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.

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.

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.

Spider-Man 3 review. The black suit was the one thing I wanted and the film wastes it. Venom is weak and the jazz club sequence is indefensible.

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.

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 Runaway Bride drops a shouting bride into the TARDIS, unleashes the Empress of the Racnoss, and shows us a grieving Doctor nobody is left to restrain.

Doomsday pits Daleks against Cybermen over London and ends on a Norwegian beach, delivering the most devastating farewell Doctor Who has ever filmed.

Army of Ghosts pays off a season of hints as Torchwood opens a breach, ghosts fill the world, and Doctor Who springs a jaw-dropping double cliffhanger.

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.

Love & Monsters is Doctor Who’s strangest experiment yet, telling the story from a fan’s point of view, with a naff monster and a surprisingly big heart.

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 orbiting a black hole, where the Ood turn strange and something ancient whispers from the pit.

The Idiot’s Lantern drops the Doctor and Rose into 1953 Coronation London, where a creature called the Wire is eating faces through the nation’s TV sets.

The Age of Steel ends the Cybermen two-parter with a horrifying secret inside the steel, a burning factory, and the making of Mickey Smith.

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.

School Reunion brings back Sarah Jane Smith and K9 as the Doctor goes undercover at a school, in the most emotional Doctor Who episode of Series 2 yet.