Doctor Who

Season 1

Rose

1. A second season and Christmas special were commissioned on the strength of the first episode's ratings alone.
2. Rose is seen searching the Internet for information on The Doctor, and finds a conspiracy website run by a man called Clive (Mark Benton). The site - www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk is real. It's maintained by the BBC's Doctor Who (2005) web team and still accessible as of 2020.
3. The Time War gets its first mention, albeit a little cryptically, when the Doctor explains to Rose the Nestene's food stock was destroyed in a war. We are also told later on that the Doctor himself fought in the war.
4. In the scene where the Doctor is in Rose's flat, the original script called for The Doctor to stick his entire head in the cat flap. But when they got it, it was far too small.
5. Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy praised this episode, stating: "It had a great pace, it moved really quickly and was witty. Christopher Eccleston was quite alien as the Doctor - he looked wonderful. He had this manic grin - we were not sure if he was on the edge of insanity or not, which was rather good. He ran into danger with such gusto. He galloped at it joyfully. Billie Piper was quite fantastic. The relationship between the two was quite extraordinary. In a way this Doctor was not the brightest brain in the universe - he's a bit like an Oxford don in that he's full of brains but with not much nous. There was a great scene when he was searching for a giant round object and Rose had to point out he was standing in front of the London Eye. He seemed to need Rose more than any other Doctor needed his companion, because she could really help him."
6. This episode was watched by 10.81 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 44.84% audience share.
7. When telling the meaning for TARDIS to Rose, the Doctor, instead of using the more well-known "Time And Relative Dimensions in Space," used the original title, making Dimension singular instead of plural.
8. When the Doctor speaks to the Nestene Consciousness, he mentions the Shadow Proclamation, which is then mentioned often throughout series one to four, and which the Doctor and Donna visit in Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth (2008).
9. On the very first transmission of this episode, the beginning sequence involving Rose and the Autons was accidentally played with a Graham Norton voice over. Julie Gardner immediately called the BBC switchboard and managed to help solve the problem with the transmitters just in time for The Doctor to say his first line.
10. In one scene, Clive shows Rose a picture of the Doctor standing in the crowd in Dallas on November 22, 1963, just before President Kennedy is assassinated. This is a nod to the original "Dr. Who" series: Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child (1963) was first aired the day after Kennedy's assassination, on November 23, 1963.
11. The book that The Doctor speed-reads at the beginning of the episode and says has a "sad ending" is "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.
12. During the second time the Doctor and Rose meet, the Doctor looks in the mirror and said it could be worse, which could mean he regenerated recently.
13. The entrance of the Doctor was something much debated; Jane Tranter and other members of the production team wanted it to be more dramatic, but the scene was never reshot. Russell T. Davies remarked that it reflects Rose's point of view, whereas a more dramatic entrance would reflect the audience's excitement at the Doctor coming back.
14. In the first episode, "Rose", the Doctor faces and defeats the Nestenes and their animated plastic Autons for the third time - Jon Pertwee's Doctor encountered them twice in the original Doctor Who (1963) series in the early 1970s. Also, there were three fan-produced "Auton" spin-off video releases in the 1990s, Auton (1997), Auton 2: Sentinel (1998) and Auton 3 (1999).
15. Russell T. Davies had trouble coming up with how Mickey was supposed to be captured by the Nestene while waiting for Rose in the car, and finally realised he could be lured by a plastic wheelie bin. He commented that such instances of the ordinary being made scary made Doctor Who (1963) unique.
16. The first appearance of the Doctor shows him grabbing Rose's hand. This was a departure from the style of the previous series as the final producer of Doctor Who (1963), John Nathan-Turner, didn't like the Doctor and his companions to touch as he thought there should be no implied sexual relationship between the two.
17. When searching for the Doctor on the Internet Rose uses search-wise. This is an actual web page with the same logo as on the show, but it is not actually a search engine: instead, it is a web page created by a company called Compuhire, designed for use in television and film when a search engine is required to be seen on-screen.
18. In the original script, Rose's first experience of seeing the TARDIS interior was shared with the audience. Director Keith Boak, however, wanted her to exit and run around the TARDIS before entering again, at which point the interior would be revealed to the audience. This change was eventually embraced by the executive producers. Russell T. Davies remarked that he originally wanted to take Rose and the audience inside the TARDIS in all one shot, but this was not feasible with the budget. This effect would later be accomplished in the 2012 Christmas special, Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012).
19. A special effects milestone occurs when the Doctor is shown standing in the door of the TARDIS and the interior is clearly visible behind him. In the original series, the interior of the TARDIS was usually shown as a dark void whenever a head-on view of the open doors - a rarity - occurred (though this has previously been done in the pilot version of the first episode of the original series; however curiously enough not in its broadcast version). For the first time, elements of the exterior of the TARDIS - specifically the inside of the doors and the POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX lettering along the roofline - are visible from the console room.
20. Paul McGann said that he would have reprised his role as The Eighth Doctor if given the chance, but Russell T. Davies did not want to depict a regeneration with first-time viewers tuning in, who would be unable to identify why the Doctor changed appearances. Eventually, he was given a chance to reprise his role in Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), which dealt with the lingering mystery of his regeneration.
21. Russell T. Davies stated that he chose to have Christopher Eccleston depict a new incarnation of the Doctor so he could have a fresh start for both the new viewers and the narratives he wanted to implant in the series, and because Eccelston was a good friend of his who wanted to help Doctor Who gain momentum to become successful again.
22. The first time Rose walks into the TARDIS, for a few seconds you can hear the Doomsday theme.
23. Georgia Tennant, daughter of Peter Davison, who starred as the Fifth Doctor from 1981-1984, asked producers to allow her to audition for the part of Rose, but they declined, stating she was too young. She would go on to play Jennie in David Tennant's "The Doctor's Daughter", and in fact, to marry Tennant in real life.
24. The reference to the Doctor having a Northern accent relates to the media attention generated around Christopher Eccleston - who had always retained his native Lancashire accent - not conforming to people's perception of what the Doctor should be like. It also references the fact the different actors who had previously played the Doctor had, themselves, differing accents, most notably Sylvester McCoy, whose Doctor spoke with a light Scottish accent.
25. The Autons are the only monster to have twice ushered in a new Doctor, having previously battled his third incarnation in Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space: Episode 1 (1970). This is also the third time that the Autons have featured in the first story of a new season: Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space: Episode 1 (1970) launched season 7 and Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons: Episode One (1971) launched season 8. The Daleks (who do not appear in this story) also started off three seasons, the 9th, 17th and 25th.
26. This is the first episode to use the name of a companion in its title.
27. The episode was intended to be presented from Rose's point-of-view. For audience identification purposes, Russell T. Davies wanted the alien menace to be easily mistaken as human, so that it was possible for Rose to mistake the aliens for humans. Davies felt that there was no need to create a new monster, as the Autons met these criteria
28. Russell T. Davies offered Edgar Wright the opportunity to direct the episode, but Wright was forced to decline, as he was still working on Shaun of the Dead (2004).
29. This episode features the first use of the word "gay" (and therefore also the first explicit reference to homosexuality) in the history of the television series. There was no reference to it in the original series, Doctor Who (1963), because society was more socially conservative then.
30. Russell T. Davies wanted the Doctor to realise that Rose has something to offer to his cause. Their holding hands while running was meant to signify that they were a team, despite him not asking her yet, and they were not to question their relationship.
31. Mickey's flat is the same set as the Tyler's, just redecorated.
32. For the scene in which the Doctor and Rose are running through London, careful timing was undertaken by the production team because they wanted a London bus to travel behind them, but this had to be accomplished by waiting for a bus to come. In other scenes filmed in Cardiff, a London bus and a van of the London Evening Standard drove by to give the illusion of London.
33. This is the first story featuring the new TARDIS console room, which has a far more organic appearance than its predecessors. Initially questioned by fans, the later mini-episode Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007) would confirm this as a new "desktop theme" for the TARDIS interior, which the Fifth Doctor called "coral".
34. CGI was used in post-production to cover up the zipper on the back of the necks of the Auton costumes.
35. The "UNIT website" would reveal that the Auton assault was commonly believed to be an attack by "disguised members of a terrorist coalition", though some people did believe it was aliens; UNIT would not "confirm or deny" that.
36. On 8 March 2005, Reuters reported that a copy of the episode had been leaked onto the Internet, and was being widely traded via the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. The leaked episode did not contain the new arrangement of the theme tune by Murray Gold. The leak was ultimately traced to a third party company in Canada which had a legitimate preview copy. The employee responsible was fired by the company and the BBC considered further legal action.
37. The news footage of the burning department store is actually of the major fire in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, on the night of 7 December 2002. Though nobody was hurt, there was extensive damage and the Gilded Balloon comedy venue, where many of today's top comics appeared at the beginning of their careers, was completely destroyed.
38. According to Russell T. Davies, the Time War was started due to events depicted in the Fourth Doctor adventure "Genesis of the Daleks" (1975).
39. This is the only episode introducing a new Doctor in the revived series to not run longer than average.
40. The scene in which Rose wanders through the basement of the department store alone was the first scene Billie Piper shot as Rose Tyler.
41. This story seemingly implied that the Ninth Doctor had recently undergone regeneration from a past incarnation, when he commented about the features of his face while looking at a mirror in Rose's flat. The logical assumption at the time of his debut among viewers was that he had regenerated from the Eighth Doctor. However, this was disproven in 2013 when Steven Moffat conceived a new incarnation to retroactively insert between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors. The so-called War Doctor, played by John Hurt, did not call himself the Doctor until the end of his life, and was an honourary, unnumbered inclusion among the other incarnations who carried the title fully throughout their lives. The War Doctor was cemented as the Ninth Doctor's predecessor when he regenerated into him near the end of Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013). Additionally, in a retrospective on the new series in DWM 485, Russell T. Davies stated the intention of the scene was merely him noticing the features, rather like being disappointed with "buck teeth" or similar unaesthetically pleasing traits. He notes the Doctor in the episode is "in command" rather than post-regenerative, and he included the references to Krakatoa and Titanic to suggest this incarnation has a life before this episode.
42. The word "Auton" is not used in the dialogue of the story, but does appear in the episode credits.
43. The episode, like Doctor Who (1996), breaks with what had become the tradition of including the Doctor's image in the title sequence.
44. The Auton sequences were difficult to film because the costumes were uncomfortable for the actors; which meant that frequent breaks from filming were needed.
45. Russell T. Davies wanted to recreate the scene of the Autons breaking out of shop windows from their first appearance in Spearhead from Space, although he had the budget to actually smash the glass instead of just cutting around it like in Spearhead.
46. This episode introduced a unique recording format for the show. While this episode and the rest of the revival series are videotaped rather than filmed, the footage is digitally upscaled to achieve the level of quality seen in modern film.
47. The sonic screwdriver makes a reappearance on screen in a new shape but with the same sound effect. The screwdriver was first introduced in Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep: Episode 1 (1968) and destroyed in Doctor Who: The Visitation: Part Three (1982), then reappeared in Doctor Who (1996).
48. The production team was given permission to add more lights to the London Eye.
49. The story itself could be a close sequel to Spearhead from Space, and has thematic similarities to the earlier story, as both feature a new Doctor, a new companion, and the Auton invasion in London. The Autons had also appeared in Terror of the Autons, the story that introduced the Master, another new companion, and recurring UNIT character Mike Yates. All three Auton stories featured the debut appearance of an incarnation for either the Doctor or the Master.
50. This was the first episode since Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks: Part Two (1985) to run for approximately 45 minutes.
51. The original preview trailers for Series 1 include a scene where the Ninth Doctor is narrowly outrunning a fireball behind him down a concrete tunnel. This is likely set moments after he set off the explosives he laid in Henrik's, and details his escape from the doomed building.
52. Fans wrongly believed the series was a reboot and had nothing to do with the original series and the 1996 TV movie.
53. The scene in which the Auton arm attacks in the Tyler's flat was originally much longer, but was revised.
54. Nicholas Briggs makes his debut on the revived series, providing the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He would go to be the show's designated voice actor, remaining the Daleks and Cybermen's voice actor. He had been an active participant in independent, unofficial, and licensed spin-off productions dating back to the 1980s, most notably hosting the Myth Makers interview video series, writing and directing films for BBV Productions and Reeltime Pictures, and as producer of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who (1963) audio dramas, a project that had its roots in Audio Visuals, a series of fan-made Doctor Who audio adventures in which Briggs himself played the Doctor. In 2009, Briggs would have his first official on-screen appearance in a Who franchise production with a supporting role in Torchwood (2006): Children of Earth.
55. Between the final scene and the closing credits, the episode incorporates a "Next Time..." trailer for the next episode. This is the first time this device has been used in Doctor Who (2005). This becomes a regular feature, omitted only on rare occasions, or occasionally moved to the end of the closing credits.
56. Special effects producer Mike Tucker was reminded of the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) when reading the scene in which the Nestene's lair is blown up, and sought to display it as a major effect. The production team built a one-sixth scale model of the warehouse where the explosions were filmed. Tucker did a model explosion for the destruction of Henrik's as well, although that was only for the roof; the rest was done by CGI. The production team considered doing the explosion practically, but that would have been too expensive.
57. For this, the first episode, the opening credits follow the UK standard of title sequence then programme. The rest of the season would include a teaser before the main title sequence.
58. It took the production team a while to find a restaurant that would require minimal set dressing but would be willing to close for a day.
59. There were problems during the first broadcast of this episode in the UK which meant that sound from a BBC Three program, Strictly Dance Fever (2005) hosted by Graham Norton, was heard over the scene in which Rose first encounters the Autons.
60. The episode name had gradually been shortened. In Russell T. Davies' pitch it had been called Rose meets the Doctor, and the journey begins, on his contract as Rose Meets The Doctor, but finally shortened to Rose.
61. Russell T. Davies had to take out "oblique" references to the Autons being like terrorists, as the Eye was once a target of a terrorist attack.
62. Mark Benton was cast at short notice after the actor first cast dropped out.
63. The episode originally underran by several minutes, and a scene with the Doctor and Rose walking was added a month or so later.
64. Rose's comment about the Doctor sounding like he was from the north marks the second time Earth geography has been applied to the Doctor's demeanour (previously, he was referred to as being from England in Doctor Who (1996)).
65. The surname Finch was used for Clive and his wife in the production notes, but not in the on-screen version.
66. This episode takes place from March 4 to March 5, 2005.
67. Noel Clarke (Born 1975) is 7 years older than Billie Piper (Born 1982).
68. This is the first appearance of Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler.
69. Took place a couple of months after Rose Tyler briefly encountered the dying Tenth Doctor (Just before his regeneration) on January 1st 2005 in Doctor Who: The End of Time: Part Two (2010).
70. The Doctor's speech to Rose about getting up, eating chips, watching TV and going to bed while there's a war going on is repeated by Rose in Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005).
71. When the Doctor enters Rose's flat he notices himself in the mirror and comments on his appearance as though he hadn't seen it before as of he'd recently regenerated, yet, Craig, the internet blogger had pictures of this Doctor at various periods of time meaning this incarnation had been around for a while in order to visit these sites.

