Doctor Who is one of those rare TV shows that does a lot of its best worldbuilding in absence. What happened during the Time War? How did Captain Jack Harkness eventually become a vending machine-sized head in a jar? Why, under any circumstance, would someone choose to live with James Corden?

Though those whys and hows and whats are sometimes expanded on in Who, the tantalising crumbs they leave behind imply a rich, hearty mothership cake of untapped narrative somewhere just off-screen. Which is handy because the bombastic storytelling of most Doctor Who episodes doesn’t leave much time for more fuller worldbuilding.

It’s snapshots of a life on the run from oneself.

The exception being Rose, the inaugural episode of 21st Century Who, which takes the approach of blasting the audience in the face like Homer did Marge with his patented ‘Make-Up Gun’. As Mickey is being eaten by a wheelie bin and replaced by a doppelganger with a silicone shape-up, our hero Rose is being ushered into a shed by the dad from Anna and the Apocalypse.

Fear not, dear reader, for once we’re in the shed we’re treated to a plethora of references to historical events FEATURING Christopher Eccleston. Christopher Eccleston at the JFK assassination, Christopher Eccleston at the Titanic launch, Christopher Eccleston at the eruption of Krakatoa. Shoddily photoshopped and just perfect, it’s a brilliant scene which is capped off by one of the coldest lines of Series 1:

“The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history, when disaster comes: he’s there. He brings the storm in his wake and he has one constant companion… death.”

Clive please, it’s half seven on a Saturday. Save some for the rest of us, buddy.