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Episode 6, Doctor's Daughter (of Dr Who), I have to say was thoroughly enjoyable, in fact a good candidate for one of the best episodes of the fourth season yet. The Doctor takes Donna and Martha on a forced journey (i.e. out of his control for a change) to an alient planet where they are soon captured and the Doctor is taken for a DNA sample and bingo... the result comes out of a big fancy machine, producing a rather beautiful young woman who turns out to be the Doctor's daughter, its amazing what a DNA sample can do in the future!! To top this off though, the humans that inhabit the world are fighting against a group of alien creatures called the Hath in a struggle for supremacy (or basically fighting until one of the species has been wiped out) and Martha is kidnapped by the Hath. But the Doctor with the help of Donna soon unravels what is going on.

This was a bit of a surprise this episode as I thought it would be a bit naff on paper, but in practice it was very entertaining. The idea of the Doctor having daughter when you think of it isn't too ludicrous, and he comes back to his "real" family who of course apparently died years ago, you realise he must have had family, a wife and children of his own many many years back. In fact it was a nice touch to see the Doctor react with fear towards his newly born DNA sampled daughter as it made him afraid that he would lose her like his family before. The episode also neatly poked fun at the format of the show as Donna in one scene mentions to Jenny (the Doc's daughter) that travelling with him is a lot of fun but there is a lot of running involved. It was about time they mentioned that!! It was kind of disappointing though to see Martha just go back home at the end but I guess she had found her home and place on Earth and settled in. But the ending also produced a nice little surprise which hopefully will pay off in future episodes.