Doctor Who (series 1)
Episodes
Unlike the classic era of the series that ended in 1989, the plan with the new series was to have each episode as a standalone story, with no serials.

Doctor Who (series 1)

Section Title: Episodes
Table Section Text: Unlike the classic era of the series that ended in 1989, the plan with the new series was to have each episode as a standalone story, with no serials.

Story	Episode	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI

157	1	"Rose"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	26 March 2005	1.1	10.81	76

In the basement of the shop where Rose Tyler works, plastic mannequins begin to attack her. The Ninth Doctor rescues her and they flee the building, which he blows up.

158	2	"The End of the World"	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	2 April 2005	1.2	7.97	76

The Doctor takes Rose to the year five billion, where they land on a space station orbiting the Earth named Platform One.

159	3	"The Unquiet Dead"	Euros Lyn	Mark Gatiss	9 April 2005	1.3	8.86	80

The Doctor and Rose travel back to Cardiff in 1869, where a funeral parlour, run by Gabriel Sneed with his clairvoyant servant girl Gwyneth, contains corpses which have been animated by a mysterious blue vapour.

160a	4	"Aliens of London"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	16 April 2005	1.4	7.63	82

The Doctor takes Rose back to her home, but they arrive a year after she left. Her mother Jackie is furious with the Doctor, and Mickey has been suspected of murdering Rose.

160b	5	"World War Three"	Keith Boak	Russell T Davies	23 April 2005	1.5	7.98	81

The Doctor learns that the Slitheen are not invading Earth, but rather raiding it for commercial gain. The Slitheen claim there is a threat to national security and request that the United Nations release the nuclear activation code, so they can strike down a dangerous ship hovering over London.

161	6	"Dalek"	Joe Ahearne	Robert Shearman	30 April 2005	1.6	8.63	84

The TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal and Rose and the Doctor end up near Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, in an underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten, a rich collector of alien artefacts.

162	7	"The Long Game"	Brian Grant	Russell T Davies	7 May 2005	1.7	8.01	81

The Doctor, Rose, and Adam travel to the year 200,000 and land on the space station Satellite 5, which controls journalism.

163	8	"Father's Day"	Joe Ahearne	Paul Cornell	14 May 2005	1.8	8.06	83

Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to the day her father Pete Tyler died in a hit and run accident, but when she saves him, she creates a paradox.

164a	9	"The Empty Child"	James Hawes	Steven Moffat	21 May 2005	1.9	7.11	84

Chasing a metal cylinder marked as "dangerous" through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Rose land in London in 1941, during the Blitz.

164b	10	"The Doctor Dances"	James Hawes	Steven Moffat	28 May 2005	1.10	6.86	85

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.

165	11	"Boom Town"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	4 June 2005	1.11	7.68	82

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.

166a	12	"Bad Wolf"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	11 June 2005	1.12	6.81	86

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.

166b	13	"The Parting of the Ways"	Joe Ahearne	Russell T Davies	18 June 2005	1.13	6.91	89

The Doctor and Jack take the TARDIS to Rose and return her to the Game Station after confronting the Dalek Emperor.

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The Doctor Who series premiere was watched by 10.81 million viewers.

final_sentence: The Doctor Who series premiere was watched by 10.81 million viewers.