Doctor Who: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Doctor Who Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Smith and Jones
Apr 1, 2007
Trainee doctor Martha Jones has her hands full balancing her medical studies with placating her demanding family. So the last thing she needs is to find that the hospital where she
The Shakespeare Code
Apr 7, 2007
Martha takes her first trip in the Tardis, all the way back to Elizabethan England. She and the Doctor hear of a series of bizarre deaths and discover that playwright William Shake
Gridlock
Apr 14, 2007
The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.
Daleks in Manhattan (1)
Apr 21, 2007
The Doctor investigates disappearances in New York at the height of the depression in the 1930s. Nefarious Pig Men linger in the sewers and the Daleks prepare an audacious plan at
Evolution of the Daleks (2)
Apr 28, 2007
The newly-created Dalek-human hybrid, and the other three members of the Cult of Skaro launch an attack on Hooverville, along with their Pig Slaves. The Doctor, Martha, and Frank m
The Lazarus Experiment
May 5, 2007
Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.
42
May 19, 2007
In a far-flung galaxy, saboteurs are at work, and crew members are being possessed. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the 42nd century on a spaceship, SS Pentallian, slowly being
Human Nature (1)
May 26, 2007
England, 1913. A schoolteacher called John Smith dreams of adventures in time and space. The Doctor, along with Martha, heads to a boarding school, but what he finds is far from or
The Family of Blood (2)
Jun 2, 2007
It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.
Utopia (1)
Jun 16, 2007
After being brought back to life in The Parting of the Ways, Captain Jack Harkness was just left on the Gamestation by the Doctor and Rose. In this episode, Captain Jack Harkness s
The Sound of Drums (2)
Jun 23, 2007
Harry Saxon becomes Prime Minister and his reign of terror begins – but that's only the start of his ambitions, as he announces mankind's first contact with an alien race, the Tocl
Last of the Time Lords (3)
Jun 30, 2007
One year has passed since the events of "The Sound of Drums." The Earth has been conquered and its population enslaved, the Doctor is the Master's prisoner, and the warships of a n