Series 1 Episodes: Parting of the Ways

Continuing the cliffhanger from the end of "Bad Wolf", the Doctor and Jack travel in the TARDIS from the Game Station to the Dalek fleet as it approaches 2002nd century Earth to try to rescue Rose; Jack has rigged the TARDIS with the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator taken from Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen to act as a shield against the Dalek weapons. They land on the ship where Rose is held and defeat her captor, rescuing her. More Daleks show up but the extrapolator's shield holds, allowing the Doctor to ask them how they survived the Time War. The Dalek Emperor, a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, arrives and explains that its ship survived the war due to being crippled and "falling through time"; it had to wait a very long time, then began to manipulate the human race, harvesting their organic material to rebuild its race. However, the Doctor notes that by doing this, the Daleks have gained some attributes and emotions from humans, and the fact that the Emperor denies this and claims the Daleks to be "pure and blessed" means they've been fanatics loathing their own genetic makeup, and are thus deadlier than ever. The Doctor immediately returns to the Game Station and begins to set up a defensive position with the help of Jack and the few remaining programmers and game show participants including Lynda, the rest having evacuated via shuttles. The Doctor begins to work to change the Game Station into a giant Delta Wave transmitter that will fry the brain of any being in its path, but only has twenty-two minutes to do what normally would take three days. Jack adjusts the extrapolator to expand the shield to include the top six floors of the Game Station, and, after kissing both Rose and the Doctor goodbye, works to set barricades and defenses with those volunteering to help arming them with guns that fire bastic bullets that should penetrate the Dalek armor casing. The Doctor manages to rig all the hardware in place for the Delta Wave, but it will still take time to build up, but then realizes he could use the TARDIS to help. He ushers Rose inside the TARDIS so that he can make the adjustments, but once she's inside, he uses his sonic screwdriver to send the TARDIS back to 21st century Earth where she will be safe, much against Rose's wishes.

Jack asks the Doctor over the radio how long until the Delta Wave is ready, but the transmission is intercepted by the Dalek Emperor, who notes that the Wave will be powerful enough to wipe out all species — Dalek or human — nearby, including the whole of the Earth. The Doctor is prepared for that sacrifice in order to wipe out the threat of the Daleks on the rest of the universe, noting that human colonies exist and the human race will still live on. As the Daleks commence their attack on the Station, the defenders coordinate with Lynda, set up in a secured observation room, to monitor their approach. They enter at Floor 494, and break through the first line of defenses, the bastic bullets ineffective, heading upwards to Floor 500 while systematically wiping out the remaining human survivors on the lower floors. Several other defensive barriers, including the "Anne Droid", prove ineffective, and even as Jack takes charge at the last stand on Floor 499 to disable one Dalek, he and the other defenders are killed as the Dalek move up to the control floor. Lynda herself is killed when a Dalek blasts out the observation window and exposes her to the vacuum of space.

As Rose is taken back to the 21st century, a holographic message from the Doctor explains that this was an emergency program, necessary to save both Rose as well as to prevent the TARDIS' technology from falling into the Dalek's hands, in the event of the Doctor's likely death. The TARDIS lands near Jackie Tyler's council estate, and Mickey comes running when he hears the sound. Rose is in tears, as she cannot get the TARDIS to respond her as to make it go back to save the Doctor. Jackie soon joins Mickey in trying consul Rose and to have her get on with her life, but she refuses. As she looks around, Rose sees the words "Bad Wolf" all around the area where the TARDIS is and realizes it is a message to her to try to save the Doctor. Rose notes that the Heart of the TARDIS is telepathic, and if she can look into it, she may be able to get the TARDIS to take her back. Rose and Mickey try by hand and then by trying to pull the Heart open using Mickey's car, but with no luck. Jackie asks Rose to give it up, but Rose refuses, reminded by her father Pete, and reveals to Jackie that she was there on the fateful day that Pete died. Jackie, recognizing her devotion, goes and pulls a favor with a local friend that has a heavy-duty recovery vehicle, bringing it back to the TARDIS. With it, they are able to pull the covering off the Heart of the TARDIS, and as Rose looks into it, overtaken with its light, the TARDIS doors slam close on Mickey and Jackie, and it dematerializes.

On the Game Station, the Daleks have broken into Floor 500 just as the Doctor is ready to activate the Delta Wave. However, he cannot bring himself to pull the switch, as the Dalek Emperor taunts him he would be the "great exterminator". As the Doctor surrenders, the TARDIS rematerializes behind him, and Rose, filled with the light of the time vortex emerges. The Daleks try to fire on her, but she repulses their attacks. Rose tells the Doctor that she is the "Bad Wolf" and that to lead herself to this point, she spreads the name "Bad Wolf" throughout time and space. Then, to make sure the Doctor is safe, she waves a hand causing all the Daleks, on the station, their fleet, and on earth, to disintegrate into component atoms, ending the Dalek threat and the Time War. Rose realizes she has god-like powers, but cannot let go of them, and, unseen, brings Jack back to life. However, the power is consuming Rose's body, and to stop it, the Doctor takes Rose into his arms and kisses her, taking in the Vortex energy into his body, then takes her unconscious body back into the TARDIS, where he returns the Vortex energy back into the Heart. As Jack returns to Floor 500, he sees the TARDIS dematerializing without him.

Rose awakens on the TARDIS to find the Doctor in pain; the Vortex energy is destroying every cell in his body. He explains that he is not dying, but will be regenerating so while they may still continue to travel, this incarnation will never see Rose again. The Doctor tells Rose that she was "fantastic", then after a pause, he claims he was too, moments before energy courses through his body. The Doctor's features change into the next incarnation, who takes a moment to reorient himself to his new body, then offers to take Rose on her next adventure to the planet Barcelona.

The TARDIS crew face the Dalek Emperor, and his army.
Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Writer Russell T Davies
Director Joe Ahearne
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.13
Series Series 1
Length 2 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast June 18, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Bad Wolf

The three TARDIS travellers find themselves separated, waking up with temporary amnesia in various reality television and game shows. The Doctor finds himself in a Big Brother House, Rose on the set of The Weakest Link hosted by "Anne Droid", and Jack facing two gynoids, Trine-e and Zu-Zana, who offer to give him a brand new image, à la What Not to Wear.

