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|image           = [[File:Jackie_Tyler.jpg|250px]]
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|individual name = Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler|
|alias        = [[Rose Tyler]]
|alias          = Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Prentice<br>[[Rose Tyler]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')
|species      = Human
|race            = [[Human]]
|origin        = [[London]]
|home planet    = [[Earth]]<br>[[Pete's World]] (adopted)
|birth date    = [[1 February]] [[1967]]
|home era        = [[20th century|20th]] - [[21st century]]
|mother        = Jackie Tyler's mother
|appearances    = [[Jackie Tyler - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]]
|father        = Prentice (Army of Ghosts)
|actor           = [[Camille Coduri]]
|spouse        = Peter Tyler
}}
|spouse2      = Peter Tyler (Pete's World)
'''Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler''' (née '''Prentice'''), born [[1st February]] [[1967]], was a resident of early [[21st century]] [[London]] and the mother of [[Rose Tyler]]. She lived with Rose in a council flat on the [[Powell Estate]].
|child        = Rose Tyler
|child2        = Tony Tyler
|grandchild    = Mia (Empire of the Wolf)
|job          = Dinner lady
|job2          = hairdresser
|affiliation  = Children of Time
|affiliation2  = UNIT (Pete's World)
|affiliation3  = companion support group
|first cs      = Rose (TV story)
|first mention cs = The Trip of a Lifetime (TV story)
|appearances  = {{appears}}
|actor         = Camille Coduri
|clip          = The Void Ship - Doctor Who - Army of Ghosts - Series 2 - BBC
|bts          = Rose's mum- Dr Who Confidential - BBC sci-fi
|bts2          = The Story of Rose Tyler The Women Who Lived Doctor Who
}}{{Jackie Tyler counterparts}}
'''Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler''' ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}) (née '''Prentice'''), ([[TV]]: {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}}) often called just '''Jackie''' ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}, {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, etc.) and '''Jacks''', ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mars (WiDW short story)}}, {{cs|Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)}}) born [[1 February]] [[1967]], was the mother of [[Rose Tyler]]. She lived with Rose in [[48 Bucknall House|a council flat]] on the [[Powell Estate]]. [[Widow|Widowed]] following the death of her husband, Jackie was a single mother.


Jackie was a single mother, her husband [[Pete Tyler]] having died in [[1987]] when Rose was six months old, and did not seem to have any form of steady employment.
== Biography ==
=== Prior to meeting the Ninth Doctor ===
Jacqueline Prentice was the daughter of Rose's [[Grandad Prentice]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') Her birthday was [[1 February]] [[1967]].{{note|Rose, without prompting from another character native to Pete's World, says her mother's forty and notes 1 February as "mum's birthday".}} ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') She had an uncle named [[Tony (Retail Therapy)|Tony]] who told her to "never punch a gift horse in the throat". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Retail Therapy (audio story)|Retail Therapy]]'')


==Biography==
As a child, she loved ''[[The Magic Roundabout]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sin-Eaters (comic story)|Sin-Eaters]]'')
===Meeting [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]]===
[[File:Jackie1.jpg|thumb|left|Jackie after an [[Auton]] raid ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')]]
Jackie first met [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] after [[Henrik's|the department store]] where Rose worked was destroyed. When the Doctor arrived at the flat Jackie and Rose shared, Jackie attempted to flirt with the Doctor, to little avail. This first encounter set the stage for a sometimes antagonistic relationship between the two. During the final phase of the [[Auton]] invasion, several Autons attacked Jackie, but her life was spared when Rose and the Doctor managed to destroy the physical form of the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
[[File:Jackie2.jpg|thumb|right|Jackie talking to Rose ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'')]]
When Rose left with the Doctor in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], she intended to be back within hours, and the Doctor actually modified Rose's [[Superphone|cellphone]] to allow her to contact her mum from anywhere in time and space. Indeed, Rose phoned her mother from the far future (not long before the Earth was destroyed, in fact). ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'')


However, when Rose did return to London, although it had only been a few days by her reckoning, she discovered that a year had elapsed on Earth due to a miscalculation by the Doctor. Out of her mind with worry, Jackie had in the intervening year organised a poster campaign to search for her missing daughter, and even accused Rose's boyfriend [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] of murdering her. When Rose returned, Jackie was furious with the Doctor for taking her away. Jackie also could not understand why Rose would not tell her where she had been, but discovered the truth when she saw the TARDIS. She was also nearly killed by a [[Slitheen]] disguised as a [[policeman]] (which she killed herself in the end using an idea the Doctor came up with), and began to truly appreciate how dangerous Rose's new lifestyle was when the Doctor ended the Slitheen's plans by calling a missile strike down on [[10 Downing Street]] where he and Rose were trapped at the time. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''/''[[World War Three]]'')
Jackie met [[Odessa Smith]], [[Sarah Clark]], [[Suzie (Father's Day)|Suzie]] and [[Bev (Father's Day)|Bev]] and in the 1980s, they formed the "[[Wednesday Girls]]", who met every Wednesday night for wine and chips. She was also the karaoke champion of 'the Spinning Wheel' and the life and soul of every party she went to. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})


While Jackie appears flighty at times, she genuinely loves her daughter and is extremely concerned for her safety, particularly given the life the Doctor leads. Even though her attitude towards the Doctor softened from hostility to grudging acceptance, she continued to worry about Rose and waited for her daughter's return. (To the Doctor's credit, he did make an effort to return Rose home periodically, even if at times it seemed almost as if the whole purpose was to allow Rose to get some laundry done. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')
At some point, Jackie married [[Pete Tyler]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') Jackie gave birth to a daughter called [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], who was born ''[[Rose Tyler#Age|circa]]'' [[1986]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Unquiet Dead (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, etc.) or on [[27 April]] [[1987]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet Rose (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}}, {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}}) The day Rose was born, Odessa brought her son [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] to see Jackie's newly born baby. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})


Despite Rose's idyllic image of her parents' marriage, the relationship she saw when she travelled with the Doctor back to [[1987]] was stormy, and Jackie was threatening to divorce Pete. However, these fights were short-lived, and it was clear that both Jackie and Pete loved each other despite the arguments. After Pete's death, Jackie would tell Rose about her father, painting a picture of Pete as the ideal husband he was not. Unknown to Jackie, however, her memories of the day Pete died were forever altered when Rose changed history; Jackie now remembered a young woman kneeling over Pete's body, not realizing this was Rose from the future. ([[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'')
Jackie and Pete's relationship was stormy, with Jackie sometimes branding Pete a failure and often suspecting him of being unfaithful. Their fights were short-lived however and it was clear that Jackie and Pete loved each other despite their arguments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'')


When the Doctor sent Rose back to her own time to escape the [[Battle of the Game Station|Dalek attack]], Jackie was initially glad to have her daughter home again and said she loved the Doctor for having the presence of mind to send Rose out of danger. However, she eventually helped Rose open the TARDIS console and return to help the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')
On the [[7th November]] [[1987]], Jackie attended [[Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding]], but Pete was killed in a [[hit-and-run]] incident while on his way to the wedding. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Ghost Machines (audio story)}}) In the original timeline, Jackie received the news of her husband's death while she was at [[143 Enoch Tower|home]] in the [[Powell Estate]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})


===Trusting [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]===
Following Pete's death, Jackie raised her daughter on her own, as a single parent. She often told Rose about her father. While travelling with the Doctor, an older Rose travelled back to 1987, saved Pete from his original fate, and met a young Jackie. Jackie remembered a young woman kneeling over Pete's body. She had no idea that it was her daughter from the future. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}}) To make a living, Jackie worked as a [[hairdresser]] from home. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet Rose (short story)}})
Jackie was one of the first people to encounter the Doctor after he regenerated into his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] though, like Rose, it took Jackie a while to realize this younger-looking man was the same Doctor she'd met earlier. Still, her relationship with the [[Tenth Doctor]] was warmer than it was with his earlier incarnation, as evidenced early on when she allowed the Doctor to attend Christmas dinner with her and Rose. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')


Jackie comforted Rose, after returning from a [[Pete's World|parallel world]], where Pete was still alive and Jackie had been turned into a Cyberman; Rose was upset as Mickey had decided to stay in that world, and the Doctor had to seal off the world, so Rose could never visit. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Jackie was probably upset too, as she and Mickey had become good friends.
Every Christmas after Pete was killed, Jackie served her guests dry [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]], had too much [[brandy]] and got drunk. She would then start crying about Pete and get the photo albums out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (novelisation)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')


At some point after this, she befriended [[Elton Pope]], a young man searching for the Doctor, not realizing he's just using her to get to Rose and the Doctor. The two's relationship actually progresses to the point where it begins to get physical, but the proceedings are interrupted by a call from Rose. She subsequently realizes she is just being used by Elton to get to the Doctor.  While she was hurt by Elton's actions, he really did want to be friends with her and she helped him realize his feelings for [[Ursula]].  She apparently called Rose to tell her about what Elton did and it led to Rose and the Doctor tracking Elton down so Rose could yell at him, leading to the two saving his life from a monsterous alien. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
When Rose was young, a cat sometimes wandered into Rose and Jackie's apartment. Despite Jackie's many attempts to get rid of it, she eventually gave in and the cat stayed, with it living for five more years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cat Came Back (short story)|The Cat Came Back]]'')


