Season 44 - 2007

 

This season would be the first for the new Doctor – David Tennant, he would basically be the Tenth Doctor from real - life.

This season would be the last season for Freema Agyeman as Holly Tyler as she would leave at the end of the season, Adjoh Andoh and Andrew Hayden-Smith would also leave at the end of the season.

Despite a new Doctor, the titles would remain the same but Henshall’s credit would be replaced with Tennant’s.

Nothing notable changed between Season 43 and 44 and the season would’ve begun in 2007, also in late December 2006 the BBC announced a Doctor Who spin-off to be in the works called Olympus and it would star Paterson Joseph as Hal Adams.

Gridlock

By Russell T Davies

16th June

This is the same story in real life but with minor changes, it’s not set on New Earth and is set on a human colony planet. The character of Novice Hame is removed and replaced with someone else, this person believes the Doctor to be an actual Doctor of science and takes him to sort out the crisis but the character of the Face of Boe is removed.

The Shakespeare Code

By Gareth Roberts

23rd June

Again the same story in real life so I don’t need to go into it.

Bloodtide

By Jonathan Morris

30th June

This story sees the TARDIS land in the Galapagos Islands and the Doctor and Holly meet Charles Darwin, the three of them later go into a prison and meet a man named Emilio who is on trial as he claims he’s seen devils in a cave by the river and Emilio is given the death sentence. The trio then meet Emilio’s sister Greta and only Holly and Charles stay, the Doctor and Greta soon go back to the cell block only to discover that the cell is empty, they go into it but the door shuts and locks behind them and a wall then opens as Silurians come to take them away.

They find Emilio who is in a hypnotic state but the Doctor reverses the hypnosis, the Doctor is taken to a laboratory where the Doctor meets Sh’Vak and Tulok who believe themselves to be the only two Silurians left and they want to get rid of the Humans as Silurians were here first. Meanwhile, Holly and Charles look around the island trying to find the Doctor and Greta.

The Doctor realises that the island's governor, Lawson, is hypnotically controlled by the Silurians, who try to interrogate the Doctor. He urges them to make peace with the humans. Meanwhile, Holly discovers the governor's connection to the Doctor's disappearance, and the governor informs the Silurians about Holly and Darwin. Greta and Emilio are attacked.

Holly and Darwin reach an empty prison. 

The governor attempts to lock them in, but they escape. The Silurians plan to attack the HMS Beagle, and Holly and Darwin are locked in the prison but find a secret passage. Greta wakes up next to the Doctor, and they escape their cell. Holly and Darwin discover a mausoleum with dead Silurians.

Greta and the Doctor use a lift to reach the cave where the Silurians are. Tulok allows them to escape. Holly and Darwin are captured by the Silurians. Captain Fitzroy helps the Doctor and Greta onto the HMS Beagle, where they see something big in the water.

Rise of The Silurians

By Jonathan Morris

July 7th

The Doctor leads everyone below deck, warning them that the Myrka is electrically charged and deadly. He tries to set the ocean on fire to drive it away, but fails. Greta learns she has a tracking device implanted by the Silurians and sacrifices herself to save the ship.

Tulok reveals he let the humans go to be destroyed on the Beagle. The Silurians prepare an airborne microbe to wipe out humanity, except newborns. 

Fitzroy and the Doctor set out to rescue Holly and Darwin. The Doctor hypnotises Governor Lawson to reveal their location and destroys his equipment. The Silurians see this as betrayal and infect Lawson with a fatal disease.

The Doctor discovers the Silurians died in hibernation due to sabotage and realises they have been eating prisoners. Sh'Vak captures the Doctor and Fitzroy. The Silurians plan to destroy humanity using bacteria-filled submersibles. 

Tulok hypnotises Darwin and Fitzroy to assist him. The Doctor makes sure Sh'Vak overhears his suspicion that Tulok sabotaged the Silurians' hibernation. Sh'Vak, feeling betrayed, turns against Tulok.

Sh'Vak helps the Doctor’s group and confronts Tulok, who kills her using psychic powers. Darwin and the Doctor deduce that humans can resist Silurian hypnosis under certain conditions. Tulok orders their deaths, but Sh'Vak saves them. 

The Doctor sabotages the Silurian base, setting it to self-destruct in 15 minutes. Holly plants a homing device on Tulok’s submersible. Charles and Fitzroy resist Tulok’s mind control, and Sh'Vak's psychic strain leaves her weak. The Doctor contacts Tulok, revealing his plan has failed. The Myrka, drawn by the homing device, destroys the submersible. The Doctor and his group escape the exploding bunker, and the disease burns itself out. The Doctor advises the captain and Darwin to keep their adventure secret and departs with Holly for the TARDIS.

Phobos

By Eddie Robson

July 14th

This story would see the Doctor and Holly land on Phobos, the moon of Mars, whilst there they defeated an entity that fed on the fear people experienced.

Winner Takes All

By Jacqueline Rayner

July 21st

The story sees the Doctor and Holly return to the Powell Estate after being summoned by Aidan, where they discover a race of aliens called the Quevvil are using video games to choose victims for their mind control missions into the bases of their enemies, the Mantodeans. In the end the Doctor manages to defeat them. At the end of the episode Aidan begins to travel with them

The Girl In The Fireplace

By Steven Moffat

July 28th

The story is the same as in real life.

Rise of The Cybermen

By Tom MacRae

August 4th

This story is the same as it is in real life, though someone else plays Jake and Holly's dad Michael, played by Trevor Laird, never ran out on her Mum as she was never born.

Age of Steel

By Tom MacRae

August 11th

This is the same as in real life, though Aidan stays behind.

When I Met the Doctor

By Russell T Davies

August 18th

This story is a Doctor and Companion - lite story and features a character called Ben Ward, played by Russell Tovey, the story would see Ben investigate reports about a man with a blue box as he met that same man when he was little. Later in the story he finds his friends to be going missing and a
shapeshifting creature calling himself ‘Mr. Griffin’ is absorbing the lifeforce of Ben’s friends, the Doctor and Holly turn up at the end and the Doctor explains that when he was little his mother was killed when an entity from a different dimension entered this universe.

Castle of Fear

By Alan Barnes

August 25th

This story sees the Doctor and Holly In 1199, where they find a Rutan inhabiting the Stockbridge Castle on Earth. They managed to defeat the Rutan, but were caught in an explosion. 

Army of Ghosts

By Russell T Davies

September 1st

This story would be near identical to the one in our timeline.

Doomsday

By Russell T Davies

September 8th

This would be the second part in a two-part finale and also would be Freema Agyeman’s last story as Holly Tyler.

The Story is also near identical, but all the Time War stuff is removed and a few bits are changed to suit the story. But it still ends the same way with a bride appearing in the TARDIS.

The Runaway Bride

By Russell T Davies

25th December

The story would be the same as it is in real life, though the character of Donna Noble is replaced with Ashley Downes, played by Carey Mulligan.

And that concludes Season 44 of Doctor Who, a popular season on the whole and a good first season for the Doctor, overall Tennant’s portrayal would've been a major hit and an instant success. The next season is Series One of Olympus until then thank you for watching and goodbye.