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Characters
Information on the main and minor characters, mostly the Ninth Doctor and his companions, up to the conclusion of "The Parting of the Ways".
• The Ninth Doctor
• Rose Tyler
• Captain Jack Harkness
• Mickey Smith
• Adam Mitchell • Jackie Tyler • Pete Tyler
• Clive • Jabe • Cassandra • Charles Dickons • Gwyneth • Harriet Jones
• Henry Van Statten • The Dalek • Cathica • Suki • Nancy • Margaret Blaine • Lynda Moss
• Roderick • The Programmers • The Controller • The Dalek Emperor
• The Tenth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor
Acted by Chistopher Eccleston
The Doctor: Who am I to argue with history?
Rose: Usually the first in line!
The Ninth Doctor is the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, and claims to be 900 years old (although comments made by previous Doctors would make more sense if he was older, with it being 900 years or so since he began travelling in the TARDIS.) He speaks colloquially, with a distinctly Northern accent. His catch phrase is fantastic. He consistently wears a leather jacket with a jumper, dark trousers and leather shoes. The only clothing item he ever changes is his jumper, and he doesn't feel a need to change his garb to ensure fitting into a particular era.
The Ninth Doctor masks a melancholic and lonely personality with an almost manic exterior. With a school-boy's eager interest in almost everything, he frequently becomes excited - with the prospect of danger, a challenge, or by "saving the world", and is often like a child showing off a new toy. Rose does a lot to inspire the Doctor's desire to appreciate life, and the universe it is contained in. He enthusiastically displays frivolity, quirkiness, a big grin and possesses a keen sense of humour. However, while he makes jokes in the face of danger when with others, he becomes grim and serious on his own. The Doctor is vulnerable, wise and often contemplative, and occasionally irascible. Despite showing both ingenuity, and argumentative depths of feeling, his judgement and viewpoints are often influenced by his perspective of a "bigger picture". He dislikes firearms, but is not averse to using violence when necessary.
The Doctor dislikes to be mistaken for a human and known to refer to them as "stupid apes". Rose comments to Jack that when the Doctor is stressed, he likes to insult species... At times unimpressed by their mental and observational qualities, he time wants to protect other species, especially Rose. Rose, and later Jack and even Mickey, are exempt from the Doctor?s disregard for humans, as he comes to respect and rely on them.
Much of The Doctor?s melancholy, lack of patience, and occasionally hard-bitten edge relates to feelings of guilt, failure and grief at being the sole survivor of the Time War. He struggles to discuss his past and to come to terms with that he is the only one left of his people, and is has no patience for idle conversation about who he really is. This grief and horror influences and is expressed through his blind hatred towards the Daleks.
The Doctor is very close to Rose, and it is obvious that they care very much about each other. However, their relationship only borders on the romantic, and they both deny conclusions made by others that they are a couple. It is a fair enough conclusion to say they love each; it is just whether or not this love is romantic that is not specified, and depends on how much you read between the lines.
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Rose Tyler
Acted by Billie Piper
I've got no A-Levels, no job, no future... but I tell ya what I have got - Jericho Street Junior School - Under Sevens Gymnastic Team - I got the Bronze!
Rose Marion Tyler was born on 27 April, (presumably 1986). A nineteen year old shop assistant at Henrik?s Department Store, she looses her job when the Doctor blows up the store. She lives at flat 48, Bucknall House on the Powell Estate, Southwark in London with her mother, Jackie. Her father died when she was a baby.
Five foot four and peroxide blonde, Rose is a fairly average teenager, with a boyfriend (Mickey Smith). She occasionally mentions her close friend, Shareen, and their normal, teenage-girl misadventure. She has interests in clothes, shopping and impressing men she encounters. She left school because of a Jimmy Stone. (The guide about the Ninth Doctor Doctor Who: Thrilling Adventures in Time and Space states that Rose fell in love with him, and left home to live with him, returning five months later in tears and in debt.)
Despite having left school before completing her A-Levels Rose is quick-witted, inquisitive and intelligent. She's quick to adapt to the strange situations she is confronted with. She shows both determination and courage while facing various alien threats. She's compassionate and sympathetic, especially in her attitude towards other young women she encounters, even when she does not always understand them and their culture. She cares for her friends and family, but is still prepared to leave them to travel with the Doctor.
It is obvious that Rose cares deeply about the Doctor. She trusts and respects him. As she earns his respect, she is able to point out his own short-comings to him, and reassure him that he will think of something when their problems seem unsolvable. Although she denies any infatuation with or romantic feelings towards him there are vague indications that suggest maybe the contrary. (Particularly in The Parting of the Ways where she goes to incredible lengths to save him and shows jealousy towards another female who is attracted to the Doctor.)
