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Directed by | Jamie Childs | ||
Written by | Chris Chibnall | ||
Script editor | Fiona McAllister | ||
Produced by | Alex Mercer | ||
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Music by | Segun Akinola | ||
Series | Series 11 | ||
Running time | 50 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 9 December 2018 | ||
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"The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" is the tenth and final episode of the eleventh series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Jamie Childs, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 9 December 2018.
Set on the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos, the episode involves the alien time traveller the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Graham O'Brien (Bradley Walsh), Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole), and Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) working to stop the alien Stenza Tzim-Sha (Samuel Oatley) from using the powers of the psychic race the Ux to shrink the Earth in revenge for his previous defeat and exile thousands of years earlier.
The episode was watched by 6.65 million viewers, and received mixed reviews from critics.