Father's Day (Doctor Who) Father's Day (Doctor Who) "Father's Day" is the eighth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who", first broadcast on 14 May 2005 on BBC One. It was written by Paul Cornell and directed by Joe Ahearne. In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) agrees to take his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) back to the day her father Pete (Shaun Dingwall) died in 1987. When Rose intervenes and pulls her father out of the path of a car, time is wounded and dangerous Reapers attack, threatening to erase history. Pete
The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who) the subsequent series of "Doctor Who". Henrik's, the department store Rose Tyler worked in, and an employee holding an advertising banner for it, are featured in the background of the scene where the Doctor uses the cashpoint. When the Doctor asks about Lance, he says, "He's not a bit overweight with a zip round his head, is he?" This is a reference to the Slitheen. In the series 4 episode "Turn Left", a world where the Doctor did not meet Donna Noble but still fought the Racnoss is shown. In that episode, it is shown that without Donna there to