Stories Television Doctor Who Series 5 Doctor Who S5 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Vincent and the Doctor 2 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 4 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 1 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Saturday, June 5, 2010 Production Code 1.10 Written by Richard Curtis Directed by Jonny Campbell Runtime 47 minutes Time Travel Past, Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Invisibility, Celebrity Historical, Time Travel Pivotal Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, Paris UK Viewers 6.76 million Appreciation Index 86 Synopsis While taking Amy to several peaceful locations, the Eleventh Doctor's trip to a museum takes turn for the worse: his interest is caught by a painting of a church by Vincent van Gogh. What troubles the Doctor is that there's a face in the church's window; it's not a nice face, it's a curious, shadowed, creepy face with a beak and nasty eyes. The Doctor knows evil when he sees it and this face is definitely evil; it may pose a threat to the one who painted it. Only one thing will calm the Doctor's nerves: a trip in the TARDIS to 1890 so he can find out from the artist himself. Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith Amy Pond Karen Gillan Vincent van Gogh First Appearance Krafayis Show All Characters (4) How to watch Vincent and the Doctor: Watch on iPlayer Doctor Who Confidential Blu-Ray The Complete Fifth Series [Steelbook] The Complete Fifth Series DVD The Complete Fifth Series Blu-Ray Series 5: Volume 4 DVD Series 5: Volume 4 Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 4 reviews 10 January 2025 · 59 words Review by Qw0 Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! To me, vincent and the doctor is the finest episode of them all, certainly the most popular episode of season 5, they transformed the pain and mental illnes vincent faced and turned it into a big chicken, no one had ever done it before and perhaps no one ever will again! 10/10 masterpiece episode definitely worth watching at least 1 million times :) Qw0 View profile Like Liked 3 23 November 2024 · 30 words Review by Bongo50 1 Vincent and the Doctor is a solid story elevated to excellence by a few incredible scenes near the end. Those scenes never fail to bring a tear to my eye. Bongo50 View profile Like Liked 1 23 November 2024 · 32 words Review by Five_Hundredth_Drax 2 A masterpiece. Watch it right now. Also, turns out it is written by the same man who directed "The Boat that Rocked" - great movie, no wonder this episode is so good. Five_Hundredth_Drax View profile Like Liked 2 24 April 2024 · 244 words Review by 15thDoctor Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! I had the biggest cry I've ever had to any episode of Doctor Who watching this yesterday. Seeing Vincent understand the true scale of his legacy, followed by the gentle report of his death from Bill Nighy might be the most profound thing the show has aired over its 60 years. Amy and The Doctor improved the end of Vincent Van Gough's life immensely - but his depression was not something that could be so easily fixed. Managing to deliver this message in a child appropriate way is no small achievement. The overwhelming focus of this story is Vincent, Amy and The Doctor's conversations with each other an Vincent's personal emotional journey as they explore his demons. The misunderstood, mostly invisible alien "menace" of the week takes a back seat, and quite right too. It is very strange to have nearly everything wrap up 2 thirds of the way into a script, then get to dedicate all of that focus onto character moments. The continuing drama of the missing Rory is played very well here and subtly, not interrupting proceedings for anyone who missed last week. I would love to see Richard Curtis come back and have a second go at this little show. He has had such a huge impact for a one off writer. Moffat was very good at getting celebrity writers involved in the show during his early seasons (also see: Simon Nye and Neil Gaiman). I'd like to see more of this. 15thDoctor View profile Like Liked 3 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating799 members 4.47 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,494 votes 4.47 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1590 Favourited 341 Reviewed 4 Saved 4 Skipped 0 Related Stories Doctor Who S5 • Episode 12 The Pandorica Opens Rating: 4.12 Story Skipped Television Reviews(2) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Series 5 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (2005-2022) Set of Stories: Eleventh Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved The Blogs of Doom Dr Black Rating: ??? Story Skipped Short Story More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: The Blogs of Doom Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things or make them unimportant. — Eleventh Doctor, Vincent and the Doctor Transcript + Script (Autumn. Something cuts a swathe through the ripe wheat, scaring the crows. The event is caught on canvas by an avant-garde artist.) [Muse d'Orsay] (Wheatfield with crows is now hanging on a gallery wall with an expert enthusing over it to his audience.) BLACK: So this is one of the last paintings Van Gogh ever painted. Those final months of his life were probably the most astonishing artistic outpouring in history. It was like Shakespeare knocking off Othello, Macbeth and King Lear over the summer hols. And especially astonishing because Van Gogh did it with no hope of praise or reward. He is now…AMY: Thanks for bringing me.DOCTOR: You're welcome.AMY: You're being so nice to me. Why are you being so nice to me?DOCTOR: I'm always nice to you.AMY: Not like this. These places you're taking me. Arcadia, the Trojan Gardens, now this. I think it's suspicious.DOCTOR: What? It's not. There's nothing to be suspicious about.AMY: Okay, I was joking. Why aren't you?BLACK: Each of these pictures now is worth tens of millions of pounds, yet in his lifetime he was a commercial disaster. Sold only one painting, and that to the sister of a friend. We have here possibly the greatest artist of all time, but when he died you could have sold his entire body of work and got about enough money to buy a sofa and a couple of chairs. If you follow me now…CHILD: Who is it?CHILD 2: It's the doctor. (The Doctor turns. The schoolboys are looking at the portrait of Doctor Gachet.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)
