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Mickey Smith
(2005, 2006, 2008 & 2010) |
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| Noel Clarke |
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London born Noel Clarke is a
multi-talented actor, writer and producer. He was
born in December 1975.
In 1999 he starred in the controversial
Channel 4 series Metrosexuality. In 2002
he won the role of Wyman Norris in the hugely successful
revival of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet reprising the
part for the follow-up series and 2004 Christmas Special
making a total of fourteen episodes.
Other television appearance include an episode of The Bill (2000),
three episodes of Casualty (2001), fourteen episodes of Auf
Wiedersehen, Pet (2002 – 2004). An episode of Holby City (2004)
and an episode of A Touch of Frost (2004).
His performance in Where Do We Live at the Royal Court Theatre won
him the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer
of 2002. Even though he appeared, as Rose Tyler’s boyfriend Mickey Smith,
in "Rose" – the first story of the revived series of Doctor Who in
2005 he did not formerly become a companion until the 2006 story "The
Girl in the Fireplace".
Since leaving Doctor Who at the end of "Army
of Ghosts/Doomsday" he
made two brief returns (in 2008 and 2010). He also
narrated the 2009 episode of Doctor
Who Confidential titled "Desert
Storm".
Noel Clarke also wrote the 2006 episode of Torchwood titled "Combat".
He also has written the films Kidulthood and Lick',
which he also produced. He has also written, directed and starred in the
films Adulthood (2008) and 4.3.2.1 (2010). |
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 In some ways, it is easiest to think of Mickey
as a ‘pseudo-companion’ in the same sense as the
Third
Doctor’s
old colleagues in UNIT; a long-term ally of The Doctor despite
the fact that he did not immediately start
to travel in the TARDIS when
he and The Doctor first met.
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| Rose |
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When The Doctor initially met Mickey, Mickey was
dating The Doctor’s future companion Rose Tyler, although the
available evidence suggests that the relationship was more serious
for Mickey than it was for Rose. Although the two generally seemed
content together, Rose was easily the more outgoing of the two, Mickey
content to kick back at a pub and watch a football game after the
destruction of the department store where Rose worked while Rose
investigated the strange man she’d met during the explosion,
eventually learning his true identity as the Ninth
Doctor. Although
Mickey was briefly replaced by an Auton duplicate to try and question
Rose about The Doctor, The Doctor was able to use the duplicate to
track down the Nestene Consciousness, subsequently inviting Rose
to travel with him after she helped stop his old enemy, Rose saying
goodbye to Mickey - thanking him for doing nothing for her - before
she entered the TARDIS, Mickey too shaken at the sight of the TARDIS
and the proof of alien life to join her ("Rose").
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| School Reunion |
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When The Doctor and Rose returned to the Powell
Estate, it was to learn that, due to a mistake in the coordinates,
The Doctor had arrived back there twelve months after leaving with
Rose rather than the twelve hours he had been aiming for, resulting
in Mickey being particularly angry at The Doctor; with no real
evidence of what had happened to Rose, he had become a suspect
in her murder when investigations into her disappearance had begun.
During this second meeting, The Doctor and Mickey developed a certain
antagonistic relationship, Mickey resenting what The Doctor had
done to his life - also demonstrating a certain knowledge of The
Doctor’s past due to his research into the man who’d
departed with Rose, such as The Doctor’s old ties to UNIT,
although he was apparently still ignorant of specifics such as
The Doctor’s ability to regenerate - while The Doctor appeared
jealous of Rose’s still-close relationship with Mickey, constantly
calling him ‘Ricky the Idiot’ (Although it was never
established if he actually genuinely forgot Mickey’s name
or was just doing it to be annoying). Despite their antagonistic
relationship at this time, after Mickey helped The Doctor thwart
The
Slitheen’s attempts to trigger World War Three by launching
a missile at Ten Downing Street, The Doctor appeared to display
a certain respect for Mickey, even leaving him a disc containing
a computer virus that could wipe all record of The Doctor from
the Internet, although Mickey apparently never used it ("Aliens
of London/World War Three"). This treatment of Mickey continued
in their later meetings, with The Doctor refusing to visit Mickey
after working with him to defeat the alien Queevils because he
would have had to admit that Mickey had done a good job ("Winner
Takes All"), and Mickey feeling uncomfortably out of place
amid the new TARDIS crew when he met new companion Captain Jack Harkness during a brief stop-off in Cardiff while the TARDIS refuelled,
even going so far as to yell at Rose for leaving him to travel
with The Doctor like he meant nothing yet still expecting him to
come running whenever she asked for him ("Boom
Town").
