The Ninth Doctor

I want you safe... my Doctor- Rose

Overview

The original Doctor Who series ended in 1989 starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. Paul McGann appeared in a made for T.V Doctor Who movie in 1996 making him the Eighth Doctor. The appearance of the Ninth Doctor marked the regular return of the character to television screens after nearly sixteen years, and as a result for many young fans and new viewers he was the first Doctor they had ever seen.

As befitting his more rugged, moodier behavior, the Ninth Doctor was more streetwise in his appearance than his previous selves. In deliberate contrast to the conspicuous eccentric costumes of previous Doctors, the Ninth Doctor dressed in a non-descript, informal fashion: a worn, plain black leather jacket with a dark jumper, trousers and boots. Jack Harkness, upon first meeting the Doctor and Rose, commented that they were definitely not dressed to blend into 1941 London, describing the Doctor's look as "U-boat captain!" Also, unlike other Doctors, he wore his hair close cropped.

The Ninth Doctor's catchphrase, used in a variety of manners, and sometimes ironically, was "Fantastic!"

  

Biography

After his regeneration (which has not been seen on screen) with the help of his new companion Rose, together they save London from the Autons. Autons being living plastic automatons animated by the Nestene Consciousness. He invites Rose to travel with him. The Doctor showed Rose the far future and Victorian Britain (specifically Cardiff, where a space-time rift was revealed to be situated) before returning to Rose's own era where they fought off an attempt to destroy the Earth by the alien Slitheen family. After this, they journeyed to Utah in 2012 where the Doctor found that a single Dalek was being kept in a secret museum filled with alien artifacts. There, the first details of the Time War fought by the Time Lords and Daleks were revealed and how it concluded with the mutual annihilation of both races, leaving the Doctor the last of the Time Lords. The Doctor and Rose were also joined by a young man named Adam Mitchell.

The Doctor, Rose and Adam traveled to the future to Satellite Five, where they discovered a plot by the Jagrafess to manipulate Earth through its mass media. When Adam tried to smuggle future knowledge back to his own time, he became the first companion to be deliberately exiled from the TARDIS. After this, Rose persuaded the Doctor to return to the day her father, Pete Tyler, died, creating a temporal paradox by saving him which nearly led to disaster until Pete sacrificed himself to set time right once more.

Following a mysterious spaceship to wartime London in 1941, the Doctor and Rose met Captain Jack Harkness, a confidence trickster and former Time Agent from the 51st century. Jack's latest con nearly caused a deadly nanotechnological plague to sweep through the human race, but he helped the Doctor and Rose end it before joining the TARDIS crew.

Going back to Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS from the rift, the Doctor, Rose and Jack found that one of the Slitheen had survived, posing as Margaret Blaine, the city's mayor. Blaine was exposed to the heart of the TARDIS and was regressed into an egg. It was during this episode that the Doctor first noticed that he and Rose had kept coming across the words "Bad Wolf".

At some point, the Ninth Doctor had at least three unchronicled adventures involving the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the eruption of Krakatoa in the 19th Century. These are revealed in "Rose", but their placement in the Ninth Doctor's chronology remains unknown. Many fans assume that they must occur after "Rose" — but necessarily before his regeneration at the end of the series — since the Doctor's comments about his appearance in that first episode suggest he has only recently regenerated (or at least not had an opportunity to look in a mirror since, although his evaluation of his appearance is not particularly in-depth, either suggesting prior awareness or a lack of interest). However, the first of these adventures may actually have taken place immediately after his regeneration, since he is shown in a photo (taken in Southampton in 1912) to be wearing period clothes (Eccleston was dressed and shot specially) which resemble those worn by the Eighth Doctor. The Ninth Doctor refuses to make any concessions to contemporary fashion elsewhere in his travels (though he later insists that Rose dress appropriately for the Victorian era), being very precious about his look, which is deliberately most unlike that worn by any previous incarnations. Also, it is strongly implied that he saved the family pictured with him, by dissuading them from boarding the doomed ship — and, one episode later, he reveals that he himself was on board and ended up clinging to an iceberg. It has been speculated that the other named adventures occur at the end of "Rose", in between the Doctor departing in the TARDIS and returning to invite Rose to join him.

When the Doctor and his companions became caught in a series of deadly versions of 20th century gameshows, they found themselves at the mercy of the Bad Wolf Corporation, based on Satellite Five, but a century after their last visit. However, the true enemy was soon revealed to be the Daleks. The Dalek Emperor had survived the Time War and had rebuilt the Dalek race. The Doctor sent Rose back to her own time in the TARDIS, before attempting to destroy the Dalek army. However, when she saw more "Bad Wolf" graffiti, she realized it was somehow a message linking her to the events in the future. Managing to open up the heart of the TARDIS, she absorbed the energies of the time vortex, and used it to destroy the Daleks. In order to save Rose from being consumed from within by those energies, the Doctor absorbed the fatal energy himself. However, the damage to his cells caused him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor. He regenerates while still standing, warning Rose to keep away. "It's always a bit dodgy, this process," he warns, to an uncomprehending Rose. His last words are, "Rose, before I go I just wanna tell you-- you were fantastic... absolutely fantastic... and d'you know what? So was I!"

