The Doctor Dances
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"The Doctor Dances" is the tenth episode of the first series in the reboot of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 May 2005. It is the second of a two-part story, following the broadcast of "The Empty Child" on 21 May.
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Directed by | James Hawes | ||
Written by | Steven Moffat | ||
Script editor | Elwen Rowlands | ||
Produced by | Phil Collinson | ||
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Music by | Murray Gold | ||
Production code | 1.10 | ||
Series | Series 1 | ||
Running time | 2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 28 May 2005 (2005-05-28) | ||
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The episode is set in London in 1941. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), the con man Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), and the homeless woman Nancy (Florence Hoath) investigate a spaceship which crashed the same time patients at a nearby hospital began turning into living dead beings with gas masks for faces.
The episode saw Jack join the Doctor as a companion. Together with "The Empty Child", it won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.