Doctor Who (2005)
It was always going to be a risk for the BBC to revamp Doctor Who--few television programmes inspire as much rabid and cultish adoration. With the 2005 series, however, the BBC have really outdone themselves. Their updated Doctor Who is a revelation: a cult science fiction series that has real mass appeal, and works for both children and their parents. Christopher Eccleston is an inspired and charismatic Doctor--he leaps around the sets with an unrestrained glee, like he's a child running amok in a toy shop. His enthusiasm in downright infectious. His sidekick Rose (Billie Piper) adds a real human touch, particularly as she gradually and believably matures from in-over-her-head city kid to tough-minded interplanetary hero. Much of the credit must go to writer Russell Davies, who has a much-practiced knack for finding popular appeal without dumbing-down his ideas, and who appears to have let his imagination run riot. Even the special effects, whilst not of a big-budget cinematic quality, still manage to strike a balance between cheesiness and realism. Thrilling, funny and thoroughly entertaining, this Doctor Who is a hero for the new millennium. --Robert Burrow
When ordinary shop-worker Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor she is drawn into his strange and dangerous world; her life will never be the same again.
The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time, to the year five billion and the end of planet Earth.
The Doctor has great expectations for his latest adventure when he and Rose join forces with Charles Dickens to investigate a mysterious plague of zombies.
The Doctor returns Rose to her own time - well, sort of - but her family reunion is ruined when a spaceship crashes in the middle of London. What is the origin of the spaceship, and where has the Prime Minister gone in this time of crisis?
The Slitheen have infiltrated Parliament and have the Doctor and his friends trapped as the Doctor works to prevent them from starting World War Three.
The TARDIS is drawn to an alien museum deep below the Utah desert, where a ruthless billionaire keeps prisoner the last of the Doctor's most fearsome enemies.
In the year 200,000 the Doctor discovers that a satellite with a dark secret is controlling humanity and slowing its development.
Rose asks The Doctor to take her to 1987, on the day her father was killed.
When a spaceship crashes in the middle of the London Blitz the Doctor, Rose and the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness find themselves investigating a plague of physical injuries and a little boy in a gas mask.
The gas mask zombies are on the rise as the plague spreads across war-torn London.
Stopping off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, The Doctor, Rose and Jack meet up with Mickey and encounter an old foe in the midst of hatching a scheme that could destroy the entire planet.
The Doctor, Rose and Jack are separated and forced to compete in twisted and deadly games on the Game Station.
As the Dalek fleet begin their attack on the Earth, the Doctor and his allies make one final stand.
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Christopher Eccleston | Doctor Who |
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Billie Piper | Rose Tyler |
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Alan Ruscoe | Slitheen |
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Camille Coduri | Jackie Tyler |
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Paul Kasey | Slitheen |
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Noel Clarke | Mickey Smith |
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John Barrowman | Captain Jack |
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Steven Spiers | Strickland |
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Nicholas Briggs | Daleks |
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Joseph Tremain | Jim |
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Kevin Hudson | Technician |
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Annette Badland | Margaret Blaine |
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Barnaby Edwards | Dalek Operator |
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Saul Murphy | Auton |
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Elizabeth Fost | Slitheen |
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Penelope Wilton | Harriet Jones |
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Rupert Vansittart | General Asquith |
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Jimmy Vee | Alien |
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Paterson Joseph | Rodrick |
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Richard Wilson | Dr. Constantine |
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Nicholas Pegg | Dalek Operator |
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LaChele Carl | Reporter |
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Jack Tarlton | Reporter Tom Hitchingson |
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David Verrey | Joseph Green |
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Robert Hands | Algy |
| Director | Joe Ahearne |
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| Keith Boak |
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| James Hawes |
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| Euros Lyn |
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| Brian Grant |
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| Writer | Sydney Newman, Russell T. Davies, Terry Nation, Robert Shearman, Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell, Robert Holmes, Mark Gatiss | |
| Producer | Phil Collinson, Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Helen Vallis, Mal Young | |
| Musician | Murray Gold | |
| Photography | Ernest Vincze | |
| Edition | Box Set |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 5 |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Nov 21, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 2 |