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2007 series of Doctor Who

This article is near the 2007 serial. For the 1965–66 flavor, meet Doc Who (season iii).

Season of television series

Dr. Who
Series iii
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Starring	David Tennant Freema Agyeman
Land of origin	U.k.
No. of stories	ix
No. of episodes	13 (+ane supplemental)
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	31 March (2007-03-31) – 30 June 2007 (2007-06-thirty)
Serial chronology
←Previous Serial 2 Next → Series 4
List of episodes

The third series of the revived British science fiction programme
Doc Who, and the twenty-ninth season of the show overall, was preceded past the 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride". Following the special, a regular serial of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with "Smith and Jones" on 31 March 2007. In addition, a 13-part blithe series (equivalent to ane regular episode) was produced and circulate as office of
Totally Doc Who.

The series stars David Tennant as the 10th incarnation of the Doctor, an conflicting Time Lord who travels through fourth dimension and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police force box on the outside. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The series too introduces Freema Agyeman equally the Doctor'due south new companion Martha Jones, who leaves at the end of the serial due to the fact that her family need back up whilst recovering from the events of the series finale, which involved her mother, sister and brother beingness tortured. John Barrowman also reprises his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the terminal 3 episodes which serve as the finale. The serial is connected by a loose story arc consisting of the recurring phrase "Vote Saxon", which ultimately is revealed to be the return of the Physician's enemy Time Lord the Master, first played past Derek Jacobi earlier regenerating into John Simm.

Episodes

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Three episodes from Serial 3 were adapted from previously published works: "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood" was adapted by Paul Cornell from his own New Adventures novel, also entitled
Human Nature,
while "Blink" originated as a short story in the 2006
Dr. Who
annual by Steven Moffat called "What I Did on My Christmas Holidays' Past Emerge Sparrow".^{[
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"Human being Nature" is likewise the start instance of the Doctor's previous incarnations prior to his 9th beingness explicitly referenced in the revived era through the sketches in
The Periodical of Impossible Things.^[1]

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A 13-role blithe serial,
The Space Quest, was produced and broadcast equally role of the children's program
Totally Dr. Who
on CBBC, leading up to the finale of series 3. Each instalment was approximately
3+
1⁄ii

minutes in length and, when compiled, was equivalent to a regular episode. The series was broadcast in its entirety on xxx June 2007 and later on released on DVD.

Casting

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Main characters

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Series 3 was David Tennant'south 2d serial in the part of the Md, during which he is joined by three companions: Donna Noble, Martha Jones and Captain Jack Harkness.^{[
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Actress and comedian Catherine Tate was cast equally one-off companion Donna Noble for the Christmas special.^[4]
At the cease of the episode the graphic symbol turns down the chance to travel in the TARDIS, but Tate later reprised her part and returned for a total series starting in the 2008 episode "Partners in Crime".

Following the departure of Billie Piper as Rose Tyler at the end of Serial 2, a new full-time companion was needed. On v July 2006, the BBC confirmed that Freema Agyeman would join the show as new companion Martha Jones.^[5]
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Agyeman had previously appeared in the 2006 episode "Regular army of Ghosts". John Barrowman also returned as Captain Jack Harkness for the three-office series finale.^{[
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Guest stars

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Recurring invitee stars for the series included Adjoa Andoh, Trevor Laird, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Reggie Yates, who portrayed Martha'due south family.^[8]

Other invitee stars included Thelma Barlow,^[nine]
Ryan Carnes, Matthew Chambers, Chipo Chung, Christina Cole, Michelle Collins, Lenora Crichlow, Anthony Flanagan, Andrew Garfield, Lucy Gaskell,^{[
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Marker Gatiss,^[ix]
Don Gilet, Jennifer Hennessy, Anna Hope, Gerard Horan, Jessica Hynes,^{[
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Derek Jacobi,^[10]
Dean Lennox Kelly, Matt King, Chris Larkin, Harry Lloyd, Eric Loren, Stephen Marcus, Roy Marsden, McFly, Alexandra Moen, Carey Mulligan, Michael Obiora, Ardal O'Hanlon, Travis Oliver, Sharon Osbourne, Sarah Parish, Angela Pleasence, Hugh Quarshie, Miranda Raison, Anne Reid, Finlay Robertson, Thomas Sangster, John Simm, Rebekah Staton and Ann Widdecombe.^{[
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Production

