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Asylum of The Daleks Sat 1st Sep BBC1 7:20 – 8:10


Asylum of The Daleks Sat 1st Sep BBC1 7:20pm – 8:10pm

Matt Smith returns as the oldest time-traveller in the universe. The Time Lord, Amy and Rory are kidnapped by their oldest foe the Daleks and forced on a seemingly impossible mission – to enter the Asylum, a planetary prison confining the most terrifying and insane of the deadly aliens’ kind.

They need an escape route, and fast – but with an army of mad Daleks closing in, and the Ponds’ relationship in meltdown, it is up to the Doctor to save not only their lives but his friends’ marriage. Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill co-star.

Cast and crew

The Doctor -Matt Smith
Amy Pond – Karen Gillan
Rory Williams – Arthur Darvill
Writer – Steven Moffat

Dalek logo from the official site


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154 comments

  • Jason doctorwhoone

    August 23rd, 2012 - 3:33pm

    Since a lot of fan’s of Doctor Who like myself hate the Paradigm Daleks, calling them things like Mini-Coopers and Power Rangers, Ive given them a repainting to what I feel would have been more acceptable for each one.

    If anyone would like to take a look at my repainting of the 5 Paradigm Daleks, please visit the Deviant Art website and look for ‘Doctor Who: The Paradigm Daleks – Remastered’.

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  • Jason doctorwhoone

    August 23rd, 2012 - 3:21pm

    Toyah Wilcox is the name of the woman I mentioned in a couple of recent posting who some of us here on the site thought was a 2nd Amy Pond that I said about standing next to Matt Smith’s Doctor in a photo in SFX Magazine but I forgot her name after I came home from WH Smiths.

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  • Proffesor When

    August 23rd, 2012 - 3:05pm

    Here is a countdown people! πŸ™‚
    http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20120901T1920&p0=136&fg1=a39de0&fg2=80c2da&msg=Doctor+Who+Series+Seven+Premiere

    Reply
  • the astronaut of death

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:38pm

    apparintley x factor has been moved to 8:10

    so it wont clash

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    • Anonymous

      August 23rd, 2012 - 7:13am

      That’s better

  • RassilonRocks

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:10pm

    isn’t the paralympics going to be on as well? and so you no x factor is rubbish. so the choice yours doctor who, paralympics or a repeat of top gear….

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  • BOOBOO JR

    August 22nd, 2012 - 6:56pm

    I’m going to see the Paralympics that day, and won’t be back until after its been on! I’ll have to watch on iPlayer.

    Reply
  • Dinosaurs… On a spaceship

    August 22nd, 2012 - 6:44pm

    Funny how the radio times can confirm it but the BBC can’t

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  • Dinosaurs… On a spaceship

    August 22nd, 2012 - 6:26pm

    That means after the angels take manhattan ends there will be a 3 month wait for the Christmas special… Well at least weve got merlin until then

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  • The Time Lord of Doom

    August 22nd, 2012 - 5:18pm

    Why is everyone complaining that it’s on the same time as The X Factor?

    First of all, last Saturday the X Factor was on 8pm, and Doctor Who is on 7:20pm……

    I cannot wait!!!!!! πŸ˜€

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    • tom

      August 24th, 2012 - 7:34pm

      people wont cut the last 10 mins of dr who just to watch people make a fool of themmselves
      lol

  • The 14th Doctor

    August 22nd, 2012 - 5:06pm

    I will be watching, and would not miss it for anything else on TV, but sadly it will have a powerful enemy…

    Why can’t everyone just see that the X Factor ran out of energy years ago and should be cancelled. All it does is supply entertainment to the brainless members of society and it steals ratings of great TV such as Doctor Who.

    PS, it’s the same day as I go to watch the Paralympics!

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    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 5:14pm

      members of society only tune in to watch Simon Cowell insult people and give that nasty grin of his just so they have something to complain about when they get bored and have nothing better to do.

      Us Doctor Who fan’s are different. We look beyond the often boring mundane life of our own world and see Doctor Who as an opportunity to escape from our own world from time to time and see the universe through the eyes of the Doctor and his companions, in effect taking us on the trip of a life time with them rather being stuck at home all day watching people who can’t sing being insulted by a man who’s a complete and total nobody standing next to a man who is the savior of the universe, space and time.

    • Commander Strax

      August 22nd, 2012 - 6:52pm

      Its not fair!

  • tom

    August 22nd, 2012 - 3:30pm

    Bit silly of the BBC to be putting this on at the same time as the x-factor though isn’t it? Dr Who will get slaughtered.

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    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 3:56pm

      X FACTOR WILL BE EX-TER-MIN-ATED !!!!! πŸ˜€

    • Anon

      August 22nd, 2012 - 4:31pm

      well, actually, the x factor had surprisingly low viewing figures last Saturday, with the lowest rates since 2006

    • foreverdalek 1323

      August 25th, 2012 - 9:56pm

      x faxtor will take a nose dive

  • RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND

    August 22nd, 2012 - 2:23pm

    finally

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  • the doctor

    August 22nd, 2012 - 1:50pm

    For episode 3,4 or 5 i dunno which but i will be in london.

    Reply
  • Commander Strax

    August 22nd, 2012 - 12:56pm

    Booboo can you do a countdown on the home page for Alysum of the Daleks please?

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    • booboo

      August 22nd, 2012 - 12:57pm

      Luke will have to do it, will ask him later

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:06pm

      10 Days To Go, YAY!!!!! πŸ˜€

    • Commander Strax

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:46pm

      Thank you!

