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Doctor Who: Series 3

13 episodes Premiered Apr 1, 2007 Updated Oct 1, 2026

Doctor Who Season 3 continues the overarching saga across thirteen episodes, following the Doctor, who is a Time Lord described as a nine hundred year old alien with two hearts. The series features epic adventures across space and time involving the Doctor and the famous blue box, taking viewers on the trip of a lifetime through action, adventure, drama, science fiction, and fantasy elements.

Previously on Doctor Who

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ The Doctor is a Time Lord who is a 900-year-old alien with two hearts.
  • ⚡ The Doctor travels through space and time in a famous blue box.
  • ⚡ The series encompasses action, adventure, drama, and sci-fi and fantasy elements across its ongoing narrative saga.
  • ⚡ The overarching saga continues into this season following previous adventures across space and time.
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Season overview

Doctor Who Season 3 continues the overarching saga across thirteen episodes, following the Doctor, who is a Time Lord described as a nine hundred year old alien with two hearts. The series features epic adventures across space and time involving the Doctor and the famous blue box, taking viewers on the trip of a lifetime through action, adventure, drama, science fiction, and fantasy elements.

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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (8): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Smith and Jones

Apr 1, 2007 · 47 min

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

S3·E2 Core

The Shakespeare Code

Apr 7, 2007 · 48 min

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

S3·E3 Core

Gridlock

Apr 14, 2007 · 48 min

The Doctor takes Martha to New Earth, in the far future, only to find that an entire city has become a deadly trap.

S3·E4 Core

Daleks in Manhattan (1)

Apr 21, 2007 · 50 min

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

S3·E5 Core

Evolution of the Daleks (2)

Apr 28, 2007 · 49 min

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

S3·E6 Core

The Lazarus Experiment

May 5, 2007 · 46 min

Martha has to save her family from the lunatic schemes of the monstrous Professor Lazarus.

S3·E7 Core

42

May 19, 2007 · 48 min

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

S3·E8 Core

Human Nature (1)

May 26, 2007 · 48 min

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

S3·E9 Mytharc

The Family of Blood (2)

Jun 2, 2007 · 46 min

It's 1913, and war comes to England early as the terrifying Family hunt for the Doctor.

S3·E10 Mytharc

Blink

Jun 9, 2007 · 46 min

Only the Doctor can stop the Weeping Angels, but he's lost in time.

S3·E11 Core

Utopia (1)

Jun 16, 2007 · 49 min

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

S3·E12 Mytharc

The Sound of Drums (2)

Jun 23, 2007 · 52 min

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

S3·E13 Mytharc

Last of the Time Lords (3)

Jun 30, 2007 · 49 min

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

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