The End of the World

1. Russell T. Davies has said on many occasions that he was inspired to create Cassandra upon viewing skinny Hollywood actresses at the Academy Awards. On 2 April 2006, the Sunday Mirror quoted Davies: "It was horrific seeing those beautiful women reduced to sticks. Nicole Kidman struck me in particular. Nicole is one of the most beautiful women in the world. But she looks horrifying because she's so thin. It's like we're killing these women in public. We watch while you die."
2. For "The End of the World" Zoë Wanamaker was unable to attend the studio session in Cardiff and recorded her lines as Cassandra later in a sound studio in London. She was so impressed with the show when it went out that, when asked to return for Doctor Who: New Earth (2006), she made sure she was available to attend the studio recording and recorded her lines live.
3. Bad Wolf Reference: The Moxx of Balhoon says "This is the Bad Wolf scenario" to the Face of Boe.
4. The majority of the series' effects budget were used up for this episode, because the story required more CGI effects than any other story. A sequence in which the viewing gallery tilted on its axis had to be dropped due to the expensive budget.
5. Eve Myles stood in for the voice of Cassandra during production, as it was filmed within the same recording block as Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead (2005), in which she played the psychic housemaid Gwyneth.
6. Takes place the same time as the First Doctor story "The Ark", which began in Doctor Who: The Steel Sky (1966). The script contained a reference to that story by mentioning that the remnants of humanity escaping the doomed Earth aboard massive space arks. However, this was excised when it was discovered that animating Cassandra was more difficult than initially anticipated.
7. When Jabe brings up the subject of the Last Great Time War, the Doctor is discretely seen shedding a single tear, in perhaps the only time the Ninth Doctor is shown to visibly cry on-screen.
8. The final scene was originally meant to take place in Piccadilly Circus. This would have demanded an extra trip to London, and so was shifted to an unspecified thoroughfare which could be filmed in Cardiff. Russell T. Davies eventually decided that he preferred the anonymity this provided to the locale.
9. This episode takes place in 5000000000 and 2005.
10. Due to complexities in animating Cassandra, some of her lines were dropped and the episode underran. To compensate, Russell T. Davies came up with the character of maintenance worker Raffalo, and scenes between Raffalo and Rose were filmed.
11. A scene in the original script, which didn't make it to filming, describes Cassandra as having cabinets containing the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in American) and the Magna Carta. Zoë Wanamaker played Madam Hooch in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).
12. The first appearance of The Face of Boe.
13. The Face of Boe was heavily influenced by the Guild Navigators in Dune (1984).
14. This is the second time in as many episodes that the Doctor gets to rip the arm off something.
15. The episode contains 203 visual effects shots that were completed over eight weeks, compared to "about 100" in Gladiator (2000). As of Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song (2011), no episode contains as many special effects shots.
16. This episode was conceived as a deliberately expensive spectacle to show off how much the new series could do.
17. Rose Tyler gets her cell phone upgraded, the first of two signs that she's the new companion (the other being a key to the TARDIS).
18. The computer's countdown to the destruction of the Earth is within real time.
19. This is the first time that the Doctor uses the Psychic Paper.
20. Jabe was originally more tree bark-like in the face, but it was decided that she be a Silver Birch instead.
21. This episode was watched by 7.97 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 37.84% audience share.
22. The scene between Rose and Raffalo was a late addition, added because the episode was underrunning.
23. The episode contains 203 visual effects.
24. The Moxx of Balhoon was originally going to be animated, but this changed to a "glove puppet" and then a full rubber suit when it was desired he be "chunkier". Jimmy Vee had done similar parts before, although the actor said it was hard filming in the costume, which took three hours to put on.
25. In one scene Rose says, "Wait hold on. They did this once on Newsround Extra". Newsround (1972) is a news programme on BBC 1 and CBBC aimed at providing news for children. Newsround Extra is an extended version of this concept which concentrates on a single issue or subject. A Newsround reporter was on set watching as this scene was filmed. His report was on their website.
26. A minor milestone occurs when the Doctor utters the phrase, "What the hell is that?", the first time the character has used the minor swear word on-screen. This marked a slight loosening of the Doctor's use of language in the revived series, although in light of the show's family-friendly tone the Doctor has never said anything stronger than "hell" and "damn."
27. The "iPod" (a Wurlitzer jukebox) that Cassandra unveils plays "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell and later "Toxic" by Britney Spears."Toxic" was not actually released as a 7" 45 rpm vinyl single. The production team mocked up a 7" single for use in the episode.
28. Rose asks why all of the aliens seem to speak English, as did previous companion Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora: Part One (1976).
29. The first appearance of Cassandra.
30. Cassandra remarks "I bet you were the school swot and never got kissed". This episode was only the second to be broadcast after the Doctor Who (1996), in which the Doctor was seen kissing on screen for the first time, something which proved to be a controversial departure for the character. Cassandra's comments were most likely a nod to this.
31. Platform One was designed to be like a "hotel for the most poshest, richest, and influential aliens in the universe".
32. The sequence of the Doctor getting past the final fan blade in the ventilation chamber was rerecorded at Unit Q2, as the production team had been unhappy with the way the original version of the shot had turned out.
33. Yasmin Bannerman later played Kathy Swanson in Torchwood: They Keep Killing Suzie (2006) and Pandora in the audio play The Bride of Peladon.
34. The story begins with a brief re-cap of the last week's episode similar to many American shows, but unlike most American shows there is no voice-over announcing "previously on Doctor Who". The footage from Doctor Who: Rose (2005) simply begins the episode. Discounting Doctor Who (1996), this marked the first time a Doctor Who episode had started with a pre-credits sequence since Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks: Part One (1988) in 1988. Unlike the original series, which used the device rarely, it would become standard practice for the series, with very few episodes made without a teaser (the exceptions are usually series premieres).
35. Jabe asks if Rose is a prostitute. Billie Piper would later play prostitutes in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) and Penny Dreadful (2014).
36. Both Cassandra and the robotic spiders - other than an inactive one - are completely CGI creatures.
37. Jimmy Vee, who played The Moxx of Balhoon, was dubbed by Silas Carson.
38. This is the first appearance of the Face of Boe, therefore technically the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness. In Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005), it's Rose that is responsible for Jack's longevity. Additionally, Jack is human, so it could be argued that Cassandra is wrong in thinking she is the last "pure" human.
39. A number of deleted scenes from the episode are printed in The Shooting Scripts, including a more brutal death for Raffalo, extended conversations between the Doctor and Jabe and Rose and Cassandra, and a second scene in which Rose contacts Jackie as the sun rays begin to pierce through the viewing gallery.
40. Cassandra says to Rose Tyler "when I was a young boy..." suggesting that this female character was assigned male at birth.

