Stories Television Doctor Who Series 1 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The Unquiet Dead 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 17 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 7 Transcript Overview 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 Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Alien Migrants, Celebrity Historical, Earth Invasion, Ghosts, Mind Control Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Bad Wolf, The Cardiff Rift, Time War Location (Potential Spoilers!) Cardiff, Earth, Wales 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? Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston Rose Tyler Billie Piper Charles Dickens The Gelth Show All Characters (4) How to watch The Unquiet Dead: Watch on iPlayer Doctor Who Confidential DVD Series 1 Volume 1: Rose – The End of the World – The Unquiet Dead DVD The Complete First Series Blu-Ray Series 1 Blu-Ray The Complete First Series [Steelbook] Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 17 reviews 15 April 2025 · 88 words Review by Jann Review #5 The Walking Dead Victorian London and the dead are walking. The gelth have taken over corpses and want more a few billion more to be accurate. This story was fun it had a nice horror vibe to it that was actually pretty scary at times. Because it's set at Christmas it's got more of a Christmas Carol vibe to it. The chemistry between 9 and Rose this episode was fantastic 😏. They didn't agree most of the time here and the doctor even threatened to take her back home. 6.5/10 Jann View profile Like Liked 0 12 April 2025 · 57 words Review by Jonathan_ Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Not one of the most memorable stories if I'm being honest, but having Charles Dickens tag along with The Doctor and Rose makes it an enjoyable watch. The Gelth pose an interesting problem for The Doctor and Rose to argue over, though of course it is ultimately a moot point when they decide to start murdering people. Jonathan_ View profile Like Liked 0 9 April 2025 · 72 words Review by Bongo50 The Unqiet Dead is not one of the most memorable series 1 stories, and it's by no means the best, but that doesn't stop it from being pretty good! It remains pretty simple up until the twist, but then I feel it concludes a little too quickly. Moreover, while the visual effects in the last episode still look great today, the same can not be said of some of those in this episode. Bongo50 View profile Like Liked 0 2 April 2025 · 127 words Review by rainbownixie Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Honestly, the best part of this episode is to see how necessary it is for Doctors and companions to argue and clash. Rose and Nine have such a lovely relationship and yet they manage to have different moral views affecting their dynamic without breaking it and I love it. It's a beautiful episode as a whole and the cast is amazing, but the one thing in my mind when I think about this episode is always Rose and the Doctor about to die and just how happy they are that at least they're by each other's side. How worth it it was, the moments they had together. Of course they obviously get out of this one as they often will (not... always...) but the foreshadowing goes crazy. rainbownixie View profile Like Liked 1 19 March 2025 · 83 words Review by KieranCooper 1 2025 Rewatch I now tend to have a soft spot for the historicals, and it's for episodes like this Solid story, full of chills, morbid conversations, and tragedy The gelth makes for a great villain, why they haven't been brought back again I'll never know, but they're great There's a great use of a side cast, especially Dickens, the main man himself. Of which Simon Callow does a grand job Eve Myles is haunting and brilliant, no wonder she eventually was cast as Gwen KieranCooper View profile Like Liked 1 Show All Reviews (17) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating915 members 3.28 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,843 votes 3.73 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1815 Favourited 66 Reviewed 17 Saved 2 Skipped 3 Related Stories The Blogs of Doom Charles Dickens Rating: ??? Story Skipped Short Story Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: The Blogs of Doom Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite ROSE: But, it's like, think about it, though. Christmas. 1860. Happens once, just once and it's gone, it's finished, it'll never happen again. Except for you. You can go back and see days that are dead and gone a hundred thousand sunsets ago. No wonder you never stay still. — Rose Tyler, The Unquiet Dead Show All Quotes (7) Open in new window Transcript [Chapel of Rest] (A small altar with a cross on it flanked by a pair of candles. The rest of the room is also candle-lit and there are arum lilies in vases by an open coffin. The bald Welsh undertaker lights the gas lamp then speaks to his client.) SNEED: Sneed and Company offer their sincerest condolences, sir, in this most trying hour.REDPATH: Grandmamma had a good innings, Mister Sneed. She was so full of life. I can't believe she's gone.SNEED: Not gone, Mister Redpath, sir. Merely sleeping.REDPATH: May I have a moment?SNEED: Yes, of course. I shall be in the next room, should you require anything. (Sneed leaves. The man gazes down the corpse of his mother. Her skin turns blue for a moment then her eyes open. She grabs her son by the throat and knocks over a vase. The crash brings Sneed back in.) SNEED: Oh, no. No. Show Full Transcript Open in new window
