Bad Wolf

166a – "Bad Wolf"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byJoe Ahearne
Written byRussell T Davies
Script editorHelen Raynor
Produced byPhil Collinson
Executive producer(s)
Music byMurray Gold
Production code1.12
SeriesSeries 1
Running time1st of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast11 June 2005 (2005-06-11)
Chronology
← Preceded by
"Boom Town"
Followed by →
"The Parting of the Ways"
List of episodes (2005–present)

"Bad Wolf" is the twelfth episode of the revived first series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 11 June 2005. It is the first of a two-part story. The concluding episode, "The Parting of the Ways", was first broadcast on 18 June 2005.

In the episode, set in the far future 100 years after the events of "The Long Game", the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his travelling companions Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) are secretly brought on board the game-show-broadcasting satellite, Satellite Five, by its controller (Martha Cope) so they can fight against the controller's "masters", the Daleks.