The Ninth Doctor (2005)
Season Twenty-Seven 
(2005) Season Twenty-Seven (2005): The Trip Of A Lifetime
First appearances of Rose, Adam, Jack, Mickey, Jackie, Pete, Harriet Jones, Cassandra, and the Slitheen.

Season Twenty-Seven (2005): The Trip Of A Lifetime

The Doctor
The Ninth Doctor

Christopher Eccleston (bio) made his first appearance as the Doctor in Rose (March 2005) and his last in The Parting Of The Ways (June 2005).

Companions and Recurring Characters

Rose Tyler was a teenaged department store worker in 2005 London who helped the Doctor stop an invasion by the Nestene Consciousness.

Billie Piper (bio) made her first appearance as Rose in Rose (March 2005) and her last in The Day Of The Doctor (November 2013).

Rose Tyler

Mickey Smith was Rose Tyler's boyfriend before she decided to travel with the Doctor. After reluctantly assisting the Doctor and Rose on several occasions, Mickey finally accepted their invitation to join them aboard the TARDIS.

Noel Clarke (bio) made his first appearance as Mickey in Rose (March 2005) and his last in The End Of Time (January 2010).

Mickey Smith

Mother to Rose, Jackie Tyler was suspicious of the Doctor's role in her daughter's life, until she finally came to understand how travelling in the TARDIS had changed Rose's life for the better.

Camille Coduri (bio) made her first appearance as Jackie in Rose (March 2005) and her last in The End Of Time (January 2010).

Jackie Tyler

Harriet Jones was a back-bench Member of Parliament for Flydale North until her involvement in the Doctor's defeat of the Slitheen propelled her swift ascent to the Prime Minister's office.

Penelope Wilton (bio) made her first appearance as Harriet in Aliens Of London (April 2005) and her last in The Stolen Earth (June 2008).

Harriet Jones

Adam Mitchell was a young computer genius employed by Henry van Statten's Geocomtex corporation when a Dalek was unleashed upon its Utah facility.

Bruno Langley (bio) made his first appearance as Adam in Dalek (April 2005) and his last in The Long Game (May 2005).

Adam Mitchell

Pete Tyler was Rose's father, a ne'er-do-well who died when she was still a baby. However, Rose was twice reunited with her dad during her travels with the Doctor: first when she uncovered the truth behind his death, and then when she met his counterpart from an alternative reality.

Shaun Dingwall (bio) made his first appearance as Pete in Father's Day (May 2005) and his last in Doomsday (July 2006).

Pete Tyler

The man who called himself Captain Jack Harkness was a Time Agent turned con artist who met the Doctor in London during the Blitz. Inspired to more altruistic pursuits by his travels in the TARDIS, Jack became the leader of the Cardiff branch of the Torchwood Institute, tasked with protecting the Earth from extraterrestrial threats.

John Barrowman (bio) made his first appearance as Jack in The Empty Child (May 2005) and his last in Revolution Of The Daleks (January 2021).

Jack Harkness

The Production Team

The composition of the Doctor Who production team evolved considerably between the end of the original series in 1989 and its twenty-first century revival. Previously, the programme had usually been overseen in partnership by a producer and a script editor. Now the creative vision was principally the responsibility of a single individual: Russell T Davies (bio), often referred to as the “showrunner” in parlance borrowed from Hollywood. Both an executive producer and the head writer, Davies was administratively supported by other executive producers, while the day-to-day management duties would be handled by one or more producers of various kinds.

The Stories
Rose
Rose by Russell T Davies, directed by Keith Boak
Rose Tyler is a normal young woman. She lives with her mum, Jackie. She has a semi-serious boyfriend, Mickey. And she works a mundane job at Henrik's department store. One night, however, Rose's life is turned upside-down when she finds murderous animated mannequins in the store basement, and is rescued by a mysterious stranger who calls himself “the Doctor”. Rose becomes determined to delve deeper into the mystery of the Doctor, but her life is imperilled again when Mickey is replaced by a plastic doppelganger. Only together can Rose and the Doctor stop a secret invasion of the Earth.
The Doctor invites Rose to join him in his travels.
The End Of The World
The End Of The World by Russell T Davies, directed by Euros Lyn
The Doctor and Rose arrive on the orbiting Platform One in the year Five Billion. Some of the richest beings in the universe have gathered there to watch the destruction of the Earth, as its Sun erupts into a red giant. While Rose grapples with the implications of her decision to travel in the TARDIS, an army of robotic spiders takes control of the space station. Is the mastermind Jabe, the serene Tree from the Forest of Cheem? Cassandra, the last pure human in existence? The diminutive Moxx of Balhoon? Or the impassive Face of Boe? And whoever it is, can the Doctor stop them before Platform One perishes along with the Earth?
The Unquiet Dead
The Unquiet Dead by Mark Gatiss, directed by Euros Lyn
The TARDIS materialises in Cardiff on Christmas Eve 1869. An undertaker named Gabriel Sneed has been tormented by corpses walking out of his funeral parlour. When one of the dead interrupts a reading by esteemed author Charles Dickens, Rose intervenes, only to be kidnapped by Sneed and his maid, Gwyneth. The Doctor and a sceptical Dickens track Rose to the mortuary, where the Doctor learns of the existence of a mysterious Rift. Meanwhile, Rose befriends Gwyneth, who is gifted with the “second sight” -- and who may be the key to unlocking the terrible secret of the Rift.

