The Doctor Who Headcanon Reimagined, 3: Earth And Other Disappearing Planets

Now that The Doctor knows who he is, and knows to keep a better eye on his companions, it's time for him to have some therapy sessions about his interpersonal relationships. And once that's over, there is also a problem with planets disappearing. Sometimes, even entire solar systems. Three major interplanetary problems are introduced (and two of them solved) this season, amongst The Doctors and his companions trying to get some downtime, only to be sucked into some really weird traps.

Donna is the A+ companion in this season. As The Runaway Bride she encounters two different faces of The Doctor, only...they're the same face? What does that mean

301. The Runaway Bride
(10, Donna)

We ended our last season with The Doctor's sad separation from a companion. Then a random woman just appeared on his TARDIS, this is his first adventure with that woman, and serves as a mini-therapy session as he talks about his grief and loss. There's also a spectacularly campy villain.


302. The Doctor's Wife
(11, Amy, Rory)

The Doctor's...married? Not really. We determined last season that Leather Doctor and Smiling Doctor both belileve they are the last surviving Time People, so when The Doctor received a message begging for help from a fellow Time Person, he rushes to a planet where we get an in-depth look at a relationship that the series usually ignores.


303. The Three Doctors
(1, 2, 3, Brigadier, Jo, Benton, Omega)

We saw in the first season how The Flute Doctor was exiled to Earth and forced to regenerate into The Kung-Fu Doctor. This Doctor is mostly Earth-bound but occasionally the incompetent Time People need his help in space and send him on very specific missions. Well, they finally have one so important that they need not just Kung-Fu Doctor but also Flute Doctor and Grouchy Doctor too all add their unput to stop a rogue Time Person.


304. The Celestial Toymaker
(1, Steven, Dodo, The Toymaker)

This is a wacky, mostly animated episode (due to the BBC having erased a bunch of the episodes from the 1960s) about a chaos god messing around with The Grouchy Doctor and his companions.


305. Midnight
(10, Donna)

Smiling Doctor takes a break from his companion (The Runaway Bride) and goes on a relaxing train trip for tourists where things get real weird and real wrong real fast.


306. Pyramids Of Mars
(4, Sarah Jane, Sutekh)

Scarf Doctor and Sarah Jane end up being trapped by The God Of Death in a fun, archeology-focused adventure.


307. Planet Of The Ood
(10, Donna)

A very polite race of aliens is being used as slaves by a greedy corporation. The Smiling Doctor and his Runaway Bride get caught up on the corporation's home planet and are determined to end the slave ring.


308. The Sontarem Strategem
(10, Donna, Martha, Sylvia, Wilfred, The Sontarans, UNIT)

One of The Doctor's companions from the first season is now working for UNIT and sends a distress signal to The Doctor. A warlike race that we've encountered a couple of times has created technology that threatens human life in a variety of ways.


309. The Poison Sky
(10, Donna, Martha, Sylvia, Wilfred, The Sontarans, UNIT)

Continuing from the last episode, The Smiling Doctor and his companions try and save the Earth. An evil and easily manipulated tech nerd is involved in the possible destruction of the human race, which hasn't at all been relevant at any point in 21st century history.


310. The Doctor's Daughter
(10, Donna, Martha)

We know The Doctor has a granddaughter floating around, surely he must have a child that produced said grandchild. While his UNIT friend and The Runaway Bride are still travelling with him, he ends up in the midst of an unusual civil war that creates the circumstances for him to have a child.


311. The Pandorica Opens
(11, Amy, Rory, River Song, Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Autons, Sycorax, Judoons, Silurians)

Bowtie Doctor stumbles into a trap connected to those weirds cracks in the walls he's been seeing since the first season. Also, that woman from the library in the first season appears to be involved.


312. The Big Bang
(11, Amy Rory, River Song, Daleks, Autons)

Oh no, is The Doctor the reasons for all those cracks in the walls? Is that woman from the library way more important to The Doctor than we could have possibly imagined? Did one of his companions wait literally thousands of years to re-enter The Doctor's life? What's the deal with the fez?


