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Season 1 Episode Guide



Episode 1: Rose
Shop assistant Rose Tyler has a nasty encounter with moving manequins in the basement of the department store where she works, meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor and ends up fighting a battle to save the world.

Episode 2: The End Of The World
Offered a chance to go anywhere in time, Rose chooses to see the End of the World from an observation satellite high above the now dead planet Earth in the distant future. However all is not well and it soon becomes apparent that someone has sabotaged the observation satellite.

Episode 3: The Unquiet Dead
Travelling back in time to see Charles Dickens in the theatre, Rose and the Doctor witness a ghostly apparition and their investigation leads to a undertaker's office where the dead keep getting out of their coffins.

Episode 4: Aliens of London (part 1 of 2)
The Doctor returns home with Rose just as the aliens land in London, with a spectacular crashlanding in the Thames after knocking a chunk out of Big Ben. When one of the aliens is shot dead, the Doctor begins to suspect that not everything is as innocent as it seems.

Episode 5: 10 Downing Street (part 2 of 2)
The Doctor discovers that aliens are taking over the British government and enters the Prime Ministers residence, 10 Downing Street, to try and find out how deep the infiltration is. He soon discovers their plans will be fatal for the human race.

Episode 6: Dalek
A wealthy enterpreneur has a secret underground bunker in which he has collected a museum of alien artifacts found on Earth. The Tardis materialises inside and after being captured by the security guards at the site, the Doctor is shown the one living exhibit in the museum - on of his arch-enemies, the Daleks.

Episode 7: The Long Game
The Tardis materialises on a satellite in earth orbit which acts as a TV studio for thousands of stations in the distant future, but the doctor suspects that something has happened to the timeline as mankind should be far more developed by this point than these people appear to be.

Episode 8: Father's Day
The Doctor asks Rose where she would most like to go in time and space and she decides she'd like to see the moment her father was killed in a car accident. She decides to intervene and in the process changes her own history with dire consequences.

Episode 9: The Empty Child (part 1 of 2)
While travelling in time, the Tardis detects an emergency capsule travelling through time and gives chase. The pod eventually lands in wartime London, where the Doctor and Rose rapidly discover something strange going on. In particular a small boy with a gas mask on who seems to be chasing a young woman and a bunch of street urchins.

Episode 10: The Doctor Dances (part 2 of 2)
Cornered by a number of zombie like annimated bodies in an old hospital in wartime London, with a fellow time traveller called Captain Jack, the Doctor and Rose attempt to escape and find the secret behind the plague that seems to be creating the zombies.
Episode 11: Boom Town
The Doctor discovers a former enemy has escaped and is planning to destroy the world by building a poorly designed nuclear power station in the heart of Cardiff.

Episode 12: Bad Wolf (part 1 of 2)
Snatched from the Tardis, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves trapped in some rather extreme game shows; a version of the weakest link where the failed competitors are vapourised, a big brother house where those evicted are killed, and a make-over programme with robotic fashion consultants. Each struggles to escape, and one of them doesn't make it.

Episode 13: The Parting of the Ways(part 2 of 2)
The Doctor and Captain Jack discover that one of the Doctor's oldest enemy the Daleks, are seeking to destroy the Human race. Captain Jack must organise a fight to hold off the advancing Daleks long enough for the Doctor to devise a weapon which will destroy them once and for all. But will the Doctor bring himself to use the weapon, and who or what is "Bad Wolf"...

SOURCE: tv.com
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Season 2 Episode Guide



Episode 1: New Earth
The destruction of Earth led to a wave of nostalgia and the creation of 'New Earth', a planet with very similar physical properties to Earth. The Doctor and Rose respond to a call for help and visit a hospital run by a sisterhood of humanoid cat people, the Sisters of Plenitude. They appear to have developed a cure for every disease, but the hospital hides a sinister secret. The Doctor and Rose are reunited with an old enemy, as the Face of Boe prepares to reveal the ultimate secret to the traveller without a home

Episode 2: Tooth and Claw
The TARDIS arrives in the 19th century, and soon the Doctor has met a familiar face from history. Queen Victoria is on her way to Balmoral, but the visit isn't going exactly to plan. A werewolf is on the loose, and the Doctor may not be able to protect everybody.

