Rosa (TV story)

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Rosa was the third episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Set a day before Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to surrender her seat for white passengers, this is the first racially-charged story in Doctor Who history, dealing with heavy themes and depictions of racism, mainly directed at the Doctor's companions Ryan and Yasmin.

Synopsis

Attempting to return home to Sheffield, the TARDIS instead drops the Doctor and friends in 1955 Alabama, where somebody is planning on meddling with time. Meeting seamstress Rosa Parks, the Doctor and her friends must work together to correct the flow of time and keep events in order before things go horribly wrong.

Plot

It is 1943, Alabama in America. Rosa Parks is boarding a bus on her way home from work. She pays the fee but the bus driver demands she go around and get on the bus by the side entrance, given "coloured" people are forced to sit at the back while whites sit at the front. She refuses, leading the bus driver to force her from the bus and drive off without her.

By 1955, the Doctor lands her TARDIS in Alabama, remarking to Graham, Ryan and Yaz that their location is not Sheffield as planned for the ninth time. Graham corrects her it was the fourteenth attempt.

Cast

Crew

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References

People

Insults

  • Yaz has previously been called a “paki” and a “terrorist”.
  • Black people are often referred to, in 1955 Alabama, as “negroes” or “coloureds”.

Locations

Story notes

  • This was the first televised story since The Day of the Doctor in 2013 to feature a real world historical figure.
  • The episode didn't feature the Doctor Who theme over the ending credits, replacing it instead with "Rise Up" by Andra Day, the same song used in the sequence of Rosa's arrest.

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Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Continuity

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