20 Greatest Moments In Modern Doctor Who
18. A Silent Reunion (Partners In Crime)
Russell T Davies' Doctor Who tends to be a bit sillier and more slapstick than Steven Moffat's and Chris Chibnall's, and rarely did this work as well than in the big, silly comedy sequence that was the Tenth Doctor and Donna's reunion.
Having spent the majority of the episode watching them just miss each other, seeing the Doctor and Donna finally meeting at opposite ends of a conference room, unable to speak, is laugh-out-loud funny. And it only gets funnier from there as the pair have to mime at each other, across the heads of an unimpressed Miss Foster and her captive journalist Penny.
Watching David Tennant and Catherine Tate wordlessly communicate vast chunks of exposition is to watch two performers at the height of their powers – even more impressive when you learn that Tate essentially ad-libbed the whole thing!