Doctor Who: Season 3

2007 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.7

Series 3

What Season 3 of Doctor Who

Martha Jones joins the series as the Doctor's new companion, and the season opens with her dealing with family and work problems that get complicated when she finds herself trapped on the Moon. Afterward, the Doctor takes her aboard the TARDIS on trips through Elizabethan England and New York in 1930. The Daleks of the Cult of Skaro want to rule Earth, while Professor Richard Lazarus promises to change what it means to be human. The main thread revolves around Harold Saxon, an alias of the Master. At every stop, the Doctor stops to help anyone in trouble.

13episodes

Apr 1, 2007premiered

Jun 30, 2007latest episode

10.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Smith and Jones
Apr 1, 2007 · 47 min · ★ 7.8
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…
Directing: Charles Palmer · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Anne Reid, Roy Marsden, Vineeta Rishi, Kimmi Richards
3x02 The Shakespeare Code
Apr 7, 2007 · 48 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Charles Palmer · Writing: Gareth Roberts · Starring: Dean Lennox Kelly, Christina Cole, Sam Marks, Amanda Laerence
3x03 Gridlock
Apr 14, 2007 · 48 min · ★ 7.6
The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.
Directing: Richard Clark · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Bridget Turner, Ardal O'Hanlon, Lenora Crichlow, Jennifer Hennessy
3x04 Daleks in Manhattan (1)
Apr 21, 2007 · 50 min · ★ 7.0
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
Directing: James Strong · Writing: Helen Raynor · Starring: Miranda Raison, Eric Loren, Flik Swan, Alexis Caley
3x05 Evolution of the Daleks (2)
Apr 28, 2007 · 49 min · ★ 7.0
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...
Directing: James Strong · Writing: Helen Raynor · Starring: Miranda Raison, Ryan Carnes, Hugh Quarshie, Andrew Garfield
3x06 The Lazarus Experiment
May 5, 2007 · 46 min · ★ 6.3
Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.
Directing: Richard Clark · Writing: Stephen Greenhorn · Starring: Mark Gatiss, Thelma Barlow, Lucy O'Connell, Bertie Carvel
3x07 42
May 19, 2007 · 48 min · ★ 7.1
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
Directing: Graeme Harper · Writing: Chris Chibnall · Starring: Michelle Collins, William Ash, Anthony Flanagan, Matthew Chambers
3x08 Human Nature (1)
May 26, 2007 · 48 min · ★ 8.4
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...
Directing: Charles Palmer · Writing: Paul Cornell · Starring: Jessica Hynes, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rebekah Staton, Harry Lloyd
3x09 The Family of Blood (2)
Jun 2, 2007 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.
Directing: Charles Palmer · Writing: Paul Cornell · Starring: Jessica Hynes, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rebekah Staton, Harry Lloyd
3x10 Blink
Jun 9, 2007 · 46 min · ★ 9.3
Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.
Directing: Hettie Macdonald · Writing: Steven Moffat · Starring: Carey Mulligan, Lucy Gaskell, Finlay Robertson, Richard Cant
3x11 Utopia (1)
Jun 16, 2007 · 49 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Graeme Harper · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Derek Jacobi, Chipo Chung, René Zagger, Neil Reidman
3x12 The Sound of Drums (2)
Jun 23, 2007 · 52 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Colin Teague · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Colin Stinton, Nichola McAuliffe, Nicholas Gecks, Sharon Osbourne
3x13 Last of the Time Lords (3) Season Finale
Jun 30, 2007 · 49 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directing: Graeme Harper, Colin Teague · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Alexandra Moen, Adjoa Andoh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Trevor Laird