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2018 television stories, Series 11 (Doctor Who) stories, Stories
set in the United States,
Rosa (TV story)
Rosa
Series 11, Episode 3
Doctor:
Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):
Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Featuring:
Rosa Parks
Main enemy:
Krasko
Main setting:
Montgomery, Wed 30 Nov–Thurs 1 Dec 1955
Key crew
Writer:
Malorie Blackman, Chris Chibnall
Director:
Mark Tonderai
Producer:
Alex Mercer, Adam Friedlander
Release details
Story number:
278
Premiere broadcast:
21 October 2018
Premiere network:
BBC One
Format:
1x50 minute episode
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Rosa was the third episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who
produced by BBC Wales.
Set just prior to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, this story dealt with heavy themes, and included blatant depictions of racism, mainly directed at the Doctor's companions Ryan and Yaz.
Attempting to return home to Sheffield, the TARDIS instead drops
the Thirteenth Doctor and friends in 1955 Alabama, where somebody
is planning on meddling with time. Meeting seamstress Rosa Parks,
the Doctor and her friends must work together to correct the flow
of time and keep events in order before things go horribly
wrong.
Plot
It is 1943, Alabama in America. Rosa Parks is boarding a bus on her
way home from work. She pays the fee but the bus driver demands she
go around and get on the bus by the side entrance, given "coloured"
people are forced to sit at the back while whites sit at the front.
She refuses, leading the bus driver to force her from the bus and
drive off without her.
By 1955, the Doctor lands her TARDIS in Alabama, remarking to Graham, Ryan and Yaz that their location is not Sheffield as planned for the ninth time. Graham corrects her it was the fourteenth attempt.