The End Of Time

The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the Christmas Special and New Year's Special of Doctor Who. It was written by Russell T Davies, directed by Euros Lyn and featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, John Simm as the Master and Bernard Cribbins as.
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The End of Time: Part Two 02 Jan With almost everyone on Earth now recast in his image, The Master controls the Earth. He's shocked however when he realises one person hasn't changed; Donna Noble. The Doctor soon understands what the pounding in the Master's head is; it's the Time Lords, who are trying to return and re-establish Gallifrey. If they succeed, it'll mean the Last Great Time War will re-start, and all the horrors which came with it.

In order to stop Rasillon's mad plan, the Doctor must make a choice. Finally, the Ood's prophecy for the Doctor becomes true, and he takes the TARDIS on a trip, to see friends for one last time, before he's to regenerate. Laughed, cried, and cheered. Everyone who loves The Doctor has an actor who endeared this character to them. I could never get on board with The Doctor as a kid due to the poor production value but once I heard it was coming back with today's technology I couldn't wait. We can argue back and forth about Who's the best pun intended but it will always be a subjective battle of personal experience and opinion.

My first was and will always be David Tennant. Christopher was great, no question, but David took us with him It pains me to know he is now in Hollywood among the average and over-rated. I wish you luck there as you deserve more than waiting rooms and screen tests and hope your past will help you through the cold reality of Los Angeles and its executives who still think Who was your characters last name At the very least, you'll be able to afford to learn to surf in your spare time! David, to me, you were, and always will be the actor who brought The Doctor to life for me, job well done sir As soon as the final episode was over I took a breath, a short leak, and started watching it again.

Davies, you have made my imagination find whole new worlds and given me the most amazing television escape of my life to date I know this sounds a little over-board and over zealous but in my opinion you and your staff have done the stories proud For all the haters out there, I challenge you to equal the journey that these men carried us over the past few years. Sure, there were lows, but we live in a time where more people know Paris Hilton than where Paris, France is so kudos to you for staying the course and keeping the fire burning You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.

Edit Cast Episode cast overview, first billed only: The Doctor John Simm The Master Bernard Cribbins Wilfred Mott Timothy Dalton The Narrator Jacqueline King Sylvia Noble Claire Bloom The Woman June Whitfield Minnie Hooper David Harewood Joshua Naismith Tracy Ifeachor Abigail Naismith Sinead Keenan Lucy Saxon Karl Collins Shaun Temple Teresa Banham Edit Storyline Forewarned and with a sense of foreboding, The Doctor races to return to Earth fearing that The Master will somehow return.

The End of Time: Part One

Edit Details Release Date: Edit Did You Know? The Doctor would sacrifice his life to prevent a radiation leak and save these ordinary, unimportant beings. Davies liked the notion of the Doctor's regeneration taking place in such unremarkable circumstances - as opposed to the blockbuster events that had characterised each of his season finales - he was already concerned that viewers would consider this to be too great an anticlimax.

Goofs After the Master has asked the Doctor to listen to the drumbeats in his head, when he takes his hands away there is an obvious dirty thumbprint on the Doctor's left temple. When the camera next cuts back to the Doctor the thumbprint has vanished. As the Master steps out of the gateway he tells the Doctor that the human race was always the Doctor's favourite, but it now exists no more, having been replaced with " the Master Race ". Every single Master on the planet laughs together with narcissistic glee and celebration, while the original laughs in the Doctor's face.

As a world full of Masters taunts and mocks him, the Doctor's face twists with extreme fury. The Narrator announces the Master and his removal of humanity is only a small part of an approaching conflict. Suddenly, he belittles humankind; this is not a narrator, but the Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords , addressing the Gallifrey Panopticon , which is packed with Time Lords. He announces that "This is the day the Time Lords return. For the end of time itself! They have foreseen that he will use it to end the war by destroying the Daleks and Gallifrey alike.

A Time Lady suggests that this might be for the best. At the heart of the Time War, billions are dying, being resurrected and dying repeatedly. The never-ending carnage is a travesty of life. Rassilon plots the Ultimate Sanction. The Lord President uses his gauntlet to vaporise her. Exploding with anger, he decrees he will not allow himself or his race to die, with "a billion years of history riding on our backs". Finding that the Doctor and the Master both somehow survive the Time War and end up on Earth , the Council devises a plan.

They retroactively implant a link to the Master during his early childhood: They send a " White-Point Star " diamond to Earth as a more physical link next. This will let the Time Lords escape from the time-lock and their impending destruction at the hands of the Doctor. On Earth, the Master has the Doctor and Wilf tied up.


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The Doctor tries warning him about the prophecy, but the Master insists he was what the prophecy was talking about. He interrogates the Doctor as to the whereabouts of his TARDIS, as he wants the technology to pinpoint where the drumming in his head is coming from; with 6,,, clones, it will be easy.

