Stories Television Doctor Who (2005-2022) Doctor Who S3 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Last of the Time Lords 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 4 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 1 Transcript Overview First aired Saturday, June 30, 2007 Production Code 3.13 Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Colin Teague Runtime 54 minutes Story Type Companion Exit, Series Finale, Three-Parter, Two-Parter Time Travel Present, Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Time Travel Pivotal, Dance Number, Earth Invasion Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Vote Saxon, You Are Not Alone Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, London UK Viewers 8.61 million Appreciation Index 88 Synopsis One year later, the Saxon Master and the Toclafane are rulers of Earth, which is torn apart by a year of hell. The Tenth Doctor has been aged 900 years, and Jack Harkness and the Jones family have been reduced to slavery on the Master's ship, the Valiant. The only hope for everyone on Earth is Martha Jones, now a legend amongst humanity. As the Master prepares to turn the Earth into a giant warship that will ultimately engulf the rest of the universe, Martha must trek through dangerous territory to destroy him, but tragedy awaits her, the Doctor and her family on the day that will pit humanity against the stars... Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Tenth Doctor David Tennant Martha Jones Freema Agyeman Captain Jack Harkness John Barrowman The Saxon Master John Simm The Toclafane Lucy Saxon Show All Characters (6) How to watch Last of the Time Lords: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Third Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray Series 3 DVD The Complete Third Series DVD Series 3 Volume 4: Utopia – The Sound of Drums – Last of the Time Lords Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 4 reviews 24 December 2024 · 100 words Review by silvertongue I will say this is definitely the weakest finale of RTD1 but I don’t hate this as much as everyone else does, maybe because I’m in love with the Jones family. The conclusion is kinda stupid but it’s fun after the misery of the majority of the story. Also if you’re in the US please don’t watch the cut down version (45m) on Max, the full version is 55 minutes. I watched the shorter cut for the first time today and it removes so many important and impactful scenes (plus a musical scene that I love)!! Like Liked 0 17 August 2024 · 4 words Review by captainjackenoch Jesus f**king christ Like Liked 0 4 June 2024 · 222 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! Last of the Time Lords is a pretty serious let-down after all the excitement and energy of Utopia and the Sound of Drums. Martha running around the world spreading the word of the Doctor and turning him into some sort of psychic messiah through the Master's technology is impressive as a feat for her character, but still a little underwhelming. It's always annoyed me that Martha is a medical doctor who never really gets to show off her very useful profession over the course of Series 3. It's disappointing, as is the way this episode kind of just erases everything from the Master's rule over Earth. It makes the story feel a little cheap. Speaking of cheap, the Doctor does not look good in this episode. A lot of those effects just don't look that great to me. John Simm was fun collapsing in on himself by the end of the episode and has a great reveal here with the Toclafane, but the larger episode feels a little awkwardly acted overall and it really doesn't hold up as a finale that well at all. It's not terrible or unwatchable, but definitely a bit of a missed opportunity as up until this point, we had a really strong string of episodes and Last of the Time Lords really could have capped everything off nicely. Like Liked 3 25 April 2024 · 292 words Review by 15thDoctor Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! A trilogy of diminishing returns. And it really shouldn’t be given the excellent characters and concepts on display throughout. The real outlier of course is Utopia which is of incredibly high quality, the tension slowly ramps up throughout the story in this dystopian fantasy land. Captain Jack is back and suddenly at odds with the Doctor which is a dramatic treat. The tension between him and The Doctor really sparkles. Then we get one of the series’ all time best reveals - the amazing Derek Jacobi turns out to be an unwitting, secret iteration of The Master! My word. Following Blink and Human Nature I felt a bit spoiled. The Sound of Drums begins well enough. The Master as Prime Minister is a dastardly treat. But it loses touch with reality shortly after and the pacing goes down the toilet. Aging The Doctor, then aging him even further in Last of the Time Lords does nothing to serve the plot. I’d say none of the amazing characters RTD had introduced over his time as showrunner really got much of anything interesting to do in the last two instalments of this story. Martha travelling the world talking to people about The Doctor… is that an interesting character motivation? And the embarrassment I still feel watching the Jesus like resurrection of The Doctor transforming from a shrivelled up old nubbin to a triumphant young Tennant whilst people shout “Doctor” in unison. My God. That is bad TV. It feels wrong to rate these tangentially connected stories as a single whole - but some guy on Totally Doctor Who once said they were a single story so we’ll treat them as such! Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating607 members 3.43 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,241 votes 4.21 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. 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Happy now? DOCTOR: You're not dying. Don't be stupid. It's only a bullet. Just regenerate. MASTER: No. DOCTOR: One little bullet. Come on. MASTER: I guess you don't know me so well. I refuse. DOCTOR: Regenerate. Just regenerate. Please. Please! Just regenerate. Come on. MASTER: And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with you? DOCTOR: You've got to. Come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons. Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else. Regenerate! MASTER: How about that. I win. Will it stop, Doctor? The drumming. Will it stop? — Last of the Time Lords Transcript Needs checking (Cold Open) COMPUTER: Space lane traffic is advised to stay away from Sol Three, also known as Earth. Pilots are warned Sol Three is now entering terminal extinction. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed. (One year later) [Beach] (A man signals to a rowing boat offshore with an oil lamp. It comes in and Martha gets out. The boat and its crew leave.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window