1. Mickey Smith is a fictional character in the BBC One science fiction television series Doctor Who.
16 Facts About Mickey Smith
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Mickey Smith is portrayed by British actor Noel Clarke and was the show's first televised black companion.
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Mickey Smith is first introduced in the series' 2005 reboot premiere episode, "Rose".
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When Mickey Smith's girlfriend Rose begins investigating a mysterious alien called the Doctor, Mickey Smith is captured by the alien Nestene Consciousness, from which a living plastic facsimile of him is created.
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In "Boom Town", Mickey Smith later meets up with the Doctor, Rose and new companion Captain Jack in Cardiff, where he helps them foil a Slitheen plot.
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On meeting the Doctor's former companions, investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith and robot dog K-9, Mickey begins to see himself negatively as the K-9 to Rose's Sarah Jane: "the tin dog".
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However, Mickey makes a surprise reappearance in finale episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", wherein like the Cybermen, he and fellow Preacher Jake Simmonds are able to cross the Void into our world.
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Mickey Smith next makes a brief final appearance in the Tenth Doctor's final episode "The End of Time", when the dying Tenth Doctor visits all his companions and saves the now-married Mickey Smith and Martha, "freelance alien hunters", from a Sontaran sniper.
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Mickey Smith appeared extensively in electronic literature and tie-in videos hosted by the BBC website.
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Mickey Smith appears in one New Series Adventures novel alongside the Doctor and Rose, Winner Takes All, and two Tenth Doctor novels, The Stone Rose and The Feast of the Drowned.
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Mickey Smith was created alongside Rose's mother Jackie in order to explore the question of who is left behind after a companion leaves earth to travel with the Doctor.
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Mickey Smith suggests that the character "deserved to lose his girlfriend, right from the start".
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Clarke noted that he was "amazed" by the scripts for the second series, as he felt Mickey Smith had at times been written as a "buffoon".
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Mickey Smith felt that the character had gotten "progressively braver" throughout the series and that as an actor he found it fulfilling that people had gone from disliking the character to saying "how they love this guy now".
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Tennant stated that through his actions, Mickey Smith "earns his spot on board the TARDIS".
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Charles McGrath of The New York Times described Mickey Smith in "Rose" as Rose's "well-meaning but dopey boyfriend".