History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E1Rose

* {{Blooper}}: When the Doctor pulls the arm off the Auton in the shop's lift, the arm is solid plastic. Later, when Mickey tosses it into the rubbish bin, the arm is hollow. Later, when it tries to strangle the Doctor back Rose's flat, it's solid again.

* ContinuitySnarl: When the Doctor pulls the arm off the Auton in the shop's lift, the arm is solid plastic. Later, when Mickey tosses it into the rubbish bin, the arm is hollow. Later, when it tries to strangle the Doctor back Rose's flat, it's solid again.

-->''"[[EstablishingSeriesMoment Run.]]"''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor checking his appearance in the mirror and making remarks about it implies that he may have [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor recently regenerated]].

Meanwhile, Mickey has been eaten by a plastic wheelie bin, which spits out a plastic copy of him who, despite looking like a life-sized Ken doll, manages to fool Rose into believing he's the genuine article. The two drive to a pizza place, badly, where the fake Mickey is obsessed with the Doctor and keeps repeating the same words, babe, sugar, baby, sweetheart. The Doctor tracks them down and causes the fake Mickey to fall apart through the power of dodgy CGI and propwork (just because they have a bigger budget now doesn't mean the show's immune to laughably terrible effects; at this point it's part of the appeal). They escape into the TARDIS, which has both had a hell of a makeover and gotten a lot more cramped since we last saw it in 1996 (incidentally bringing it closer to the size it had throughout seasons 1-26; blame the lack of a movie-sized budget per episode). The Doctor tries to fly to the plastic people HQ but fails. He and Rose have a half-angry half-curious all-expository argument, among other things featuring the Doctor getting defensive about his OopNorth accent. They discover that the base is under the London Eye[[note]]a massive Ferris wheel, for those not in the know[[/note]], go down there, and see the plastic controller, which the Doctor calls the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Nestene]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Consciousness]], who's gone from looking like dodgy tentacles in a box to being a blob of lava with a face. The real Mickey's there, freaking out. The Doctor tries to talk the Nestene out of it; except the Doctor has been involved in something big and terrible that he couldn't stop from destroying their nutrient planets, nor any other worlds that were destroyed in the conflict — which has made the Nestene ''extremely'' unwilling to trust him. The Nestene discovers the anti-plastic the Doctor has, goes crazy and activates all the plastic people (also known as the Autons, but they aren’t identified as such in this episode) in a repeat/homage to its debut appearance in 1970. Jackie, who's out shopping, is attacked by evil plastic robot brides. Clive, also out shopping, gets a moment to enjoy seeing his theories verified before the verification of his theories shoots him with its ArmCannon.

'''The Doctor:''' ...Oh! Oh! [[{{Catchphrase}} Fantastic!]]

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The sonic screwdriver has a visible effect when used on the lock that never gets used again in the revival series. RTD stated this is because it would've eaten into their budget significantly had every shot of the screwdriver being used been modified to use the same effect.

* EntryPoint: Clive's webpage, one of the Alternate Reality sites for the first Creator/RussellTDavies era, is shown on-screen,

This story is perhaps the most significant episode of ''Doctor Who'' since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the very first one]] back in 1963, owing to the titanic hiatus that preceded it, with the episode essentially serving as a new jumping-on point. The show hadn't aired a single new episode since [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie in 1996]] and hadn't actually ''been'' a television show since being cancelled upon the conclusion of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] in December 1989, over fifteen years prior. Meanwhile, public memory on ''Doctor Who'' had grown heavily stereotyped against its favour over the decades, with the general public remembering the show as a {{camp}} and {{narm}}-heavy affair full of dodgy sets, strange music and monsters made of bubble wrap and tin foil. As a result, this story not only had to live up to the expectations of fans who'd been waiting for ''Doctor Who'' to be UnCancelled since UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was still prime minister, but it also had to crush persistent negative perceptions of the 1963-1989 series and prove that ''Doctor Who'' could be relevant for and appealing to the new millennium.

