... Davis and Julie Gardner
As series 2 ended, together with the 2006 Christmas special, it is time for the third series to open the door of the TARDIS … so with the introduction of a new companion for the Doctor, (still played by David Tennent), the tales of the Time Travelling occupants of ... Read review
SMITH AND JONES: When Martha Jones finds herself on the Moon, she meets a mysterious ... more
stranger called the Doctor, and her life with never be the same again.THE SHAKESPEARE CODE: The Doctor takes Martha to Elizabethan England, where William Shakespeare u...
The third instalment of Doctor Who is full of new thrills new laughs new heartbreak and ... more
some terrifying new monsters. From the moment the Doctor walks into the life of medical student Martha Jones he changes it forever. In Elizabethan London they me...
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David Tennant returns as the renegade Time Lord with a new companion and new challenges to ... more
face. These come thick and fast, in the form of the rhinoceros-like Judoon (Smith and Jones), the terrifying Macra (Gridlock), and the Weeping Angels (Blink, destined to become a classic episode).The Daleks make yet another appearance, locking horns with the Doctor in New York, 1930, in the episodes'Daleks in Manhattan'and'Evolution of the Daleks'. The final three episodes make up a trilogy of epic proportions, as the Doctor is rendered helpless by the only person who could hope to match him on any level. Who? That'd be telling...DVD extras include audio commentaries, outtakes, deleted scenes, video diaries by cast members, and a full compliment of 12-minute Dr Who Confidential episodes, one for each adventure. Apart from all 13 episodes of the season proper, this box set also includes the 2006 Christmas special'The Runaway Bride', starring Catherine Tate.Certificate 12.
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Human Nature:England 1913, and a schoolteacher called John Smith has strange dreams of ... more
adventures in time and space.The Family Of Blood:1913, and war comes to England, a year in advance, as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.Blink:In an old, abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. Only the Doctor can stop them, but he's lost in time.
Utopia: Jack's back! As Captain Jack comes storming into the Doctor's life again, the ... more
TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself.The Sound Of Drums: Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister, and his reign of terror begins. But his dark ambitions reach beyond the stars...Last Of The Time Lords: Earth has been conquered and the Master rules supreme, with the Doctor his prisoner. Only Martha Jones can save the world...
Series 3 Volume 2:Daleks In Manhattan.1930s New York, and on top of the Empire State ... more
Building, the Doctor's oldest enemies are at work.Evolution Of The Daleks.As a new Dalek Empire rises in 1930s New York, the Doctor must enter an unholy alliance.The Lazarus ExperimentMartha returns home, but has to save her family from the schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.42 As a spaceship hurtles towards the sun, the Doctor and Martha have only 42 minutes to save the day!
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Willow Smith, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Alice Braga
Advantages: More great entertaining stories from the TARDIS Disadvantages: none (unless you're a Billie Piper fan)
...Freema Agyeman) a student Doctor working at the hospital, the trouble soon begins during her shift.
