"The Empty Child" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on May 21, 2005. It is the first of a two-part story. The concluding episode, "The Doctor Dances", was broadcast on May 28. The two-part story won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
This episode marked the 1st appearance of John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, a mysterious "Time Agent", who was the first ...
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"The Empty Child" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on May 21, 2005. It is the first of a two-part story. The concluding episode, "The Doctor Dances", was broadcast on May 28. The two-part story won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
This episode marked the 1st appearance of John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, a mysterious "Time Agent", who was the first character in the show's history who was explicitly not a strict heterosexual.
Chasing a metallic object through the vortex, the Ninth Doctor and Rose arrive in London during the Blitz. There, they find homeless children being terrorised, dead bodies with gas masks fused to their faces, a strange cylinder guarded by the army, and the dashing Captain Jack Harkness.
The Doctor and Rose Tyler are travelling in the TARDIS, chasing a metal cylinder that is marked as dangerous through the time vortex; the cylinder skips and leaves the vortex,...
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