New Series
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Series 1/27

The producers knew that for the New Series to make it, it had to make it BIG - and it is. It is a continuation of the Classic Series, but no prerequisite knowledge is necessary to enjoy this show.

Ratings of Plot, etc in bold represents how influential they are to the overall rating. They are also ranked by how important they are to the story.


Rose
by Russell T Davies
[Excerpt]

The perfect introduction. An old enemy, the (living plastic alien) Nestene Consciousness is on Earth and taking over the plastic. The Doctor saves Rose Tyler from some Autons in the store she works. The plastics realise Rose has met the Doctor and stalk her. The Doctor saves her yet again from a plastic copy of her boyfriend, Mickey, and leads her into the TARDIS - his time and space machine. It's bigger on the inside, it's alien, he's alien. The Doctor then needs her help to find and destroy the Nestene Consciousness.

Plot = 5
Adventure = 4
Drama = 4 : SciFi = 4 : Humour = 4
Acting = 5 : SFX = 4 : Horror = 3


The End Of The World
by Russell T Davies
[Trailer 2]

Rose's first trip is to the future. Gravity satellites are holding back the sun from expanding and swallowing the Earth, but, nothing lasts forever. A group of aliens, some of which originially evolved on Earth, come to see her die. Someone on board has saboutaged the station.

Plot = 4
Adventure = 5 : SciFi = 5 : Drama = 5
SFX = 5 : Humour = 4 : Horror = 3
Acting = 5


The Unquiet Dead
by Mark Gatiss
[Trailer 3]

What appears to be ghosts are taking over dead bodies. They meet Charles Dickens.

Plot = 4
SciFi = 5 : Horror = 4
SFX = 4 : Adventure = 4 : Drama = 4
Acting = 5: Humour = 2


Aliens Of London // World War Three
by Russell T Davies
[Trailer 4] [Trailer 5]

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Plot = 3
Adventure = 3 : Drama = 3
Horror = 3 : Humour = 2
SFX = 3 : Acting = 4 : SciFi = 3


Dalek
by Robert Shearman
[Trailer 6]

We learn here that the Time War was fought against one of the Time Lords' greatest enemies. A lone Dalek had survived the Time War and landed on Earth, now in an underground alien museum in Utah. When the Doctor finds it, he knows he must destroy it, before it exterminates the world.

Plot = 3
Adventure = 5 : Horror = 4 : Drama = 5
SFX = 4 : SciFi = 4
Acting = 5 : Humour = 1


The Long Game
by Russell T Davies
[Trailer 7]

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Plot = 4
Adventure = 3 : Drama = 2 : Horror = 3
SciFi = 3 : SFX = 3
Acting = 4 : Humour = 2


Father's Day
by Paul Cornell
[Trailer 8]

Since she was a child, Rose knew her father died from a hit-and-run accident with no one around to comfort him. The Doctor allows her to be with her father when he dies, but, instead she pushes him out of the way. It's implied Rose only decided to go with the Doctor after he told her the TARDIS was also a time machine; this was her plan all along. but now that her father's alive, a paradox is formed, for now 19yo Rose wouldn't want to go with the Doctor (or at least not think of going to save her father). The paradoxical timeline detaches itself from the universe (my interpretation) and the Reapers move in to digest it. Unfortunately the TARDIS's inside is disconnected from the shell when Rose changes history and there's no easy escape.

Plot = 5
Drama = 5 : SciFi = 5
Adventure = 4 : SFX = 4 : Horror = 3
Acting = 4 : Humour = 1


The Empty Child // The Doctor Dances
by Steven Moffat
[Trailer 9] [Trailer 10]

The best story of the series (and possibly ever). A mysterious cylinder falls through time where the Doctor follows it to Earth. The travellers land a few weeks after the cylinder does to find themselves in the Blitz. Meanwhile a child in a gas-mask is terrorising the unevaccuated children of London; for anyone who touches him also turns into a gas-mask zombie.

Plot = 5
SciFi = 5 : Adventure = 4 : Horror = 4 : Humour = 4
Drama = 4 : SFX = 5 : Acting = 5


Boom Town
by Russell T Davies
[Trailer 11]

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Plot = 3
Adventure = 2
Drama = 3 : Horror = 3
SFX = 3 : SciFi = 3 : Humour = 4
Acting = 4


Bad Wolf // The Parting Of The Ways
by Russell T Davies
[Trailer 12] [Trailer 13]

The lone Dalek in 'Dalek' was not the only one to survive the Time War. The Dalek Emperor is in the Solar System in the future controlling the Game Station, a satellite space station set up to broadcast shows like Big Brother, The Weakest Link and What Not To Wear, where the contestants are vapourised if they're eliminated. The time travellers are transmatted out of the TARDIS and into the games. After Rose is disintegrated playing the Weakest Link, Captain Jack works out that the contestants are not really killed, but transmatted to the edge of the Solar System. The Dalek Emperor is using humans to rebuild the Dalek species. The Doctor saves Rose from the Daleks and sends her home with the TARDIS so she doesn't get killed and so the Daleks don't capture the technology. Rose knows the Doctor is in trouble so absorbs the TARDIS's soul in order to control it and save the Doctor. 'Super-Rose' destroys the Daleks and collapses after the Doctor sucks the TARDIS' soul from her and blows it back into the TARDIS. The soul makes the Doctor sick, and a regeneration is triggered...

Plot = 5
Adventure = 5 : SciFi = 5 : Drama = 5
SFX = 4 : Horror = 4
Acting = 5 : Humour = 3


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