Jackie Tyler

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name=Jackie Tyler
series=Doctor Who
affiliation=Rose Tyler
race=Human
planet=Earth
era=21st century
start="Rose"
finish="Journey's End"

portrayed=Camille Coduri

Jacqueline Andrea Suzette "Jackie" Tyler (née Prentice) is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", played by Camille Coduri. A resident of present-day London and the mother of the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler, she was a recurring character on the programme from 2005 to 2006. She first appeared in the 2005 series episode "Rose" and lived with Rose in a council flat on the Powell Estate.

Jackie is a single mother, her husband Pete Tyler having died in 1987 when Rose was "six months old" (according to the Doctor in "Rise of the Cybermen") and does not seem to have any form of steady employment. An article written by the programme's chief writer and executive producer Russell T Davies, published in the "Doctor Who Annual 2006" by Panini Books in August 2005, states that Jackie works from home as a hairdresser.

Character history

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Jackie first met the Doctor after the department store, called Henriks, at which Rose worked was destroyed. When the Doctor arrived at the flat Jackie and Rose share, Jackie attempted to flirt with the Doctor, to little avail. This first encounter set the stage for a sometimes antagonistic relationship between the two. During the final phase of the Auton invasion, several Autons attacked Jackie, but her life was spared when Rose and the Doctor managed to destroy the physical form of the Nestene Consciousness.

Jackie appeared briefly in "The End of the World", when the Doctor enabled Rose's mobile phone to call Jackie from five billion years in the future. From Jackie's point of view, this phone call took place before the events of "Rose".

When Rose left with the Doctor in the TARDIS, she intended to be back within hours. However, when Rose returned to London in "Aliens of London", she discovered that twelve whole months had elapsed. Out of her mind with worry, Jackie had in the intervening year organised a poster campaign to search for her missing daughter, and even accused Rose's boyfriend Mickey of murdering her. When Rose returned, Jackie was furious with the Doctor for taking her away. Jackie also could not understand why Rose would not tell her where she had been, but discovered the truth when she saw the TARDIS. She was also nearly killed by a Slitheen disguised as a policeman, and began to truly appreciate how dangerous Rose's new lifestyle was when the Doctor ended the Slitheen's plans by calling a missile strike down on 10 Downing Street where he and Rose were trapped at the time.

While Jackie appears flighty at times, she genuinely loves her daughter and is extremely concerned for her safety, particularly given the life the Doctor and Rose lead. Even though her attitude towards the Doctor softened from hostility to grudging acceptance, she continued to worry about Rose and waited for her daughter's return.

A younger Jackie, also played by Coduri, appeared in "Father's Day". Despite Rose's idyllic image of her parents' marriage, the relationship she saw when she travelled with the Doctor back to 1987 was stormy, and Jackie was threatening to divorce Pete. However, these fights were short-lived, and it was clear that both Jackie and Pete loved each other despite the arguments. After Pete's death, Jackie would tell Rose about her father, painting a picture of Pete as the ideal husband he was not.

The present-day Jackie made another appearance in the 2005 series finale, "The Parting of the Ways". When the Doctor sent Rose back to her own time, Jackie was initially glad to have her daughter home again. However, she eventually helped Rose open the TARDIS console and return to help the Doctor.

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When she next appeared in "The Christmas Invasion", her relationship with the Doctor was warmer than it was with his earlier incarnation: the Tenth Doctor was more open and friendly than the Ninth, and she seemed to trust him more. When the Doctor and Rose come to visit Jackie at the start of "Army of Ghosts", she even greets him with a hug and a kiss.

Coduri appeared in five episodes of the 2006 series and made a brief appearance in the first episode "New Earth". Coduri appeared as the Jackie Tyler of a parallel Earth in "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel". The "real" Jackie also made an appearance in the penultimate scene of the latter episode. Jackie appeared in "Love & Monsters", where she expressed how hard and lonely it was to be left behind by her daughter; she subsequently attempted to seduce Elton Pope, but changed her mind after receiving a phone call from Rose. When she later discovered Elton's original motive for befriending her (to learn more about Rose and the Doctor), she kicked him out of her house, promising that she would defend the Doctor and Rose for as long as she lived.