With bad weather encircling the hospital, with the rain acting very oddly, the entire building begins to shake, as if being dragged from it's very foundations…
As the terrifying cause of the earthquake type vibrations come to light, and the now stranded hospital being invaded by an army of heavily armed rhinos looking for a specific ... ...(from the previous episode), the Doctor takes Martha on a trip back to 1599 for a visit to the Globe Theatre to watch William Shakespeare, (played by Dean Lennox Kelly), perform his famous play 'Loves Labours lost' … only to uncover a more sinister reasoning behind Shakespeares yet to be penned sequel called Love labours Won…
With Martha having to avoid the clumsy attempts from Shakespeare to woe her she tries to help the doctor in ... more
Writers: Russell T. Davis and Gareth Roberts. Directors Charles Palmer and Richard Clark Producers: Phil Collinson, Russell T. Davis and Julie Gardner
As series 2 ended, together with the 2006 Christmas special, it is time for the third series to open the door of the TARDIS … so with the introduction of a new companion for the Doctor, (still played by David Tennent), the tales of the Time Travelling occupants of the little blue box begin…
* SMITH AND JONES (31ST March 2007)
When the Doctors suspects that there are some alien activities happening at the Royal Hope hospital in London he makes himself comfortable as a patient, waiting for what ever is going to happen to happen…
Unfortunately for Martha Jones, (played by Freema Agyeman) a student Doctor working at the hospital, the trouble soon begins during her shift. With bad weather encircling the hospital, with the rain acting very oddly, the entire building begins to shake, as if being dragged from it's very foundations…
As the terrifying cause of the earthquake type vibrations come to light, and the now stranded hospital being invaded by an army of heavily armed rhinos looking for a specific thing, it is up to the doctor, with his new friend Martha, to save the human occupants of the hospital from certain death… even if it means risking his own life to do so
* Other characters in this episode…
Anne Reid as Florence Finnegan Roy Marsden as Mr Stoker Adjoa Andoh as Francine Jones Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Tish Jones Reggie Yates as Leo Jones Trevor Laird as Clive Jones Kimmi Richards as Annalise Ben Righton as Oliver Morgenstern Vineeta Rishi as Julia Swales Paul Kasey as Judoon Leader Nicholas Briggs as Judoon Voices
* THE SHAKESPEAR CODE ( 7th April 2007)Now the introductions are over, (from the previous episode), the Doctor takes Martha on a trip back to 1599 for a visit to the Globe Theatre to watch William Shakespeare, (played by Dean Lennox Kelly), perform his famous play 'Loves Labours lost' … only to uncover a more sinister reasoning behind Shakespeares yet to be penned sequel called Love labours Won…
With Martha having to avoid the clumsy attempts from Shakespeare to woe her she tries to help the doctor in his search for the truth behind the strange events in the small village…
The Doctor soon realises that there is more to the strangely written script than even Shakespeare could ever have thought, and is soon confronted by the sickeningly looking Carrionites who need the speech of the great writer, and the deliberately designed Globe, to unleash their evils upon the world…
Only for the Doctor to be running for his life once again…
* Other characters in this episode…
Sam Marks as Wiggins Christina Cole as Lilith Amanda Lawrence as Doomfinger Linda Clarke as Bloodtide Jalaal Hartley as Dick David Westhead as Kempe Andree Bernard as Dolly Bailey Chris Larkin as Lynley Matt King as Peter Streete Robert Demeger as Preacher Angela Pleasence as Queen Elizabeth I
* GRIDLOCK (14th April 2007)
The Doctor takes Martha to see the New New York on New Earth in the year five billion and three, but upon landing somewhere underground, surrounded by stallholders selling mood patches, he soon realises that things have changed drastically…
As the pair begin to look around, trying to discover what is happening in the once beautiful place, Martha is snatched and bundled into a box shape car heading for the notorious motorway… where every one who goes to are never seen again…. With the Doctor now in hot pursuit he soon finds himself looking over the fumes filled underground motorway, standing on a platform staring in awe at the thousands upon thousand of box shaped cars in the poisonous tunnel…
The Doctor has no choice but to jump aboard the nearest car, which is being driven by Thomas Kincade Brannigan, (played by Ardal O'Hanlon), a cat like human, and his human wife, together with their new born children, and go in chase of Martha and her kidnappers…
As the shocking reality begins to unfold the Doctor realises that he is running out of time to find and save his new companion… before she succumbs to the horrors that live at the bottom of the motorway… and to figure out why all the people are stuck in a never ending drive for the rest of there lives…
So with the Doctor having to drop in on many of the motorway travellers he knows his time is running out… until he is reunited with a couple of old friends.
* Other characters in this series….