The Unquiet Dead

1. The rift in time and space that runs through Cardiff is a set-up to Torchwood (2006).
2. Bad Wolf Reference: Gwyneth looks into Rose's mind and sees "...the darkness...The Big Bad Wolf!"
3. Gabriel Sneed was initially conceived to be a younger character, with David Tennant in mind for the role.
4. Eve Myles, the actress playing Gwyneth, went on to play Gwen in the Doctor Who spin off series Torchwood (2006). The Doctor refers to this when he first meets Gwen in Doctor Who: Journey's End (2008).
5. According to Mark Gatiss, there was originally going to be a scene in which the Doctor was mistaken for Sneed's new cleaner. Someone would have stated, "I thought you'd be a woman" to which the Doctor replies "No, not yet", hinting that Time Lords can change sex.
6. Dickens cries, "What the Shakespeare?", a play on the common exclamation, "What the Dickens?" Contrary to popular belief, the phrase has nothing to do with Charles Dickens; "Dickens" is a euphemism for the Devil. Riffing on this comment, in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama The Kingmaker, William Shakespeare cries, "What the Geoffrey Chaucer?" William Shakespeare used the phrase "What the Dickens" in his work (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, scene ii).
7. Mark Gatiss' original script was bleaker and more frightening, including details about the previous death of Gwyneth's younger brother. He was advised by Russell T. Davies to "make it more of a romp."
8. Originally, the story had been set in 1860 (retained as the incorrect date which The Doctor first announces). Towards the end of the scripting process, it was decided to shift the timeframe to 1869, during Charles Dickens' waning days. Russell T. Davies had also envisioned a scene midway through the episode in which the Doctor responds to Rose's assertion that recorded history can't be altered by taking her to a devastated 2005, inspired by a similar scene in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars: Part Two (1975). Drawing the eerie depiction of George's travel through time in The Time Machine (1960), Mark Gatiss scripted this to show the TARDIS scanner filling with Gelth-animated zombies as time marched on. However, it was ultimately felt that the return to the TARDIS interrupted the flow of the story too much and so the scene was removed, with the threat to the future now established through dialogue between the Doctor and Rose.
9. Eve Myles was initially not supposed to film the episode as she was booked for another role in theatre. However, her agent notified Myles of the role and Myles' was keen to audition for the series due to its reputation and Christopher Eccleston being "one of my favourite actors of all time". After inadvertently attending the audition in a T-shirt emblazoned with an image of two naked women kissing under the slogan "I support Nudist Colonies", Myles was convinced she had not got the part; her appearance contrasted grossly with Gwyneth's personality. After being notified of her success Myles did not want to prioritise between her theatre commitments and Doctor Who (2005); her agent decided that she would appear in the episode.
10. Simon Callow has played Charles Dickens several other times on television and stage, including a one-man play called "The Mystery of Charles Dickens".
11. Russell T. Davies came up with the concept of the episode. As the third episode of the revived series, it was designed to continue to show the range of the programme by exploring the past, after the present-day Doctor Who: Rose (2005) and the far-future Doctor Who: The End of the World (2005).
12. The events in this episode are alluded to in Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008).
13. There are several literary in-jokes during Dickens and the Doctor's conversation in the coach. . The "American bit" in Martin Chuzzlewit, which the Doctor describes as "rubbish" and "padding", was indeed inserted by Charles Dickens to spice up the original serial story when sales flagged, although the gambit failed to improve sales. . The death of Little Nell, which the Doctor says always "cracks [him] up," is cited (notably by Oscar Wilde in 1895) as an example of bathos, excessive sentimentality and purple prose that becomes unintentionally amusing.
14. The first "historical celebrity" story of the revived Doctor Who, being a story in which the Doctor meets a well-known historical figure. Other examples include Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Code (2007), Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks (2010) (another Mark Gatiss story), and Doctor Who: Rosa (2018).
15. Several characters were introduced and subsequently excised, including Mrs Sneed (who became superfluous as Mark Gatiss strove to focus on Gwyneth) and a fake medium named Gideon Mortlock (who survived only in Gwyneth's mention of learning how to conduct a seance from a Madame Mortlock).
16. Because the episode underran, some new scenes were added - Sneed telling Gwyneth that they would pursue Mrs Peace was new, as was Rose's mention of her father (which now presaged Doctor Who: Father's Day (2005)), and Dickens exhorting the Doctor about the longevity of his works.
17. Mark Gatiss was encouraged to personify the Gelth, which he originally questioned because he felt that monsters whispering "Doctor" was a cliché. Producer Phil Collinson remarked that perhaps it was a cliché because it worked well.
18. Simon Callow contended that for him to agree to play Charles Dickens, the script would have to be a sufficiently high quality. When he heard that the author was to feature in Doctor Who, his heart "sank" as he felt fiction has a tendency to posit the author as "a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books". Director Euros Lyn noted that the material being of interest to Callow was key to getting him involved. Promoting his role, Callow stated that Mark Gatiss knew "exactly what Dickens is all about" and "very cleverly connects his idealism... with the Doctor's desire to save the world". Callow was also pleased that the episode portrayed Dickens as he was towards the end of his life: ill and sad rather than energetic.
19. This episode takes place on 24 December 1869.
20. Russell T. Davies felt that it was important for an episode to be set in Cardiff as that is where the new series is produced, and wanted the story to be set in Victorian times and feature Charles Dickens.
21. The Rift was added into the plot to simplify the Gelth's origins.
22. The address on Sneed's hearse indicates his mortuary is in Llandaff where the BBC Wales production offices are. Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, was also born there.
23. Mrs Peace was christened after Victorian-era murderer Charles Peace.
24. The episode also reintroduces the TARDIS' habit of taking the Doctor to the wrong places, something that had not yet happened in the revived series.
25. Although the story is set in 19th century Cardiff, the production was actually filmed in Swansea and Monmouth as there were not enough Victorian-looking buildings left in Cardiff.
26. Mark Gatiss originally resisted having Dickens star in the episode, as traditionally the Doctor only mentioned meeting historical figures, but he eventually warmed to the idea. The original Doctor Who (1963) had a number of "historical" meetings, but they were few and far between.
27. The actors who played the Gelth zombies had simple make-up, with just shading and contact lenses and no prosthetics. The production team was mindful of the program's family-friendly status, and decided to not have any missing facial features.
28. This episode was watched by 8.86 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 37.78% audience share.
29. This was the first episode written by Mark Gatiss, though he had written several spin-off novels and audio-plays.
30. As A Christmas Carol fan, Mark Gatiss wanted to set the episode at Christmas. He later realised that Dickens' journey in the episode mirrored that of Ebenezer Scrooge. In one scene, Gatiss wanted the knocker on a door behind Dickens to briefly show the Gelth's face in reference to A Christmas Carol, but this visual effect was not done.
31. Originally, visual effects company The Mill planned the computer-generated effects (CGI) to just be the "ethereal swirl", but in the seance scene they ran into the challenge of animating the Gelth's mouth. The Gelth turning red during the seance scene was a "last-minute" change to the visual effects. The Mill overshot their quota of CGI for the episode, and compensated with small swirls in shots that focused on other characters.
32. It was writer Mark Gatiss who suggested Alan David be cast as Sneed the undertaker.
33. At an early stage, under the title of "The Crippingwell Horror", the adventure was set at a "spiritualist hotel" owned by a Mrs Plumchute, and involved a psychic named Noah Sneed contacting the Gelth. The maid, Gwyneth (named for a character in Upstairs, Downstairs: Desirous of Change (1973)), was a much more minor character at this stage; her brother, Davy, was interred at the nearby Crippingwell Cemetery.
34. Doctor Who (1963) novelist and Faction Paradox creator Lawrence Miles posted a scathing review of the episode on the Internet within an hour of its broadcast, focusing on a perceived political subtext suggesting that asylum seekers (the Gelth) are really all evil and out to exploit liberal generosity (the Doctor). He criticised the script for promoting xenophobia and "claiming that all foreigners were invaders", especially as the top stories in the news were about immigration into Britain. The review produced considerable backlash on the Internet, mainly over his comments about Mark Gatiss. Miles was personally contacted and ran into trouble with his publishers. Miles deleted the review and posted a revision, though the original is still available on another of his websites.
35. It was scripted that snow would blow into the TARDIS when the doors opened, but this was cut because of budget reasons.
36. The episode originally began in the TARDIS, as Mark Gatiss wanted the first glimpse of 1860 (1869 in the finished episode) to be through Rose's eyes. While this changed, Gatiss still wanted to show how great travelling in time is.
37. While the Doctor and Dickens are talking in the coach, the driver was supposed to shout down to them (referencing a Charles Dickens work) and the coach was to crash, but this was too expensive.
38. Mark Gatiss stated that the name "Gelth" simply popped into his head.
39. Russell T. Davies' original brief also included "fake mediums", and Mark Gatiss originally set it in a "spiritualist hotel", which had fake mediums (such as a character named Mrs Plumchute) on the lower floors and Mr Sneed on the top, though he was unaware he was a true medium. However, Gwyneth became a more popular character with the production team, and she took on much of the medium role. Gatiss was also more interested in possession and zombies.
40. Small pieces of paper were sprayed as snow, which caused a problem as it scared the horses. However, the snow falling from the sky was a foam substance.
41. The working titles for this story included The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels of Crippingwell.
42. This is the first episode where the opening scene doesn't feature Rose.