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Captain Jack Harkness
Acted by John Barrowman
The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that... I woke up in bed with both of my executioners. Lovely couple, they stayed in touch! Can't say that about most executioners.
A human from the fifth-first century, Captain Jack Harkness was once employed by the Time Agency, before he awoke one morning and discovers the loss of two years worth of memories - stolen by the agency. He meets Rose in London during the Blitz of 1941, while masquerading as an American Volunteer in the 133rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force. He flies a Chula war-ship, which he stole from a woman he told that he'd "be back in five minutes."
Jack is an incredibly self-assured, confident charming rogue, who likes to flirt, with everyone from Rose to the Doctor. It takes a lot to faze him. He's clever, and intelligent. He has obvious military training - and what's more, experience, and a good knowledge of weapons and technology. He likes to be armed, especially with his sonic blaster, and also carries a weapon very-well concealed. Jack's previous adventures have not been without danger, excitement, and presumably recklessness. He talks about "the last time I was sentenced to death" as if receiving the death sentence was something that occurred often enough not to particular intimidate him.
Jack develops a good relationship with both the Doctor and Rose, and is a highly competent member of the TARDIS crew. He's not a coward, and while he wants to instinctively avoid trouble, he's prepared to face it, and risk his life, if that is the price that he has to pay.
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Mickey Smith
Acted by Noel Clarke
 The Doctor: This isn't just a London Hopper, you know. It can go anywhere in the universe, free of charge.
Mickey Smith: Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!
The Doctor: He's not invited.
Mickey Smith is Rose's boyfriend. He lives on the same estate as Rose, but in a different block. He works close enough to central London to meet Rose for lunch. He drives a yellow VW Beetle, and owns a computer with internet access. His kitchen contains gherkins, pickled onions and pickled eggs.
From the working class, he is shocked by the revelation of the existence of aliens, and doesn't make a particularly good impression on the Doctor. He also doesn't like Rose's relationship with the Doctor. However, he comes to accept that the Doctor is part of Rose's life, and earn the Doctor's respect. He's issued an invitation by the Doctor to join the TARDIS crew. Despite this, Mickey knows his own limits, and feels that he couldn't cope with the life lead by the Doctor, and the Doctor makes a show of refusing to let Mickey join them, so that he doesn't lose face in front of Rose.
Mickey takes over the website original run by Clive after Rose leaves with the Doctor, and embarks on researching the Doctor.
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Adam Mitchell
Acted by Bruno Langley
 The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Planet Earth is at its height, covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion, the centre of a galactic domain that stretches across a million planets and species.
[Adam faints]
The Doctor: He's your boyfriend.
Rose Tyler: Not any more.
Twenty-year-old Adam Mitchell is a young English researcher in the employ of American billionaire and collector, Henry van Statten, from the year 2012. His job involves acquiring alien artefacts, and he has a collection of uncatalogued weapons, in case he has to fight his way out if he is fired. Adam is not modest about his own intelligence - he hacked into the Pentagon defence systems when he was eight, and was recruited by Van Statten's genius hunters.
Adam travels with the Doctor, at Rose's request (despite the Doctor's scepticism of him.) He is with the Doctor and Rose for a short time, before being returned home to his mother. Despite his intelligence, Adam strives to use the situation he finds himself in to his advantage - he looks at the future as something that can do something for him, rather than himself that can do something for the future. This outlook, and the actions it inspires runs against the philosophy held by the Doctor.
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Jackie Tyler
Acted by Camille Corduri
Jackie Tyler: I'm in my dressing gown.
The Doctor: Yes, you are.
Jackie Tyler: There's a strange man in my bedroom.
The Doctor: Yes, there is.
Jackie Tyler: Well, anything could happen.
The Doctor: [shakes his head and smiles] No.
Jackie Tyler, (maiden name Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Prentice) is Rose's mother and lives with Rose in a council flat, in London. Her husband Pete Tyler died when Rose was about a year old. Jackie is a friend to her daughter, but is also protector. She works from home as a hairdresser. Jackie has many friends on the Estate, whom she spends time talking to on the phone. Jackie is outgoing and quick to form opinions. She is quick to dislike the Doctor's intrusion into her life, and especially the life of her daughter, and prepared to blame Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, for Rose's disappearance. However, she is equally quick to work with him once his innocence is proven, though she describes him having saved her life as "embarrassing." In the end, she is also prepared to help Rose return to the Doctor, having accepted his place in her daughter's life.