They arrive near home, where Mickey goes into [[HeroicBSOD pseudo-PTSD]] from being the Nestene's prisoner. The Doctor offers to take Rose on his travels across the universe. She declines. He vanishes. And apparently doesn't come back for a good century in his time (a playground for writers in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse expanded universe of the series]]) before a pressing thought hits that he forgot to tell her something. Then he appears again and says, "Did I mention, it also travels in time?" That's right, a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' moment from across time and space.

[[Recap/DoctorWho Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays 13]] ]]-]]]

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, this story is perhaps the most significant episode of ''Doctor Who'' since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the very first one]] back in 1963, owing to the titanic hiatus that preceded it, with the episode essentially serving as a new jumping-on point. The show hadn't aired a single new episode since [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie in 1996]] and hadn't actually ''been'' a television show since being cancelled upon the conclusion of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] in December 1989, over fifteen years prior. Meanwhile, public memory on ''Doctor Who'' had grown heavily stereotyped against its favour over the decades, with the general public remembering the show as a {{camp}} and {{narm}}-heavy affair full of dodgy sets, strange music and monsters made of bubble wrap and tin foil. As a result, this story not only had to live up to the expectations of fans who'd been waiting for ''Doctor Who'' to be UnCancelled since UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was still prime minister, but it also had to crush persistent negative perceptions of the 1963-1989 series and prove that ''Doctor Who'' could be relevant for and appealing to the new millennium.

[[Recap/DoctorWho Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild 9]]| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays 13]] ]]-]]]

'''Original air date:''' March 26, 2005

'''Production code:''' 1.1

'''The Doctor:''' Nice to meet you, Rose. ''Run for your life''!

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Played with when Rose meets Clive, who has information about the Doctor (whom she has kept mysteriously bumping into). Initially, he starts off presenting his theories about why the Doctor keeps popping up in different parts of history in a calm and reasonable fashion and presents a relatively plausible theory that she'd be likely to believe: they're all different men who are related and sharing a code name. Then, as he gets a bit carried away with having an audience, he starts getting a bit more worked up and intense, until he's convinced that Rose believes him fully and so blurts out his real theory (which is quite close to the truth): that they're same man, and the Doctor is an immortal alien. Unfortunately for him, he hadn't quite won Rose over before this, who leaves believing that he's a nutcase.

* WhoShotJFK: Clive reveals that the Doctor was present at the assassination, with the tone of his voice suggesting he believed the Doctor something to do with it. It's never mentioned again, but the implication from the photo (and given what we know about him) is that the Doctor's curiosity, once again, got the better of him and he was ''actually'' there to find out for himself what was going on. The Expanded Universe has actually gone into JFK as well, with one story claiming he was assassinated by a time-traveller from 1996, though that was retconned in the 2016 addition to the book.

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[[caption-width-right:350:...aaand we're back, after an intermission the size of several Bibles!]]

* TooDumbToLive: As the Autons are rampaging through the shopping centre shooting everything in sight, and everyone else is running around screaming, Jackie just stands and stares for several seconds as if she's unsure what to make of it all, before [[DelayedOhCrap finally deciding it's dangerous and making a break for it]].

Meet everygirl [[Characters/DoctorWhoRoseTyler Rose Tyler]], played by Creator/BilliePiper: she has an overprotective mum , a dead dad, a nice but aimless boyfriend, and a dead-end job in a department store. In short, ThisLoserIsYou, only probably a bit prettier.

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, this story is perhaps the most significant episode of ''Doctor Who'' since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the very first one]] back in 1963, owing to the titanic hiatus that preceded it, as well as serving as a new jumping-on point. The show hadn't aired a single new episode since [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie in 1996]] and hadn't actually ''been'' a television show since being cancelled upon the conclusion of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] in December 1989, over fifteen years prior. Meanwhile, public memory on ''Doctor Who'' had grown heavily stereotyped against its favour over the decades, with the general public remembering the show as a {{camp}} and {{narm}}-heavy affair full of dodgy sets, strange music and monsters made of bubble wrap and tin foil. As a result, this story not only had to live up to the expectations of fans who'd been waiting for ''Doctor Who'' to be UnCancelled since UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was still prime minister, but it also had to crush persistent negative perceptions of the 1963-1989 series and prove that ''Doctor Who'' could be relevant for and appealing to the new millennium.