 

Companions

The Ninth Doctor had three on-screen companions during his tenure, the main one being Rose Tyler, who appears in all 13 episodes of Series 1. Adam Mitchell joined the Doctor on his travels at the conclusion of "Dalek" after the Doctor indulged Rose's prodding to let Adam "see the stars" and was rejected by the Doctor after his actions in "The Long Game". Jack Harkness first appeared in "The Empty Child" and joined the TARDIS crew in "The Doctor Dances". In the last episode of the first season, "The Parting of the Ways", Jack is killed by the Daleks and subsequently resurrected by the time-vortex empowered Rose, although the Doctor leaves without him after the battle. He later briefly rejoins the TARDIS crew in the Tenth Doctor story Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords, and also starred in the spin-off series Torchwood.

The Ninth Doctor's relationship with Rose verged on the romantic, with both of them clearly showing that they cared about each other deeply, although both always denied that they were a couple. On some level, the Doctor's sudden presence in her life fulfilled Rose's need for a strong male figure, having grown up without her father and boyfriend Mickey Smith often proving inadequate in regards to his strength of character. In turn, the Doctor, having undergone the trials of the Time War and still affected by his many losses incurred during the war, found himself encouraged by Rose's resolve, curiosity and compassion. The lone Dalek in Dalek, having absorbed Rose's DNA, taunted the Doctor by referring to her as "the woman you [the Doctor] love," but the Doctor did not respond. The Ninth Doctor did kiss Rose with some passion in The Parting of the Ways, although it could be argued that this only was in order to draw out the lethal energy of the time vortex from her body.

 

The Ninth Doctor Gadgets

The Ninth Doctor's era saw the introduction of a redesigned sonic screwdriver which was more versatile than its earlier versions, with functions ranging from its usual door opening abilities to conducting medical scans, repairing barbed wire and acting as a remote control for the TARDIS. The TARDIS console room also underwent a radical redesign, with an amber and green motif and a more organic look to its components.

The Ninth Doctor was also in the habit of using "slightly" psychic paper — that appeared to be a blank piece of card that had the ability to show the viewer anything that the user wanted them to see. The Doctor used this to fake various means of identification. Jack Harkness also used psychic paper in his capacity as a con man.

The Ninth Doctor modified Rose's mobile phone — which she dubbed the "superphone" — to give it the ability not just to receive and transmit where ordinary signals would not get through, but powerful enough to be able to make telephone calls to any point in time (even calibrating to the time period of the user).

 

The TARDIS

 A product of Time Lord technology, a properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and space. The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior, which can blend in with its surroundings through the ship's chameleon circuit. In the series, the Doctor pilots an unreliable, stolen, obsolete Type 40 TARDIS, once referred to as a TT Capsule, whose chameleon circuit is faulty, leaving it locked in the shape of a 1950s-style London police box. It was stolen from the shipyards of Gallifrey where it had been stripped for spare parts, and the unpredictability of the TARDIS short range guidance — that is, relative to the size of the entire Universe — has often been a plot point in the Doctor's travels.

TARDISes are grown, not made. They draw their power from several sources, but primarily from the singularity of an artificial black hole, known as the Eye of Harmony. Before a TARDIS becomes fully functional, it must be primed with the biological imprint of a Time Lord, normally done by simply having a Time Lord operate the TARDIS for the first time. This imprint comes from the Rassilon Imprimatur, part of the biological makeup of Time Lords, which gives them both a symbiotic link to their TARDISes and the ability to withstand the physical stresses of time travel.  According to Time Lord law, unauthorized use of a TARDIS carries "only one penalty", implied to be death.

A TARDIS usually travels when it dematerializes in one spot, traversing the time vortex, and then rematerializes at its destination, without physically traveling through the intervening space. It has been known however to fly through physical space. While a TARDIS can materialize inside another, if both TARDISes occupy exactly the same space, a Time Ram will occur, resulting in the mutual annihilation of both.

Apart from the ability to travel in space and time (and, on occasion, to other dimensions), the most remarkable characteristic of a TARDIS is that its interior is much larger than it appears from the outside. The explanation is that a TARDIS is "dimensionally transcendental", meaning that its exterior and interior exist in separate dimensions. To those unfamiliar with this aspect of a TARDIS, stepping inside the ship for the first time usually results in a reaction of shocked disbelief as they see the interior dimensions. When visitors first step into the TARDIS many of them say, "It's bigger on the inside".

 

Christopher Eccleston is missed very much as the Ninth Doctor. When it came to bringing the Doctor back to life in 2005 there was no other choice for Russel T. Davies but him.

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