The 10th Doctor

New Earth: The Doctor and Rose travel a few years after the destruction of the Earth and visit one of the most renowned hospitals where the Doctor finds the Face of Bo is one of the patients.
Rose finds herself in the basement along with an old... friend (Okay, we are pushing that...).

Tooth and Claw sees the TARDIS and the Travellers ending up in the Scottish Highlands, hobnobbing with Royalty.
A youngster has a hairy problem. An organisation that will have a great effect on the Doctor is formed.

School Reunion puts the Doctor in charge of a class, Rose in the kitchen and Mickey bumming around. An old companion finds a police box left lying around in an unused room...
Mickey joins the crew.
This is the first time that an old companion has been brought back to meet the Doctor and his current companion and it went quite well, neatly pointing up the different styles of the various Doctors particularly when Sarah-Jane was handed the sonic screw driver but had no idea how to use it - her Doctors were not into sharing technical skills. The best part of this story (apart from the meeting between Sarah Jane and the Doctor) was the comparison of the various monsters Sarah Jane and Rose had encountered - Sarah Jane winning with the Loch Ness monster. Although not directly related to this, Sarah Jane Smith soon had her own TV series in a second, more successful, attempt at a spin-off series.

The Girl in the Fireplace has the Doctor, Rose and Mickey aboard a starship thousands of years in the future. So why do they keep seeing a young woman from Earth's 18th Century and what do those clockwork androids want with her? This was quite a powerful story - letting us see the Doctor become fully emotionally involved for the first time since 'The Aztecs'. The story was slightly let down by the effects when the Doctor rode through the mirror.
Winner of the Hugo Dramatic Presentation - short form 2007

Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel finds the TARDIS dragged out of our universe into one where Rose's father's health juices empire has put him in the elite. There's no Rose though. And Mickey's Ricky.
The Doctor finds that an old enemy is about to be recreated in this alternate universe. Mickey actually gets to play a heroic role, and decides to stay in this world to continue the fight against the cyber threat.

The Idiot's Lantern has the Doctor and Rose in 1953 with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth about to be crowned. The Doctor and Rose find that there are a suspicious number of televisions available from a local electrician's. What could be in it for the owner of the shop?
Who are the people driving around snatching people from their homes?

The Impossible Planet finds the TARDIS landing in a base where the locals seem to want the Doctor and Rose for dinner, but the Ood are only servants and the Terrans who run the base are looking for the strange power source that is holding the planet in orbit around the Black Hole. In The Satan Pit, the story finds the Doctor confronting Something that claims to an Evil from before the dawn of the Universe. But is it still safely locked up?

Love and Monsters follows a group of people searching for the Doctor and Rose. The group is more like a social club until they're taken over by a stranger who's motives are more hardline than theirs...

Fear Her. As if the London Olympics hadn't enough problems, there're a whole series of disappearances to contend with...

Army of Ghosts and Doomsday sees us losing Rose...
Both the daleks and the cybermen are back and while the presence of five million cybermen barely cause the daleks to miss a step, they definitely blink when they learn the Doctor's around. Unfortunately, there are a lot more than just the four daleks that initially appear in Torchwood One.

Smith and Jones introduces us to a new series and a new companion. Although she doesn't know it, Martha Jones has a family connection with the Doctor - her cousin was in the Torchwood offices when they were taken over by the invading cybermen (Freema Agyeman plays both Martha, and Adeola Oshodi from Army of Ghosts). Martha is a medical student and is a member of the hospital staff when it was taken to the moon by the Judoon mercenary police force.

In The Shakespeare Code the Doctor takes Martha back to Elizabethan (that's Elizabeth 1) England where they visit a production of Love's Labours Lost at the original Globe Theatre where they're seduced into staying when Shakespeare announced the production of Love's Labours Gained - Shakespeare's Lost Play. But is Shakespeare the sole author of his plays? The Doctor finds that he's annoyed another queen!

Gridlock takes the Doctor and Martha back to New Earth and New New York, but not the New New York of the Overcity, but the eternal Motorway and the denizens of the Undercity. The devolved enemies thriving in the Fast lane of the Motorway find those cars that make it that far down interesting snacks. An old friend has been desperately awaiting the Doctor's return as he passes on an important piece of information. Martha learns more about the Doctor's past.