Aliens of London

1. When the Doctor complains of being slapped by Rose's mother, Rose laughingly remarks, "You're so gay!" This remark has caused some controversy in fan circles, some seeing it as an anti-homosexual slur. Russell T. Davies, who is gay, wrote in an e-mail response that it was the way people talked, and claimed that he was trying to provoke discussion by using the phrase.
2. Naoko Mori would reprise her role of Toshiko Sato in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. However, unlike her role as a pathologist in Aliens of London, Toshiko is portrayed as a technical expert on Torchwood. This continuity problem was fixed in Torchwood: Exit Wounds (2008) when she revealed that she was filling in for Torchwood's doctor Owen Harper, who was hungover.
3. The scene where The Doctor encounters the pig alien at the hospital was the first scene Christopher Eccleston filmed as The Doctor.
4. Bad Wolf Reference: A young boy writes "Bad Wolf" in graffiti on the side of the TARDIS.
5. The production team had intended to suggest that the murdered Prime Minister in this episode was current real-life incumbent Tony Blair. On the DVD commentary for the following episode, Phil Collinson explained that they had hired an actor to play the dead body on the understanding that the man was a Tony Blair lookalike. When the resemblance proved disappointing, they decided to avoid showing the body clearly. The suggestion that the body is Blair's remains in Harriet's line, "I'm hardly one of the babes", a reference to the large number of female Labour Party MPs who entered the House of Commons in Labour's 1997 general election victory, dubbed "Blair's Babes" by the British media.
6. This is the first episode to examine deeply the impact which the departure of a companion with the Doctor can have on those left behind. In this case, Rose's family believed her to have been murdered, and her boyfriend Mickey had become a suspect. The impact of a companion's travels with the Doctor on family and friends back on Earth becomes a recurring theme throughout the Russell T. Davies era.
7. The story is the 700th episode of Doctor Who.
8. According to Russell T. Davies, the decision to establish the Bad Wolf meme in the series did not occur until after the spur-of-the-moment decision to have the words "bad wolf" graffiti-painted on the TARDIS; subsequently Bad Wolf references were added to the scripts for most of the other Series 1 episodes, and notwithstanding a few minor or inferred references in the interim, returned in force in the Series 4 episodes Doctor Who: Turn Left (2008) and Doctor Who: Journey's End (2008). With the origin of the meme established, the mystery that remains is exactly why the words "bad wolf" were chosen to be spray-painted on the TARDIS in the first place (as opposed to any other phrase).
9. Originally, this episode featured the discovery of a buried "alien" spacecraft in a construction lot in Tottenham. It was only as production loomed that Davies began to realise what could be achieved with CGI, and so rewrote his scripts to provide greater scope for the introduction of the "alien", with the ship's destructive crashlanding now part of the narrative. Davies also elected to feature a live "alien" in the story, rather than just a corpse which would turn out to be nothing more than a shank of beef.
10. Jackie was originally meant to accompany the Doctor and Rose to 10 Downing Street.
11. Annette Badland, who plays Margaret Blaine aka Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, tells funny stories at conventions, e.g. the casting director picked her because "he liked the way I farted!" and that she "did all [her] own stunts" (meaning she farted in all her scenes).She also says that children often follow her around in public, like in the grocery store, and stare at her. To get rid of the child(ren), she'll reach up to her forehead as if she's about to unzip her skin suit and let the Slitheen out which, more often than not, sends the child(ren) running scared, after which she smiles to herself and continues her shopping.
12. The Doctor accidentally returns Rose a year later than he'd intended. This is a nod to the classic series of Doctor Who (1963), in which the navigation of the TARDIS is frequently erratic, and landing in a different time or place than intended was often used as a narrative device to drop the characters into an unexpected adventure.
13. UNIT, an organization which was first introduced in the Second Doctor serial Doctor Who: The Invasion: Episode One (1968) and appeared throughout the rest of the classic series (including most of the Third Doctor's run), makes its first appearance on screen since the Seventh Doctor story Doctor Who: Battlefield: Part Three (1989). In this episode, the Doctor spells out the acronym as "United Nations Intelligence Taskforce", as it had been during the classic series. Other than the brief video appearance here, UNIT would not reappear until Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem (2008), at which point the name - still abbreviated UNIT - is changed to "Unified Intelligence Taskforce". According to Russell T. Davies, the United Nations objected to the use of its name in the fictional paramilitary organisation, even though it had been used as such since 1968; they allowed the use of the abbreviations "UN" and "UNIT", as long as they were not spelled out to imply a UN charter (but a single line in "Sontaran Strategem" indicates that the UN still provides UNIT funding). A modern day incarnation of UNIT also appeared around the same time in the 2004-2005 Big Finish audio series UNIT, which used Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as a central character.
14. The Doctor visits Albion Hospital again in 1941 in Doctor Who: The Empty Child (2005)/Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances (2005).
15. The official police poster is the first reference to the Powell Estate on the television series. In whole, the notice says, "Rose Tyler has been missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6 March 2005. Rose is described as 19 years old, 5 feet 4 inches in height, slim build with shoulder-length blonde hair. Anyone with information regarding Rose should contact 0207 946000." The photograph used is one of Billie Piper herself, rather than one of Piper playing Rose. Several other home-made posters are seen on Jackie's table, including one with a banner headline saying "WHERE IS ROSE?".
16. Originally, the TARDIS brought Rose back home just minutes after she departed, much to her surprise - rather than arriving a year too late.
17. Rose Tyler gets a key to the TARDIS, the second of two signs that she's the new companion (the other being her mobile phone upgraded).
18. The eponymous setting of 10 Downing Street was inspired by the Girls Aloud video for Jump, which featured scenes of the Prime Minister in Downing Street from Love Actually (2003).
19. This story has the distinction of being the first televised Doctor Who adventure ever to use flatulence humour.
20. The crash (and the events that follow) are seen by Elton Pope from an entirely different point of view in Doctor Who: Love & Monsters (2006).
21. The UFO cake made on the television show is made with jelly babies.
22. This episode was watched by 7.63 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 35.67% audience share.
23. When the Doctor and Rose are surrounded by soldiers, he makes the statement, "Take me to your leader". He then turns to Rose and says, " I've always wanted to say that". Actually, he has said it a couple of times before, notably in Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet: Part One (1978).
24. Christopher Eccleston and Naoko Mori would later costar in Lennon Naked (2010) as John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
25. Mickey's flat is the same set as Jackie's and Rose's.
26. Russell T. Davies was inspired by Quatermass and the Pit (1958).
27. The TARDIS key began as an ordinary-looking Yale key, then changed during the Third Doctor's last season into a more alien looking one, which was also used for the first two seasons of the Fourth Doctor's tenure. It then reverted to the Yale key for the rest of the run of the original series. The alien key made one last appearance in Doctor Who (1996). It has now returned to looking like an ordinary key, except that it starts to glow when the TARDIS is arriving.
28. First appearance in the Whoniverse of Lachele Carl - who would go on to be the only actor to play a single named character (Trinity Wells) in Doctor Who, Torchwood (2006), and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007).
29. The Doctor is referred to as a "Code 9." Christopher Eccleston is the ninth incarnation of the Doctor.
30. The scene where the pig-like "alien" is breaking through the metal door with Dr Sato watching in shock is reminiscent of an almost identical moment in Doctor Who (1996), in which the newly-regenerated Eighth Doctor breaks through the metal door of the morgue, terrifying a hospital worker.
31. The Doctor tells Rose he is 900 years old, but he had previously given his age as older. (Doctor Who: Time and the Rani: Part Four (1987), for example).
32. The episode ends on a cliffhanger, the first since Doctor Who: Survival: Part Two (1989). The story continues in Doctor Who: World War Three (2005). This is also the first occasion since Invasion of the Dinosaurs in which the first episode of a serial does not share its title with the second (part one was titled Invasion Part One rather than Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974)).
33. When the Doctor and Rose are stopped by the soldiers coming out of the Tardis, the Doctor says, "Take me to your leader!" Later on, during the 10th Doctor's Christmas special Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007), he says the same thing, followed by "Ive always wanted to say that!" But he did already say that exact phrase in this episode.
34. When the Doctor starts up the TARDIS to visit Albion Hospital, he plugs the sonic screwdriver into the console. The prop was originally meant to have a pair of "feet" under the black cap that would plug into the console but the idea was ultimately abandoned.
35. This episode takes place in March 2006.
36. In Doctor Who (1963), the TARDIS was previously defaced with chalk scribblings (The Time Warrior, The Leisure Hive), graffiti (Paradise Towers), and pink paint (The Happiness Patrol).
37. This episode had the working title Aliens of London Part One (Doctor Who: World War Three (2005) being Part Two).

World War Three

1. The use of vinegar on calcium "just like Hannibal" references the story of how Hannibal's engineers, while crossing the Alps, heated boulders that blocked their way with wood fires, then poured vinegar over them. The rocks, weakened by the heat, were broken up by the vinegar into smaller pieces, which were then easily moved to clear a path.
2. Continuing the "Bad Wolf" theme, the American newsreader announcing the UN's decision is named "Mal Loup", French for "Bad Wolf". The name does not appear in the televised clip, but is present on the version on Mickey's website.
3. Unusually, the repetition of the last episode's cliffhanger before the credit/sequence contains the cliffhanger's resolution: the Doctor removes the ID badge from his clothing and applies it to a Slitheen.
4. The "next time..." preview at the end of the episode was criticized for revealing the following week's "surprise": the return of a Dalek, one of the Doctor's oldest and most evil enemies, in Doctor Who: Dalek (2005). Later previews would also contain spoilers, prompting many fans to adopt the habit of immediately stopping watching when the preview starts on a new episode.
5. When a Slitheen visits Mickey's flat, the word "Salford" can be seen graffitied on the wall near the elevator. Christopher Eccleston's hometown is Salford.
6. Elements of the story parody the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the actions of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. This includes a pre-emptive strike based on incorrect information, namely the presence of "massive weapons of destruction" which could be deployed in forty-five seconds (as opposed to Blair's "weapons of mass destruction" that could be deployed in "forty-five minutes").
7. Lachele Carl reappears as the American reporter seen in Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005). She is later seen in Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005), Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums (2007), Doctor Who: The Poison Sky (2008), Doctor Who: Turn Left (2008), Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth (2008) and The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen: Part 1 (2007). In Doctor Who: Turn Left (2008), it is revealed that her name is Trinity Wells. She also appeared in the spin-off Torchwood (2006), in the five episodes serial Children of Earth.
8. When the Doctor and Harriet Jones are in a room (and giving instructions to Jackie and Micky via the phone), Harriet Jones, in a fit of frustration, yells at the Doctor; 'you're supposed to be the expert, think of something.' This is very similar to what Sky Silvestry says to the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who: Midnight (2008), when the banging outside gets louder. She yells in frustration at the Doctor; 'you're supposed to be the expert, do something.'
9. Russell T. Davies was inspired to have a family of villains by the Virgin New Adventures novel "Human Nature" by Paul Cornell.
10. The fact that the UN is the caretaker for the codes to launch a nuclear strike harkens back to when the UK was the guardian of the "destructor codes" that could launch the world's nuclear arsenals in Doctor Who: Robot: Part One (1974).
11. This episode was watched by 7.98 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 40.15% audience share.
12. Andrew Marr appears playing himself as a television news reporter.
13. The character of Colonel Muriel Frost, a reference to a character created for Doctor Who Magazine's comic strip in 1991.
14. Curiously, whenever the TARDIS' interior is seen from the outside, a normal police box interior, rather than the TARDIS', is shown. While this was normal pre-2005, the TARDIS' interior is nearly always seen in the revived series.
15. A working title for this episode was "10 Downing Street".
16. This episode takes place in March 2006.
17. On Mickey's computer monitor you can see the sticker with the number "46". This is the number plate of the motorbike world champion Valentino Rossi, who, bizarrely, is nicknamed "The Doctor".
18. The United Kingdom does not in fact need a UN resolution to launch a nuclear strike.
19. According to Russell T. Davies (among others), this episode was called Aliens of London Part Two until the last minute, when the name was changed to World War 3, soon amended to World War Three.
20. The Slitheen scheme is also what the Dominators were intending to do to the planet Dulkis when the Second Doctor encountered them in Doctor Who: The Dominators: Episode 1 (1968).
21. The working title for this episode was 10 Downing Street.
22. Near the end of the episode, Jackie says Rose should get a knighthood for her work saving the world. This comes true in season two, when Queen Victoria gives her a damehood in the 1800s.
23. The Doctor asks Harriet Jones what the secretary's name was after he's dead. Later, the 10th Doctor repeats this when asking the stewardess' name in Doctor Who: Midnight (2008).
24. When The Doctor, Rose and Harriet Jones are in the cabinet room, Harriet Jones sits in the only chair with arms. In the real cabinet room, the only chair with arms is exclusively used by the Prime Minister. At the end of the episode, The Doctor says that Harriet Jones will become Prime Minister.

