The Ancient Egypt Film Site

Production info

The Pandorica Opens
UK, 2010 TV
TV-series Doctor Who
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston
Directed by Toby Haynes

Twelfth episode (first in a two-part story together with "The Big Bang") in the fifth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In the beginning of this episode, the character River Song appears as Cleopatra in a tent in a Roman Britain military camp, handing over a painting by Vincent Van Gogh to the Doctor. The story unfolds with few further Egyptian elements in the episodes "The Big Bang" (2010) and "The Wedding of River Song" (2011), both mentioned elsewhere in this list.

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