Episode Title: The Impossible Planet

Duration: 45 minutes and 19 seconds

Written by: Matt Jones

Directed by: James Strong

Transmission Date: 3rd June 2006

Ratings: 6.3 million

Synopsis: Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole, in the first episode of this two-part story. Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.

Cast List: The Doctor - David Tennant
Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
John Jefferson - Danny Webb
Zachary Cross Flane - Shaun Parkes
Ida Scott - Claire Rushbrook
Toby Zed - Will Thorp
Danny Bartock - Ronny Jhutti
Scooti Manista - MyAnna Buring
The Ood - Paul Kasey
Voice of the Beast - Gabriel Woolf
Voice of the Ood - Silas Carson