World War Three (Doctor Who)

World War Three (Doctor Who)


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Doctor Who episode

The Slitheen, in 10 Downing Street, await a call on the "red telephone" for the nuclear launch codes.
Cast
Doctor
  • Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor)
Companion
  • Billie Piper (Rose Tyler)
Others
  • Camille Coduri – Jackie Tyler
  • Noel Clarke – Mickey Smith
  • Penelope Wilton – Harriet Jones
  • Annette Badland – Margaret Blaine
  • Rupert Vansittart – General Asquith
  • Morgan Hopkins – Sergeant Price
  • Andrew Marr – Himself
  • David Verrey – Joseph Green
  • Steve Speirs – Strickland
  • Jack Tarlton – Reporter
  • Lachele Carl – Reporter
  • Corey Doabe – Spray Painter
  • Elizabeth Fost, Paul Kasey, Alan Ruscoe – Slitheen
Production
Writer Russell T Davies
Director Keith Boak
Script editor Elwen Rowlands
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Mal Young
Production code 1.5
Series Series 1
Length 2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
Originally broadcast 23 April 2005
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by →
"Aliens of London" "Dalek"

"World War Three" is the fifth episode of the first series in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 23 April 2005. It is the second of a two-part story. The first part, "Aliens of London", was broadcast on 16 April. As the Doctor, Rose Tyler and their new friend Harriet Jones battle the murderous Slitheen while trapped in 10 Downing Street, the Doctor realises that the fate of the Earth rests on Rose's boyfriend, Mickey.

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