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Development

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Following the success of the first series, the BBC announced that
Doctor Who
had been recommissioned for a 3rd series on 16 June 2005,^[11]
only 2 months subsequently the announcement of the 2d series.^[12]
Recording for the Christmas special began on iv July 2006,^[13]
with production on the series itself offset on viii August 2006^[14]
and concluding on two April 2007.^[15]

Writing

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First-time writers for the show included Gareth Roberts, who previously wrote the interactive episode "Attack of the Graske" and the TARDISODEs, Helen Raynor, 1 of the evidence's script editors, Chris Chibnall, the head writer and co-producer of spin-off series
Torchwood, and Stephen Foreigner. Previous writers Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies all contributed to the series, with Davies standing to act equally caput writer and executive producer. Phil Collinson and Susie Liggat acted as producers, with Julie Gardner as executive producer. Euros Lyn, Charles Palmer, Richard Clark, James Strong, Graeme Harper, Hettie MacDonald and Colin Teague directed episodes in the series.

The episodes in series 3 are bundled in a loose story arc: "Mr Saxon", an allonym for the Primary.^[sixteen]
The graphic symbol'south proper noun was offset mentioned in "The Runaway Bride"; the Ministry of Defense shot down an alien craft at Saxon's asking.^[16]
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Several elements from episodes in the serial are contributory to the three-part finale: the events of "The Lazarus Experiment" and "42" were straight influenced by the Master;^{[16]
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the Face of Boe's prophecy is directly related to Primary;^[xx]
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and a similar fob-watch that was used by the Doctor to modify his Time Lord biology into human was also used by the Master to hibernate from the Time Lords.^{[16]
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Filming

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Product blocks were arranged equally follows:

An animated serial,
The Infinite Quest, was also produced alongside the series and was broadcast as part of the CBBC programme
Totally Md Who.

Release

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Broadcast

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The third series premiered on 31 March 2007 with "Smith and Jones", and ended after 13 episodes on 30 June 2007 with "Last of the Time Lords".^[24]
The series was initially planned to conclude a calendar week earlier, but on ii May 2007, episodes vii–xiii were pushed dorsum a week due to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, rather than air "42" in an earlier timeslot.^[25]
Doctor Who Confidential
as well aired alongside each episode of the series, continuing on from the previous serial.^[26]

Habitation media

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All releases are for DVD unless otherwise indicated:

• ^(D)
  indicates a DVD release for a specific date
• ^(B)
  indicates a Blu-ray release

Reception

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Disquisitional reception

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Arnold T. Blumberg of
IGN
gave an overwhelmingly positive review of the 3rd series. He praised the acting of Tennant, Agyeman and John Simm, describing Simm's portrayal every bit "a master stroke". Overall he said, "With an assured air earned by success, Series iii of Doctor Who is a tour de force circuit across time and space...it doesn't go much ameliorate than this". He gave the series 9 out of x (Amazing).^[49]
Nick Lyons of
DVD Talk
gave a positive review maxim, "series three is on par with the last ii seasons of the new series." He said that the character of Martha and serial three, "volition no doubt please fans". He gave the serial 4 and a half stars out of v.^[50]

Awards and nominations

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Soundtrack

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Selected pieces of score from this series (and "Voyage of the Damned"), as composed by Murray Gold, were released on 5 Nov 2007 by Silva Screen Records.^[67]

References

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External links

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• 
  Official website
  
• Doctor Who
  at IMDb
• Doctor Who
  at epguides.com