Rose

"Quality Street", "Spearhead From Cardiff", "Doctor"

"The One from the Torrent" (USA), "One Down, Twelve to Go” (C. Eccleston)

Doctor Who blows up a department store, turns down the offer of MILF sex and grins a lot.

*** - They somehow managed to pack almost fifty minutes of excitement into a 45 minute episode.

Rose: If you're a Man United fan, how come you sound like you're from the North?

Jackie: There's a strange man in my pants... anything could happen.

The BBC apologised for Graham Norton's voice being heard in the early minutes of the episode. See? That wasn't hard was it? Now go on and apologise for everything else he's done for you.

Billie Piper's full name is Bilhelmina Honitodabe Rodericka Pipenopolis-Evans.

Doctor Who's reputation for Presidents dying shortly before transmission is the major reason why it took so long for the show to return to TV. It was only when, to quote an internal BBC memo, "we've got one who can be shot in the head without doing any real damage" that the series was allowed to go back into production.

This episode was leaked on the internet ahead of transmission which meant that a few thousand people with high speed connections could watch it and talk about it to their friends. The story made the national press and a Canadian man ended up getting sacked. The BBC were furious. Read the first two sentences again and ask yourself why. 

The Sudbury Telephone's TV reviewer said it was "like a cross between an advert for the London tourist board and a blockbuster movie watched on fast forward" while the man from the Hebrides Gazetteer and Gauge said he was "disappointed that the new Enterprise is blue" but that he "would almost certainly rent the videos from his local library" if they chose to stock them.

The Doctor poking around in a cat flap was a subtle reference back to Sylvester McCoy's final story, "Survival" which was originally titled "Doctor Who Pokes Around in a Catflap".

"Russell T Davis" is a pseudonym for Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks Junior.

...is that the London Eye may have been more successful than the Dome but it was ultimately just a tool for evil.

Si Hunt

"Time to own up - which amongst you cried and at what point? I managed quite well, until the moment of sheer relief when Mickey was found to be alive"
 

"Who wants a decent exciting, adventure story when you could just watch 2 people talking about stuff that's not really very interesting....."
 

"In my mind, the plot's only weakness was the Tyler's glass coffee table. After the Doctor deactivated the auton "arm", they sprinted out of the flat. Neither The Doctor or Rose mentioned anything about cleaning up the mess."
 

"One last thing,I understand that the writers will be using less science in the stories and more drama.If you ask me that's a very big mistake for Dr.Who.It is a science fiction show not a drama!After all the Doctor travels in a time machine.So lets have more science not less"
 

"Not having a face is kind of a tradition in the series. Think about it - each time the series started anew there's never been a face"
 

"Why did that guy put his wheelie bit out for collection when it was nearly empty. - now that was rubbish"
 

"While watching Rose I suddenly noticed that during the basement scene one of the female autons has her shirt undone and her plastic tits pointing full view at the screen."
 

"We're into spring now and the nights are getting lighter. Surely Doctor Who flourishes best and is most effective when it's dark outside. Why hide behind the sofa when the sun is shining in your face through the lounge window?"
 

"I was in Marks and Spencers at lunchtime, and as I was passing the womens lingerie department, and noticed some of the dummies I couldn't help but think of them coming alive and coming after me. What a way to go."
 

"The episode title and the writer didn't seem to fit the style of the title sequence, and I'm sure fellow typographers here will agree that the leading was too tight, and that 'ROSE' should've been several sizes bigger in relation to the author."
 

Tom Baker - "The new man's big mistake is dressing too casually - you should always wear something distinctive then you can annoy people by refusing to wear it."

Peter Davison - "If I'd held hands with Janet she would've kicked me in the balls."

Colin Baker - "Oh! Imagine the pudding eating contests we could've had with Clive."

Sylvester McCoy - "It's no good asking me - I can't remember anything about Doctor Who. I enjoyed it though."

Paul McGann - "Even one line about Doctor 'Oo will cost yer ten grand."