Jackie eventually accepted the Doctor as part of her life, even showering him with kisses upon one of his returns with Rose ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''). In 2007, Jackie was one of many who were fooled into believing that the sudden appearance of [[ghost]]s around the world were in fact deceased relatives (specifically her father). She was initially hostile to the Doctor's skepticism about this. Following an attempt at discovering the ghosts' true nature by the Doctor, Jackie found herself aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialized and arrived at [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood headquarters]]. With Rose having been sent out to reconnoiter, Jackie was forced to impersonate her own daughter as she and the Doctor were captured by Torchwood. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')
Jackie's [[Prentice (Army of Ghosts)|father]] died around [[1997]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'')


===[[Pete's World|A New Home]]===
When Rose was twelve, she begged Jackie for a [[red]] [[bicycle]] for Christmas, but Jackie said no because she couldn't afford it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Red Bicycle (short story)|The Red Bicycle]]'')
Over the next few hours, Jackie found herself in the middle of what would be called the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], as [[Cybus Cybermen|Cybermen]] from [[Pete's World|an alternate Earth]] and [[Dalek]]s battled for supremacy over Earth. During these events, Jackie was reunited with her dead husband, Pete, only [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|a version from the alternate Earth]] whose own [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]] had been assimilated by the Cybermen. They almost immediately began a relationship. Soon after, Jackie, along with Rose, were forced to escape to "Pete's World", with no apparent way to return to their Earth. Jackie, along with Rose, is declared dead on their Earth, victims of the battle. On Pete's World, however, Jackie eventually gave birth to a son, [[Tony Tyler]], though she also had to deal with comforting Rose, who was left emotionally devastated by being separated from the Doctor, with whom she had fallen in love. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
===[[Journey's End|Fighting]] the [[Dalek]]s===
Over the next few years, Rose worked to find a way back to the Doctor in order to warn him about the impending [[reality bomb|collapse of reality]]. She succeeded in returning to her original Earth (after a [[Turn Left|detour]] into [[Donna's World|an alternate timeline]]). Soon after, Jackie, accompanied by Mickey, also returned to their original Earth in order to help her daughter. One of the first people Jackie encounters upon her return was [[Sarah Jane Smith]].  In fact, she and Mickey teleported in just as Sarah Jane was about to be killed and Jackie killed one of the two Daleks about to do it herself while Mickey killed the other one.  Given Rose's reaction to her presence, Jackie wasn't supposed to follow her to stop the Daleks, but she did it because she was worried about Rose and wanted to help her. Now a more self-assured, less self-absorbed individual, Jackie worked alongside Sarah Jane, Mickey, and [[Jack Harkness]] to help rescue the Doctor and the Earth from a Dalek invasion.  While Mickey disagrees with Sarah Jane's plan to surrender in order to get to the [[Crucible]], Jackie immediatly agrees, knowing that that's where the Doctor and Rose have been taken.  There, Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane become test subjects for the Reality Bomb, but Sarah Jane and Mickey manage to escape while Jackie comforts a fallen prisoner.  In the nick of time Jackie's teleport recharges and she manages to teleport to saftey, being forced to leave behind the person she stopped to help to her despair. In the ensuing battle, Jackie is reunited with Rose and also encounters [[Martha Jones]] and [[Donna Noble]].  When the Earth is towed back to where it belongs, Jackie, along with the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] and Donna Noble doesn't pilot the TARDIS along with everyone else with the Doctor specificly telling her "no, no Jackie, not you, just stand back." Following the defeat of [[Davros]], the Doctor returns Jackie to Pete's World so that she can be reunited with her husband and son (Jackie can't resist sending the wind up the Doctor one last time, however, by initially making him believe she named her son "Doctor"). She watched as the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|Doctor's clone]] agreed to stay behind and begin a life with Rose, and the original Doctor departed Pete's World, possibly for the last time. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')


==Undated Events==
Jackie was delighted when Rose started dating Mickey, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) although she was unimpressed when Rose dumped Mickey some time later and started a relationship with local bad boy [[Jimmy Stone]], especially after Rose moved out to live with him in a [[bedsit]]. The relationship ended in tears five months later, and Jackie prided herself on helping Rose get over the relationship. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Flight Into Hull! (audio story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet Rose (short story)}}) Some time after, Jackie was once again delighted when Rose rekindled her relationship with Mickey. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})
* Jackie nearly fell for a scheme to take [[human]]s "on holiday" to fight in an [[alien]] war. A thug who lived in the council estate mugged Jackie and took the "winning ticket" that qualified her for the vacation. Jackie ended up in [[hospital]], but her assailant fared worse: he took her place as a remote-controlled soldier on an alien planet, and was killed. ([[NSA]]: ''[[Winner Takes All]]'')


* A time-lost [[Neanderthal]] flirted with Jackie at a [[London]] nightclub before [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] steered him away from her. (Captain Jack and Jackie never actually met; Jack scaned Jackie's [[DNA]] with his wrist device and identified her as [[Rose Tyler]]'s mother.) ([[NSA]]: ''[[Only Human]]'')
On [[1 January]] [[2005]], Rose voiced dismay about Jackie's dead-end relationship with a man called [[Jimbo (The End of Time)|Jimbo]]. Jackie responded that she thought she would not find anyone better at her age, but Rose reassured her that she would find someone one day, which was witnessed by the [[Tenth Doctor]] just before his impending [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})


* Rose used the "[[superphone]]" to call Jackie from a human colony world in the future. Jackie complained that Rose did not let her know she was going to be in [[Cardiff]] during her [[Boom Town|recent visit]] to the city. ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Stealers of Dreams]]'')
=== Meeting the Ninth Doctor ===
[[File:Jackie1.jpg|thumb|left|Jackie after an [[Auton]] raid. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')]]
Jackie suggested to Rose after the destruction of [[Henrik's]] that she get compensation. Jackie first met the [[Ninth Doctor]] when Rose invited him in to talk about the [[Auton]] attack on Henrik's, and flirted with him to no avail. During the final phase of the attempted Auton invasion, Autons attacked Jackie while she was out shopping at [[Queen's Arcade]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}) after travelling to [[Oxford Street]] to get a compensation form for Rose after Henrik's exploded, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) but she was saved when Rose destroyed the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})


==Personality==
When Rose left with the Doctor in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], she intended to be back within hours. When Rose returned to London, although it had only been a few days for her, a year had elapsed on Earth due to a miscalculation by the Doctor. During that time, out of her mind with worry, Jackie organised a poster campaign for her missing daughter and even accused Rose's boyfriend Mickey of murdering her. When the police failed to find any evidence against Mickey, she began a hate campaign against him, eventually resulting in him being under suspicion from everyone. When Rose returned, a furious Jackie slapped the Doctor for taking her away.
When Jackie is first introduced she has a very strong personality and while she cares greatly for Rose, she doesn't like the Doctor much. This may be due to him taking her daughter away for a year, by accident. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'') She doesn't seem to have a problem speaking her mind and doesn't mind physically hitting someone as she does with the Doctor. She's actually one of the few things that scare him. As time goes on however, she grows to like and respect him especialy after he sticks to his word and sends Rose back home safely away from the Daleks ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'') and increasingly in his tenth incarnation. Jackie also thinks her husband's ideas were daft, but she may have changed that opinion after seeing the success of her husband in an alternate world. She also seems reluctant to help someone in need out as she needs a lot of convincing to help Rose and Mickey out with their plan to save the Doctor although she ultimately does provide the solution to their problem. When she finds out that Elton Pope was using her to get to the Doctor, she yells at him and tells him that its very hard for her to have to stay behind and not hear from Rose much and Jackie also expresses that she will protect the Doctor for as long as she can. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') She clearly misses Rose terribly and gets tearful after a conversation with her. She may also panic easily as when she accidently comes with the Doctor to Torchwood, she is so frightened by what's happening that she can barley tell him where she is. Also she somewhat despises Mickey Smith and is horrified to be rescued by him during the Slitheen invasion, but later they form a close friendship. When she returns to Earth from [[Pete's World]] to rescue her daughter from the [[Dalek]]s, she exhibits more self-confidence than before and is even seen handling a weapon. Nonetheless, the Doctor doesn't have enough faith in her to allow her to work some controls in the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
[[File:Jackie attacked by Slitheen Aliens of London.jpg|thumb|Jackie under attack by the [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'')]]
*Jackie was originally named "Judy".
She also could not understand why Rose would not tell her where she had been but learned the truth when she saw the TARDIS. Fearful for her daughter's safety, she contacted an emergency helpline, which alerted [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] to the Doctor's presence. They escorted the Doctor and Rose to [[Downing Street]]. [[Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], who was disguised as a [[policeman]], attacked Jackie due to her association with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})
*Although generally not considered a companion, Jackie fulfils much of the duties of a companion during her unintentional sojourn in the TARDIS in ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday]]''. Her role in ''[[Journey's End]]'' would seem to indicate that she is considered to be a companion on some level, since the writers include her in the group of 'proper companions' who directly assist the Doctor in the episode.
**The DWM guide to the Tenth Doctor lists her as a companion, however she is not considered to be one by the majority of fans.


