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Doctor Who Series 1 - 2005

Synopsis of Every Doctor Who Episode of Christopher Eccelstone 2005

By J CarterPublished 3 years ago 13 min read
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Every since Doctor Who was revived in 2005, I have watched every episode live on television since. Never missing one. If that's not devotion I don't know what is

Her is the synopsis of every episode from the First Episode of Christopher Eccelstone through to the current doctor, Jodie Whittaker.

Season 1 Episode 1 - First Aired: 26 March 2005 - "Rose"

The first episode of the revival was complete with action, intense moments and excitement. In this episode you see the daily routine of a young woman named Rose Tyler. Working in a department store, her every day routine was getting up very early, going to work and coming home again. Nothing exciting. The next day starts off the exact same but when she goes to put the cash bag to the basement, she is attacked by the mannequins used to advertise clothes. Just as she is about to be karate chopped, she is pulled away by a mysterious stranger. Yes, The Doctor. After getting away from them, Rose steps inside the TARDIS and immediately runs out. The next day, Rose and her boyfriend, Mickey Smith visit a man named Clive who runs a conspiracy theory website, concerning a man fitting the Doctor's description, who has appeared throughout history. While Rose is talking to Clive, Mickey is kidnapped and replaced by a plastic duplicate. Rose meets the Doctor again, where he reveals Mickey to be an Auton, and he and Rose locate the Nestene Consciousness which controls the Autons and has been using the London Eye as a transmitter. When the transmitter turns on, it controls all plastic mannequins and they come alive. After defeating the Nestene Consciousness and Autons, Rose decides to travel with the Doctor through time and space.

Season 1 Episode 2 - First Aired: 2 April 2005 "The End of the World"

The first place The Doctor takes Rose is the year 5 billion, where they land on a space station called Platform One. Among the elite alien guest is one called Lady Cassandra (Lady Cassandra O'Brian Dot Delta Seventeen, to be exact). It is discovered that Cassandra released robotic spiders to mess with the systems and lower the shields so that every passenger be killed and she would profit from the increase in demand. After finding this out, The Doctor sets out to stop it and reset the system. After doing so, the doctor teleports the escaped Cassandra back to the station and waits whilst she dries out and explodes from the solar flare.

Season 1 Episode 3 - First Aired: 9 April 2005 "The Unquiet Dead"

The Doctor and Rose travel back to Cardiff, 1869, where a funeral parlour, run by Gabriel Sneed and his clairvoyant servant girl, Gwyneth, contains corpses which have been animated by a mysterious blue vapour. Sneed and Gwyneth kidnap Rose, and the Doctor teams up with the one and only Charles Dickens to rescue her. In the funeral parlour, the group is reunited and the Doctor determines that the blue vapour is the result of a being called the Gelth trying to cross a rift in the spacetime, which, the parlour is built on. The Gelth animate bodies so that they can build their own for, so they use Gwyneth as a bridge to this world. As the Gelth respond negatively to gas, Gwyneth volunteers to ignite the gas which has been filling the building and kills them all. Turns out the Gelth were praying on humans' kind nature to cross over. Once that happened, they would convert this world into Gelth population. The Doctor, Rose and Dickens escape before the parlour is engulfed in flames.

Season 1 Episode 4 - First Aired: 16 April 2005 "Aliens of London"

The Doctor drops Rose off back in her time on the Powell Estate, where she lives, 12 hours after she leaves. When they get there, they realise that they haven't been gone 12 hours, but actually, they've been gone a whole year. Jackie is going mad with worry and mickey has been arrested suspected of her murder. While on the roof contemplating their time together, The Doctor and Rose witness a spaceship flying over and crash into the Thames. Straight after crashing through Big Ben clock tower. After a while, The Doctor has a feeling that there's more to this than meets the eye. After a little investigating, he discovers that this ship is just a decoy ship that actually originated from Earth. The pilot was a genetically engineered pig, being held prisoner and forced to be locked inside until the crash. After a scared creatures walks the morgue hallway, it is mistakenly shot and killed by one of the army security guards. Prime Minister Margaret Blaine, extra-terrestrial expert, Joseph Green, and Army Chief Oliver Charles are called in to negotiate a deal and work towards a peace treaty with the alien life forms suspected to come from the wreckage. The group who sent the decoy ships and are impersonating the Prime Minister and Army Chief are Slitheen. A gassy alien race who compress themselves into human "skin suits".

