Doctor Who/Season Twenty-Seven

Season Twenty-Seven
Doctor Who
Season Premiere	March 26, 2005
Season Finale	June 18, 2005
Episode Count	13
Notable Episodes	27x03 - The Unquiet Dead 27x06 - Dalek 27x08 - Father's Day 27x09 - The Empty Child (1)
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Season Twenty-Seven of Doctor Who (Series One of the revival show) premiered on March 26, 2005.

Regular cast

• Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor.
• Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.

Supporting cast

• Camille Coduri (6 episodes) as Jackie Tyler.
• John Barrowman (5 episodes) as Jack Harkness.
• Noel Clarke (5 episodes) as Mickey Smith.
• Annette Badland (3 episodes) as Margareth Blaine.
• Lachele Carl (2 episodes) as Trinity Wells.
• Bruno Langley (2 episodes) as Adam Mitchell.
• Penelope Wilton (2 episodes) as Harriet Jones.
• Simon Callow (1 episode) as Charles Dickens.
• Shaun Dingwall (1 episode) as Pete Tyler.
• David Tennant (1 episode) as The Doctor.
• Zoë Wanamaker (1 episode) as Cassandra O'Brien.
• Barnaby Edwards (3 episodes), David Hankinson (2 episodes) and Nicholas Pegg (2 episodes) as the Daleks.

Eve Myles (1 episode), who will recur as Torchwood main character Gwen Cooper in season 30, appears as a separate character.

Additional cast includes alien actors Alan Ruscoe (7 episodes) and Paul Kasey (5 episodes), as well as voice actors Nicholas Briggs (4 episodes) and Silas Carson (1 episode).

Crew

Showrunner Russell T Davies wrote eight episodes, with the remaining scripts being written by Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, Paul Cornell and Steven Moffat (a two-part story).

Directors include Joe Ahearne (5 episodes), Keith Boak (3 episodes), Euros Lyn (2 episodes), James Hawes (2 episodes), and Brian Grant (1 episode).

Overview

2005 saw the return of Doctor Who after a 17 year hiatus, and with that brought a legion of new Who fans. This season avoided constant references to the past, as the majority of the viewers would likely not understand any callbacks (this has led to the season's DVD release to be called season one instead of season twenty-seven). The show was quite successful, regularly topping the BBC's ratings.

The season itself told the story of the Ninth Doctor, although his companion Rose Tyler was in the limelight more than him at times. The season also had a minor plot arc which appeared in all the episodes, but was not the focus of them: In each episode there is some form of reference to "Bad Wolf", which was explained at the end of the season. Season twenty-seven brought back the episodic format of classic Doctor Who, but exchanged the multi-episode serial stories of past Doctor Who seasons for single-episode stories with a few two-part episodes.

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate	USA Airdate
720	1	Rose			March 26, 2005	March 17, 2006
721	2	The End of the World			April 2, 2005	March 17, 2006
722	3	The Unquiet Dead			April 9, 2005	March 24, 2006
723	4	Aliens of London (1)			April 16, 2005	March 31, 2006
724	5	World War Three (2)			April 23, 2005	April 7, 2006
725	6	Dalek			April 30, 2005	April 14, 2006
726	7	The Long Game			May 7, 2005	April 21, 2006
727	8	Father's Day			May 14, 2005	April 28, 2006
728	9	The Empty Child (1)			May 21, 2005	May 5, 2006
729	10	The Doctor Dances (2)			May 28, 2005	May 12, 2006
730	11	Boom Town			June 4, 2005	May 19, 2006
731	12	Bad Wolf (1)			June 11, 2005	June 2, 2006
732	13	The Parting of the Ways (2)			June 18, 2005	June 9, 2006