==External Links==
The Doctor, having remotely electrocuted Sip Fel-Fotch with an electrified [[ID card]], prevented him from killing Jackie. Mickey then rescued her and escaped with her to [[Mickey Smith's flat|his flat]]. Sip Fel-Fotch tracked down Mickey and Jackie and began breaking into Mickey's flat. With the help of the Doctor, Jackie used all of the [[vinegar]] she could find in the flat to kill the [[calcium]]-based lifeform that was weakened by his [[compression field]].
* [http://www.powellestate.org.uk/ Powell Estate Tenants and Residents Association]  


==See Also==
[[File:Jackie scared World War Three.jpg|thumb|left|Jackie, frightened for [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]'s safety. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')]]
*[[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler from a parallel world]]
Jackie began to understand how dangerous Rose's new life was when the Doctor ended the [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]]'s [[London UFO crash|plans]] to make the Earth into a piece of cheap, radioactive starship fuel by calling down a missile strike on [[10 Downing Street]] where he and Rose were trapped. Rose survived the attack and rushed home to let Jackie know she had made it. Making an effort to understand her daughter's new life, Jackie invited the Doctor for dinner, but he refused.
 
When ready to go travelling again, Rose promised that, because the TARDIS was a [[time machine]], she could travel to the end of the universe and back and it would have only been ten seconds. However, after the TARDIS dematerialised, Rose did not return in ten seconds and Jackie walked off. ([[TV]]: {{cs|World War Three (TV story)}})
 
Two weeks later, while going through some old possessions of her, she came across a [[video]] from the [[1980s]] of [[Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding|a wedding]], which she shared with Mickey having now reconciled with him. Mickey was shocked to see the Doctor and Rose in some shots, leading him to speculate about the Doctor's motives. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Essay Competition (short story)}})
 
Jackie nearly fell for a scheme to take [[human]]s "on holiday" to fight in an [[alien]] war. [[Darren Pye]], thug who lived in the council estate mugged her and took the "winning ticket" that qualified her for the vacation. Jackie ended up in [[hospital]], but her assailant fared worse. He took her place as a remote-controlled soldier on an alien planet and was killed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winner Takes All (novel)|Winner Takes All]]'')
 
The time-lost [[Neanderthal]] [[Das (Only Human)|Das]] flirted with Jackie at a [[London]] nightclub before Captain [[Jack Harkness]] steered him away from her. Jack and Jackie did not meet at this time. Jack scanned Jackie's [[DNA]] with his wrist device and identified her as Rose's mother. He had heard that she "wouldn't appreciate any more Doctor-related weirdness in her life". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Only Human (novel)}})
 
Rose used the "[[superphone]]" to call Jackie from a human colony world in the future. Jackie complained Rose had not let her know she had been in [[Cardiff]] during her [[Boom Town (TV story)|recent visit]] to the city. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stealers of Dreams (novel)|The Stealers of Dreams]]'') Soon afterwards, Rose paid Jackie a visit. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Jackie became a very successful [[entrepreneur]] and saleswoman on the Powell Estate from her [[Glubby Glub]]s which helped people sleep for eight or nine full hours, better than medication. However, it turned out that Jackie was unknowingly involved in a plot to steal people's energy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Retail Therapy (audio story)|Retail Therapy]]'')
 
When the Doctor sent Rose back to her own time to escape a [[Battle of the Game Station|Dalek attack]], Jackie was glad to have her daughter home. She said she loved the Doctor for sending Rose out of danger. Whilst comforting her, Jackie reacted badly to the revelation that Rose was by Pete's side when he died. However, reminded of her husband's penchant for daft ideas, she eventually helped Rose open the TARDIS console by using [[Rodrigo (The Parting of the Ways)|Rodrigo]]'s truck, enabling her to return and help the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') As Rose never contacted either her or Mickey after leaving in the TARDIS, Mickey assumed the worst, that she had died, but Jackie held out that Rose would return. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mars (WiDW short story)}})
 
Jackie began dating a fruit vendor named [[Howard (The Christmas Invasion)|Howard]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
 
=== Trusting the Tenth Doctor ===
[[File:Jackie Cornered by Roboform Tree.jpg|thumb|left|"I'm going to get killed by a Christmas tree!" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')]]
Jackie was one of the first people to encounter the Doctor after he regenerated into his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
 
While the Doctor, Rose and Mickey were on the [[Sycorax]] ship, Jackie was briefly visited by the [[Third Doctor]], [[Jo Grant]] and Captain [[Mike Yates]], who had been answering a distress call they had received in the TARDIS. The "distress call" was actually a transmission made by [[Prime minister]] [[Harriet Jones]]. Although Jackie initially assumed that the Doctor she knew had changed again and Jo and Mike were the 'regenerated' Rose and Mickey, she soon came to understand that the Third Doctor was a younger version of the Doctor she knew. She was briefly concerned about the implications of Jo travelling with the Doctor, wondering if this meant that Rose was just the latest in a long line of companions rather than someone unique and concerned about what had happened to the others who had gone before. Studying Jackie's Christmas tree, the Doctor was attacked and nearly suffocated by one of the sentient ornaments. Jackie was able to free him by feeding it Christmas pudding and brandy instead.
 
Using the internet, the Doctor discovered that UNIT's secret HQ was no longer a building marked with a sign reading "UNIT Headquarters," and that instead it had been moved underneath the [[Tower of London]]. As the group left in the TARDIS, Jackie insisted on joining them to help take her mind off of Rose's predicament.
 
At the Tower, they were denied entrance by a [[Beefeater]], who believed the Doctor to be one of the several imposters who were attempting to steal classified information by pretending to be the Doctor. Before they could convince him that they were genuine, the [[Tenth Doctor]] was able to free those being controlled by the [[Sycorax]].
[[File:Twelve Doctors of Christmas Jackie and Mike Yates.jpg|thumb|Jackie and [[Mike Yates]] rush to assist the [[Third Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Christmas Inversion (short story)|The Christmas Inversion]]'')]]
 
Returning to Jackie's flat, the group had a brief encounter with {{Delgado}}, trapped by another killer Christmas tree decoration after following the Doctor to her flat. The Master had followed the Doctor to join the Sycorax in helping enslave the human population, but he agreed to leave after being let go. Before he left, the Doctor assured Jackie and Jo that he would never make anyone leave him; and that all of his companions left him instead. Looking forward to finally meeting Jackie for the first time, the Doctor briefly flirted with her before taking off in the TARDIS once again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Christmas Inversion (short story)|The Christmas Inversion]]'')
 
Following this encounter, her relationship with the Tenth Doctor was warmer than his [[Ninth Doctor|earlier incarnation]]; she allowed the Doctor to attend [[Christmas]] dinner with Rose and her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') At some point, Rose confided in her mother about her encounters with the [[Dalek]]s, admitting that they had terrified her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
=== A life on Earth, a daughter among the stars ===
Jackie posed as the Doctor's new [[girlfriend]] and [[kiss]]ed him in front of Rose in order to drive out the jealousy-eating [[Iagnon]] from her. She later kissed him again just to make sure there wasn't more than one creature inside her. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Green-Eyed Monster (comic story)|The Green-Eyed Monster]]'')
 
Jackie became stalked by [[Jack Harkness]] as a means of keeping an eye on her and Rose whilst he was stuck on Earth. However, one day Jackie found the Powell Estate completely deserted except for Jack. They joined forces to investigate and discovered it was the work of the [[Harvester (Wednesdays For Beginners)|Harvesters]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wednesdays For Beginners (audio story)|Wednesdays For Beginners]]'')
 
Jackie comforted Rose after she returned from a [[Pete's World|parallel world]] where Pete was alive and Jackie had been turned into a [[Cyberman]]. Mickey had decided to stay in that world, and the Doctor had to seal off it off, so Rose could never visit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
 
She decided to visit her school friend [[Marge Ellmore]] in [[Norwich]]. When the [[Zaross]] invaded she called Rose. She told Marge that Rose was more than a cashier. She was taken by the [[Zaross]] to their mothership, where she was to be made up as a rebel with [[Jess Ellmore]]. She stole one of the weapons on the ship, but it turned out to be a prop. She then helped the Doctor in his plans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Infamy of the Zaross (audio story)|Infamy of the Zaross]]'')
 
Jack Harkness took Jackie on a luxury cruise in space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crush (audio story)|Crush]]'')
 
She went for a job at Lady [[Christina de Souza]]'s house as a cleaner on [[River Song]]'s advice. She started getting freaked out when she heard creepy voices. Christina showed her the value of the necklace that Jackie took from Rose's bedroom. She was convinced by [[Jonty (Two's Company)|Jonty]] to sell it. She encountered the Doctor during his degeneration crisis and chastised him. She then helped him investigate the other Doctor at the [[UNIT]] facility. The Doctor told her that she would forget this meeting due to fall out from the degeneration energy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Two's Company (audio story)|Two's Company]]'')
 
