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The TARDIS returns Rose Tyler home to her own time, but Rose is startled to discover that, instead of the twelve hours the Doctor thought she was gone, it's been twelve months, and Rose was listed as a missing person. Jackie Tyler blames the Doctor for her daughter's wanderlust, but Rose is unable to tell her mum what's happened to her. Later, as Rose muses that she's the only person on Earth who knows what she knows, an alien spacecraft suddenly flies overhead, crashes through Big Ben and lands in the Thames... mankind's first public encounter with aliens. Or is it? The Doctor and Rose can't get close to the action, so they take Rose's suggestion and watch it on BBC Television, where they keep up to date with news reports that one body has been taken from the wreckage by the military to the local Albion Hospital.
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Director:
Keith Boak
Writer:
Russell T Davies
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Broadcast: 2005-04-16
Production No.: (unknown)
Episode Overall No.: 4
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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First of two-parts, this was originally called "Aliens of London, Part One" before the second episode gained its own title ("World War Three"). This was actually the very first episode to be filmed, at least the external shots. UNIT is mentioned, and the Doctor is familiar to the government (perhaps the first time the new series has directly referenced the original, except for the presence of the Autons in episode one.) Rose has been away for twelve months. The boy who spray paints on the side of the TARDIS writes the words "Bad Wolf," which has also been referenced twice before (the Moxx of Balhoon says it in "End of the World" and Gwyneth mentions it while looking into Rose's mind in "The Unquiet Dead"). Mickey notes that he has been investigating the Doctor since Rose's disappearance (and has likely taken over Clive's website; see this (http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/) site.) BBC political reporter Andrew Marr and "Blue Peter" presenter Matt Baker appeared as themselves. The Slitheen aliens are part CG and part prosthetic/costume |
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