Doctor Who: Has the Time Lord found his Lady?

Doctor Who: Has the Time Lord found his Lady?
Doctor Who: Has the Time Lord found his Lady? (Image credit: PA)

Doctor Who moves in for a River snog as he appears to seal his marriage - after hundreds of years of being single. Viewers will see him apparently become an honest Time Lord as the BBC1 series comes to a climax on Saturday night. The Doctor (Matt Smith) and River Song (Alex Kingston) lock lips as they appear to tie the knot watched by Amy and Rory. But as ever, fans will be left wondering to the end whether all is as it seems in an episode which sees time stand still. The final episode of the sci-fi show draws to a close the story of the Doctor's date with destiny as he prepares to die on the shores of Lake Silencio. The series began with Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) being summoned to watch him die. And as viewers watched the episodes unfold, they discovered that River was really Amy's daughter Melody. Saturday's episode sees a return for Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice), as well as the sinister suited villains The Silence and the manipulative Madame Kovarian, played by Frances Barber. And the identity of the astronaut who rose from the lake in episode one to strike the Doctor down is revealed. The programme returns for a Christmas episode later this year with guest appearances from Claire Skinner and Bill Bailey. SUBSCRIBE to TV Times magazine NOW and you could save up to 29%

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.