=== Here come the Ghosts ===
She befriended [[Elton Pope]], a young man searching for the Doctor, unaware he was using her to get to the Doctor. Their relationship progressed to her forcing Elton to take off his clothes. The proceedings were interrupted by a call from Rose. Jackie discovered a photograph of Rose in Elton's coat and realised the truth. She angrily told Elton she would protect the Doctor and Rose, no matter what. She later told Rose about what Elton had done. Rose and the Doctor tracked down Elton so Rose could yell at him, leading to saving his life from [[Abzorbaloff|a monstrous alien]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'')
 
[[File:Jackie worries how Rose will turn out.jpg|thumb|left|"And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman, this strange woman, walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. But she's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human." ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
Jackie accepted the Doctor as part of her life, showering him with [[kiss]]es upon one of his returns with Rose. In 2007, Jackie was one of many fooled into believing the [[ghost]]s appearing around the world were deceased relatives, in her case, her father. She was hostile to the Doctor's scepticism about this. While the Doctor investigated a ghost sighting, Jackie told her daughter how she feared this life of not settling down, and always travelling, because it had caused her to change radically from the girl who used to work in a shop. Rose had not enjoyed a fulfilling experience in her old job at Henrik's and defended that she had changed for the better.
 
Jackie supposed this was true, but seemed distressed that she had also worked in a shop and Rose's negative reaction was a jab at her own welfare. Rose insisted she didn't mean it that way, and Jackie replied she knew what Rose really meant to say. Although it upset Rose, Jackie confronted her with the belief that if she died, Rose would have no reason to come back home to Earth and stay travelling forever, changing more and more until she no longer resembled her daughter, even to the point she forgot how to be human. This caused Rose to sober up and think about having a more stable life.
 
Jackie found herself aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialised and arrived at [[Torchwood One|Torchwood headquarters]], warning the Doctor if they ended up on Mars, she'd kill him. When Torchwood surrounded the TARDIS in a hostile manner, the Doctor initiated a plan to observe their background operations. Rose was sent out to reconnoitre. Jackie impersonated Rose when she and the Doctor were captured by Torchwood. The Doctor's unflattering remarks about his companion ageing by fifty-seven years after looking into the Heart of the TARDIS and being delusional about her real age of forty earned him an icy stare. The humour did not last long when a major conflict spilled out inside Torchwood's compound. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'')
 
=== A new home ===
Jackie found herself in the middle of the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. [[Cybusman|Cybermen]] from [[Pete's World|an alternate Earth]] and [[Dalek]]s battled over Earth. Jackie thought she was reunited with the ghost of her dead husband, Pete, only to learn that it was [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|a version from the alternate Earth]] whose own [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]] had been assimilated by the Cybermen. They almost immediately began a relationship. Soon after, Jackie and Rose had to escape to the alternate world, with no apparent way to return to their Earth. Jackie and Rose were declared dead on their Earth, victims of the battle. On the parallel Earth, however, Jackie gave birth to a son, [[Tony Tyler]]. She also had to deal with comforting Rose, who was emotionally devastated by her separation from the Doctor, with whom she had fallen in love. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
Over the next few years, Rose worked to find a way back to the Doctor to warn him about the impending [[reality bomb|collapse of reality]]. Rose built the [[Dimension cannon]] to travel between parallel worlds, and, on one trip, Jackie accompanied her. In this [[Parallel universe (The Last Party on Earth)|parallel world]], Jackie met Mickey's mother, [[Odessa Smith (The Last Party on Earth)|Odessa]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Party on Earth (audio story)|The Last Party on Earth]]'')
 
=== Fighting the Daleks ===
Rose returned to her original Earth after a [[Turn Left (TV story)|detour]] into [[parallel world (Turn Left)|a parallel world]]. Soon after, Jackie and Mickey also returned to their original Earth to help Rose. One of the first people Jackie encountered was [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. Jackie and Mickey arrived as Sarah Jane was about to be killed by two Daleks. Jackie killed one of the Daleks while Mickey killed the other.
 
Now a more self-assured, less self-absorbed individual, Jackie worked alongside Sarah Jane, Mickey and [[Jack Harkness]] to rescue the Doctor and save Earth. While Mickey disagreed with Sarah Jane's plan to surrender to get to the [[Crucible]], Jackie immediately agreed, knowing that the Doctor and Rose would be there. Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane were made test subjects for the reality bomb. Sarah Jane and Mickey escaped while Jackie comforted a [[Scared woman (Journey's End)|fallen prisoner]]. In the nick of time, Jackie's teleport recharged and she escaped to safety. In the ensuing battle, Jackie was reunited with Rose and met [[Martha Jones]] and [[Donna Noble]]. When Earth was towed back to where it belonged, Jackie didn't pilot the TARDIS along with everyone else. The Doctor specifically told her, "No, no Jackie, not you, just stand back".
 
Afterwards, Mickey said his goodbyes to her. He wasn't returning to the parallel world. There was nothing left for him there and he said that he was going to miss her the most. Jackie embraced Mickey in a final goodbye. Following the defeat of [[Davros]], the Doctor returned Jackie to the alternate Earth to reunite her with her husband and son. Jackie couldn't resist winding up the Doctor one last time by making him believe she had named her son "Doctor". She watched as the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor (Journey's End)|Meta-Crisis clone]] agreed to stay behind and begin a life with Rose and the original Doctor departed for the last time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
=== Life with the Meta-Crisis Doctor ===
Jackie later joined [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce (Pete's World)|UNIT]] along with the Meta-Crisis Doctor, Pete and Rose after [[the Preachers]] were combined with Torchwood by President Harriet Jones. She became head of the food department. Jackie made friends with [[Beryl Thompson]], whose N-Space counterpart she had been friends with. She and Beryl would often have tea or a "cheeky veno" and Jackie would tell Beryl stories about her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]], [[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'')
 
One Tuesday, all UNIT personnel were called away to a reported Cybus factory, leaving just Jackie and the Doctor in the headquarters. When alarms sounded, they retreated to his lab, where Jackie was furious to discover he’d been growing a TARDIS, believing he was planning to abandon Rose. A group of aliens appeared on the monitor, claiming to have the UNIT personnel including Rose and Pete hostage and demanding the Doctor’s time machine. He planned to blow up the base to deprive them of the TARDIS, however Jackie talked him out of it and got him to think properly. They discovered the aliens were illusions and Brigadier [[Krista Lateef]] revealed herself as the culprit, wanting the Doctor’s TARDIS to save [[Krista Lateef's daughter|her daughter]] from [[cyber-conversion]]. Jackie talked her down, promising not to tell anyone what she’d done. However the Doctor promptly reported Krista to Pete regardless, infuriating Jackie. She later called Beryl to tell her about what had happened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')
 
Pete and Rose conspired to get Jackie and the Doctor alone together on a zeppelin flight to Hull so they would talk to each other again. During the awkward flight, the zeppelin was boarded by a version of Jackie from another parallel universe, seeking to replace Jackie as the start of an invasion. Jackie tried to talk her out of it, telling her to find another way to save her Earth than take over this one, and eventually the Doctor forced her to retreat by forcing the zeppelin on a crash course. He was unable to correct the flight however, so they comforted each other in the cockpit and she came to understand that he did genuinely love Rose. The Doctor then found parachutes, enabling them to escape the zeppelin before it crashed into a river. Jackie later called Beryl to tell her about the flight, teasing her that she’d been replaced by her counterpart at one point. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'')
 
Jackie became a grandmother when Rose and the Doctor had a baby together, [[Mia (Empire of the Wolf)|Mia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'')
 
=== Return to the Doctor's universe ===
In the [[2010s]],{{note|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)}} is set after [[Donna Noble]]'s mindwipe in [[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)|part=Two}}.}} ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)|part=Two}}) a mysterious "Host", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)|page=186-205}}) secretly [[River Song]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Know Your Enemy (short story)}}) extracted Jackie through unknown means from her home universe and brought her back to [[the Doctor's universe|the Doctor's]]. There, she was made to be an interviewee for [[My Daughter Ran Away... With An Alien!|an episode]] of ''[[Judge, Jury and Executioner]]'', a supposed television programme. The Host — intent on their belief that [[the Doctor]] only put people in danger — asked Jackie about her life after [[Rose Tyler]] began travelling with the Doctor. She recounted how the Doctor had "[[Ninth Doctor's regeneration|changed his face]]" upon his return to [[Powell Estate|the Estate]] and how she had unwillingly taken him in to Rose's room so he could recover. She also felt Rose was a little full of herself as she had talked about how she saved the world and met [[Harriet Jones]]. Jackie continued, referencing how she was almost killed by a [[Christmas tree]], but was stopped by the Host as they welcomed [[Sylvia Noble]] to the show.
 
