Doctor Who Season 4

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Catherine Tate's Donna Noble had been introduced as a one-off comic foil, and casting her as the full-series companion was the kind of brave choice that defines peak-era Davies. The show abandoned any romantic tension and built something rarer: a friendship of equals between a grieving alien and a woman who felt insignificant in ordinary life. The season's quality held consistently across its run, and the finale - uniting virtually every companion from the revival era in an apocalyptic set-piece - remains the show's most ambitious production. Donna's ending is the revival era's most genuinely tragic companion departure.

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The Room

Season Over Season

Donna replaces Martha and lifts the companion writing to its revival-era peak - the platonic pairing gives Tennant new registers to play.