What Doctor Who episode did you watch today?

[Nolamom]

Happy Birthday Alan!

[jebus]

Torchwood - The New World

[Morgania]

The Pandorica Opens

[jebus]

Torchwood - Rendition

[Alan]

DOCTOR WHO

30.01 - Partners in Crime

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Donna Noble, last seen in The Runaway Bride, is reunited with the Doctor and joins him on-board the TARDIS. Her first regular appearance.
• Sylvia Noble, Donna's mother, returns.
• Wilfred Mott, the man selling newspapers in Voyage of the Damned, is revealed to be Donna's grandfather and Sylvia's father.
• First appearance of the Adipose.
• The Bees are said to be disappearing...
• Planets are said to be disappearing...
• Rose Tyler briefly appears in the primary universe...

30.02 - Planet of the Ood

Notable firsts:

Spoiler:

• First appearance of Ood Sigma.
• First appearance of the planet Ood Sphere.
• It is first hinted that the Doctor's "song" is soon to end...

[jebus]

Torchwood - Dead of Night

[Cold Fuzz]

Blink
The Time of Angels
Flesh and Stone


I needed my Weeping Angel fix satisfied today. That and Blink just doesn't get old for me, especially the great dialogue with Sally Sparrow.

[jebus]

Torchwood - Escape to L.A.

[Spimman]

DW - Nightmare Child

[Alan]

DOCTOR WHO

30.04 - The Sontaran Stratagem

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Martha Jones is reunited with the Doctor and meets his new companion Donna Noble.
• UNIT is now said to stand for UNified Intelligence Taskforce.
• UNIT's former Commanding Officer and the Doctor's friend, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart has been knighted and now a Sir.
• The Sontaran home planet is identified as being called Sontar.
• Rose Tyler briefly appears on the TARDIS scanner...

30.05 - The Doctor's Daughter

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Martha Jones leaves the TARDIS again and returns to her life and her duties with UNIT.
• First and, to date, only appearance of the Doctor's force-grown daughter, Jenny.

30.07 - Silence in the Library

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• First, but chronologically last appearance of River Song. She is a woman that appears to have a very deep and long history with the Doctor...and seems to know his name.
• First appearance of River's diary. It contains "spoilers" regarding the Doctor's future.
• To date, last appearance of the Sonic Blaster (aka Squareness Gun) previously used by Captain Jack Harkness and now inherited by River.
• River Song appears to be using a future version of the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver.
• First appearance of the Vashta Narada.
• First story to show the Doctor opening the TARDIS doors just by clicking his fingers.

30.09 - Turn Left

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

First appearance of one of the Trickster's Brigade, but, to date, the only appearance of one of them in Doctor Who.
Alternate timeline conclusions to the stories The Runaway Bride, Smith and Jones, Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, and The Sontaran Stratagem are shown and the deaths of Sarah Jane Smith, Maria Jackson, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer, Martha Jones, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones, and the destruction of London are the result whilst Captain Jack Harkness is transported to the planet Sontar where he is undoubtedly tortured and killed over and over again.
First appearance of UNIT captain Erisa Magambo, albeit only an alternate timeline version of her.

[jebus]

Torchwood - The Categories of Life

[Alan]

DOCTOR WHO

30.10 - The Stolen Earth

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Last regular appearance of Donna Noble.
  Spoiler:

  The Doctor is forced to erase her memories of her time travelling with him after she absorbs Time Lord knowledge that threatens to destroy her brain.
• To date, the last appearance of Davros.
• Last appearance of Harriet Jones.
  Spoiler:

  She is exterminated by the Daleks whilst bringing together Captain Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith, and Martha Jones to contact the Doctor.
• To date, the last chronological appearance of Rose Tyler.
  Spoiler:

