Born Again (TV story)

Born Again
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Rose
Main enemy:	Not Applicable
Main setting:	Within the TARDIS
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T. Davies
Director:	Euros Lyn
Producer:	Phil Collinson
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	18th November 2005
Format:	1 7-Minute Sketch
Production code:	CIN

Synopsis

The Doctor has just regenerated. How will Rose react?

Plot

After the events of The Parting of the Ways, this mini-episode shows the emotional effects the Doctor's regeneration on Rose. She feels that the doctor has vanished and been replaced by a number of aliens. The doctor dismisses these ideas, by telling her about the first time he met her. The regeneration, however, has gone wrong and the newly regenerated doctor is going slightly insane. He runs around the console flicking switches and buttons screaming in pain before saying "crash landing", and the credits come on.

Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
• Dalek Voices - Nicholas Briggs (archive footage)
• Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston (archive footage)

Crew

to be added

References

Technology

• Teleport
• Transmat
• Nanogenes

Individuals

• Jackie Tyler
• Jack Harkness

Planets

• Barcelona

London Locations

• Powell Estate

Races and Species

• Gelth
• Slitheen
• Time Lords

Food and Beverages

• Fish and Chips
• Sausage and Mash
• Beans on Toast
• Turkey
• Nut Loaf

Story Notes

• This is a short sketch for the charity Children in Need.
• In addition to the broadcast, this story was available for viewing on the BBC's website until 25 November, 2005, when the link was removed.
• It is the only episode (other than The Edge of Destruction), to be set entirely in the TARDIS with only the Doctor and companions in it.
• The pre-credits sequence for the mini-episode was a montage of the climactic scenes of The Parting of the Ways.
• Post-regeneration instability has been present, to varying degrees, in every one of the Doctor's regenerations.
• The online feed of the mini-episode ended with several pre-recorded inserts of Tennant and Piper appealing for donations to Children in Need. The appeals in which they both appear are flippant in tone, with Piper claiming to be Tennant and vice versa in the first, and in the second the pair introducing themselves as Letitia Dean and Nicholas Lyndhurst.
• Russell T Davies joked that the title was the Pudsey Cutaway, a reference to Mission to the Unknown (also known as the Dalek Cutaway).

Ratings

to be added

Myths

to be added

Location Filming

to be added

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

• The Doctor says about Captain Jack, "he's busy, he's got plenty to do, rebuilding the Earth". This implies that he knows Jack is alive and well, or wants Rose to think he is. When this mini-episode first aired, this appeared to be a continuity error, because the Ninth Doctor had not appeared to see Jack's resurrection. However, given the Tenth Doctor's claim in Utopia that he deliberately left Jack behind, it can be assumed that what the Ninth Doctor was staring at so intently on the TARDIS monitor while Rose was unconscious was Jack running after the dematerializing TARDIS.

Continuity

• This story continues directly from where The Parting of the Ways left off.

• Rose's suspicion that this new Doctor may be a Slitheen or other imposter recalls similar suspicions on the part of Ben regarding the newly regenerated Second Doctor in "The Power of the Daleks." The Doctor's manic behavior towards the end of the story recalls similar, though much more violent, "fits" displayed by the Sixth Doctor in "The Twin Dilemma."

• The Cloister Bell was first heard in Logopolis.

DVD and Other Releases

• This was released as an extra on the series 2 box set.

See Also

• Dimensions in Time
• The Curse of the Fatal Death

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Children in Need Special