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Season 29 (New Series 3)

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The Villains

Quote of
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A Seasonal
Summary

Things to
Watch Out For

First and Last

General Information

Season Start:

25 December 2006

Season End:

30 June 2007

Season Length:

27 Weeks

Actual Weeks:

14 Weeks

Writers:

Chris Chibnall, Gareth Roberts, Helen Raynor, Paul Cornell, Russell T Davies, Stephen Greenhorn and Steven Moffat

Directors:

Charles Palmer, Colin Teague, Euros Lyn, Graeme Harper, Hettie MacDonald, James Strong and Richard Clark

Producers:

Phil Collinson and Susie Liggat

Executive Producers:

Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson and Russell T Davies

Script Editors:

Helen Raynor, Lindsey Alford and Simon Winstone

Visual Effects:

The Mill

Special Effects:

Any Effects

Title Music:

Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Murray Gold

Incarnation of the Doctor:

The Tenth Doctor

Number of Companions:

The Companions:

Captain Jack Harkness (Rejoins and Departs), Donna Noble (Departs) and Martha Jones (Joins and Departs)

Number of Stories:

Number of Incomplete/Missing Stories:

Number of Episodes:

Number of Incomplete/Missing Episodes:

Percentages:

Full Stories Held	100%
Episodes Held	100%

Television Stories

No.	Title	Number of Episodes	Production Code	Status
178	The Runaway Bride	1	3-X	All Held
179	Smith and Jones	1	3-1	All Held
180	The Shakespeare Code	1	3-2	All Held
181	Gridlock	1	3-3	All Held
182	Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks	2	3-4/3-5	All Held
183	The Lazarus Experiment	1	3-6	All Held
184	42	1	3-7	All Held
185	Human Nature/The Family of Blood	2	3-8/3-9	All Held
186	Blink	1	3-10	All Held
187a	Utopia	1	3-11	All Held
187b	The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords	2	3-12/3-13	All Held

Audience Appreciation

Average Viewers (Millions)	7.7
The Best Story	The Runaway Bride (9.4)
The Worst Story	Blink (6.6)

Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2009)

Season:	74.67% (Position = 6 out of 31)
Best Story:	Blink (91.61%)
Worst Story:	Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks (61.43%)

Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2014)

Season:	72.65% (Position = 12 out of 36)
Best Story:	Blink (91.87%)
Worst Story:	Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks (58.64%)

The Villains

Daleks

Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

The Master

Utopia and The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

Others

Carrionites (The Shakespeare Code), Finnegan (Smith and Jones), Lazarus (The Lazarus Experiment), Miss Dexter (42), The Empress of Racnoss (The Runaway Bride), The Family of Blood (Human Nature/The Family of Blood), The Judoon (Smith and Jones), The Macra (Gridlock), The Torajii Sun (42) and The Weeping Angels (Blink)

Quote of the Season

'What, people call you 'The Doctor'? Well, I'm not. As far as I'm concerned you've got to earn that title.'

Martha Jones
(Smith and Jones)

A Seasonal Summary

John Smith

With David Tennant firmly in the role of the Tenth Doctor it is his relationship with his companion that has changed rather than the other way round as it was with the beginning of Season Twenty Eight (New Series 2).

Rose Tyler has gone and The Doctor is now alone. But not for long as he temporarily picks up Donna Noble (played by comedy actress Catherine Tate). At the end of the 2006 Christmas Special she decides not to stay with The Doctor and so it is not until the next story, "Smith and Jones" that we get to meet Rose’s replacement.

Martha Jones (played by Freema Agyeman) is a different companion to Rose. But her introduction to travelling in the TARDIS with The Doctor is no different.

First Martha gets to travel to the Moon, when the hospital that she works in as a trainee medical doctor is transported there by The Judoon, a rhino-like race of intergalactic thugs. In her next adventure she gets to meet William Shakespeare ("The Shakespeare Code") before finding herself being kidnapped in "Gridlock". As if that was not enough the Daleks make a reappearance in "Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks" – where Martha gets to see New York in the 1930’s.

But as before a travels in the TARDIS are far from smooth. More than once it is up to Martha to save The Doctor. In "42" it is when The Doctor becomes infected while they are trapped on a spaceship that is heading for a fiery end into a sun. While in the story "Human Nature/The Family of Blood" The Doctor is forced to disguise himself, by becoming Human, so as to hide from The Family of Blood who are after him.

But the best is still to come when in the final two stories ("Utopia" and "The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords") we get to see the return of Captain Jack Harkness and the return of The Doctor’s arch enemy The Master. It is then that trouble for The Doctor really begins and he becomes thankful for a companion he can depend upon.

However, as the season draws to a finish Martha is seen to leave the TARDIS and so as it began The Doctor is once more travelling alone.

