"The Sound of Drums" is the twelfth episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 23 June 2007. It is the second of three episodes that form a linked narrative, following "Utopia" and followed by "Last of the Time Lords".
The Master arrives in the 21st Century — as Harold Saxon, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and the world enters a period of terror when contact with an unknown alien race whom the Master calls the Toclafane is announced.
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