10 Times Doctor Who Lied To Your Face

10. "One Of Them Will Die"

Nobody stays dead in Steven Moffat's Doctor Who – just ask Rory Williams or Clara Oswald. However, this knowledge doesn't stop the show from teasing big deaths as a way to coax audiences toward their TV screens on a Saturday night.

The boldest attempt to bait audiences with a major death came ahead of Series 6, which was set to open with a cinematic two-part adventure set in America on the eve of the Moon landing.

In 2011, Doctor Who Magazine #433 promoted this opener with four different covers, one each for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River Song. Each of these covers was emblazoned with the text "MARKED FOR DEATH?" and promised that "One of them WILL die in the amazing season opener!"

Technically, that's true based on the information given to the viewer in The Impossible Astronaut. Everyone sees the Doctor gunned down by an astronaut, and then his corpse is placed on a funeral pyre.

However, as we later discover, the Doctor wasn't the Doctor at all, but the Teselecta robot, meaning that the DWM cover should really have read "One of them WILL suffer catastrophic damage to their robot shell."