Jackie Tyler Jacqueline Andrea Suzette " Jackie " Tyler ( née Prentice ) , born 1 February 1967 , was a resident of early 21st century London and the mother of Rose Tyler . She lived with Rose in a council flat on the Powell Estate . Jackie was a single mother . Biography . Prior to meeting the Ninth Doctor . Jacqueline Prentice was the daughter of Rose ' s Grandad Prentice . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) Her birthday was 1 February , and , as with her parallel universe self , was born forty years before 2007 , making her year of birth 1967 . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) She had an uncle named Tony who told her to " never punch a gift horse in the throat . " ( AUDIO : " Retail Therapy " ) As a child , she loved " The Magic Roundabout " . ( COMIC : " Sin - Eaters " ) At some point , Jackie married Pete Tyler . ( TV : " Father ' s Day " ) Jackie gave birth to a daughter called Rose , who was born " circa " 1986 . ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " , " Dalek " ) In 1987 , an older Rose travelled with the Doctor to meet Jackie and Pete . She had had an idyllic image of her parents ' marriage . The relationship she saw was stormy . Their fights were short - lived and it was clear Jackie and Pete loved each other despite the arguments . After Pete ' s death , Jackie told Rose about her father . Jackie was unaware that her memories of the day Pete died were altered when Rose changed history . Jackie remembered a young woman kneeling over Pete ' s body . She had no idea that it was Rose from the future . ( TV : " Father ' s Day " ) On 1 January 2005 , Rose voiced dismay about Jackie ' s dead - end relationship with Jimbo . Jackie responded that she thought she would not find anyone better at her age , but Rose reassured her that she would find someone one day . This was witnessed by the Tenth Doctor just before his impending regeneration . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) On or before 5 March of that year , Jackie took a telephone call from Rose who she believed was working that day . From Rose ' s perspective however , her department store had already been destroyed by Auton s and she had run off with the Ninth Doctor . The Doctor modified Rose ' s mobile to let her phone anyone from anywhere in time and space . Jackie was unknowingly sending her voice into outer space and nearly five billion years into the future . ( TV : " The End of the World " ) Meeting the Ninth Doctor . Jackie suggested to Rose after the destruction of Henrik ' s that she get compensation . Jackie first met the Ninth Doctor when Rose invited him in to talk about the Auton attack on Henrik ' s . She flirted with him to no avail . During the final phase of the attempted Auton invasion , Autons attacked Jackie while she was out shopping at Queen ' s Arcade . She was saved when Rose destroyed the Nestene Consciousness . ( TV : " Rose " ) When Rose left with the Doctor in his TARDIS , she intended to be back within hours . When Rose returned to London , although it had only been a few days for her , a year had elapsed on Earth due to a miscalculation by the Doctor . Out of her mind with worry , Jackie had organised a poster campaign for her missing daughter . She even accused Rose ' s boyfriend Mickey Smith of murdering her . When Rose returned , Jackie was furious with the Doctor for taking her away . She also could not understand why Rose would not tell her where she had been , but learned the truth when she saw the TARDIS . She contacted an emergency helpline . This summoned UNIT , who escorted the Doctor and Rose to Downing Street . Sip Fel - Fotch Passameer - Day Slitheen , who was disguised as a police man , attacked Jackie due to her association with the Doctor . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) The Doctor , having remotely electrocuted Sip Fel - Fotch with an electrified ID badge , prevented him from killing Rose . Mickey rescued Jackie and escaped with her to his flat . Sip Fel - Fotch tracked down Mickey and Jackie and began breaking into Mickey ' s flat . With the help of the Doctor , Jackie used all of the vinegar she could find in the flat to kill the calcium - based lifeform that was weakened by his compression field . Jackie began to understand how dangerous Rose ' s new life was when the Doctor ended the Slitheen ' s plans to make the Earth into a piece of cheap , radioactive starship fuel by calling down a missile strike on 10 Downing Street where he and Rose were trapped . Rose survived the attack and rushed home to let her know she made it . Jackie offered Rose to invite the Doctor for dinner , but he refused . When ready to go travelling again , Rose promised that , because the TARDIS was a time machine , she could travel to the end of the universe and back and it would have only been ten seconds . However , after the TARDIS dematerialised , Rose did not return in ten seconds and Jackie walked off . ( TV : " World War Three " ) Jackie nearly fell for a scheme to