Doctor Who (Series 14)

The Fourteenth Series of the British Science Fiction Programme, Doctor Who began airing in 2022 and concluded in 2022. This is the first series not to be lead by Chris Chibnall as showrunner and instead is lead by Russell T. Davis, who returns after 12 years away. This series is the fourteenth season to air since the revival and the thirty-ninth overall.

This series sees the departure of Jodie Whittaker as the fourteenth Doctor and sees Daniel Stephen step into the shoes of the Doctor as the fourteenth incarnation of the mad time lord. This time the Doctor travels with multiple companions including Hannah Gray (Sophie Turner), Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), Missy (Michelle Gomez) and his daughter Jenny (Georgina Tennant) whom he stumbles into while exploring space in the distant future. As the Doctor comes to terms with what he did to his previous companions, he finds the greatest threat to the Universe is coming, his own people.

This series sees the return of several characters from the Doctor's past including Jack Harkness, Jenny, Missy and the Paternoster Gang.

Starring Cast

 * Daniel Stephen as The Fourteenth Doctor

Recurring

 * Sophie Turner as Hannah Gray
 * John Barrowman as Jack Harkness
 * Michelle Gomez as The Master/Missy
 * Neve McIntosh as Madam Vastra
 * Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint
 * Dan Starkey as Strax
 * Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper
 * Georgina Tennant as Jenny

Episodes
For the first time since series 10, multi-part stories return instead of stand alone episodes.

"The Crimes of Youth"
When the Doctor is thrown from the Tardis in the Time Vortex, he ends up in present day Scotland in a small town near Glasgow. He seeks out help from a nearby house and is asked to leave by the Police, when they think he is on drugs, he is arrested. In the Police Station, he finds out about many missing Children cases and asks to help, they deny him and prepare to arrest him. He tries to convince them who he is and requests they call U.N.I.T. but when they arrive, since his regeneration is still in process, the test to check if he is a Time-Lord is left ambiguous. He ends up escaping the Police Station, stealing a jacket he likes on the way out, and begins to search for the missing Children. When he spots a local kids home he requests to speak to the Head Careworker and asks them what they know, they inform him of everything before questioning his identity. They ask him to leave. A young girl named Anna tells him that she knows what is happening. She informs him of everything in her "secret base" and he tells her he will get her friends back. She asks to help and he agrees but only if she gets permission to go out. In the warehouse that several children were seen near, he checks the CCTV footage after breaking in and finds a lapse in the footage, when he goes to the Camera he finds it tampered with. Anna is annoyed but he tells her he can fix it, once he does, he finds out that a strange looking being has been luring Children to a back room. He checks the back room where there is nothing. Anna is disappointed but he laughs, calling it a pathetic fake wall. He walks into it, hitting his head. He tells her his vision is slightly off before walking through the right part with her. Arriving on a ship, he gets excited. After sneaking around and knocking out a guard, they find the Children. Suddenly, a group of Aliens burst in. They introduce themselves as the Atokins, the Doctor recognizes them as powerful psychics. They thank the Doctor for bringing another Child. He recognizes them and they explain that they need the Children for their imagination to create a new world as their's was destroyed by ancient warriors of time, the Doctor works it out before moving on, terrified. He works out quickly that they'll end up killing the children, they say its a necessary sacrifice. They go to grab Anna but he asks they use him instead. They tell him as an adult and one person he is not enough. He tells them to scan him and they'll see he is more than enough. They do so and agree but as they look further into his mind they see everything he has done and seen as well as what happened with Yaz, Graham and Ryan. They ask him to leave as they are terrified of him, he begs them to let the children go but they refuse. Anna volunteers herself as no one wants her or needs her but the Doctor angrily tells her she will have a home and if she doesn't find one, he'll show her the stars himself. She gets excited by this prospect and backs down. He takes a darker turn and uses the fear the Atokins have against them. After declaring the Earth is under his protection, they agree before the leader lets him leave. The Doctor takes the kids but as they reach the portal, Anna asks the Doctor what the Atokins will do, he starts to babble before realising they wont give up. He ushers the rest of the children through before returning to the main room to deal with the Atokins. He is shocked to see Anna had slipped away and they have killed her siphoning her energy. They thank the Doctor for offering up a willing sacrifice, he is both mortified and heartbroken. He tells them to leave as they have enough energy to get to another planet until they can plan out their next move. They agree to leave as the Doctor takes Anna's body. He mourns her before burying her. Returning to the town, he finds many happy parents and Children celebrating their return. He watches them before declaring no more, before leaving.

Featured Villains
Ahead of the series' run; Showrunner, Russel T. Davis, revealed that several former villains would be returning to the show including the Slitheen, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and a Villain from another show. This was later revealed to be Gray, Jack Harkness' brother, from Torchwood.

