Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who.

Story style

Under producer Russell T. Davies, the new series was aimed towards a more contemporary audience, and its stories had a more frenetic pace than the classic series. Rather than four- to six-part serials of 25-minute episodes (the most common format of the original series), most of the Ninth Doctor's stories consisted of individual 45-minute episodes, with only three stories out of ten being two-parters. The thirteen episodes were, however, loosely connected in a series-long story arc which brought their disparate threads together in the series finale. Also, like the classic series, stories often flowed directly into one another or were linked together in some way. Notably, every story of the season took place on or near Earth, which had not happened since the early years of the Third Doctor era.

Related Topics:
Russell T. Davies - Third Doctor

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The stories of Series 1 varied quite significantly in tone, with the production team showcasing the various genres inhabited by Doctor Who over the years. Examples include the "pseudo-historical" story The Unquiet Dead; the far-future whodunit of The End of the World; Earthbound alien invasion stories in Rose and Aliens of London/World War Three and the "base under siege" in Dalek. Even the spin-off media were represented, with Dalek taking elements from writer Rob Shearman's own audio play Jubilee and the emotional content of Paul Cornell's Father's Day drawing on the tone of Cornell's novels in the Virgin New Adventures line. Davies had asked both Shearman and Cornell to write their scripts with those respective styles in mind.

Related Topics:
The Unquiet Dead - The End of the World - Rose - Aliens of London - World War Three - Dalek - Spin-off - Rob Shearman - Jubilee - Paul Cornell - Father's Day - Virgin New Adventures

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