  The Doctor returns her to the parallel universe so she can live her life with a half-human copy of himself.
• Mickey Smith returns and decides to remain in the primary universe.
• Martha Jones reunites with the Doctor and helps him fight the Daleks again. She previously encountered the Daleks in Daleks in Manhattan.
• Sarah Jane Smith reunites with the Doctor and helps him fight the Daleks and Davros again. She previously encountered the them in Death to the Daleks and Genesis of the Daleks.
• Captain Jack Harkness reunites with the Doctor and helps him fight the Daleks again. He previously met the Daleks in Bad Wolf.
• To date, the last appearance of K-9 Mk. IV in Doctor Who.
• First appearance of Sarah Jane's adopted son Luke Smith in Doctor Who.
• First and only appearance of Sarah Jane's sentient computer Mr. Smith in Doctor Who.
• First and only appearance of Torchwood 3 member Gwen Cooper in Doctor Who.
• First and last appearance of Torchwood 3 member Ianto Jones in Doctor Who.
• Last chronological appearance of Rose's mother, Jackie who reveals that she had a baby boy with the parallel universe version of Pete and called him Tony.
• Last appearance of Martha's mother, Francine.
• Last appearance of the sole surviving member of the Cult of Skaro, Dalek Caan.
• Last appearance of the UNIT ship Valiant.
• UNIT have their second encounter with the Daleks. They previously battled in Day of the Daleks.
• Last appearance of Captain Jack's Defabricator Gun.
• The missing worlds and disappearance of Bees on Earth previously mentioned in prior Series 30 stories are revealed to be due to the Daleks and Davros creating their Reality Bomb.
• First and only story so far to show an aborted Time Lord regeneration.
• Last appearance of the Dimensional transporter devices that were previously seen in Army of Ghosts.

THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES

02.01 - The Last Sontaran

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Maria Jackson and her father, Alan, move to America.
• Last appearance of Maria's mother, Chrissie.
• First appearance of Commander Kaagh, a Sontaran warrior and the sole survivor of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet's Special Assault Squad attempts to turn Earth into a breeding planet for Sontaran clones using ATMOS.
• This is Sarah Jane Smith's third encounter with a Sontaran. She previously met two other members of the species in the Doctor Who stories The Time Warrior and The Sontaran Experiment.

[jebus]

Torchwood - The Middle Men

[Alan]

THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES

02.02 - The Day of the Clown

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• First appearance of Rani Chandra. She and her family move in to Maria's old house and Rani befriends Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde and becomes involved in their investigations in to alien and unusual phenomenon.
• First appearance of Rani's parents Gita and Haresh Chandra.
• First appearance of Steve Wallace, a school friend of Clyde.

02.04 - The Mark of the Berserker

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• First appearance of Clyde's mother, Carla Langer.
• Last appearance of Maria Jackson.
• Last appearance of Alan Jackson.
• First appearance of Travist Polong.

02.05 - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• The story of how Sarah Jane Smith was orphaned is told.
• Sarah Jane's birth year of 1951 is revealed for the first time. In the 1974 Doctor Who story Invasion of the Bane Sarah Jane gave her age as 23 and so with this birth year of 1951, the dating of the Doctor's time stranded on Earth and working for UNIT is cemented as taking place very close to when the stories were broadcast - the early to mid 1970's.
• Sarah Jane's second encounter with the Trickster.
• Last appearance of a member of the Graske species in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• Last appearance of the Verron puzzlebox.

02.06 - Enemy of the Bane

Notable firsts and lasts:

Spoiler:

• Last appearance of Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (but his first and only appearance in The Sarah Jane Adventures. His last mission sees him help defeat the Bane, a rogue Bane and a dishonoured Sontaran from ruling and destroying on a universal scale.
• First appearance of UNIT in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• Last appearance of the Sontaran warrior Kaagh.
• This is Sarah Jane's fourth and final encounter with a member of the Sontaran species.
• Last appearance of the Bane that called itself Mrs. Wormwood.
• Last appearance of the Bane species.
• Sarah Jane's Sonic Lipstick is destroyed but she gains another one.

[jebus]

Torchwood - Immortal Sins