The series introduces the Strabz, a race of intergalactic monks who's home was destroyed by the Time Lords who were on a rampage to claim the Universe as their own. The monks needed the children of Earth to use their imaginations to create a new home for themselves but when the Doctor realized this meant it would kill the children, he offered himself up for the monks to use instead. They, however, feared him due to his dark past and decided to try and use the children, the Doctor stepped in and used the fear against them, declaring Earth under his protection, a young orphan girl offered herself up as no one needed her but the Doctor would not allow it, the Atokins attempt to use her as the Doctor leaves with the children, he fails to stop them and she dies, they declare they have enough energy to find a new place to call home, he shows them mercy by letting them leave, although he is distraught at the fact he failed to save the girl.

Rumors

 * The New Doctor will be young and male. (True)
 * The New Doctor will be portrayed by Daniel Stephen. (True)
 * The New Doctor's main personality traits will be Sarcastic, Unhinged and Mysterious. (True)
 * The New Companion will be a woman. (True)
 * The New Companion will be portrayed by Emilia Clarke. (False)
 * Freema Agyman will return as Martha Jones and will be the Doctor's companion. (False)
 * The New Companion will be portrayed by Sophie Turner. (True)
 * The New Companion will not feature in every episode. (True)
 * The New Companion will not be introduced until episode 2 or 3. (True)
 * Torchwood, Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper will return. (True)
 * The Daleks will appear. (True)
 * The Weeping Angels will appear. (True)
 * The Cybermen will appear. (False)
 * Jenny will return. (True)
 * River Song will appear. (False)
 * Missy, or a form of the Master, will appear. (True)
 * An old Villain will return and be the season's main antagonist. (True)
 * Daniel Stephen will play the Doctor for one season. (False)
 * The New Doctor will "retcon" Jodie Whittaker's run as the Doctor. (True)
 * The Timeless Child plot line will be "retconned". (True)
 * The Doctor will be revealed to definitely be a Time-Lord. (True)
 * The Paternoster Gang will appear. (True)
 * The New Doctor and the New Companion will fall in love, or at least share feelings for each other. (True)
 * The New Doctor is Gay. (False)
 * The New Doctor is Asexual. (False)

Trivia and Notes

 * Daniel Stephen is the youngest actor to step foot into the Doctor's shoes, being 21 years old when he begins this season.
 * The fourteenth incarnation of the Doctor also happens to be the youngest body an incarnation of the Doctor has had, being 20 years old.

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"The Children"

The Doctor is abandoned in 21st Century London by the Tardis with no Sonic and no idea who he really is. After ending up in a police station he meets a young woman who tells him stories of children disappearing. When a child of the couple who reported him vanishes, he tracks down the culprit but loses them last second. In order to draw them out again he convinces Hannah to allow him to use her brother as bait, the plan works and the Doctor gets one of the culprits but Jaime is taken much to Hannah's anger. The Doctor convinces the captured culprit, who he finds is an Akotin, who are ancient pyshcic beings who have lost their home to something unknown and now they need the imagination of children to create a new world, and that they meant no harm. The Doctor convinces him to take him instead and use his mind. The Akotin takes him and his people agree to the plan, they use the Doctor's mind but a rebel lashes out screaming at the Doctor for being a time lord, the Akotin's stop the process and they ask the Doctor to leave saying they don't want anything from him. He attempts to convince them but he is unable to, they attempt to take back the kids but he threatens them explaining the children are under his protection and that they need to leave. They visibly fear him and leave. The Children are safely returned, as a thank you for taking him in and helping him, he uses the Akotin's technology to find the Tardis before leaving them. Back on Earth, The Doctor tells Hannah he will take her on a trip and have her back for supper, she however, tells him she doesn't need to come back and for him to show her the stars.

"Time Rift"

Landing in Cardiff, Hannah is annoyed at the Doctor for keeping her on Earth, he apologies but tells her the Tardis is still new and needs refilling near a space rift, he also tells her he's killing two birds with one stone and picking up on a call he's about to receive. The Doctor is called to Torchwood by Jack Harkness, upon arriving in Torchwood he is greeted by the team. They get down to business, Jack explains that the Rift is acting different. He can hear screams coming through it of pain and war. The Doctor investigates and accidentally transports himself and Hannah to a different part of space where the Sontarans and the Rutans wage war against each other. Avoiding the firefight they work their way through the battlefield, the Doctor is unable to summon the Tardis as it is refueling. The Doctor manages to convince the rutans they are rutans in human disguise, they accept before being attacked by the Sontarans, the Doctor attacks a Rutan before submitting, knowing that the Rutans have a strict justice system and that he will be taken to the leader for a trial. Once there, he and Hannah are separated. She meets and befriends a kind Rutan who she tells her identity too, they tell her that they are investigating a time rift and Hannah tells him that so is she. The Doctor admits he is not a Rutan at his trial and talks them down before he tells them he wants them to make peace with the Sontarans so they can help him, this makes them laugh before he threatens them, they continue laughing before he reveals his identity. The Rutans call him a liar but the Doctor promises to prove his identity, they prepare to kill him when Hannah arrives with her new friend, Smeek. Smeek convinces his mother, the leader of the Rutans, to stop and reveals the Doctor and Hannah can help them with the Time Rift. They work together to try and figure out what is going on while the Sontarans attack, they race against time and just as the Rift is about to overload the Doctor finds out what it is before a flash sends him, Hannah and Smeek back to Torchwood.