Journey’s End: The Most Important Woman in Creation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doctor Who’s naffest monster, the Abzorbaloff, can’t quite sink a surprisingly moving episode about fandom, found family, and Jackie Tyler’s loneliness.
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.
David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor sleeps through most of his own debut in The Christmas Invasion, while the Sycorax menace Earth and a satsuma decides its fate.
Bad Wolf drops the Doctor, Rose and Jack into deadly reality TV on the Game Station, and one of the season’s biggest mysteries finally pays off.
The Long Game takes the Doctor and Rose to Satellite Five, where the news beamed down to Earth is being controlled by something living in the ceiling.