Children in Need Special (2008) Children in need special 2008 The Next Doctor The Doctor lands in London on Christmas Eve, 1851, where he encounters a woman called Rosita Farisi and another man who calls himself 'The Doctor'. After failing to capture a Cybershade, the two men talk, with the Tenth Doctor believing the other to be a future regeneration. Unfortunately, the other (dubbed 'the Next Doctor') is lacking many memories. Read More! (Caution spoilers!) Planet of the Dead
The episode begins with a young thrill-seeking burglar, Lady Christina de Souza (Ryan), stealing a gold chalice once belonging to King Athelstan from a museum. She then narrowly evades the police by riding on a London bus on which the Doctor (Tennant) is also travelling, shortly before the bus suddenly passes through a wormhole and arrives on the desert planet of San Helios.
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The Waters of Mars The TARDIS arrives on Mars and the Doctor steps out in his spacesuit, seemingly just to relax and enjoy the landscape. Stumbling across a base inhabited by a team from Earth, the Doctor is detained by a remote-controlled robot called "GADGET" and brought inside. The base commander, Adelaide Brooke, is at first suspicious of the Doctor, but after a tense interrogation, decides to trust him. Read More! (Caution spoilers!) The End of Time (part 1) & The End of Time (part 2) Having been summoned to the Ood Sphere, the Doctor discovers the Ood have advanced further than expected in the hundred years since "Planet of the Ood". The Ood Elders share the dreams they have of the Master, Wilfred Mott, Lucy Saxon and two people—revealed later to be Joshua and Abigail Naismith—that he doesn't recognise. The Doctor explains that the Master is dead, but the Ood show him the Master's ring being picked up by a woman after his cremation in "Last of the Time Lords". The Ood also warn that something larger is emerging from the darkness and that the end of time is imminent. The Doctor races to the TARDIS to travel back in time to London on Christmas Eve, where the events that the Ood are dreaming about are starting to occur. Read More! (Caution spoilers!) |