When I first heard Katey Manning would be playing Jo Grant ( Jones ) again I wasn't sure what I thought about it to be honest but within about five seconds of her being on screen she'd won me over, Jo Grant was back and it was like she'd never left.
The chemistry between Jo and Sarah worked rather well I thought and the look on Jo's face when she found out that Sarah had seen the Doctor a few times since she'd left the TARDIS while he'd never gone back to see her was heart breaking, and the look the Doctor gave Sarah when she asked if his last regeneration hurt and the reveal that during The End of Time as he was dying The Doctor actually visited all of his companions, not just the ones we saw on screen.
There were some really nice Jo moments, like when she discovers the Doctor is travelling with a married couple and she tells him she only left because she was getting married and later on when he doesn't tell her that all the Timelords are dead.
507 ?!! oh how I laughed when I heard that, I just bet the fanboys are going into fits over that.
All those flashback and references, heaven for fans of the classic show.
Liz Shaw runs the UNIT (?) moon base, Tegan is back in Australia fighting for Aboriginal rights, Ben and Polly are in India running an orphanage, Harry went on to develop several vaccines and saved thousands of lives ( Sarah speaks of Harry in past tense like he's died as has Ian Marter the actor who played him ) and Dorothy ( Ace ) is alive and well ( you can't have everything ) and runs a company called Charitable Earth and has raised billions for the needy and finally Ian and Barbara are married and Professors at Cambridge who apparently haven't aged since the 60s (?).
I know Nicholas Courtney isn't well but it would've been nice to see the Brigadier, Sgt Benton and Mike Yates reuniting the surviving members of the UNIT family.
Russell T Davies has received a lot of flak over his time as writer / producer on Doctor Who but this was a lovely little gem of a story, hopefully we'll get to see some more like it and I wouldn't mind seeing the return of Jo Grant at some point in the future as well.
