Doctor Who - The Complete Third Series product reviews

I am a Doctor Who fan from many years ago, with my favourite of the "Classic" Doctor's being Tom Baker, however, of the New Generation Doctor's while I thought Christopher Eccleston did a great job of reintroducing Doctor Who to a whole new generation of viewers I personally like David Tennant's rendition of a most loved role.

While I loved the chemistry that existed between The Doctor and Rose (David Tennant and Billie Piper) and I like many others was sad to see Billie go, I feel that the partnership between David and the new Companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) is a good strong partnership with it's own unique chemistry that builds during the course of the season.

My favourite episodes of this season had to be the Daleks two-parter and the three-part season finale. The Daleks episodes I liked mainly for the fact it had the Daleks in it, but also as they tried to do something different with placing the episodes in 1930's New York. And the season finale was great for reintroducing a very old favourite with a new face, and how superbly perfomed it was as well, as well as what could be an interesting revelation about Captain Jack Harkness.

Whilst they were my favourite shows of this series it must be said that all episodes were of an extremely high calibre, not to mention inovative and original for Doctor Who. Take for example the episode '42' an episode shown in real-time a la '24', when I first heard this I thought this is going to be interesting, not really thinking they could pull it off, but pull it off they did.

Doctor Who is also well known for it's occasional cameo's by some relatively well known actors who unfortunately usually end up smothered by some wonderful prosthetic makeup, and this season is no exception, with a wonderful cameo by Ardal O'Hanlon (who played Father Dougal McGuire in 'Father Ted') in the episode 'Gridlock', but I'll leave it up to you to spot him.

Also thoughout this season is the hidden backstory (which of course only becomes apparent in the last two episodes) much like the 'Bad Wolf' backstory in Season 1.

The extras included with this box set are also amazing, starting with a studio walkthrough with Freema, to David's Video Diaries of selected episodes (I still have trouble getting used to seeing The Doctor talking with a scottish accent ) which are very entertaining and insightful. Also having the commentaries for each episode gives a great insight into the production of the show from the Head Writers, Actors and Production Crew's perspective. Another great feature is the inclusion of all 13 Doctor Who Confidential - Cutdown episodes (which we do not get to see here in NZ) which also provide a further insight into the making of all 13 episodes of this Season.

I gave this a 10 for Personal Choice as I feel this is the best season of the new Doctor Who series so far and I can't wait to see what Season 4 brings.