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Doctor Who S2 • Episode 4

The Girl in the Fireplace

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Doctor Who (2005-2022)
Tenth Doctor

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First aired Saturday, May 6, 2006
Production Code 2.4
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Euros Lyn
Runtime 45 minutes
Time Travel Past Future
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Celebrity Historical Clockwork Consequences Doctor kisses Doctor Who? Robots Time Travel Pivotal First TARDIS trip
Locations Paris
Historical Characters Madame de Pompadour
UK Viewers 7.97 million
Appreciation Index 84
Synopsis

For their first trip with Mickey, the Tenth Doctor and Rose end up on a spaceship in the future that contains several portals to pre-Revolutionary France. When he steps through one of these portals, shaped like a fireplace, the Doctor discovers the even greater mystery of actual, romantic love.

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