More Complete Info on Series 7

2012 Episodes 

• Episode 1: "Asylum of the Daleks"
• Written by Steven Moffatt, directed by Nick Hurran
• Features every type of Dalek ever
• The Doctor will be given a task to complete by the Dalek High Council and the episode will take place partially on an alien planet
• Will be screened at the BFI film festival on August 14th and at the Edinburgh International TV festival sometime between August 23rd and 25th
• The Ponds and the Doctor are kidnapped by the Daleks
• There's a prison planet for Daleks who are insane or battle-damaged or otherwise bad
• Guest Starring: David Gyasi (Harvey)

• Episode 2: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"
• Written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Saul Metzstein
• Features robots, an Edwardian hunter, Rory's dad, and Nefertiti
• Starts out in Ancient Egypt
• Involves a spaceship full of dinosaurs that's going to crash into the Earth in the 24th century
• The Doctor is summoned by the Earth Defense Commander
• Guest Starring: Mark Williams (Rory's dad Brian), David Bradley (Solomon), Rupert Graves (British explorer Riddell), & Riann Steele (Nefertiti)

•  Episode 3: "A Town Called Mercy"
• Written by Toby Whithouse, directed by Saul Mezstein
• The Doctor, Amy, and Rory travel to the American Wild West and battle a cyborg called the Gunslinger
• There's a second alien called Kahler-Jex who is being hunted by the Gunslinger
• The villagers apparently don't like aliens
• The Doctor gets another Stetson and is now 1,200 years old
• Guest Starring: Ben Browder (the local Sheriff), Adrian Scarborough (Kahler Jax), Dominic Kemp (Kahler–Mas), Rob Cavazos (Walter), Andrew Brooke (the Reckoner), Joanne McQuinn (Sadie), & Garric Hagon

• Episode 4: "The Power of Three"
• Written by Chris Chibnall, directed by Douglas Mackinnon
• Will feature UNIT dealing with a bunch of black cubes that have fallen to Earth
• Amy and Rory are celebrating their anniversary at a party
• Takes place over the course of a year
• Guest Starring: Mark Williams (Rory's dad, Brian), Jemma Redgrave (the Brigadier's daughter Kate Stewart), Steven Berkoff (Mr. Shanks), Selva Rasalingam (Ranjit), & Barnaby Edwards (mysterious hooded figure)

• Episode 5: "The Angels Take Manhattan"
• Written by Steven Moffatt, directed by Nick Hurran
• Features the Weeping Angels, and Amy & Rory's departure (something to do with an unspecified scene in The Eleventh Hour)
• The Doctor, Amy, and Rory visit New York
• Will feature some sort of funeral for someone
• River Song makes an appearance
• Guest Starring: Michael McShane (Dr. Grayle), & Rob David (Sam Garner)

• Episode 6 (Christmas Special) "The Snowmen"
• Written by Steven Moffatt, directed by Saul Metzstein
• Modified version of Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman"
• Introduces the new companion, played by Jenna–Louise Coleman (named Clara)
• The Doctor meets his new companion in the last place he'd ever expect
• Features Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax from A Good Man Goes to War
• Features alien snow that assembles itself into roughly humanoid form
• Takes place in Victorian times
• Guest Starring: Richard E. Grant, Tom Ward, 

2013 Episodes

• Episode 7: "The Bells of Saint John"
• Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Colm McCarthy
• There's something living in the Wi-Fi that's controlling people
• The Wi-Fi also appears to be able to switch people off
•  Introduces the new companion Clara Oswin Oswald for the third time
• Not the same Clara as in the previous episode 
• Features an enemy called the Spoonheads
• The Doctor has to stop an airplane from crashing 
• Guest Starring: Celia Imrie (Ms. Kizlet), Robert Whitelock (Mahler)