take human s " on holiday " to fight in an alien war . A thug who lived in the council estate mugged her and took the " winning ticket " that qualified her for the vacation . Jackie ended up in hospital , but her assailant fared worse . He took her place as a remote - controlled soldier on an alien planet and was killed . ( PROSE : " Winner Takes All " ) The time - lost Neanderthal Das flirted with Jackie at a London nightclub before Captain Jack Harkness steered him away from her . Jack and Jackie did not meet at this time . Jack scanned Jackie ' s DNA with his wrist device and identified her as Rose Tyler ' s mother . He had heard that she " wouldn ' t appreciate any more Doctor - related weirdness in her life " . ( PROSE : " Only Human " ) Rose used the " superphone " to call Jackie from a human colony world in the future . Jackie complained Rose had not let her know she had been in Cardiff during her recent visit to the city . ( PROSE : " The Stealers of Dreams " ) When the Doctor sent Rose back to her own time to escape a Dalek attack , Jackie was glad to have her daughter home . She said she loved the Doctor for sending Rose out of danger . However , she eventually helped Rose open the TARDIS console , enabling her to return and help the Doctor . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) Jackie began dating a fruit vendor named Howard . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) Trusting the Tenth Doctor . Jackie was one of the first people to encounter the Doctor after he regenerated into his tenth incarnation . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) While the Doctor , Rose and Mickey were on the Sycorax ship , Jackie was briefly visited by the Third Doctor , Jo Grant and Captain Mike Yates , who had been answering a distress call they had received in the TARDIS . The " distress call " was actually a transmission made by Prime minister Harriet Jones . Although Jackie initially assumed that the Doctor she knew had changed again and Jo and Mike were the ' regenerated ' Rose and Mickey , she soon came to understand that the Third Doctor was a younger version of the Doctor she knew . She was briefly concerned about the implications of Jo travelling with the Doctor , wondering if this meant that Rose was just the latest in a long line of companions rather than someone unique and concerned about what had happened to the others who had gone before . Studying Jackie ' s Christmas tree , the Doctor was attacked and nearly suffocated by one of the sentient ornaments . Jackie was able to free him by feeding it Christmas pudding and brandy instead . Using the internet , the Doctor discovered that UNIT ' s secret HQ was no longer a building market with a sign reading " UNIT Headquarters , " and that instead it had been moved underneath the Tower of London . As the group left in the TARDIS , Jackie insisted on joining them to help take her mind off of Rose ' s predicament . At the Tower , they were denied entrance by a Beefeater , who believed the Doctor to be one of the several imposters who were attempting to steal classified information by pretending to be the Doctor . Before they could convince him that they were genuine , the Tenth Doctor was able to free those being controlled by the Sycorax . Returning to Jackie ' s flat , the group had a brief encounter with the Master , trapped by another killer Christmas tree decoration after following the Doctor to her flat . The Master had followed the Doctor to join the Sycorax in helping enslave the human population , but he agreed to leave after being let go . Before he left , the Doctor assured Jackie and Jo that he would never make anyone leave him ; and that all of his companions left him instead . Looking forwards to finally meeting Jackie for the first time , the Doctor briefly flirted with her before taking off in the TARDIS once again . ( PROSE : " The Christmas Inversion " ) Following this encounter , her relationship with the Tenth Doctor was warmer than his earlier incarnation ; she allowed the Doctor to attend Christmas dinner with Rose and her . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) When the Doctor and Rose met Queen Victoria , Rose jokingly claimed , after he told her that the Koh - i - Noor , which Victoria possessed , was worth " the wages of the entire planet for a whole week " , that Jackie would fight the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform with her bare hands for it ; the Doctor added that she would win . