Saturday 9 April 2022

RTD Era Summary

Rose by Russell T Davies
An alien who travels through time and space in a police box? 

Rose Tyler's world has been turned upside down as she encounters a deadly race of living plastic mannequins and the mysterious Doctor who stands between them and victory over humanity.

 
The End of the World by Russell T Davies
When dawn comes this planet explodes like a bomb.
 
After 5 Billion years, the Earth faces its final destruction and among those standing witness is a murderer...
 
 
The Unquiet Dead by Mark Gatiss
Either that or I'm talking to a couple of ghosts - and I don't believe in ghosts.

It's the night before Christmas, the spirits of beyond are animating corpses and Charles Dickens finally meets his biggest fan.
 
 
Aliens of London by Russell T Davies
You can't rule a world in hiding. You've got to come out onto the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle.
 
A UFO has crashed into Big Ben and the Prime Minister has vanished, but it's not the end of the world. Is it?
 
 
World War III by Russell T Davies
The whole planet will become one vast molten mass of radioactive material, the fuel store for their fleet!
 
The Slitheen control Number 10 and to stop them, the Doctor must get help from the two people who hate him most.

 
Dalek by Robert Shearman
Oh, blimey, you don't half make mountains, don't you? One Dalek?
 
Henry Van Statten keeps a living alien specimen prisoner in an underground vault, but now it has escaped.


The Long Game by Russell T Davies
Never believe what you read in the newspapers.

In the year 200,000 Satellite 5 controls all the news for the Human Empire but are they truly beyond bias?
 
 
Father's Day by Paul Cornell
There are some rules that cannot be broken even with the TARDIS!

Rose's father died alone and afraid, but now she can change that. But she's hardly going to stop there...

 
The Empty Child by Steven Moffat
In a funny way, he reminds me of a sort of younger you...
 
Rose meets Captain Jack Harkness, a man seemingly better-qualified for space-time adventures than the Doctor...
 
 
The Doctor Dances by Steven Moffat
Sausages! Man will just become like a string of sausages, all the same!
 
The Empty Children are multiplying across humanity and discovering why might be enough to stop them.

 
Boomtown by Russell T Davies
We know you of old, you will not kill. Come then, look me in the eye. End my life.
 
The Doctor catches up with a surviving Slitheen criminal, which means he is responsible for her final fate.
 
 
Bad Wolf by Russell T Davies
The cameras are still functioning. Let the show begin.

Aboard Satellite 5, reality TV has replaced news, and mankind is now ruled by the mysterious Bad Wolf Corporation.
 
 
The Parting of the Ways by Russell T Davies 
I am to become a Dalek. We are all to become Daleks.
 
The insane Dalek Emperor has created a new race of Daleks and to stop them, the Doctor must sacrifice himself and all his allies - but can he bring himself to risk Rose's life?
 
 
Born Again by Russell T Davies
You travel with a Time Lord and know nothing of metamorphosis?
 
Rose Tyler meets a stranger claiming to her best friend in a brand new body, but is he telling the truth?
 
 
The Christmas Invasion by Russell T Davies
This is a struggle for power, matter over mind. I'm convinced all these people have all been overcome in this struggle and goodness knows how many more!

Christmas 2006. As the Tylers try to protect the new Doctor from scavengers on the Powell Estate, the mighty Sycorax use the Guinevere space probe to take over the human race through their very blood types.
 
 
Attack of the Graske by Gareth Roberts
Ew. Bodysnatchers.

The Doctor discovers aliens loose on Christmas Night, and he needs your help to stop them.
 
 
New Earth by Russell T Davies
Well I do know one thing: a new disease starts, people disappear and then you turn up!
 
The Sisters of Plentitude of New New York can cure every disease - but the cures don't come without a price.
 
 
Tooth and Claw by Russell T Davies
The British Empire's an anarchic mess. I can provide a new order.
 
Queen Victoria is forced to take shelter in a Scottish manor named Torchwood House, but is this safe haven is a trap?

 
School Reunion by Toby Whithouse
Oh, Sarah... Don't you forget me.
 
UFO sightings at a school with unreasonably-smart pupils draws the attention of more than just the Doctor.
 
 
The Girl In The Fireplace by Steven Moffat
I can't condone this foolishness! But then, love has never been known for its rationality...
 
The Doctor protects Madame Du Pompadour from the 51st Century clockwork robots stalking her life.

 
Rise of the Cybermen by Tom MacCrae
It is a foregone conclusion. You are wasting time.
 
Falling through a hole in time, the TARDIS arrives in a parallel universe where an old enemy is being reborn.
 
 
The Age of Steel by Tom MacCrae
We will survive. Now you will help us. You will become the first of a new race of Cybermen. 
 
