Judging by an average stint of 3.2 years per Doctor, which gives the series a shelf life of 1622.4 years to come. “Five hundred and seven.” Audacious hardly covers it. Crawling through the ventilation shaft, Clyde asks the Doctor how many times he can regenerate. Eleven Doctors in and the clock is ticking – nobody wants to be a slave to continuity, but something needed to be done about it. Back in the olden days (The Deadly Assassin in 1976 to be precise) it was established that a Timelord had an upper limit of 13 lives. A lingering problem since the Who revival has been the trouble with regeneration. “If that day ever came… I think the whole universe would shiver.”Īnd so to the really big news. And despite all she had achieved, she freely admitted, “sometimes I feel like I never stopped running”. A pang of jealous regret shot across Jo’s face when she learned that the Doctor had returned for Sarah Jane, but not for her. Her immediate bond with Sarah Jane was ridiculously infectious, but they also shared each other’s pain. And returning actress Katy Manning was sensational. Jo’s return showed how differently things could turn out – she’s spent the past 40 years chaining herself to barricades, flying kites on Kilimanjaro and sailing down the Ganges in a tea chest, seven times a mother and 13 times a granny. Poor Sarah Jane spent years lonely and single, not moving on until her return in 2006 and subsequent spin-off. One of Davies’ triumphs was bringing Sarah Jane back in the first place in order to show the effect that Tardis travels have on ordinary people’s lives. New Year's special: Revolution of the DaleksĮpisode 10: The Battle of Ranskoor Av KolosĮpisode 7: The Pyramid at the End of the WorldĢ017 Christmas special: Twice Upon A TimeĢ015 Christmas special: The Husbands of River SongĢ016 Christmas special: The Return of Doctor MysterioĮpisode 10: Journey to the Centre of the Tardisĥ0th Anniversary special: The Day of the DoctorĢ013 Christmas special: The Time of the DoctorĢ011 Christmas special: The Doctor, The Widow and the WardrobeĢ010 Christmas special: A Christmas Carol She left the Doctor to marry a Nobel Prize-winning environmental scientist and go and study vegetation in the Amazon.Įpisode 4: Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror She was a junior civilian operative for Unit, but this being the 1970s, she never really got to do much more than ask questions and get rescued. Some history: Jo Grant was companion to the Third Doctor between 19. Moreover, Death of The Doctor established Matt Smith in the role as much as any of his episodes in the main show. There were lashings of brazen sentimentality to rip out your heart. There was a jolly chase around a ventilation shaft. This could hardly been more of a Russell T Davies script, his familiar tropes turned up to (wait for it…) Eleven. The funeral turns out to be faked and before long the gang all get to meet Doctor Eleven for the first time. S-J’s Tardis predecessor Jo Grant has come for the funeral, the pair go all Made in Dagenham for a while. The Scooby Gang head to the Unit base on Mount Snowdon for the funeral, organised by vulture-headed alien undertakers The Shansheeth. Sarah Jane is visited by a shifty-looking Unit Colonel and told her old friend the Doctor is dead. In a nutshell, here was the most nostalgia-friendly love-in we’ve witnessed in 50 years. “Not as daft as they look for two batty old pensioners and a bunch of asbo kids.”
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