313. Turn Left
(10, Donna, Rose, Sylvia, Wilfred)

While The Smiling Doctor checks out a street fair, The Runaway Bride enters a fortune teller's booth and experiences what her life would be like without The Doctor, which, in turn, shows her what would happen to The Doctor without her.


314. The Stolen Earth
(10, Donna, Rose, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack Harkness, Sylvia, Wilfred, Harriet Jones, Gwen, Ianto, Davros, Daleks)

Luckily for everybody everywhere, The Smiling Doctor and The Runaway Bride did encounter each other and now the two of them, having run into Bad Wolf again, end up encountering a ton of characters from our first three seasons as the Earth is transported away and invaded by Daleks.


315. Journey's End
(10, Donna, Rose, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack Harkness, Mickey, Jackie, Sylvia, Wilfred, Gwen, Ianto, Davros, Daleks, K-9)

K-9 is pretty much a kitchen sink, so let's just use the cliche "everything and the kitchen sink" are thrown into this episode as The Smiling Doctor must save The Earth from The Daleks and then somehow get it back into its proper galaxy.


316. The Rebel Flesh
(11, Amy, Rory, Mme Kovarian)

They're not precisely autons but there is a manaufactured alien race of doppelgangers designed to keep miners from being killed in dangerous operations. This, of course, leads to the problem of Who Are The Real People and Who Are The Dopplegangers?


317. The Almost People
(11, Amy, Rory, Mme Kovarian)

Things from the last episode get even more complicated as a Doppleganger Doctor gets involved in the adventure. Which one is he? Naturally.


318. City Of Death
(4, Romana)

Time to go back to The Scarf Doctor Days for a good old fashioned art heist involving The Mona Lisa. 


319. The Space Museum
(1, Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Daleks)

Now let's travel even further back as The Grouchy Doctor and a couple of his original companions find a museum in which there are exhibits focused on them!


320. Kerblam!
(13, Graham, Ryan, Yas)

It's Amazon.com in space. The Steampunk Doctor sees how poorly employees are treated by a space corporation. See how it indirectly helps AI start to kill its employees, even though it was programmed to help them. See how corporations make everything go horribly, horribly wrong whilst, naturally, underpaying their workers.


321. The Star Beast
(14, Donna, Sylvia, Shirley, Shaun, Rose Noble)

The Smiling Doctor is back but having been regenerated into his old face. He doesn't understand it. Things then take a worse turn when he encounters The Runaway Bride who, last time we saw her, would literally explode if she ever rememberd The Doctor and her adventures with him. Oh, there's also a very cute little alien who needs help.


322. The Giggle
(14, Donna, Kate Lethebridge-Stewart, Mel, 15, Sylvia, Shirley, The Toymaker, Shaun, Rose Noble, Vlinx)

It's another multi-Doctor, multi-companion episode as that chaos god who we encountered earlier this season has laid a trap in the early days of television that has become a problem in the early 21st century.  Can the extensive team The Once Again Smiling But Not As Much Doctor has assembled stop the chaos god from overpowering humanity?


323. The Devil's Chord
(15, Ruby, Maestro, Susan Triad)

The Once Again Smiling Doctor regenerated into The Crying Doctor during the last episode. This new face has a new companion and a new very campy, very fun antagonist. Buuuuuuut...is she connected to the chaos god from the last episode? And if so, are there more of these gods?


324. Lux
(15, Belinda, Mrs Flood)

Yes, there are more of these gods! The Crying Doctor has yet another new companion and they end up having to rescue a theater full of people who've been trapped by....a cartoon? It's a mixed media adventure with a lot of meta references but it's really fun.


325. The Well
(15, Belinda, Mrs Flood)

We end this season with a call back to The Smiling Doctor's train trip. It appears that the antagonist, who we never precisely met, still exists and has become, potentially, much more dangerous. In the background of this story, we learn that The Earth seems to have not just disappeared physically this time but disappeared historically, as if it never existed. This seems like it might be a big problem next season.