Cybus Industries is upgrading the mankind into Human 2.0, whether they like it or not...
 
 
The Idiot's Lantern by Mark Gatiss
Keep it confused, feed it with useless information... I wonder if I have a television set handy?
 
The Queen's coronation in 1953 was the biggest TV event so far, and a smorgasbord for an alien predator.

 
The Impossible Planet by Matt Jones
But why? What good is a black hole to anyone?
 
On a dead planet circling a black hole, the Torchwood Archive are determined to find answers at any cost.
 
 
The Satan Pit by Matt Jones
Satan, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, the Horned Beast... Call him what you like, he was there!

As the possessed Ood drive the humans off Krop Tor, the Doctor takes a literal leap of faith to discover the truth.


Love & Monsters by Russell T Davies
I'm known on the Earth. It might be very awkward for me!
 
Elton Pope needs to discover the truth about the mysterious Doctor, but he's not the only one on that quest.
 
 
Fear Her by Matthew Graham
How odd. I usually get on terribly well with children.
 
A lonely girl named Chloe Webber knows why people are disappearing, including the Doctor.

 
Army of Ghosts by Russell T Davies
The crime we are committing in the name of science will make us infamous - that's assuming there's anyone left to pass judgement...
 
The Torchwood Institute's experiments cause spectral figures to appear in their thousands across the globe.

 
Doomsday by Russell T Davies
Their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. Unlike others, it is not power we seek, but destruction that we glory in!
 
As the Daleks and the Cybermen go to war, Earth is about to be caught in the crossfire.

 
The Runaway Bride by Russell T Davies
You don't deserve any explanations. You pushed your way in here, uninvited and unwelcome.

Donna Noble inexplicably vanishes from her Christmas Eve wedding to reappear inside the TARDIS.
 
 
Smith & Jones by Russell T Davies
Please, you must help me - you're a doctor!

Martha Jones is a medical student stuck on the moon, caught between rhino space police hunting a vampire and only a man called John Smith can make sense of it all.

 
The Shakespeare Code by Gareth Roberts
I met him once, you know, Shakespeare. Charming fellow. Dreadful actor. 
 
1599: Shakespeare's new play, Loves Labours Won, is being backed by a trio of witches.

 
Gridlock by Russell T Davies
There is no such thing as Macra! Macra do not exist! THERE ARE NO MACRA!

The underground motorway of New Earth is caught in an eternal post-apocalyptic traffic jam.
 
 
The Daleks Take Manhattan by Helen Raynor
The Daleks are my creation. If necessary, I shall genetically re-engineer them.

The last four Daleks in the universe are starting anew in the New York sewers of 1930.


Evolution of the Daleks by Helen Raynor
Our race will survive if it deserves to survive, but let it have all the strengths and weaknesses that we have. Compassion and hate. Let it do good things and evil. But we cannot let it become an unfeeling, heartless machine.

In order to prevent bloodshed and genocide, the Doctor must work to save the Daleks from extinction.


The Lazarus Experiment by Stephen Greenhorn
You are pathetic. I condemn you to everlasting life!

Richard Lazarus has discovered the secret to eternal youth and is willing to pay the terrible price.


42 by Chris Chibnall
Fools. Do they really think they'll be allowed to leave with this on board?

When the Doctor and Martha answer a distress call, they find a mysterious force will now allow them to stop the crippled SS Pentalion from falling into a sun.


The Infinite Quest by Alan Barnes
Treasure? What treasure? You don't want to go believing in myths and legends, Doctor.

Space pirates are being hunted down to locate clues to the ultimate treasure trove.


Human Nature by Paul Cornell
All we're doing is running to save our own lives!

English teacher John Smith dreams of being a fugitive time traveler called the Doctor.


The Family of Blood by Paul Cornell
That sort of blackmail won't work because I know what the consequences will be if you get what you want.
 
Alien psychopaths are after the power of a Time Lord, and John Smith isn't willing to die to stop them.


Blink by Steven Moffat
What I want to know is, how can a statue destroy the world?

Sally Sparrow is investigates disappearing people, DVD easter eggs and the Weeping Angels.


Utopia by Russell T Davies
You still do not recognize me, Doctor, but soon you will know me. Soon.

At the very end of the universe, the Doctor is confronted with more than one face from the past he thought he'd never see again.
 
 
The Sound of Drums by Russell T Davies
You make a unique contribution to altering the course of history. Hoist on your own petard.
 
Harry Saxon, the new PM of Britain, is making first contact with aliens. He's also the Master.

 
Last of the Time Lords by Russell T Davies
All or nothing, literally! What a glorious alternative!

The Master has had a year to rule Earth and build a new empire. Only Martha Jones can stop him.

 
Time-Crash by Steven Moffat
When you travel around as much as I do, it's almost inevitable that you'll run into yourself at some point.

