29 Facts About Ninth Doctor

Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

Ninth Doctor is portrayed by Christopher Eccleston during the first series of the show's revival in 2005.

Eccleston's Ninth Doctor was a war-torn loner who disguises his trauma brought on by the Time War using a sense of humour and determination to protect the innocent.

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack form a close team but are separated in the series finale in which each character has to make difficult choices and face sacrifice.

Ninth Doctor first appears in the episode "Rose" where he rescues 19-year-old shopgirl Rose Tyler from an Auton attack in the department store where she works.

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The Ninth Doctor is angry at Rose after he takes her to the event of father Pete Tyler's death and she saves his life, causing a paradox in "Father's Day".

In "The Empty Child", after encountering Captain Jack Harkness in 1941, the Ninth Doctor realises Jack had caused a deadly nanotechnological plague to sweep through the human race, turning humans into gas-mask zombies.

In "Bad Wolf", the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack find themselves at the mercy of the Bad Wolf Corporation based on Satellite Five.

In "The Parting of the Ways", the Ninth Doctor sends Rose back to the 21st century to protect her before attempting to destroy the Dalek army.

Ninth Doctor's origins were originally not explored in 2005, but were given in the show's fiftieth anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013.

The reprint collection includes a specially-drawn panel showing how the Ninth Doctor might have looked in the comic strip immediately after his regeneration, wearing the Eighth Doctor's costume and being tended to by Destrii.

Ninth Doctor appears in the first six of the Doctor Who hardback New Series Adventures novels which tie in with the first series of the revamped show.

The Ninth Doctor appeared in the Penguin Fiftieth Anniversary eBook novella The Beast of Babylon by Charlie Higson.

The Ninth Doctor has appeared in IDW Comics Doctor Who: The Forgotten and Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time.

Ninth Doctor is joined by companions Rose and Captain Jack, and Nicholas Briggs reads the story and provides his voice.

The Ninth Doctor Adventures take place prior to the events of Rose and sees the Doctor fighting Cybermen, meeting Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and taking on a temporary companion in the form of Nova.

Ninth Doctor had been played by eight actors between when the series began in 1963 and the casting of Christopher Eccleston; the concept of regeneration—a process in which the title character takes on a new body and identity—had been introduced in 1966 to allow the production team to change lead actors.

Ninth Doctor was the production team's first choice for the character.

Ninth Doctor stated that he "didn't enjoy the environment and the culture that we, the cast and crew, had to work in" and that he did not want to do any more based on the experience.

Eccleston stated in April 2004 that he did not believe his Ninth Doctor would be "as eccentric and as foppish as he was in some of his incarnations".

In contrast with previous Doctors, the Ninth Doctor speaks with a distinct Northern dialect, mirroring Eccleston's natural Manchester dialect.

Ninth Doctor avoids thinking about his past because "there's some pain there" – and his only concern regarding the future is that "it's there".

Russell T Davies remarked that the Ninth Doctor carries a lot of survival guilt; this is why he "strides through the universe wearing a dark leather peacoat saying "Don't touch me"".

Since 1963, the Ninth Doctor has travelled with various companions who generally serve to remind him of his "moral duty".

Ninth Doctor felt that the relationship between the two characters was "love at first sight" although in a more mysterious fashion than a conventional love affair.

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Ninth Doctor cited the high viewing figures of Eccleston's debut episode—over 10 million—as proof that audiences were ready to welcome in a new era of the show.

Ninth Doctor comments that in online fandom there was a sense "of a ship being steered in a different direction" and praises the plot device of the Time War as allowing the character to become mysterious again by providing him a "blank slate".

Ninth Doctor compares the Ninth Doctor to the First Doctor in that both characters are "an unknown who remains aggressively weird until his new-found human friends soften him up".

The Guardian Stephen Kelly felt that Eccleston's Ninth Doctor had many faults, two of which he felt to be "looking like an EastEnders extra and bellowing "fantastic" at every opportunity".