The Doctor befriends Lynda, one of the Housemates, and learns that there are several thousand similar reality and game shows occurring all over where they are located. He slowly remembers that somehow, they were transmatted from within the TARDIS to here; a force with enough power to penetrate the TARDIS shielding cannot just being just running games here, and sets off to try to get out of the House. However, Lynda notes that the only way to leave the house is either to win the game, or to be voted off, which results in being disintegrated in a white corridor leading to the exit. Horrified, the Doctor asks Lynda if the risk of death is worth it, but Lynda notes they are not given a choice; people are randomly selected and transmatted to the games. The Doctor destroys a camera with his sonic screwdriver, forcing his eviction, and he moves into the corridor, waiting to be disintegrated, but it never comes; the Doctor believes someone brought him here and wants him alive. He invites the remaining houseguests to join him, but only Lynda comes along. Outside, the Doctor discovers they are back on Satellite 5, a century from when they were last there. The Doctor momentarily pauses when he realizes the Satellite, now called the Game Station, is operated by the Badwolf Corporation. Further discussion with Lynda reveals that when he stopped Satellite 5 prior, all information broadcasting ceased, and society collapsed; the reinvention of Satellite 5 as the Game Station and its programming only continued to help keep the human population as sheep. Jack, meanwhile, has found his way to the Doctor by tracking his bicardial respiratory system, having escaped from the gynoids before he was cut open and repurposing their "defabricator" as a weapon. Realizing that Rose is still in the system, he frantically begins to try to search for where she is through a computer terminal.

Rose, due to being out of her century, does not fare well in answering the questions on her show, but the others leave her in play; those eliminated each round are disintegrated by the Anne-droid. One of the contestants explains that he would keep her to the final round due to her lack of knowledge on the questions, so that he can win the credits offered by the Badwolf Corporation; Rose realises, like the Doctor, that those words have been present in their previous adventures, and if they are here, her presence has been planned. She makes it to the final round and loses just as the Doctor, Jack, and Lynda burst into the studio; she tries to run over to them but is disintegrated by the Anne Droid. Distraught, the Doctor allows himself and Jack to be captured and interrogated by guards, but just before they are transported to a penal colony, he and Jack knock out the guards, take their weapons, and head to Floor 500.

In the control room, Jack ushers the programmers away from their consoles with his gun, while the Doctor investigates "the Controller", a young girl wired into a large device. A programmer explains that she was "installed" into the system when she was five, and since then, all she sees is the programming that occurs in the station, and thus does not recognize the Doctor. The programmers also note that they suspect there is something more going on, hinted by unauthorized transmats and encoded signals. When a solar flare hits the station, momentarily blocking transmissions, the Controller calls for the Doctor, and tells him that her "masters" cannot see what she is doing due to the flare. She tells him that she had seen him through the broadcasts, and brought him to the station, hiding his crew within the games to protect them from the masters, but she cannot say who they are. Jack discovers the TARDIS in a side room, and using the console, discovers that what they thought was disintegration was really a secondary transmat system; Rose and the others are simply located elsewhere. The Controller gives the Doctor the ending coordinates of the transmat just as the solar flare ends; the masters discover her deception and transmat her away from the station. The Doctor traces the coordinates to the edge of the solar system, finding empty space. However, he recognizes that another signal send by the Game Station, installed by the same group that installed the Jagrafess in Satellite 5, and terminates it; revealing a fleet of nearly 200 Dalek spacecraft, carrying nearly a half a million Daleks.

Rose regains consciousness aboard an alien spacecraft, and finds it filled with Daleks. As she watches, the Controller appears on the ship, and is killed by a energy weapon from one of the Daleks. The Daleks open communications with the Station, and warn the Doctor to not intervene or they will exterminate Rose. The Doctor steadfastly refuses: he states that he will rescue Rose from the fleet and wipe the Daleks out, despite having no weapons at his disposal. The Daleks terminate the transmission and take the Doctor's warning as hostile, and initiate their invasion of Earth, leading into the episode's cliffhanger.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Writer Russell T Davies
Director Joe Ahearne
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.12
Series Series 1
Length 1 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast June 11, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Boomtown

The Doctor has landed the TARDIS over the Cardiff Rift, located in the Roald Dahl Plass leading to the Wales Millennium Centre, left open after the Gelth were defeated in 1869, and using the slow radiation leakage to recharge the TARDIS. As the process will take a whole day, he, Rose, and Jack are joined by Mickey in Cardiff and take the opportunity to explore the area. While they enjoy a meal at a restaurant, the Doctor notices, to his dismay, the front page of The Western Mail, with the headline "New Mayor, New Cardiff" and a picture of Margaret Blaine, a Slitheen in its human form whom they previously encountered. Since their meeting, Blaine has become the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, and initiated the construction of a nuclear power plant. However, several people had found significant flaws with the design that could lead to a nuclear meltdown, and had approached her about these issues, but they have since disappeared, Blaine having killed them herself. During a recent press conference, a young reporter approached Blaine about these deaths and the information they had left behind. Blaine invited the reporter to follow her into the restroom where Blaine plans to kill her, but had a change of heart as the reporter talks about her family, realizing that she herself no longer has one.

Realizing that they must stop Blaine, the Doctor's group converges on City Hall and eventually capture Blaine after chasing her through repeated uses of a teleporter. She tells the group that the teleporter is how she escaped the destruction of the rest of her family, and that she hopes that, as planned, the meltdown of the plant would open the Rift and destroy the planet, herself using a hidden tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator — a pan-dimensional surfboard — to escape the explosion. Rose notices that the name of the plant, Blaidd Drwg, is Welsh for "Bad Wolf", a phrase that she has observed before in her adventures with the Doctor. The Doctor tells Blaine he will take her back to her home planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius, but Blaine notes that the Slitheen family are convicted criminals there and she will be executed, which the Doctor insists is not his problem.

Jack recognizes that the extrapolator can be used to halve the time to refuel the TARDIS, and stays there to install it. Rose and Mickey go out for a drink to discuss their relationship; Mickey admits to seeing someone else since Rose is not there for him, which angers Rose. At the request of Blaine, the Doctor joins her for one last meal at her favourite restaurant, equipped with bracelets that will electrocute Blaine if she gets more than ten feet away from the Doctor. Blaine attempts to kill the Doctor through various means, but the Doctor is able to casually block the attempts. Blaine then attempts to gain the Doctor's sympathy, explaining how she will be executed and if he could take her to a different planet instead. However, before the Doctor can agree, a large earthquake shakes the area.

The group reassembles in the TARDIS, where a bright column of light is shooting up overhead. Jack tells the Doctor that it is the power from the Rift, brought upon by the extrapolator. The Doctor realizes that this was Blaine's plan all along - the extrapolator would have been found by someone of advanced technology to recognize the Slitheen, and would have activated it, causing it to lock onto the nearest alien power source (the TARDIS in this case), as to tear open the Rift and eventually the Earth, while she would have still ridden the device to escape the destruction. Blaine takes Rose hostage and demands the extrapolator, but before she can use it, the heart of TARDIS opens and shines in her face; the light overtakes her, and shortly her skin suit falls empty to the console floor. The Doctor and Jack manage to close the TARDIS console and reseal the Rift once more. When they investigate the suit, they find a Slitheen egg; the Doctor surmises as the TARDIS is telepathic, it may have sensed that Blaine wanted a second chance and gave that to her. As the Doctor, Rose, and Jack prepare to travel to Raxacoricofallapatorius to deliver the egg, Rose realizes that Mickey has left; the Doctor offers to wait for him, but Rose lets him go, allowing him to also have a second chance.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Writer Russell T Davies
Director Joe Ahearne
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.11
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast June 4, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: The Doctor Dances

