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The revived series began with Christopher Eccleston taking the lead role of the Ninth Doctor. During Eccleston's tenure, all episodes were set on Earth, or its orbit, in the past, present, or future. [22] In his last story, "The Parting of the Ways", the Doctor absorbed the Time Vortex to save his companion, leading to his regeneration. [23] [24]
The first series was Christopher Eccleston's only series in the role of the Doctor. Eccleston's contract was for a single year because at the time it was uncertain whether the show would continue beyond a single revival series. [17] Eccleston's intent to leave was revealed on 30 March 2005, shortly after the broadcast of the first episode.
Eccleston was cast as John Lennon in a BBC production called Lennon Naked which aired in the UK on 23 June 2010, [42] [43] with Eccleston playing the title role, and Naoko Mori, who had previously appeared with him in Doctor Who, as Yoko Ono. In November 2010, Eccleston starred in the first episode of BBC One anthology drama Accused. He won an ...
On 9 August 2020, Big Finish announced that Christopher Eccleston would reprise his role as the Ninth Doctor for twelve new stories in The Ninth Doctor Adventures. Eccleston began studio recording for the first box set - Ravagers - on the 14th December 2020. The first series, consisting of four volumes, were released between May 2021 and ...
It was announced in March 2004 that Christopher Eccleston would play the Doctor. [8] Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, stated that casting an actor of Eccleston's reputation signaled "our intention to take Doctor Who into the 21st century, as well as retaining its core traditional values — to be surprising, edgy and eccentric."
Kids will find a hero in Gatwa’s grinning, shouting, rambunctious protagonist, while plenty of grown-ups will pick out references that hark back to the days of Christopher Eccleston or even ...
Christopher Eccleston has said that he turned down the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who because it didn't do his incarnation of the Time Lord justice.
In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) takes his new companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) five billion years into the future where many rich alien delegates have gathered on a space station called Platform One to watch the Sun expand into a red giant and destroy the Earth, but the human guest Lady ...