Rose (Doctor Who episode) Rose (Doctor Who episode) "Rose" is the opening episode of the first series of the revived British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". The episode was directed by Keith Boak and written by Russell T Davies who was also one of the three executive producers. It was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on 26 March 2005. "Rose" was the first "Doctor Who" episode to air since the "Doctor Who" television film in 1996. In the episode, the London department store worker Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) gets caught in the middle of the alien time traveller the Doctor's
The Doctor (Doctor Who) the actors who played the character were deceased. Since the programme's revival, there have been three multi-Doctor stories, the "Children in Need" special "Time Crash", the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", and the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon A Time". Before that, the only references to past incarnations (from 1963 to 1996) have been in the aforementioned episode "School Reunion" (in which the Doctor acknowledges having regenerated "half a dozen times" since last seeing Sarah Jane) and in drawings that the Doctor (who has temporarily become human to hide from the Family Of Blood) makes based on