Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife - Synopsis

The BBC have published some brief plot details for the fourth episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who. The episode, titled 'The Doctor's Wife', is scripted by Neil Gaiman.

Synopsis
The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

The Doctor is played by Matt Smith, Amy by Karen Gillan, Rory by Arthur Darvill and Idris by Suranne Jones.

The story is currently scheduled to be broadcast on BBC One/HD on Saturday, 14th May at 6.00pm, however this is subject to change.

(Source: BBC Press Office)