Doctor Who — Series 3
13 episodesFirst aired 1 April 2007
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".
E1Smith and Jones
7.8Apr 200747m
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…
E2The Shakespeare Code
7.2Apr 200748m
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.
E3Gridlock
7.6Apr 200748m
The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.
E4Daleks in Manhattan (1)
7.0Apr 200750m
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
E5Evolution of the Daleks (2)
6.9Apr 200749m
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...
E6The Lazarus Experiment
6.3May 200746m
Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.
E742
7.1May 200748m
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
E8Human Nature (1)
8.4May 200748m
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...
E9The Family of Blood (2)
8.6Jun 200746m
It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.
E10Blink
9.3Jun 200746m
Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.
E11Utopia (1)
8.1Jun 200749m
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.
E12The Sound of Drums (2)
8.3Jun 200752m
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.
E13Last of the Time Lords (3)
7.8Jun 200749m
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.