In Daleks in Manhattan the Doctor and Martha find themselves in the original New York at the height of the Depression and Martha gets a ground eye view of the differences in American society. But there's something dark in the sewers under the city as the couple become aware of people disappearing from the hooverville and what's hidden in the basements of the Empire States Building? A strange hybrid is being being born... In The Evolution of the Daleks the Doctor finds himself working with the strangely mutated Sec in order to create a new race of Daleks. But not all of the remaining Daleks agree with Sec's plans. Is a civil war possible with only four Daleks?
This proved a particularly effective and scary Dalek story especially after the previous season enders' mass Dalek invasions. The Daleks have always been most effective when used sparingly - not generally a problem when people actually had to operate them but with CGI models, they have become overwhelming in sheer number terms, which isn't what they're about IMO :-).

The Lazarus Experiment has the Doctor fulfil his promise to Martha and return her home after her journeys through Time and Space. He'd left her when the import of a news report finally registered and he returned to see if he could get an invite to Professor Lazarus's experiment. Fortunate that Martha's sister was the Professor's PR executive, then, even though it meant that the Doctor had to meet the rest of Martha's family. Her brother was cool with the Doctor, but her mother was suspicious right from the start and the strange man filling her head with warnings knew more about the Doctor than he should - is he Torchwood, or something even more sinister?! The denouement in Southwark Cathedral was a classic cliffhanger (maybe not a cliff, but certainly a hanger...) and the Cathedral was a great location.
The Doctor takes Martha on as a full-time companion.
This story is quite unique in recent Doctor Whos (including the later stories from the old series) in that the problem he is facing is something brought on by pure human greed and error - something most common during Jon Pertwee's time as the Doctor.

42 sees the Doctor and Martha answer an emergency beacon. The ship they find themselves aboard is a tramp trader that bends the rules to make its credits, but when a refueling run backfired something comes aboard the ship in an attempt to revenge itself. The crew and the Doctor and Martha find they only have 42 minutes to pull the ship out of the sun's gravity well before they all fry. We also learn that Martha's mobile has been jiggered so she can phone home, but her mother has made a pact with the People in Black and their calls had been monitored...

Human Nature sees the Doctor and Martha being chased by the Family and the only way that the Doctor could throw them off the scent was by having his DNA rewritten so that he would appear to be human and to hide out for the three months it would take while the Family's current hosts died.
The Doctor reckons he's considered all the things that could go wrong and things look like they are going fine. But the Doctor had forgotten one thing. Something rather important.
He'd forgotten that he was now human and he wasn't aware of what that meant. The school nurse was a sympathetic character and the couple became close friends in the rather close atmosphere of the school where Mr John Smith was a teacher. But the Family were not that far behind and soon strange things were happening in the fields around the village as the scarecrows start acting up. When Martha tries to recall the Doctor to Smith  she's put in her place quite firmly but at a dance things get explosive.
In The Family of Blood, the Family press the bewildered John Smith trying to get him to revert to being a Time Lord, but all he wants is to be in this time, marry the nurse and raise their children. But when the Family start blasting the village, killing the innocent people living there, he's forced to put aside his wishes and revert. In a prime example of getting what you wish for, the Family got their wish of eternal life.
This latter episode was the most powerful as Smith and the Nurse discuss the future and what they want and where duty lay. The storyline for these two stories is roughly based on the New Adventures novel, Human Nature, also written by Paul Cornell, the author of these two story. The actor playing Baines and Son-of-Mine really managed to play his piece rather brilliantly.
Nominated - Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form Hugo 2008

Blink puts the Doctor and Martha in the background once again, similarly to last season's Love and Monsters. In this story, Sally Swallow investigates an old house where she finds a message written under the peeling wallpaper apparently to herself. "Watch out for the weeping angel." and further down, "Duck". Wondering why a hidden graffito would be talking about an aquatic avian, Sally bends down to uncover more of the message only to have a stone crash into the wall above her head. And were the statues really moving when she looked away?
Going back with her best friend, Kathy Nightingale, the next day, the two girls investigate the building but when Sally is distracted by a knock on the door, something happens to Kathy. Will the envelope that the young man brings with him explain the disappearance? Kathy's brother tells Sally of some strange easter eggs hidden on a number of DVDs; a man telling them of how time is 'like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff'. And telling them not to blink, not to look away. Eerily, it looks as if the man is answering Sally as she considers her options.
This was touted as one of the more scary stories (or at least as scary as you're allowed to be at 7 o'clock on a Saturday anyway) and it certainly had its moments as Sally and those around her deal with the Angels and the constant exhortations not to blink and not to look away certainly kept the tension up. The nature of the Angels kept them from being too overwhelming while the way they moved only when you looked away plays to the fears of people of all ages. There were some nice human interactions as well - Sally and the DI, and later when she meets him in hospital in particular.
Winner Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form Hugo 2008