Continuing from the cliffhanger of "The Empty Child", the Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Jack Harkness are trapped in a London hospital during the London Blitz of World War II, being cornered by several bodies of humans that have been transformed somehow into "empty" beings that appear to wear a gas mask (though these seem to be physically part of their bodies), and asking for their mummy. Simultaneously, Nancy is trapped in the house abandoned by a family seeking shelter from the bombings, also being cornered by the body of her young brother Jamie, the first patient to be observed in the transformed state. The Doctor tells the beings to go back to their room, which they all do, including Jamie. The Doctor accuses Jack of causing this situation by trying to swindle the Time Agency, and not being fully aware of what he was dealing with. The trio go to the room where Jamie was treated at the hospital and discover audio recordings that Dr. Constantine made when treating Jamie, with Jamie only responding by asking for his mummy. Listening to the tapes, the Doctor realizes that the being that was Jamie is learning what it can do and control, and if they cannot stop him soon, he will be much too powerful to do so. The Doctor realizes that the room they are in is Jamie's room, and that if the other beings followed his order, Jamie would too; immediately after this realization, they discover Jamie waiting in the doorway.

The group quickly escapes from Jamie using Jack's "sonic blaster", but end up trapped in a room with no other means of escape besides one door, which the Doctor has sealed shut. Jack teleports himself to his ship and works on overriding the teleportation controls to rescue the Doctor and Rose, as well as piping Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" through the radio system in order to drown out the pleading of Jamie asking for his mummy. The Doctor uses the time to ask Rose why she trusts Jack, and Rose explains their flirtations and the dancing they did on the top of his ship previously. The Doctor, challenged by Rose, shows her that he can dance as well, but in the middle of his demonstration, they are transported to Jack's Chula ship, and they quickly pretends as if nothing has happened. Jack heals a previous wound suffered by The Doctor using the ship's nanogenes, and explains to the Doctor that he went renegade on the Time Agency when he found out that they had wiped two years of memories from him.

Meanwhile, as the all-clear is sounded, Nancy is momentary held up by the family returning to their house, but when she accuses the father of bribing the local butcher into acquiring more than allowable by rations, she is let go, and heads back to the railyard. She finds all the other children there, and tells them they should have searched elsewhere for shelter, but one child points out that the Child keeps coming after her. After a typewriter in the shelter starts acting on its own, typing out the same request for "mummy", Nancy leaves the children and heads to the bomb site. She is quickly captured and questioned, then left handcuffed to a table; the guard that is left to watch over her shows signs of sickness, and shortly before Nancy's eyes, transforms to a gas mask-wearing being.

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack arrive at the bomb site, and discover that the soldiers remaining have all been transformed as well, but the Doctor has discovered that Nancy still in her own form, kept alive by singing a lullaby to her transformed captor. The group investigates the "bomb", the empty shell of a Chula medical transport, and the Doctor realizes that it shouldn't be empty: it should also contain the same nanogenes that were present on Jack's ship. He deduces that the transformations have all been caused by the nanogenes, using the first reference of a human body they had come across after crashing: Jamie's dead body wearing a gas mask. As the Chula was a warrior race, the nanogenes also gave the transformed beings increased strength, making them nearly unstoppable; furthermore, should they not be able to correct the problem before the area is bombed again, the nanogenes will spread from the explosion, transforming everyone into similar gas mask-wearing beings.

As the Doctor realizes the truth, the group is surrounded by numerous gas mask-wearing beings, lead by Jamie. The Doctor tells Nancy that she knows what she has to do to end this, and Nancy knowingly agrees, stepping up to Jamie and admitted to him that she is not his sister but really his mummy, and embraces him in a hug. The others watch as the nanogenes envelop both Nancy and Jamie, scanning her DNA and recognizing her as a true human. The nanogenes then heal Jamie; not only reversing the transformation, but also bringing him back to life; they then continue to revert the change on all the other beings. However, the bomb that is set to strike the area has almost landed, but Jack has managed to use his ship to temporarily halt the bomb but must still dispose of it. He returns himself and the bomb to his ship and sets off far away from civilization. With the area safe, the Doctor realizes that "everyone lives!", and starts an evacuation of the area while he sets the Chula medical ship to self-destruct, not only destroying the future technology but also keeping history consistent with an explosion in the area still occurring.

Jack, aboard his ship, realizes he cannot jettison the bomb, or bail on the ship himself, and thus must travel with it until it explodes. However, moments before the bomb explodes, the TARDIS appears on Jack's ship, Glenn Miller playing from the control room as the Doctor and Rose dance, and invite him on board. Jack quickly flees his ship and joins the other TARDIS members in dancing in celebration to their success.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Writer Steven Moffat
Director James Hawes
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.10
Series Series 1
Length 2 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast May 28, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: The Empty Child

The Doctor and Rose Tyler are travelling in the TARDIS, chasing a metal cylinder that is marked as dangerous through the time vortex; the cylinder skips and leaves the vortex, traveling to London some time in the past. The TARDIS materializes at night, within a month of when the cylinder should have arrived. The Doctor investigates a nearby cabaret to try to find word of the cylinder, while Rose spots a young boy, alone, in a gas mask on a nearby roof and climbs up to it to try to help him. Shorly, air-raid sirens begin to go off, and the Doctor realizes they have landed during the London Blitz of World War II, with German planes making a bombing run. The Doctor runs back to the TARDIS but cannot find Rose; however, he is very puzzled when the telephone of his police box starts ringing as it is not a real phone but part of the TARDIS's disguise. He goes to answer when a young woman tells him not to answer it, though he still does, only to hear a young boy asking for his mummy over the phone. The Doctor turns back to the woman to find she has left and gone to raid the house of a family that has left for a bomb shelter for food, and goes to follow her.

The Doctor watches the young woman, who has now brought several other homeless children to enjoy the abandoned meal in the home, and decides to introduce himself to them. He learns that the young woman is called Nancy, and that they have been sustaining themselves this way with every bombing run. However, the group is startled to find a young boy in a gas mask knocking on a window; Nancy and the other children bar the house even as the child tries to stick his hand through the mail slot of the front door. Nancy tells the Doctor to not touch the boy, or he will become like the boy, "empty". The boy is able to control the electronic devices in the home, pleading for his mummy through the phone and radio. As Nancy and the other child leave with the ransacked food, the Doctor opens the front door, only to find the boy gone. The Doctor follows Nancy to an abandoned rail yard where she has made her home, and tells her that he's made the connection between the cylinder that fell and the "empty" boy. Realizing the connection, Nancy tells him about a bomb falling near the Limehouse Green station "that was not a bomb". As they investigate the site, protected by a fence and armed troops, Nancy suggests the Doctor talk to Doctor Constantine. The Doctor remarks that Nancy is looking after the children to make up for something, and she admits that it is because her brother Jamie died during an air raid. The Doctor tells Nancy encouragement that everything will be all right before he leaves her for the hospital.

