Doctor Who/Season Thirty

Season Thirty
Doctor Who
Season Premiere	April 5, 2008
Season Finale	July 5, 2008
Episode Count	13 + 6 specials
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Season Thirty of Doctor Who (Series Four of the revival show) premiered on April 5, 2008

Regular cast

• David Tennant as The Doctor.
• Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Supporting cast

• Bernard Cribbins (9 episodes) as Wilfred Mott.
• Jacqueline King (8 episodes) as Sylvia Noble.
• Billie Piper (7 episodes) as Rose Tyler.
• Freema Agyeman (6 episodes) as Martha Jones.
• Lachele Carl (5 episodes) as Trinity Wells.
• John Barrowman (3 episodes) as Jack Harkness.
• Thomas Knight (3 episodes) as Luke Smith.
• Jason Mohammad (3 episodes) as Newsreader.
• Elisabeth Sladen (3 episodes) as Sarah Jane Smith.
• Clive Standen (3 episodes) as Carl Harris.
• Adjoa Andoh (2 episodes) as Francine Jones.
• Noel Clarke (2 episodes) as Mickey Smith.
• Camille Coduri (2 episodes) as Jackie Tyler.
• Gareth David-Lloyd (2 episodes) as Ianto Jones.
• Noma Dumezweni (2 episodes) as Erisa Magambo.
• Alex Kingston (2 episodes) as River Song.
• Eve Myles (2 episodes) as Gwen Cooper.
• John Simm (2 episodes) as The Master.
• Russell Tovey (2 episodes) as Alonso Frame.
• Krystal Archer (1 episode) as Nerys.
• Kelly Hunter (1 episode) as The Shadow Architect.
• John Leeson (1 episode) as K-9.
• Alexandra Moen (1 episode) as Lucy Saxon.
• Ben Righton (1 episode) as Oliver Morgenstern.
• Matt Smith (1 episode) as The Doctor.
• Penelope Wilton (1 episode) as Harriet Jones.
• Barnaby Edwards (2 episodes), David Hankinson (2 episodes), Nicholas Pegg (2 episodes) and Anthony Spargo (2 episodes) as the Daleks.

Kylie Minogue, David Morrissey, Michelle Ryan and Lindsay Duncan receive top billing, alongside David Tennant, in one special each.

Peter Capaldi (1 episode), Karen Gillan (1 episode) and Dan Starkey (3 episodes), who will recur as the Doctor, Amy Pond and Strax in future seasons, appear as separate characters. Alan Ruscoe (1 episode), who served as alien actor during Season 27, appears as a human character.

Additional cast includes alien actors Paul Kasey (9 episodes) and Ruari Mears (8 episodes), as well as voice actors Nicholas Briggs (4 episodes) and Silas Carson (3 episodes).

Crew

Showrunner Russell T Davies wrote twelve episodes (three of which were co-written by James Moran, Gareth Roberts and Phil Ford, respectively), with the remaining scripts being written by Keith Temple, Helen Raynor (a two-part story), Stephen Greenhorn, Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat (a two-part story).

Directors include Graeme Harper (6 episodes), Euros Lyn (4 episodes), James Strong (3 episodes), Douglas Mackinnon (2 episodes), Alice Troughton (2 episodes), Colin Teague (1 episode) and Andy Goddard (1 episode).

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate	USA Airdate
S3	SP	Voyage of the Damned			December 25, 2007	April 18, 2008
759	1	Partners in Crime			April 5, 2008	April 25, 2008
760	2	The Fires of Pompeii			April 12, 2008	May 2, 2008
761	3	Planet of the Ood			April 19, 2008	May 9, 2008
762	4	The Sontaran Stratagem			April 26, 2008	May 16, 2008
763	5	The Poison Sky			May 3, 2008	May 30, 2008
764	6	The Doctor's Daughter			May 10, 2008	June 6, 2008
765	7	The Unicorn and the Wasp			May 17, 2008	June 13, 2008
766	8	Silence in the Library			May 31, 2008	June 20, 2008
767	9	Forest of the Dead			June 7, 2008	June 27, 2008
768	10	Midnight			June 14, 2008	July 11, 2008
769	11	Turn Left			June 21, 2008	July 18, 2008
770	12	The Stolen Earth			June 28, 2008	July 25, 2008
771	13	Journey's End			July 5, 2008	August 1, 2008
S4	SP	The Next Doctor			December 25, 2008	June 27, 2009
S5	SP	Planet of the Dead			April 11, 2009	July 26, 2009
S6	SP	The Waters of Mars			November 15, 2009	December 19, 2009
S7	SP	The End of Time (1)			December 25, 2009	December 26, 2009
S8	SP	The End of Time (2)			January 1, 2010	January 2, 2010