Doctor Who character
Donna Noble
Affiliated with	Tenth Doctor
Race	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	Early 21st Century
First appearance	"Doomsday"
Last appearance	"Journey's End"
Portrayed by	Catherine Tate

Donna Noble is a fictional character played by Catherine Tate in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A secretary from Chiswick, London, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor, appearing in one scene at the end of the final episode of the 2006 series, "Doomsday" (named in the credits only as "The Bride"), and in the second Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride". The character returned as a full-time companion in the fourth series, in 2008.^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... 20XX redirects here. ... Doomsday is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the actress. ... This article is about the actress. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the television series. ... For other uses, see Chiswick (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Companion, in the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, is a term used to describe a character who travels with and shares the adventures of the Doctor. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Runaway Bride is a special episode of the long running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. ...

Character history

In the events of the 2006 series Christmas episode "The Runaway Bride", Donna Noble is a temporary secretary at H.C. Clements in London, a security firm which, unknown to her, provided a front for the Torchwood Institute up until its collapse following the events of "Doomsday", and was then taken over by an alien intelligence. Little is known about her family or past life. Her parents are Geoff and Sylvia Noble.^[2] The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... Doomsday is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

On Christmas Eve, the day of her wedding, she is accidentally pulled into the TARDIS as a result of being dosed with Huon particles by her duplicitous fiancé, Lance Bennett, on the orders of the Empress of the Racnoss. She aids the Doctor in defeating the Racnoss Empress, but declines his invitation to travel with him — she is frightened not only by his adventures, but also, to a certain extent, by the Doctor himself. Having seen him commit genocide on the Racnoss, she urges him to find a new companion to act as his moral compass. It was revealed in a later episode that if not for Donna's involvement, the Doctor would have been killed while stopping the Racnoss. The current TARDIS prop. ... This is a list of items from the BBC television series Doctor Who. ... An engagement is an agreement by a couple to enter into marriage at some future time, usually accompanied by a formal or informal announcement to friends and family. ... This is a list of henchmen, fictional characters serving villains and/or monsters and aliens in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... The War Chief redirects here. ... This is a list of monsters and aliens from the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Reappearing in April 2008's series four premiere, "Partners in Crime", Donna has become dissatisfied with regular life and more interested in the bigger picture. She regrets declining the Doctor's offer and has been investigating unusual phenomena in the hopes of finding the Doctor for some time. When investigating Miss Foster and Adipose Industries, the Londoner and the Time Lord are finally re-united. She expresses her regret for not joining him to the Doctor and after stopping Foster's plans to convert the whole of London into Adipose children she joins him in the TARDIS as a regular companion. She makes it explicit, however, that she has no romantic attachment to him as Martha Jones and Rose Tyler did.^[3] Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and will appear in its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... Rose Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and was created by series producer Russell T Davies. ...

In "The Fires of Pompeii", Donna continually argues with the Doctor over the moral issue of whether or not he should save the inhabitants of Pompeii from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius the next day. Ultimately, they are forced to cause the eruption to happen, weighing the destruction of the city against the fate of the whole world. When they escape in the TARDIS and leave behind a Pompeiian family they had befriended beforehand, Donna eventually manages to persuade the Doctor to save the family. The Doctor later admits to Donna that she was right about his needing someone, after which he welcomes her aboard.^[4] For other uses, see Pompeii (disambiguation). ... This article is about the mountain in Italy. ...

Donna is the Doctor's full time companion for all 13 episodes of Series 4.^[1][5] Her return to the series sees her with her maternal grandfather, recurring character Wilfred Mott, as well as her mother, Sylvia.^[6][7] Donna has encountered the Racnoss, the Adipose, the Pyroviles, the Ood, the Sontarans, The Hath, Vespiforms, the Vashta Nerada, the Judoon and the Daleks. A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who is not a main character, but appears from time to time during the series run. ... Object-oriented design (OOD) is a design method in which a system is modelled as a collection of cooperating objects and individual objects are treated as instances of a class within a class hierarchy. ... The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Judoon are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoid mercenary police from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Daleks can refer to either: Plural of Dalek, the fictional robot; or Daleks (video game). ...