Inside the hospital, the Doctor finds Dr. Constantine who stands watch over several beds filled with corpses, each still but wearing a gas mask. Dr. Constantine points out to the Doctor that the masks are not physical but appear to be part of the body, and they all share the exact same scars and external injuries. Dr. Constantine explains that when the "bomb" fell, it claimed one victim, but those that came into contact with him began to show the same effects, and the symptoms spread from there. Dr. Constantine reveals that the corpses react simultaneously to a large rap of his cane on the floor, and that the first victim was Nancy's brother. Before he can explain more, however, Dr. Constantine is changed in front of the Doctor's eyes into a similar gas mask-wearing zombie, asking for his mummy.

Meanwhile, as Rose attempts to use a rope to climb up to the boy, she discovers the rope is actually a line hanging from a barrage balloon above, and it lifts her up and off the roof. Captain Jack Harkness of the RAF, participating in a function in a nearby building, spots Rose's plight using anachronstic binoculars and excuses himself. Shortly thereafter, Rose can no longer hold her grip on the rope and falls, but is caught in a tractor beam and brought safely aboard a Chula spaceship manned by Jack, whereupon she faints. When she recovers, Jack identifies her as a "Time Agent", and treats her rope-burnt hands using the ship's "nanogenes". Both Jack and Rose appear to find the other attractive, and Jack invites Rose to the top of the ship, tethered to Big Ben. As they continue to flirt, Jack explains to Rose that he used to be a Time Agent and since has gone freelance, and that he has something that the Time Agency wants and that he expects to have to negotiate with Rose for it. Rose bluffs and tells him she would need to consult with her companion first, though she needs to find him first. Jack uses the ship to find the Doctor's location as he explains that the object is a fully equipped Chula warship, and that he knows that in two hours it will be destroyed by another bombing raid.

Finding the Doctor's location, Jack and Rose join up with the Doctor at the hospital shortly after Dr. Constantine's transformation. The Doctor learns of the situation from Rose, but hearing about the Chula warship, demands Jack to tell the truth. Jack admits it was just an "ambulance", trying to bluff its identiy as valuable, but admits that it has nothing to do with the invection. As they argue, the corpses all rise and start to approach the trio; simulatenously, Nancy, who has returned to the house to collect more food, is also trapped and approached by the young boy, who she knows is Jamie, still asking for his "mummy", leading to a cliffhanger ending, continued in The Doctor Dances.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
John Barrowman (Jack Harkness)
Writer Steven Moffat
Director James Hawes
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.9
Series Series 1
Length 1 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast May 21, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Father's Day

The episode opens with a flashback of Jackie telling a younger Rose about her father Pete, who died on November 7, 1987, the day of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clarke's wedding, while Rose was still an infant. She tells Rose that no one was around when Pete died after being run over by a hit-and-run driver.

In the present on the TARDIS, Rose asks the Doctor if they can go back to the day her father died so that she can be there when it happens. The Doctor can do this, but is worried for Rose emotionally, as they have already witnessed Jackie and Pete's wedding. The TARDIS materializes near the street where the accident happens, and as Rose and the Doctor watch from afar, they see the event occur as Jackie told Rose: Pete, running late to get a gift for the wedding, tries to retrieve it from the road but is hit by a speeding car. The Doctor tells Rose to go to Pete to be with him, but she cannot move, and by the time she recovers, the ambulance is already there and Pete is dead. Rose asks the Doctor if she can try again, and though worried, the Doctor agrees. This time, the Doctor tells Rose to wait until after the previous Rose has left to prevent a paradox. However, as soon as Pete steps into the road, Rose runs over and pushes him aside, saving him from being hit. The previous versions of the Doctor and Rose disappear and the Doctor is aghast at Rose's actions, but Rose is elated to have saved her father. Pete introduces himself to the two, and offers them a ride to the wedding, first stopping at his flat. While Pete gets dressed, the Doctor angrily scolds Rose for her actions and claims she was planning on doing this once she knew the TARDIS was a time machine, but she denies, and wonders the harm in just saving an everyman like Pete. The Doctor states that a man that was supposed to be dead is now alive, and storms off, while Pete and Rose head for the wedding. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS but finds that it is now just an empty police box, and races off to find Rose. Meanwhile, unseen beasts are swooping down from the skies and consuming people.

Pete and Rose drive to the church, though Rose is puzzled by the anachronistic hip-hop music playing on the radio and that her phone is filled with the same text message, "Watson, come here, I need you." When they arrive, a car nearly runs down Pete and abruptly disappears; Pete recognizes it as the same car that nearly ran him over before. Jackie, with the infant Rose, has a brief argument with Pete, thinking that he is having an affair with Rose, but is settled quickly. Suddenly, young Mickey runs into the church, claiming all the other children at the playground have disappeared; the Doctor runs to the church as well and tells everyone to get inside, just before large winged creatures materialize and consume the vicar and the groom's father. Once everyone is inside, the Doctor determines the old church walls will stop the creatures, and explains to Rose that there is a wound in time and the creatures are like bacteria, sterilizing the wound by consuming all inside it. The Doctor notices that outside, the car that was to run down Pete keeps appearing and disappearing; Pete determines from further conversations with the Doctor and Rose that Rose is really his daughter. Pete tries to learn what type of father he was to Rose in the future, but Rose cannot answer.

The Doctor prevents Rose from touching her younger self, explaining that it would create another paradox that would allow the creatures to enter the church. The Doctor apologizes to her for his anger earlier, and explains that if the Time Lords were still around, the paradox that Rose created could be repaired, but without them, he has no idea what to do. However, as Rose apologizes, they notice that the TARDIS key is glowing hot, and the Doctor determines that the ship is still linked to the key and he can summon the interior spaces back through the wound in time. He uses the battery from a mobile phone and his screwdriver to charge the key further, and the faint image of the TARDIS begins to appear; the Doctor warns everyone to not disturb the process until it is complete, after which he can repair the damage.

As they wait, Pete comes to realize that he should have died earlier in the day, and explains this to Rose. As he does, Jackie overhears Pete, thinking Rose to be a daughter from another marriage, but Pete, in a fit of frustration, tries to show Jackie that infant Rose and adult Rose are the same by putting the infant Rose in her arms, creating a paradox. Immediately, one of the creatures materializes inside the church; the Doctor orders everyone behind him as he, being the oldest being there, is consumed first. The creature then makes contact with the still-materializing TARDIS and both disappear, leaving the TARDIS key cold; Rose believes the Doctor to be dead. Pete knows that the only way to restore the world is for him to die as intended; he makes sure Jackie recognizes Rose as their adult child, and entrusting her to raise their infant daughter to become Rose, and the three share a final embrace. Pete runs out into the street into the path of the car, and is hit by the car; at the same time, the creatures overhead disappear.