The Tenth Doctor must convince the Fifth Doctor to help him prevent a temporal explosion.

 
Voyage of the Damned by Russell T Davies
If the freighter crashes into Earth with you on board, won't that make it rather difficult for you to carry out your task? I mean, you would be very crumpled...
 
A tragic disaster sends the starship Titanic on a collision course with Earth on Christmas Eve, but the Doctor suspects this accident is actually deliberate.

 
Partners in Crime by Russell T Davies
Like many scientists, I'm afraid the Rani simply sees us as walking heaps of chemicals.

Donna Noble investigates Adipose Industries' revolutionary weight-loss treatment.
 
 
The Fires of Pompeii by James Moran
Remember Cotopaxi? Mount Vesuvius? What about Pompeii? Surely you remember Popocatepetl?

When the TARDIS lands in Pompeii the day before the volcano erupts, the Doctor discovers the people are already turning to stone.

 
Planet of the Ood by Keith Temple
A long time ago, your ancestors accepted responsibility for the welfare of these Monoids. They were treated like slaves. So no wonder when they got the chance, they repaid you in kind. 
 
The Ood are a race happy to be enslaved by mankind, at least according to the company that exports them - until the killings start... 

 
The Sontaran Stratagem by Helen Raynor
My race has been at war for millennia. There is not a galaxy in the universe which our space fleets have not subjugated... I am an expert at war!

Suspicious of the sat-nav anti-pullution ATMOS devices, UNIT and Martha Jones call in the Doctor for help. The Sontarans however, are already one step ahead.


The Poison Sky by Helen Raynor
A molecule of five atoms absorbs oxygen... You know, a complete blanket of this would make the atmosphere of the Earth uninhabitable to the human race?

ATMOS devices are now choking the Earth with exhaust fumes, but why are the Sontarans so reluctant to fight humanity face to face?


The Doctor's Daughter by Stephen Greenhorn
The future arrives. The Children of the Generator will rise to claim their inheritance.

On Messaline, colonists both human and the fish-like Hath replenish their numbers with genetic clones and the latest produced is Jenny, taken from Time Lord DNA.


The Unicorn And The Wasp by Gareth Roberts
I don't want to understand everything. I want to work things out for myself.

When Agatha Christie attends a dinner party at a stately home, a series of brutal murders begins - carried out by a giant alien wasp.

 
Silence in the Library by Steven Moffat
Books are the principal business of a library, sir.
 
The biggest library in the universe has been deserted for centuries, and now an archaeological team is there to find out where everyone went.
 
 
The Forest of the Dead by Steven Moffat
A shadow of my past - and your future.

On a planet infested with lethal shadows, the Doctor must rely on River Song - a woman who claims to be a trusted ally of his future selves.
 
 
Midnight by Russell T Davies
It's not just death we're all facing. This place bewitches you. If we stay here, we shall become animals.
 
Trapped in a broken-down tour bus, the Doctor finds danger from both the creature outside and the passengers within.
 
 
Turn Left by Russell T Davies
An infinity of universes, ergo an infinite number of choices.
 
Earth is devastated, humanity is dying out and the stars are going out - all because of Donna Noble.

 
The Stolen Earth by Russell T Davies
Moving planets around is not for amateurs, you know!
 
Alien planets fill the sky and Sarah Jane Smith, UNIT, Torchwood, even Rose Tyler stand helpless as a reborn Dalek Empire conquers the Earth.

 
Journey's End by Russell T Davies 
It'd be more than just a loud bang - nothing in the universe would be safe...

Davros has prepared a super-weapon that will destroy reality itself, but just how far will the Doctor's friends go to defeat the Daleks?

 
The Next Doctor by Russell T Davies
You may be a doctor, but I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.
 
In Victorian London, a man calling himself the Doctor is fighting an invasion force of Cybermen. But will his new friend John Smith ultimately be his undoing?
 
 
Dreamland by Phil Ford
We must alert the world to the menace of an alien invasion!

In 1950s Nervada, the US Military has more than one alien menace to confront with.

 
Planet of the Dead by Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies
Sand, nothing but sand, the whole planet...

A freak wormhole dumps a London bus on a distant planet stripped of all life.
 
 
The Waters of Mars by Phil Ford and Russell T Davies
History sometimes gives us a terrible shock, and that is because we don't quite fully understand. Why should we? After all, we're all too small to realize its final pattern. Therefore don't try and judge it from where you stand.
 
The Doctor is on Mars the day the first human colony is due to be destroyed. Can he just walk away?


The End of Time by Russell T Davies 
A chain of circumstances that fragments the law that holds the universe together.

The Ood warn the Doctor that history itself is about to collapse as events converge to bring back the greatest threat the universe has ever known - the Time Lords.

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