Ghostly beings have been regularly appearing across the world and people, believing them to be their dead loved ones, are welcoming their visits with open arms.
Humanity is caught in the crossfire as the Cybermen and the Daleks wage war against each other; and in saving the world the Doctor could lose Rose Tyler forever.
for Martha Jones, a medical student in Central London, an ordinary day turns into a nightmare when her entire hospital is transported to the moon. Martha reasons that because she can still breathe, there must be some sort of force field holding the air in and that this is due to alien intervention.
The Doctor takes Martha back in time to Elizabethan England where deadly witch-like Carrionites intend to use the genius words of Shakespeare to free their species from eternal imprisonment.