Doctor Who/School Reunion

School Reunion
Season 28, Episode 3
Airdate	April 29, 2006
Written by	Toby Whithouse
Directed by	James Hawes
← 28x02 Tooth and Claw	28x04 → The Girl in the Fireplace
Doctor Who — Season Twenty-Eight

School Reunion is the third episode of the twenty-eighth season of Doctor Who, and the seven hundred thirty-fifth episode overall.

The Tenth Doctor and Rose head back to the twenty-first century after Mickey calls them to investigate strange goings on at a school. Once there the Doctor meets a few old friends.

Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith), Anthony Head (Mr Finch), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Rod Arthur (Mr Parsons), Eugene Washington (Mr Wagner), Heather Cameron (Nina), Joe Pickley (Kenny), Benjamin Smith (Luke), Clem Tibber (Milo), Lucinda Dryzek (Melissa), Caroline Berry (Dinner Lady), John Leeson (Voice of K9)

Plot Overview

The Doctor is the new physics teacher at Deffry Vale high school. Rose has a job at the school as well, she's a dinner lady. Mickey has summoned the Doctor and Rose there to investigate several UFO sightings, as well as the school's recent meteoric increase in test scores. Sarah Jane is there to investigate the same sightings. Funny things are going on in the kitchen as Rose witnesses the other dinner ladies bringing in some toxic oil, when one dinner lady is splattered she explodes! After school Rose, the Doctor, Mickey and Sarah Jane investigate. Rose gets a sample of the oil. Sarah Jane finds the TARDIS and realizes who the Doctor is. The Doctor fixes K9 who examines the oil, it is Krillitane oil, used by the Krillitanes to make the school children smarter. The Krillitanes wish to unlock the code of the universe in order to remake it to their liking. K9 sacrifices himself to save the Doctor. The Doctor invites Sarah Jane to join them for more adventures, she refuses but Mickey takes him up on the offer. After the TARDIS dematerilizes Sarah Jane sees that the Doctor has left her a new present, K9 Mark IV upgraded and everything. Sarah Jane and K9 walk off into the sunset to have their own adventures.

Notes

• Time and Space: 2006, England, Earth.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Mickey: Mickey decides to join Rose and the Doctor in their travels.

Referbacks

• Sarah Jane Smith: The Doctor meets a former companion. Sarah Jane spent time with the Doctor in his third and fourth incarnations.
• K9: K9 travelled with the Doctor during his fourth incarnation. The original K9 was given to Leela. This is K9 Mark III, who was a gift from the Doctor to Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane and K9 starred in a pilot called K-9 and Company.
• Spearhead from Space: The Doctor introduces himself to Sarah Jane as John Smith. An alias not unfamiliar to Sarah Jane as the Doctor used it frequently. It was originally used by the Third Doctor in his first appearance.
• Sarah Jane and Rose spend time describing past adventures while arguing over the Doctor:
  • Pyramids of Mars: Sarah Jane starts off with mummies, encountered with the Fourth Doctor in Edwardian England on the future site of UNIT HQ.
  • The Unquiet Dead: Rose counters with ghosts. Actually Gelth she met in Cardiff along with Charles Dickens.
  • The Time Warrior / Robot / The Sontaran Experiment / The Android Invasion / The Five Doctors / Pyramids of Mars: "Robots, lots of robots."
  • Aliens of London / World War 3: "Slitheen in Downing Street".
  • Death to the Daleks / Genesis of the Daleks: "Daleks!" Sarah Jane met the Daleks twice, once with the Third Doctor and once with the Fourth Doctor, where they tried to stop their creation.
  • Dalek / Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways: "Met the emporer." Rose and the Ninth Doctor met the final Dalek in Arizona in 2012 and later faced off an invasion fleet in the 201st Century.
  • Planet of Evil: "Anti-matter monsters." Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor faced off against anti-matter monsters 30,000 years in the future on the planet Zeta Minor.
  • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances: "Gas-mask zombies." Rose and the Ninth Doctor were hunted by people with gas masks for faces in London during the Blitz.
  • Invasion of the Dinosaurs: "Real living dinosaurs." Sarah Jane and the Third Doctor faced off against dinosaurs brought from the past to 1970s London.
  • Tooth and Claw: "Real living werewolf." The Doctor and Rose just returned from their Victorian adventure with the werewolf.
  • Terror of the Zygons: "The Loch Ness Monster." The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and another companion, Harry Sullivan travel to Scotland to investigate the mysterious sabotage of oil rigs.
• The Hand of Fear: Sarah Jane tells the Doctor he let her out in Aberdeen instead of Croyden as she had wanted. The Hand of Fear was Sarah Jane's last regular appearance as a companion of the Doctor.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• When the Doctor begins to admit he has feelings for Rose.

• The Doctor's reaction to K9.

Quotes

• The Doctor: It's very well behaved this place. I thought it would be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones.