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The Parting of the Ways


Information

Writer: Russell T. Davies
Director: Joe Ahearne
Script Editor: Helen Raynor
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Mal Young

Originally Broadcast: 18th June 2005
Duration: 45.5 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 6.9m
Production Code: 1.13
Monsters/Villains: Emperor Dalek, Daleks
Year Set: 200,100 and 2006
Location: The Gamestation and London, Earth


Synopsis

The Doctor's travels reach a terrifying conclusion as the Earth is plunged into all-out war, in the final episode of the popular series written by Russell T. Davies.

Rose Tyler has faced danger and seen wonders alongside The Doctor, but now their friendship is put to the test as Earth plunges into an epic war. With the human race being slaughtered, The Doctor is forced into terrible action. Will the time-travellers ever be re-united?


Cast

Christopher Eccleston – The Doctor
Billie Piper – Rose Tyler
John Barrowman – Captain Jack
Jo Stone-Fewings - Male Programmer
Jo Joyner - Lynda
Paterson Joseph - Rodrick
Nisha Nayar - Female Programmer
Noel Clark - Mickey
Camille Coduri - Jackie Tyler
Anne Robinson - Voice of Anne Droid
Nicholas Briggs - Dalek Voice
Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, David Hankinson - Dalek Operators
Alan Ruscoe - Android

and introducing David Tennant as The Doctor


Monster File: Dalek Emperor

Home Planet: Skaro
Life Form: Armored Kaled Mutant


In the Last Great Time War, this Dalek Emperor, possibly different from those before it, led the Dalek race into battle, but was believed to have been destroyed, at the end of the war. It’s ship had barely survived, and it fell through time and afterwards it went into hiding and went on to rebuild a new race of Daleks. This Emperor was a Dalek mutant floating in a transparent tank of liquid, topped by a giant-sized Dalek dome, complete with eyestalk, and flanked by panels of armour dotted by Dalek "bumps". Because this Emperor had recreated the Dalek race, it saw itself as a god, and had transformed its Daleks from fascists to religious fanatics centred around them worshipping it. This Emperor was supposedly destroyed by Rose Tyler, along with the rest of the Daleks, after she had absorbed the whole of the time vortex into her head, through the Tardis, and became the ‘Bad Wolf’, which had been following her and the Doctor around for ages!

Preceded by: Bad Wolf - Followed by: The Christmas Invasion