Doctor Who Recap: Last Night Was a Movie

Photo: James Pardon/BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf Allow me to channel the TARDIS for a second and take us back in time - specifically, to the 2007 episode "The Shakespeare Code." Martha Jones, the first full-time Black companion in Doctor Who history, has just traveled back to Elizabethan England. "Am I alright? I'm not going to get carted off as a slave or anything?" she asks the Tenth Doctor. When he questions why she'd ever think that, she gestures to herself and says, "Well, not exactly white, in case you haven't noticed." Ten replies that he's not even human and . . .