During the show, Jackie commented on having met [[Robot Santa]]s and how the Doctor scared them off with his "[[Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sunny screwdriver]]", how Rose couldn't wait to go back to travelling with the Doctor but still managed to occasionally pop in and give her little presents from other [[planet]]s and the occasional [[phone call]], how she was glad Harriet Jones blew up "[[Fire Trap|that great dirty spaceship]]". She remembered the "[[Cybusman|Zybermen]]", but began to remember how she was transported to another universe in the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], but the Host guided her back to talk about the Cybermen. She was happy the Doctor sent them and the [[Bronze Dalek|Daleks]] to [[Hell]].
 
Jackie also commented on having met [[Martha Jones]] when [[Francine Jones]] was brought onto the show. She asked Francine about the places the Doctor took Martha, but mistakenly believed Francine had waited months for her daughter to return when in fact it had only been at most [[3 (number)|three]] [[day]]s. [[Wilfred Mott]] then was welcomed onto the show, and he asked Jackie if Rose was her daughter and if she was proud — Jackie was. Shortly after, however, Wilf twigged that he had no idea how he got there and wsd concerned about if [[Donna Noble|Donna]] was watching, in turn causing Jackie to realise that she wasn't even supposed to be in this universe. She asked for her family, for anyone, but the show ended before any resolution could be seen. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)|page=186-205}})
 
[[File:Companion Support Group TGA.png|thumb|right|Although offline, Jackie Tyler is a part of the [[companion support group]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Recurring Threats: The Daleks (short story)|page=25}})]]
In [[2022]], [[Graham O'Brien]], [[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Dan Lewis]] attended a [[companion support group]] which included [[Jo Jones]], [[Tegan Jovanka]], [[Melanie Bush]], [[Kate Stewart]], and [[Ian Chesterton]], who attended in person. There was also a laptop set up on a chair, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}) which had streams from [[Ryan Sinclair]], [[Martha Jones]] and Jackie coming though. Jackie, however, was offline ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Recurring Threats: The Daleks (short story)|page=25}}) when Graham spoke about his experiences. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}})
 
=== Undated events ===
At some point, Jackie received a call from Rose while she was watching the Earth die 5 billion years in the future. Jackie thought she had a hangover, as she asked her what day it was (a Wednesday). ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')
 
At some point, Jackie called Rose on the TARDIS, worrying again about her travelling with the [[Ninth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Mystery Date (comic story)|Mystery Date]]'')
 
[[River Song]] once met Jackie. River helped her wash a [[duvet]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[R&J (audio story)|R&J]]'')
 
=== Other realities ===
==== Alternate timelines ====
[[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|In a timeline]] created by [[Rassilon]] allying with the Cybermen, Jackie was left the sole survivor of the [[Powell Estate]] after the Cybermen took it over, being rescued by Rose, Jack and the Doctor. When they reached the TARDIS however, Rose fell victim to the Cybermen's [[techno-virus]], becoming a [[Cyber-Warrior]], killing Jack, before the Doctor too began to be converted. As a last gambit, the Doctor, despite Jackie's protests, overrode the TARDIS's safety protocols to build up enough power to destroy Earth. Before the ship could explode however, its power siphoned away and the upgraded Rose broke into the TARDIS. The timeline was then undone when a remorseful Rassilon joined forces with the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
 
In an [[Sea Devil Earth|alternate timeline]] created by a [[Temporal paradox|paradox]] caused by an [[Multi-Doctor event|encounter]] between the Tenth and [[Thirteenth Doctor|Thirteenth Doctors]], Jackie lived under [[Sea Devil]] occupation. She was still married to [[Peter Tyler (Sea Devil Earth)|Pete]], who didn't die in 1987, and the mother of [[Rose Tyler (Sea Devil Earth)|Rose]]. By [[2020]], she and Pete were held in a Sea Devil prison camp whilst Rose fought with the resistance. Jackie and Pete met the Thirteenth Doctor and [[Team TARDIS|her friends]] whilst they held there. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Alternating Current (comic story)|Alternating Current]]'')
 
==== Parallel universes ====
The [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler of Pete's World]] looked down on people who were lower on the social ladder. In this universe Jackie was still married to Pete, however she had no children. They instead had a dog named [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')'' ''This Jackie was converted into a [[Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]:'' [[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
 
When Rose tested the [[Dimension cannon]] with Pete, she encountered other versions of Jackie from parallel worlds. In [[SoulTech's universe|one world]], [[Jackie Tyler (SoulTech's universe)|Jackie]] was a widow but her [[Pete Tyler (SoulTech's universe)|Pete]] had created [[Artificial Intelligence]] powered by the spirits of the dead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Machines (audio story)|Ghost Machines]]'')
 
In one parallel world, [[Jackie Tyler (Flight Into Hull!)|Jackie]] was brunette and had a son, Tony. Unlike her other selves, she was a scientist. When her Earth's resources were used up, Jackie was the first to travel to Pete's World to begin a full invasion. She met Jackie from N-Space there and the Meta-Crisis Doctor whilst they were aboard a zeppelin. She looked down on her counterpart as a "chav" and intended to replace her, but was forced to retreat when the Doctor sabotaged the zeppelin, setting it on a crash course. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'')
 
== Personality ==
Jackie had a very strong personality. While she cared greatly for Rose, she didn't like the [[Ninth Doctor]] very much. She had no problem speaking her mind and didn't mind hitting someone; she struck the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') Over time she grew to like and respect the Doctor, especially after he stuck to his word and sent Rose back home safely from the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') and increasingly in his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'')
 
While Jackie appeared flighty at times, she loved her daughter and was concerned for her safety, given the life the Doctor led. Her attitude towards the Doctor softened from hostility to grudging acceptance, but she continued to worry about Rose and awaited her daughter's return. The Doctor made an effort to return Rose home periodically, even if it seemed almost as if the whole purpose was to let Rose get some laundry done. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'')
 
She did not react well to terrifying situations. While running from Cybermen, she was so frightened she could barely tell the Doctor where she was. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') She was reluctant to help someone in need. She needed a lot of convincing to help Rose and Mickey out with their plan to save the Doctor, although she ultimately provided the solution to their problem. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'') This particular trait was less prominent later on. When she was unable to save a [[Scared woman (Journey's End)|woman]] from Davros' reality bomb, she voiced deep regret. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
Being alone while Rose was travelling with the Doctor took its toll on Jackie; when she met Elton Pope, she flirted with and attempted to seduce him before chatting to Rose over the phone brought her back to her senses. In her words, "I just go a bit mad." When she learned he was just using her to get to the Doctor, she yelled at him and told him that it was hard for her to have to stay behind and not hear from Rose. She said that she would protect the Doctor for as long as she could. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'')
 
In the year in which she thought Rose was missing, she blamed Mickey for her disappearance. She started a hate campaign and turned the rest of the estate against him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') She was horrified and embarrassed to be rescued by him during the Slitheen invasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'') Later, they formed a close friendship. When Mickey returned to the normal universe for good, he told Jackie she was the one he was going to miss most — more so than Rose. Jackie hugged Mickey and even seemed to understand and sympathise with his choice.
 
When she returned to Earth from [[Pete's World|the parallel Earth]] to rescue her daughter from the [[Dalek]]s, Jackie evinced more self-confidence, even destroying a Dalek threatening Sarah Jane, but the Doctor still didn't let her work the TARDIS controls. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
 
Jackie went on dates with a number of men, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') even attempting to seduce those she was attracted to, ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'') but clearly never stopped loving Pete. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
When she asked for alcohol, Mickey told Jackie, "I've seen you when you've had a few. This ain't time for a conga." ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'')
 
Jackie loved watching ''[[EastEnders]]. ''([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* In [[Russell T Davies]]'s initial pitch for the revival of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'', [[Rose Tyler]]'s mother was originally named Judy.<ref>[[DWMSE 11]]{{which}}</ref>
* Jackie is credited as a companion of the Ninth Doctor in the comic story ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' and enters the TARDIS. However, the events of this story are erased by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Rassilon]] regenerating the universe to stop the Cybermen.
* The "English (United Kingdom)"-language subtitles on the official BBC Youtube channel upload of {{cs|The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel (webcast)}} interject "{JACKIE TYLER!?}" over a brief shot where [[Ellie Oswald]] is talking with a middle-aged blonde woman. Ellie Oswald died on [[5 March]] [[2005]], the day of the [[Operation Mannequin|Nestene invasion of Earth]].
 
