Season 4
TV Show · Sci-Fi · Adventure

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed third series, Doctor Who returns for a fourth instalment with a familiar face alongside the Doctor. Award-winning actor Catherine Tate returns as the Doctor’s new companion, reprising her role as Donna Noble who was featured in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride. Now reunited, the Doctor and Donna travel back to Pompeii in 79 AD on the eve of the infamous eruption where people are slowly turning to stone, investigate a series of grisly murders with the help of Agatha Christie, journey to the home world of the sinister Ood and come face to face an old enemy of the Doctor’s. Series 4 also sees the return of the Doctor’s previous companions, the vivacious Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and the feisty Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman). Starring David Tennant (Casanova, Recovery, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, Big Train, Bleak House), Billie Piper (The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Canterbury Tales), Freema Agyeman (Torchwood, The Bill, Crossroads), Producer Phil Collinson (Sea of Souls); Executive Producers: Julie Gardner (Life on Mars, Torchwood), Russell T. Davies; Writers: Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk, Torchwood, The Second Coming), Steven Moffat (Coupling, Jekyll).

2008 · 44m
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Rose
    Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again. Soon, she realizes that her mom, her boyfriend, and the whole of Planet Earth are in danger. The only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue police box…
    43 min
  • EPISODE 2
    The End of The World
    The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time, to the year Five Billion. The Sun is about to expand, and swallow the Earth. But amongst the alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly Spiders?
    44 min
  • EPISODE 3
    The Unquiet Dead
    The Doctor takes Rose back through time to Wales, Christmas 1869. In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time-travellers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr Sneed, the local Undertaker. Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth?
    30 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Aliens of London
    The first episode in a two-part story. The Doctor takes Rose home. But when a spaceship crash lands in the Thames, London is closed-off and the whole world is on Red Alert. While the Doctor investigates the alien survivor, Rose discovers that her home is no longer a safe haven. Who are the Slitheen?
    44 min
  • EPISODE 5
    World War Three
    Continuing the story from Episode 4. Downing Street announces mankind’s first Interplanetary War, but the real danger is much closer to home. When the Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones race against time to unmask the villainous Slitheen, Rose’s mom and boyfriend hold the key to salvation. Can the missiles be stopped?
    42 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Dalek
    Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When the Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that the Doctor's oldest and most deadly enemy is about to break free. It's a fight to the death, with Rose caught in the middle.
    44 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Jodie Whittaker
    The Doctor
  • Mandip Gill
    Yasmin Khan
  • John Bishop
    Dan Lewis
  • Tosin Cole
    Ryan Sinclair
  • Bradley Walsh
    Graham O'Brien
  • Peter Capaldi
    The Doctor
  • Pearl Mackie
    Bill
  • Matt Lucas
    Nardole
  • Michelle Gomez
    Missy
  • Jenna Coleman
    Clara Oswald
  • Samuel Anderson
    Danny Pink

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Season 4

Sci-Fi

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed third series, Doctor Who returns for a fourth instalment with a familiar face alongside the Doctor. Award-winning actor Catherine Tate returns as the Doctor’s new companion, reprising her role as Donna Noble who was featured in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride. Now reunited, the Doctor and Donna travel back to Pompeii in 79 AD on the eve of the infamous eruption where people are slowly turning to stone, investigate a series of grisly murders with the help of Agatha Christie, journey to the home world of the sinister Ood and come face to face an old enemy of the Doctor’s. Series 4 also sees the return of the Doctor’s previous companions, the vivacious Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and the feisty Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman). Starring David Tennant (Casanova, Recovery, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, Big Train, Bleak House), Billie Piper (The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Canterbury Tales), Freema Agyeman (Torchwood, The Bill, Crossroads), Producer Phil Collinson (Sea of Souls); Executive Producers: Julie Gardner (Life on Mars, Torchwood), Russell T. Davies; Writers: Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk, Torchwood, The Second Coming), Steven Moffat (Coupling, Jekyll).

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Studio
BBCA
Released
2008
Rated
12
Regions of Origin
United Kingdom, United States
© 2005 BBC

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English (United Kingdom), English, English (Australia)
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English (United States) (AAC)

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English (CC)

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