With time healed, the world is restored to normal, those consumed by the creatures returned, while those that survive have no recollection of the events. The Doctor appears by Rose's side and tells her to go to her father, which she does, as the driver of the car stands to the side. Pete smiles back to Rose as he dies. Rose returns to the Doctor and they walk back to the TARDIS hand-in-hand.

The episode ends on a similar flashback as the opener, as Jackie explains to a young Rose that Pete didn't die alone - a young woman stayed with him until he died, leading the adult Rose to eulogise about Pete Tyler, her father, "the most wonderful man in the world.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Writer Paul Cornell
Director Joe Ahearne
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.8
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast May 14, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: The Long Game

The Doctor, Rose and new companion Adam travel forward in time to the year 200,000 and land aboard Satellite 5, a space station orbiting Earth during what should be the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, but the Doctor immediately recognizes that the activity aboard the station is not consistent with future history. The Doctor investigates the station and meets with journalists Cathica and Suki that work on Satellite 5, using his psychic paper to pose as a member of management. They tell the Doctor that Satellite 5 is a 600-channel news satellite broadcasting to the Empire, and that they hope to be promoted someday to "Floor 500", the management floor. Rose and Adam investigate the various food stalls near where the TARDIS landed, but Adam becomes overwhelmed with the strangeness of the situation. Rose lets Adam borrow her "superphone" to call his family in the past, but he only gets their answering machine; this gives Adam an idea and he pockets the "superphone". Throughout this, the Doctor and the companions are observed by the Editor, a human in a dark, icy room, watching their actions through security cameras.

The Doctor reunites with Rose and Adam, and are invited to watch a broadcasting session with Cathica and other journalists; Cathica uses a port in the centre of her forehead to process information directly into her brain, which is then transferred to chips in the other journalists' head, who then broadcast it to their appropriate stations. While Adam is amazed at the technology, the Doctor notes that humans should have surpassed it by now. However, the Editor has detected that Suki is an unauthorized intruder in the "newsroom", and announcer to all that she has been promoted and should come to Floor 500. Suki says her goodbyes, as those that go to Floor 500 never come back, and departs; when she arrives, she finds Floor 500 to be cold and populated by shrivelled corpses. She encounters the Editor, who exposes her as a member of the Freedom Foundation, an anarchist underground group. Suki holds the Editor at gunpoint, telling him she knows that the news reported from Satellite 5 is manipulated, and demands to know who controls the station. The Editor points her to the "Editor-in-Chief", who, unseen, descends upon the screaming Suki.

Adam excuses himself to recover his thoughts in an observation lounge, while the Doctor and Rose try to get more information from Cathica. From what Cathica tells him, the Doctor deduces that something is holding the human race back, both in attitude and technology, for the last 91 years - ever since Satellite 5 started broadcasting. The Doctor hacks into the station computers and notes that a lot of heat is being vented from the top floors into the lower ones. The Editor is aware of the Doctor's actions, and allows him to gain the password to come to Floor 500. Rose and the Doctor try to convince Cathica to join them, but she wants nothing to do with it, and leaves their company as they go to Floor 500. There, they encounter the Editor as well as Suki's dead body, being used like several others as a slave to the computer systems. The Editor explains that through Satellite 5, they have been able to change the Empire into a place where humans are allowed to live, using manipulated news to install fear into the human race as to keep them in a closed society. These actions have been controlled by a consortium of banks, and the "Editor-in-Chief", the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe ("Max" for short), who hangs above their heads. The Doctor notices that Cathica has had a change of heart and decided to follow them to Floor 500 as she listens in unobserved on the conversation outside the room; the Doctor makes sure to verbally note that the Jagrafess' metabolism generates a lot of heat, and thus the station itself is its life support system, venting the heat into the lower floors below.

Meanwhile, Adam, now alone, uses the station's computer to gain information that he relies back in time to his answering machine via the "superphone", but eventually the computer limits his access, though directs him to the medical facility on the station. There, he learns he can get a similar port like Cathica which will link him directly to the archives, which he agrees to after some hesitation. After recovery, Adam goes to the newsroom and opens his port by snapping his fingers, calls his answering machine with the "superphone", and initiates a link with the computer. The Editor is alerted to this, and is able to learn of the TARDIS and that the Doctor is a Time Lord from Adam's mind, and now aims to get the secret of time travel from the Doctor so that he can rewrite history to prevent humans from even developing. Cathica, hearing this, goes to the newsroom on Floor 500 and uses her link to severe Adam's connection and to reverse the flow of the environmental systems, sending heat to Floor 500, causing the Jagrafess to overheat. The Doctor and Rose escape while the Editor tries to sever Cathica's connection but cannot; he then tries to escape as well but is held by Suki's corpse, and ends up caught in the explosion of the Jagrafess. The Doctor congratulates Cathica on her actions, but is furious with Adam; they leave in the TARDIS and return to Adam's present and home. There, the Doctor destroys the answering machine and abandons Adam from the TARDIS, noting that he'll have to live with the port in his forehead, something that if discovered, he could end up dissected. As the Doctor and Rose leave, Adam's mother comes home, and commenting on how time flies, snaps her fingers, causing Adam's forehead port to open, and causing his mother to scream.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell)
Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Brian Grant
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.7
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast May 7, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Dalek

The TARDIS is drawn off course by a distress signal, and materialises in a bunker in Utah, 2012. The Doctor and Rose find that the bunker is a museum, full of alien artifacts. As the Doctor muses that he's getting old, he sets off an alarm and is immediately surrounded.

They are taken to see the owner of the Vault — Henry van Statten, a billionaire collector of alien artifacts. Impressed of the Doctor's ability to identify one such artifact, he invites the Doctor to see the "Metaltron", a creature he purports to be the last of its kind. The Doctor enters the Cage, where the creature is held, and begins to speak to it, until he realises to his horror that it is a Dalek. He then taunts the Dalek about it being the last of its kind, and attempts to kill him until van Statten's guards prevent him. The Doctor is told that it was found in a crater fifty years previously, and he subsequently concludes that Dalek fell through time.

Meanwhile, Adam is showing Rose around the base. Adam shows her the Dalek, and they see one of the technicians torturing the Dalek to force it to speak. Rose asks to be taken down to the Cage to stop him. There, Rose talks to the Dalek, which is feigning haplessness. In sympathy, Rose touches the Dalek casing, which immediately absorbs her DNA. It escapes from its cage and downloads the entire internet, draining electricity from the West Coast. In response, the area is evacuated, and guards focus fire upon it - however, the Dalek absorbs these bullets and exterminates everyone. Travelling upwards, it encounters another squad, which it takes care with two shots; one electrifies the water, the second collapses a walkway. It demands to speak to the Doctor, and tells it that it was able to regenerate its casing, but was unable to find any other Daleks or orders, and will therefore follow the default function: destruction.

