List of Episodes
See also: List of Doctor Who serialsThe End of Time was the first "serial" with an overall title and episode numbers since Survival in Season 26, the final serial broadcast during the series' original run.
| Story No. | Episode | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 199 | 1 | "The Next Doctor" | Andy Goddard | Russell T Davies | 13.10 | 86 | 25 December 2008 (2008-12-25) | 4.14 |
| This special sees the return of the Cybermen (of the design of the parallel universe's Cybus Industries Cybermen), following their previous appearance in the two-part finale of series two in 2006, "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday". Having fallen back in time to Victorian London, the Cybermen create a huge "Cyber-King" with child labour and the help of Miss Hartigan (Dervla Kirwan). Meanwhile Jackson Lake (David Morrissey) has accidentally absorbed the Doctor's memories and thinks himself to be the Doctor. | ||||||||
| 200 | 2 | "Planet of the Dead" | James Strong | Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts | 9.54 | 88 | 11 April 2009 (2009-04-11) | 4.15 |
| While investigating a wormhole in London, the Doctor meets Lady Christina de Souza (Michelle Ryan) and they are both accidentally transported to a desert planet which was destroyed by metallic sting ray-like aliens travel between planets via wormholes. They rig the bus to travel back to London while UNIT works to close the wormhole to prevent Earth's destruction | ||||||||
| 201 | 3 | "The Waters of Mars" | Graeme Harper | Russell T Davies & Phil Ford | 10.32 | 88 | 15 November 2009 (2009-11-15) | 4.16 |
| The Doctor visits Bowie Base One, Earth's first colony on Mars, led by Captain Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan). A waterborne virus from the glacier used for the water supply begins to possess the crew and Brooke plans to destroy the base in order to prevent the virus spreading to earth via an escape rocket. The Doctor saves the remaining crew, including Brooke in the TARDIS, but Brooke kills herself on Earth to ensure that the history is unchanged. | ||||||||
| 202a | 4 | The End of Time "Part One" |
Euros Lyn | Russell T Davies | 12.04 | 87 | 25 December 2009 (2009-12-25) | 4.17 |
| The Doctor learns from the Ood that the Master (John Simm) will be returning soon. A cult of the Master has resurrected him using the ring dropped at the end of "Last of the Time Lords", but Lucy Saxon sabotoges the process, causing the Master to experience intense hunger and energy expension, which also gives him superhuman powers. In his investigations, the Doctor meets up with Wilfred Mott and the both travel to the Naismith Institute where they have enlisted to repair an alien "Immortality Gate". However, the Master uses the gate to re-write the DNA of all humans on the planet to his own, creating a planet of Masters. Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and Wilf (Bernard Cribbins) are shielded from this. Far across the universe, Rassilon (Timothy Dalton) heralds the return of Gallifrey and the end of time itself. | ||||||||
| 202b | 5 | The End of Time "Part Two" |
Euros Lyn | Russell T Davies Steven Moffat (final scene, uncredited) |
12.27 | 89 | 1 January 2010 (2010-01-01) | 4.18 |
| The Doctor and Wilf are rescued by two alien Vinvocci who were working undercover at the Institute and take refuge in their spaceship above Earth. It is then revealed that Rassilon had placed the sound of drums in the Master's head as a signal that he could use to pull Gallifrey out of Time-Lock via a white-point star. Gallifrey materialises above Earth, with all the other horrors of the Time War likely to follow. Armed with Wilf's gun, the Doctor stands off against Rassilon to break the link between Gallifrey and Earth. To do this, he must either shoot the Master or Rassilon, but instead he shoots the white-point star, which causes Rassilon and Gallifrey to recede back into Time-Lock. Rassilon attempts to kill the Doctor, but the Master sacrifices himself to save him. Meanwhile, Wilf has trapped himself in the Gate's isolation chamber, which is about to flood with deadly radiation. The Doctor activates the chamber's other compartment, saving Wilf but irradiating himself. He holds off regeneration while he goes on a "farewell tour", visiting all of his companions. Alone in the TARDIS, the Doctor regenerates, giving off such violent energy that the console room is set ablaze. The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) inspects his new body as the stricken TARDIS plummets earthward. |
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