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Doctor Who (series 3)
The third series of the revived British science fiction programme ''Doctor Who'', and the twenty-ninth season of the show overall, was preceded by the 2006 Christmas special " The Runaway Bride". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with " Smith and Jones" on 31 March 2007 and ending with " Last of the Time Lords" on 30 June 2007. In addition, a 13-part animated serial (equivalent to one regular episode) was produced and broadcast as part of '' Totally Doctor Who''. The series stars David Tennant as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. The series also introduces Freema Agyeman as the Doctor's new companion Martha Jones, who leaves at the end of the series because her family need support whilst recovering from the events of the seri ...
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Russell T Davies
Stephen Russell Davies ( ; born 27 April 1963), known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the revival of the BBC sci-fi series ''Doctor Who'', from 2005 to 2010 and again since 2023. His other notable works include creating the series ''Queer as Folk (British TV series), Queer as Folk'' (1999–2000), ''Bob & Rose'' (2001), ''The Second Coming (TV serial), The Second Coming'' (2003), ''Casanova (2005 TV serial), Casanova'' (2005), ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs ''Torchwood'' (2006–2011), ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' (2007–2011), and ''The War Between the Land and the Sea'' (expected 2025), ''Cucumber (British TV series), Cucumber'' (2015), ''A Very English Scandal (TV series), A Very English Scandal'' (2018), ''Years and Years (TV series), Years and Years'' (2019), ''It's a Sin (TV series), It's a Sin'' (2021) and ''Nolly (TV series), Nolly'' (2023). Born in Swa ...
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Police Box
A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used in some countries, most widely in the United Kingdom throughout the 20th century from the early 1920s. Unlike an ordinary callbox, its telephone was located behind a hinged door so it could be used from the outside by anyone, and the interior of the box was, in effect, a miniature police station for use by police officers to read and fill in reports, take meal breaks and temporarily hold detainees until the arrival of transport. The typical British police box contained a telephone linked directly to the local police station, allowing patrolling officers to keep in contact with the station, reporting anything unusual or requesting help if necessary. A light on top of the box would flash to alert an officer that they were requested to contact the station.. Police boxes were usually blue, with the most notable exception being Gl ...
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Human Nature (novel)
''Human Nature'' is an original novel written by Paul Cornell, from a plot by Cornell and Kate Orman, and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The work began as fan fiction. The novel was later serialised in e-book form on the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ... ''Doctor Who'' website, but was removed from the site in 2010. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Cornell, appeared in ''Doctor Who Magazine'' #226, and was also available on the BBC website. It was later adapted for TV. Plot Bernice Summerfield is grieving since the death of Sanctuary (McIntee novel), Guy de Carnac (as seen in the previous novel, ''Sanctuary (McIntee novel), Sanctuary''). The Seventh Doctor takes her to a market on a planet called Cr ...
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Virgin New Adventures
The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British Science fiction on television, science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the television programme went into hiatus from television in 1989. From 1991 to 1997, all the books except the final one involved the Seventh Doctor, who was portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy; the final book, ''The Dying Days'', involved the Eighth Doctor, who was portrayed in Doctor Who (film), the 1996 television film by Paul McGann. In further books published between 1997 and 1999, the New Adventures series focused on the character Bernice Summerfield and the Doctor did not appear. Publication history ''Doctor Who'' Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint Target Books in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor Peter Darvill-Evans taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of ...
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Paul Cornell
Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer. He has worked in television drama and ''Doctor Who'' fiction, being the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. Other British television dramas for which he has written include ''Robin Hood'', '' Primeval'', '' Casualty'', ''Holby City'' and ''Coronation Street''. For American television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes series '' Elementary''. Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the United States, and has had six original novels published. He is one of only two people to be nominated for Hugo Awards in prose, comics and TV. Career Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers' competition and his entry, ''Kingdom Come'', was produced and screened on BBC Two. Soon after, he wrote '' Timewyrm: Revelation'', a novel for the Virgin New Adven ...
