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
Doctor Who Prom (2008) were also played. The concert was conducted by Ben Foster and Stephen Bell, and performed by the BBC Philharmonic. It was presented by actress Freema Agyeman, who played companion Martha Jones on "Doctor Who". Other "Doctor Who" actors and performers dressed as "Doctor Who" monsters also made appearances on stage and in the audience. The concert included video montages of scenes from "Doctor Who" and a specially filmed "mini-episode" of "Doctor Who" called "Music of the Spheres", which was presented on a screen above the orchestra and included live interactive elements. The "Doctor Who" Prom was broadcast live on BBC