The Doctor Dances

164b – "The Doctor Dances"
164b – "The Doctor Dances"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
	Doctor Christopher Eccleston – Ninth Doctor;
	Companions Billie Piper – Rose Tyler; John Barrowman – Jack Harkness;
	Others Richard Wilson – Dr Constantine; Florence Hoath – Nancy; Luke Perry – Timothy Lloyd; Albert Valentine – Jamie (The Child); Cheryl Fergison – Mrs Lloyd; Damian Samuels – Mr Lloyd; Robert Hands – Algy; Joseph Tremain – Jim; Jordan Murphy – Ernie; Martin Hodgson – Jenkins; Vilma Hollingbery – Mrs Harcourt; Noah Johnson – Voice of the Empty Child; Dian Perry – Computer voice;
Production
Directed by	James Hawes
Written by	Steven Moffat
Script editor	Elwen Rowlands
Produced by	Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies; Julie Gardner; Mal Young;
Music by	Murray Gold
Production code	1.10
Series	Series 1
Running time	2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast	28 May 2005
Chronology
← Preceded by; "The Empty Child"	Followed by →; "Boom Town"
	List of episodes (2005–present)

"The Doctor Dances" is the tenth episode of the first series in the reboot of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 May 2005. It is the second of a two-part story, following the broadcast of "The Empty Child" on 21 May.

The episode is set in London in 1941. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), the con man Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), and the homeless woman Nancy (Florence Hoath) investigate a spaceship which crashed the same time patients at a nearby hospital began turning into living dead beings with gas masks for faces.

The episode saw Jack join the Doctor as a companion. Together with "The Empty Child", it won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

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