In Utopia, the TARDIS travels to Cardiff to refuel from the time rift there. While its doing that, an old companion of the Doctor sees it and runs to rejoin the crew. But the Doctor doesn't want anything to do with Captain Jack for the captain isn't the man he used to be. Captain Jack manages to reach the TARDIS just as it begins to take off and we're treated to the wild sight of Jack clinging on like grim death as the TARDIS screams through the vortex. The Doctor is worried as the TARDIS travels far, far into the future. Indeed, as far as it was possible to go, all the way to the end of the Universe.
The planet they find themselves on appears as dead as Jack, but in both cases the diagnosis may be a trifle premature... Underground, there's a refuge holding the last known remnants of the human species and when the travellers realise this isn't humanity's last stand against the violent Future Kind, the Doctor makes an impassioned speech about humanity's ability to reinvent itself in its original form however much it may change in the interim. Helping out is a mysterious professor, Yana, who had developed the launcher for humanity's last ship.
But we know there has been one Time Lord hidden away with redesigned DNA. And the Face of Bo promised the Doctor that 'You Are Not Alone', and that he would meet another member of his race at the end of time. But the Doctor isn't expecting to meet his arch nemesis... With the Doctor Martha and Jack marooned at the end of time, the Master steals the TARDIS to travel... where?
Derek Jacobi was well impressive as Professor Yana and the Master both despite the wide differences between the two characters. The regenerated Master as played by John Simm (DI Sam Tyler in Life on Mars) looks rather impressive as well. Unfortunately, the Doctor's speech did not feel quite as impressively as Tom Baker's aboard The Ark in Space.

The Sound of Drums finds the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack stuck at the end of time with no apparent way out. Leaving becomes somewhat urgent as the refuge's systems shut down and the Future Kind make a successful assault. A quick modification of Jack's time hopper allows the intrepid trio to make their escape on the trail of the TARDIS and the Master. They aren't really expecting to find themselves back in 21st century Britain though. And they still don't have a clue as to where the Master might be hiding out.
It's not until they catch a broadcast of the newly elected Prime Minister that they begin to have an inkling of what was going on...
But the trio were not the only ones who were watching out for the opposition and Mr Saxon had all the power of the State to back him up. But the Doctor and his companions were only a side show. Mr and Mrs Saxon had other things on their minds as The Time grew ever closer. But what would this mysterious Time be? And what did the American president have to with it? What is contained within the billions of globes that spread out over the Earth in an orgy of death and destruction?
In a last ditch attempt to undo the Master's plans, Martha's family, all taken prisoner by the Master (except Leo...), help Martha escape but the Doctor is artificially aged until he's so crinkled up that he becomes the latest exhibit in the Master's collection...

Last of the Time Lords opens a year after the events of the previous episode with the Doctor still caged by the Master and Jack chained. Martha's coming back from her travels round the world, talking to people and looking for answers. We learn that Martha's worked out a way to knock out one of the Toclafene globes so that people could find out what was in it. Not that the answer was pleasant - all the remnants of humanity that had supposedly made it to Utopia had been locked into globes and brought back to destroy their ancient ancestors.
When Martha is captured and the weapon she was carrying destroyed it looked like it was all over for humanity but The Doctor had a long term plan all set up ready to go.