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, this story is perhaps the most significant episode of ''Doctor Who'' since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the very first one]] back in 1963, owing to the titanic hiatus that preceded it. The show hadn't aired a single new episode since [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie in 1996]] and hadn't actually ''been'' a television show since being cancelled upon the conclusion of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] in December 1989, over fifteen years prior. Meanwhile, public memory on ''Doctor Who'' had grown heavily stereotyped against its favour over the decades, with the general public remembering the show as a {{camp}} and {{narm}}-heavy affair full of dodgy sets, strange music and monsters made of bubble wrap and tin foil. As a result, this story not only had to live up to the expectations of fans who'd been waiting for ''Doctor Who'' to be UnCancelled since UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was still prime minister, but it also had to crush persistent negative perceptions of the 1963-1989 series and prove that ''Doctor Who'' could be relevant for and appealing to the new millennium.

The one where it all began — erm, [[{{Revival}} continued]] — again.

One evening, after her workplace closes, Rose is asked to hand lottery money to the chief electrician. Unable to find him, she gets mysteriously locked in a room full of mannequins, which hang around being creepy and then attack. Rose is backed up to a wall, facing death-by-mannequin, when her hand is grabbed by a stranger who yells [[DontAskJustRun "RUN!"]] and we're into the first chase of the new series.[[note]]Yes, for anyone wondering, the revival series is a continuation of the classic series, not a {{reboot}}. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion This would later be made explicit]] in the show itself the following season.[[/note]]

It ends sort of abruptly when the pair make it into a lift, followed so closely by a mannequin that the stranger ([[Characters/DoctorWhoNinthDoctor the Doctor]]; it's not like no-one saw it coming) can pull one of its plastic arms off. Rose's reasoning skills impress the Doctor enough that he asks for her name, introduces himself, and advises Rose to run like hell before the bomb he's going to plant goes off.

