Episode 3

The Planet of the Ood

The Doctor takes Donna to her first Alien Planet.The Ood Sphere, a planet covered in snow and ice.

Here the Ood a servant race(last seen in the 2006 Episodes The Impossible Planet and The Saten Pit)are being sold as slaves by Humans in the 42nd century. The Boss Dr Halpern is not very nice and treats the Ood bad.

The Doctor and Donna find a dieing Ood with red eyes.As he dies his last words are "The circle must be broken".

So they go and invesigate.

Meanwhile some Ood are going mad with red eye and killing people.

The Doctor and Donna find Ood that are not servants though kept in a prison.The Doctor can hear the Ood song a cry for Freedom.Donna cant her it so the doctor helps her to.When she hears it she understands thier pain.

They find out that the Oood hold their brains in thier hands and the humans cut them off and stick on the transmitter.How sad.

The company catch them and leave them chained up to be killed by the Ood.Dr Halpern runs off.As the Ood draw closer to the Doctor and Donna.The stop as the other Oods tell them telipathically the Doctor and Donna are Friends.

They run to find Halpern and find him in a room with a massive Ood brain in it!This is how he controls them. They discover the 'circle' is the circle of wires around the Brain.If it is broken they are free.

It seems everyone is doomed till we meet Ood Sigma Halpern's Ood.He has secretly druging Halpern and Halpern becomes an Ood!

The Doctor turns of the machine and the Ood are happy and free on thier planet,to sing thier song.

Ood Sigma thanks our heroes and they get back in the Tardis.

Rating 9/10.

Next Episode:
Saturday 26th April, 6:20pm BBC One