In fact, when the show returned in 2005 — it first premiered in 1963 and aired 26 seasons, until 1989 — Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler is the first character seen onscreen.

From the Master to the Daleks, Doctor Who has faced plenty of villains capable of wiping out the universe, but which enemies ...

Ncuti Gatwa just dropped an almighty tease about a possible return to Doctor Who after his swift two-season run as the main ...

There, he transforms into a woman, and her face is a familiar one: it's Billie Piper, the actor who played companion Rose Tyler when Davies first revived Doctor Who in 2005.

Paying the Piper I say this with nothing but love for Billie Piper and her work as Rose Tyler: her time as part of Doctor Who should have stayed in the past. Rose is a great character, but she had ...

After receiving only one 13-episode-long season as the Doctor alongside Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler, Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor regenerated in 2005’s “The Parting of the Ways.” ...

There’s a new doctor in the TARDIS — or is there? Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerated into former companion Billie Piper during the British sci-fi show’s season finale on Saturday.

And when was the last time Piper appeared on Doctor Who? Read on for everything you need to know, which takes us back to the new era’s Seasons 1, 2, and 4 (let’s call Gatwa’s the new new era).