In Partners in Crime, the opening story in Season 4 and David Tennant's 3rd year in the role, we are confronted by the Doctor and Donna (Catherine Tate) from the 2006 Christmas Special trying to find out what is strange about the Adipose Corporation, the strange Ms Foster and the wonder pill that let you lose weight overnight. Somehow, investigating the organisation, the pair constantly just miss each other as they chase strange indications all over London until they're both drawn to the corporation's headquarters. In the meantime, a curious journalist was on the trail of the Adipose Corporation, but she'd got rather tied up.
I was a bit worried, and it is still early days at this stage, about how Catherine Tate would fit in as a Companion - she hasn't been precisely known for her shy and retiring roles after all, but she doesn't seem quite as strident as I remember from the Christmas Special. The little adipose creatures were wonderful even if how they were created was icky... and the fate meted out to Major Nanny Foster was a bit strong. It was nice to see Bernard Cribben as Donna's grandfather - he's been in 2007's Christmas Special and has even been a proper companion of the Doctor, albeit as the mid sixties' film Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (Peter Cushing).

The Fires of Pompeii sees the Doctor and Donna appearing in the doomed city just before the volcano is due to blow. The Doctor is keen to get away; there's nothing he could do to stop the upcoming tragedy, and to warn the population, would be to violate the Laws of Time. Donna is less than impressed; she reckoned that the Doctor would sort out all the ills of mankind and his attitude seriously discommoded her. However, the time travelling duo found that a street trader had sold the TARDIS to a local marble dealer. While trying to persuade the merchant to give the TARDIS back, the Doctor and Donna are faced by the daughter of the household, a sybil in training, and the city's official auger, both of whom made a series of unwholesomely accurate statements about the Doctor and Donna. Indeed, it appeared that all the prophets had been having an amazing run of accurate prophesising ever since the great quake seventeen years before! But in that case, why hadn't they predicted the volcano that would wipe out the city?! The Doctor finds an alien presence in the hot springs underlying the city that might answer this question and free his hands. But his dilemma is whether he should save the thousands in Pompeii or the millions and billions of humans that would cease to exist if the aliens have their way? The way that the Doctor and Donna escape destruction is a tad contrived but you can't complain too much - especially as there are eleven more stories to go!
I quite liked this story, and found some parts quite tense. The production team seemed to recreate Pompeii quite successfully as well, and while it's not the first historically set New Series Doctor Who, it is the one with the widest sense of being set in a historic period. Hopefully the BBC didn't blow the series' special effects budget so early in the run...

The Planet of the Ood sees the Doctor taking Donna to her first alien planet. It's the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire and Mankind has spread through three galaxies. At their back are the Ood, each the perfect servant. More like the perfect slave. But the Doctor's here now, aware of his failure to rescue the Ood the last time he'd met them, and he's determined not to repeat that mistake. When Donna finds out the truth, she's less than pleased with her descendants! What is the secret of Warehouse 15 and how does it relate to the constant refrain of the Ood that the circle be broken?
What is the meaning of Sigma's comment that even the Doctor must come to an end? Is it curtains for our intrepid time traveller?!

The Sontaran Stratagem sees a return of the potato headed mass cloned soldiers for whom the fight is all. Last seen in the terrible Sixth Doctor story The Two Doctors, this race have come up with a plan to destroy Earth by playing on the planet's fears of global warming and pollution and its love affair with SatNavs. Despite their cloned nature and the fact they are supposed to be birthed in their millions, the Sontarans have never been shown on screen except in the odd one or two, this is one race that will actually benefit from CGI enhanced numbers (though they can't be made too unstoppable...).
The Doctor and Donna return to present day Earth when the Doctor receives a phone call from his former Companion Martha Jones now acting as Medical Liaison to an invigorated UNIT. This episode sees the largest deployment of UNIT troops ever - probably as many here as in all the Jon Pertwee UNIT stories of the '70s put together. Their commanding officer is only a colonel but at least he had the establishment to justify his rank. The Doctor showed his disdain of the colonel's desire to always salute him and he's as sniffy as always about the use of the military, though his UNIT driver showed some delightful signs of humanity as he and the Doctor discussed the logic of a UNIT vehicle being fitted with the device they were supposed to be investigating.  Donna and Martha get on variably badly - it's probably not a good idea for the Doctor to let Companions to compare notes...
The story was quite good and Catherine Tate's still showing an ability not to steal too much of the limelight from David Tennant's Doctor despite an impressive bit of emotive acting as she tries to warn her family of the upcoming dangers without revealing what she'd been doing.

