The doctor gets a facelift and a brand new companion in this opener to the 2005 revival.

Rose (Billie Piper) is your run-of-the-mill chav living with her bawdy mum Jackie (Camille Coduri) in a council flat somewhere in the Welsh part of London. Her life is pretty typical: she has an uninspiring job, partakes in dishearteningly unromantic Trafalgar Square montages with her whiny, rubbish, abysmally chavvy boyfriend Mickey (Noel Clarke), and she’s about to embark on a trip through time and space with the most charming, two-hearted, extra-terrestrial and adventurous do-gooder, namely, The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston). But that’s not until the end of this episode. Spoilers!

First she needs to battle lumbering Autons, meet a conspiracy theorist (whose wife is unrealistically trusting of her husband’s shed-based goings-on with strange women he’s met on the Internet) and have her aforementioned rubbish boyfriend replaced with a shiny plastic replica.

But it’s fine, because she meets the Doctor along the way, and so do we, and thus begins the 2005 revival of this glorious saga.

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Rewatch Rose while our audio commentary regales and beguiles in the background!

While you ponder that, here are some screenshots from the episode.

(PS: The pic of JD dramatically appealing to the microphone – aka Noel Clarke – will be added shortly.)

A charming, gorgeous, albeit chavvy, new companion. ... and a brand spankin' new Doctor! Mickey exhibiting charm, grace and decorum. Hey, Mr Skin! Manikin Boobs at 15min30sec. Gooey Please eat Mickey... Eccleston's brand new TARDIS! Correction, YES, anything could happen... Autons about to go old-school on conspiracy-shed guy's face.

You'll enjoy these episodes, too! B004 Commentary Track - Rose BONUS audio commentary track for 'Rose', in which Eccleston is introduced as the Doctor and Rose charms our socks off!

N027 Doomsday It's Rose's last episode (sort of), with Sarcastic Daleks, a Doc who doesn't give a damn, and a Tyler family reunion

N008 Father's Day Rose rescues her dead dad; Jackie is immortal; and in the end we forget that our hero is a cheating, lying, lousy husband.