Van Statten manages to restore power to the bulkheads temporarily. The Doctor tries to stall to save Adam and Rose, but the power fails. Adam manages to get over in time, but Rose does not, and over her "superphone", the Doctor hears the Dalek's cry. Disbelieving, he blames van Statten for everyone's deaths, including Rose. However, the Dalek has not killed Rose - it is hesitant due to absorbing Rose's DNA. It contacts the Doctor, saying that he will kill her if the bulkheads are not opened. Defeated, the Doctor opens the bulkhead, and follows Adam to a secret weapons cache. The Dalek reaches van Statten's office, and is about to kill him before Rose intervenes and offers the Dalek its wish; freedom.

On the highest level, the Dalek creates a hole and feels sunlight for the first time. The Doctor arrives, gun in hand, and orders Rose to move. Rose refuses - the Dalek is changing, as it could not kill her or van Statten. Appaled at his own actions, he lowers his weapon. Both he and the Dalek realise that the Dalek is mutating further, and is becoming unable to conform to the Dalek objective. It asks Rose to order its death, and after being given the order, annilihates itself.

After the crisis is averted, Goddard orders van Statten's mind wiped and the vault filled with cement. At the TARDIS, the Doctor ruefully observes that as the last survivor of the Time War, he "wins". Adam comes by, telling the Doctor that Goddard is sealing the base. Rose invites Adam aboard the TARDIS, which he enters with a puzzled expression before it dematerialises.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companions Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell)
Guest stars
Henry van Statten — Corey Johnson
Diana Goddard — Anna-Louise Plowman
Polkowski — Steven Beckingham
Simmons — Nigel Whitmey
Bywater — John Schwab
De Maggio — Jana Carpenter
Commander — Joe Montana
Dalek Voice — Nicholas Briggs

Writer Robert Shearman
Director Joe Ahearne
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Series Series 1
Length 45 minutes
Originally broadcast April 30, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: World War III

Following from the cliffhanger in "Aliens of London", the Doctor, being extraterrestrial, is able to survive an electrical pulse triggered by the Slitheen Green that has killed the other alien experts in the room; he manages to direct the charge to Asquith, and the shock spreads to Green and the other Slitheen: Margaret Blaine is temporarily stunned, allowing Harriet Jones and Rose Tyler to escape from 10 Downing Street, while Mickey Smith is able to push aside the police inspector that was advancing on Jackie Tyler and pull her from the apartment. The Doctor attempts to get the police, but by the time he has returned, the Slitheen have gotten back into their suits, and the Doctor's claim that the Acting Prime Minister is an alien is rebuffed, with Green instead pinning the deaths of the alien experts on the Doctor, and orders his capture. The Doctor escapes to the upper floors of 10 Downing Street, and helps Rose and Harriet to escape back to the Cabinet Rooms so they can determine what Emergency Protocols are in place for an alien invasion. The Doctor shortly follows them, after learning that the Slitheen are a family, and they are not invading Earth but here for business reasons.

The Emergency Protocols are found to be of no help as they list the alien experts already dead in the room downstairs, and that they cannot launch nuclear weapons at the Slitheen as the codes for the United Kingdom can only be released after authorization by the United Nations, due to a past incident. With no other course of action, they attempt to learn what they can about the Slitheen, and determine they are a calcium-based lifeform from Raxacoricofallapatorius, and that they use compression collars to squeeze their bodies into the human skins, which accounts for their flatulence. The group is called by Mickey and Jackie, having taken refuge in Mickey's flat. The Doctor gives Mickey instructions on how to log into the UNIT website, and uses that to determine that the Slitheen ship is presently in the North Sea, transmitting some signal that Mickey attempts to decode. However, as he works, the Slitheen posing as a police inspector breaks in, but thanks to advice from the Doctor, Jackie is able to douse it with copious amounts of vinegar containing acetic acid, which react with the calcium-based creature and causing it to explode.

At the sense of loss of their brother, Green and the other Slitheen declare a matter of national security and request that the UN release the activation codes to strike against a fictitious mothership that is hanging over London. The Doctor realizes that the Slitheen actually plan to fire the weapons against other countries, starting World War III and leaving the world as a radioactive dump, which they would then sell off to the rest of the galaxy as a fuel source, that fact being advertised through the signal Mickey has decoded. The Doctor recognizes a solution but tells Jackie he cannot promise Rose's safety, but before Jackie can react, Rose tells the Doctor to go ahead, further ordered by the highest elected representative left, Harriet Jones. The Doctor tells Mickey to access the Royal Navy HMS Taurean, a Trafalgar class submarine off the coast of Plymouth, and to fire a Harpoon missile at 10 Downing Street, where all the Slitheen have gathered to try to deal with the Doctor and his group. The area around 10 Downing is cleared while the Doctor, Rose, and Harriet take shelter in the Cabinet Rooms. The Slitheen attempt to escape though are delayed by putting on their human suits as they do not want to reveal themselves to the world at large, and are caught in the explosion when the missile hits. The Doctor, Rose, and Harriet all survive, and the Doctor encourages Harriet to take the position of Prime Minister and help rebuild the government. The entire event is stated in the press as a hoax, and the Doctor has Mickey use a special computer virus to wipe all records of The Doctor from the Internet.

The Doctor "cancels" the Slitheen advertisement, and declines an offer by Jackie for dinner so she can get to know him better, now that she knows the Doctor is part of Rose's life. The Doctor offers Mickey an opportunity to be part of the crew, but he declines, saying the Doctor's world is not for him. Rose, after packing some her belongings, rejoins the Doctor for more travels.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
Camille Coduri — Jackie Tyler
Penelope Wilton — Harriet Jones
Noel Clarke — Mickey Smith
Rupert Vansittart — General Asquith
Morgan Hopkins — Sergeant Price
Andrew Marr — Himself
Annette Badland — Margaret Blaine
David Verrey — Joseph Green
Steve Spiers — Strickland
Jack Tarlton — Reporter
Lachele Carl — Reporter
Corey Doabe — Spray Painter
Elizabeth Fost, Paul Kasey, Alan Ruscoe — Slitheen

Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Keith Boak
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.5
Series Series 1
Length 2 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast April 23, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Aliens of London

The Doctor uses the TARDIS to take Rose back to her flat, supposedly 12 hours after she left her mother Jackie ("Rose"), but discovers that they have actually returned 12 months since that point; Jackie declared Rose missing and Mickey Smith was accused but cleared of murdering Rose. As Rose expresses her frustration at the Doctor for not being able to tell the truth of where she's been, a spacecraft speeds through the sky, crashing through Big Ben, and splashes down in the River Thames. Central London is quickly sealed off, forcing the Doctor and Rose to follow events on television. An alien is discovered in the wreckage and taken, under command of General Asquith to nearby Albion Hospital. The general examines the body and asks Dr. Sato, the pathologist, to learn all she can about the creature. As various "alien-welcoming" parties occur in the estate flats that evening, the Doctor sneaks off to his TARDIS alone, promising Rose he will not interfere with Earth's first alien contact and that he won't leave her, and materializes at the hospital. There, managing to influence the guards, he is able to meet Dr. Sato and the alien, and determines that the alien is really just an Earth pig, enhanced by alien technology; someone wanted to fake the alien crash.