Aliens Of London / World War Three
Aliens Of London / World War Three by Russell T Davies, directed by Keith Boak
The Doctor thinks he has brought Rose home twelve hours after she left, only to discover that it has instead been twelve months. But before they can explain the situation to a panic-stricken Jackie and a wary Mickey, a spaceship crashlands in the heart of London. Much to the Doctor's astonishment, its pilot appears to be a pig. Meanwhile, lowly MP Harriet Jones discovers that the Prime Minister has gone missing, and some of the senior administrators in Whitehall are behaving very strangely. These events are all part of a deception engineered by the alien Slitheen, who have infiltrated 10 Downing Street itself.
Dalek
Dalek by Robert Shearman, directed by Joe Ahearne
In 2012, the foremost collector of alien artefacts is the wealthy Henry van Statten. The TARDIS is drawn to his underground museum in Utah by a distress call from van Statten's latest acquisition. He has dubbed it a “Metaltron”, but the Doctor is horrified to recognise it as a Dalek. The creature is badly damaged and virtually powerless, but it is inadvertently freed by Rose and Adam Mitchell, one of van Statten's brilliant young researchers. As the reinvigorated Dalek rampages through van Statten's compound, Rose begins to uncover the awful truth behind the Doctor's hatred of his enemy.
The Doctor and Rose invite Adam aboard the TARDIS.
The Long Game
The Long Game by Russell T Davies, directed by Brian Grant
The Doctor, Rose and Adam find themselves on Satellite 5 in the year 200,000, when Earth is meant to be at the forefront of a mighty galactic empire. But something has gone wrong: humanity's development has stalled, and the Doctor suspects that it has something to do with the media transmissions which bombard the populace, all emanating from Satellite 5. The answer lies on the mysterious Floor 500, abode of the sinister Editor. But while the Doctor and Rose investigate, Adam decides to take full advantage of the opportunity to immerse himself in the knowledge and technology of the distant future.
Having betrayed the Doctor's trust, Adam is returned home to 2012 England.
Father's Day
Father's Day by Paul Cornell, directed by Joe Ahearne
The Doctor takes Rose back to the 7th of November 1987, the day her father Pete was killed in a hit-and-run accident while she was still a baby. Rose just wants to comfort Pete as he dies but, on impulse, she instead saves his life. Not only is the Doctor furious, but mysterious events soon begin to occur: Rose's cell phone picks up the distant past, and the TARDIS turns into a regular police box. While Rose discovers that her father is a more complex man than she had expected, her well-meaning interference with history summons forth the Reapers, who threaten to heal the wound in time by devouring the world.
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances by Steven Moffat, directed by James Hawes
The TARDIS pursues an object hurtling through the time vortex to 1941 London, in the middle of the Blitz. The city is being haunted by an eerie child, his face covered by a gas mask, searching for his mother. The Doctor meets a group of orphans led by Nancy, who informs him that the mysterious child is her dead brother, Jamie. Now his horrific transformation is spreading through the city like a plague, passed from victim to victim by touch. Meanwhile, Rose is saved from certain death during an air raid by the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness, a man from another time and place who may be the key to the mystery.
The Doctor rescues Jack from the detonation of a bomb aboard his spaceship.
Boom Town
Boom Town by Russell T Davies, directed by Joe Ahearne
The Doctor, Rose and Jack land in modern-day Cardiff, where they mean to refuel the TARDIS using the time rift they encountered in 1869. They learn that the new mayor is none other than Margaret Blaine: one of the Slitheen who infiltrated 10 Downing Street. Really Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, she plans to construct a nuclear reactor which will tap into the rift, destroying the Earth and providing the energy she needs to escape into space. With Mickey's help, the time travellers set out to stop Blon. But the Doctor is confronted with a painful choice when it's revealed that Blon faces a death sentence on her homeworld.
Bad Wolf / The Parting Of The Ways
Bad Wolf / The Parting Of The Ways by Russell T Davies, directed by Joe Ahearne
The Doctor, Rose and Jack find themselves competing in lethal futuristic versions of modern reality and quiz shows. They have somehow been brought aboard the Game Station, which the Doctor realises is what Satellite 5 became following his intervention a century earlier. Now it transmits dozens of programmes to keep humanity docile, under the direction of the mysterious Bad Wolf Corporation. But the true power behind the Game Station is the revitalised Dalek Empire. When Rose is captured by the Daleks, the Doctor must risk everything to save his friend, and the Earth itself.
The Doctor regenerates after absorbing the energies of the time vortex to save Rose's life. In the confusion, Jack is left behind on the Game Station.

Making History

In the wee hours of September 26th, 2003, it was announced that Doctor Who would return to television in 2005, more than fifteen years after the cancellation of the original series. Under the guiding hand of Russell T Davies, a lifelong fan who had risen to prominence in the television industry, the revival would respect what had gone before, while striving to appeal to a modern family audience. Davies' vision for Doctor Who was a monumental critical and popular success, attracting a new legion of fans -- many of whom had not even been born when the programme went off the air in 1989. But there were still substantial challenges to navigate, not least being Christopher Eccleston's decision to leave the show after a single season as the Doctor.