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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188 | "Voyage of the Damned" | James Strong | Russell T Davies | 13.31 | 86 | 25 December 2007 (2007-12-25) | 4.X | |
| The Doctor finds his TARDIS colliding with an interstellar replica of the famous ocean liner Titanic orbiting present-day Earth, during a Christmas party. With the help of a waitress named Astrid (Kylie Minogue) and several passengers, the Doctor must take on the race called the Heavenly Host as the lives of the Titanic crew and those on Earth are in danger. The angels have been tasked with killing everyone aboard and crashing the space liner into the Earth. The reason why is not obvious though the ship's owner, Max Capricorn, has his reasons. Can the Doctor stop the Christmas inferno? | ||||||||
| 189 | 1 | "Partners in Crime" | James Strong | Russell T Davies | 9.14 | 88 | 5 April 2008 (2008-04-05) | 4.1 |
| With a new weight-loss pill tested in London by Adipose Industries, the Doctor goes to investigate the sinister truth behind the product, only to find out that his former companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is investigating as well. Together, they attempt to stop businesswoman Miss Foster (Sarah Lancashire) from killing thousands of people in London during the birth of the Adipose, short white aliens made from body fat. | ||||||||
| 190 | 2 | "The Fires of Pompeii" | Colin Teague | James Moran | 9.04 | 87 | 12 April 2008 (2008-04-12) | 4.3 |
| The Doctor and Donna land in Pompeii during the 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Doctor's activities in Pompeii are impeded by the rock-like Pyrovile and their allies, the Sybilline Sisterhood, who are using the volcano to convert the humans to Pyroviles. The Doctor is faced with a moral dilemma: whether to rescue himself and all of Pompeii from the situation and leave the Pyroviles to have their way, or to make Vesuvius erupt, killing the Pyroviles and the population of Pompeii- himself and Donna included. | ||||||||
| 191 | 3 | "Planet of the Ood" | Graeme Harper | Keith Temple | 7.50 | 87 | 19 April 2008 (2008-04-19) | 4.2 |
| The Doctor and Donna arrive on the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126. They arrive at a factory where the Ood are prepared for sale to anyone willing to pay the price. When they find a group of unprocessed Ood, they become horrified at the alterations performed and resolve to free the Ood. | ||||||||
| 192a | 4 | "The Sontaran Stratagem" | Douglas Mackinnon | Helen Raynor | 7.06 | 87 | 26 April 2008 (2008-04-26) | 4.4 |
| The Doctor gets a call from previous traveling companion, now medical officer at UNIT, Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) with a request that he return to Earth immediately. She requests the Doctor's help in investigating ATMOS (Atmospheric Omission System) and why 52 people around the world all died simultaneously. The Doctor learns that the Sontarans are planning to take over the Earth. They take Martha prisoner and she is cloned. Donna meanwhile misses her family and decides to pay them a visit. | ||||||||
| 192b | 5 | "The Poison Sky" | Douglas Mackinnon | Helen Raynor | 6.53 | 88 | 3 May 2008 (2008-05-03) | 4.5 |
| Continuing from the end of "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Sontarans launch the attack with their poison gas slowly encircling the Earth. The Doctor—impeded by a Sontaran-controlled clone of Martha—aids UNIT in repelling the Sontarans in the ATMOS factory while Donna infiltrates the Sontarans' warship. He decides to try and burn the poison gas that now encircles the Earth and with the help of the Sontarans teleportation system, send them a little surprise as well. At the end of it all, both Martha and Donna have to decide if they want to stay with the Doctor. | ||||||||
| 193 | 6 | "The Doctor's Daughter" | Alice Troughton | Stephen Greenhorn | 7.33 | 88 | 10 May 2008 (2008-05-10) | 4.6 |
| The TARDIS, as seen before, seems to display a mind of its own and whisks the Doctor, Donna, and the Time Lord's former companion Martha Jones to the planet Messaline, in the midst of a savage war between humans and the fish-like Hath. Martha is abducted by the Hath shortly after the time travellers arrive. Rescuing Martha becomes the Doctor and Donna's main priority, as well as attempting to put a stop to the ugly war that has consumed the planet. But that would have been complicated enough had it not been for the fact that the humans had just used the Doctor's DNA to create a warrior clone, Jenny (Georgia Moffett). | ||||||||
| 194 | 7 | "The Unicorn and the Wasp" | Graeme Harper | Gareth Roberts | 8.41 | 86 | 17 May 2008 (2008-05-17) | 4.7 |