Meanwhile, due to the inability to locate the Prime Minister and with gridlock around London, MP Joseph Green, a large, flatulent man and a Chair of a DEFRA committee, is instated as the acting Prime Minister by Indra Ganesh, a Junior Secretary with the Ministry of Defence. Ganesh gives Green the emergency protocols for dealing with an extraterrestrial encounter, and introduces him to Margaret Blaine of MI5 and Oliver Charles, an MP who is a Parliamentary Liaison at the Department of Transport. Ganesh leaves the trio alone, who begin to laughing among themselves. Harriet Jones, a backbench MP, attempts to deliver a report to the trio, but ends up overhearing General Asquith complaining to Green of his inactivity. The three think it a joke, passing gas as they laugh, then begin to unzip their heads, revealing a blue light, causing the General to scream. General Asquith is killed, the being occupying Charles now using the General's appearance as its own.

As Rose tries to tell Mickie and Jackie about where she had been for the last year and that the Doctor is her friend, the TARDIS rematerializes back at the flats. The Doctor explains to Rose and Mickey that the alien crash was all faked, and that the ship was actually launched from Earth, meaning that whomever launched it has been on Earth for some time, while Jackie calls the Emergency Alien Hotline to report the Doctor as an alien. Jackie's call triggers a "Code 9" alert; when the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey leave the TARDIS, they are surrounded by soldiers, but while Mickey is able to escape, the Doctor and Rose are escorted to 10 Downing Street. There, they find several other alien experts, including those from the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, gathered to decide on humanity's course of action. While the Doctor is asked to be a part of the meeting, Rose is not, though Harriet Jones offers to keep an eye on her. Harriet shows Rose the empty skin of Oliver Charles, and on further investigation, they find the dead body of the Prime Minister, which they tell Ganesh about. However, Blaine blocks their exit and begins to unzip her head. Simultaneously, police inspector Strickland who has been talking to Jackie after the Doctor was captured, begins to do the same. In the meeting room, General Asquith also unzips his head, and reveals himself as the alien Slitheen, while Green sends an deadly electrical shock through all the alien experts, including the Doctor. The episodes ends in a cliffhanger into "World War Three".

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
Camille Coduri — Jackie Tyler
Corey Doabe — Spray Painter
Ceris Jones — Policeman
Jack Tarlton — Reporter
Lachele Carl — Reporter
Fiesta Mei Ling — Ru
Basil Chung — Bau
Matt Baker — Himself
Andrew Marr — Himself
Rupert Vansittart — General Asquith
David Verrey — Joseph Green
Navin Chowdhry — Indra Ganesh
Penelope Wilton — Harriet Jones
Annette Badland — Margaret Blaine
Naoko Mori — Doctor Sato
Eric Potts — Oliver Charles
Noel Clarke — Mickey Smith
Jimmy Vee Space Pig
Steve Spiers — Strickland
Elizabeth Fost, Paul Kasey, Alan Ruscoe — Slitheen

Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Keith Boak
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.4
Series Series 1
Length 1 of 2 episodes, 45 mins
Originally broadcast April 16, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Unquiet Dead

The Doctor attempts to pilot the TARDIS to Naples in 1860 to show Rose the past, but misses short, ending up in Cardiff in 1869. While they land and Rose changes into more appropriate garb, there is trouble in a nearby funeral parlour run by Gabriel Sneed and his servant girl Gwyneth - the corpse of a grandmother has been taken oven by a blue vapor, killing her mourning grandson Redpath, and then escapes the parlour. Gwyneth with her clairvoyance senses that the corpse, per her last desire, is going to see Charles Dickens at a nearby music hall. In the middle of his performance, the blue vapor leaves the woman, scaring the audience away and attracting the attention of the Doctor and Rose. Gabriel and Gwyneth arrive to retake the corpse as the blue vapor disappears into the pipes, and they also kidnap Rose by knocking her out with chloroform. Charles accuses the Doctor of ruining his performance, but after the Doctor gushes over his literary genius, and that an adventure is afoot, Charles gladly joins up to help.

At the funeral parlour, Rose wakes up and is borne down by the animated corpses of Redpath and his grandmother. The Doctor and Charles arrive, breaking into the parlour and rescuing Rose; the Doctor attempts to learn from the corpses why they are doing this, and determines that the parlour is built on a rift in spacetime, and the blue vapors are beings crossing through the Rift; they are able to use the corpses for a short time, but cannot sustain them. Rose talks more with Gwyneth, and her clarivoyance is discovered, an effect of living in the parlour since her parents died, according to the Doctor. Using Gwyneth as a channel, they hold a séance to directly communicate with the beings, who they learn are called "Gelth", their bodies destroyed as part of the Time War. The Doctor offers the Gelth temporary use of corpses only until he can transport them to a place where they can build new bodies, using Gwyneth as a bridge to cross the Rift.

As the process starts, the number of Gelth is much higher than anticipated, and their true motive is revealed: they are willing to kill the living to give themselves more hosts and take over the planet. Gabriel's neck is broken and his body taken over by a Gelth as Charles flees the parlour, leaving Rose and the Doctor trapped. Outside, Charles notes that the beings are affected by gas, and returns to the house, extinguishing the gaslights and turning the gas on full. The Gelth are forced to abandon the corpses and though the Doctor tries to encourage Gwyneth to send them back across the Rift, she cannot nor can she leave; instead, she takes out a box of matches, intending to ignite the gas and killing the Gelth along with herself. The Doctor, Rose, and Charles flee the parlour before it is engulfed in flames. As the Doctor and Rose head back to the TARDIS, Charles makes a commitment to patch up things with his family and finish The Mystery of Edwin Drood, though the Doctor notes later to Rose that Charles will die within the year, leaving that work unfinished, but they have made him feel more alive than he ever has been. The Doctor and Rose give their goodbyes and disappear in the TARDIS.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
Alan David — Gabriel Sneed
Huw Rhys Redpath
Jennifer Hill — Mrs Peace
Eve Myles — Gwyneth
Simon Callow — Charles Dickens
Wayne Cater — Stage Manager
Meic Povey — Driver
Zoe Thorne — The Gelth

Writer Mark Gatiss
Director Euros Lyn
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1,3
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast April 9, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: End of the World

The Doctor takes Rose to five billion years into her future in the TARDIS, landing on "Platform One", a space station in orbit around Earth; the Earth has long since been abandoned and under the National Trust, but as money has run out, it is about to be destroyed by the expansion of the Sun, only presently held back by gravity satellites. The Doctor uses "psychic paper" to pass as their invitation to the party, and he and Rose find many elite extraterrestrial beings there to celebrate the end of the Earth in the protection of Platform One's automated shields. The guests include Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen, simply a face on a large piece of skin that must be continually moisturized, mounted on a frame with her brain in a jar below it, who calls herself the last human in the universe. The guests exchange gifts as part of the celebration (including Lady Cassandra's gift of a Wurlitzer jukebox, calling it an "iPod"). Rose is overwhelmed by the strange beings and customs as well as how distant she is from home, and leaves to an observation room to collect her thoughts. The Doctor follow her, and tries to cheer her up by allowing her to call her mom Jackie after altering her cell phone to be able to work over the distance in time; this however only serves to depress Rose more.

