List of Episodes
See also: List of Doctor Who serials| Story No. | Episode | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178 | "The Runaway Bride" | Euros Lyn | Russell T Davies | 9.35 | 84 | 25 December 2006 (2006-12-25) | 3.X | |
| Donna (Catherine Tate), a woman about to walk down the aisle on her wedding day, suddenly materialises in the TARDIS, much to the shock of both her and the Doctor, who has just said his final goodbyes to Rose Tyler. While trying to get her back to her wedding, the Time Lord discovers that Donna has been unwittingly been placed into the center of an alien plot to destroy the planet, and the two must face the Empress of Racnoss (Sarah Parish), an alien spider, together to stop it. | ||||||||
| 179 | 1 | "Smith and Jones" | Charles Palmer | Russell T Davies | 8.71 | 88 | 31 March 2007 (2007-03-31) | 3.1 |
| The Doctor goes undercover at the Royal Hope Hospital in London, where he meets medical student Martha Jones. The entire hospital is transported to the moon by an alien courier connected with the Judoon, a brutal outer-space police force, who are searching for the blood-sucking Florence Finnegan (Anne Reid). Mrs Finnegan is a Plasmavore and has been assimilating the human blood of hospital workers. The Doctor allows her to drink his blood and she is detected as the Doctor is not human. Martha revives the Doctor using CPR and he invites her to join him for a trip in the TARDIS in return. | ||||||||
| 180 | 2 | "The Shakespeare Code" | Charles Palmer | Gareth Roberts | 7.23 | 87 | 7 April 2007 (2007-04-07) | 3.2 |
| The Doctor and Martha land in 1599 London, Elizabethan England, where they discover that William Shakespeare (Dean Lennox Kelly) is under influence of witch-like aliens known as Carrionites who are forcing him to finish Love's Labour's Won using a poppet. The Doctor learns that they are using the powerful words of the play to bring back their imprisoned species; the words spoken by the actors are instructions which open a portal. The Doctor convinces Shakespeare to use his powerful gift of words to close the portal. | ||||||||
| 181 | 3 | "Gridlock" | Richard Clark | Russell T Davies | 8.41 | 85 | 14 April 2007 (2007-04-14) | 3.3 |
| The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Martha to New Earth in the year Five Billion and Fifty-Three, where the Face of Boe finally reveals "The Great Secret" to the Time Lord; meanwhile, terrifying beasts are lurking beneath the city of New New York - creatures that the Doctor believed he defeated many, many years ago. | ||||||||
| 182a | 4 | "Daleks in Manhattan" | James Strong | Helen Raynor | 6.69 | 86 | 21 April 2007 (2007-04-21) | 3.4 |
| The Doctor and Martha arrive in 1930's New York, where they expect to see dancing girls on Broadway and the dire effects of the Depression and instead encounter trouble as the Daleks return once more, this time attempting to create a Dalek/Human hybrid. | ||||||||
| 182b | 5 | "Evolution of the Daleks" | James Strong | Helen Raynor | 6.97 | 85 | 28 April 2007 (2007-04-28) | 3.5 |
| Concluding part to Daleks in Manhattan. The Dalek plan is in full force until the human-Dalek hybrid, Dalek Sec, begins raising doubts among the three remaining Daleks. When Dalek Sec asks for the Doctor's assistance in relocating them to a new planet, the other Daleks rebel, and The Doctor, Martha and their New York friends must fight to save the planet from the Daleks and a new type of foe. | ||||||||
| 183 | 6 | "The Lazarus Experiment" | Richard Clark | Stephen Greenhorn | 7.19 | 86 | 5 May 2007 (2007-05-05) | 3.6 |
| A 76 year old scientist, Doctor Lazarus of LazLabs, has created a device that appears to restore eternal youth. However, the process doesn't go as planned, and The Doctor and Martha must stop Lazarus before it's too late. | ||||||||
| 184 | 7 | "42" | Graeme Harper | Chris Chibnall | 7.41 | 85 | 19 May 2007 (2007-05-19) | 3.7 |
| The Doctor and Martha answer a distress call and find themselves on a cargo ship hurtling towards the center of the sun. The Doctor only has 42 minutes to save Martha and the rest of the ship's crew from an inevitable doom. The key lies behind the universes deadliest "pub quiz", but the situation is a lot hotter than it appears. | ||||||||
| 185a | 8 | "Human Nature" | Charles Palmer | Paul Cornell | 7.74 | 86 | 26 May 2007 (2007-05-26) | 3.8 |
| John Smith is a teacher in the year 1913 who dreams of adventures that involve an alien time traveler who calls himself the Doctor and journeys through time and space in a blue box, picking up numerous companions along the way. As John and Joan Redfern (Jessica Hynes), the school nurse, begin to develop feelings for one another, a mysterious, other-worldly family with an army of animated scarecrows make their presence known, and Martha must find a way to keep the TARDIS hidden while still maintaining her school-maid identity. | ||||||||
| 185b | 9 | "The Family of Blood" | Charles Palmer | Paul Cornell | 7.21 | 86 | 2 June 2007 (2007-06-02) | 3.9 |
| The Great War arrives a year ahead of time as the Family of Blood takes over the bodies of four individuals and attack the school, all while the Doctor remains unaware of his true being. Martha tries to convince the Doctor that the "dreams" he has recorded in his book are real and that it is his current life as a school master that is the fantasy. As time runs out, John Smith faces an impossible decision while fighting to retain his identity. | ||||||||
| 186 | 10 | "Blink" | Hettie MacDonald | Steven Moffat | 6.62 | 87 | 9 June 2007 (2007-06-09) | 3.10 |
| Sally Sparrow (Carey Mulligan) enters an abandoned house to take pictures, but things quickly escalate after she discovers a hidden message left just for her from 1969 and begins to notice statues that are never in the same place the next time you look. She must decipher several more cryptic messages from the past given to her from the Doctor in order to find the truth about the Weeping Angels, all while following one crucial warning: don't blink. | ||||||||
| 187a | 11 | "Utopia" | Graeme Harper | Russell T Davies | 7.84 | 87 | 16 June 2007 (2007-06-16) | 3.11 |
| Professor Yana (Derek Jacobi) is trying to save mankind in the very distant future at the end of the universe, but is he what he seems? Featuring the return of Captain Jack Harkness. | ||||||||
| 187b | 12 | "The Sound of Drums" | Colin Teague | Russell T Davies | 7.51 | 87 | 23 June 2007 (2007-06-23) | 3.12 |
| The Doctor, Martha, and Jack return to the 21st Century, just eighteen months after leaving. They arrive to find that they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon (John Simm), is someone they've met before. | ||||||||
| 187c | 13 | "Last of the Time Lords" | Colin Teague | Russell T Davies | 8.61 | 88 | 30 June 2007 (2007-06-30) | 3.13 |
| It's been a year since The Master unleashed the mysterious Toclafane onto Earth. With the human race and the Doctor enslaved under the Master's control, Martha Jones secretly returns to England. The Toclafane are building a fleet of rockets they will use to attack other worlds, and The Master takes great pleasure in humiliating the Doctor and has Martha's family doing menial chores. Martha has a plan, however, and all she has to do is get in to see the Master. |
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