"The End of the World" is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 2, 2005. It features the Ninth Doctor and Rose arriving at a space station in the year five billion where they plan to witness the destruction of Earth. But shortly after their arrival, several people are killed and the Doctor has to work fast to prevent the destruction of the space station by the expanding sun.
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"The End of the World" is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 2, 2005. It features the Ninth Doctor and Rose arriving at a space station in the year five billion where they plan to witness the destruction of Earth. But shortly after their arrival, several people are killed and the Doctor has to work fast to prevent the destruction of the space station by the expanding sun.
The Doctor takes Rose to five billion years into her future in the TARDIS, landing on "Platform One", a space station in orbit around Earth; the earth has long since been abandoned and under the National Trust, but as money has run out, it is about to be destroyed by the expansion of the Sun, only presently held back by gravity satellites. The Doctor uses "psychic paper" to pass as their invitation to the party, and he and Rose find many elite extraterrestrial beings there to celebrate the end of the earth in the protection of Platform One's...
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