One of the great things about the Doctor Who toy line, distributed in the U.S. by Underground Toys, is its line of multi-packs, known in the U.K. as gift sets. While this is very common with small-scale figures, it’s a great addition to a five inch scale line, and an easy and affordable way to collect lots of great figures. In the Doctor Who line, many of these sets commemorate a specific episode or event.

The second season of current Doctor Who series brought an all-new Doctor and the promise of many more amazing adventures across space and time. The first standard episode of that season was New Earth, in which the Tenth Doctor and companion Rose Tyler journey to the planet of the same name in the year 5,000,000,023. It is the new home of humanity and the humanoid Catkind, living in a technological utopia. There the Doctor runs afoul of both a plot to test cures on plague-ridden humans and the last desperate attempts at normal life by an ancient, lonely alien.

The New Earth set contains figures of the Tenth Doctor, Rose, and Cassandra. All three are visible through the plastic window at the front of a sturdy box. The packaging is a thin rectangle with angled sides, and is covered with the usual Doctor Who red and yellow swirled backgrounds. To either side of the front window are photographs of the Doctor and Rose and Cassandra, along with a list of the contents: “3 poseable action figures. The Doctor figure includes Sonic Screwdriver accessory.”

The back of the box, decorated in the purplish-blue background of the time vortex, is divided into bios of the included characters. The Doctor and Rose’s section describes the Time Lord’s new appearance and personality, while Cassandra’s includes some interesting biographical data.

What would a Doctor Who set be without a Doctor figure? This includes the standard Tenth Doctor figure, representing actor David Tennant. As always, the Doctor is dressed in his pinstripe suit and overcoat. The figure is five and a half inches tall. The Doctor has an excellent sculpt, with lots of details all over his clothes. There are laces on his shoes, and on his pants and jacket are seams, folds, creases, pockets, and buttons. At this neck is a tie and shirt beneath the jacket, and the overcoat too has its share of sculpted details. Of course, what really sells the figure is the head sculpt, a fantastic and super-accurate representation of Tennant.

Even though he wears normal clothing, the Doctor is still colorful. The pinstripe suit is dark blue and gray, with a light blue shirt underneath and a tie that matches the outerwear. The outer coat, both the soft rubber of the bulk of it and the arms, are a uniform brown. The Doctor’s tennis shoes (or “plimsoles” as the Brits call them) are white with red and blue stripes. Note that other versions of this figure have red shoes! The figure’s hands and head are painted in normal flesh tones with brown hair and eyes.

The Doctor has a good amount of articulation, with joints at the neck, shoulders, elbows, limited ball-jointed hips, and knees. This allows for a good range of poses applicable to the character, including examining, pondering, and light exercise.

The Doctor has one accessory, his Sonic Screwdriver. A tiny bit of plastic, the Screwdriver is a cylinder of tan, silver, and black with a blue domed head. Though small, it is very well sculpted. The Sonic Screwdriver fits well in the Doctor’s sculpted right hand.