In 2005, the television show Doctor Who was revived after a sixteen-year hiatus. It introduced the Ninth Doctor who has since become the last of his kind. In the first episode, he meets Rose, who becomes his companion for the first and second seasons.
With the first revived season, Doctor Who became a popular culture phenomenon. In spite of this, the Ninth Doctor has become one of the most underrated Doctors of the series even though his episodes received fairly high ratings from viewers and critics. Here is a look at all of the Ninth Doctor's episodes, ranked according to their IMDb scores.
World War Three - 7.0
"World War Three" acts as part two to the episode "Aliens of London" discussed below. In this second part, the Doctor and Rose learn of the Slitheen's plot to start World War III so that they can sell irradiated Earth remains as fuel. The Doctor and Rose team up with Mickey and member of parliament Harriet Jones to stop the Slitheen by launching a non-nuclear missile at them.
After Rose's mom, Jackie, witnesses the Doctor and Rose save the world, she gives Rose her permission to travel with the Doctor once again.
Aliens of London - 7.0
In this episode, the Doctor takes Rose back home for the first time since she left to travel time and space with him. However, he gets the date wrong and brings her back a full year after she originally left. Because of this, Jackie was extremely worried and Mickey had been accused of killing her.
On top of her home life becoming crazy, she and the Doctor uncover a conspiracy in which the elected officials of England are in fact aliens called the Slitheen who have disguised themselves as humans.
Boom Town - 7.1
The Doctor, Rose, and Jack arrive in Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS. There, they discover a Slitheen still disguised as Margaret Blaine, who created a nuclear power plant with the intention of opening the rift in which the TARDIS was recharging to destroy the Earth.
The Doctor moves to arrest Margaret and to take her to a different planet after she requests not to be taken to her home planet, but she tricks the Doctor into taking her to the rift where she reverts to being an egg, therefore restarting her life.
The Long Game - 7.1
The Doctor brings Rose and Adam Mitchell to the year 200,000 where humans reside on Satellite 5, which is also in charge of journalism broadcasts. The broadcasts instill fear in people's subconscious, due to a chip implanted in their brains, preventing humans from making much progress as a species and causing them to live in a closed-off society.
Adam gets a chip implanted and starts transmitting all information from Satellite 5 to his parents' answering machine. This infuriates the Doctor who brings him back to Earth, banning him from traveling in the TARDIS.
Rose - 7.5
"Rose" is the series premiere and introduces the Ninth Doctor as well as Rose Tyler, who becomes the Doctor's companion. In the episode, Rose is attacked by mannequins that have come to life, and she is saved by the Doctor.
The Doctor later has to save Rose yet again from an alien known as an Auton, which has disguised itself as Rose's at-the-time boyfriend, Mickey Smith. After fighting alongside the Doctor against the Autons, Rose chooses to leave her life behind to travel with the Doctor through time and space.
The Unquiet Dead - 7.6
The Doctor and Rose travel back to the 19th century where they come across a funeral parlor containing corpses reanimated by a strange blue vapor. While investigating the vapor's source, Rose is kidnapped by the parlor owner Gabriel Sneed and his assistant Gwyneth, who is a clairvoyant.
The Doctor teams up with Charles Dickens to stop the reanimated corpses, save Rose, and put a stop to the Gelth, who are the cause of the blue vapor. Ultimately, Gwyneth sets the parlor on fire, stopping the Gelth from crossing through to Earth.
The End Of The World - 7.6
"The End of the World" features the first adventure on which the Doctor takes Rose. The pair go to the year 5 billion, where they and a group of aliens witness the Earth's destruction by the Sun. There, they meet the last pure human, Lady Cassandra, who has received so many cosmetic surgeries that she no longer looks human.
The Doctor and Rose find out that Cassandra was in a money-making plot to kill all those aboard the ship, but they stop her and the sun's rays destroy her fragile form.
Father's Day - 8.4
Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to the day her father Pete Tyler was killed in a hit-and-run. In spite of the Doctor's warnings, Rose saves Pete, creating a paradox. Because of the paradox, reapers appear and try to fix it by destroying everyone.
Pete, in an attempt to convince Jackie that adult and baby Rose are the same, makes the two Roses touch, creating a bigger paradox. Pete realizes the only way to stop it is for him to die, and he does so by jumping in front of the car intended to kill him in the hit-and-run.
Bad Wolf - 8.7
This episode is part one of the season finale and opens with the Doctor, Rose, and Jack awakening to find themselves in three different reality television shows. The Doctor and Jack escape their shows to find that they are on Satellite 5, but 100 years after the Doctor's last visit, and which is now run by Badwolf Corporation and called the Game Station.
The Doctor and Jack witness Rose "disintegrated" on her own show and figure out that she was sent to another point in space and set out to rescue her.
Dalek - 8.7
In this episode, the TARDIS veers off course and lands in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, where the Doctor and Rose meet Henry Van Stratten, who has a bunker of alien artifacts. There, the Doctor discovers a Dalek, a lone survivor of its kind from the Time War.
Rose accidentally reactivates the Dalek and the Doctor and Rose work to stop it. The Dalek, having developed empathy because of Rose, ends up destroying itself. Adam Mitchell, Van Stratten's employee then leaves the bunker to travel with the Doctor and Rose.
The Parting Of The Ways - 9.1
In the second part of the season finale, the Doctor and Jack race to save Rose who has been transported to a Dalek ship. They are able to transport her back to Earth while the Daleks infiltrate Satellite 5 and kill everyone but the Doctor on board.
Rose uses the energy from the TARDIS and a Time Vortex to return to the Doctor and destroy the Daleks. The Doctor then absorbs the energy from Rose by kissing her so that it doesn't kill her. The energy destroys his cells and causes him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor.
The Doctor Dances - 9.1
This episode concludes the events of "The Empty Child." In the episode, Jack reveals that he was using the cylinder to con Time Agents into purchasing it just before it's destroyed in an explosion. With this information, the Doctor discovers that nanogenes resided in the cylinder and healed the Empty Child, thinking that the mask was part of his physiology.
Nancy, a character introduced in the previous episode, admits to being the boy's mother and the nanogenes, recognizing this, correct the boy's DNA as well as the others' who were affected.
The Empty Child - 9.2
The Doctor and Rose travel to the 1941 London Blitz in pursuit of a dangerous metal cylinder. There, they meet Captain Jack Harkness, a time agent-turned con man, and the three then discover a young boy in a gas mask, who repeatedly asks if people are his "mummy." The three investigate the boy's origins.
Other people start to grow gas masks and ask the now-iconic phrase, "Are you my mummy?" The Doctor determines that the infected people's DNA is being rewritten while also discovering the "dangerous" cylinder was just a medical ship.