Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Season 3

Air Date

April 1, 2007

Episodes

13 episodes

Doctor Who

Season 3

Overview

The series stars David Tennant as the Doctor. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The series also introduces Freema Agyeman as the Doctor's new companion Martha Jones. John Barrowman also reprises his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the final three episodes which serve as the finale. The series is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring phrase "Vote Saxon".

Episodes

Smith and Jones

1. Smith and Jones

7.7
April 1, 2007
47 min

Trainee doctor Martha Jones has her hands full balancing her medical studies with placating her demanding family. So the last thing she needs is to find that the hospital where she works has been transported to the moon, where it's invaded by an overbearing alien police force. There she encounters a patient called John Smith, who seems curiously at ease with the situation…

The Shakespeare Code

2. The Shakespeare Code

7.1
April 7, 2007
48 min

Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shakespeare is being controlled by dangerous witch-like creatures. It seems the time-travelling duo must defeat ancient forces to prevent history from being rewritten.

Gridlock

3. Gridlock

7.7
April 14, 2007
48 min

The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.

Daleks in Manhattan (1)

4. Daleks in Manhattan (1)

7.0
April 21, 2007
50 min

The Doctor investigates disappearances in New York at the height of the depression in the 1930s. Nefarious Pig Men linger in the sewers and the Daleks prepare an audacious plan at the top of the Empire State Building

Evolution of the Daleks (2)

5. Evolution of the Daleks (2)

6.9
April 28, 2007
49 min

The newly-created Dalek-human hybrid, and the other three members of the Cult of Skaro launch an attack on Hooverville, along with their Pig Slaves. The Doctor, Martha, and Frank manage to escape, but discover that the Daleks' plan involving the Empire State Building...

The Lazarus Experiment

6. The Lazarus Experiment

6.4
May 5, 2007
46 min

Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.

42

7. 42

7.2
May 19, 2007
48 min

In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being pulled into a sun, and must find a way to survive

Human Nature (1)

8. Human Nature (1)

8.4
May 26, 2007
48 min

England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space. The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, but what he finds is far from ordinary...

The Family of Blood (2)

9. The Family of Blood (2)

8.6
June 2, 2007
46 min

It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.

Blink

10. Blink

9.2
June 9, 2007
46 min

Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

Utopia (1)

11. Utopia (1)

8.1
June 16, 2007
49 min

After being brought back to life in The Parting of the Ways, Captain Jack Harkness was just left on the Gamestation by the Doctor and Rose. In this episode, Captain Jack Harkness storms back into the Doctor's life, and the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself.

The Sound of Drums (2)

12. The Sound of Drums (2)

8.3
June 23, 2007
52 min

Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister and his reign of terror begins – but that's only the start of his ambitions, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Toclafane. An audacious plan spanning the whole of time and space begins to close around the Earth, in the penultimate episode of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who.

Last of the Time Lords (3)

13. Last of the Time Lords (3)

7.9
June 30, 2007
49 min

One year has passed since the events of "The Sound of Drums." The Earth has been conquered and its population enslaved, the Doctor is the Master's prisoner, and the warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. The fate of the world is in Martha Jones' hands.