Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (Image credit: BBC)

Upon learning a spaceship is about to collide with Earth, the Doctor collects Amy, Rory and Rory’s father and travels to the shuttle – accompanied by Egyptian queen Nefertiti and big game hunter Riddell. The gang soon discovers the ship is full of dinosaurs, but the animals’ keepers are nowhere to be seen. Amy discovers the ship is a Silurian ark that was transporting the dinosaurs to safety from a doomed planet. However, the ship was hijacked by a space pirate called Solomon who has been trapped on board, with no way of navigating the craft, since killing all the Silurians. Upon learning the ship is about to be destroyed by Earth’s missiles, Solomon decides to give up the dinosaurs and boards an escape ship with Nefertiti as hostage. The spaceship needs two people with similar genes in order to pilot it, so Rory and his father are able to stop it from crashing into Earth. Meanwhile, the Doctor rescues Nefertiti and diverts the missiles trained on the main ship to Solomon’s escape vessel – saving his friends, the dinosaurs and the Earth. As the mission ends, Amy and Rory decide to head home, while Rory’s father joins the Doctor for a global adventure.

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.