Meanwhile, the gifts brought by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme, small metallic spheres, are revealed to be robotic spiders that immediately work at disabling functions on Platform One. The Steward of Platform One recognizes something is wrong, but is killed when the spiders cause the solar filter of his room to rise up, exposing him directly to the powerful solar radiation. The Doctor goes to investigate with the help of Jabe, a humanoid plant being from the Forest of Cheem, and discover the Steward's death and the spiders. Rose attempts to learn more from Lady Cassandra but only gets more upset over Cassandra's arrogance, and walks away, only to be knocked out by members of the Meme. She wakes up in an observation room, the solar shield slowly rising, and calls for the Doctor to save her. The Doctor finds he can stop and lower the shield, but cannot unlock the observation room, and so turns to the various guests.

The Doctor uses a spider that he captured to determine that while the Meme released them, they are only empty shells, and that the real controller is Lady Cassandra. Cassandra admits to this, and was planning to use the situation as a hostage crisis to get money to pay for her repeated operations, but now will simply let the assembled guests die, taking the money from their accounts after they are gone. Cassandra transmats to her ship as the spiders bring down the shielding and the gravity satellites are turned off ; The direct radiation causes the solar filters to strain and crack, killing several of the guests from the intense radiation exposure, and leaving Rose to scurry to find some shelter within the observation room. The Doctor and Jabe travel to the bowels of Platform One where the system to restore the automated shields is located, though it requires one of them to travel through several spinning fans. Jabe recognizes the Doctor as the last Time Lord after a great war, and sacrifices herself to hold down a switch to stop the fan blades, allowing the Doctor to reactive the system just before the expanding Sun hits the station and destroys the Earth.

The Doctor returns to the remaining guests and Rose, free of the observation room, and uses a device to transmat Cassandra back onto the station. In the elevated temperature and without moisturizing, Cassandra begins to dry out and crack, and while she begs for mercy from the Doctor, he refuses to listen, and shortly, Cassandra explodes. Rose notes that in all the events, no one witnessed the actual destruction of the Earth. Returning to Rose's present, the Doctor explains to her that his own planet was burned alive and that he is the last Time Lord, and that people tend to forget that things don't last forever. Rose sympathizes with the Doctor as they enjoy some chips on a sunny London afternoon.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
Simon Day — Steward
Yasmin Bannerman — Jabe
Jimmy Vee — Moxx of Balhoon
Zoë Wanamaker — Cassandra
Camille Coduri — Jackie Tyler
Beccy Armory — Raffalo
Sara Stewart — Computer Voice
Silas Carson, Nicholas Briggs — Alien Voices

Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Euros Lyn
Script editor Helen Raynor
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1,2
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast April 2, 2005

Series 1 Episodes: Rose

Rose Tyler, a young woman working in a London department store, finds herself one night after closing surrounded by plastic mannequins that have come to life in the basement of the store. She is saved by a young man, introducing himself as "The Doctor", and tells her to flee the building while he destroys the transmitter that is being used to control the mannequins. Rose races for her council flat that she shares with her mother Jackie, clutching one of the mannequin arms pulled off during their escape, as the top floors of the building explode behind her. The next day, Rose finds that the Doctor has found her at her apartment, just in time to subdue the arm with his sonic screwdriver. The Doctor then leaves to an old blue police box, Rose following him to try to get more answers, but the Doctor just tells her to simply forget him and return home; when Rose looks back, the police box is gone.

Rose talks with her boyfriend Mickey Smith about the events of the previous days, and they find a conspiracy theory website that describes a man similar to the Doctor that has appeared throughout history. Rose and Mickey visit the web site's owner, a man named Clive. While Clive describes to Rose the various evidence he has that suggests the Doctor is an immortal alien, Mickey investigates a plastic rubbish bin that seems to move on its own, gets pulled into it, and is replaced by a plastic replica, unbeknown to Rose. Rose leaves Clive, dismissing his claims, and she and the fake Mickey head to a restaurant, where the fake Mickey tries to pry what Rose learned about the Doctor from her. As she starts to suspect something strange, the Doctor shows up and defeats the fake Mickey, dislodging its head in the process. The Doctor grabs Rose and takes him to the police box, which is revealed to be his TARDIS, and uses the fake Mickey head to lock onto a signal and materialize the TARDIS nearby. The Doctor explains to the shocked Rose that the fake Mickey was an auton, controlled by the Nestene Consciousness, and that if he cannot stop it using a vial of "anti-plastic" liquid, it will destroy all humans on Earth. Leaving the TARDIS on the banks of the Thames, Rose identifies the London Eye ferris wheel as a possible transmitter, and she and the Doctor race towards it.

In an underground complex under the Eye, the Nestene Consciousness has taken residence in a large vat; the real Mickey is in a state of shock on one of the catwalks. While Rose sees to Mickey, the Doctor tries to negotiate with the Nestene Consciousness, held back by two autons. However, the Nestene has discovered the Doctor's TARDIS, and recognizing what he is and that he cannot make up for the destruction of its home during "the war", the Nestene activates all the autons at the Queens Arcade. Several shoppers are shot dead, including Clive after realizing what he knew was the truth, while Jackie manages to escape the Arcade, but ends up surrounded by autons. Rose uses a nearby chain to swing over to the Doctor and knock one of the autons holding him away, allowing him to defeat his other and dropping the "anti-plastic" vial into the Nestene. The Nestene wails in pain and explodes while the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey escape safely in the TARDIS. Jackie and the remaining shoppers find themselves safe as the autons stop functioning. After the TARDIS rematerializes safely, Mickey flees in a state of panic, while the Doctor offers Rose more adventures with him. Though Rose initially refuses as she is concerned about her mother and Mickey, she quickly joins with the Doctor when he explains that the TARDIS can also travel in time as well as space.

Doctor Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Guest stars
Camille Coduri — Jackie Tyler
Noel Clarke — Mickey Smith
Mark Benton — Clive
Ellie Garnett — Caroline
Adam McCoy — Clive's Son
Alan Ruscoe, Paul Kasey, David Sant, Elizabeth Fost, Helen Otway — Autons
Nicholas Briggs — Nestene Voice

Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Keith Boak
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.1
Series Series 1
Length 1 episode, 45 mins
Originally broadcast 26 March 2005