Things to Watch Out For

Martha Jones

With the departure of Rose Tyler in "Army of Ghosts/Doomsday" the thing that most viewers were interested in was the introduction of new companion Martha Jones.

But first we had the Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride", and the first story, of the revised series, without Rose.

Rumours abounded that The Master would be returning and we were not disappointed when it was revealed at the end of "Utopia" that Professor Yana, played by Sir Derek Jacobi, was in fact The Master. And when he was shot he was seen to regenerate, in the stolen TARDIS, and this famous role was taken over by actor John Simm. The subsequent two part story, "The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords", was to prove to be another great season finisher.

High and Low Points

The Master

The high point has to be the return of The Doctor’s arch enemy The Master where more is revealed about this recurring character, The Doctor and where Martha had to take centre stage to assist The Doctor in defeating The Master’s plan.

The lowest point is difficult to identify as every story was good. But if forced to choose one then it would have to be "The Runaway Bride" – only because it repeated a lot of ideas from the previous years Christmas Special (the deadly Christmas trees and killer Santas) and because it was between the end of Rose Tyler’s era and before the introduction of Martha.

First and Last

The Firsts:

Catherine Tate's first full story as Donna Noble - though she would not be officially classed as a companion until the beginning of Season Thirty (New Series 4). (The Runaway Bride)

The first Doctor Who story to be recorded at BBC Wales Upper Boat Studios in Pontypridd. (The Runaway Bride)

The introduction of companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman. (Smith and Jones)

The first appearance in the show of The Judoon. (Smith and Jones)

The first appearance of The Macra in the revived television series and the first for 40 years - since the 1967 Second Doctor story "The Macra Terror". (Gridlock)

The first story to have been based on a previously published Doctor Who novel. This being Paul Cornell's highly acclaimed novel, "Human Nature". (Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

The first appearance for The Master (played by Sir Derek Jacobi and then John Simm) in the revived television series and the first for 11 years - since the 1996 Eighth Doctor TV Movie. (Utopia)

The first appearance of the Time Lords (albeit in a flashback scene) since the show's revamp. (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)

The Lasts (Subject to Future Stories):

Freema Agyeman's last story as regular companion Martha Jones. (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)

John Barrowman's last story as semi-regular companion Captain Jack Harkness. (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)

In Print

Doctor Who Magazine - Countdown to 50

Issue 460 - (Released: June 2013)

Additional Stories

Title	Release Date (UK)	Format	Source	Companions
Made of Steel	March 2007	Novel	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Wooden Heart	April 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Last Dodo	April 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Sting of the Zygons	April 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Infinite Quest	April - June 2007	Animation	BBC	Martha Jones
The Time Crocodile	July 2007	Novel	Penguin Books
Alien Arena	July 2007	Novel	Penguin Books
The Spaceship Graveyard	July 2007	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
The Corinthian Project	July 2007	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
Sick Building	September 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Wetworld	September 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Forever Autumn	September 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Haunted Wagon Train	October 2007	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
Dark Planet	October 2007	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
War of the Robots	October 2007	Novel	Penguin Books
The Crystal Snare	October 2007	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
Peacemaker	December 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Wishing Well	December 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Pirate Loop	December 2007	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Horror of Howling Hill	March 2008	Novel	Penguin Books	Martha Jones
The Dragon King	March 2008	Novel	Penguin Books
Revenge of the Judoon	March 2008	Novel	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Lost Luggage	March 2008	Novel	Penguin Books
Second Skin	March 2008	Novel	Penguin Books
Martha in the Mirror	April 2008	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
Snowglobe 7	April 2008	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones
The Many Hands	April 2008	Novel/Audio	The Tenth Doctor Stories	Martha Jones

Photo Gallery

The Doctor and Companions

The Tenth Doctor

Captain Jack Harkness

Donna Noble

Martha Jones

On Release

Complete Series DVD Box Set<BR>(Standard Version)

Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Standard Version)

VIDEO

Complete Series DVD Box Set<BR>(Amazon Version)

Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Amazon Version)

VIDEO

Complete Series DVD Box Set<BR>(Woolworths Version)

Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Woolworths Version)

VIDEO

Original Television Soundtrack Cover

AUDIO

Series 1-4 DVD Box Set

VIDEO

Complete Series 1-7 Ltd Edition Blu-Ray Box Set

VIDEO

Complete Series DVD Box Set<BR>(2014 Re-release)

Complete Series DVD Box Set
(2014 Re-release)

VIDEO

Complete David Tennant Years DVD Box Set

VIDEO

Complete Series Blu-Ray Box Set

VIDEO

Complete Series Blu-Ray Limited Edition Steelbook Box Set

VIDEO

Series 1 - 4 & Specials Blu-Ray Collection Cover

VIDEO

Magazines

Doctor Who Magazine - Countdown to 50: Issue 460

Who's Who

Who Me

Episodes of the
Tenth Doctor

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References

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