Dalek

1. Before writing the script, Robert Shearman asked his girlfriend what she thought were the silliest things about the Daleks. He then took the responses he got - that they couldn't go upstairs, that they had that silly plunger, that they couldn't see anything behind them, that bullets could damage them, etc - and had the characters actively invoke them in the story. He then had the Dalek completely subvert the weaknesses the audience would expect and even use them to kill said characters horribly.
2. The Doctor's interaction with the Dalek was originally written to be just mocking and flippant. Christopher Eccleston decided to pour in incredible amounts of rage and pain as well. Robert Shearman was briefly miffed, then delighted once he realized how well it worked.
3. Robert Shearman had to write a second version of the script because it was not initially known if the new series could obtain the rights to use the Daleks from Terry Nation's estate, so he had to create an alternate alien race that would have been used had the Daleks not been available. The alternate monster was a spheroid creature akin to a sadistic child which was actually a mutated version of humanity from the end of time. Although this alternate concept was shelved, it would later be used for the Toclafane in the series 3 finale, Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums (2007)/Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords (2007).
4. Behind and to the left of the TARDIS is a display holding an Xenomorph egg from the ALIEN series.
5. The Daleks in the revived series were designed so that the eye stalk met Billie Piper's eye level.
6. Bad Wolf Reference: As Van Statten's helicopter lands, we hear the announcement "Bad Wolf One descending".
7. Set in 2012, an election year, the US President that Van Statten wants replaced for dropping by 10 points would be established later to be Barack Obama in Doctor Who: The End of Time: Part One (2009).
8. The titular dalek was operated by three people. One actor was inside the dalek casing to move and rotate the body. A second was moving the head and eye stalk and operating the lights by a radio controlled remote. The third was performing the voice and gesturing to the remote control operator to time the lights with the voice. In the original series, Doctor Who (1963), the daleks had only two operators; one performing the voice and the actor inside the casing doing everything else.
9. The fictional Geocomtex website lists under its Products section Node Stabilized (in Lupus and Nocens variants). Lupus is Latin for wolf and nocens for harmful or bad. Interestingly, they also offer Argentum Ordnance, otherwise known as silver bullets.
10. This is the first televised Dalek story not to feature their creator Davros or use the title "xxxx...of the Daleks" since Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks: Part One (1974) in 1974.
11. The Daleks almost didn't appear in this episode due to a dispute with the estate of Terry Nation.
12. The Cyberman head displayed in van Statten's museum is quite clearly of the model featured in Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One (1975), as distinguished by their corrugated handlebars and the guns atop their helmet.
13. This episode re-establishes a point of Time Lord physiology, that they have two hearts. This was originally revealed in Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space: Episode 1 (1970).
14. Even though this episode was highly acclaimed, it is, to date, the only episode that Robert Shearman has written for the series.
15. Van Statten says, "In-Tru-Der Window." The Tenth Doctor would later make a similar joke in Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem (2008).
16. Henry Van Statten was originally named Will Fences in joking allusion to Bill Gates. This was later changed to Mr Duchesne, but Russell T. Davies was concerned that this was too difficult to pronounce.
17. This is the only episode of the first series not to feature any TARDIS interior scenes.
18. At one point, Adam was Van Statten's son.
19. Van Statten is heard to utter the curse word "goddamn" - the first time this word had been heard in a televised Doctor Who story. At the time of broadcast, however, little attention was paid to this; instead, the episode attracted criticism for van Statten's use of the word "spoon" in a possibly sexual context. However, it was not the first use of a curse word across Who.
20. When it was released on DVD, British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) gave the episode a 12 rating, because of the scenes where the Doctor is seen to torture the Dalek.
21. This episode takes place in 2012.
22. It is revealed that time travel changes the human DNA.
23. This episode was watched by 8.63 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 44.89% audience share.
24. Robert Shearman drew heavily on his Big Finish Audio play "Jubilee", which had a very similar concept. The play starred The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe.
25. The episode was placed in the third production block, along with Doctor Who: Father's Day (2005) and Doctor Who: The Long Game (2005), the latter taken out due to delays in special effects creation. The episode's placement in the series was intentional so as to stave off an anticipated mid-series drop in viewership, although the BBC suggested that the episode be the premiere.
26. The Doctor says "The next flight to Heathrow leaves in 1500 hours." This is a reference to Tegan Jovanka, a companion to the 5th Doctor.
27. The Dalek finally overcomes its weakness of stairs by hovering. They first showed this ability in Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks: Part One (1988).
28. Before the broadcast, media watchdog organisation Mediawatch-uk complained about certain elements of the episode, characterising Van Statten's chaining and invasive scan of the Doctor as a "sado-masochistic" torture scene. Mediawatch also objected to Van Statten's invitation to Adam and Rose to "canoodle or spoon, or whatever you British do" as inappropriate sexual language.
29. When the camera is facing towards the Doctor from the window case of the Cyberman. The reflection is on the Doctor making it appear the Doctor is wearing the Cyberman head.
30. The Dalek tells Rose, "I feel your fear", to which she responds, "What do you expect?", mirroring a conversation between Victoria Waterfield and a Dalek in Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks: Episode 2 (1967).
31. The Doctor tries to convince the Dalek that it no longer has any purpose, perhaps trying to use the same tactic as he did successfully in his seventh incarnation in Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks: Part Four (1988).
32. This episode would be the only story in Russell T. Davies' years on the show in which the Daleks would be involved in only a single episode of said story. All other Dalek storylines would be spread across two episodes in the future.
33. Davros is mentioned (but not named) by the Doctor when saying that van Statten would have liked the creator of the Daleks.
34. Working titles for this episode included Return Of The Daleks, Creature Of Lies and Absence Of The Daleks.
35. The unnamed "old friend of mine..well, enemy" the Doctor speaks of at the beginning is referring to the Cybermen.
36. The story was originally set in 2010.
37. Michael Brandon was asked to play Van Statten but was not free.
38. Van Statten orders the guards to not fire on the Dalek because it is unique despite the fact that it is killing them. Harrison Chase does the same thing with the Krynoid in "The Seeds of Doom".
39. The Helicopter that lands at the start is actually the same Helicopter from Blue Thunder (1983)/Blue Thunder (1984).
40. The Dalek prop used in this episode, known as MT1 (affectionately named after Mile Tucker, who built the new series design), was also used as Dalek Sec in both series 2 and series 3, before ultimately returning to bronze where it reappeared in many episodes up until series 9. When not being recalled for use in the show, it resides in BBC Birmingham alongside a TARDIS prop and Davros' head.
41. The Doctor mutters the line, "I win, how 'bout that" near the end of the story. The Master utters a similar line near his death in Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords (2007): "How 'bout that, I win".

The Long Game

1. Simon Pegg had great difficulty saying "the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe".
2. Bad Wolf Reference: On Satellite Five, the "Bad Wolf Channel" is broadcasting news that the Face of Boe is pregnant.
3. The "frozen vomit" that Adam spits out in one scene was in fact a "kiwi and orange ice cube".
4. Adam has the dubious distinction of being the first (and, to date, only) known companion to have his TARDIS-travelling rights revoked by the Doctor due to bad behaviour - other companions forced to stay behind were either left for their own safety (e.g. Sarah Jane Smith, Donna Noble) or because the Doctor thought it was better for them they stayed in one place (e.g. Susan Foreman).
5. Russell T. Davies originally set out to write this episode from Adam's perspective, watching the adventure unfolding from his point of view (exactly as Rose did in Doctor Who: Rose (2005)) and seeing both the Doctor and Rose as enigmatic, frightening characters. He even gave this outline a working title: "Adam", just as the first episode was named after Rose.
6. The working title for this episode was The Companion Who Couldn't.
7. In earlier drafts of the script, Adam's father suffered from a disease that was incurable in his time (2012) and he hoped to learn about a cure which had been discovered between that year and 200,000. In the shooting script, the condition is arthritis.
8. Simon Pegg had grown up with Doctor Who (1963) and considered it a "great honour" to guest star. He was pleased at being cast as a bad guy. Pegg had previously played Don Chaney in the Eighth Doctor audio play Invaders from Mars.
9. Simon Pegg later described Christopher Eccleston as 'old misery-guts'.
10. According to Russell T. Davies, this episode was based on an idea which he submitted to the Doctor Who (1963) production team in the early 1980s. Whether it was ever read by the production team of the time is unclear, as Davies received a rejection from the BBC Script Unit, who advised him to write more realistic television about "a man and his mortgage" instead. Davies reworked the story for the new series.
11. Nicholas Briggs had recorded voice work for the Jagrafess, but his contribution was not used because it sounded too similar to the Nestene Consciousness, which Briggs had voiced in Doctor Who: Rose (2005).
12. Russell T. Davies originally envisaged the episode as a money-saver, and so wrote it in such a way that many sets could perform double- or even triple-duty. As production neared, however, it became clear that the special effects requirements were more considerable than had been envisaged. This resulted in some of Davies' ideas being toned down, such as the head "spike", which as initially conceived would have involved the entire cranium opening up, rather than just a small aperture on the forehead.
13. The title of this episode foreshadows the two-part season finale.
14. The original story outline was set in the year 8922.
15. The character of Suki Macrae Cantrell in "The Long Game" is named after Tom MacRae, a television writer and a good friend of Executive Producer Russell T. Davies. Davies later hired Macrae to work as a writer on series two.
16. Adam's house was originally going to be in Nottingham. Following the casting of Bruno Langley, it was moved to Manchester.
17. This was the first Ninth Doctor story to feature an antagonist that did not return during the Tenth Doctor era (in all media).
18. This episode was watched by 8.01 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 40.39% audience share.
19. In a deleted scene, Suki and the Doctor were delivered gold keys by courier, which provided them access to Floor 500.
20. Simon Pegg had previously appeared in the TV comedy show Big Train (1998) alongside Dr Who companion Catherine Tate. In one sketch he plays a man who is so upset at Billie Piper's fading pop career he commits suicide. They work together in this episode of the series which launched her acting career.
21. The Jagrafress was entirely made of computer-generated imagery (CGI), animated by The Mill. It was given a shark-like design, with the intention that it would "snap out" like a shark. The initial design was also described as a "lump of meat on the ceiling".
22. Kronkburgers were first mentioned in the comic The Iron Legion.
23. Time travel is like visiting Paris. The last time The Doctor was seen visiting Paris was in the Fourth Doctor episode Doctor Who: City of Death: Part One (1979) where he also fought against an alien playing a long game, this one over 400 million years, the similarly named but unrelated Jagaroth.
24. This episode takes place in 200000 and 2012.
25. Christopher Eccleston and Simon Pegg were both in 24 Hour Party People (2002). However, they did not share any scenes together.
26. The Doctor makes a reference to "kissing complete strangers". Although spoken in the context of visiting Paris, he did kiss Grace Holloway shortly after his regeneration in Doctor Who (1996).
27. Both Simon Pegg and Tamsin Greig appeared in Shaun Of The Dead (2004) and Black Books (2000-2004).
28. Adam's mother was named Sandra in the script.

Father's Day

1. Simon Pegg was originally cast as Pete Tyler. Because of scheduling conflicts, he chose the role of The Editor in Doctor Who: The Long Game (2005).
2. Russell T. Davies and Paul Cornell debated whether it should have been Rose's plan all along to save her father; this is left ambiguous in the episode. Billie Piper felt that it did not occur to Rose until after she began travelling.
3. This is Billie Piper's favourite episode.
4. Bad Wolf reference: The words Bad Wolf are seen on a poster the first time Rose and The Doctor wait for Pete Tyler.
5. Russell T. Davies originally intended that the episode be a small budget-saver character piece investigating the death of Rose's father, but Paul Cornell suggested the addition of the Reapers and BBC Head of Drama Jane Tranter encouraged the additions of monsters to the new series.
6. Billie Piper was scared of holding the baby.
7. According to producer Phil Collinson, Russell T. Davies came up with the concept at an early stage in the planning of the series, as it was a "perfect time travel story". Davies wanted the storyline to be easy-to-follow and drawn from human emotions. Additionally, the previous seven episodes had established why Rose was a good companion, and so this shows that she does make mistakes, but in a relatable way.
8. As Rose and Pete drive to the church, on the car radio is Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" before being replaced by another, anachronistic song, by The Streets.
9. Paul Cornell stated that the character of Pete Tyler is based on his own father, who attempted many different jobs and schemes (including, like Pete, selling health drinks) before eventually finding success running a betting shop. Pete's line "I'm your dad, it's my job for it to be my fault" is taken from something Cornell's father once said to him.
10. The church used in this episode is St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff.
11. Pete Tyler was described in the episode as "a bit of a Del Boy", a reference to Derek "Del Boy" Trotter from Only Fools and Horses (1981). Shaun Dingwall portrayed Del Boy's father, Reg Trotter, in the prequel Rock & Chips (2010).
12. The Reapers went through many designs. Originally, they were supposed to be "men in cowls" based on the Grim Reaper; the final design retains some of this image with its "scythe-like tail". The original design was deemed too similar to creatures seen in "The End of the World", and so were reworked into something more "otherworldly". They were not originally intended to fly. There was also discussion of how much they should resemble animals as opposed to the Grim Reaper; the end result is a mixture of the two approaches. The final design had a "shark quality", bat wings, and a mouth influenced by the praying mantis. Vulture sound effects were used for its screech.
13. Originally Pete was to take a swig of wine before sacrificing himself, but this was removed because a correlation between alcohol and bravery was not thought to be a positive message. Though in the background Pete can be seen taking a swig of something and placing the glass near the bride immediately before he approaches Rose and rolling his sleeves down.
14. Julia Joyce, who played young Rose, also played a younger version of Billie Piper's character in Mansfield Park (2007).
15. The weather in Cardiff changed frequently during filming, and the cast began to fall ill; Christopher Eccleston had a cold.
16. It is revealed that Mickey is a few years older than Rose.
17. As part of the time damage caused, Rose hears the track Don't Mug Yourself by The Streets on Pete's car stereo, decades before its release.
18. When time is damaged, one of the effects is that mobile telephones all begin to repeat the message, "Watson, come here, I need you," purportedly Alexander Graham Bell's first words ever spoken over a telephone. However historical records believe the words to be "Watson, come here, I want you." The error was not present in Paul Cornell's original script, but crept in at some point during production. Producer Phil Collinson speculated that it was because the line was rerecorded; it was originally recorded by someone who the production team felt put on too false of a Scottish accent, and so it was rerecorded with a real Scot.
19. The Reapers are not mentioned by name on screen.
20. This episode was originally called "Wounded Time".
21. In the original script, in the scene where the Doctor opens the TARDIS doors and discovers only a police box interior, the police box fell apart. This was changed for reasons of cost, and Paul Cornell has stated that he thinks the change is an improvement.
22. For the 1980s style, members of the cast and crew brought in photographs of themselves from the '80s; for example, peach dresses and "big hair" were incorporated, but these elements were not meant to be distracting.
23. Camille Coduri wore a wig for this episode.
24. The set of the Tyler's flat was redressed for the time period.
25. The model was made over two months, being finished at the end of February 2005 rather than at the beginning of January as scheduled. The special effects team then had two or three weeks to complete the "40-odd shots" of the completely CGI Reapers in the episode. The episode ended up more expensive than intended because of the CGI.
26. Peter Alan Tyler was born on September 15, 1954 and died on November 7, 1987.
27. Some of the conversation between Rose and her father in the car was cut because the car had made the dialogue delivery too "bouncy".
28. "The Lamb and Flag", a pub from the sitcom Bottom (1991), is referenced in the episode.
29. The production team selected several streets that looked similar. Most of the streets were in the community of Grangetown. The streets did not require much work for them to resemble 1980s streets; only a few satellite dishes were taken down.
30. This episode was watched by 8.06 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 44.38% audience share.
31. The driver of the car was identified as "Matt" in the script but not on screen.
32. Because the baby is present throughout the majority of the episode, but they were limited to how many hours they could work with the infant, an "artificial baby" was used as a placeholder in some scenes.
33. This is the first of two stories written by Paul Cornell, who was a very prolific writer of the Expanded Universe, having written many New Adventures novels.
34. Pete's 'battered old' Ford Escort estate would in reality have only been fifteen months old at the most: the 'D' registration number plate ran from August 1986 to August 1987.
35. One scene excised from Paul Cornell's script would have featured younger versions of Jackie's Chinese neighbours, Bau and Ru, who had appeared in Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005).
36. This episode takes place on November 7, 1987 and in the 1990s.
37. According to the script, the driver of the car which kills Pete was named Matt.
38. This is the first and only appearance of this universe's Pete Tyler. A parallel universe version of him will later appear in season 2.