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| The Girl in the Fireplace |
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After Mickey and Jackie were convinced to help
Rose operate the TARDIS to help The Doctor stop the Dalek attack
on Earth in 200 100 ("Bad
Wolf/The Parting of the Ways"), the two of them were only
reunited with Rose and The Doctor on Christmas Eve of that year,
the TARDIS crash-landing in the Powell Estate and the newly-regenerated
Tenth Doctor emerging from the ship before collapsing due to the
strain of his latest regeneration. Having regained consciousness
in time to defeat the invading Sycorax ("The
Christmas Invasion"), the new Doctor proved far more friendly
to Mickey and Jackie than his previous incarnation had been, no
longer referring to Mickey as ‘the idiot’ and valuing
his aid when he attracted their attention to recent strange occurrences
at Deffrey Vale School. Following this adventure - which included
a meeting with The Doctor’s old companions Sarah
Jane Smith and K9, Mickey teasingly commenting to The Doctor that Sarah
and Rose’s meeting was the equivalent of ‘the missus
and the ex... every man's worst nightmare’ - ("School
Reunion"), Mickey asked to travel with The Doctor officially,
but despite enjoying their subsequent trip to a spaceship ("The
Girl in the Fireplace"), he still felt out of place in
the well-formed team of The Doctor and Rose. As a result, when
the TARDIS unintentionally travelled to an alternate Earth ("Rise
of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel") and confronted the Cybermen of
that world - during which Mickey met and witnessed the death of
his other self as the other Mickey (Coincidentally known as ‘Ricky’;
whether the Ninth Doctor knew about that other world or if it was
just a coincidence was never established) aided The Doctor and
the others in disabling the Cyber-conversion factory in London
-, he decided to remain in his new reality, recognising that Rose
no longer needed him while this new world could use his assistance,
particularly with his grandmother - deceased in his home reality
- still alive in that world.
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| The Stolen Earth/Journey's
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When Mickey next appeared, he had returned to The
Doctor’s universe with the aid of teleportation technology
developed by that reality’s Torchwood ("Army
of Ghosts/Doomsday"), having traced the Cybermen - who
had managed to escape that reality - into the other universe by
tracking a Void Ship - a ship existing outside the normal universe
-, believing that it held the Cybermen’s leader... only to
be shocked to learn, as he reunited with Rose in front of the Void
Ship, that it actually contained four Daleks in the form of the
Cult of Skaro - an elite group of Daleks who dared to have imagination
and names to think like the enemy and find new ways of killing
-, attempting to unleash a Dalek army from a Time Lord prison ship
that they had salvaged before the end of the Time War. Although
their plan worked when Mickey came into contact with the ship,
the temporal energy his body had absorbed in the TARDIS opening
the prison and triggering a Dalek/Cyberman war as the two races
fought each other for the right to conquer Earth, The Doctor took
advantage of the fact that they had each passed through the Void
between universes by sealing the rift that they had created, drawing
all particles of void-matter that remained on this side of the
rift - including the particles that the Daleks and Cybermen had
absorbed by passing through the Void - back into it, although Mickey,
Rose, and Jackie had to return to the other universe in order to
prevent themselves being sucked through the rift themselves. During
this time The Doctor and Mickey’s relationship, although
only briefly shown, was a more straightforward friendship based
on respect for the other’s skills, The Doctor smiling broadly
at Mickey upon being reunited with him while Mickey jokingly called
The Doctor ‘boss’, Pete Tyler commenting that Mickey
had told everyone in that reality that The Doctor was good at what
he did.
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| The End of Time |
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Mickey returned again in The Stolen Earth/Journey's
End", when Davros’s
actions with the Reality Bomb - a weapon that was capable of destroying
existence - resulted in the dimensional barriers breaking down,
allowing Rose, Mickey and Jackie to return to this universe to
try and aid The Doctor in this new fight with the Daleks. Having
saved Sarah Jane Smith from a Dalek attack, Mickey, Jackie and
Sarah infiltrated the Crucible - the Dalek headquarters - where
they were able to track down Jack Harkness, although their attempt
to destroy the Crucible failed. However, thanks to the creation
of a part-human clone of The Doctor, the small army of companions
- mocking referred to by Davros as the ‘Children of Time’ -
were able to deactivate the reality bomb and set the Daleks to
self-destruct, Mickey deciding to remain in this reality after
the death of his alternate grandmother while Rose, Jackie and The
Doctor’s clone returned to their new world. Mickey made a
final brief appearance in "The End of Time",
where it was revealed that he had married The Doctor’s other
companion Martha Jones, the two going into business as freelance
alien hunters, the on-the-verge-of-regenerating Tenth Doctor paying
them a brief visit to save them from a renegade Sontaran before
he departed to prepare for his ‘death’, Mickey and
Martha embracing in the knowledge that this was the last time they
would see ‘their’ Doctor. |
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