The Vampires of Venice

The Vampires of Venice
The Vampires of Venice (Image credit: BBC)

Following Amy's unwanted kiss, the Doctor decides to reunite her with fiance Rory and tries to reignite their romance by taking them to 16th century Venice. There, they hear of a powerful woman, Rosanna Calvierri, who runs a school for young girls. However, the students have fangs and an aversion to sunlight and appear to have been turned into vampires by Calvierri and her sinister son Francesco, but the Doctor believes there is more to the mystery than meets the eye. Amy goes undercover into the school to find out more and after she fights back when the Calvierris attack her, Rosanna briefly turns into strange alien creature. The Doctor and Rory get Amy out and the Doctor confronts Rosanna who reveals she is one of a fish-like people who escaped their own world due to the mysterious cracks in the universe and she has been transforming Venetians in a bid to restart her race. When the Doctor refuses to help her she commands a storm, but he climbs her control tower and stops it and a despairing Rosanna throws herself in the canal. As they leave Venice, Amy asks Rory to stay with her and the Doctor on the Tardis.

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.