In "Army of Ghosts" she was caught up in the events of the Cyberman invasion when she was unwillingly taken along in the TARDIS to Torchwood Tower. During this incident she actually acts as a companion to the Doctor, although she is not generally considered an official companion; she briefly pretends to be Rose in order to protect her daughter from discovery by Torchwood personnel. Eventually Jackie ended up being transported to the parallel universe to live out her life, and started a new relationship with the alternate Pete. As of the end of "Doomsday", she is three months pregnant with Pete's child and is living with Mickey, Rose and Pete as a family once more.

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Jackie appears at the beginning of the season finale, "Journey's End", with Mickey Smith, arriving just in time to destroy the Daleks about to "exterminate" Sarah Jane. She accompanies Sarah Jane and Mickey as they surrender to the Daleks and are transported onto the Dalek Crucible, where she narrowly escapes being vaporised during a test of a new Dalek weapon called the "reality bomb". After escaping the Daleks and witnessing their genocide at the hands of the human/Timelord Doctor, Jackie returns to her parallel universe with Rose, where she reveals to the Doctor that she now has a son named Tony.

Jackie Tyler (parallel universe)

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name=Jackie Tyler (parallel)
affiliation=Pete Tyler (parallel)
race=Human, later Cyberman
planet=Parallel Earth
era=21st century
start="Rise of the Cybermen"
finish="The Age of Steel"
portrayed=Camille Coduri

In "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" Coduri plays a parallel Earth version of Jackie. In this universe, she is still married to Pete, but they have no children, although she has a Yorkshire terrier named Rose. Despite Pete's success, which has led to Jackie becoming a celebrity, they are on the verge of splitting up. Her status has led to her developing a certain amount of snobbery: when Rose, disguised as a waitress, tries to get her to patch up the relationship, Jackie dismisses her as "staff". Jackie's 39th (actually 40th) birthday party, which has many prominent guests, including the President of Great Britain, is invaded by the Cybermen.

Despite attempting to hide from Lumic's creations, she joins thousands of others in marching to his factory when he activates a brainwashing signal through their EarPods, communications devices that transmit news directly into people's brains. At the factory, she is converted (off-screen) into a Cyberman, much to the horror of her husband and Rose when that Cyberman identifies itself to them. It is presumed that she died with the rest of the Cybermen when the conversion factory was destroyed; the parallel Pete Tyler says 'his wife died' in "Doomsday".

Other appearances

Jackie also appears in several of the New Series Adventures novels. In "Winner Takes All" by Jacqueline Rayner, Jackie nearly falls for a scheme to take humans "on holiday" to fight in an alien war. A thug who lives in Rose's estate mugs Jackie and takes the "winning ticket" that qualifies her for the vacation. Jackie ends up in hospital, but her assailant fares worse: he takes her place as a remote-controlled soldier on an alien planet, and is killed.

Jackie makes cameo appearances in "Only Human" by Gareth Roberts and "The Stealers of Dreams" by Steve Lyons. In "Only Human", a time-lost Neanderthal flirts with Jackie at a London nightclub before Captain Jack Harkness steers him away from her. (Captain Jack and Jackie at the time this novel is set, Jack and Jackie haven't met on the television series and do not actually meet in the novel; Jack scans Jackie's DNA with his wrist device and identifies her as Rose's mother. They later meet in "Journey's End".) In "The Stealers of Dreams", Rose uses the "superphone" to call Jackie from a human colony world in the future. Jackie complains that Rose did not let her know she was going to be in Cardiff during her recent visit to that city.

In the opening scene of "The Stone Rose" by Rayner, Jackie visits the British Museum with the Doctor, Rose and Mickey. In "The Feast of the Drowned" by Stephen Cole, she is amongst those manipulated by the "waterhive", who send ghostly apparitions of those they've captured (in this case Rose) to lure their loved ones.

List of appearances

;Series 1 (2005)
* "Rose"
* "The End of the World"
* "Aliens of London" / "World War Three"
* "Father's Day"
* "The Parting of the Ways"

;Series 2 (2006)
* "The Christmas Invasion"
* "New Earth"
* "Rise of the Cybermen" / "The Age of Steel"
* "Love & Monsters"
* "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday"

;Series 4 (2008)
* "Journey's End"

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/jackie.shtml Jackie Tyler on the BBC's "Doctor Who" website]
* [http://www.powellestate.org.uk/ Powell Estate Tenants and Residents Association] a fan site for the Powell Estate, home to Jackie and Rose Tyler and modelled on Southwark's Brandon Estate
* www.planetgalifrey.co.uk