Stories Television Doctor Who Series 4 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Midnight 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 12 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 3 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Saturday, June 14, 2008 Production Code 4.8 Written by Russell T Davies Publisher BBC Directed by Alice Troughton Runtime 44 minutes Story Type Bottle Episode, Companion-Lite Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Base Under Siege, Bleak Resort, Lost the TARDIS, The Doctor’s Name Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Lost Planets Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Stethoscope, Psychic Paper, Sonic Screwdriver Location (Potential Spoilers!) Midnight UK Viewers 8.05 million Appreciation Index 86 Synopsis The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble go to the leisure planet of Midnight for a simple, relaxing holiday. However, life with the Doctor can never be that simple, and things go horribly wrong for the Doctor when he decides to go off on a bus trip to see the Sapphire Waterfall, starting with the bus shutting down. When a mysterious entity infiltrates the shuttle bus, no one is to be trusted. Not even the Doctor himself... Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Tenth Doctor David Tennant Sky Dee Dee Donna Noble Catherine Tate It Has No Name Spoiler!Click to reveal 👀 Show All Characters (5) How to watch Midnight: Watch on iPlayer Doctor Who Confidential Blu-Ray Series 4 [Steelbook] Blu-Ray Series 4 DVD The Complete Fourth Series DVD Series 4 Volume 3: Silence in the Library – Forest of the Dead – Midnight Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 12 reviews 29 April 2025 · 4 words Review by gabe_the_cool i hate everyone there gabe_the_cool View profile Like Liked 0 29 April 2025 · 46 words Review by BSCTDrayden 5 Every watch I think this cannot get any better. On third watch, as part of a double bill with The Well, I've realised this might be my favourite episode of NuWho, and a contender for my favourite DW story ever. Perfect in every way. Molto bene. BSCTDrayden View profile Like Liked 5 28 April 2025 · 32 words Review by Guardax 2 The first time I watched it on a binge in 2013, didn't really 'get' it. The second time I watched it was in 2020 during covid. It scared the living daylights out of me. Guardax View profile Like Liked 2 26 April 2025 · 21 words Review by Equilius Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Rewatched Apr 25th 2025 What if The Doctor didn't turn the entertainment off and Raffaella Carra was still playing while everything happened Equilius View profile Like Liked 1 31 March 2025 · 13 words Review by CarrotJuice 3 Not much to say which hasn't been said before. It's perfect Doctor Who. CarrotJuice View profile Like Liked 3 Show All Reviews (12) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating935 members 4.66 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,227 votes 4.17 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1782 Favourited 450 Reviewed 12 Saved 4 Skipped 1 Related Stories Captain Jack's Monster Files (Minisode) Captain Jack’s Monster File: Midnight Rating: 2.58 Story Skipped Webcast Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Captain Jack’s Monster Files Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Doctor Who Season Two • Episode 3 The Well Rating: 4.11 Story Skipped Television Reviews(60) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Season Two Set of Stories: Doctor Who (2023-) Set of Stories: Fifteenth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight? What could possibly go wrong? — Tenth Doctor, Midnight Show All Quotes (3) Open in new window Transcript + Script [Spa] (On a glittering alien world, an attendant brings a telephone to Donna. She is lounging by the pool, wearing a bathrobe.) DONNA: I said, no. [Public telephone] DOCTOR: Sapphire waterfall. It's a waterfall made of sapphires. Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)
