Rose

This Story: Series 1, Story 1. Production Code 1.1
Overall: Story 158, Episode 703
Airdate: 26 Mar 2005
Written by Russell T Davies
Directed by Keith Boak

Notes

• The production team restarted the “series”. This first series of modern Doctor Who was not going to be “Season 27”, it was called “Series 1”.  Internally, I always called it Season 27, but then I’m pedantic that way.  But to avoid confusion for site visitors, I’ll label them as the production team labels them as I go through New Who.
• Episodes were twice as long as classic episodes (Season 22 notwithstanding).  Stories were mostly just one episode now (the length of a classic series two parter). Story wise it was meant to be more of the old show, but legally/officially it was a new TV show, hence the series restart at “Series 1”.
• Additionally, the production codes I use here are my own made up ones, as the new show didn’t have production codes like the old one did. I created them based on their series and production order.
• ADMIN NOTE: On 26 Mar 2025, I cross posted my old Twitter posts (1 | 2) to BlueSky and have embedded them here. This was done on the actual 20th anniversary of the airing of the episode.

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