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:50pm

      πŸ˜€

  • Dalek Jake

    August 22nd, 2012 - 12:17pm

    Can’t wait. It should be an hour long though.

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  • Bigger on the Inside

    August 22nd, 2012 - 11:19am

    I think they may do dr who on the cover of rt!

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    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 11:22am

      I’m curtain they will, if they don’t then almost 50 years of Dalekmania will be crashing through there walls demanding an explanation, cos not only is Asylum of the Daleks a brand new Dalek story, but rather in a way celebrating the Daleks as a whole, showing their past by showing us the Doctor encountering the old versions of his oldest enemy.

    • Bigger on the Inside

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:12pm

      They will have to be put. The asylum as they wil be CRAZY not to!

    • Bigger on the Inside

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:12pm

      Put in the asylum i mean

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:16pm

      is there a story to why the daleks change their appearances like in Victory Of The Daleks the last remaining bronze daleks got destroyed by the new ones & the new ones got created by the bronze daleks so thats one story, but what about the others?
      Also the same about the Cybermen & the Sontarans. why don’t they make an episode with every type of sontaran & every type of cybermen

    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:26pm

      There has never been an story in Doctor Who that ever talks about the changed the Daleks and Cybermen have had.

      With Dalek casings, it’s due to improvements in weaponry, sensors, optical systems, the ability to elevate off the ground etc.

      With Cybermen, it’s said that they separated themselves into different groups, and over time these different groups created themselves into the individual forms they all have. Can’t remember where I learned this, but after Tomb of the Cybermen, a group of Cybermen from like Revenge of the Cybermen I think it was discovered the ones from Tomb, and they made a hybrid of both versions into the 80’s Cybermen, intended to be the ultimate Cybermen.

      The Sontarans probably wanted better looking armour, who knows πŸ™‚

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:37pm

      lol πŸ˜€

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:44pm

      but if the sontarans wanted better looking armour then why did they change their appearance? lol :D. the cyberman thing i dant remember but the dr didn’t say once “oh, you’ve redecorated, i don’t like it” LOOOL πŸ˜€

    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:49pm

      also why didn’t they exterminate the old daleks if they were not as good as the newer daleks

    • foreverdalek 1323

      August 25th, 2012 - 9:59pm

      probabley they are pure daleks, just in bronze casings.

  • Alex

    August 22nd, 2012 - 11:03am

    glad an ep is on before i start school again but would prefer 25th august

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    • tom

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:17pm

      same, go back 5h broke up 20th july πŸ˜€

  • mystery

    August 22nd, 2012 - 10:18am

    wicked it airs on my birthday

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      August 22nd, 2012 - 10:40am

      Only ten days to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 11:23am

      Happy Birthday soon πŸ™‚

    • Commander Strax

      August 22nd, 2012 - 12:49pm

      It airs on my birthday too! Im really excited!

    • Jason doctorwhoone

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:27pm

      Happy Birthday to you too very soon πŸ™‚

    • Anonymous

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:32pm

      thanks and happy birthday too you to Commander Strax and 10 days to go

  • Tardis’nt

    August 22nd, 2012 - 10:03am

    WAHOOOOOO!!!!! i’m so excited that i just can’t hide it πŸ˜€

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  • The11thDoctorThe2nd

    August 22nd, 2012 - 9:14am

    We’ve been waiting all this time for the release date and when its finally released i realise I’m in london on that day !!!!! πŸ™ noooooo!!! Lol

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    • Tardis’nt

      August 22nd, 2012 - 10:01am

      there is always iPlayer?

    • The11thDoctorThe2nd

      August 22nd, 2012 - 2:00pm

      I know haha πŸ™‚ I’ll record it anyway!! Can’t wait!!! πŸ™‚

  • Galifrayforever97

    August 22nd, 2012 - 9:11am

    American get it a week later then us, lol

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    • gary

      August 22nd, 2012 - 10:06am

      ahahahahahahaha

    • Alex

      August 22nd, 2012 - 11:01am

      serves them right seeing as they got torchwood a week earlier when it was a british made show

    • foreverdalek 1323

      August 25th, 2012 - 10:01pm

      the show is british, its omley right it is aired in brtain first.

  • CG

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:59am

    So I am guessing that Aus (as it normally is) will be 1 week after!

    Can’t wait =)

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  • TheWhomobile

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:28am

    Finally a release date! And it’s before I start sixth form so I’m very happy!

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    • Sam Orme

      August 22nd, 2012 - 8:53am

      same, 3 days before i start 6 form

    • TheDoctorWhoFan74

      August 22nd, 2012 - 10:47am

      SamOrme Is that you from youtube SamOrme1996?

    • Sam Orme

      August 22nd, 2012 - 1:47pm

      err…yeah

  • Give me a Dalek any day

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:16am

    πŸ˜€

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  • 11matt

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:11am

    great can’t wait

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  • Jason doctorwhoone

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:09am

    Been saying Saturday 1st September 2012 all along.

    Reply
  • matt smithy

    August 22nd, 2012 - 8:06am

    Thank you BBC! πŸ˜€

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  • Cameron

    August 22nd, 2012 - 7:49am

    When does it come out in New Zealand?

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  • Proffesor When

    August 22nd, 2012 - 7:45am

    YES!

    Reply
  • The Pandorica Opens

    August 22nd, 2012 - 7:38am

    at last

    Reply

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