| 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 |
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Incarnation of the Doctor: |
The Tenth Doctor
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| Number of
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3 |
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Captain Jack Harkness (Rejoins and Departs), Donna Noble (Departs) and Martha Jones (Joins and Departs)
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11
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0
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| Number of
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14
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0
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| Full Stories Held | 100% | | Episodes Held | 100% |
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 '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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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The Lasts (Subject to Future Stories):
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| Doctor Who Magazine - Countdown to 50 | Issue 460 - (Released: June 2013) |
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The Doctor and Companions| |  | | The Tenth Doctor |
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On Release | Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Standard Version) |
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|  | Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Amazon Version) |
VIDEO |
|  | Complete Series DVD Box Set
(Woolworths Version) |
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|  | | Original Television Soundtrack Cover |
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|  | | Complete Series 1-7 Ltd Edition Blu-Ray Box Set |
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|  | Complete Series DVD Box Set
(2014 Re-release) |
VIDEO |
|  | | Complete David Tennant Years DVD Box Set |
VIDEO |
| | | | |  | | Complete Series Blu-Ray Box Set |
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|  | | Complete Series Blu-Ray Limited Edition Steelbook Box Set |
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|  | | Series 1 - 4 & Specials Blu-Ray Collection Cover |
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Magazines| |  | | Doctor Who Magazine - Countdown to 50: Issue 460 |
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