In the year 5 billion, the Sun expands and the Earth is destroyed. However, humanity found a new home on New Earth. The Doctor visited New Earth twice, where he encountered his old friend, the Face of Boe as well as a menagerie of other aliens. New Earth is far from a sanctuary however. There are sinister cat nuns as well as giant crustaceans in the undercity of New New York. Utopian futures are few and far between in the universe of Doctor Who.
The End of the World
★★★★★
TX: 02/04/2005
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Euros Lyn
The Ninth Doctor takes his new companion Rose Tyler to the year 5 billion to witness the end of the world. A convention of aliens has met on Platform One to watch the Earth be destroyed by the expansion of the Sun. However, a murderer is aboard. Robot spiders have been programmed by someone to sabotage the space station and kill the guests. The Doctor unmasks the murderer as none other than Lady Cassandra, who claims to be the last human. Lady Cassandra intends to manufacture a hostage situation with herself as one of the victims. She will then claim billions of credits in compensation to continue financing the many cosmetic surgery operations she has had to keep herself “pure”. The Doctor braves the station’s giant fans in order to reach the switch to manually raise Platform One’s shields. Unfortunately, he is too late to save several guests from the extreme heat surge, including his friend Jabe and also the Moxx of Balhoon. The Doctor confronts Lady Cassandra, who explodes due to the increase in heat and the absence of her surgeons. Rose contemplates the end of the Earth and remarks that it is a tragedy that no one witnessed it because they were busy saving themselves on Platform One. The Doctor takes Rose back to the present day where he tells her that his home planet of Gallifrey is gone as a result of war. Despite the danger, Rose decides to continue travelling with the Doctor. This story is partly inspired by The Curse of Peladon. The character of Lady Cassandra (“Moisturise me! Moisturise me!”) is partly inspired by the villain Sil from Vengeance on Varos and The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp.
New Earth
★★☆☆☆
TX: 15/04/2006
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by James Hawes
The Doctor receives a message on his psychic paper from the Face of Boe, who he previously met on Platform One. The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler arrive at a hospital in New New York on New Earth, the new home for humanity. However, something sinister is afoot in the hospital. The staff of cat nuns, known as the Sisters of Plenitude, are breeding humans to experiment on, which is the barbaric reason why the hospital has a cure for everything. To make matters worse, the Doctor’s old enemy Lady Cassandra has survived and her servant Chip has smuggled her into the hospital basement. Cassandra possesses the Doctor’s companion Rose Tyler. Cassandra turns Rose into a THOT and she kisses the Doctor! 💋 Rose becomes more sexually vivacious and she puts an anaesthetic perfume between her tits. Billie Piper looks like a snack in this episode! The Doctor and Cassandra-Rose find a cure to the artificial humans created by the Sisters. The Sisters are taken into custody. The Face of Boe talks to the Doctor telepathically, but says that he will not reveal his great secret to him until the third time that they meet together. Cassandra possesses Chip, both of whom are dying. The Doctor and Rose take Cassandra back in time to see herself when she was younger. She tells her younger self that she looks beautiful before she dies. This is one of the most emotional moments in the New Earth trilogy.
Gridlock
★★★★☆
TX: 14/04/2007
Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Richard Clark
The Tenth Doctor takes his new companion Martha Jones to New Earth in the far future. However, things have changed since the Doctor last visited. Unfortunately, a virus has wiped out most life on the planet. The undercity has been sealed off and many of its citizens are trapped on an endless motorway. Worse still, beneath the gridlocked cassinis are a group of Macra which escaped from New New York Zoo. The Macra are feeding on the exhaust fumes and also the cars themselves. Martha is kidnapped and taken down to the fast lane, which requires three passengers for access. The Doctor follows her where he discovers the dystopian situation on the motorway. Novice Hame finds the Doctor and brings him to the Face of Boe. The Face of Boe saved the undercity when a virus broke out, a result of over-usage of a mood patch called ‘Bliss’. This is an allegory for the AIDS crisis. Hame and Boe help the Doctor to open the motorway up freeing the trapped passengers and Martha. But Boe sacrifices his life in order to do so. In his dying moments, the Face of Boe gives the Doctor his cryptic final secret: “you are not alone”… The Doctor later explains to Martha that he is the last of the Time Lords and that Boe’s message could mean that he may not be the final one after all.
Twice Upon a Time
★★★☆☆
TX: 25/12/2017
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Rachel Talalay
The Twelfth Doctor is (reluctantly) regenerating and he reunites with the First Doctor who is also regenerating. The pair bicker and squabble like an old married couple. The Twelfth and First Doctors meet a distant ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The three are captured by glass avatars and taken to a distant planet. The First Doctor is shown his future as “the Doctor of war”. The Twelfth Doctor is reunited with a glass avatar of Bill. The First Doctor tells Bill about why he left Gallifrey in the first place and Bill sees how much the Doctor that she knows has changed since his early days. The Twelfth Doctor is reunited with Rusty the Dalek, whom he previously encountered in Into the Dalek. Rusty still hates the Daleks, but Rusty is not the Doctor’s friend however. Rusty reveals that the pilot and its ship, known as Testimony, were created on New Earth, designed to extract people from their timelines at the moment of their death, and archive their memories into glass avatars, which are an invention of Professor Helen Clay of New Earth University. The Doctors return Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart back to No Man’s Land on the battlefield in France during Christmas 1914. The Christmas Truce of World War I occurs before the Doctors’ very eyes. The First Doctor realises that this is what it truly means to be a Doctor. “Never be cruel, never be cowardly!” “Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.” Content, the First Doctor leaves in his TARDIS and completes his regeneration. The Twelfth Doctor is encouraged to do the same by glass avatars of Bill, Nardole and Clara. The Doctor bids goodbye to his friends before leaving in the TARDIS. “Laugh hard, run fast, be kind!” After a long speech, the Twelfth Doctor regenerates into the Thirteenth Doctor. The new Doctor presses a button on the console and the TARDIS explodes around her. The Thirteenth Doctor is thrown out of the exploding TARDIS and she falls to Earth…
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