| The Doctor and Donna travel to December 1926 and meet the renowned murder mystery writer Agatha Christie (Fenella Woolgar), who is attending a party at Lady Eddison's (Felicity Kendal) country manor. They investigate a jewel robbery perpetrated by the "Unicorn" (Robina Redmond, portrayed by Felicity Jones) and a spree of murders committed by an extraterrestrial wasp (Reverend Golightly, portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill), and discover, in true Agatha Christie's fashion, that the solution to the murder and the meaning of Agatha's famous disappearance are found in a false identity and events that occurred long ago. | ||||||||
| 195a | 8 | "Silence in the Library" | Euros Lyn | Steven Moffat | 6.27 | 89 | 31 May 2008 (2008-05-31) | 4.9 |
| The Doctor and Donna land in the 51st century to visit the greatest library in the universe, encompassing an entire planet, but are baffled when they find it deserted. To the best he can determine, the library has been closed for 100 years, so the arrival of a team of archaeologists led by River Song (Alex Kingston) comes as something of a surprise. They discover the Vashta Nerada, carnivorous creatures living in the shadows, are responsible. All they have is one warning - count the shadows. | ||||||||
| 195b | 9 | "Forest of the Dead" | Euros Lyn | Steven Moffat | 7.84 | 89 | 7 June 2008 (2008-06-07) | 4.10 |
| Continuing from the end of "Silence in the Library", the Doctor and the team of archaeologists flee the Vashta Nerada, while Donna finds herself trapped in an alternate reality, in the care of Doctor Moon (Colin Salmon). As the Doctor progresses closer to the library's command centre, he discovers that the alternate reality—and the missing people—are sustained by CAL (Eve Newton). The solution to it all lies in understanding what the computer has been telling them all along. | ||||||||
| 196 | 10 | "Midnight" | Alice Troughton | Russell T Davies | 8.05 | 86 | 14 June 2008 (2008-06-14) | 4.8 |
| The Doctor and Donna are taking a bit of a break from their adventures and spending a bit of time on the planet Midnight. The Doctor leaves Donna at a spa while he takes a four-hour trip to the beautiful Sapphire Waterfalls. When the vehicle stops for no apparent reason, the passengers hear a noise coming from outside the vehicle and begin to panic. When an unknown lifeform capable of stealing voices takes control of Sky Silvestry (Lesley Sharp), the passengers' paranoia and fear know no bounds, and the focus of their solution is to eliminate the Doctor. | ||||||||
| 197 | 11 | "Turn Left" | Graeme Harper | Russell T Davies | 8.09 | 88 | 21 June 2008 (2008-06-21) | 4.11 |
| On a visit to the Chino-planet Shan-Shen, Donna agrees to have her fortune read by a fortune teller (Chipo Chung). She inexplicably finds herself in an alternate time line, one where she's never met the Doctor or joined him on their many adventures, which results in disastrous consequences. The Doctor's previous companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), who has managed to travel from her parallel universe, works with Donna to restore the status quo and warn the Doctor of impending doom. | ||||||||
| 198a | 12 | "The Stolen Earth" | Graeme Harper | Russell T Davies | 8.78 | 91 | 28 June 2008 (2008-06-28) | 4.12 |
| The universe is beginning to crumble and the Earth is stolen, along with twenty-six other planets, by Davros (Julian Bleach), creator and commander of the Daleks. As the Doctor and Donna try to find Earth, the Doctor's previous companions and what comes to be called the Doctor's private army--Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), and Rose Tyler--convene together to contact the Doctor and mount a defence against the Daleks. However, the wounded Doctor may be forced to regenerate. | ||||||||
| 198b | 13 | "Journey's End" | Graeme Harper | Russell T Davies | 10.57 | 91 | 5 July 2008 (2008-07-05) | 4.13 |
| At the beginning of the episode the Doctor forces a partial regeneration to heal himself from a Dalek attack. The Doctor and his companions prepare to do battle with Davros and the Daleks, who are out to destroy everything and everyone in the universe other than themselves. All seems lost when the Daleks apparently destroy the TARDIS, but it's not that simple, as an empowered Donna and a half-human Doctor who formed from the Doctor's regeneration take control and face the Dalek menace head on. The two Doctors, Donna, Jack, Rose, Martha, and Sarah Jane, along with Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and mother Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri), attempt to foil Davros' plans to destroy reality itself. But for one of the Doctor's companions, there will be a heavy price to pay. Which one will die by the prophecies and what will the fate be for the Doctor? |
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