The Giggle: The Toymaker Dances and the Doctor Gets Let Off
The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
Wild Blue Yonder strands the Doctor and Donna on an empty ship at the edge of the universe with something wearing their faces. Genuinely frightening.
The Star Beast reunites Tennant and Tate for the 60th anniversary, and they’re magnificent. The resolution to Donna’s metacrisis is the weak link.
The End of Time Part One brings the Master back wrong, gives Wilfred Mott the best scene of the era, and ends by opening a door onto the Time War itself.
Journey’s End ends Series 4 with a reality bomb, a second Doctor, a return to Bad Wolf Bay, and the cruellest fate the show has ever handed a companion.
The Stolen Earth takes the planet out of the sky, brings every companion back at once, reveals Davros, and ends on the show’s cruellest cliffhanger.
Turn Left changes one small decision in Donna’s life and watches Britain collapse without the Doctor, in the bleakest hour Doctor Who has ever produced.
Midnight traps the Doctor in a stranded shuttle with something that steals his voice, and lets a busload of frightened people become the real monster.
Forest of the Dead explains what saved means, gives Donna a whole life she never had, and asks River Song to die for a man who has never met her.
Silence in the Library strands the Doctor on a planet-sized library where the shadows eat people, and introduces a woman who knows him far too well.
The Unicorn and the Wasp drops the Doctor and Donna into a 1926 country house murder with Agatha Christie, a jewel thief, and a giant alien wasp.
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.
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.