The Doctor tries reasoning with the Master, asking him to travel with him to see the universe; he tells him "that's ownership enough". Wilf's mobile phone rings. The Master is confused, as no one but the Master Race exists on Earth; and there's no way he'd be calling Wilf.

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He finds the phone, receiving a call from Donna Noble. The Master hears Donna, who is confused about everyone else changing; she ran into the alley, to get away from Sean and Sylvia. Suspicious, the Master demands to know why Donna didn't change. Wilfred reluctantly admits the metacrisis that made her part Time Lord.

The Master sneers, "He does love playing with Earth girls! He tells "grandad" to say goodbye to the freak. Wilf yells to Donna to run for her life. As Donna is cornered by the Master Race, who state they have his hunger and plan to eat her. She starts to remember her adventures with the Doctor and is scared and confused, wondering why she can see a giant wasp. Instead of burning up, she emits an energy pulse that knocks everyone unconscious, including herself. Hearing nothing and seeing the Doctor smile, the Master removes his mouth gag. The Doctor calmly points out that when he erased Donna's memories of her time with him he also left her, his best friend, with a defence mechanism to protect her from aliens and her Time Lord knowledge.

The Doctor notes, " You know the most amazing thing about you is that after all this time, you're still bone-dead stupid. The "guard" hits him in the head with the rifle, knocking him down. The guard is Rossiter. Addams rushes in and urges her partner to get the two men out of the mansion.

Rossiter, unable to free the Doctor from the chair he is strapped to, wheels the chair bumpily down several flights of stairs to the basement, prompting the Doctor to note this as the "worst From the basement, the four teleport to the orbiting Vinvocci ship, narrowly escaping the Master and his guards. Wilfred is amazed at being in space; the Doctor is more concerned with the Master.

As soon as he gets out of his restraints, he destroys the teleporter, preventing the Master Race from following them.

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He asks for directions to the bridge; Addams initially refuses, citing that they are , miles above the Earth, but reconsiders when the Doctor points out the 'slight' problem of the Master having every single missile on the planet ready to fire. When they arrive, the Vinvocci prepare to leave, so the Doctor destroys the ship's systems, leaving them dead in orbit. As the Doctor begins to mend the systems, Wilfred sees the mysterious woman again, who instructs him to give the Doctor his gun.

The Master and his clones listen to the drumming in their heads, pinpointing the source as "from the sky". Having just been thrown through the time lock , the White-Point Star falls to Earth in a blaze, landing in London. The Master soldiers pick it up, telling the original what they have found. This makes the Master crack up hysterically. On the ship, the Doctor is still repairing the systems.

Wilf talks to him about many things and tries to have the Doctor take the gun to save himself by killing the Master. They believe the four knocks is the rhythm in the Master's head. The Doctor refuses and Wilf begins to cry over his fruitless efforts, prompting the Doctor to hug him. A broadcast from the Master reaches the ship; he has found the diamond. It can only mean the Time Lords are returning. Wilfred considers this good but the Doctor's reaction says quite differently Wilf is confused as he thought the Time Lords were wise and peaceful.

The Doctor tells him that's how he chooses to remember them; in reality, the horrors of the Time War had changed them, irrevocably corrupting the them and making them far more dangerous than any of his enemies.


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    7. The Doctor has repaired the ship, but Addams will not have them going to Earth. The Doctor tells her "there's an old Earth saying. A word of great power and wisdom; and consolation to soul in times of need. The Master decides to kill the Doctor as "soon [he'll] have Time Lords to spare", sending missiles at the ship. Rossiter and Wilf take charge of the asteroid lasers and blast away the missiles the Master launches at them. Addams plots a course for Naismith's mansion and the Doctor jumps from the ship, crashing several stories through the skylight and into the Immortality Gate room.

    While he recovers from the fall, he finds himself too late. The Master has brought the Time Lords back. Not only is the Master in the room, but so is the Time Lord Council Rassilon counters the Master's threats by resetting the Master Race back to human form. The President defames the Master by noting they have been saved by Gallifrey's most infamous child. The Master, fast to retort, quickly belittles the Lord President's authority and reveals that he did not call the Time Lords to Earth to save them.

    He intends to implant himself in them and assert control of the entire race, gloating at how much better the Lord President will look as him. However, the Lord President is not amused at the Master's assertion over his power and demonstrates how fast he can unravel his scheme. He raises his gauntlet and it radiates a blue light.

    The Master Race begins to revert to their unaltered human identities, causing the Master great panic as he loses his trump card. The Lord President tells the humans present in the Naismith Mansion to kneel. Left powerless, the Master tries to bargain with the Time Lords by reminding them that he was their salvation. However, the whole planet shakes intensely. The President announces that "the approach begins". The Master is confused by his cryptic words; the Doctor angrily tells him that not only the whole species of Time Lords are coming back, but so is the planet.