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John Simm
John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in ''Life on Mars'', the Master in ''Doctor Who,'' and DS Roy Grace in ''Grace.'' His other television credits include '' State of Play'', '' The Lakes'', ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Exile'', ''Prey'', and '' Cracker''. His film roles include '' Wonderland'', '' Everyday'', '' Boston Kickout'', '' Human Traffic'' and '' 24 Hour Party People''. He has twice been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor Early life John Ronald Simm was born on 10 July 1970 in Leeds, the eldest of three children. In 2024, he discovered that the man he had always thought of as his father, Manchester musician Ronald Simm, was not his biological parent, and that it was a man called Terry Smith. From the age of 12, Simm sang and played guitar with Ronald on stage in working men's clubs. He grew up in Lancashire in numerous places around northwest England, including Blackpool, Bu ...
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Regeneration (Doctor Who)
The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time. Originally, they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey, from which the Doctor was a renegade; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series. They later became integral to many episodes and stories as their role in the universe developed. For the first eight years after the series resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were said to have been destroyed during the Last Great Time War at some point in the show's continuity between the television movie in 1996 and the show's revival. In 2013, the 50th anniversary special " The Day of the Doctor" concerned this supposed destruction and their eventual survival. They developed a culture of custodianship and time-related technologies b ...
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Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen as well as for his work at the Royal National Theatre, he has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, a BAFTA Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994. Jacobi started his professional acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the founding members of the National Theatre. He has appeared in numerous Shakespearean stage productions including ''Hamlet'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Macbeth'', '' Twelfth Night'', ''The Tempest'', ''King Lear'', and ''Romeo and Juliet''. Jacobi received the Laurence Olivier Award, for the title role in '' Cyrano de Bergerac'' in 1983 and Malvolio in '' Twelfth Night'' in 2009. He also won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Benedick in ''Much Ado About Nothing' ...
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Master (Doctor Who)
The Master, or "Missy" (short for "Mistress") in their female incarnation, is a recurring character and one of the main antagonists of the British Science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its associated Doctor Who spin-offs, spin-off works. Multiple actors have played the Master since the character's introduction in 1971. Within the show's narrative, the change in actors and subsequent change of the character's appearance is sometimes explained as the Master taking possession of other characters' bodies or as a consequence of Regeneration (Doctor Who), regeneration, which is a biological attribute that allows Time Lords to survive fatal injuries or old age. The Master was originally played by Roger Delgado from 1971 until his death in 1973. The role was subsequently played by Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, and Anthony Ainley, with Ainley reprising the role regularly through the 1980s until the series’s cancellation in 1989. Eric Rob ...
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Story Arc
A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story. It can also mean an extended or continuing narrative, storyline in episode, episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, board games, video games, and films with each episode following a dramatic arc. On a television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story arc is common in sitcoms, and even more so in soap operas. In a traditional Hollywood film, the story arc usually follows a three-act structure. Webcomics are more likely to use story arcs than comic strip, newspaper comics, as most webcomics have readable archives online that a newcomer to the strip can read in order to understand what is going on. Although story arcs have existed for decades, one of the first appearances of the term was in 1973 by ''Time Magazine'' for a synopsis of the movie ''The Friends of Eddie Coyle'': "He ac ...
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Jack Harkness
Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-off series, '' Torchwood''. The character first appears in the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' episode " The Empty Child" and subsequently features in the remaining episodes of the first series (2005) as a companion to the series' protagonist, the Doctor. Subsequent to this, Jack became the central character in the adult-themed ''Torchwood'', which aired from 2006 to 2011. Barrowman reprised the role for appearances in ''Doctor Who'' in its third, fourth, and twelfth series, as well as specials " The End of Time", and " Revolution of the Daleks". In contrast to The Doctor, Jack is more of a conventional action hero, as well as outwardly flirtatious and capable of acts which The Doctor would view as less than noble. In the programme's narrative, Jack begins as a time traveller and con man from the 51st century, who comes to travel with the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his ...
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Martha Jones
Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-off series, ''Torchwood''. The show's first female black companion, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in ''Doctor Who'', after Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) but before Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate). According to the character's creator Russell T Davies in his non-fiction book '' Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale'', Martha was developed from the beginning with the intention of appearing for the whole of the 2007 series, and to make guest appearances in subsequent series and crossover appearances in the show's two spin-offs; Martha subsequently made guest appearances in ''Torchwood'' series two and in ''Doctor Who'' series four in 2008 and special episode " The End of Time" in 2010. Martha was also intended to make guest appearances in the 2009 series of ''Torchwood'' and '' The Sarah Jane Adventures'', but could not due to the ...
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