Doctor Who S1 • Episode 3
The Unquiet Dead
First aired
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Production Code
1.3
Written by
Mark Gatiss
Directed by
Euros Lyn
Runtime
45 minutes
Story Type
Christmas
Time Travel
Past
UK Viewers
8.86 million
Appreciation Index
80
Synopsis
The dead are roaming the streets of Cardiff in 1869 when the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler arrive, just in time for Christmas. Teaming up with Charles Dickens, the TARDIS team encounter the Gelth, creatures sucked through the Cardiff Rift from the other end of the universe, their home lost to war. Surely inhabiting dead bodies is wrong, though! Can both sides be helped, or are these gaseous creatures not to be trusted?