* AdaptationExpansion: The 2018 [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target novelisation]] adds a lot of scenes that add additional worldbuilding and [[CallForward Call-Forwards]].
** The novelisation includes the scene from the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] where the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] visits Rose Tyler in 2005 right before his regeneration.
** Mickey's mother, named Odessa, father, and grandmother are expanded upon. Three of Mickey's mates live in his flat and they form the [[ArcWords Bad Wolf]] band. One is a trans woman named Sally Salter, the others are two young men named Mook and Patrique who are attracted to each other.
** Rose finds a photo of the [[Creator/TomBaker Fourth Doctor]] while searching for the Doctor on the Internet; afterwards, Clive shows Rose pictures of incarnations other than the Ninth Doctor: He seems to know the first thirteen canon regenerations of the Doctor, except the War Doctor. Rose is too focused on the photo of the Ninth Doctor to look at Clive's pictures of "a man with two suits, brown and blue", causing her to not recognize that she's met the Tenth Doctor already. The photos Rose sees include:
*** "an [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor old man]] with white hair and a black cape" in front of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines a War Machine]]. (Clive also states that WOTAN invented the Internet while describing the First Doctor's photo.)
*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor little man]] with a Beatles mop of hair [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks outside an antique shop]]."
*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirdDoctor man with a fabulous grey bouffant]] standing next to a small silver hovercraft."
*** "That [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor man in the long scarf again]], too small to be seen in detail because he was dwarfed by a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons silly forced-perspective puppet monster rising out of the Thames]]."
*** "A rather hot [[Characters/DoctorWhoFifthDoctor blond man]] at [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight Heathrow]]."
*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoSixthDoctor curly-haired man]] clearly on his way to a fancy-dress party dressed as a picnic."
*** "A [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric World War II photo]] of a [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor short man with an umbrella]] running with some soldiers."
*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoEighthDoctor dashing, Byronic man]] at [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the opening of some atomic clock thing]]."
*** "a [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor man with a fantastic jaw]], dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie."
*** "an [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor older, angry man]] in a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker brown caretaker's coat, holding a mop]]."
*** "a [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor blonde woman]] in braces running away from [[NoodleIncident a giant frog in front of Buckingham Palace]]."
*** Clive has photos of them in folders in incarnation order, seeing that the Ninth Doctor was in a box-file labelled "09". He also has two pictures of possible Doctors, including "a tall, bald black woman wielding a flaming sword" and "a young girl or boy in a hi-tech wheelchair with what looked like a robot dog at their side".
** Clive explains to Rose that his father was present during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Shoreditch Incident of 1963]]. It is revealed that he was exterminated by an Imperial Dalek when Clive was two years of age. This led Clive to begin his research into 'the Doctor'. Rose empathises with him and explains that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay her own father died when she was six months old]].
** The Auton invasion and massacre is expanded on in several different ways:
*** It's more gruesome and includes decapitations through the Autons forming their hands into sharp blades.
*** It's told from the point of view of several victims, including Rose's old boyfriend Jimmy Stone who was busy robbing his current girlfriend when he is killed. Donna Noble also has a cameo appearance, [[RunningGag naturally sleeping through the Auton massacre.]]
** The reason the Doctor blows up Henrik's is because the building is infested with plastic.
** Clive has two sons, Ben and Michael, instead of the one unnamed son on screen.
** The duplicate of Mickey threatens to kill the people in the restaurant if Rose doesn't tell him about the Doctor.
*** The duplicate also has one of his eyes pop out of his head during dinner with Rose.
** The Doctor identifies the Autons by name to Rose; on screen, the name is only used in the closing credits.
** The first Mickey that Rose finds in the Nestene lair is another duplicate, whom she lets slip about the anti-plastic to, ending the Doctor's negotiations.
** Instead of saying he fought in the war, the Doctor says he tried to stop it.
** Since the novelisation states Mickey's mother committed suicide, instead of Rose saying she'll have to tell his mother he's dead, Rose says she'll have to tell his friends, his uncle and the kids from the estate.
** Clive deliberately slows the Autons down so his family can escape.
** Jackie walks in on the Doctor and Rose [[NotWhatItLooksLike in a compromising position]] after their encounter with the Auton arm.

* AmbiguousGender: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a presumably future Doctor who's a wheelchair bound child of unknown gender.

* AscendedGlitch: The original broadcast contained an unintended error where TV presenter Graham Norton's voice was heard over a scene. The novelisation turns this into a non-video game Ascended Glitch with his voice being heard on a radio in the background.

* CelebrityCasualty: For the fifteenth anniversary, Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelization of the episode which is heavily implied to depict UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of said episode in 2005. As a result, the Johnson who became Prime Minister in 2019 is actually an Auton which absorbed his body to become a new entity.

* DeathByAdaptation: Rose mentions having to tell Mickey's mother if he died. The novelization says his mother killed herself and changes Rose's line to having to tell his friends.

* TheEndOrIsIt: For the 15th anniversary of this episode during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson.

* FlamingSword: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who's a black bald woman with a flaming sword.

* RacialTransformation: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who has regenerated black.

* StarfishAliens: As noted by Davies [[AllThereInTheManual in the 2006 Annual]], the Nestene Consciousness, under "temporal stress" caused by the Time War, mutated to, as noted by Davies' [[AllThereInTheManual Target novelisation]], a creature made of plastic. Its new form resembles a giant molten blob.

* AWizardDidIt: The novelization says the Time War altered the Nestene Consciousness' history so that it was always made from plastic instead of being an EnergyBeing.
* YearInsideHourOutside:
** In the e-book ''The Beast of Babylon'', the Doctor has an adventure after he left Rose at the end of his first episode. He then returns to Rose, from her perspective, within a minute of him departing. We later indirectly learn in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" that he'd been gone a century from his perspective, the events of ''The Beast of Babylon'' being the final outing, before returning to Rose.
** It should also be mentioned that the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelization]] adds the detail that the Doctor went travelling for several weeks between his trip to Rose's apartment and when he saves her from Auton!Mickey at the restaurant. This is noted in him gaining a scar on his hand from the fight with the Auton arm which has healed when Rose next sees him.