Highlights
Doctor Who 9: Christopher Eccleston

Doctor Who 9: Christopher Eccleston - Season 1 (2005)

Season 1 Episodes

1. Rose

March 26th, 200544 min

Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and realises Earth is in danger.

2. The End of the World

April 2nd, 200544 min

The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time: to the year five billion, when the Sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. She is cautious and soon starts to question her reasons for joining The Doctor. But amongst the powerful alien races gathering to watch on Platform One, a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly metal spiders?

3. The Unquiet Dead

April 9th, 200544 min

Charles Dickens and the Doctor team up as corpses stalk the streets of Victorian Cardiff.

4. Aliens of London (1)

April 16th, 200545 min

Rose is taken home, but a spaceship crashes in the Thames and London is closed off... Enter the Slitheen!

5. World War Three (2)

April 23rd, 200543 min

Time is running out for the Doctor as Downing Street announces mankind's first Interplanetary War.

6. Dalek

April 30th, 200545 min

The Doctor is shattered and Earth is in danger as he and Rose discover the Time Lords' deadliest enemy beneath Utah.

7. The Long Game

May 7th, 200544 min

Adam catches a glimpse of the wonders of travelling in the Tardis, as they head to a future, where Satellite 5 broadcasts to the entire Earth Empire. But anyone promoted to Floor 500 is never seen again, and the Doctor suspects mankind is being manipulated.

8. Father's Day

May 14th, 200542 min

Rose requests a trip back to the day her father, Pete Tyler, died. Reluctantly, the Doctor agrees, but he realises he has made a mistake, when Rose saves Pete from being run over by a car. This has now changed the timeline, and Reapers are transposing themselves all over the Universe. However, this time, the Doctor doesn't have a plan…

9. The Empty Child (1)

May 21st, 200541 min

After chasing an unexplained capsule through time, the TARDIS lands in London, during an air raid. Rose investigates when a small child wearing a gasmask, standing on a rooftop, continuously calls out for his mummy. After floating above the city on a barrage balloon, Rose is swept off her feet by another time traveller – Captain Jack Harkness. Meanwhile, The Doctor follows a teenaged girl to a meeting of the homeless children of the Blitz. Here, the child in the gasmask is terrorising them with a parade of strange events, constantly asking for his mother.

10. The Doctor Dances (2)

May 28th, 200542 min

The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with the intergalactic con man, Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bomb site, but time is running out.

11. Boom Town

June 4th, 200543 min

The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack stop off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS on the Rift they formerly encountered in 1869. Whilst there, they come upon a since-thought-long-dead enemy of theirs, who is hatching yet another plan to destroy Earth.

12. Bad Wolf (1)

June 11th, 200542 min

In a seemingly futuristic world, the Doctor wakes up in the Big Brother house during an eviction, Rose wakes up on the Weakest Link with the Anne-Droid, and Captain Jack gets a make over with Trin-E and Zu-Zana. But something unusual is happening, and the losing contestants are being disintergrated. Obviously, it's time for the Doctor to investigate. Who or what is behind this?

13. The Parting of the Ways (2)

June 18th, 200545 min

Rose has seen danger and wonders alongside the Doctor, but now their friendship is put to the test as Earth plunges into an epic war. With the human race being slaughtered, the Doctor is forced into terrible action. Will the time-travellers ever be reunited?