The Poison Sky sees the truth behind the Atmos system revealed as the cities of the planet disappear under a cloud of choking smog. The Doctor's got rather a lot on his mind in this story - he's trying to keep Donna safe, the UNIT colonel off his back, and out of the factory as the Sontarans take control... Unfortunately Ross, the Doctor's driver, was one of the casualties.
Donna's gramp is saved with a swift blow from Donna's mum. though Donna's rather startled to learn that her mother owns an axe. The Doctor give Donna a key to the TARDIS and tells her it's safe to wait out the situation there. Unfortunate, then, the couple hadn't spotted the couple of UNIT privates controlled by the Sontarans and the Transmat locators they put into place...
Meanwhile Clone Martha is back at UNIT headquarters logging into the supposedly secure databases looking to actually stop a nuclear launch. All rather strange as the Sontaran ship in orbit would barely notice a nuclear bombardment. The list of countries with nuclear capability was rather intriguing - no Israel, but North Korea in the list. No South Africa either, but they are supposed to have disarmed. The confrontation between Martha and Clone Martha was rather good. Skorr is shot by the colonel, though rather stupidly, the colonel shows his own form of honour as he requests that 'You will face me sir!'.
As Donna reactivates the Sontarans' teleport system, the true reason that the Sontarans don't want a nuclear strike is revealed; the Earth is to be transferred to a clone birth-world for the mighty Sontaran empire (not so mighty at the moment, under assault by the Rutans). Luke's found out that the Sontarans were scamming him, that had his plans come to fruition and he'd evacuated his acadamy to their ship, all that would have happened would be that they would have been used for hunting practice. This made him somewhat madder and twisted than he was already, but after the Doctor used Luke's atmosphere conversion device to cancel the clone-world atmosphere then alter it to affect the atmosphere aboard the Sontaran ship it was Luke's sacrifice that saved the Doctor's life.
Even as Martha's about to say goodbye to the Doctor, pointing out she's got a wedding she has every intention of attending, the doors slam shut and the TARDIS takes flight - Donna should have warned her about the Doctor and weddings. Not that this is the Doctor's fault this time...
But who could be manipulating the TARDIS? And surely that wasn't Rose on the scanner?

In The Doctor's Daughter, the three time travellers arrive at their destination where they find themselves having nasty weapony things pointed at them and the Doctor's hand shoved in a bio-scanner. After a few moments, a clone appears and programmed to become a soldier in the human-hath war. The Doctor ain't happy. Not over what happened to him. Not over having been sort of cloned. Not by having a daughter. But soon the party is split up when the humans are attacked and Martha finds herself on the wrong side of a rock fall while the Doctor and Donna find themselves imprisoned with the irrepressable Genna after the Doctor tried to get the humans to call off the forthcoming attack on the newly revealed location of the mystical Source.

The Unicorn and the Wasp sees the Doctor and Donna appear in the 1920s English countryside just in time for tea at the manor. Also on the guestlist are the village dignatories, a young girl up from London. And a Mrs Agatha Christie. Not yet the Agatha Christie the best selling novellist, though she had achieved a limited fame, but an insecure lady wondering whether she would ever achieve anything in her life. This is set on the date that Agatha Christie went missing for those ten days before re-appearing at that Harrogate hotel. Although it would have played very well as a pure historical (not to mention hysterical) reconstruction, the producers bravely ignored the chance to replicate the success of Black Orchid and had one of the series' more interesting aliens - a shape shifter. After the unexplained death at the dinner table, Mrs Christie gets to play detective and the usual suspects are uncovered (though a nice touch was the colonel...).
Catherine Tate nearly goes off on her own in this, with the Doctor having to constantly having to rein Donna in as the producers try and cram in every Christie reference they could think of and, at the end, when the Doctor shows Donna the Christie book, Death in the Clouds, claiming a publication date of 5 billion AD, this is more or less a repeat of the Ninth Doctor's chat with Rose after meeting Charles Dickens.

Silence in the Library starts off in an apparently everyday house in the twenty first century, but unusual signs start becoming apparent almost immediately. When the girl is asked to report what she's looking at, she reports on a wonderfully quiet room filled with books, suddenly invaded by an excitable couple who come running and screaming through the building and blockading the door - The Doctor and Donna of course...
The action then cuts back to the Doctor and Donna's arrival in this strange location. A... no, the library. A whole world trransformed into the largest library ever. Just something a bit odd about it. Where are the punters? Libraries are supposed to be quiet, but this one's practically tomblike. And then they're chased by this security droid that appears to be speaking in the voice of a young child. Next on the list of weirdnesses are a bunch of characters dressed in isolation suits. These are revealed to be merely a bunch of archaeologists seeking to find out what's happened here.
Donna is actually way in the background almost to the point of being invisible throughout the episode.