Despite the not-entirely smooth relationship that she had with her husband, Jackie still keeps his memorabilia and talks about what a wonderful person he was to her daughter.
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Pete Tyler
Acted by Shaun Dingwall
Pete Tyler: Who am I, Rose?
Rose Tyler: You're my Daddy!
Peter Alan Tyler was Rose's father. He was a jack-of-all-trades and a budding entrepreneur who was constantly involved in various money-making schemes - from selling flavoured health drinks to trying to market solar power panels. Most of these schemes were unsuccessful, and led to tension in his marriage to Jackie, who occasionally accused Pete of cheating on her. Pete was born on September 15, 1954 and died on November 7, 1987 after he was hit by car, and died at the scene of the crime. He was on his way to a wedding at the time. Rose was about a year old.
While not the wonderful person Rose was led to believe her father was, Pete is prepared to die to save his daughter - and the world. He is dismissive of his own significance and value as a person, but sees his death as his way of being a proper father to his daughter. He is quick to trust Rose, and when he finds out her parentage, easily accepts that she is his daughter, acknowledging her as such. He also accepts that he should be dead, and that there is something he must do...
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Clive
Clive lives in London with his family, and spends much time try to track down the Doctor. His family don't understand this obsession. Clive has his own website, Who is Doctor Who? at www.whoisdrwho.co.uk . The evidence he finds of the Doctor throughout the centuries leads him to belief that the Doctor is a title passed from father to son. He also believes the Doctor to be an alien from another world, who arrives at times of trouble.
Jabe from the Forest of Cheem
Jabe is a humanoid grown from wood, whose decendants came from the tropical rainforests on Earth. With two other 'Trees', she represents the Forest of Cheem on Platform One. Jabe starts a friendship with the Doctor, and when finding out who he is, shows great sympathy and understanding towards his loss. She is prepared to risk her own life to save others.
Cassandra
Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen considers herself to be the last 'pure' human. Her mother came from the Artic Desert, and her father from Texas, and they were the last people to be buried on Earth. Having undergone 708 operations - enhancement and cosmetic surgery, genetic and gender manipulation, Cassandra is now a flat face - skin stretched across a metal frame. She is over two-thousand years, despite claiming that she looks otherwise. Cassandra makes cheeky comments about her numerous ex-husbands (presumably dead). She has a devious mind, and is prepared for others to die so that she can manipulate the situation to her own ends.
Gwyneth
Gwyneth works for the undertaken, Gabriel Sneed, and receives what she considers a generous wage of eight pounds a year. She has worked for Sneed since her parents died of influenza when she was twelve. Her education was limited to regularly attending Sunday School.
She has what she believes to be The Sight, which she has had since she was eight. She is able to sense small things about people around her, and locate the Gelth-inhabited dead bodies when the wander off. She considers the Gelth spirits she communicates with angels sent by her mother.
Charles Dickons
Weary with life, and lonely, Charles Dickons is sceptical and unbelieving. Originally wary of the Doctor, he is flattered by the Doctor's enthusiastic claims that he is a 'fan'. However, not prepared to accept that Gelth's existence until forced to, Dickons is disappointed that he has ignored the significance of the supernatural world all his life. His encounter with the Doctor and Rose opens his eyes, broadens his horizon, and gives him a new enthusiasm and appreciation of life.
Harriet Jones
Harriet Jones is the MP for Flydale North. Her focus is solely on placing her proposal regarding cottage hospitals to be put before cabinet, regardless of the other matters pressing on the cabinet's mind at the time. While she describes herself only as a backbencher, Harriet Jones is determined, and prepared to do her bit to save the world. She accepts the existence of the Slitheen, and understands that they need to be stopped, despite the cost. The only politician to emerge from the ruin of 10 Downings Street, the Doctor reveals to Rose that Harriet goes on to be a successful Prime Minister.
Henry Van Statten
Henry Van Statten is a ruthless and determined billionaire businessman, a collector of alien technology. A computer genius, he hides his collection underground the desert of Utah, in a facility designed to be a bunker in the event of nuclear warfare, and claims to own the internet. His facility is crawling with army personnel. Van Statten is in the habit of sacking employees on a whim, after having their memory-wiped, and leaving them by the roadside. He values his collection, especially his living 'metaltron', more highly than human life, especially that of his employees.
