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Three of the six actresses to portray River Song at different stages in her story. From left to right: Sydney Wade, Nina Toussaint-White and Alex Kingston. River Song first appears in the Doctor Who 2008 series two-parter "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" (which was written by future showrunner Steven Moffat) during the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who.
River of Death is a 1989 American action film written and directed by Steve Carver and starring Michael Dudikoff. It is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In April 2024, Big Finish announced a sequel series featuring River Song with Kingston reprising the role titled The Death and Life of River Song, which depicts River's post-mortem adventures as a data ghost, as first seen in "The Name of the Doctor" (2013). [14] The series began in August 2024.
This series centres on the true identity of River Song (who was introduced in series 4 and recurred in series 5, played by Alex Kingston), [46] and the Doctor's "death". The original transmission of series 6 was split into two parts, with the first seven episodes airing April to June 2011 and the final six from late August to October 2011.
River discovers they are heading toward the planet Darillium, which the Doctor remembers is where she spends her last night with him before her death. Realising they cannot save the ship, River and the Doctor flee into the TARDIS. The Doctor gives a man the diamond to fund the construction of a restaurant overlooking Darillium's Singing Towers.
Steven Moffat wrote the episode to reveal River Song's identity and show the Doctor provoked enough to assemble an army. "A Good Man Goes to War" is the seventh episode of series six and also the 777th episode of Doctor Who, but there are no seven puns as the production team did not realise this until after shooting. [4]
The impact of the death of his wife, River Song, is a subplot of both "The Husbands of River Song" and "The Return of Doctor Mysterio". Steven Moffat, showrunner between 2010 and 2017, has stated that companion deaths are "wrong for Doctor Who", explaining that he does not believe the show should represent the "grittiness" of real life. [43]
"The Wedding of River Song" concludes the story arc of the Doctor's apparent death which began in the series opener, "The Impossible Astronaut", and resolves more pieces of River Song's timeline. [8] Despite this, it leaves ambiguous whether the Doctor and River are legitimately married. [9]