In the Series 4 finale, "Journey's End", Donna is made half-Time Lord in a mutual exchange of energy between her and a copy of The Doctor (created by the severed hand of the real Doctor, imbued with his own regeneration energy). This causes her to have the mind of a Time Lord, but it is too much for her human self to hold. In order to save her from death, the real Doctor has to remove his mind from hers. This includes wiping her memories of ever meeting him, as anything that could possibly remind her of those times might re-awaken her dormant Time Lord mind and kill her. Donna is the first companion to have all memory wiped of the Doctor. The only other time memories of the Doctor were erased were in the story The War Games in which the Second Doctor's companions Zoe and Jamie have all but their first encounter with the Doctor erased. This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... Regeneration, in the context of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords, a race of humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. ... This article is about the Doctor Who serial. ... The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot), or simply Zoe, is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... James Robert McCrimmon, or simply Jamie, is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Personality

Donna's strident reaction to her sudden appearance in the TARDIS includes yelling at the Doctor and leaping to the conclusion that she has been kidnapped. The Doctor appears to find her loud-mouthed manner off-putting at first, saying "I don't want you here, anyway". He sarcastically wishes Lance "good luck" with the marriage, and later reminds Lance in person of his pending promise to "honour and obey". Even at the end of the episode, when the Doctor and Donna are on better terms, he remarks, "Blimey, you can shout." Series producer Russell T Davies at one time dismissed Donna's potential as an ongoing companion due to her abrasive personality, saying that "she'd get on your nerves".^[8] Russell T Davies, OBE (born Steven Russell Davies,[1] 27 April 1963), is a Welsh television producer and writer. ...

The Doctor innocently notes that Donna is neither special nor clever. Upon learning that she is unaware of both the Sycorax ship flying over London and the Battle of Canary Wharf, due to hangovers and scuba-diving holidays respectively, he takes her to task for missing "the bigger picture". Fixated on her interrupted wedding, Donna initially shows little interest in understanding the strange things she encounters, such as the TARDIS and robot Santas, viewing them instead as obstacles between her and her goal. Upon being informed that "this is serious" by her husband to be and asked what they are going to do, she responds by recommending a new date for their wedding. Once his duplicity toward Donna is revealed, Lance criticises her for her stupidity and her preoccupation with "trivia" (celebrity gossip and so on). The Christmas Invasion is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... For other uses, see Hangover (disambiguation). ... Scuba diving is swimming underwater while using self-contained breathing equipment. ... This is a list of henchmen, fictional characters serving villains and/or monsters and aliens in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ...

Nevertheless, as she begins to trust the Doctor more, she follows him as he investigates her employers, H.C. Clements, and stands up to the Empress of the Racnoss. Gaining perspective on the human condition after witnessing the formation of the Earth, she decides to make something of her life, walking "in the dust" of the Earth and no longer taking "the bigger picture" for granted. When the Doctor tells her to "be magnificent", she says that she intends to do just that.

Despite her faults, and her failure to discover Lance's villainy earlier, Donna shows a great deal of insight in her interactions with the Doctor. Shocked and scared by his merciless defeat of the Racnoss, she initially turns down the Doctor's offer of full time companionship, but urges him to find someone else to travel with, "because sometimes I think you need someone to stop you".

Upon her second meeting with the Doctor, Donna claims that he has "opened her eyes" about the wonders of the universe. She has also shown considerable investigative skills, in particular in bureaucratic areas, due to her experience as a temp. Such skills are demonstrated when she investigates Adipose Industries in tandem with The Doctor (despite neither being aware of the other's progress) in "Partners In Crime", and when she points out that something is amiss with the workers in the ATMOS factory since the records shows no sick days taken, in "The Sontaran Stratagem". In "The Doctor's Daughter" these skills are further developed as Donna deduces the development of Messaline's civilization from the dates printed on its doors.

Donna also tells Martha Jones in "The Doctor's Daughter" that she wishes (like Rose Tyler before her) to travel with the Doctor forever, becoming the second companion to express this desire. Indeed, she admits that she couldn't go back to living a normal life after everything she has seen. Rose Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and was created by series producer Russell T Davies. ...

Starting with the prophecy in "Pompeii" that "there is something on your back," Donna Noble has been becoming increasingly more important in the Doctor Who mythos for Season 4, with a mystery surrounding her. A fortune teller on Shan Shen in "Turn Left" declares that Donna is "so strong," and asks "what will you be?" and an assistant at the Shadow Proclamation tells her "you are something new."

A major point of notice came when the Doctor met Professor River Song. When Professor Song realizes she is talking to Donna Noble she is in awe for a moment causing Donna to angrily demand why River knows the Doctor and not her.