The Empty Child

1. When Captain Jack mocks the Doctor and Rose for their out-of-place outfits ("Flag Girl was bad enough - but U-boat captain?"), he is actually spot on - the Doctor's leather jacket is in fact a vintage 1938 German U-boat commander's jacket.
2. The hospital where The Doctor meets Dr. Constantine, Albion Hospital, is the same hospital where they took the "Space Pig" in Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005).
3. Dr. Constantine remarks that he used to be both a father and grandfather, but is now neither. The Doctor replies that he "knows the feeling," implying that his granddaughter; a lead character in the first few seasons of Doctor Who (1963); has since died, probably during the Time War.
4. The nanogenes were originally called "nanites" but this was changed because of concerns about the same term's usage in the Star Trek franchise.
5. The first appearance of omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, the first openly LGBT character in the Whoniverse.
6. Jack is a former Time Agent. They were first mentioned in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
7. Jack tells Rose about a "fully-equipped Chula warship" that had landed in London. "Chula" is actually the name of a restaurant where writer Steven Moffat first met fellow writers Mark Gatiss, Rob Sherman, and Paul Cornell to celebrate getting the job on Doctor Who.
8. This episode was watched by 7.11 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 36.59% audience share.
9. The TARDIS telephone rang at least one other time. In the original series, in season 3, the scene that bridges Doctor Who: The Hall of Dolls (1966) and Doctor Who: The Dancing Floor (1966), the Celestial Toymaker calls Steven and Dodo on the TARDIS phone.
10. The famous line "Are you my mummy?" was alluded to in Doctor Who: The Poison Sky (2008).
11. Steven Moffat's original outline envisaged Jax (masquerading under the alias "Jack Harkness") as an interstellar alien soldier who befriends the Doctor but intimidates Rose. He was to be tracking an escaped child-creature, the story's antagonist.
12. This was the first episode to be written by Steven Moffat, who would later succeed Russell T. Davies as head writer and showrunner for the series.
13. The Doctor's praise for Great Britain's wartime resilience concludes with a line similar to a quote attributed to the Duke of Wellington: "I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me".
14. The only words the Empty Child says not in relation to his mummy are "balloon" and a mention of his fear of "bombs".
15. When the Doctor explains the way Nancy operates to feed the children of London he says "I don't know if it's Marxism in action or a west end musical." This is a reference about the musical Oliver! in which Nancy is the name of a character who is the 'big sister' figure to Fagin's gang.
16. Unlike previous episodes, the "next episode" trailers were shown after the end credits instead of immediately preceding them, possibly in reaction to comments after Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005) about having the cliffhanger for that episode spoiled. This trend has continued for most two-part stories in the new series.
17. In order to achieve the necessary height, Rose dangling from the barrage balloon was filmed in a hangar at RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.
18. Frequently in this episode, Rose makes references to the Star Trek (1966) character Mr. Spock. This is the first televised story to make a direct reference to Star Trek, although there had been previous references in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip and original novels. Steven Moffat says in the DVD commentary for this episode that the Doctor's reply to Rose asking him what she should call him ("Doctor who?") was originally going to be, "I'd rather have Doctor Who than Star Trek," a metafictional dig at the latter programme.
19. The Empty Child shows an ability to make telephones ring even when they are not really connected to anything, such as the fake police box phone. Steven Moffat would later reuse this device in his series Jekyll (2007), in which Mr Hyde develops the ability to make his alter ego, Tom Jackman, believe that phones are ringing even if they are turned off or disconnected, and can then communicate with Jackman through these phones.
20. The TARDIS jumped a time track in the First Doctor serial The Space Museum (1965), giving the Doctor and his then companions a glimpse into their apparent future.
21. This episode takes place on January 20, 1941.
22. Rose becomes the first character in the new series to ask the titular question: "Doctor who?"
23. It was director James Hawes' idea to cast Richard Wilson.
24. As the Chula ship jumps the time track, on the console screen it is shown to be in the time vortex as seen in the credits.
25. Location filming took place at the Barry Tourist Railway. Barry Island and its now-demolished Butlins holiday camp had previously been the filming location of the Seventh Doctor serial, Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen: Part One (1987).
26. The working title for this episode was World War II.
27. Richard Wilson, who plays Dr. Constantine of Albion Hospital, would go on to star as the physician Gaius in Merlin (2008), where Britain is often called Albion.
28. 3 years earlier, Christopher Eccleston starred in the British pseudo-zombie flick 28 Days Later... (2002) as Major Henry West.
29. The premise of the gas mask clones is similar to the short Philip K. Dick story "Who is Sylvia?" Probably not a unique example of such a plot in sci-fi or fantasy.
30. Although Jack was slated to become a companion, John Barrowman's name is not added to the opening credits. The notion of adding a third name to reflect an "expanded roster" would not be introduced until Barrowman's return to the series two years later in Doctor Who: Utopia (2007).
31. This is the first episode in the revived series to feature no deaths.
32. Early drafts of the adventure included the character of Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
33. The sound of Dr Constantine's skull cracking as his face changes into a gas mask was considered too horrific in its full form by the production team and was cut before broadcast. However, Steven Moffat claims on the DVD commentary to this episode that the sound was discussed but never put on. According to Doctor Who Confidential: Fear Factor (2006), the effect was added in the version of the episode presented on The Complete First Series box set.

The Doctor Dances

1. Bad Wolf Reference: Although you can barely see it, the bomb that Jack catches in the tractor beam has "Schlechter Wolf" written on its side. Schlechter Wolf means Bad Wolf in German.
2. Colin Baker named this as his favourite episode of the series, highlighting the "Everybody Lives" scene as his favourite moment.
3. When Nancy approaches the crashed ship and cuts the barbed-wire fence, the score features the brisk string motif that would become the featured motif in the theme to Torchwood (2006).
4. According to Steven Moffat, the sonic blaster used by Jack to blast open the door is destined to be kept in the TARDIS for River Song to find, so that she can use it in Forest of the Dead.
5. Captain Jack, introduced in the first series, was the first openly non-heterosexual character in the history of televised Doctor Who. A homosexual subplot suggested by Ian Briggs between two characters in the 1989 serial "The Curse of Fenric" had been vetoed as unsuitable for a family audience.
6. Early drafts of the adventure included the character of Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
7. Because the episode ran short, Steven Moffat quickly wrote the scene in which Nancy returns to warn the orphans, during which the Empty Child possesses the typewriter.
8. It is established that Jack comes from the 51st century. This is a particularly significant period in the Doctor Who fictional universe, being the time of the Great Breakout, an expansionistic period where mankind headed for the stars (The Invisible Enemy) as well as the home era of K-9. Other historical events of the 51st century include a new ice age, a near world war, early experiments in time travel, the establishment of the Time Agents and the rise and fall of the villainous Magnus Greel (The Talons of Weng-Chiang). Parts of Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace (2006) as well as the entirety of Doctor Who: Silence in the Library (2008)/Doctor Who: Forest of the Dead (2008), and Doctor Who: The Time of Angels (2010)/Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone (2010), all written by Steven Moffat, take place in this era as well.
9. Russell T. Davies has said to have named Captain Jack Harkness after Agatha Harkness from the Fantastic Four comic.
10. Jack mentions that The Time Agency stole his memory. As of 2016, this has not been followed up on.
11. This is the second time that the cliffhanger from the previous episode was resolved before the main title sequence. The first was in Doctor Who: World War Three (2005). This practise would fall out of favour amongst the BBC Wales production staff, however. Since 2005, most "part two" pre-titles sequences have been comprised entirely of a "part one" recap, or of a recap plus a seemingly unrelated teaser.
12. Taken in its more innocent context, this episode features one of the few scenes in which the Doctor is actually shown to partner dance. The only time he does so in Doctor Who (1963) is when the Seventh Doctor briefly and awkwardly dances with Ray in Delta and the Bannermen.
13. During the final scene, when the Doctor and Rose are dancing in the TARDIS, the console room lighting is changing like a dance hall. This is the only time this has ever happened in the series.
14. The Doctor identifies Jack's sonic blaster as coming from the Weapon Factories of Villengard and implies that he blew them up. He also notes that there is a banana grove where the factories were, and that "bananas are good". The Tenth Doctor repeats this sentiment in Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace (2006) and claims that he invented the banana daiquiri in 18th century France.
15. In a reference to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Jack Harkness rides the bomb while it is held in stasis.
16. Anachronistically, Jamie's voice is recorded on tape. While compact magnetic tape recorders were developed in Germany in the 1930s, the technology did not make its way to the rest of the world until after World War II. Wire recording was used by the BBC during this period, but recording gramophones, using wax discs as a medium, were more common. Steven Moffat acknowledges this mistake in the DVD commentary, but jokingly suggests that an ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart stole the machine from Germany to help with the war effort.
17. Both songs heard in the episode are by Glenn Miller. They are "In the Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade".
18. The working title for this episode was Captain Jax.
19. This is sometimes assumed to be the first episode to use a verb in the title, but that honour actually belongs to Doctor Who: All Roads Lead to Rome (1965). In any event, it is unusual for a Doctor Who (1963) title to have a verb in it, but it is more common in the BBC Wales version of the programme. Steven Moffat seems to enjoy titles with verbs, having also contributed Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens (2010),Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War (2011) and Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler (2011). Arguably, Doctor Who: Blink (2007) could also be included, but blink is both a noun and a verb.
20. It was the first single-Doctor episode since Doctor Who: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 7 (1970), to directly name the programme's main character in its title. However, it's not quite so unusual as might be thought. It had happened a couple of time in William Hartnell-era episode titles, with Doctor Who: The Death of Doctor Who (1965), Doctor Who: A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) and Doctor Who (1996). Also, the title of season 23 simply refers to the Doctor by another name, since he is the "Time Lord" indicated by The Trial of a Time Lord. And it has happened since this episode, with Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter (2008), Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008), Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor (2010), Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife (2011), Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (2011), Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) and Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013). And The Doctor Falls (2017)
21. In the DVD commentary for this episode, Steven Moffat reveals that up until a very late stage, the nanogenes in this story were called "nanites". However, script editor Helen Raynor decided this name sounded too much like similar nanotechnological devices in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
22. Steven Moffat had first used the line "Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh" in the second series of his sitcom Joking Apart (1991). He reused it here as he thought it was a good line, but laments that people quote lines from this episode instead of that one.
23. Jack Harkness says, "You've got to set your alarm for Volcano Day", to the Doctor when referring to holidays. The 10th Doctor later uses this same terminology when encountering a real volcano in Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii (2008).
24. The word dancing is frequently used in this episode as a metaphor for sex. Steven Moffat would use the innuendo again in Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace (2006), in which it is hinted that the Tenth Doctor might have some form of romantic dalliance with Madame de Pompadour.
25. The word dancing is frequently used in this episode as a metaphor for sex.
26. This episode was watched by 6.86 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 38.53% audience share.
27. This episode takes place on January 20, 1941.
28. The Doctor deduces that Nancy is probably about 20-21 in age, pretending to be Jamie's teenage sister. Florence Hoath was in fact 20 years old when this episode was filmed, and turned 21 shortly after it aired.
29. Jack says that he told the previous owner of his spaceship that he'd be "back in five minutes." This is what the Doctor tells Amelia in The Eleventh Hour (2011). Of course, neither one ends up meaning it.

