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Doctor Who Series 3

Doctor Who

Series 3

April 1, 2007 13 episodes

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".

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Smith and Jones
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E1. Smith and Jones

47m Apr 1, 2007

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
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E2. The Shakespeare Code

48m Apr 7, 2007

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
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E3. Gridlock

48m Apr 14, 2007

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)
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E4. Daleks in Manhattan (1)

50m Apr 21, 2007

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)
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E5. Evolution of the Daleks (2)

49m Apr 28, 2007

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
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E6. The Lazarus Experiment

46m May 5, 2007

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

42
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E7. 42

48m May 19, 2007

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)
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E8. Human Nature (1)

48m May 26, 2007

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)
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E9. The Family of Blood (2)

46m Jun 2, 2007

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

Blink
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E10. Blink

46m Jun 9, 2007

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

Utopia (1)
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E11. Utopia (1)

49m Jun 16, 2007

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)
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E12. The Sound of Drums (2)

52m Jun 23, 2007

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)
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E13. Last of the Time Lords (3)

49m Jun 30, 2007

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.

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