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) Jackie posed as the Doctor ' s new girlfriend and kiss ed him in front of Rose in order to drive out the jealousy - eating Iagnon from her . She later kissed him again just to make sure there wasn ' t more than one creature inside her . ( COMIC : " The Green - Eyed Monster " ) Jackie comforted Rose after she returned from a parallel world where Pete was alive and Jackie had been turned into a Cyberman . Mickey had decided to stay in that world , and the Doctor had to seal off the world , so Rose could never visit . ( TV : " The Age of Steel " ) She decided to visit her school friend Marge Ellmore in Norwich . When the Zaross invaded she called Rose . She told Marge that Rose was more than a cashier . She was taken by the Zaross to their mothership , where she was to be made up as a rebel with Jess Ellmore . She stole one of the weapons on the ship , but it turned out to be a prop . She then helped the Doctor in his plans . ( AUDIO : " Infamy of the Zaross " ) She befriended Elton Pope , a young man searching for the Doctor , unaware he was using her to get to the Doctor . Their relationship progressed to her forcing Elton to take off his clothes . The proceedings were interrupted by a call from Rose . Jackie discovered a photograph of Rose in Elton ' s coat and realised the truth . She angrily told Elton she would protect the Doctor and Rose , no matter what . She later told Rose about what Elton had done . Rose and the Doctor tracked down Elton so Rose could yell at him , leading to saving his life from a monstrous alien . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) Jackie accepted the Doctor as part of her life , showering him with kiss es upon one of his returns with Rose . In 2007 , Jackie was one of many fooled into believing the ghost s appearing around the world were deceased relatives , in her case , her father . She was hostile to the Doctor ' s scepticism about this . While the Doctor investigated a ghost sighting , Jackie told her daughter how she feared this life of not settling down , and always travelling , because it had caused her to change radically from the girl who used to work in a shop . Rose had not enjoyed a fulfilling experience in her old job at Henrik ' s , and defended that she had changed for the better . Jackie supposed this was true , but seemed distressed that she had also worked in a shop and Rose ' s negative reaction was a jab at her own welfare . Rose insisted she didn ' t mean it that way , and Jackie replied she knew what Rose really meant to say . Although it upset Rose , Jackie confronted her with the belief that if she died , Rose would have no reason to come back home to Earth and stay travelling forever , changing more and more until she no longer resembled her daughter , even to the point she forgot how to be human . This caused Rose to sober up and think about having a more stable life . Jackie found herself aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialised and arrived at Torchwood headquarters , warning the Doctor if they ended up on Mars , she ' d kill him . When Torchwood surrounded the TARDIS in a hostile manner , the Doctor initiated a plan to observe their background operations . Rose was sent out to reconnoitre . Jackie impersonated Rose when she and the Doctor were captured by Torchwood . The Doctor ' s unflattering remarks about his companion ageing by fifty - seven years after looking into the Heart of the TARDIS and being delusional about her real age of forty earned him an icy stare . The humour did not last long , when a major conflict spilled out inside Torchwood ' s compound . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) A new home . Jackie found herself in the middle of the Battle of Canary Wharf . Cybermen from an alternate Earth and Dalek s battled over Earth . Jackie thought she was reunited with the ghost of her dead husband , Pete , only to learn that it was a version from the alternate Earth whose own Jackie had been assimilated by the Cybermen . They almost immediately began a relationship . Soon after , Jackie and Rose had to escape to the alternate world , with no apparent way to return to their Earth . Jackie and Rose were declared dead on their Earth , victims of the battle . On the parallel Earth , however , Jackie gave birth to a son , Tony Tyler . She also had to deal with comforting Rose , who was emotionally devastated by her separation from the Doctor , with whom she had fallen in love . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) Fighting the Daleks . Over the next few years , Rose worked to find a way back to the Doctor to warn him about the impending collapse of reality . She returned to her original Earth after a detour into an alternate timeline . Soon after , Jackie and Mickey also returned to their original Earth to help Rose . One of the first people Jackie encountered was Sarah Jane Smith . Jackie and Mickey arrived as Sarah Jane was about to be killed by two Daleks . Jackie killed one of the Daleks while Mickey killed the other . Now a more self - assured , less self - absorbed individual , Jackie worked alongside Sarah Jane , Mickey and Jack Harkness to rescue the Doctor and save Earth . While Mickey disagreed with Sarah Jane ' s plan to surrender to get to the Crucible , Jackie immediately agreed , knowing that the Doctor and Rose would be there . Jackie , Mickey and Sarah Jane were made test subjects for the reality bomb . Sarah Jane and Mickey escaped while Jackie comforted a fallen