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Jackie Tyler
Appearances

Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) (née Prentice), (TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"]) often called just Jackie (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"], Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], etc.) and Jacks, (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], PROSE: Mars [+]Loading...["Mars (WiDW short story)"], Downtime: Child of the New World [+]Loading...["Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)"]) born 1 February 1967, was the mother of Rose Tyler. She lived with Rose in a council flat on the Powell Estate. Widowed following the death of her husband, Jackie was a single mother.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Prior to meeting the Ninth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jacqueline Prentice was the daughter of Rose's Grandad Prentice. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Her birthday was 1 February 1967.[nb 1] (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) She had an uncle named Tony who told her to "never punch a gift horse in the throat". (AUDIO: Retail Therapy)

As a child, she loved The Magic Roundabout. (COMIC: Sin-Eaters)

Jackie met Odessa Smith, Sarah Clark, Suzie and Bev and in the 1980s, they formed the "Wednesday Girls", who met every Wednesday night for wine and chips. She was also the karaoke champion of 'the Spinning Wheel' and the life and soul of every party she went to. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

At some point, Jackie married Pete Tyler. (TV: Father's Day) Jackie gave birth to a daughter called Rose, who was born circa 1986 (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], The Unquiet Dead [+]Loading...["The Unquiet Dead (TV story)"], Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], etc.) or on 27 April 1987. (PROSE: Meet Rose [+]Loading...["Meet Rose (short story)"], TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"], Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) The day Rose was born, Odessa brought her son Mickey to see Jackie's newly born baby. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

Jackie and Pete's relationship was stormy, with Jackie sometimes branding Pete a failure and often suspecting him of being unfaithful. Their fights were short-lived however and it was clear that Jackie and Pete loved each other despite their arguments. (TV: Father's Day)

On the 7th November 1987, Jackie attended Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding, but Pete was killed in a hit-and-run incident while on his way to the wedding. (TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"], AUDIO: Ghost Machines [+]Loading...["Ghost Machines (audio story)"]) In the original timeline, Jackie received the news of her husband's death while she was at home in the Powell Estate. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

Following Pete's death, Jackie raised her daughter on her own, as a single parent. She often told Rose about her father. While travelling with the Doctor, an older Rose travelled back to 1987, saved Pete from his original fate, and met a young Jackie. Jackie remembered a young woman kneeling over Pete's body. She had no idea that it was her daughter from the future. (TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"]) To make a living, Jackie worked as a hairdresser from home. (PROSE: Meet Rose [+]Loading...["Meet Rose (short story)"])

Every Christmas after Pete was killed, Jackie served her guests dry turkey, had too much brandy and got drunk. She would then start crying about Pete and get the photo albums out. (PROSE: The Christmas Invasion)

When Rose was young, a cat sometimes wandered into Rose and Jackie's apartment. Despite Jackie's many attempts to get rid of it, she eventually gave in and the cat stayed, with it living for five more years. (PROSE: The Cat Came Back)

Jackie's father died around 1997. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

When Rose was twelve, she begged Jackie for a red bicycle for Christmas, but Jackie said no because she couldn't afford it. (PROSE: The Red Bicycle)

Jackie was delighted when Rose started dating Mickey, (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) although she was unimpressed when Rose dumped Mickey some time later and started a relationship with local bad boy Jimmy Stone, especially after Rose moved out to live with him in a bedsit. The relationship ended in tears five months later, and Jackie prided herself on helping Rose get over the relationship. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull! [+]Loading...["Flight Into Hull! (audio story)"], PROSE: Meet Rose [+]Loading...["Meet Rose (short story)"]) Some time after, Jackie was once again delighted when Rose rekindled her relationship with Mickey. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

On 1 January 2005, Rose voiced dismay about Jackie's dead-end relationship with a man called Jimbo. Jackie responded that she thought she would not find anyone better at her age, but Rose reassured her that she would find someone one day, which was witnessed by the Tenth Doctor just before his impending regeneration. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

Meeting the Ninth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jackie after an Auton raid. (TV: Rose)

Jackie suggested to Rose after the destruction of Henrik's that she get compensation. Jackie first met the Ninth Doctor when Rose invited him in to talk about the Auton attack on Henrik's, and flirted with him to no avail. During the final phase of the attempted Auton invasion, Autons attacked Jackie while she was out shopping at Queen's Arcade, (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"]) after travelling to Oxford Street to get a compensation form for Rose after Henrik's exploded, (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) but she was saved when Rose destroyed the Nestene Consciousness. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

When Rose left with the Doctor in his TARDIS, she intended to be back within hours. When Rose returned to London, although it had only been a few days for her, a year had elapsed on Earth due to a miscalculation by the Doctor. During that time, out of her mind with worry, Jackie organised a poster campaign for her missing daughter and even accused Rose's boyfriend Mickey of murdering her. When the police failed to find any evidence against Mickey, she began a hate campaign against him, eventually resulting in him being under suspicion from everyone. When Rose returned, a furious Jackie slapped the Doctor for taking her away.

Jackie under attack by the Slitheen. (TV: Aliens of London)

She also could not understand why Rose would not tell her where she had been but learned the truth when she saw the TARDIS. Fearful for her daughter's safety, she contacted an emergency helpline, which alerted UNIT to the Doctor's presence. They escorted the Doctor and Rose to Downing Street. Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, who was disguised as a policeman, attacked Jackie due to her association with the Doctor. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

The Doctor, having remotely electrocuted Sip Fel-Fotch with an electrified ID card, prevented him from killing Jackie. Mickey then rescued her and escaped with her to his flat. Sip Fel-Fotch tracked down Mickey and Jackie and began breaking into Mickey's flat. With the help of the Doctor, Jackie used all of the vinegar she could find in the flat to kill the calcium-based lifeform that was weakened by his compression field.

Jackie, frightened for Rose's safety. (TV: World War Three)

Jackie began to understand how dangerous Rose's new life was when the Doctor ended the Slitheen's plans to make the Earth into a piece of cheap, radioactive starship fuel by calling down a missile strike on 10 Downing Street where he and Rose were trapped. Rose survived the attack and rushed home to let Jackie know she had made it. Making an effort to understand her daughter's new life, Jackie invited the Doctor for dinner, but he refused.

When ready to go travelling again, Rose promised that, because the TARDIS was a time machine, she could travel to the end of the universe and back and it would have only been ten seconds. However, after the TARDIS dematerialised, Rose did not return in ten seconds and Jackie walked off. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"])

Two weeks later, while going through some old possessions of her, she came across a video from the 1980s of a wedding, which she shared with Mickey having now reconciled with him. Mickey was shocked to see the Doctor and Rose in some shots, leading him to speculate about the Doctor's motives. (PROSE: Essay Competition [+]Loading...["Essay Competition (short story)"])

Jackie nearly fell for a scheme to take humans "on holiday" to fight in an alien war. Darren Pye, thug who lived in the council estate mugged her and took the "winning ticket" that qualified her for the vacation. Jackie ended up in hospital, but her assailant fared worse. He took her place as a remote-controlled soldier on an alien planet and was killed. (PROSE: Winner Takes All)

The time-lost Neanderthal Das flirted with Jackie at a London nightclub before Captain Jack Harkness steered him away from her. Jack and Jackie did not meet at this time. Jack scanned Jackie's DNA with his wrist device and identified her as Rose's mother. He had heard that she "wouldn't appreciate any more Doctor-related weirdness in her life". (PROSE: Only Human [+]Loading...["Only Human (novel)"])

Rose used the "superphone" to call Jackie from a human colony world in the future. Jackie complained Rose had not let her know she had been in Cardiff during her recent visit to the city. (PROSE: The Stealers of Dreams) Soon afterwards, Rose paid Jackie a visit. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

Jackie became a very successful entrepreneur and saleswoman on the Powell Estate from her Glubby Glubs which helped people sleep for eight or nine full hours, better than medication. However, it turned out that Jackie was unknowingly involved in a plot to steal people's energy. (AUDIO: Retail Therapy)

When the Doctor sent Rose back to her own time to escape a Dalek attack, Jackie was glad to have her daughter home. She said she loved the Doctor for sending Rose out of danger. Whilst comforting her, Jackie reacted badly to the revelation that Rose was by Pete's side when he died. However, reminded of her husband's penchant for daft ideas, she eventually helped Rose open the TARDIS console by using Rodrigo's truck, enabling her to return and help the Doctor. (TV: The Parting of the Ways) As Rose never contacted either her or Mickey after leaving in the TARDIS, Mickey assumed the worst, that she had died, but Jackie held out that Rose would return. (PROSE: Mars [+]Loading...["Mars (WiDW short story)"])

Jackie began dating a fruit vendor named Howard. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Trusting the Tenth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

"I'm going to get killed by a Christmas tree!" (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Jackie was one of the first people to encounter the Doctor after he regenerated into his tenth incarnation. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

While the Doctor, Rose and Mickey were on the Sycorax ship, Jackie was briefly visited by the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and Captain Mike Yates, who had been answering a distress call they had received in the TARDIS. The "distress call" was actually a transmission made by Prime minister Harriet Jones. Although Jackie initially assumed that the Doctor she knew had changed again and Jo and Mike were the 'regenerated' Rose and Mickey, she soon came to understand that the Third Doctor was a younger version of the Doctor she knew. She was briefly concerned about the implications of Jo travelling with the Doctor, wondering if this meant that Rose was just the latest in a long line of companions rather than someone unique and concerned about what had happened to the others who had gone before. Studying Jackie's Christmas tree, the Doctor was attacked and nearly suffocated by one of the sentient ornaments. Jackie was able to free him by feeding it Christmas pudding and brandy instead.