    Gallifrey begins to materialise near Earth, fulfilling the prophecy that " it is returning". Standing about three times the size of Earth, it shadows over Earth with an air of doom. Panic erupts in the streets of London as the giant red world of Gallifrey manifests above the atmosphere, with the Earth itself trembling. Wilf, having left the Vinvocci shuttle, makes his way through the crumbling Naismith Mansion to find the Doctor.

    Refusing to stay on Earth as Gallifrey threatens to knock it out of orbit, Addams immediately readies the shuttle for takeoff. Rossiter is concerned about the Doctor's fate, but Addams shrugs and reminds him that he already said he was dying. All the residents of Naismith Mansion, including Joshua and his daughter, flee from the residence. Joshua spots Gallifrey's descent and is affixed with terror.

    Wilf returns to help the Doctor, freeing a trapped man in the control booth and trapping himself in the process. The Master thinks that the Time Lords' restoration to the universe is fantastic, but the Doctor tells him that the broken time-lock means that all of the other horrors born in the last days of the Time War, which he had sealed away in the Time Lock as well, would also be released. The war had turned to Hell, which is exactly what the Master has unleashed above Earth.

    The Master delights at the thought of such chaos, but the Doctor tells him that not even the Time Lords can survive such an onslaught. The Lord President then reveals that he had planned to deal with these horrors by initiating the Ultimate Sanction ; a plan for the Time Lords to survive the collapse of all creation and all time, as the paradox of Gallifrey's return to the universe rips the Time Vortex apart, by ascending their conscious minds beyond the need for bodies, whilst creation itself ceases to be.

    The Master asks to join them, but the President refuses, contemptuously dismissing the Master as "diseased Then the Doctor aims Wilf's gun at the President, who cautions the Doctor to "choose [his] enemy well. Even the Master goads him on, urging him to kill the President and claim Gallifrey for himself. At this, the Doctor spins and aims the gun at the Master, who realises that the link that brought the Time Lords to Earth is inside his head, and if he dies, the link is broken and the Time Lock id reformed.

    He points out that killing the President would have the same effect. The Lord President coldly remarks that the final act of the Doctor's life is murder: Finally, in this dark hour of the Doctor's life, one of the "disgraced" Time Lords covering her eyes behind the Lord President reveals herself to the Doctor; she is the mysterious woman that Wilfred had seen on a number of occasions. As she casts her gaze to a spot behind the Doctor, he not only seems to recognise her but now knows what to do: As the Master's face falls, the Doctor orders him to get out of the way.

    Suddenly understanding, the Master smiles darkly and jumps away from the White-Point Star just as the Doctor shoots it, and its destruction severs the link and reinforces the Time Lock, pulling the Time Lords back into the Time War and to their inevitable doom. As Gallifrey vanishes back into the Time Lock, Rassilon refuses to die alone and prepares to kill the Doctor. The Doctor is ready for the prophecy to be fulfilled As the Master counts the drums one last time, his blasts occupy Rassilon long enough for a bright flash of light to send all of them — the Time Lords, Rassilon, Gallifrey, and the Master, back into the last day of the Last Great Time War.

    In the streets, Sylvia and the other humans watch as the giant red planet fades away and allows the sun to shine. The Doctor struggles to his feet, weary, but happy, almost in disbelief that he has survived the prophecy. The Doctor's face turns from relief to horror as he hears the four hesitant knocks portending his death. The knocks persist, condemning him further.

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    As he slowly turns, he sees where they are coming from — Wilfred is still trapped in the nuclear booth and wants to be let out. The Doctor, leery to approach the booth, looks at him with dread. As he suspects, Wilfred's life is in dire straits. Upon inspection of the booth, the Doctor tells Wilf that the Master left the nuclear bolt running. The machine has gone past critical and is about to overload, which will release a lethal dose of radiation into the booth and doing anything to it, even using the sonic screwdriver , will set it off.

    The only way to get Wilf out alive is for the Doctor to walk into the open side of the booth and push a button to release the one-way lock, but this means the Doctor will be trapped inside in place of Wilf to endure the radiation blast. At , rads , it would inflict catastrophic damage to his body. Wilf tells the Doctor to leave him. Since he's lived a full life, it doesn't seem worth it for his friend to give up his own just for Wilf's sake. The Doctor pretends to callously accept Wilf's offer but knows he cannot allow the sacrifice.

    His spirit finally shattered, the Doctor cuts loose with a rant of anger, grief, and frustration. He rages and chokes back tears about how despite everything he's done he's still going to die just because Wilf had to climb into the booth and he's just an old man, "not remotely important"; he could just be left and the Doctor could live so much longer and "do so much more".

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    Then he snaps out of this self-absorption and realises what he's just said.