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Doctor Who S6 • Episode 1

The Impossible Astronaut

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Doctor Who (2005-2022)
Eleventh Doctor

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Doctor Who Series 6

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First aired Saturday, April 23, 2011
Production Code 2.1
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Toby Haynes
Runtime 45 minutes
Story Type Two-Parter
Time Travel Past
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Working Chameleon Circuit LGBTQA+ Fixed point in time Pregnancy Amnesia Spoilers Time Travel Pivotal Meeting in the wrong order Doctor Who? By Royal Command Celebrity Historical Fake Regeneration It's bigger on the inside Mind Control
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Amy's Pregnancy Melody Pond Silence Will Fall
Inventory: (Potential Spoilers!) Fez
Locations Earth USA Utah
UK Viewers 8.86 million
Appreciation Index 88
Synopsis

Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song and the Eleventh Doctor receive a mysterious summons that takes them on an adventure to 21st century Utah and Florida in 1969.

Along the way they meet Richard Nixon, president of the United States of America, and former FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III.

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