Episode 3: School Reunion
Deffry Vale School, a normal, local high school. But not everything is as it seems. Sarah-Jane Smith decides to investigate the place, with her trusted (yet rusted) robotic dog K-9. But there she unravels a deeper mystery, as she is reunited with a face from her past. The Doctor, who left her behind many years ago, has returned, and everything about him is different from the Doctor that Sarah remembers.

Episode 4: The Girl in the Fireplace  
Madame de Pompadour finds the court at Versailles under attack from sinister clockwork droids. Her only hope of salvation lies with the man who has haunted her dreams since childhood – a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can a broken clock summon the Lord of Time?

Episode 5: Rise of the Cybermen (1)
The Doctor, Rose and Mickey return to 2007 after the TARDIS malfunctions, but discover that they arrived in an alternative timeline, where Earth is a fascist society and Rose's parents are still together. This Earth, however, is under threat of invasion from the Cybermen!

Episode 6: The Age of Steel (2)
The Cybermen are taking over the world. Can the Doctor save this Earth from the Cybermen?

Episode 7: The Idiot's Lantern
It's 1953, the Coronation year of HM Queen Elizabeth II, and the people of Great Britain huddle round their television sets to witness the great event. But behind the celebrations there are rumours of monsters on the streets, and the tormented Mr. Magpie is hiding a strange and alien secret.

Episode 8: The Impossible Planet (1)
Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole. Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.

Episode 9: The Satan Pit (2)
Rose battles the murderous Ood and the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core, as the Pit beckons in the concluding part of this two-part story. With the planet threatening to fall into the Black Hole, the Doctor must make the ultimate sacrifice – but can he save the entire universe from the Beast?

Episode 10: Love & Monsters
Elton is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, but it's soon totally upturned when he becomes obsessed with a man called The Doctor and his big blue box. It leads him to join a like minded group of people, and also leads him to Viktor Kennedy, a man unlike no other, who will soon destroy what little happiness he had.

Episode 11: Fear Her
When the TARDIS lands in 2012, the Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics. But ordinary children are vanishing, seemingly into thin air, whilst a mother living in a seemingly ordinary British household is trying to hide her daughter's unnatural powers from the world. Can the Doctor defeat the evil nestled in the heart of London?

Episode 12: Army of Ghosts (1)
Rose: "Planet Earth. This is where I was born, and this is where I died. The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all. Not ever. And then I met a man called "The Doctor". A man that could change his face. He took me away from home in his magical machine. He showed me the whole of time and space. I thought it would never end. That's what I though, but then came the Army of Ghosts. And came Torchwood and the war. That's when it all ended. This is a story of how I died."

Episode 13: Doomsday (2)
The Cybermen have taken over the world, but four Daleks that hid themselves in the void want to awaken something they brought in a capsule called the Genesis Ark. Can the Doctor stop the Cybermen and Daleks from turning this world into hell?

SOURCE: tv.com
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Season 3 Episode Guide



Episode 1: Smith and Jones
Introducing new traveller Martha Jones to the picture as she meets a mysterious John Smith. And before she knows it, the hospital she was working in is on the moon and it's under siege from the Judoon.

Episode 2: The Shakespeare Code
For her first ever trip in the TARDIS, the Doctor takes Martha to 1599 Elizabethan London. They quickly discover that the world is under threat from the evil Carrionites and history's most celebrated playwright William Shakespeare is under the control of the sinister witch-like creatures.

Episode 3: Gridlock
The Doctor and Martha visit New Earth, and Martha gets kidnapped by two "car jackers" heading towards a motorway.
The Face of Boe tells his final words to the Doctor; his big secret.

Episode 4: Daleks in Manhattan (1)
The Doctor and Martha confront a host of surviving Daleks from the Canary Wharf battle. What are those creatures in the sewers? Who is Solomon? And why are the Cult Of Skaro attempting to create a Dalek/Human hybrid...?

Episode 5: Evolution of the Daleks (2)
Concluding part to Daleks in Manhattan. In 1930s New York, the Daleks' plan is in full force. Faced with the cyborgs' most evil and dangerous scheme yet, will the Doctor and Martha be able to defeat their greatest opponents?