The Last Dalek
The Dalek survived the time war, and fell through time, to land on earth. It landed on the Ascension Islands, where it burned in its crater, screaming, for three days. Fifty-years later, after having been sold at many private auctions, it has ended up in the collection of Van Statten. Almost dying, it is able to use Rose's genetic material to re-energise itself, because she is a time-traveller. The Dalek, as a soldier, tries to locate other Daleks by scanning satellites through the internet. Finding nothing, it proceeds to carry out the Dalek Prime Directive to kill those who are not Dalek.
The Dalek is able to drain half of America's power source to regenerate itself, download the internet, calculate billions of numerical combinations in an instant, deflect bullets with a force-field, hover - especially as a way of climbing stars, and shoot without facing its targets.
However, it has not just extrapolated Rose's biomass, but absorbed Rose's emotions, which have been bred out of the Daleks. After killing many, it finally convinces Rose to order it to kill itself, because it regards this new outlook as contamination and a sickness.
Cathica
Cathica Santini Khadeni is a journalist on floor 139 of the news station, Satellite Five, who is determined to be promoted, whatever it takes. Information streams through a chip in her head, and her brain becomes part of the software in processing news information, though she afterwards doesn't retain any of it. When Cathica discovers the truth behind Floor 500, she risks her own life to save the Doctor and Rose, and to destroy the creature really controlling the satellite.
Suki
Suki Macrae Cantrell, who claims to like reading and archeology, is merely the personality behind which Eva Saint Julienne, a self-declared anarchist only surviving member of the 'Freedom Fifteen', hides. She is concerned that Satellite Five is controlling and manipulating the people. When she is unexpectedly promoted to Floor Five-Hundred, her questions are drastically answered.
Nancy
Older than the teenage girl she appears to be, Nancy is a single mother in London in World War II. She mothers and looks after a group of homeless children also living in London - finding them food, correcting their manners and encouraging them to behave in a civilised, respectable fashion. The other children consider Nancy as their leader. Nancy has hidden the identity of her son, Jamie's parentage, claiming him as her brother. And Jamie, the Empty Child, is wandering London, looking for his Mummy.
Margaret Blaine
Margaret Blaine is the human disguise used by Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen from the planet Raxecoricofallapotorius. She managed to teleport herself of the building at Downings Street when it was blown up. Margaret is the Mayor of Cardiff, and proposes to build a nuclear power station, demolishing Cardiff Castle. The power station is named 'Blaidd Drwg'. The deaths of those involved in investigating the 'Blaidd Drwg' project are to an extent that some claim that the project is cursed- but Margaret is merely making sure that no one lives to discover the project's true purpose.
Lynda Moss
Lynda with a y is one of the house-mates from one of the Big Brother houses, and the only one who leaves with the Doctor when he manages to find a way to escape. She is forthcoming and friendly, and feels some attachment to the Doctor because he's unlike anyone else she's ever known and because he told her she was "sweet". She stays on the Games Station instead of returning to earth, because she does not want to leave the him.
Roderick
Roderick competes against Rose on The Weakest Link, only voting to keep her on until she is the only other competitor left. He is quite comfortable that his victory causes Rose's death and is only interested in the money he will win. He refuses to recognise the existence of the Daleks, even when confronted with them.
The Controller
A woman connected to the Games Station and monitors all transmissions, she was installed when she was only five years old. It is through her that the Dalek's exercise control over the satellite. Despite the Dalek's control over her, the Controller is able to hide the Doctor in the games and communicate with him when a period of solar activity halt transmissions. It is for these actions that she is killed by the Daleks; yet she dies with the knowledge that she has brought their destruction.
The Programmers
The two programmers first realise that the Doctor and Rose's appearences in the games are an indication that something is wrong. They confront the Doctor with the situation when he holds the TARDIS Crew at gun point and agree to stay help fight the Daleks when there is not enough room on the shuttles returning those to earth. Before their deaths at the hands of the Daleks, Davitch Pavale confides to the female programmer that he only joined the program because she was a member.
The Dalek Emperor
The Dalek Emperor survived the Time War, and has been using the Game Station's transmissions to mask the presence of a growing Dalek fleet harvested from those who lose at the games, and to shape and control the Earth. Because of this creation of the Daleks, the Emperor views himself as God and immortal.
The Tenth Doctor Doctor
Acted by David Tennant
See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I - I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic... left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob.
The Tenth Doctor is a lot more light-hearted, flippant and prone to rambling on about seeming irrelevant information than the Ninth, yet he his lack of attention to the matter at hand is generally a guise. He describes himself as "rude and not ginger" and a "no second chances" sort of man.
Given that he features in Series One long enough to speak thirteen words, he is of less interest to this site, the lengthy essays one could write about him would involve discussing post-S1 episodes in great detail, which isn't the purpose of this section! :(
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