Forest of the Dead continues on with a much reduced number of archaeologists being changed and absorbed by the creatures in the shadows. Having been teleported out of the TARDIS, Donna finds herself in a strange place being treated for her halucinations of the libray by the mysterious doctor Moon. Becoming enamoured of one her fellow patients, Donna is involved in a whirlwind romance, marriage and domestic life that appeared to take little more than a blink of the eye - there is, of course, an excellent reason for this! Meanwhile the Doctor finds that the leader of the archaeological team turns out to have known an older version of him - under what circumstance would a timelord tell someone else their name? We ought to be told :-)
Catherine Tate gets a bit more screen time in this episode, though she's turned almost down to zero compared to 'The Unicorn and the Wasp'. These stories were genuinely scary playing as it does to those so-called unreasonable fears of the dark - as the Doctor says - these fears may not be as unreasonable as we might assume :-)!

If Donna Noble had been practically invisible in the previous two episodes, then for most of Midnight she is quite literally not there. The pair turn up at a resort planet and while Donna spends a relaxing day by the pool the Doctor signs up for a trip out to see the Sapphire Glacier. Four hours of tedium on the way out and four more on the way back, for half an hour's experience? No thanks!
The Doctor was well up for it though. Everything went smoothly until the crawler had to make a diversion round a unstable region. Usually reliable to tedium, their crawler suddenly stops for an inexplicable reason.
Everyone sits back to wait for the rescue crawler until something starts knocking on the hull. On a totally dead planet, this comes as an immense shock. As the shocks increase the passengers' reassurance over the strength of the crawler becomes frayed. When the Hostess tried contacting the driver and found nothing there, they lost their faith completely...
When an explosion ripped through the rear of the crawler, things rapidly polarised into groups; the passenger who had kept herself to herself; the rest of the passengers and then the Doctor. The lonely passenger was frozen in place and completely silent. The rest of the passengers were in a dither and the Doctor tries to help the passenger. But it soon becomes obvious that something has happened to her and she gradually starts echoing the others as they speak. Gradually she starts to speak exactly as and when they do. Gradually as the being works out who is the most intelligent person, she takes over the Doctor so that he starts mimicing her. The other tourists start discussing how they could get rid of the infestation, their only point of disagreement whether the Doctor should be dumped along with the other passenger.
This involved an amazing amount of verbal dexterity on behalf of the various actors involved especially when the speech patterns were still slightly out of synch.

In Left, we have our now customary Doctor free episode. But not Donna.
On the Chinese planet of Chen-Shen, Donna's offered the chance for a palm reading. While in the tent, she feels something climb on her back and she's transported back into her past...
What would have happened if she'd turned right instead of left? She might have got a proper job instead of temping. But she wouldn't have met a strange being known as the Doctor and he wouldn't have survived the flooding of the Thames Barrier. Then he wouldn't have been at the hospital when it got stolen by the Judoon and Martha Jones wouldn't have survived. Nor would he have been around to stop the explosions over London that left the country an economic disaster. Then the Sontarans turned up and it's up to Torchwood Cardiff to save the planet with fatal results for the team.
Each time, Donna is faced by a shorter blond haired young woman who makes sure she's saved from the worst effects of the disasters that are overwhelming the world. But when the stars start going out, nothing will save her now. Except for a rather crackpot idea from the remnants of UNIT and a girl who claimed to be from a parallel reality.
When she is reunited with the Doctor, Donna tells him what the younger woman had said, just two words; Bad Wolf...
Catherine Tate has to carry this whole episode and while she was a touch intense, it did manage to fit in with the story quite well. I'd be interested in seeing what the children who are supposed to be the target audience for this programme thought of this (and Midnight, for that matter).
Roll on the season finalé