Boom Town

1. Paul Abbott was originally set to write an episode entitled "Pompeii". The story would have Rose feeling jealous of The Doctor's friendship with Jack. When they land in Pompeii in 79 AD, Jack discovers that Rose's life has been manipulated by the Doctor in an experiment to create the perfect companion. Abbot's commitment to Shameless (2004) and other projects led to him dropping out of the episode.
2. Russell T. Davies wanted the story to examine the moral repercussions of the Doctor's deeds - particularly in the context of capital punishment, to which Davies was personally opposed.
3. Russell T. Davies stated that he wanted to incorporate Welsh culture because the series is made in Wales and contains a lot of Welsh crew members. He also wanted to show off how beautiful the area could be.
4. The night shoot of Rose and Mickey in front of the water tower at Roald Dahl Plass had to be extended to two nights because it was below the temperature at which the fountain automatically shuts off.
5. The dinner scene between the Doctor and Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen was filmed in January 2005 at the Cardiff restaurant Bistro 10 before the rest of the episode was filmed; Christopher Eccleston filmed the scene while Billie Piper and John Barrowman were filming scenes for Doctor Who: The Empty Child (2005). This was due to scheduling conflicts with Annette Badland. Some of the schedule was also rearranged because of the death of Piper's uncle, resulting in her and Eccleston being replaced by doubles during some scenes near the end of the episode.
6. Russell T. Davies wrote this episode to bring back Annette Badland as Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen due to her performance in Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005) and Doctor Who: World War Three (2005) being "brilliant", though she had few lines.
7. Rose mentions how a woman called Gwyneth (played by Eve Myles) saved the world in 1869, a reference to Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead (2005). Rose and the Doctor also encountered the temporal rift at that time. In the "Doctor Who" spin-off Torchwood (2006), also set in Cardiff, John Barrowman returns as Jack, Eve Myles plays Gwen Cooper (hinted to be a relative of Gwyneth's), and the rift is a frequent plot point .
8. The actor playing Mr Cleaver, William Thomas, had previously appeared as Martin the undertaker in Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks: Part Two (1988). This made him the first performer to appear in both the original and current run of Doctor Who. He later played Geraint Cooper, the father of Gwen Cooper, in the Doctor Who spinoff series Torchwood (2006).
9. Russell T. Davies intended the episode to be a character piece exploring whether the Doctor had the authority to take someone to their death sentence, as well as showing the consequences of the Doctor's actions the last time he met Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen.
10. Bad Wolf Reference: The Nuclear Plant project is named "Blaidd Drwg", (pronounced "blaithe droog") which means Bad Wolf in Welsh.
11. After Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen disappears via teleport and Jack wonders how they are going to catch her, Rose mentions that "The Doctor's very good with teleports" and brings her back using his sonic screwdriver. This is a reference to Doctor Who: The End of the World (2005), in which The Doctor does the same thing to Lady Cassandra after her sabotaging of Platform One.
12. This is one of the only episodes of Doctor Who (2005) or Torchwood (2006) where we ever see Captain Jack Harkness not wearing his signature coat and costume for most of the episode.
13. In Doctor Who: The Visitation: Part Three (1982), the Fifth Doctor was similarly told by an alien that returning them home would result in their death, but that time he offered to take the criminal to another planet to avoid his death sentence.
14. The extras were not actually on set with the cast. They were filmed separately and edited in afterwards.
15. The working title for this episode was Dining With Monsters. Russell T. Davies joked that a much better name for this episode would be "What should we do with Margaret?"
16. In this episode, the TARDIS lands in Roald Dahl Plass (a public square named for Cardiff-born author Roald Dahl), on Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales. On one side of the plass is the Wales Millennium Centre, a performing arts centre which is glimpsed several times. Its front bears a large inscription, which shows two lines by Welsh poet Gweneth Lewis. The first line, in Welsh, "CREU GWIR FEL GWYDR O FFWRNAIS AWEN" (English: "Creating Truth Like Glass From Inspiration's Furnace"), and the second line in English, "IN THESE STONES HORIZONS SING" (the two lines are juxtaposed and somewhat mingled, Welsh on the left, English on the right). Across the plass stands the Water Tower, a 70-foot-tall metal monolith with water streaming down its sides. In the Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood (2006), Torchwood Three had its headquarters secretly hidden under the plass, entered through a secret lift near the Water Tower.
17. This story was essentially an "episode on the cheap": it was filmed in contemporary Cardiff, with relatively few effects needed. The Slitheen costumes had already been created for Doctor Who: Aliens of London (2005)/Doctor Who: World War Three (2005). The low cost of this episode helped to save money to allow a bigger budget for the season finale, Doctor Who: Bad Wolf (2005)/Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005).
18. "Tribophysics" was first mentioned offhandedly by Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars: Part Four (1975).
19. The egg Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen turns into was a reused prop from Doctor Who: The End of the World (2005).
20. The Heart of the TARDIS previously appeared in "Terminus", where it was merely an electronic engine for the vehicle that could be manually removed from the console. This more powerful iteration of the TARDIS's heart would later serve as a crucial plot point in Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005) and Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (2013).
21. The First Doctor suggested that there was some sort of "power" beneath the TARDIS console in Doctor Who: The Brink of Disaster (1964).
22. This episode was watched by 7.69 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 38.55% audience share.
23. The Doctor is seen reading the Welsh newspaper Western Mail.
24. This episode takes place in September 2006.
25. Margaret Blaine/Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen says that as a child she was threatened with being fed to venom grubs; these creatures appeared in the First Doctor serial The Web Planet (1965).
26. The Doctor says that he'd make a very bad god. Christopher Eccleston played Simon Baxter, the Son of God in Russell T. Davies' The Second Coming (2003).
27. Rose mentions that she and the Doctor have been to Justicia, which is the star system that they visit in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole.
28. In Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive: Part Four (1980), another enemy of the Doctor, Pangol, was also regressed in time (this time to a baby).
29. This episode takes place six months after Doctor Who: World War Three (2005).
30. Taking into account the Torchwood story lines, there are three Jacks in Cardiff at this point in time.
31. Torchwood Three had been in existence since at least 1899 in Cardiff, with Jack involved in the organisation since 1899 and in charge from the end of 1999. (TV: Fragments) This means that the Doctor's arrival near the rift, his party's reunion with Mickey, and the subsequent Slitheen adventure -- all involving Captain Jack -- take place very close to the older Captain Jack and his Torchwood team. Jack would later reference having to wait until a version of the Doctor that coincided with him arrived; encountering the Doctor and his younger self at this point would have been unacceptable. (TV: Utopia) In addition, a third, older Jack, cryogenically frozen, is also nearby, unknown to both younger Jacks. (TV: Exit Wounds) In PROSE: The Twilight Streets, it is established that Jack locked himself and his team inside the Hub for the day to prevent them from meeting his younger self.

Bad Wolf

1. The production team originally intended to show Jack's naked buttocks on screen. The scene was shot, but the BBC's editorial policy department stepped in and vetoed it, the only time they over-ruled the production team during the 2005 series.
2. When the Doctor first tries to escape from the Big Brother house, Lynda reveals that a "deadlock seal" prevents contestants from escaping. Deadlock seals are first mentioned as a barrier that the sonic screwdriver can't breach in the 1969 episode The War Games; they are referenced again later in Doctor Who: School Reunion (2006).
3. The Doctor tells Lynda that he didn't pay his television licence, which she says is a capital crime. To viewers outside of the UK, this is a relatively obscure reference, referring to the annual fee levied in the UK on each active television or video recording device per household; the collected revenue is used primarily to fund the British public television service, the BBC - which produces Doctor Who (2005).
4. During the actual recording the director instructed the sound engineer Neil Harris to mix up the played back questions so that the actors' confusion would appear genuine.
5. According to Doctor Who Confidential (2005), although Anne Robinson was invited to voice the Anne Droid, the expectation was that she would decline. A celebrity voice impersonator had already been hired to record the lines when Robinson accepted.
6. Martha Cope's (who plays The Controller) father Kenneth Cope has also acted in Doctor Who (1963) - he appeared in the 1981 serial Warriors Gate.
7. Russell T. Davies first posited that the Game Station would be run by a mentally-enhanced teenager named Edward, but quickly came to dislike this idea. He first replaced Edward with an elderly man and then, inspired by Minority Report (2002), with a pale, androgynous Controller instead.
8. The concept of the Anne Droid and a futuristic version of The Weakest Link (2000) was inspired by Russell T. Davies' trip to New York City for the launch of Queer as Folk (1999), where he had seen "a vast screen in Times Square with a gigantic Ann Robinson blasting us tiny mortals with her voice".
9. The story was originally set 500 years after Doctor Who: The Long Game (2005).
10. It is assumed that at some point before this episode The Doctor gave Jack a key to the Tardis, as he uses one when he finds the Tardis in Archive 6.
11. This was the last of the 2005 episode titles to be revealed. Prior to this, the episode was referred to in promotional literature as "The Parting of the Ways (Part 1)", with "Part 2" eventually becoming simply Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005).
12. Bad Wolf Reference: Other than the obvious title of the episode, Bad Wolf is the name of the corporation broadcasting the sadistic game shows from Satellite 5.
13. In the scene with the fashion droids, Jack mentions that he got his denim in "a little place in Cardiff" called the Topshop. There is a chain of stores in the UK called "Topshop" with a branch in Cardiff. In 2010, at least, it carries only women's clothing and - far from being a little place - is massive (but is described as having a very good denim section).
14. The precedent for a transmat beam leaving behind a dusty residue, as it does here, was established by the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma: Part Two (1984).
15. Nisha Nayar, the actress cast as the Female Programmer in this episode, previously appeared as one of the uncredited 'Red Kang' extras in the 1987 classic series story "Paradise Towers". This made her the second actor to appear in both the classic and new series of Doctor Who, following William Thomas' appearance in the previous episode, Doctor Who: Boom Town (2005).
16. This episode was watched by 6.81 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 37.92% audience share.
17. Oddly, Jenna Russell (the Floor Manager from The Weakest Link (2000)) is not credited in this episode.
18. Lynda mentions Exoglass. In Doctor Who: The End of the World (2005), Platform One had Exoglass windows.
19. When the Doctor, Jack Harkness and Lynda were caught by security they were to be sent to the Lunar Penal Colony without trial. The Doctor's third incarnation was previously detained there when he was believed to be a spy working for the Draconians in "Frontier in Space".
20. The game inquiries and correct answers in The Weakest Link (2000) scenes are: "The name of which basic foodstuff is an anagram of the word beard?" "Bread"; "In the Pan Traffic Calendar, which month comes after Hoob?" "Pandoff"; "In maths, what is 258 minus 158?" "100"; "Which letter of the alphabet appears in the word dangle but not in the word gland?" "E"; "In social security, what D is the name of the payment given to Martian Drones?" "Default"; "The Great Cobalt Pyramid is built on the remains of which famous Old Earth institute?" "Torchwood"; "in language; all 5 examples of what type of letter appear in the word facetious?" "Vowels"; "In biology; which blood cells contain iron, red or white?" "Red"; "In the holvid series "Jupiter Rising", the Grexnik is married to whom?" *answer obscured*; "In geography; the Grand Central Ravine is named after which ancient British city?" "Sheffield"; "In literature; the author of "Lucky" was Jackie who?" "Collins"; "The oldest inhabitant of the Isop Galaxy is the Face of what?" "Boe"; "In history; who was the president of the Red Velvets?" "Hoshbin Frame"; "In food; the dish Gaffobeque originated on which planet?" "Lucifer"; "Which measurement of length is said to have been defined by the Emperor Jate as the distance from his nose to his fingertips?" "Paab"; "In fashion; Stella Pok Baint is famous for what?" "Hats"; "In history; which Icelandic city hosted Murder Spree 20?" "Pola Ventura"
21. This is the second Dalek story to feature a human servant of the Daleks called "controller" who betrays the Daleks and sacrifices themself to help the Doctor, the first being "Day of the Daleks" featuring the third Doctor.
22. The diary room chair used in the Game Station Big Brother house was sold to Channel 4, and they used it in Ultimate Big Brother (2010) as the bedsit's diary room chair.
23. The episode's working title was Gameshow World.
24. When Jack enters the TARDIS in Archive Six, he sees the denim jacket Rose wore in the previous episode, 'Boom Town' (S1E11).
25. It is never explained how the Daleks know who Rose is.
26. This episode takes place in 200100.
27. This is the first televised appearance of Dalek flying saucers since Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks: Part Four (1974). Saucers were first seen in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" (a six-episode serial, beginning with Doctor Who: World's End (1964)), and are the most common Dalek spacecraft in the original series, though other Dalek craft appeared occasionally. As of 2016, the 2005 revival of the show has exclusively used saucers for all Dalek spaceships.
28. It is never explained how Lynda knows which game shows are on which floors of the Game Station.
29. When thousands of Daleks are shouting, "Exterminate", in their ship, a small control panel similar to one from the Dalek time machine in "The Chase" can be seen.
30. Colleen has the least amount of dialogue out of all the characters in this episode - with just one word.
31. Jo Joyner (Lynda), Martha Cope (The Controller) and Kate Loustau (Colleen) have all appeared in EastEnders (1985).
32. Torchwood Reference: This is the very first episode in which Torchwood is mentioned. During The Weakest Link (2000), Broff is asked what Old Earth Institute the Great Cobalt Pyramid was built on, the answer being Torchwood. This later becomes the "reference to look for" in the second season culminating in the Battle of Canary Wharf during the finale that takes place in Torchwood Institute, London, as well as the spin-off starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack.
33. When The Doctor first enters the Big Brother house, art resembling the Daleks' hemispherical bumps can be seen on the wall.
34. For "Bad Wolf", the BBC got permission from Endemol to use the Big Brother (2000) format, right down to their own version of the Big Brother Eye and the loan of some of the equipment used in Big Brother. This includes a Diary Room chair.
35. Initially, the Controller survived into the second episode, Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2005), to provide the Doctor with someone to talk to, until Russell T. Davies decided it would be more effective to have him converse with the Emperor Dalek instead.
36. The music that is heard as the Dalek fleet is revealed includes a chorus singing "What is happening?" (transliterated: Mah Kor'ei) in Hebrew.
37. Body count: 6 (Fitch, Broff, Crosbie, Colleen, Agorax, and the Controller).

