It’s inarguable that Billie Piper made a huge impact during her years as a companion \u2013 but what was her best moment of all? <\/p>
Since Doctor Who<\/a> first returned to BBC One back in 2005, the Doctor has had several iconic companions: from Catherine Tate\u2019s Donna Noble to Karen Gillan\u2019s Amy Pond to Jenna Coleman\u2019s Clara Oswald.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s arguably still the first companion of the new-Who era, Rose Tyler, who remains the most beloved of all and so, to celebrate star Billie Piper\u2019s upcoming birthday, we\u2019re asking RadioTimes.com<\/a> readers to pick their favourite moment \u2013 or Moment \u2013 from her time on the show.<\/p>\n Piper starred in the first two series of the show following its return to air, first alongside Christopher Eccleston and then, of course, alongside David Tennant, before making a memorable comeback in series four.<\/p>\n She also appeared in two specials in 2010 and 2013 respectively, famously playing The Moment (which took the form of Rose) in the latter.<\/p>\n It\u2019s undeniable that she made a huge impact during her years on the show, but what was her best moment of all? Read on for our full shortlist before casting your vote below.<\/p>\n It was the moment that Doctor Who truly returned. After a brilliant first episode that saw Rose Tyler introduced via a battle with some Autons, the final shot saw her run towards the TARDIS in slo-mo, convinced by the Doctor to join him on his travels after he told her he could also travel in time.<\/p>\n The sixth episode of series one was extremely notable for finally bringing back the much-feared Daleks. And the vital moment for Rose came towards the very end, when she had to talk the Doctor out of killing the last Dalek \u2013 explaining that it had developed emotions \u2013 and told the Doctor that he was changing into something pretty ugly.<\/p>\n In Father\u2019s Day, Rose requested that she be taken back to the day her father, Pete, was killed in 1987, so she could be with him when he died. Things didn\u2019t quite go as expected after Rose decided to save Pete \u2013 and this all lead to one of the most emotional, heartbreaking farewell scenes in the show\u2019s history.<\/p> The brilliant series one two-parter of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances (Steven Moffat\u2019s first scripts for Who) took Rose and the Doctor back to London in 1941 \u2013 during the blitz. And perhaps the most memorable moment for Rose \u2013 aside from her first meeting with Captain Jack Harkness \u2013 saw her rise above London attached to a barrage balloon, putting her right at the heart of the action.<\/p>\n When Rose was sent home by the Doctor towards the end of season one, she wasn\u2019t too happy about it \u2013 and enlisted Mickey and Jackie to help her get back. She managed but, after absorbing time-vortex energy from the TARDIS, she became the all powerful Bad Wolf, which allowed her to dissolve the Dalek fleet, saving the Doctor and resurrecting the exterminated Jack Harkness in the process.<\/p>\n David Tennant\u2019s first full episode in the role saw the Doctor and Rose come up against The Sycorax, an alien race that wanted to enslave humankind. Rose more than held her own in the ensuing battle, bravely trying to get them to leave with a very nervous monologue as she bought time for the Doctor to return.<\/p>\n A more light-hearted story to kick off series two, the highlight of this episode saw \u201cThe Last Human\u201d Lady Cassandra transfer her mind to Rose\u2019s body, leading to some brilliant comedic moments including a memorable attempt to seduce the Doctor, curtailed by a failure to quite grasp rhyming slang.<\/p>\n\n An undoubtedly iconic moment \u2013 after a tear between universes meant that the Doctor and Rose\u2019s time together must end, a distraught Rose bade farewell to the Doctor, with the pair separated by a dividing wall. And then right at the end of the episode we got another goodbye \u2013 while standing on Bad Wolf Bay Rose memorably spoke to an image of the Doctor that he had projected across universes, telling him she loved him.<\/p>\n Of course, the above farewell wasn\u2019t the last we saw of Rose, and she made a surprise return with a very brief cameo during the events of the series four opener Partners in Crime, briefly speaking to Donna before disappearing into thin air when the new companion entered the TARDIS.<\/p>\n Rose and Donna would meet again in the eleventh episode of series four, in an alternative timeline where Donna had never met the Doctor. In the episode, Rose warned Donna, explaining how important it was that she crossed paths with the Doctor in order to save his life, before chillingly telling her, \u201cYou\u2019re going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n The Stolen Earth was famously the episode that brought together nearly all of the supporting characters from the previous four seasons \u2013 including Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Jack, Martha, Donna, Sarah and Wilf \u2013 and Rose got one of the best moments of all. At the very end, with Rose and the Doctor running towards each other, the Doctor was shot by a Dalek. By the time Rose reached him, she could only cradle him in her arms.<\/p>\n The final goodbye between Rose and the Doctor came at the end of Journey\u2019s End \u2013 the final episode of Russell T. Davies\u2019s tenure as Doctor Who showrunner. At the end of the episode, the Doctor sent Rose back to her universe alongside a cloned version of himself, although Rose was upset that this wasn\u2019t quite the same as the real thing \u2013 at least until the Doctor was still unable to tell her that he loved her.<\/p>\n Billie Piper\u2019s last appearance in Doctor Who didn\u2019t actually come as Rose at all, but rather as The Moment \u2013 the most powerful and dangerous weapon in all of creation, that took the form of Rose as a holographic projection during the 50th-anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor. In her appearance, she interacted with William Hurt\u2019s The War Doctor, repeating his words \u201cNo More\u201d back at him and somewhat freaking him out in the process.<\/p>\n It’s inarguable that Billie Piper made a huge impact during her years as a companion \u2013 but what was her best moment of all? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3044,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now.jpg",976,549,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now.jpg",800,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now.jpg",976,549,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/whats-billie-pipers-best-doctor-who-moment-vote-now.jpg",976,549,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It's inarguable that Billie Piper made a huge impact during her years as a companion \u2013 but what was her best moment of all?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Billie Piper best Doctor Who moments<\/h2>\n
Rose joins the Doctor (Rose)<\/h3>\n\n
Rose saves the Doctor from himself (Dalek)<\/h3>\n
Farewell to Pete (Father\u2019s Day)<\/h3>\n
Dangling in the Blitz (The Empty Child)<\/h3>\n
Rose is the Bad Wolf (The Parting of the Ways)<\/h3>\n\n
Facing the Sycorax (The Christmas Invasion)<\/h3>\n
Cassandra takes over (New Earth)<\/h3>\n
Parting from the Doctor (Doomsday)<\/h3>\n
Surprise return (Partners in Crime)<\/h3>\n
Rose warns Donna (Turn Left)<\/h3>\n
Rose runs to The Doctor as he gets shot (The Stolen Earth)<\/h3>\n\n
Saying goodbye again (Journey\u2019s End)<\/h3>\n
As The Moment \u201cNo More\u201d (The Day of the Doctor)<\/h3>\n
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