The Day of the Doctor: Gallifrey Falls No More
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
Three Doctors, a weapon with a conscience, and an anniversary special that reaches back into the show’s darkest decision and quietly undoes it.
The End of Time Part Two: Rassilon returns, Wilf knocks four times, and the Tenth Doctor refuses to go quietly. Here’s what I made of it.
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.
The Waters of Mars traps the Doctor on a doomed Mars base where everyone must die, and watches him decide that the laws of time no longer apply to him.
Planet of the Dead is a sunny heist on a bus, until a passenger tells the Doctor his song is ending and puts a number on it.
The Next Doctor drops the Doctor into 1851 London to meet a man claiming to be him, in a Christmas special about grief, identity and a very large Cyberman.
Journey’s End gives Donna the Doctor’s mind and the universe its best hour, then takes it away from her in the cruellest ending the show has written.
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 is a 1926 murder mystery with Agatha Christie and a giant alien wasp, and it’s silly, gorgeous and a lot of fun.
The Doctor’s Daughter grows Jenny from a tissue sample and a seven-day war on Messaline, in a rushed hour with a superb twist and a very good Donna.
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 Donna’s best hour 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, and Martha Jones walking the Earth, then walking away.