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Doctor Who: Rose
Christopher Eccleston takes the role of the time-travelling crusader, who lands on Earth just in time to save a department store worker, named Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), from a horde of marauding mannequins - thus plunging the pair into a desperate battle against a malevolent alien intelligence with the ability to bring plastic to life.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x1 Production Number: 101 Airdate: Saturday March 26th, 2005 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
Rose Tyler wakes up in the morning for another boring day in her boring job. She says goodbye to her mother, Jackie, and goes to the department store where she works. She meets with Mickey for lunch but the rest of her day consists of not doing much except waiting for her job to end. However, as she prepares to leave, the employees ask her to take their lottery money down to Wilson, the electrical engineer. He has an office in the basement but doesn't answer when Rose knocks. She hears someone moving around and follows the noise to a room full of department store mannequins. The door slams behind her and the mannequins come to life, advancing on her.....Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Date: 5-6 March 2005
Location: London
Location: London
Among the actresses who auditioned for the role of Rose Tyler was Georgia Moffett, the daughter of Peter Davison. Davison played the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who from 1981 to 1984. Georgia would later go on to play the Doctor's "daughter" Jenny in Series 4, in "The Doctor's Daughter."
The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) was present at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. This would mean that he was the second incarnation of the Doctor to be on Earth on November 22, 1963, as the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) was in London fighting the Daleks in "Remembrance of the Daleks".
The Nestene Consciousness allegedly mouths "Bad Wolf" at one point.
According to Clive (Mark Benton), the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) was present at the eruption of Krakatoa on August 27, 1883 or shortly thereafter. In the Doctor Who episode "Inferno", the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) claimed to have been also present at this event.
Episode Quotes
The Doctor: (looking at Heat magazine) That won't last. He's gay and she's an alien.
Rose: If you're alien how comes you sound like you're from the North?
The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North!
The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North!
(Rose sees the Doctor being strangled by a Nestene-controlled plastic arm)
Rose: Oh, you men are all the same. Give a man a plastic hand...
Rose: Oh, you men are all the same. Give a man a plastic hand...
The Doctor: D'you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it -- the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go...That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.
The Doctor: (referring to his new appearance) Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears.
The Doctor: (to the Nestene consciousness) I fought in the War! I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!
The Doctor: Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!
Episode Goofs
The Nestene Consciousness can only control plastic, not manipulate already created plastic. So when it takes control of the shop dummies, they wouldn't have guns in their wrists already, so there is no way they could have guns in their wrists.
The Doctor: The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it.
1,000 miles an hour would be right for the equator, but in London the spin of the Earth is more like 650 miles an hour.
1,000 miles an hour would be right for the equator, but in London the spin of the Earth is more like 650 miles an hour.
Cultural References
The Doctor: That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien.
The Doctor reads Heat magazine, a popular gossip magazine.
The Doctor reads Heat magazine, a popular gossip magazine.
Episode References
The Autons previously appeared in the original Doctor Who in the episodes "Spearhead From Space" and "Terror of the Autons".
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | Russell T. Davies | Mal Young (1) | Julie Gardner (1) |
| • Producer | Phil Collinson |
| • Associate Producer | Helen Vallis |
| • Production Designer | Michael Edward Thomas (3) |
| • Editor | Mike Jones (4) |
| • Casting | Andy Pryor |
| • First Assistant Director | George Gerwitz |
| • Second Assistant Director | Steff Morris |
| • Music | Murray Gold |
| • Costume Designer | Lucinda Wright |
| • Make-up | Sarah Wilson (2) |
| • Grip | John Robinson (3) |
| • Camera Operator | Michael Costelloe | Martin Stephens |
| • Set Decorator | Peter Walpole |
| • Location Manager | Lowri Thomas | Clive Evans |
| • Property Master | Patrick Begley |
| • Production Coordinator | Dathyl Evans |
| • Assistant Editor | Ceres Doyle |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Marie Brown (2) |
| • Gaffer | Mark Hutchings |
| • On-Line Editor | Matthew Clarke (2) |
| • Director of Photography | Ernie Vincze |
| • Stunts | Paul Kulik | Holly Lumsden |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Rod Woodruff |
| • Production Management | Tracie Simpson |
| • Special Effects | Will Cohen (3) |
| • Script Editor | Elwen Rowlands |
| • Dubbing Mixer | Tim Ricketts |
| • Sound Recordist | Ian Richardson (3) |
| • Third Assistant Director | Dafydd Parry |
| • Boom Operator | Damian Richardson |
| • Art Department Coordinator | Gwenllian Llwyd |
| • Main Title Theme | Ron Grainer |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | David Houghton |
| • Production Accountant | Endaf Emyr Williams |
| • Best Boy | Peter Chester |
| • Casting Associate | Kirsty Robertson |
| • Colorist | Kai Van Beers |
| • Continuity | Sian Prosser |
| • Focus Puller | Mark Isaac | Steve Lawes |
| • Graphic Artist | Jenny Bowers |
| • Dialogue Editor | Paul McFadden |
| • A/production Accountant | Debi Griffiths | Kath Blackman |
| • Concept Artist | Bryan Hitch |
| • Production Buyer | Catherine Samuel |
| • Supervising Art Director | Stephen Nicholas |
| • Standby Art Director | Julian Luxton |
| • Construction Manager | Andrew Smith (3) |
| • Standby Props | Adrian Anscombe | Phill Shellard |
| • Wardrobe Supervisor | Yolanda Peart-Smith |
| • Sound Special Effects Editor | Paul Jefferies |
| • Make-up Designer | Davy Jones |
| • Make-up Supervisor | Linda Davie |
| • Created By | Robert Holmes |
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