Using the internet, the Doctor discovered that UNIT's secret HQ was no longer a building marked with a sign reading "UNIT Headquarters," and that instead it had been moved underneath the Tower of London. As the group left in the TARDIS, Jackie insisted on joining them to help take her mind off of Rose's predicament.

At the Tower, they were denied entrance by a Beefeater, who believed the Doctor to be one of the several imposters who were attempting to steal classified information by pretending to be the Doctor. Before they could convince him that they were genuine, the Tenth Doctor was able to free those being controlled by the Sycorax.

Jackie and Mike Yates rush to assist the Third Doctor. (PROSE: The Christmas Inversion)

Returning to Jackie's flat, the group had a brief encounter with the Master, trapped by another killer Christmas tree decoration after following the Doctor to her flat. The Master had followed the Doctor to join the Sycorax in helping enslave the human population, but he agreed to leave after being let go. Before he left, the Doctor assured Jackie and Jo that he would never make anyone leave him; and that all of his companions left him instead. Looking forward to finally meeting Jackie for the first time, the Doctor briefly flirted with her before taking off in the TARDIS once again. (PROSE: The Christmas Inversion)

Following this encounter, her relationship with the Tenth Doctor was warmer than his earlier incarnation; she allowed the Doctor to attend Christmas dinner with Rose and her. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) At some point, Rose confided in her mother about her encounters with the Daleks, admitting that they had terrified her. (TV: Doomsday)

A life on Earth, a daughter among the stars[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jackie posed as the Doctor's new girlfriend and kissed him in front of Rose in order to drive out the jealousy-eating Iagnon from her. She later kissed him again just to make sure there wasn't more than one creature inside her. (COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster)

Jackie became stalked by Jack Harkness as a means of keeping an eye on her and Rose whilst he was stuck on Earth. However, one day Jackie found the Powell Estate completely deserted except for Jack. They joined forces to investigate and discovered it was the work of the Harvesters. (AUDIO: Wednesdays For Beginners)

Jackie comforted Rose after she returned from a parallel world where Pete was alive and Jackie had been turned into a Cyberman. Mickey had decided to stay in that world, and the Doctor had to seal off it off, so Rose could never visit. (TV: The Age of Steel)

She decided to visit her school friend Marge Ellmore in Norwich. When the Zaross invaded she called Rose. She told Marge that Rose was more than a cashier. She was taken by the Zaross to their mothership, where she was to be made up as a rebel with Jess Ellmore. She stole one of the weapons on the ship, but it turned out to be a prop. She then helped the Doctor in his plans. (AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross)

Jack Harkness took Jackie on a luxury cruise in space. (AUDIO: Crush)

She went for a job at Lady Christina de Souza's house as a cleaner on River Song's advice. She started getting freaked out when she heard creepy voices. Christina showed her the value of the necklace that Jackie took from Rose's bedroom. She was convinced by Jonty to sell it. She encountered the Doctor during his degeneration crisis and chastised him. She then helped him investigate the other Doctor at the UNIT facility. The Doctor told her that she would forget this meeting due to fall out from the degeneration energy. (AUDIO: Two's Company)

Here come the Ghosts[[edit] | [edit source]]

She befriended Elton Pope, a young man searching for the Doctor, unaware he was using her to get to the Doctor. Their relationship progressed to her forcing Elton to take off his clothes. The proceedings were interrupted by a call from Rose. Jackie discovered a photograph of Rose in Elton's coat and realised the truth. She angrily told Elton she would protect the Doctor and Rose, no matter what. She later told Rose about what Elton had done. Rose and the Doctor tracked down Elton so Rose could yell at him, leading to saving his life from a monstrous alien. (TV: Love & Monsters)

"And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman, this strange woman, walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. But she's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human." (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Jackie accepted the Doctor as part of her life, showering him with kisses upon one of his returns with Rose. In 2007, Jackie was one of many fooled into believing the ghosts appearing around the world were deceased relatives, in her case, her father. She was hostile to the Doctor's scepticism about this. While the Doctor investigated a ghost sighting, Jackie told her daughter how she feared this life of not settling down, and always travelling, because it had caused her to change radically from the girl who used to work in a shop. Rose had not enjoyed a fulfilling experience in her old job at Henrik's and defended that she had changed for the better.

Jackie supposed this was true, but seemed distressed that she had also worked in a shop and Rose's negative reaction was a jab at her own welfare. Rose insisted she didn't mean it that way, and Jackie replied she knew what Rose really meant to say. Although it upset Rose, Jackie confronted her with the belief that if she died, Rose would have no reason to come back home to Earth and stay travelling forever, changing more and more until she no longer resembled her daughter, even to the point she forgot how to be human. This caused Rose to sober up and think about having a more stable life.

Jackie found herself aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialised and arrived at Torchwood headquarters, warning the Doctor if they ended up on Mars, she'd kill him. When Torchwood surrounded the TARDIS in a hostile manner, the Doctor initiated a plan to observe their background operations. Rose was sent out to reconnoitre. Jackie impersonated Rose when she and the Doctor were captured by Torchwood. The Doctor's unflattering remarks about his companion ageing by fifty-seven years after looking into the Heart of the TARDIS and being delusional about her real age of forty earned him an icy stare. The humour did not last long when a major conflict spilled out inside Torchwood's compound. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

A new home[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jackie found herself in the middle of the Battle of Canary Wharf. Cybermen from an alternate Earth and Daleks battled over Earth. Jackie thought she was reunited with the ghost of her dead husband, Pete, only to learn that it was a version from the alternate Earth whose own Jackie had been assimilated by the Cybermen. They almost immediately began a relationship. Soon after, Jackie and Rose had to escape to the alternate world, with no apparent way to return to their Earth. Jackie and Rose were declared dead on their Earth, victims of the battle. On the parallel Earth, however, Jackie gave birth to a son, Tony Tyler. She also had to deal with comforting Rose, who was emotionally devastated by her separation from the Doctor, with whom she had fallen in love. (TV: Doomsday)

Over the next few years, Rose worked to find a way back to the Doctor to warn him about the impending collapse of reality. Rose built the Dimension cannon to travel between parallel worlds, and, on one trip, Jackie accompanied her. In this parallel world, Jackie met Mickey's mother, Odessa. (AUDIO: The Last Party on Earth)

Fighting the Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Rose returned to her original Earth after a detour into a parallel world. Soon after, Jackie and Mickey also returned to their original Earth to help Rose. One of the first people Jackie encountered was Sarah Jane Smith. Jackie and Mickey arrived as Sarah Jane was about to be killed by two Daleks. Jackie killed one of the Daleks while Mickey killed the other.

Now a more self-assured, less self-absorbed individual, Jackie worked alongside Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jack Harkness to rescue the Doctor and save Earth. While Mickey disagreed with Sarah Jane's plan to surrender to get to the Crucible, Jackie immediately agreed, knowing that the Doctor and Rose would be there. Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane were made test subjects for the reality bomb. Sarah Jane and Mickey escaped while Jackie comforted a fallen prisoner. In the nick of time, Jackie's teleport recharged and she escaped to safety. In the ensuing battle, Jackie was reunited with Rose and met Martha Jones and Donna Noble. When Earth was towed back to where it belonged, Jackie didn't pilot the TARDIS along with everyone else. The Doctor specifically told her, "No, no Jackie, not you, just stand back".

Afterwards, Mickey said his goodbyes to her. He wasn't returning to the parallel world. There was nothing left for him there and he said that he was going to miss her the most. Jackie embraced Mickey in a final goodbye. Following the defeat of Davros, the Doctor returned Jackie to the alternate Earth to reunite her with her husband and son. Jackie couldn't resist winding up the Doctor one last time by making him believe she had named her son "Doctor". She watched as the Doctor's Meta-Crisis clone agreed to stay behind and begin a life with Rose and the original Doctor departed for the last time. (TV: Journey's End)

Life with the Meta-Crisis Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jackie later joined UNIT along with the Meta-Crisis Doctor, Pete and Rose after the Preachers were combined with Torchwood by President Harriet Jones. She became head of the food department. Jackie made friends with Beryl Thompson, whose N-Space counterpart she had been friends with. She and Beryl would often have tea or a "cheeky veno" and Jackie would tell Beryl stories about her life. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben, Flight Into Hull!)