prisoner . In the nick of time , Jackie ' s teleport recharged and she escaped to safety . In the ensuing battle , Jackie was reunited with Rose and met Martha Jones and Donna Noble . When Earth was towed back to where it belonged , Jackie didn ' t pilot the TARDIS along with everyone else . The Doctor specifically told her , " No , no Jackie , not you , just stand back " . Afterwards , Mickey said his goodbyes to her . He wasn ' t returning to the parallel world . There was nothing left for him there and he said that he was going to miss her the most . Jackie embraced Mickey in a final goodbye . Following the defeat of Davros , the Doctor returned Jackie to the alternate Earth to reunite her with her husband and son . Jackie couldn ' t resist winding up the Doctor one last time by making him believe she had named her son " Doctor " . She watched as the Doctor ' s clone agreed to stay behind and begin a life with Rose and the original Doctor departed for the last time . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Undated events . At some point , Jackie called Rose on the TARDIS , worrying again about her travelling with the Ninth Doctor . ( COMIC : " Mystery Date " ) Personality . Jackie had a very strong personality . While she cared greatly for Rose , she didn ' t like the Ninth Doctor very much . She had no problem speaking her mind and didn ' t mind hitting someone ; she struck the Doctor . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) Over time she grew to like and respect the Doctor , especially after he stuck to his word and sent Rose back home safely from the Daleks , ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) and increasingly in his tenth incarnation . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " , " Army of Ghosts " ) While Jackie appeared flighty at times , she loved her daughter and was concerned for her safety , given the life the Doctor led . Her attitude towards the Doctor softened from hostility to grudging acceptance , but she continued to worry about Rose and awaited her daughter ' s return . The Doctor made an effort to return Rose home periodically , even if it seemed almost as if the whole purpose was to let Rose get some laundry done . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) She did not react well to terrifying situations . While running from Cybermen , she was so frightened she could barely tell the Doctor where she was . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) She was reluctant to help someone in need . She needed a lot of convincing to help Rose and Mickey out with their plan to save the Doctor , although she ultimately provided the solution to their problem . ( TV : " World War Three " ) This particular trait was less prominent later on . When she was unable to save a woman from Davros ' reality bomb , she voiced deep regret . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Being alone while Rose was travelling with the Doctor took its toll on Jackie ; when she met Elton Pope , she flirted with and attempted to seduce him before chatting to Rose over the phone brought her back to her senses . In her words , " I just go a bit mad . " When she learned he was just using her to get to the Doctor , she yelled at him and told him that it was hard for her to have to stay behind and not hear from Rose . She said that she would protect the Doctor for as long as she could . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) In the year in which she thought Rose was missing , she blamed Mickey for her disappearance . She started a hate campaign and turned the rest of the estate against him . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) She was horrified and embarrassed to be rescued by him during the Slitheen invasion . ( TV : " World War Three " ) Later , they formed a close friendship . When Mickey returned to the normal universe for good , he told Jackie she was the one he was going to miss most — more so than Rose . Jackie hugged Mickey and even seemed to understand and sympathsise with his choice . When she returned to Earth from the parallel Earth to rescue her daughter from the Dalek s , Jackie evinced more self - confidence , even destroying a Dalek threatening Sarah Jane , but the Doctor still didn ' t let her work the TARDIS controls . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Jackie went on dates with a number of men , ( TV : " The End of Time " , " The Parting of the Ways " , " The Christmas Invasion " ) even attempting to seduce those she was attracted to , ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) but clearly never stopped loving Pete . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) When she asked for alcohol , Mickey told Jackie , " I ' ve seen you when you ' ve had a few . This ain ' t time for a conga . " ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) Behind the scenes . In Russell T Davies ' initial pitch for the revival of " Doctor Who " , Rose Tyler ' s mother was originally named Judy . ( DWMSE 11 )