42: Forty-Two Minutes to Fall Into a Sun
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.
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.
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 a plan hidden in the Empire State Building.
Gridlock sends Martha to a motorway jammed for decades, with a hymn in the dark, the Macra in the fumes and the Face of Boe’s last words for the Doctor.
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.
The Runaway Bride drops a shouting Donna Noble into the TARDIS and sets a grieving Doctor against the Empress of the Racnoss. Here’s how I got on with it.
Doomsday sets Daleks against Cybermen over London, then ends on a cold Norwegian beach. My take on the Doctor Who finale and that goodbye.
Army of Ghosts turns a planet’s grief into a Cyberman invasion, opens up Torchwood Tower, and ends on a Dalek cliffhanger I never saw coming.
Fear Her sends the Doctor and Rose to the 2012 London Olympics, where a lonely girl’s drawings are making children vanish. A gentle, uneven episode.
Doctor Who’s naffest monster, the Abzorbaloff, can’t quite sink a surprisingly moving episode about fandom, found family, and Jackie Tyler’s loneliness.
The Satan Pit sends the Doctor into the abyss to face the Beast itself, in a Doctor Who two-parter finale about faith, reason, and believing in Rose.
The Impossible Planet strands the Doctor and Rose on a base by a black hole, where the Ood turn deadly and something ancient stirs in the dark.
The Idiot’s Lantern sends the Doctor and Rose into 1953 Coronation London, where the Wire feeds on TV viewers by stealing their faces.
The Age of Steel reveals the Cybermen’s true horror and gives Mickey Smith his hero moment in an emotionally sharp Doctor Who finale.
Rise of the Cybermen strands the Doctor on a parallel Earth where Rose’s dad is alive and John Lumic is building an army of steel men from the living.
The Girl in the Fireplace sends the Tenth Doctor through time windows into 18th-century France, clockwork monsters and a love story that breaks your heart.
Sarah Jane Smith walks back into the Doctor’s life in School Reunion, and it’s the most emotional hour Doctor Who has given me since it came back.
Tooth and Claw drops the Tenth Doctor and Rose into 1879 Scotland with a werewolf, Queen Victoria, and the birth of a very familiar institute.
New Earth kicks off Series 2 with cat-nuns, a plague farm, and the return of Cassandra as the Tenth Doctor and Rose take their first real trip together.