Series 3 (Doctor Who 2005)

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Series 3 of Doctor Who (sometimes called Season 29) ran between December 2006 and July 2007 and starred David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and introduced Freema Agyeman as his companion Martha Jones. Kylie Minogue appeared as Astrid Peth in the season's Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned.

Overview

The season introduced a new companion, Martha Jones, as well as an late appearance by Astrid Peth. The main arc for this series focused on the mysterious "Mr Saxon", an alias of the Master. A secondary arc involved the emotional aftermath of the Doctor losing Rose Tyler to a parallel dimension at the end of the previous season, and the effect this has on Martha. The season also featured the first crossover with Torchwood as Jack Harkness returns to the series in a storyline that continues on directly from the end of the Torchwood episode End of Days. Other milestones included the two-part episode Human Nature and The Family of Blood, which was the first to be based upon a previously published Doctor Who novel, and the multiple-award-winning Steven Moffat episode Blink, which becomes one of the most acclaimed Doctor Who episodes in recent memory.

The subsequent DVD release of the series included deleted scenes and a gag reel. Notably, these scenes are rendered in their original digital video format, rather than having been "filmized" as the televised episodes were. This marked the first time video-style footage of Doctor Who had been seen since Season 26 in 1989.

Stories

• Smith and Jones
• The Shakespeare Code
• Gridlock
• Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
• The Lazarus Experiment
• 42
• Human Nature / The Family of Blood
• Blink
• Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords
• Time Crash
• Voyage of the Damned

Animated special

• The Infinite Quest

The Cast

Regulars

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Martha Jones (introdution) - Freema Agyeman

Others

• Francine Jones - Adjoa Andoh
• Tish Jones - Gugu Mbatha-Raw
• Leo Jones - Reggie Yates
• Clive Jones - Trevor Laird
• Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Astrid Peth - Kylie Minogue
• The Master - John Simm
• The Master - Derek Jacobi
• Face of Boe - Struan Rodger
• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison

Novels

6 of the 15 Martha books

• Sting of the Zygons
• The Last Dodo
• Wooden Heart
• Made of Steel
• Wetworld
• Forever Autumn
• Sick Building
• Peacemaker
• Wishing Well
• The Pirate Loop
• Revenge of the Judoon
• The Many Hands
• Snowglobe 7
• Martha in the Mirror
• The Story of Martha

External Links

• BBC website index for series 3

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