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 Earth by gradually and secretly poisoning Donna with an alien particle the Racnoss use as an energy source. The Tenth Doctor, still saddened by his separation from companion Rose Tyler, is shocked when Donna Noble, in a wedding dress, appears within the TARDIS while in flight, a near impossibility. She angrily demands to be returned to her wedding as the Doctor performs several tests on her before materialising the TARDIS on Earth, though across the city from the ceremony. Donna leaves in a huff and takes a cab, but the Doctor observes a robotic Santa Claus is driving the