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Doctor Who S5 • Episode 12

The Pandorica Opens

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Doctor Who (2005-2022)
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First aired Saturday, June 19, 2010
Production Code 1.12
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Toby Haynes
Runtime 50 minutes
Time Travel Past Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Spoilers Consequences Time Travel Pivotal Meeting in the wrong order Companion Doppelgänger Stone Circle Spaceship Doctor imprisoned Deadlock Seal Flashbacks Mind Control
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Crack in time Silence Will Fall
Inventory: (Potential Spoilers!) Sonic Screwdriver
UK Viewers 7.57 million
Appreciation Index 88
Synopsis

A Van Gogh painting ferried across thousands of years offering a terrifying prophecy, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a love that lasts a thousand years: in 102 AD England, Romans receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge hides a legendary prison-box. As it slowly unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens. The fates are closing around the TARDIS. The Pandorica, which contains the most dangerous threat in the Universe, is opening. Only one thing is certain: "The Pandorica will open... Silence will fall".

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