How long is donna noble on doctor who

Ever since Doctor Who began its original run in , the Time Lord has always had at least one companion by their side to give the audience someone to represent them, while also grounding the Doctor throughout the adventures. From the many men and women who have accompanied the hero for decades, the companion is as important to Doctor Who as the Doctor themselves.

The show would not work if the Doctor were on their own. In the modern era of Doctor Who , which was revived in , multiple companions have become huge fan favorites during and after their run. However, some companions' time on Doctor Who was shorter than others', especially in the Russell T. Davies era. While Martha and Donna did return for guest spots after their respective seasons, why were these companions short-lived on Doctor Who?

By the end, Martha makes the decision to leave the TARDIS , as she saw no point in following a man that didn't feel the same way for her as she did for the Doctor. Martha's reasons also had to do with wanting to return to her family, as well as continuing her medical education. I don't believe it! Donna Noble : Oh, you got the same suit! Donna Noble : Don't you ever change? The Doctor : Yeah, thanks Donna; not right now. The Doctor : [to Donna] Just like old times.

My name's Donna. The Doctor : [knocks at Roger Davey's door] Mr. The Doctor : I just need to ask you a few questions.

Donna Noble : I'm waving at fat. Wilfred Mott : [looking at the night sky] Dueling about with all them aliens. Just you wait. Donna Noble : [smiling] You really believe in all that stuff, don't you? Wilfred Mott : [chuckles] All over the place these days. If I wait here long enough Donna Noble : I don't suppose you've seen a little blue box?

Wilfred Mott : Is that slang for something? Donna Noble : [laughs] No. I mean it. If you ever see a little blue box fly up there in the sky, you shout for me Gramps. Oh you just shout. Sylvia Noble : It's my turn for the car. What d'you need it for?

Donna Noble : A quick getaway. Donna Noble : [after the Doctor pulls her in] I was right, it's always like for you! The Doctor : Oh yes! And off we go! Penny Carter : [struggling in the chair] Oi! The Doctor : [poking his head in the doorway] Sorry. The Doctor : [pokes his head in again] Oh, and do yourself a favor; get out.

Sylvia Noble : [Donna just walked in; from the other room] And what time's this? Donna Noble : [rolls her eyes] How old am I? Sylvia Noble : [pokes her head around the corner] Not old enough to use a phone. The Doctor : So far they're just losing weight, but the Matron's gone up to emergency parthenogenesis. Donna Noble : And that's when they convert The Doctor : Skeletons, organs, everything. A million people are gonna die! Donna Noble : Not now! Sylvia Noble : I need the car. Where are you?

Donna Noble : [improvising, and whispering] The car went missing! Sylvia Noble : Why are you whispering? Donna Noble : I'm in church. Sylvia Noble : What would you do in church? Donna Noble : I'm praying. Sylvia Noble : [scoffs] A bit late for that, I imagine. Wilfred Mott : What's she in church for? Sylvia Noble : Hush, you! Go up the hill. Sylvia Noble : Well, I need the car. I'm going out with Suzette Chambers.

She's asked all the Wednesday girls. She says she looks marvelous. Miss Foster : We know you're in here. The real "Lee" saw Donna but was teleported away before he could call to her or reach her.

TV : Forest of the Dead. After the trauma of the Library, Donna returned to Chiswick to see friends and family. Donna was signed up to One's no Fun speed-dating event with her old school friend Natalie by Sylvia to help her return to her old self.

Donna successfully arrived back in Chiswick surprised to find Sylvia under the false impression that she had scored a successful job mapping trends in big data with Nat's husband Garrison Lord. However, Donna and Nat soon discovered Earth was in the middle of an alien invasion after receiving a message on the Doctor's psychic paper from the Collectors who had been using duplicates. The Doctor and Donna visited China during the Qin dynasty , where they were thrown into a crater for being foreigners and faced a robotic soldier made of ceramics.

Donna defeated it by disrupting the control signal with her mobile phone. Donna was threatened by the Emperor's general Meng Tian , who was really an alien gangster, and Meng remotely awakened the soldiers of the Terracotta Army and shut down Qin Shi Huang. Donna made a call on her mobile phone, stopping the signal that paralysed Qin Shi Huang, waking him up again. While Qin Shi Huang and Meng were fighting each other, Meng shot at the warp converter , which shut down the Emperor and the Army, while also burying the whole palace in an explosion.