One Tuesday, all UNIT personnel were called away to a reported Cybus factory, leaving just Jackie and the Doctor in the headquarters. When alarms sounded, they retreated to his lab, where Jackie was furious to discover he’d been growing a TARDIS, believing he was planning to abandon Rose. A group of aliens appeared on the monitor, claiming to have the UNIT personnel including Rose and Pete hostage and demanding the Doctor’s time machine. He planned to blow up the base to deprive them of the TARDIS, however Jackie talked him out of it and got him to think properly. They discovered the aliens were illusions and Brigadier Krista Lateef revealed herself as the culprit, wanting the Doctor’s TARDIS to save her daughter from cyber-conversion. Jackie talked her down, promising not to tell anyone what she’d done. However the Doctor promptly reported Krista to Pete regardless, infuriating Jackie. She later called Beryl to tell her about what had happened. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Pete and Rose conspired to get Jackie and the Doctor alone together on a zeppelin flight to Hull so they would talk to each other again. During the awkward flight, the zeppelin was boarded by a version of Jackie from another parallel universe, seeking to replace Jackie as the start of an invasion. Jackie tried to talk her out of it, telling her to find another way to save her Earth than take over this one, and eventually the Doctor forced her to retreat by forcing the zeppelin on a crash course. He was unable to correct the flight however, so they comforted each other in the cockpit and she came to understand that he did genuinely love Rose. The Doctor then found parachutes, enabling them to escape the zeppelin before it crashed into a river. Jackie later called Beryl to tell her about the flight, teasing her that she’d been replaced by her counterpart at one point. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull!)

Jackie became a grandmother when Rose and the Doctor had a baby together, Mia. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf)

Return to the Doctor's universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the 2010s,[nb 2] (TV: The End of Time (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"}) a mysterious "Host", (PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner [+]Loading...{"page":"186-205","1":"Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)"}) secretly River Song, (PROSE: Know Your Enemy [+]Loading...["Know Your Enemy (short story)"]) extracted Jackie through unknown means from her home universe and brought her back to the Doctor's. There, she was made to be an interviewee for an episode of Judge, Jury and Executioner, a supposed television programme. The Host — intent on their belief that the Doctor only put people in danger — asked Jackie about her life after Rose Tyler began travelling with the Doctor. She recounted how the Doctor had "changed his face" upon his return to the Estate and how she had unwillingly taken him in to Rose's room so he could recover. She also felt Rose was a little full of herself as she had talked about how she saved the world and met Harriet Jones. Jackie continued, referencing how she was almost killed by a Christmas tree, but was stopped by the Host as they welcomed Sylvia Noble to the show.

During the show, Jackie commented on having met Robot Santas and how the Doctor scared them off with his "sunny screwdriver", how Rose couldn't wait to go back to travelling with the Doctor but still managed to occasionally pop in and give her little presents from other planets and the occasional phone call, how she was glad Harriet Jones blew up "that great dirty spaceship". She remembered the "Zybermen", but began to remember how she was transported to another universe in the Battle of Canary Wharf, but the Host guided her back to talk about the Cybermen. She was happy the Doctor sent them and the Daleks to Hell.

Jackie also commented on having met Martha Jones when Francine Jones was brought onto the show. She asked Francine about the places the Doctor took Martha, but mistakenly believed Francine had waited months for her daughter to return when in fact it had only been at most three days. Wilfred Mott then was welcomed onto the show, and he asked Jackie if Rose was her daughter and if she was proud — Jackie was. Shortly after, however, Wilf twigged that he had no idea how he got there and wsd concerned about if Donna was watching, in turn causing Jackie to realise that she wasn't even supposed to be in this universe. She asked for her family, for anyone, but the show ended before any resolution could be seen. (PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner [+]Loading...{"page":"186-205","1":"Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)"})

Although offline, Jackie Tyler is a part of the companion support group. (PROSE: Recurring Threats: The Daleks [+]Loading...{"page":"25","1":"Recurring Threats: The Daleks (short story)"})

In 2022, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis attended a companion support group which included Jo Jones, Tegan Jovanka, Melanie Bush, Kate Stewart, and Ian Chesterton, who attended in person. There was also a laptop set up on a chair, (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) which had streams from Ryan Sinclair, Martha Jones and Jackie coming though. Jackie, however, was offline (PROSE: Recurring Threats: The Daleks [+]Loading...{"page":"25","1":"Recurring Threats: The Daleks (short story)"}) when Graham spoke about his experiences. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

At some point, Jackie received a call from Rose while she was watching the Earth die 5 billion years in the future. Jackie thought she had a hangover, as she asked her what day it was (a Wednesday). (TV: The End of the World)

At some point, Jackie called Rose on the TARDIS, worrying again about her travelling with the Ninth Doctor. (COMIC: Mystery Date)

River Song once met Jackie. River helped her wash a duvet. (AUDIO: R&J)

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a timeline created by Rassilon allying with the Cybermen, Jackie was left the sole survivor of the Powell Estate after the Cybermen took it over, being rescued by Rose, Jack and the Doctor. When they reached the TARDIS however, Rose fell victim to the Cybermen's techno-virus, becoming a Cyber-Warrior, killing Jack, before the Doctor too began to be converted. As a last gambit, the Doctor, despite Jackie's protests, overrode the TARDIS's safety protocols to build up enough power to destroy Earth. Before the ship could explode however, its power siphoned away and the upgraded Rose broke into the TARDIS. The timeline was then undone when a remorseful Rassilon joined forces with the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

In an alternate timeline created by a paradox caused by an encounter between the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors, Jackie lived under Sea Devil occupation. She was still married to Pete, who didn't die in 1987, and the mother of Rose. By 2020, she and Pete were held in a Sea Devil prison camp whilst Rose fought with the resistance. Jackie and Pete met the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends whilst they held there. (COMIC: Alternating Current)

Parallel universes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Jackie Tyler of Pete's World looked down on people who were lower on the social ladder. In this universe Jackie was still married to Pete, however she had no children. They instead had a dog named Rose. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) This Jackie was converted into a Cyberman. (TV: The Age of Steel)

When Rose tested the Dimension cannon with Pete, she encountered other versions of Jackie from parallel worlds. In one world, Jackie was a widow but her Pete had created Artificial Intelligence powered by the spirits of the dead. (AUDIO: Ghost Machines)

In one parallel world, Jackie was brunette and had a son, Tony. Unlike her other selves, she was a scientist. When her Earth's resources were used up, Jackie was the first to travel to Pete's World to begin a full invasion. She met Jackie from N-Space there and the Meta-Crisis Doctor whilst they were aboard a zeppelin. She looked down on her counterpart as a "chav" and intended to replace her, but was forced to retreat when the Doctor sabotaged the zeppelin, setting it on a crash course. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull!)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jackie had a very strong personality. While she cared greatly for Rose, she didn't like the Ninth Doctor very much. She had no problem speaking her mind and didn't mind hitting someone; she struck the Doctor. (TV: Aliens of London) Over time she grew to like and respect the Doctor, especially after he stuck to his word and sent Rose back home safely from the Daleks, (TV: The Parting of the Ways) and increasingly in his tenth incarnation. (TV: Love & Monsters, Army of Ghosts)

While Jackie appeared flighty at times, she loved her daughter and was concerned for her safety, given the life the Doctor led. Her attitude towards the Doctor softened from hostility to grudging acceptance, but she continued to worry about Rose and awaited her daughter's return. The Doctor made an effort to return Rose home periodically, even if it seemed almost as if the whole purpose was to let Rose get some laundry done. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

She did not react well to terrifying situations. While running from Cybermen, she was so frightened she could barely tell the Doctor where she was. (TV: Doomsday) She was reluctant to help someone in need. She needed a lot of convincing to help Rose and Mickey out with their plan to save the Doctor, although she ultimately provided the solution to their problem. (TV: World War Three) This particular trait was less prominent later on. When she was unable to save a woman from Davros' reality bomb, she voiced deep regret. (TV: Journey's End)

Being alone while Rose was travelling with the Doctor took its toll on Jackie; when she met Elton Pope, she flirted with and attempted to seduce him before chatting to Rose over the phone brought her back to her senses. In her words, "I just go a bit mad." When she learned he was just using her to get to the Doctor, she yelled at him and told him that it was hard for her to have to stay behind and not hear from Rose. She said that she would protect the Doctor for as long as she could. (TV: Love & Monsters)

In the year in which she thought Rose was missing, she blamed Mickey for her disappearance. She started a hate campaign and turned the rest of the estate against him. (TV: Aliens of London) She was horrified and embarrassed to be rescued by him during the Slitheen invasion. (TV: World War Three) Later, they formed a close friendship. When Mickey returned to the normal universe for good, he told Jackie she was the one he was going to miss most — more so than Rose. Jackie hugged Mickey and even seemed to understand and sympathise with his choice.

When she returned to Earth from the parallel Earth to rescue her daughter from the Daleks, Jackie evinced more self-confidence, even destroying a Dalek threatening Sarah Jane, but the Doctor still didn't let her work the TARDIS controls. (TV: Journey's End)

Jackie went on dates with a number of men, (TV: The End of Time, The Parting of the Ways, The Christmas Invasion) even attempting to seduce those she was attracted to, (TV: Love & Monsters) but clearly never stopped loving Pete. (TV: Doomsday)

When she asked for alcohol, Mickey told Jackie, "I've seen you when you've had a few. This ain't time for a conga." (TV: Aliens of London)

Jackie loved watching EastEnders. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Rose, without prompting from another character native to Pete's World, says her mother's forty and notes 1 February as "mum's birthday".
  2. ↑ PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner [+]Loading...["Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)"] is set after Donna Noble's mindwipe in TV: The End of Time (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"}.

Sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ DWMSE 11[which?]
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