Episode 6: The Lazarus Project
Mark Gatiss plays a man of 76 that finds a way to become young again.  Unfortunately his DNA transmogrification causes ancient genes to activate with fatal consequences.

Episode 7: 42
The Doctor takes Martha to an English village just before the beginning of World War 1 (1913).  They have to The Family by hiding so the Doctor has to become human and disguises himself as a teacher named Doctor John Smith. The Doctor gave Martha a list so that she could protect him but there's nothing on it about Smith falling in love.

Episode 8: Human Nature (1)
England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space.
The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, to hide out from an alien race, but realise that they are needed to save the world once more when unusual events including creepy scarecrows threaten their cover.

Episode 9: The Family of Blood (2)
The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves.

Episode 10: Blink
"Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't Blink. Good Luck." These cryptic messages left on 17 DVD's leave Sally Sparrow on a journey to assist the Doctor and Martha Jones, who are trapped in 1969. But Sally is in 2007, and they won't meet until 2008. Strange? Unusual? Not if you are the Doctor.

Episode 11: Utopia
Soon after bumping into old friend Jack Harkness, Martha and The Doctor head off to Malcassairo, a distant planet where an old professor will do anything he can to keep his people alive...

Episode 12: The Sound of Drums
The Doctor, Martha and Jack return to the 21st Century eighteen months after the Doctor and Martha left. They find they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon, is someone they've met before by another name.

Episode 13: Last of the Time Lords
It's been a year since The Master unleashed the mysterious Toclafane onto Earth. With the human race and The Doctor enslaved under The Master's control, Martha Jones is the only person that can help stop the evil Time Lord.

SOURCES: tv.com & IMDb
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Season 4 Episode Guide



Episode 1: Partners in Crime
Location: London Date: 2009 Enemies: Adipose, Miss Foster
A woman named Donna Noble searches for an old friend - the Doctor. Can Donna and the Doctor halt the mysterious Ms. Foster and her mysterious plan?

Episode 2: The Fires of Pompeii
Location: Pompeii Date: 23rd/24th August, 79 AD Enemies: Pyrovile
The Doctor takes Donna back to Pompeii, on the day of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and is faced with a great moral dilemma. Should they warn the residents of the impending disaster, or let history take its natural course?

Episode 3: Planet of the Ood
Location: Ood-Sphere Date: 4126 Enemies: Mr. Halpen, Ood Operations
The Doctor and Donna find themselves on an icy planet known as the Ood-Sphere. There they discover what drove the Ood to be a servant race. Can they free them before it's too late?

Episode 4: The Sontaran Stratagem (1)
Location: Earth Date: 2009 Enemies: Sontarans
The Doctor is called back to modern-day Earth by an old friend as an old enemy starts some new troubles. Aided by the Rattigan Academy, the Sontarans establish a covert base at the mysterious ATMOS Factory. Can the Doctor stop the Sontarans from unleashing a potent terror that will bring the world to its knees?

Episode 5: The Poison Sky (2)
Location: Earth Date: 2009 Enemies: The Sontarans
The Sontarans continue their evil plot and begin to "choke" the Earth.
The Doctor and Donna, now teamed with Martha have to stop them! Can they save Earth before it's too late?

Episode 6: The Doctor's Daughter
Location: Messaline Date: 60120724 (New Byzantine Calendar) Enemies: The Hath
The Doctor lands on the remote planet Messaline as a generations-old war rages and the threat of genocide looms. When Martha is kidnapped by the Hath, the Doctor, Donna and a new friend must race to save her and stop a bloody conflict.

Episode 7: The Unicorn and the Wasp
Location: England, Earth Date: December 3rd 1926 Enemies: Vespiforms
The Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie at a manor owned by Lady Eddison. When Agatha Christie goes missing and a body turns up in the library, the adventure turns into a pulp sci-fiction murder mystery, with a murder, a jewel thief and a wasp alien. Can they solve the mystery?

