Stories Television Doctor Who (2005-2022) Doctor Who S7 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 2 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 2 Transcript Overview First aired Saturday, September 8, 2012 Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Saul Metzstein Runtime 45 minutes Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) By Royal Command, Dinosaurs, Doctor kisses, Robots UK Viewers 7.57 million Appreciation Index 87 Synopsis In 2367, the Indian Space Agency is on high alert as an unidentified spaceship hurtles towards the Earth. The Eleventh Doctor assembles a team to investigate, including the legendary Queen Nefertiti, a big game hunter named Riddell, Amy, Rory... and Rory's father, Brian. Materialising aboard the mystery ship, they're surprised to find it populated by dinosaurs. With time running out before the ship is blasted out of the sky, the Doctor must confront a vicious criminal named Solomon, as the lives of his companions and the dinosaurs hang in the balance... Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith Amy Pond Karen Gillan Rory Williams Arthur Darvill Brian Williams First Appearance John Riddell Nefertiti Solomon Show All Characters (7) How to watch Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Seventh Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray The Complete Seventh Series DVD The Complete Seventh Series Blu-Ray Series 7: Part 1 DVD Series 7: Part 1 Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 2 reviews 23 September 2024 · 290 words Review by 15thDoctor Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! The pre-credits sequence is excellent, a bit more frenetic than we are used to from Chibnall. It's great seeing the Ponds at home, with Mark Williams as Rory’s dad; a fantastic piece of casting. At this late point in Amy and Rory’s time on the show they could just be looking to wrap everything up, so it's fantastic that they are still pushing their relationship somewhere new. This dynamic, building on Pond Life, and the character interactions lift what is otherwise a bog standard plot. I love the dinosaurs, I love the spaceship, I hate the comedy robots. It is the only time Mitchell and Webb have been in Doctor Who and it feels like a waste of their talents to play unfunny robots. Poor Robot Webb’s unfunny robot barely even says anything. You only know who it is from context. There is a huge ensemble cast. Solomon is an interesting enough baddy. Queen Nefatiti and the gamekeeper guy are very good. The show absolutely survives on the character moments. Although the cringey flirting which penetrates every part of this period of Doctor Who does not leave this episode untouched. This is in the most part a more child friendly episode, with the major exception of the implied threat of assault (keeping it vague) from Soloman to Nefatiti. I’m not sure how I feel about little girls watching that exchange, even if she does get her comeuppance. The way the Doctor heartlessly kills Soloman at the end also feels a bit off; regardless of how bad he is. At the start of the episode I was thinking this might have been Chibnall’s best pre-13th Doctor story but it quickly falls down. Mixed! Like Liked 2 23 September 2024 · 50 words Review by AndyUK 3 This was a daft but pretty fun romp. However, it tried to cram in far too much for me to rate it too highly. Introducing Brian was a great move but Nerfertiti, Riddell and the two Robots were completely pointless really and a waste of some potentially good guest stars. 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RORY: Did you just have that on you? BRIAN: Of course. What sort of man doesn't carry a trowel? Put it on your Christmas list. RORY: Dad, I'm thirty one. I don't have a Christmas list any more. DOCTOR: I do! — Dinosaurs on a Spaceship Show All Quotes (2) Open in new window Transcript Needs checking [Egypt, 1334 B.C.] (The Doctor rushes to the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Bye, then. Lovely meeting you. Sorry about the mess. (He is restrained by an elegant woman in a sheer gown and tall blue headdress, who pushes him up against the TARDIS door and strokes his hair.) NEFERTITI: You think I'll just let you leave without me, after what we've just been through? Show Full Transcript Open in new window