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Doctor Who (2005) :: The Empty Child (1) (01x09)
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| Title: | The Empty Child (1) |
| Also Known As: | Das leere Kind ( Germany)
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| Episode Number: | 9 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 9 |
| Production Number: | 109 |
| Original Airdate: | Saturday May 21st, 2005 |
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 Ireland |
May 21, 2005 |
 Australia |
Jul 16, 2005 |
 USA |
May 05, 2006 |
| Germany |
Feb 23, 2008 |
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The time-travelling duo land in London in 1941, at the height of the Blitz, and discover the city's homeless children are being terrorised by a ghostly youngster. To add to the mystery, the Army are guarding a peculiar cylinder - and a dashing officer soon threatens the Doctor's hero status in Rose's eyes.
| Summary Available In: English | German
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Date: January 21, 1941
Location: London, England, UK
| The colour mauve, according to the Doctor, is the universally recognised call for danger. The colour red is just the call for danger for humans.
| The planes seen about to bomb London, and coming right at Rose, look like the Heinkel He 111 German twin engine bomber.
| This episode marks the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) on the series.
| There is no Bad Wolf reference in this episode, although there is one in "The Doctor Dances".
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(The Doctor asking a crowd of Brits, during Britain’s WWII blitz, this question)
The Doctor: Hello… might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently?
(The crowd then erupts into obvious laughter)
| (While being captured in a strange beam by Capt. Jack, which keeps her from falling to her death)
Jack: Oh, and can you switch off your cell phone.
Rose: Wha…?
Jack: No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose: You know, no one really believes that.
Jack: Thank you… that’s much better.
| (As Rose is suspended in a beam above London)
Jack: Ready for you! … Hold tight!
Rose: To what!
Jack: Fair point.
| Dr. Constantine: Before the war, I was a father and grandfather. Now I'm neither...but I'm still a Doctor.
The Doctor: I know how you feel.
| Jack: (to the Doctor) Saw your ship. Love the retro look by the way. Nice panels.
| The Empty Children: (repeated line) Are you my mummy?
| The Doctor: One day, just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet somebody who gets the whole "don't wander off" thing. 900 years of phone box travel and it's the only thing left that surprises me.
| The Doctor: And I'm looking for a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, mind you; I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving.
| The Doctor: (referring to red alerts) That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings - all those Red Alerts, all that dancing.
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Jack: Oh, and can you switch off your cell phone.
Rose: Wha…?
Jack: No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose: You know, no one really believes that.
A reference to many who feel the FAA’s rule about turning off cell phones and computer equipment on airline departures is merely a joke to help the stewardess and stewards, and not in fact a true problem for the aircraft.
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