Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor, commonly referred to simply as "The Doctor", was the main character from the second iteration of the BBC sci-fi television series Doctor Who. Played by actor Christopher Eccleston, he is the ninth incarnation of the character, succeeding the role that had been previously played by English actor Paul McGann. Eccleston's version of the Doctor was introduced in the pilot episode of the series, "Rose", and was the first Doctor featured in the revamped program. He was the main character in series one and appeared in all thirteen episodes.

Biography
After his regeneration, the Doctor helped save London from an invasion by the Autons, living plastic automatons animated by the Nestene Consciousness. He did this with the help of Rose Tyler, a teenager whom he subsequently invited to be a companion in his travels. The Doctor showed Rose the far future and Victorian Britain  before returning to Rose's own era, where they fought off an attempt to destroy the Earth by the alien Slitheen family. When they journeyed to Utah in 2012, the Doctor found that a single Dalek was being kept in a secret museum filled with alien artefacts. There, the first details of the Time War fought by the Time Lords and Daleks were revealed, and how it concluded with the mutual annihilation of both races, leaving the Doctor the last of the Time Lords. A young man named Adam Mitchell travelled with them from Utah.

The Doctor, Rose, and Adam travelled to the future to Satellite 5, where they discovered a plot by the Jagrafess to manipulate Earth through its mass media. When Adam tried to smuggle future knowledge back to his own time, he became the first companion to be deliberately expelled from the TARDIS. After this, Rose persuaded the Doctor to return to the day her father, Pete Tyler, died, creating a temporal paradox by saving him, which nearly led to disaster until Pete sacrificed himself to set time right once more. Following a mysterious spaceship to wartime London in 1941, the Doctor and Rose met Captain Jack Harkness, a confidence trickster and former Time Agent from the 51st century. Jack's latest con nearly caused a deadly nanotechnological plague to sweep through the human race, but he helped the Doctor and Rose end it prior to joining the TARDIS crew. Going back to Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS from the rift, the Doctor, Rose and Jack found that one of the Slitheen had survived, posing as Margaret Blaine, the city's mayor. Blaine was exposed to the heart of the TARDIS, and was regressed into an egg. It was at this time that the Doctor first noticed that he and Rose had kept coming across the words "Bad Wolf". At some point, the Ninth Doctor had at least three unchronicled adventures, involving the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the eruption of Krakatoa in the 19th Century, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. These are revealed in "Rose", but their placement in the Ninth Doctor's chronology remains unknown. However, it's implied the first two of these events happened immediately after regenerating, as he's seen wearing clothes from his previous incarnation. When the Doctor and his companions became caught in a series of deadly versions of 20th Century game shows, they found themselves at the mercy of the Bad Wolf Corporation, based on Satellite Five, but a full century after their last visit. However, the true enemy was soon revealed to be the Daleks. The Dalek Emperor had survived the Time War, and had rebuilt the Dalek race. The Doctor sent Rose back to her own time in the TARDIS, before attempting to destroy the Dalek army. In doing so, he would have been forced to destroy a great part of the human race, which he ultimately finds himself incapable of doing. Meanwhile, after seeing more "Bad Wolf" graffiti, Rose realised it was somehow a message linking her to the events in the future. Managing to open up the heart of the TARDIS, she absorbed the energies of the time vortex, and used it to destroy the Daleks. In order to save Rose from being consumed from within by those energies, the Doctor kisses her, absorbing the fatal energy himself. However, the damage to his cells caused him to begin the regeneration process. Finally at peace with himself, his last words are, "Rose, before I go I just wanna tell you – you were fantastic... absolutely fantastic... and d'you know what? So was I!" Immediately thereafter he regenerates into the Tenth Doctor.

Notes & Trivia

 * The ninth incarnation of the Doctor was created by executive producer and writer Russell T. Davies and director Keith Boak based on concepts originally developed by Sydney Newman, Waris Hussein and Anthony Coburn.


 * In terms of recurring roles, actor Christopher Eccleston had the shortest tenure of any incarnation of the Doctor to date, appearing in only thirteen episodes of the series, not counting recaps, references and archival footage from later episodes. Other actors with even less screen time include Paul McGann, who played the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie and Peter Cushing, who played Doctor Who in a non-canonical role in the 1966 film Dr. Who and the Daleks.

Appearances

 * Doctor Who (2005)
 * "Rose"
 * "The End of the World"
 * "The Unquiet Dead"
 * "Aliens of London"
 * "World War Three"
 * "Dalek"
 * "The Long Game"
 * "Father's Day"
 * "The Empty Child"
 * "The Doctor Dances"
 * "Boom Town"
 * "Bad Wolf"
 * "The Parting of the Ways"