bernard cribbins played donna's grandfather in doctor who.
bernard cribbins played donna's grandfather in doctor who.
who plays donna's grandfather in doctor who?
bernard cribbins
donna noble makes her first appearance, credited as "the runaway bride", in the closing scenes of 2006 series finale "doomsday"; she appears in a wedding dress, outraged to be inexplicably aboard the doctor's tardis. the scene was kept a secret until broadcast, filmed with minimal crew, and was a humorous juxtaposition to the sad farewell the doctor shared with companion rose (billie piper) moments prior. donna's story is picked up in 2006 christmas special "the runaway bride". donna is a temporary secretary at hc clements in london, a security firm which, unbeknownst to her, is a front organization for the alien-investigating torchwood institute. her parents are geoff (howard attfield) and sylvia noble (jacqueline king). donna discovers that she is a pawn in a scheme of the empress (sarah parish) of the alien racnoss, having been manipulated by her fiancé, lance (don gilet). when the doctor unleashes his fury upon the racnoss, donna snaps him out of it and together they escape before the torchwood facility floods. donna is upset, having lost her job and her fiancé, and declines the doctor's offer to become his companion, though she advises he find one. donna does not appear in the 2007 series, but the character wilfred mott (bernard cribbins) appears in 2007 christmas special "voyage of the damned"; in the 2008 series, he is introduced properly as donna's grandfather, following the death of actor howard attfield.
donna noble
in the series four opener "partners in crime" (2008), two years later, donna has become dissatisfied with regular life and more interested in the bigger picture after her father died. when both are investigating the alien connection to adipose industries' miss foster (sarah lancashire), she and the doctor are re-united, and she joins him in the tardis as a regular companion. in "the fires of pompeii", donna shows her compassion when she argues and convinces the doctor to save a family in pompeii from the eruption of mount vesuvius. in "planet of the ood", donna and the doctor go to the ood-sphere and donna defends the ood from the abuses they suffer at the hands of humans. in the two-parter "the sontaran stratagem" and "the poison sky", donna meets former companion martha jones who works for unit and together they stop the sontarans from using atmos to choke the world. in "the doctor's daughter", it is donna who names the eponymous character "jenny" (georgia moffett) and subsequently convinces the doctor to accept jenny. the doctor and donna meet agatha christie (fenella woolgar) in "the unicorn and the wasp" and have to solve their very own murder mystery with agatha christie and a giant alien wasp. the two-parter episodes of "silence in the library" and "forest of the dead" introduces river song and the doctor accidentally shoves donna into a cyberworld while attempting to keep her safe from the vashta nerada. "midnight" gives donna a break with a spa day while the doctor has the most terrifying bus ride of his life. the episode "turn left" features a parallel universe wherein donna never met the doctor; consequently, the doctor died and the world comes to an end much sooner. in finale episodes "the stolen earth" and "journey's end", donna touches the doctor's energised severed hand and is imbued with the totality of his knowledge, using which she is able to stop davros (julian bleach) and his plan to destroy reality. however, because her mind cannot handle the knowledge, the doctor is forced to wipe her memory of him against her wishes when she tries to beg him not to send her back the way she was. he hopes that they never meet again, lest she remember and her mind "burn up". donna reappears in the two-part "the end of time" (2009–10). early in the story, she buys her grandfather a book written by the episode's villain, which the doctor takes to mean that the "doctordonna" is still trying to subconsciously lend a hand. when every member of the human race (apart from herself and wilf, attributed to wilf being shielded and donna's dna still being slightly altered after the meta-crisis) becomes a clone of the doctor's nemesis the master (john simm), donna's memories are nearly restored; however, a fail-safe installed by the doctor protects her, as donna generates a brief telepathic pulse that knocks out herself and the masters in the vicinity. in the story's concluding moments, donna is last seen when she marries new fiancé shaun temple (karl collins), becoming donna temple-noble; the dying doctor anonymously delivers her a winning lottery ticket to ensure her financial future, having borrowed the purchase price from donna's late father in the past, making it a present from both him and the doctor.
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