EPISODE GUIDE: The Tenth Doctor - Series 4

Series 4

Starring: David Tennant and Cathrine Tate

4.00 Time Crash

Written By: Steven Moffat

the TARDIS encounters a problem, leading the Doctor to encounter his fifth incarnation (Peter Davison). The Tenth Doctor is overjoyed to meet his past self, but the Fifth Doctor is annoyed; he believes his counterpart to be a fan.

Original Broadcast - 16 November 2007

4.0 Voyage Of The Damned

Written By: Russell T Davies

the Doctor runs the TARDIS's self-repair programme and boards the Titanic, where he discovers that the "ship" is an interstellar cruiser from the planet Sto.

Original Broadcast - 25 December 2007

4.1 Partners In Crime

Written By: Russell T Davies

After her encounter with the Doctor (David Tennant), Donna Noble (Cathrine Tate) became disenchanted with normal life and regretted declining his invitation to travel in the TARDIS. She starts investigating conspiracy theories in the hope she would find him.

Original Broadcast - 5 April 2008



4.2 The Fires Of Pompeii

Written By: James Moran

The Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) arrive in what the Doctor believes to be Rome in the first century AD. After an earthquake and witnessing a nearby mountain begin to smoulder, he realises he has in fact materialised in Pompeii on 23 August, AD 79, one day before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Original Broadcast - 12 April 2008

4.3 Planet Of The Ood

Written By: Keith Temple

The Doctor uses the TARDIS to land at a random point in time and space. On leaving the TARDIS, he and Donna find an injured Ood, a species the Doctor previously encountered in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". Just before he dies, the Ood's eyes turn red and it makes a lunge for the Doctor, startling him with his ferocity.

Original Broadcast - 16 April 2008



4.4 The Sontaran Stratagem

4.5 The Poison Sky

Written By: Helen Raynor

Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) calls the Doctor (David Tennant) to ask for assistance during an investigation by UNIT. Minutes after the TARDIS materialises in contemporary Britain, Martha authorises the raid of an ATMOS (Atmospheric Omission System) factory.

Original Broadcast - 26 April 2008

4.6 The Doctors Daughter

Written By: Sephen Greenhorn

the TARDIS kidnaps the Doctor and his companions Donna Noble and Martha Jones; and whisks them away to the planet Messaline, in the midst of a generations-long war between humans and the Hath, fish-like humanoids.

Original Broadcast - 10 May 2008

4.7 The Unicorn And The Wasp

Wrotten By: Gareth Roberts

The episode sees the Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) arrive at a dinner party hosted by Lady Eddison (Felicity Kendal) and her husband, Colonel Hugh (Christopher Benjamin). One of the guests is none other than Agatha Christie (Fenella Woolgar). Looking at a newspaper, the Doctor finds that it is the day of Agatha Christie's famous unexplained disappearance.

Original Broadcast - 17 May 2008



4.8 Silence In The Library

4.9 Forest Of The Dead

Written By: Steven Moffat

The Doctor and Donna arrive in the 51st century at a planet-sized book repository simply called "The Library", summoned by an anonymous request for help on the Doctor's psychic paper. However, they find it completely devoid of humanoid life, and the Library's computers even claim as such

Original Broadcast - 31 May & 7 June 2008

4.10 Midnight

Written By: Russell T Davies

While visiting the crystalline resort planet of Midnight, the exposed surface of which is bathed in extonic radiation due to its close orbit around its sun, The Doctor takes a tour around the planet, even there danger is not far behind when one of the passengers is infected with a strange alien life.

Original Broadcast - 14 June 2008

4.11 Turn Left

Written By: Russell T Davies

Donna is persuaded by a fortune teller (Chipo Chung) to examine her past: specifically, the first event that led to her encounter with the Doctor. Donna recalls an argument with her mother Sylvia (Jacqueline King) at a road junction: Donna wishes to turn left to become a temporary employee at the security firm H. C. Clements; her mother wishes for her to turn right to apply for a secretarial job at a local photocopying business.

Original Broadcast - 21 June 2008



4.12 The Stolen Earth

4.13 Journeys End

Written By: Russell T Davies

the Earth is teleported out of its spatial location shortly after the Doctor and his companion Donna Noble arrive to investigate Rose Tyler's warning. The Doctor contacts the Shadow Proclamation, a universal police force, to find Earth. They determine that twenty-seven missing worlds—including Earth, Adipose III, Pyrovillia, and the Lost Moon of Poosh—reorganise when placed near each other.

Original Broadcast - 28 June 5 July 2008