The End of the World (Doctor Who) The End of the World (Doctor Who) "The End of the World" is the second episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". Written by executive producer Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 April 2005. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) takes his new companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) five billion years into the future where many rich alien delegates have gathered on a space station called Platform One to watch the Sun expand into a
Utopia (Doctor Who) Other actors returning to the franchise in this episode are Neil Reidman had previously played Tom Braudy in the Eighth Doctor audio drama "Memory Lane" and Robert Forknall, who plays Lord Byron in the Eighth Doctor audio drama "The Company of Friends". Chipo Chung, who played Chantho, would later go on to play the Fortuneteller in "Turn Left". Paul Marc Davis, who played the Futurekind chieftain, also returned to the "Doctor Who" universe, going on to play the role of The Trickster in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" stories "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane", "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" and