Episode 8: Silence in the Library (1)
Location: The Library Date: 51st century Enemies: Vashta Nerada
The Doctor and Donna land in a frightening position in the far future. While investigating a derelict library, the duo come face to face with the disembodied mind of a little girl, an archaeological team led by a woman from the Doctor's future, and swarms of flesh-eating creatures that are seen only as shadows. Surrounded by every book ever written, the Doctor takes control to keep everyone alive and in the light. But the darkness is moving too fast for him, and the key to their survival could be in the nightmares of a little girl...

Episode 9: Forest of the Dead (2)
Location: The Library Date: 51st Century Enemies: Vashta Nerada
The Doctor and Donna lead them into very frightening position. While creeping through a derelict library that has more than books among its shelves, the duo have to face Shifting shadows, scary Nodes, and a ravenous Data Ghost.

Episode 10: Midnight
Location: Planet Midnight Date: unknown Enemies: unknown - possessive creature
While visiting the planet Midnight, a beautiful luxury planet, full of lavish and hightech cities, a terrifying problem arises that leaves the Doctor powerless.

Episode 11: Turn Left
Location: Earth Date: 2007/2008/2009 Enemies: Member of the Trickster's Brigade
Whilst attending a carnival on the Chino-planet of Shan Shen, Donna is cajoled into having her fortune read, where her past is carefully examined. With the Doctor missing, Donna must work with Rose, a traveller from a parallel universe, to prevent darkness encompassing the whole of the universe.

Episode 12: The Stolen Earth (1)
Location: Earth, The Medusa Cascade, The Shadow Proclamation Date: 2009 Enemies: The Daleks and Davros
Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, and Jack Harkness must work together at a time of great urgency as Earth, now trapped in the Medusa Cascade, is threatened by the new Dalek Empire. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Donna must confront the Shadow Proclamation to find the truth, whilst a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows...

Episode 13: Journey's End (2)
Location: The Dalek Crucible and Earth Date: 2009 Enemies: The Daleks and Davros
The Doctor Who series four finale, sees the Doctor, Donna Noble, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Captain Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler fighting to save all of creation from the Daleks. In the midst of the Medusa Cascade and a master plan from Davros that leaves the Earth far from home... can the Doctor and his companions save the Earth, let alone the Universe?

Source: tv.com
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Season 5 Episode Guide



Episode 1: The Eleventh Hour
The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.

Episode 2: The Beast Below
The Doctor takes Amy to the distant future, where she finds Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people, as they search the stars for a new home. But as Amy explores, she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting Booth.

Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
The Doctor has been summoned by an old friend, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him, as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back – but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?

Episode 4: The Time of Angels (1)
The Doctor is recruited by Father Octavian to track the last of the Weeping Angels through the terrifying Maze of the Dead. As the Time Lord faces the Lonely Assassins, last seen in Blink, River Song is by his side. But can she be trusted?

Episode 5: Flesh and Stone (2)
Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends try to escape through the forest dome. Meanwhile, Amy finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.

Episode 6: The Vampires of Venice
Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the TARDIS touches down once again.

But 16th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...

Episode 7: Amy's Choice
It's been five years since Amy Pond last traveled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life for ever.

Episode 8: The Hungry Earth (1)
It's 2020 and the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper beneath the Earth's crust than man has ever gone before – but now the ground itself is fighting back. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village and find themselves plunged into a battle against a deadly danger from a bygone age.

Episode 9: Cold Blood (2)
It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet. It is a battle in which he cannot take sides and a day when nobody must die…

Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor
Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it.

Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien.

Episode 11: The Lodger
An unidentified force traps the Doctor on Earth and strands Amy inside the TARDIS. The Doctor traces the force to a seemingly ordinary apartment and the mysterious second-floor tenant, and tries to pose as a human to board with Craig Owens, the downstairs tenant.

Episode 12: The Pandorica Opens (1)
A Van Gogh painting ferried across thousands of years, communicating a disturbing prophecy to the Doctor, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a love that lasts a thousand years. In 102 AD England, Romans receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge conceals the Pandorica, a prison-box of legend. As it slowly unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens above. The fates are drawing close around the TARDIS – is this the day the Doctor falls? There is just one certainty: Silence will fall...

Episode 13: The Big Bang (2)
The Doctor is gone, the TARDIS has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.

Source:tv.com
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