysterious and bizarre stranger who claims to be a time traveler. Amelia finds her self caught up in a adventure involving an escaped alien convict and the Atraxi who are in pursuit of it. And if the Doctor doesn't act soon the world will end in twenty minutes...but that won't happen for another twelves years! Written by Robert McElwaine
The first episode with Matt Smith as The Doctor (apart from his brief appearance after regenerating).
It is an excellent start for Steven Moffatt as 'showrunner' and Smith as the 11th Doctor. The episode is entertaining and well acted. Smith had an extremely hard act to follow as David Tennant as the 10th Doctor was, in my opinion, the best since Tom Baker who was the greatest ever Doctor (the 4th) ....and that is from someone who was actually angry and upset when I heard Tennant had been cast. I was slightly concerned by Smith 's over excited, almost childlike portrayal straight away but overall felt it was a strong debut and the episode has grown on me evn more over time.
The storyline of the alien on the run is not exceptional but is solid quality, fun and enjoyable. The other story elements of having the Doctor arrive at different points of Amy's life and the effect that has on her is what lifts the episode up in quality. Amy and Rory make good first impressions as the new 'companions' and overall the script and story is good. It is quite epic in nature with imminent world destruction threatened, declarations that alien attackers better be scared of the wrath of the Doctor and with flashes of previous Doctors shown in a striking way (the best moment of the episode).
Smith is not as much to my personal taste as Tennant and the story of 'prisoner zero' is not as brilliant as the time travel elements of the story. The CGI effects of the alien monster are not very good and the effect of it appearing to hang down from above does not really make sense to me. Where is it hanging from? Surely the whole creature should appear? Strange. I was not a big fan of the alien inhabiting a dog owner and his barking dog and mixing up their 'voices' either but it made sense in the context of the story.
Overall the episode is very good indeed and I rate it a very strong 9/10.