Anna Hope as Novice Hame Travis Oliver as Milo Lenora Crichlow as Cheen Jennifer Hennessy as Valerie Bridget Turner as Alice Georgine Anderson as May Simon Pearsall as Whitey Daisy Lewis as Javit Nicholas Boulton as Businessman Erika Macleod as Sally Calypso Judy Norman as Ma Graham Padden as Pa Lucy Davenport as Pale Woman Struan Rodger as The Face of Boe
** IN CONCLUSION**
A fine start to a new series of Doctor Who adventures….
With the original TARDIS crew members from the 2005 reinvented show now gone, (Christopher Eccleston and now Billie Piper) this new series will be a totally different show indeed…
Freema Agyeman, for those people who have the earlier episode, Army of Ghost, will recognise her from that, so to bring her back from the dead and use her as the Doctors new assistant was always going to be a little bit drastic… but the reasoning behind her so called reappearance is good enough to soon forget the death of her previous character….
A new assistant was going to be difficult to introduce but I was actually quite impressed with the way Freema took to her role as Martha Jones, actually playing the part of the Doctors assistant well, almost making the viewer forget who Rose was… that is until the Doctor mentions her in one of his many deep thought flashbacks, revealing his inner feelings towards his ex companion… Martha comes across as a head strong character who instantly falls for the Doctors charm, following him round almost like a lost lamb, thus showing her more vulnerable side, especially towards the well dressed grimacing man in his dodgy trainers…
The episodes on this volume are all entertaining indeed.
Firstly, the present day London… spending time to introduce Martha Jones and her family to the viewers, (a little like the first episode with Rose)… Once the introductions are over it is simply down to business with the Doctor ability to attract trouble where ever he goes, even on a motorway of all places…
Then taking a trip back in time to tell a strange version of an unwritten tale penned by the brilliant, but portrayed here as a little arrogant and foul mouthed, Mr William Shakespeare, and the silly, but plausible reason why it was lost in history for ever and a day….
Finishing with a trip into the future, with what could be the futuristic motorway system running through the country today… 6 years to drive 10 miles is about right in the 21st century… the smog, the frustration and the utter lack of authority figures leading to a never ending but deadly trip to find a paradise that doesn't exist…
In all, it is another 135 minutes (45 minutes per episode) of good child friendly science fiction entertainment, giving some good humour injected into each episode to keep the plots alive without going over the top enough to make them daft…
* Would I recommend this…?
Yes I would… it is great fun television for all ages…
Although Piper has gone and the daft humour of Tate is nowhere to be seen Freema Agyeman really does pull out all the stops to impress the audience, doing what she set out to do with honours…
Watching these episodes I can really see this third series being as good as its predecessors, maybe with the use of more CGIs and a few more humorous plot lines than before,
You can continue to expand you collection of the Doctor Who saga by getting a copy of this volume from www.amazon.co.uk for less than £13.00...
Advantages: Great strong season openers Disadvantages: No special features
...flop and damnwright unpopular stories Doctor Who returns in a stronger and more sinister manner. This 3 episode DVD contains the first 3 stories from series three. Smith & Jones
Martha Jones is a trainee doctor working in a busy London hospital, when she happens to examine a patient called John Smith her suspicions are aroused. And rightly so John Smith is not whom he see’s he is in fact a time traveller known as the Doctor. But there is no time ... ...he is the target the Doctor needs to confide in Martha in order to stay ahead of the game, because penalty if caught is certain death.
The first episode of the previous two series was a bit of a flop, so I had concerns over this episode. My concerns were quickly addressed as the story moves along at a vigorous pace. Anyone who had concerns over Freema Agyeman’s portrayal as the Doctors new traveller in time Martha had little to worry about. She ...
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Advantages: Great acting Disadvantages: Some weak episodes
...first episode back in 1963, Doctor Who has wowed audiences with its capacity to create something new with extreme imagination. The rebirth of Doctor Who in 2005 with Chrostopher Eccleston as the title role paved the way for a regeneration in the form of David Tennant. Billie Piper played Rose, the Doctor's travelling companion through the first and second series, but at the end of the second, she and the Doctor were separated permanently when she ... ...is training to become a doctor in a London hospital when the building suddenly finds itself transported to the moon. Amongst the patients is a man known only as the Doctor, and he gives Martha instructions which, although they sound preposterous, he insists will save them all. With the air inside the hospital running and the feared space police, the Judoon, running riot, trying to find alien criminals inside the hospital, Martha must act quickly ...
