Rose Tyler (short story)

Rose Tyler
Main character(s):	Catherine Petts, A. Frederick, J Frinkstein, Jenny Maguire
Main setting:	United Kingdom, 2006
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC
Writer:	BBC webteam
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Part of:	U.N.I.T.
Release date:	2005
Format:	Online short story
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You may wish to consult Rose (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Rose Tyler, also called Briefing: Rose Tyler and prefixed as Operations Board: Rose Tyler on the story's page, was the twelfth short story and seventeenth release exclusively published on the U.N.I.T. website on 14 May 2005 by the BBC webteam to coincide with the broadcast of Father's Day. Rose Tyler was the fifth release in the Operations Board series of in-universe chat logs between UNIT personnel.

Plot

Sgt Catherine Petts submits a report on Rose Tyler to an operations board to other UNIT officers. Among the information given, one piece particularily stands out: Mickey Smith — Rose's boyfriend - runs a website, www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, which contains sensitive information about UNIT. Sgt A. Frederick is shocked by this information, and J Frinkstein changes the passwords to the website. Major Jenny Maguire suggests leaving the passwords alone and instead swap in misinformation, however Frederick seemingly denies the suggestion.

Characters

• Sgt Catherine Petts
• Sgt A. Frederick
• Sgt J Frinkstein
• Major Jenny Maguire

Referenced only

• Rose Tyler
• Ninth Doctor
• Jackie Tyler
• Peter Tyler
• Mickey Smith

References

• Rose was born in 1986, making her nineteen, give or take a year.
• Rose comes from a council estate in Kennington, South London.
• Jackie is unemployed, and Peter is deceased.
  • Peter died in 1987 — a Temporal Event — UNIT even had a file, 1987/11-Be3a, on several anomalies on that date. It contained reports of flying beasts and missing people.
• Frederick doesn't have enough time to create a fake conspiracy theories and "fudged reports" about aliens.

Notes

• This story vaguely suggests that misinformation could've been placed on the UNIT website, perhaps explaining the unusual dates it attributes to post-2005 Doctor Who television stories.
• This story was the first to depict Annie Frederick as merely a Sergeant, having been depicted as a Staff Sergeant and a Captain previously.

Continuity

• The events of TV: Father's Day are referenced.
• Mickey's website would be later seen in TV: The Runaway Bride.

External links

• Rose Tyler at U.N.I.T. via the Wayback Machine