• Episode 8: "The Rings of Akhaten"
• Written by Neil Cross, directed by Farren Blackburn 
• Great big glowing alien planet with a face in it and rings
• Festival of Sacrifice happening on alien planet 
• Features the Queen of Years (a young girl)
• Alien mummy thing 
• Possible connection to Ancient Egypt and Nefertiti 
• Guest Starring: Zoe Alexander 

• Episode 9: "The Cold War"
• Written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Douglas Mackinnon
• Filmed entirely on indoor sets
• Takes place onboard a Russian missile submarine
• Contains the words "meat", "klaxon", & "Vienna" (might refer to episode 12)
• Ice Warrior has gotten onboard after melting out of an iceberg
• The Doctor and Clara are on their way to Las Vegas
• Guest Starring: Josh O'Connor (Piotr), James Norton (Onejin), David Warner, & Liam Cunningham

• Episode 10 "Hide"
• Written by Neil Cross, directed by Jamie Payne
• Takes place an at old mansion at a moor that's haunted by the ghost of the Witch of the Well
• A professor and a psychic are trying to find the ghost
• The ghost isn't all the Doctor is there for (he wants the psychic's help with you-know-who)
• Eye of Harmony
• The Doctor has apparently taken up an interest in photography
• Guest Starring: Dougray Scott (Professor), Kemi–Bo Jacobs (Hila Tacorian), & Jessica Raine (Emma Grayling)

• Episode 11 "Journey to the Center of the TARDIS"
• Written by Steve Thompson, directed by Mat King
• Set inside the TARDIS
• Features three brothers who form an intergalactic salvage crew
• We get to see the Eye of Harmony, along with "Gallifreyan eggs" (?)
• The brothers want to sell the TARDIS for scrap
• Clara is trapped deep inside the TARDIS, and the Doctor activates its self-destruct in order to get the brothers to help him find her
• Guest Starring: Ashley Walters (Van Baalen), Mark Oliver (Bram Van Baalen), Jahvel Hall (Tricky Van Baalen)

• Episode 12: "The Crimson Horror"
• Written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Saul Metzstein
• Takes place in a mysterious 19th Century village
• The Doctor gets a bowler hat
• Features a strange factory called Sweetville run by Winifred Gillyflower
• People are going missing at the factory and later turn up red and waxy in a river
• Jenny will be there (the human one, not the Doctor's daughter) as well as Madame Vastra and Strax from A Good Man Goes to War
• Guest Starring: Diana Rigg (Winifred Gillyflower) & Brendan Patricks (twins Edmund and Jeremiah)

• Episode 13: "Nightmare in Silver"
• Written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Stephen Wolfenden
• New Cybermen
• Takes place in the future at an abandoned theme park named Hedgewick's World
• Band of fighters are battling the Cybermen there
• Features a Cyber-"something else" 
• Guest Starring: Tamzin Outhwaite (Captain Alice), Calvin Dean, Jason Watkins, Warwick Davis

• Episode 14: "The Name of the Doctor"
• Written by Steven Moffat
• Possibly set in Victorian Scotland
• The aliens are known as the Whispermen
• The Doctor's greatest secret is revealed
• Possibility of River's gravestone  
• Possible return of River Song, Strax, Vastra, Jenny, and Dr. Simeon

• Other things
• New title sequence 
• New TARDIS interior

This post will be updated periodically and replaces all previous Series 7 spoilers posts.

My Proposal for the Scheduling of Seasons 7–8

Hey Moffatt, listen up!

I propose starting Season 7 on November 17th and running one episode per week until December 15th. There will then be the Christmas Special on Christmas Day, then one episode per week starting on January 5th. This will give people time to travel and spend time with their families and not miss out on Doctor Who. The will then be a two-hour (including commercials) 50th Anniversary Special featuring at least Doctors 8–11. Season 8 will then resume on the normal April–July schedule in 2014. There might or might not be a 2012 Christmas Special (depends on if they can fit it into the productions schedule).

For those of you wondering how this relates to my first post a month ago, that was simply an April Fool's Day post pretending to be an actual announcement. This is a serious proposal.