Season 1 Episode 5 First aired: 23 April 2005 "World War Three"

The Doctor learns that the Slitheen are not invading Earth, but rather raiding it for commercial profit. The Slitheen address the nation, obviously in their human "skin suits" claiming there is a threat to national security and request that the United Nations release the nuclear activation code to them so they can strike down a dangerous ship hovering over London. The Doctor speculates they will fire at other countries instead and start World War III, the Slitheen explain that they will sell the irradiated remains of Earth as cheap spaceship fuel. Meanwhile, another Slitheen breaks into Mickey's flat where household vinegar is used to destroy it. It's known that the Slitheen are highly allergic to Vinegar, causing a chain reaction in their bodies and causing them to implode. The Doctor helps Mickey to fire a non-nuclear missile at 10 Downing Street to destroy the Slitheen. The Doctor, Rose, and MP Harriet Jones (Flydale North) manage to hide in a reinforced room and survive. Meanwhile, the Doctor has earned Jackie's trust and she allows Rose to continue travelling with him.

Season 1 Episode 6 - First Aired: 30 April 2005 "Dalek"

The TARDIS is drawn off its original course by a strange signal and end up near Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, in an underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten. Henry van Statten is an extremely rich collector of alien artefacts with one very distinctive and unique exhibition. The Doctor locates the exhibit and is horrified to discover that this artefact is a survivor of the Time War. The species is known as a Dalek. This Dalek is the last survivor of a race of genetically manipulated mutants bound on purging the universe of all non-Dalek life, not the mention, The Doctor's greatest foe. One of Van Statten's employees, Adam Mitchell, leads Rose to the Dalek, but she takes pity on it and touches it, allowing it to absorb her DNA and become active. The Dalek breaks out of the chains and prison cell and goes on a little killing spree. The Dalek kills all of the soldiers before catching up with Rose, Adam and the Doctor. Rose becomes trapped with the Dalek, but it spares her life as it has gained sympathy from Rose's DNA and destroys itself. As the Doctor and Rose leave, Adam boards the TARDIS to avoid the closure of van Statten's Vault.

Season 1 Episode 7 - First Aired: 7 May 2005 "The Long Game"

The Doctor, Rose, and Adam travel to the year 200,000 and land on the space station Satellite 5, which controls all journalism over the Earth. Ever since the satellite began broadcasting, something has held the human race's attitude and technology back. The Editor invites the Doctor and Rose to the elite Floor 500, where he holds them captive, explaining that he and a creature known as the Jagrafess have made, through Satellite 5, the "Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire" a place where the news has installed fear in the human race, keeping them in a closed society. Meanwhile, Adam has installed a port in his head and is transmitting all the knowledge on Satellite 5 to his parents' answering machine at home. The journalist Cathica redirects the heat to Floor 500, allowing Rose and the Doctor to escape, while the Editor and the Jagrafess are destroyed by the heat. The Doctor is furious at Adam and returns him to his house, destroying the answering machine and banishing Adam from the TARDIS.

Season 1 Episode 8 - First Aired: 14 May 2005 "Father's Day

The Doctor asks Rose where she would like to go. She asks him to go to the day her father was killed in a hit and run accident. She witnesses the accident, but instead of observing the accident, she prevents it and creates a paradox. A Paradox is a rupture in time caused when something is altered and changes the future cause of events. Flying creatures known as Reapers appear and attempt to treat the wound in time and space by consuming everyone in it. The guests at the wedding of Jackie and Pete's friends hide in a church while the Doctor tries to summon the TARDIS inside. Jackie accuses Pete of having another daughter, and to prove that Rose is the same as the baby Rose, he puts the baby in the older Rose's arms, causing a bigger paradox, and the Doctor is taken by the Reapers. Pete realises he must die for everything to be repaired, and throws himself in front of the car, which has been appearing and reappearing around the corner of the church, and soon enough, causing the Doctor to return.