The Parting of the Ways

1. When Jack kisses Rose and the Doctor goodbye, John Barrowman made a special effort to kiss both actors in exactly the same way... except on one take, when he kissed Billie Piper as usual, then said his line to Christopher Eccleston, started the kiss, and didn't stop until they fell on the floor. (Source: John Barrowman on the DVD commentary)
2. The street corner at which the TARDIS reappears after being sent back to 2006 is the same street corner where Rose's father was originally struck by a car and killed in the opening of Doctor Who: Father's Day (2005) prior to Rose altering the circumstances of his death.
3. Initially, the Controller survived into this episode to provide the Doctor with someone to talk to, until Russell T. Davies decided it would be more effective to have him converse with the Emperor Dalek instead.
4. In an acting master class at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in July 2011, Christopher Eccleston expanded the reasons for his leaving the show. He cited creative differences with "the senior people" on the production and stated he did not like "the culture" of working on the production.
5. This episode marks the last time the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits until Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008). Beginning with Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005), the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series. This episode is the only occasion in which David Tennant is credited as "Doctor Who" until Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008).
6. The Ninth Doctor looks at his right hand before he regenerates. His next incarnation does the exact same thing twice.
7. This episode was watched by 6.91 million viewers on its original transmission, winning a 43.96% audience share.
8. The Doctor's farewell recording to Rose - "Have a good life ..." - is quoted in the lyrics of "Song for Ten", featured in the next full episode, Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005).
9. The Ninth Doctor's pre-regeneration statement, "I mean it's a bit dodgy this process, you never know what you're gonna end up with", echoes the Fifth Doctor's post-regeneration statement in Doctor Who: Castrovalva: Part One (1982), "That's the trouble with regeneration, you never quite know what you're going to get".
10. Submerging the Dalek mutant puppet in the Emperor's water tank destroyed its inner mechanics. As a result, the puppet would not be used again until Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth (2008)/Doctor Who: Journey's End (2008). A CGI version of the mutant was later used in Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhattan (2007).
11. Humans have previously been converted to Daleks on Necros by Davros in Revelation of the Daleks.
12. Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth (after kissing Rose) before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the Doctor Who franchise. Another occasion could be that of Madame Vastra and Jenny in Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014), although this was more so out of survival than affection.
13. This is the third regeneration episode to credit both actors playing the Doctor, the first two being Doctor Who: Logopolis: Part Four (1981) and Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani: Part Four (1984). The fourth occasion would be Doctor Who: The End of Time: Part Two (2010). Unlike the first two, and like the fourth, the incoming actor is the last actor to be credited. Doctor Who (1996) also credited both actors who played the Doctor, but did so in the opening credits and without listing their roles specifically.
14. This was the first episode in this series which was not given a press screening prior to the broadcast. Radio Times stated, "No preview tape was available for this episode." The episode was, however, screened for BAFTA on 15 June 2005.
15. The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks.
16. As the last episode of the series, there is no "Next Time" trailer at the end of the episode, merely a message that "Doctor Who will return in The Christmas Invasion".
17. One of the Daleks has a cutting tool instead of a plunger, as seen in Doctor Who: The Ambush (1964) and Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks: Episode Three (1973).
18. Rose's speech to Mickey and Jackie about going back to help The Doctor echoes his words to Rose throughout the season.
19. This episode takes place in 200100 and 2006.
20. The Daleks have overcome their weakness to bastic bullets, which previously appeared in "Revelation of the Daleks" in 1984.
21. The Doctor also met a giant Dalek Emperor and some black-domed Dalek Guards while in his second incarnation in "The Evil of the Daleks".
22. The BBC produced a documentary entitled Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis (1993), which ended with several scenes showing how modern-day special effects could be applied to "new" Doctor Who production. One of these scenes shows many Daleks hovering together. Whether by accident or intent, this episode includes several scenes that strongly resemble this "what if" scenario.
23. Right after the chain that Rose uses to open the Tardis panel breaks, there is a shot of the Anne Droid telling a Dalek that it is, "the weakest link".
24. Rose seems to dislike Lynda judging on how she reacts to The Doctor and Lynda's interactions.
25. In the event of the Dalek Emperor puppet/prop being too expensive, Davros would have served as the primary antagonist in this story. He eventually appeared later in the show's run, as per the original plans.
26. Russell T. Davies wrote an alternative climax in which the Doctor and Rose actually head to the planet Barcelona, with Rose unknowingly on the verge of death due to her exposure to the time vortex. It was planned that this ending would still be recorded, at least partly to serve as a red herring, and show it to critics. However, the idea was scrapped after the information spread that Christopher Eccleston would leave the series. Consequently, the alternate ending has not been released to the public.
27. David Tennant's portion of the regeneration scene was actually filmed much later than Christopher Eccleston's, and without the presence of Billie Piper. Tennant's segment was recorded with him speaking to a piece of sticky tape indicating Piper's eyeline and then edited into the broadcast version.
28. The reason Jack was left behind was to explore the effect of the regeneration on Rose. Russell T. Davies felt that because of his 51st century background, Jack would just take it in his stride.
29. Rose's actions create a predestination paradox. The words "Bad Wolf" tell her to try to get back to the Doctor, and her doing so gives her the ability to leave the words through time as messages to herself, which she then does. Although it can be argued that the phrase "Bad Wolf" originates with the Badwolf Corporation, it can also be argued that she somehow prompted the creation of the phrase through her powers in the first place, thereby also introducing an ontological paradox. Ontological paradoxes were explored in Doctor Who: Blink (2007), where the Doctor explains that space-time is not strictly cause-to-effect,[20] and serve as a major plot device in Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007). The Doctor himself moves in a fictitious five-dimensional setting (The Space Museum, 1964), and perhaps a six-dimensional setting (Inferno, 1970).
30. The only characters who do not die in this episode are Rose, Jackie and Mickey, who are all either main or recurring characters. Every guest character dies, along with the Ninth Doctor and Jack, though the latter is revived shortly afterwards. As a result, this is the first episode to kill off the entire guest cast since Horror of Fang Rock 28 years before, an act that would not be repeated again until Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife (2011).
31. The first appearance of David Tennant as the Doctor.
32. Although he is soon brought back to life, Jack's death in this episode makes him the first companion to die since Kamelion in Doctor Who: Planet of Fire: Part Four (1984).
33. Christopher Eccleston's departure was meant to be kept secret so that the regeneration would come as surprise. However, the news broke early in the series, so the impact was lost.
34. The title of the episode The Parting Of The Ways is the same as title of the chapter about Barty Crouch Jr, David Tennant's character in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' (2005).
35. This is the first time the Doctor, or any Time Lord for that matter, is seen regenerating standing up, as previous Doctors collapsed before regenerating. This would later become the norm.
36. This is the first known time that the Doctor's kisses have had an effect on humans beyond the act itself. In this case, the Doctor removes the time vortex energy from Rose by kissing her. In the next, he imparts traces of his alien DNA to Martha Jones. (Doctor Who: Smith and Jones (2007)) The Doctor and Donna Noble later kiss, but in that instance the Doctor is the one affected, as the kiss was a catalyst for an antidote to poison - Donna kissed him to give his system a shock. (Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008)).
37. The last appearance of Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.
38. Series 1 contained an underlying story arc about the meaning and identity of Bad Wolf, with each episode containing several references to the name. In this episode, Rose sees dozens of Bad Wolf graffiti, which lead her to realizing that she is the Bad Wolf, and uses the words to always lead her back to The Doctor.
39. This is the only time in the revived series (as of the end of series twelve in 2020) that the current incarnation of the Doctor regenerates in a regular season episode. Every Doctor that follows regenerates during a Christmas Special-- The Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who: The End of Time: Part Two (2010), The Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013), and the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017). The "War Doctor" regenerates in Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), the anniversary special, and earlier regenerations are shown in Doctor Who: The Timeless Children (2020), but those are examples of previous regenerations, not the current Doctor.
40. First regeneration in the revived series.
41. When the Doctor and Jack are in the TARDIS and heading for the fleet, after surviving the missile attack, the Doctor says "and for my next trick." This is the clip that is used later when all of the Doctor's regenerations show up to freeze Galifrey in time.