The Doctor’s Daughter: Born From a Machine
The Doctor’s Daughter grows a child from the Doctor’s own hand, drops her into a war that isn’t what it seems, and sends Martha Jones home for good.
The Doctor’s Daughter grows a child from the Doctor’s own hand, drops her into a war that isn’t what it seems, and sends Martha Jones home for good.
The Poison Sky ends the Sontaran two-parter with a choking Earth, a UNIT counter-attack that fails, and a spoilt genius finally doing one decent thing.
The Sontaran Stratagem brings Martha Jones back with UNIT, turns 400 million satnavs into a weapon, and unleashes the Sontarans on modern Earth.
Planet of the Ood finally explains why the Ood serve, and the answer is surgical. A blunt, angry anti-slavery story and the best use of Donna Noble yet.
The Fires of Pompeii strands the Doctor and Donna in Pompeii the day before Vesuvius, forcing an impossible choice and proving why he needs her with him.
Partners in Crime brings Donna Noble back as a full companion, with a diet pill that turns fat into waddling aliens and a shock cameo nobody saw coming.
Voyage of the Damned puts the Doctor aboard a doomed space cruise liner at Christmas, with killer angels, a corporate grudge, and a waitress named Astrid.
Last of the Time Lords ends Series 3 with a year of occupation, the truth about the Toclafane, the Master’s death, and Martha Jones finally choosing herself.
The Sound of Drums reveals Mister Saxon as the Master, newly elected Prime Minister, and pays off a season of hints with a truly nasty cliffhanger.
Utopia takes the Doctor, Martha and a returning Captain Jack to the end of the universe, where a kindly old professor keeps a fob watch he can’t explain.
Blink barely features the Doctor and is the best episode Doctor Who has ever made, introducing the Weeping Angels and a time paradox that fits perfectly.
The Family of Blood asks a human man to give up his own life so the Doctor can come back, then shows exactly why the Doctor was hiding in the first place.
Human Nature hides the Doctor inside a human schoolmaster in 1913, leaving Martha to guard a fob watch while scarecrows close in. Superb Doctor Who.
42 runs in real time as a cargo ship falls into a living sun, the crew burn from the inside, and the Doctor gets more frightened than we’ve seen him.
The Lazarus Experiment turns a scientist’s rejuvenation machine into a monster movie, and finally promotes Martha Jones from passenger to companion.
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Evolution of the Daleks gives Dalek Sec a conscience and his own kind a mutiny, in a Manhattan finale with great ideas and a very messy execution.
Daleks in Manhattan drops the Cult of Skaro into Depression-era New York, with pig slaves in the sewers and an experiment beneath the Empire State Building.
Gridlock returns to New Earth for a traffic jam that has lasted decades, giant crabs in the fumes, and the Face of Boe finally speaking his last words.
The Shakespeare Code takes Martha to 1599, where three Carrionite witches plan to use Shakespeare’s lost play as a spell to free their species.
Smith and Jones opens Series 3 by dumping a London hospital on the Moon, siccing rhino police on it, and introducing the excellent Martha Jones.