Doctor: David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)
Companions: Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith)
Others
Penelope Wilton – Harriet Jones
Gareth David-Lloyd – Ianto Jones
Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper
Thomas Knight – Luke Smith
Bernard Cribbins – Wilfred Mott
Jacqueline King – Sylvia Noble
Adjoa Andoh – Francine Jones
Julian Bleach – Davros
Michael Brandon – General Sanchez
Andrea Harris – Suzanne
Lachele Carl – Trinity Wells
Richard Dawkins – Himself
Paul O'Grady – Himself
Marcus Cunningham – Drunk Man
Jason Mohammad – BBC newsreader
Paul Kasey – Judoon
Kelly Hunter – Shadow Architect
Amy Beth Hayes – Albino Servant
Gary Milner – Scared Man
Nicholas Briggs – Dalek voices
Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith[2]
Production
Directed by Graeme Harper
Written by Russell T Davies
Script editor Lindsey Alford
Produced by Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Incidental music composer Murray Gold
Production code 4.12
Series Series 4
Length 1st of 2-part story, 45 minutes[3]
Originally broadcast 28 June 2008
At the start of the episode the Earth is teleported out of its spatial location shortly after the Doctor and Donna arrive to investigate Rose Tyler's warning at the end of "Turn Left". The Doctor contacts the Shadow Proclamation, a universal police force, to find Earth. They determine twenty-seven missing worlds—including Earth, Adipose III,[6] Pyrovillia,[7] and the Lost Moon of Poosh[8]—automatically reorganise into a specific pattern when placed near each other. Donna mentions the disappearance of bees on contemporary Earth; this allows the Doctor to trace the planets to the Medusa Cascade, an inter-universal rift.
A Dalek force, led by their creator Davros and the red Supreme Dalek, quickly subjugate Earth, despite humanity's fierce resistance. Military bases, including UNIT's headquarters in New York City and their aircraft carrier Valiant, are destroyed. Davros, who was thought to have perished during the Time War, was saved by Dalek Caan, who entered the conflict after performing an emergency temporal shift.[9] The power needed to enter the Time War—which is "time-locked", preventing time-travellers from entering the conflict—caused Caan to become precognitive at the cost of his sanity.
The Doctor's former companions Captain Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, and Rose Tyler—who have all encountered the Daleks before[10][11][12][13]—hide in various places: Jack takes refuge in the Torchwood Hub with his team; Martha uses Project Indigo—an experimental teleport device scavenged from the Sontarans—to escape UNIT New York with the "Osterhagen Key", a device that activates a defensive last resort nuclear weapons system; Sarah Jane stays in her home with her son Luke Smith and supercomputer Mr Smith; and Rose tracks down Noble's mother and grandfather. They are contacted by former Prime Minister Harriet Jones through a secret "subwave network" designed by Mr Copper—a humanoid alien who met the Doctor in "Voyage of the Damned"[14]—to contact the Doctor's companions in an emergency (although Rose is unable to get in contact with the others). They attempt to contact the Doctor by amplifying the sub-wave signal; Sarah uses Mr Smith's computing power and Torchwood manipulates the spatial-temporal rift in Cardiff. The Doctor and the Daleks receive the transmission and trace the signal: the Daleks kill Harriet Jones;[15] and the Doctor is able to locate Earth in a temporally desynchronised pocket universe.
At the end of the episode, the Doctor travels into the pocket universe and receives transmitted images of his companions in the subwave signal. After Davros hijacks the signal and taunts the Doctor about his resurrection and imminent victory, the Doctor breaks communication and attempts to convene with his companions. The Doctor lands on the same street Rose is searching for him on and runs to embrace her, but is shot by a Dalek. Jack promptly destroys the Dalek and helps Rose and Donna carry the Doctor into the TARDIS, where the Doctor begins to regenerate.
The Stolen Earth