DOCTOR WHO: Everything You Need to Know About ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS


Finally, after a really quite long break, Doctor Who is back tonight with the first of five episodes that make up the first part of series seven. And in tonight’s series opener, Asylum of the Daleks, we’ll meet every Dalek ever made, enter the Asylum of the Daleks, and watch the beginning of the end for Amy and Rory Pond, the Doctor’s companions since 2010. So, to celebrate the premiere of Asylum of the Daleks, here’s all you need to know about the series 7 opener:

AIR DATES/TIMES

UK – Tonight at 7.20pm on BBC One

US – Tonight at 9/8C on BBC America

Canada – Tonight at 8pm on SPACE

Australia – Saturday 8 September at 7.30pm on ABC1/5am tomorrow on the ABC website

New Zealand – Thursday 13 September on Prime

SYNOPSIS

Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission – to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter… the Asylum.

A planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of their kind, the Doctor and the Ponds must find an escape route. But with Amy and Rory’s relationship in meltdown, and an army of mad Daleks closing in, it is up to the Doctor to save their lives, as well as the Pond’s marriage.

CAST LIST

The Doctor – Matt Smith
Amy Pond – Karen Gillan
Rory Williams – Arthur Darvill
Darla Von Karlsen -Anamaria Marinca
Cassandra – Naomi Ryan
Harvey – David Gyasi
Photoshoot PA – Zac Fox
Voice of the Daleks – Nicholas Briggs
Enemy 1 – Barnaby Edwards
Enemy 2- Nicholas Pegg

TRAILERS

 

CLIPS

You can check out my spoiler-filled review of  Asylum of the Daleks after it airs on BBC One tonight here, and ‘Everything You Need to Know About Dinosaurs on a Spaceship‘ will be posted this time next week!