Doctor Who: Series 9 Synopses Revealed in Radio Times
The Radio Times have released a full episode guide for Series 9, featuring detailed synopses for all twelve episodes of the upcoming season, along with quotes. Below, you can see a shortened version of the episode guide:
NOTE: The episode guide contains spoilers for most episodes to varying degrees. We’ve removed a major spoiler from The Witch’s Familar.
THE MAGICIAN’S APPRENTICE
“What’s a confession dial?”
“In your terms, a will. This is the last will and testament of the Time Lord known as the Doctor.”
A final message from a dying scientist. A plea from the deadliest corner of time and space. Only one man can answer, but he has gone missing from all of time and space. Where is the Doctor?
“The Doctor is trapped. He’s a prisoner of the creatures who hate him most in the universe. Between us and him is everything the greatest warrior race in history can throw at us. We, on the other hand, have a pointy stick.”
There are places the Doctor should never go. Planets where his life would not be worth an hour’s purchase. When he finds himself in the very worst of these, without his Tardis, or his sonic, he has only his wits to keep him alive.
“It’s impossible! It’s evil! I hate it! It’s astonishing! I want to KISS IT TO DEATH.”
Under a lake, in the dripping gloom of an underwater base, stands a gleaming black space ship, recovered from the lake bed. Nothing is inside – but when the base crew start dying, they make a terrible discovery: ghosts are real! And their friends are refusing to stay dead!
“Doctor. Hello. Can I just say: huge fan.”
In the eerie remains of a town that never was, something is stalking the Doctor and his friends. A desperate battle for survival is underway, but this time our heroes already know which of them is going to lose.
“There’s going to be a war tomorrow. And here’s some news, this just in – we are going to win the hell out it!”
In a backwater of history, in a little Viking village where all the warriors have just been slaughtered, a young girl called Ashildr is about to make a desperate mistake. The Mire are the deadliest mercenaries in the galaxy, famed for being unstoppable and without mercy – and Ashildr has just declared war on them.
“Ninja, nun, surgeon, scientist, composer, inventor… it’s a fantastic CV.”
England, 1651. The highwayman known as The Nightmare is plaguing the land. But the Nightmare is not all he seems, and his fire-breathing accomplice who lurks in the shadows is clearly more than human… The Doctor, on the trail of an alien artefact, is brought face to the face with the consequences of his own actions.
“Operation Double is a covert operation, outside of normal UNIT strictures, to resettle and rehouse an alien race, in secrecy, on planet Earth.”
“Humans cannot accept us the way we really are. If we cannot hide, we must fight. You’re going to be the first. You’re going to be the first to make the humans see.”
The future of planet Earth is sealed in a box in Unit’s back archive, and only the Doctor knows what’s inside. With Unit under Zygon control, and Clara lost, the Doctor and Osgood find themselves fugitives in a London where no one can be trusted.
This is footage collected from a space rescue mission. If you value your life, your sanity, and the future of your species, DO NOT WATCH IT.
FACE THE RAVEN
“There have always been rumours. Stories passed from traveller to traveller, mutterings about hidden streets, secret pockets of alien life right here on Earth.”
Have you ever found yourself in a street you’ve never seen before? The next day, could you not find that street again? You weren’t dreaming. Your memory isn’t playing tricks. Like many lost souls throughout the ages, you have stumbled on an extraordinary secret – be grateful you survived it.
In a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. And he must face it alone.
If you took everything from him, and betrayed him, and trapped him, and broke both his hearts… how far might the Doctor go? It is time, at last, for the Doctor’s confession.