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Advantages: Great Episodes! Disadvantages: No extra features :(
...new Era.
*****
Doctor Who started way back in 1963, with William Hartnell playing the Doctor! And his performance must have been so strong as we as a whole are still obsessed with this gripping programme, 44 years later!
Since then, we have met 10 Doctors, and adored every one of them! This Doctor (10th) is played by the lovely David Tennant, living up-to-date adventures in his big blue box, more commonly known as a TARDIS. But the Doctor does ... ...is training to be a Doctor (of medicine) but when she goes into the hospital, she finds herself and the building itself on the moon. She meets one of the 'patients' in her ward called the Doctor. Baffled as she was, Martha follows his instructions in order to get back to Earth and escape the terror that lies in the Shape Shifters and the Judoon!
THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
The Doctor takes Martha on that 'one trip' to England in the Elizabethan era. They ...
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Advantages: Brilliant once more Disadvantages: Nothing really
The third disc in the first series of the revamped DoctorWho has a bit of a bonus: 4 episodes instead of 3! The previous two discs had 3 episodes each. This disc gives us episodes 7-10. With only 13 episodes in the series, up to this point I had reached the halfway point pretty much in the series, and I had been hooked instantly in the first episode. My interest had not waned at all in watching these episodes.
After a 13 year break from the TV series, with only a TV movie in 1996 breaking up the gap, DoctorWho returned in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as the Time Lord. In the first 6 episodes, he establishes a working relationship with Rose Tyler, as she becomes his travelling companion, and we meet Rose's mum, Jackie, and boyfriend Mickey. Within no time at all, it's like he never left.
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Advantages: more great entertainment and action packed Disadvantages: none
This third volume in the first series starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose ---
--- and introducing the new co star of some of the forthcoming episodes John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness?
Writers: Russell T. Davies, Paul Corell and Steven Moffet
Directors: Brian Grant, Joe Adhearne and James Hawes
Producers: Phil Collinson, Russel T. Davis, Julie Gardner and Mal Young.
**BRIEF PLOTS**
*1 - THE LONG GAME --- (7th May 2005)
When the TARDIS appears on a space station called Satellite 5, which broadcast news and current events to the entire human empire? but as per usual with any place the Doctor arrives at, not all is what it seems?with most of the real events happening on floor 500...
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Advantages: Three of the best episodes so far on one disc can't be bad Disadvantages: A bit of a weak story to start them all off
the smallest things seem very very frightening and manages to hark the show back to it's earliest incarnations when many of us used to watch from behind the sofa. This is DoctorWho as it deserves to and should be- dark, mysterious and at times the stuff of nightmares and if this is the sort of thing we can come to expect from season 5 in 2010 (the show will only appear as a series of specials next year) then I for one can hardly wait!! Moffat shows that you don't need masses of CGI, you don't need big, scary monsters that in fact just one child and a spooky voice are more than enough to send shivers and chills racing down your spine.
These last two episodes rank as two of my personal favourite from this season and along with FATHER'S DAY make this disc a must-have in any Whovian's collection!!! If you only buy one disc from the first season ...
The single best piece of family-orientated entertainment BBC has broadcast in its entire history (THE GUARDIAN, 05/04/2007)
DVD Description
Meet Martha Jones, a lowly medical student whose mundane life is set to become a lot more exciting, after meeting the Doctor. Becoming the Doctor’s new companion, Martha will join him as he journeys through space and time, battling foes and thwarting threat. Episodes include ‘Smith And Jones’, ‘The Shakespeare Code’ and ‘Gridlock’.
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