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Overview

First aired

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Production Code

1.11

Written by

Gareth Roberts

Directed by

Catherine Morshead

Runtime

45 minutes

Story Type

Companion-Lite

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Telepathy, Deadlock Seal, Shape Shifting

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Crack in time, Silence Will Fall

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Psychic Paper

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Colchester, Earth, England

UK Viewers

6.44 million

Appreciation Index

87

Synopsis

A mysterious force blocks the TARDIS — with Amy inside it — from landing, keeping it stuck in a materialisation loop. It's up to the Doctor to work out what that force is, lest Amy be lost forever along with his home/motor. As he investigates, the Doctor learns of a house on Aickman Road, with a staircase which people walk up but never come back down. To solve this mystery, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human and share a flat with Craig Owens.

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7 reviews

the doctors a baller


gabe_the_cool

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This review contains spoilers!

This episode is just kind of fun. The Doctor has to pretend to be normal and constantly shows up Craig who is essentially the companion for this episode

I feel like the instant memory transfer would be more useful but it seems to be painful for the doctor (presumably not only because he bumps his head to do it)


Jonathan_

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I am so in love with Matt Smith now


gothichotchreid

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This one is interesting, because it's not made for you. 

Doctor Who at it's most domestic and arguably commercial. This is designed as pleasant and unobtrusive entertainment, and it hits that mark of what it's trying to do admirably, it entertains. But this is television that you're sort of meant to find hopping between channels and keep it on as a lark, watching the funny alien man try and be apartment friends with James Corden. Most Who fans will find that pitch a teensy bit agonizing in a way, their hero reduced to the barest sitcom pop culture components. Dr Who on the third rock from the sun. Dr Who does ALF.

But also, show this one to a non-Doctor Who fan (as I have several times) and they'll almost definitely have a grand old time. I admire The Lodger's efficiency, if anything, but it's just genuinely an oddity that it's hard to get much substance from.


ThePlumPudding

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Simplesmente o doutor jogando um fut de qualidade


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CRAIG: Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?

DOCTOR: They never really stop.

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[Aickman Road]

(The TARDIS materialises in a small park across the road from groups of terraced houses.)

DOCTOR: No, Amy, it's definitely not the fifth moon of Cindie Colesta. I think I can see a Ryman's.

(There is an explosion, throwing the Doctor to the ground, and the TARDIS dematerialises.)

DOCTOR: Amy! Amy!


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