What if the Time Lords blew up the TARDIS?

So it still hasn't been revealed who blew up the TARDIS or why. We're being led to believe it was the Silence, but what if it was actually the Time Lords? The Silence's attempts to interfere with the TARDIS in The Lodger could have been trying to prevent it from materializing on June 26th, 2010. That's assuming that it actually was a Silence time engine and that the interference was intentional.

The Time Lords actually have the means and the motive to destroy reality. They couldn't execute their plans within the time lock, so they would have had to use the Doctor. They might have tampered with the 8th/9th Doctor's TARDIS while he was still fighting the war. They just rigged it to detonate if it ever materialized on that date. The Doctor never actually went to that date until River did in The Pandorica Opens.

Series 7, Episode 5 Spoilers

So episode 5 will be taking place in New York, and will feature the Weeping Angels. This we know for sure (I think). It appears that Rory will get sucked into the past by the angels. They filmed a scene with the Doctor and Amy reading a letter and looking very emotionally distraught. It appears Rory ends up living out his life without the Doctor and Amy, and sending them a letter. There is also a funeral scene, this might be Rory's, it might not. He could end up dying just after they receive the letter. Also, Rory and one other character were filmed looking at the Statue of Liberty as if there was something not quite right about it. It probably moved for just a moment, when no one was looking at it.

Matt Smith's Reign as the Doctor

So if David Tennant's length of stay as the Doctor is going to be the standard for the new series (4 years), Matt Smith should be around until 2014. On the other hand, they might cut it a bit short and have him go out in the 50th Anniversary Special (that post earlier saying he would was an April Fool's joke), though they've never had a regeneration on an anniversary before. One reason it might be longer than four years is if they decide not to get rid of the 12-regeneration limit, but want to keep the show around as long as possible before that. I can't imagine them ever wanting to kill the show, this time permanently. I think they're going to try and find a way of making 507 the new limit.

Theory for New Companion

Moffat is not telling us the name of the new companion, which probably means she's a returning character. If she's being played by a new actor, then she must be a Time Lady who's regenerated. The only Time Ladies we've met are Susan, Romana, and Jenny (who doesn't have proper regenerative capabilities). If it's Romana or Susan, they might have been hiding in the TARDIS' cryogenic chamber (Moffat did say she'd be in the last place the Doctor would ever suspect, which could be his own TARDIS). After being in there for two centuries, her brain might have been addled and she'd be unable to remember how she got there. If the new companion was Jenny, she could have undergone a proper regeneration later on. She then could have been captured by the Daleks and held for interrogation on Skaro (the Doctor wouldn't expect to find a friend there, would he?). The Doctor would then have to come rescue her. Her interrogation by the Daleks could have damaged her brain, leading her to forget how she first came to be captured. The only problem with the Jenny theory (other than suddenly being able to regenerate properly) is that it doesn't seem very Christmas-y. Then again, all the Christmas specials whose plots haven't been copied from a book haven't been very Christmas-y.

Series 7 News Roundup

• Episode 1 will feature the Daleks at an Antarctic base, every type of Dalek ever will feature
• Episode 2 will be Ancient Egypt–themed possibly featuring Cleopatra
• Episode 3 will be in the American Wild West and will feature a cyborg bad guy
• Episode 5 will take place in New York City, and will feature the Weeping Angels and Amy and Rory's last appearance
• Episode 6 will be the Christmas Special and will introduce the new companion, to be played by Jenna–Louise Coleman
• Episodes 7–14 will air in spring 2013

Sophia Myles to Play the Twelfth Doctor

The Moff has announced today that Sophia Myles has been hired to play the 12th Doctor. She will appear in the 50th Anniversary Episode, which is scheduled to air in the middle of Season 8. Season 7 will run continuously from November 24th to February 23rd, skipping December 29th, as that episode will air on Christmas. Season 8 is scheduled for fall 2013.

Also, the 50th Anniversary Episode is to be titled "The Seven Doctors".