First up is The Stolen Earth which opens with the Doctor and Donna making a rapid arrival on Earth. However, everything's quite normal and the duo retreat back into the TARDIS until a series of massive shakes rock the TARDIS. On looking outside, Donna sees no sign of Earth, but the Doctor remains adament that it's not (for once) the fault of the TARDIS. This time it's the Earth that's gone walkabout... Realising that he's somewhat outclassed this time, the Doctor goes calling on The Shadow Convention whose matriarchs are already on the trail of a series of missing planets, though there are a number of disappearances that don't appear to fit the pattern, until an element of time shifting is also factored in.
But where were they?
Even the Doctor is stumped until Donna recalled the disappearing bees and the Doctor remembers that they weren't all Earth bees and  a trail was found.
On the stolen Earth, Sarah Jane and her adopted son are in their home trying  to come to terms with the events, Torchwood Cardiff are ensuring that everything is stable round the rift and Martha Jones is at UNIT headquarters in New York. And a short blond haired girl with a honking huge gun introduces herself to Donna's grandfather and mother. Even as these former companions begin to piece together what has happened, deep space radar probes report the arrival of a swarm of spaceships, all broadcasting a single phrase, "Exterminate...exterminate!". Only Martha had never met the daleks in their full glory but she gains an unwanted education as millions of the creatures sweep down over the Earth overwhelming all opposition - even gramp's paint gun :-).
The Doctor and Donna are stuck out in normal space where their trail ends. There's a rift but there's no way the TARDIS can force her way through.
Back on Earth, the computer systems of UNIT, Torchwood and Mr Smith are all invaded and a network is formed linking these companions with the former Prime Minister Hariett Jones. Rose can see what's happening but can't talk back. Ms Jones' system creates a signal that was capable of breaking through the barriers of  the rift and guiding the TARDIS in. But someone else was listening and waiting for a chance for a reunion with the Doctor. Sarah Jane is horrified to hear the next voice for the last time she had seen Davros, he'd just been shot by his creations, the very daleks that were crushing all resistance.
With the Doctor and Donna finally through to the planet almost the first person they see is Rose and as she and the Doctor rush towards each other a dalek slides out of an alley and catches the Doctor a glancing blow... Anything that does not kill immediately generally allows the Doctor to regenerate...
The closing scene sees the Doctor being enveloped in the glow of regeneration...

Journey's End sees the conclusion of the season and the story.
With a bit of trickery, the Doctor is able to redirect the energy flows of the regeneration energies into the arm he had been carrying about with him forever (well, ever since the Sycorax had cut it off anyway). The newly restored Doctor, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack and Rose all rush out to continue the fight while Donna is left behind with a gently bubbling hand... Meanwhile, Martha is undertaking her final orders from  UNIT Command - to activate the mysterious Osterhausen key. The Doctor and his companions find themselves in the heart of the dalek's base, confronted by Davros and the clearly whacked out Dalek Cain, whose trip through the Vortex and the Time War a second time round had done him serious harm.
Here they learn the full horror of the daleks' plan to destroy the whole of reality apart from themselves, finally fulfulling Davros' desire to see them as as the masters of creation. With Davros gloating over the Doctor's twisting of his companions so they would become the killers that he could not be, the TARDIS is brought aboard the daleks' station. Inside, Donna is flung against the case holding the bubbling hand, breaking it and releasing the energy contained within causing a miracle to occur...
Finally, the daleks are destroyed by the cloned version of the Doctor and a Donna that has been imbued with his intelligences by reversing the flow of their weapons. The TARDIS manages to drag the Earth back to the Solar System where Captain Jack, Mickey and Sarah Jane all go their own ways. Rose and Jackie opt to go back to the parallel world and there the cloned version of the Doctor is also left behind - there can't be two of them in the same universe! And besides the cloned version was not fully Gallifreyan.
The Doctor is forced to make Donna forget every memory she had of him, reducing her to the ditzy girl she had been.

This time the overwhelming nature and numbers of the daleks was actually quite well handled - granted we get to see masses of them attacking Earth but there were rarely more than four or five in shot when interacting with the humans. Dalek Cain was just cool, brilliantly realised and, as always, it was great to see Davros once more, especially as the design team had reverted back to the original realisation of the character. The only problem I had with this was that the cliffhanger at the end of The Stolen Earth left the Doctor and his Companions in such straights that anything that was done to get them out of it would have left you saying 'No Way!' although it was excellently realised. And in conclusion I do feel a sense of regret that we lost Donna Noble.