The Doctor and Donna escaped the exploding palace. They travelled to the French Rivera in the s and went to a casino. There, they met Rudolph of Goritania and Donna started dating him. She eventually became the Queen of Goritania. She told the Doctor of her exploits as Queen, including being annoyed by the Queen Mum about procedure. After getting annoyed by her maids, she got them to be taught to read and write instead of embroidery.

Seeing the death cloud she ordered that all of the peasants into the castle to protect them. When the Queen Mum said that the coronation would still be going ahead, Donna chastised her because of the danger outside. She told Rudolph that he was sending his troops to their deaths.

Ruldoph then blackmailed her into marrying him as that would save the kingdom. Hortense told Donna that she would do anything to stop the death because it had destroyed her mother's house, and then helped Donna into her wedding dress. Death walked out of the mist and stared at her. She realised that there was something special about the Goritanian flag and got her maids to cover the castle in it. At her wedding, she discovered that she was given to Death.

When Death eventually came to collect her, he couldn't destroy her because her underwear was made from the royal standard. She pretended to be married to the Doctor, who used the name Dr John Smith as a disguise. They investigated the haunted Morley mansion alongside Wilf and Sylvia.

The Doctor took Donna on holiday to the beautiful underwater city of Vallarasee in the 51st century. However, due to leaks inside the airdome, they needed to convince the Judoon that thousands of tourists and native Fins could be trapped. They discovered a group of Londoners trying to make their way home. Donna was told by one Londoner, Ivy Clark , that "there's something on your back". They discovered that some of the deaths of the Great Smog were from the Fumifugium that lived in the toxic fog.

Donna helped Terry Hopkins accept his homosexuality. The Doctor took Donna to the leisure planet Midnight for a relaxing holiday. Donna chose to stay at the Leisure Palace to relax at the spa whilst the Doctor took a 4 hour trip on the Crusader 50 bus to the Sapphire Waterfall. Donna comforted the Doctor when he returned traumatised after the bus was attacked by an unknown entity which possessed the passenger Sky Silvestry and he was nearly thrown off the bus by the other passengers.

TV : Midnight. On a visit to the planet Shan Shen , Donna was distracted by a fortune teller while a Time Beetle leapt on her back and created an alternate world in which she never met the Doctor, who because of this died following this confrontation with the Empress of the Racnoss. In the alternate world, Rose gave the alternate Donna a message for the Doctor, before Donna deliberately sacrificed herself to make her "normal" self turn left on Little Sutton Street , heading for the Chiswick High Road.

Being able to go back to her "normal" timeline terrified the Fortune Teller as to what she was and what she would become. Her "normal" version barely remembered Rose and her message; however, with the Doctor's prompting she was able to remember and give the Doctor her message: " Bad Wolf ".

Donna and the Tenth Doctor rushed to Earth in , only to find it taken from underneath them. They then went to the Shadow Proclamation for help. They traced the Earth, along with twenty-six other missing planets , to the Medusa Cascade , where the planets had been hidden by being placed one second out of sync with the rest of the universe. As a result, the Doctor began regenerating but was able to use some of the regeneration energy to heal himself before funnelling the remaining energy into a matching bio-receptacle — his spare hand — and stop the regeneration.

TV : The Stolen Earth. Donna touches the Doctor's hand. The regeneration energy stored in the Doctor's hand interacted with Donna and created a being who looked like the Doctor but was half human and had aspects of Donna's personality.

The electrical shock on Donna stimulated her brain, awakened the Time Lord DNA that transferred to her during the two-way biological meta-crisis , and gave her "the best part of the Doctor — his mind," rendering her the "DoctorDonna" of the Ood 's prophecy.

The DoctorDonna is "born" after touching the Doctor's spare hand. She used her new-found intellect to deactivate the reality bomb and disable the circuitry on the Daleks' controls and helped use the magnetron to bring twenty-six of the planets back to their rightful places in the universe. When the Supreme Dalek wrecked the magnetron, Earth was the last planet still in the Cascade.

