TDP 800: TV #DoctorWho Rosa

@TinDogPodcast  800 reviews the superb TV #DoctorWho #Rosa   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 Official trailer Doctor Who television stories ← Previous The Ghost Monument You may be looking for Rose (TV story). 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.