Season 1 Episode 9 - First Aired 21 May 2005 "The Empty Child"

Chasing a metal cylinder marked as 'dangerous' through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Rose land in London, 1941, during the Blitz. Rose follows a chases a young boy in a gas mask who repeatedly asks "Are You My Mummy" on a rooftop. She grabs a rope attached to a barrage balloon that rises into the air. A vortex opens around Rose as she levitates in the air. She gets dragged into an invisible ship, the pilot is later named as Captain Jack Harkness (previously a time agent, now a con man). He, all of a sudden, asks Rose if she would like to buy a valuable warship. The Doctor talks with a young woman named Nancy, who knows the boy who is connected to a bomb-like object that recently fell. She directs the Doctor to a hospital where Dr Constantine (Played by Richard Wilson) shows him patients with injuries and gas masks identical to the boy's. Nancy reveals the child is her brother, Jamie. Rose and Jack arrive in time to save the Doctor as Constantine begins to transform like his patients.

Season 1 Episode 10 - First Aired: 28 May 2005 "The Doctor Dances"

Jack explains that he sent the metal object through the time vortex to attract "Time Agents" to this time period, where he would have them pay for the object, but before they could receive it, a German bomb would fall on it. Jack claims that it is a perfectly safe and "empty" old medical transport, but the Doctor is suspicious. At the site where the transport is held, the Doctor realises that it once contained nano-genes that are able to heal wounds, and deduces that the nano-genes attempted to heal Jamie, but thought that all humans should have similar injuries and gas masks. Nancy claims it is all her fault as she is actually Jamie's mother, which she admits in front of the child. As they hug, the nano-genes identify Nancy's DNA as being his mother's and reverse Jamie's transformation so that they resemble each other; the rest is done to all the others who had been converted. Jack captures the bomb that would have fallen on the site and the Doctor and Rose rescue him before it explodes, inviting him on the TARDIS.

Season 1 Episode 11 - First Aired: 4 June 2005 "Boom Town"

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack visit Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS at the rift, and Mickey meets them there. They discover that the Slitheen impersonating Margaret Blaine is now the mayor of Cardiff, and they capture her, suspicious of what she has done. The Doctor sees that she has created a nuclear power plant designed to open the rift and destroy Earth, and a device she would use to flee. Margaret objects to being taken back to her home planet, as she is considered a criminal there. After several failed attempts in killing the Doctor, Margaret requests to be taken to another planet. Jack sees the opportunity to use Margaret's extrapolator to speed up recharging the TARDIS, but this proves to be a trap as it was meant to send the nearest alien power source to the rift. As an earthquake strikes Cardiff, Margaret looks into the heart of the TARDIS, which gives her a second chance at life, restoring her back into an egg.

Season 1 Episode 12 - First Aired: 11 June 2005 "Bad Wolf"

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack wake up from amnesia into various reality television and game shows; the Doctor is in a Big Brother-like house, Rose is a contestant on The Weakest Link, where those eliminated are thought to be disintegrated by the Anne Droid, and Jack is on a What Not to Wear-like show where two female robots offer to give contestants a new image. The Doctor and Jack escape from their shows and find they are on Satellite 5, one hundred years after the Doctor's last visit, where it is run by the Badwolf Corporation and known as the Game Station. The Doctor, Jack, and Big Brother contestant Lynda find Rose as she is disintegrated on The Weakest Link, and they travel to Floor 500, where Jack figures out the contestants are not disintegrated, but rather transmitted to a point in space. They learn that Rose has arrived on a ship containing Daleks, and the Doctor vows to rescue her and destroy the Daleks, which prompt the fleet of almost half a million Daleks to begin invading Earth.

Season 1 Episode 13 - First Aired: 18 June 2005 "The Parting of Ways"

The Doctor and Jack take the TARDIS to Rose and return her to the Game Station after confronting the Dalek Emperor. The Doctor prepares to destroy the Daleks using a Delta Wave, and tricks Rose into entering the TARDIS; outside the TARDIS, he uses his sonic screwdriver to send her back home to safety. The Daleks invade the Game Station, killing Lynda and Jack among many others. Regaining her composure at home, Rose notices the words "Bad Wolf" around the area, and realises it is a message. Mickey pries open the heart of the TARDIS and Rose establishes contact. Empowered by the Time Vortex, Rose returns to the Doctor, where she uses the vortex's power to destroy all the Daleks, resurrect Jack, and scatter the words "Bad Wolf" throughout time and space to lead herself here. To prevent the power from killing Rose, the Doctor absorbs it by kissing her; she wakes up in the TARDIS just as the time energy is destroying the Doctor's cells, causing him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor, who instantly offers to take Rose to the planet Barcelona.

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