After assisting the Doctor in sending the Meta-Crisis Doctor to Pete's World and saying farewell to Rose, Donna's mind overloaded, a consequence of the unbearable Time Lord-human meta-crisis.

Donna now had a second mind in the form of the Doctor's knowledge and some of his personality aspects, which started to encroach on her original mind and overwhelm it. To save her life, the Doctor was forced to erase her memories against her wishes and bring her home, which suppressed her "DoctorDonna" alter ego. The Donna who had saved the universe was dead, fulfilling another of Dalek Caan's prophecies. Donna was left to her normal life. Wilfred, her grandfather, promised to keep thinking of the Doctor on her behalf, and to never mention the Doctor to her as that might trigger her memory of events and cause her mind to "burn up", killing her.

By Christmas , Donna had got her life back on track; she was engaged to Shaun Temple. According to her grandfather though, she and Shaun had some financial issues as neither had good jobs.

She nearly bumped into the Doctor twice, once while Christmas shopping during which she angrily warned a nearby traffic warden to leave her car alone. On Christmas Day, she gave Wilf a book by Joshua Naismith but did not know exactly why; saying that she simply felt like he should have it. The Doctor surmised it was her Time Lord subconscious directing Wilf since he was so important.

Donna is chased by the Master Race. TV : The End of Time. Later that day, the Master turned every human into versions of himself. Donna's half-Time Lord mind caused her not to transform. The shock of seeing her mother and Shaun transformed into duplicates of the Master reawakened some of the memories of her travels with the Doctor.

Visions of aliens she had met appeared in her mind. She called Wilf and was told to run for her life. She ran, but was cornered by Master duplicates in an alley, and was beginning to break down over the rush of recovered memories. However, the Doctor had also implanted a form of mental self-defence in her mind that released a blast of energy, putting Donna to sleep and knocking the Master facsimiles unconscious. On Boxing Day , while Gallifrey appeared in the sky hurtling towards Earth, Shaun found her unconscious and brought her home.

She came to when the TARDIS appeared in the street and complained that she had, yet again, missed something important. Sylvia was just amused when Donna said that as she knew Donna to be safe. Donna's memories of the Doctor apparently never returned. In spring , she and Shaun were married and left the church with family and friends cheering them on.

Donna asked for a photograph of her friends and her, allowing her mother and grandfather to speak with the Doctor one last time. They returned and gave Donna an envelope holding a gift from her deceased father and the Doctor, a lottery ticket the Doctor bought with money borrowed from her father.

Although she considered it to be a cheap present, she remembered that the next lottery draw had a triple roll-over prize before stuffing it in her dress for safekeeping; both Sylvia and Wilf knew that the Doctor had made sure it was a winning ticket and thus secured Donna's financial future. In a meeting between companions of the Doctor organised by Alice Obiefune , Donna walked in. However, as she could not remember the Doctor she assumed that she was in the wrong room and went on her way.

While trying to syphon emotional pain off of the Tenth Doctor, the Reach deposited him in the living room of the Noble household while Donna was having an argument with her mother in the hall. The Doctor left before Donna could see him. Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way.

TV : The Day of the Doctor. At another point, Donna was abducted by Adam Mitchell as part his plan to get revenge on the Doctor, in collaboration with the Master. She was placed in stasis alongside the Doctors' multiple other companions, before being released by the Doctors first eleven numbered incarnations with the help of Frobisher. The Tenth Doctor and Donna watched the courtship of the Zyglots , ran from intelligent dogs in a flying house, joined forces with a survey team to escape a living swamp, witnessed "something" bring time to a halt, saw the Beatles perform at The Cavern Club , chased after " vampire goth cannibals ", saw time get meddled with while being chased by Cossacks , and got infected by a reality-altering psychic parasite.

When the Doctor discovered what the Manus Maleficus was capable of doing, he was momentarily tempted to use it to save Donna from burning up without wiping her memories. The Doctor still felt guilty over what travelling with him had done to Donna, feeling that he had screwed up her life; these feelings persisted into his next incarnation. TV : Let's Kill Hitler. At some point, he also told River Song about Donna and what happened to her. When River eventually encountered the Tenth Doctor and Donna, she was visibly moved when she realised who Donna was.

TV : Silence in the Library.