Culminating in the episode "Turn Left" where all of reality rewrites itself to accommodate her changing her mind on a past event; the Tenth Doctor notes about the number of coincidences that have followed Donna (not least the fact that in all of time and space the Doctor met her randomly twice). Rose also says that there are strange energy readings surrounding Donna from the moment of her birth; eventually Rose states that "I thought it was just him we needed, but it's you too, the Doctor and Donna."

In addition to these incidents, Donna has also displayed a desire not to peek at the future (despite having the ability to time travel): she dismisses prophets in Pompeii as nonsense, turns down the chance to read River's diary and declines the offer to have her fortune told on Shan Shen three times before giving in.

In the episode "The Stolen Earth" the mad Dalek Caan predicts the coming of the "three fold man" foreshadowing Donna's relationship with the Doctor.

At the end of the series, Donna is about to be swallowed in a fiery inferno whilst inside the TARDIS. However, she manages to somehow use the hand which turns into a duplicate of the Doctor but with Donna's characteristics imprinted in him as well as only one heart. Also, later we find out that the process was two way and Donna has inherited some of the Doctor's characteristics and his Time Lord encyclopedic knowledge. The new version of Donna proving to be more brilliant than the Doctor as she devises a method to return Earth to its rightful place. Her human imagination and intuition giving edge to the Doctor's knowledge. In the end though, she gets her memory erased of any encounters with the Doctor as her human physiology cannot hold so much knowledge as she is only human. She starts babbling like the Doctor but slowly realizes what's happening to her. However she refuses to submit to the Doctor's psychic surgery stating she wanted to travel with the Doctor forever as the 'DoctorDonna'. The Doctor forces the psychic surgery onto Donna and she ends up with no memory of her adventures with the Doctor and carrying on her life without him, with her old attitude back.

As the Doctor and his companions are leaving, the Doctor questioned Dalek Caan about his involvement in making sure that Donna intersected with his life and he says he always saw this happening but that he helped, which implies that Donna's interaction with the Doctor was another temporal anomaly like the Bad Wolf paradox which happened at the end of series 1.

Production and publicity

Catherine Tate, the actress who portrays Donna, was the first guest star to be named in the show's opening credits, and her character was considered by the production team to have companion status long before the announcement of the character's return.^[8] Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman (during his tenure with Tennant only) and Elisabeth Sladen (during her tenure with Tennant in Series 4) have all been credited in this manner for their continuing roles as companions. Kylie Minogue was later credited this way in the following Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned" as well as Peter Davison in the Children In Need Special "Time Crash". This article is about the actress. ... Companion, in the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, is a term used to describe a character who travels with and shares the adventures of the Doctor. ... Billie Paul Piper (born Leanne Paul Piper[1] on 22 September 1982) is an British actress. ... Freema Agyeman (born 1 January 1979 in Finsbury Park, London[2] ) is an English actress of Ghanaian and Iranian descent whose first notable appearance was in the ITV soap opera Crossroads in 2001[1]. She is best known for playing medical student Martha Jones, companion of the Tenth Doctor in... John Barrowman (born 11 March 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Elisabeth Sladen (born February 1, 1948, Liverpool, England) is an English actress best known for her work as the character Sarah Jane Smith on the television series Doctor Who and related spin-offs. ... Kylie redirects here. ... Voyage of the Damned is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett 13 April 1951) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriots All Creatures Great and Small and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to... New BBC Children in Need Pudsey and logo from 2007 BBC Children in Need is an annual British charity appeal organised by the BBC. Since 1980 it has raised £470million. ... Time Crash is a mini-episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

As indicated by David Tennant in his video diary of the making of the second series (included in the DVD box set), the casting of Tate was kept secret, with her scene in Doomsday filmed with minimal crew. According to Tennant in his video diary for the third series (and included in that series' DVD set), this was one of the few occasions where the element of surprise was successfully maintained without it being revealed in advance by the media. David Tennant (born David John McDonald;[1] 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. ...

Donna is featured in the original audiobook Pest Control by Peter Anghelides^[9] and she will appear for her first time in the New Series Adventures in the set of three books published in September 2008; Ghosts of India, The Doctor Trap and Shining Darkness. Cassette recording of Patrick OBrians The Mauritius Command done by Patrick Tull An audiobook is a recording that is primarily of the spoken word as opposed to music. ... Peter Anghelides is an author and dramatist most well known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who. ...

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