'Empire of Death' changed 'Doctor Who' history — here's what you mighta missed
Ruby Sunday talks to the Doctor, who has a whistle around his neck.
The history of Doctor Who was forever changed by the season finale episode "Empire of Death" — but not in the way we were expecting.
Despite inspiring a flurry of fan theories about Ruby Sunday's mum (could it be Rose?), showrunner Russell T Davies simply gave us the statistically most likely answer.
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Sutekh has been hanging around the TARDIS for the last 49 years of Doctor Who.
In "Pyramids of Mars" , the only story prior to this season to contain Sutekh, the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) thought he had trapped his most powerful enemy in a time corridor where he aged more than 7,000 years Then they jumped in the TARDIS and quickly left the scene of the trap — a burning priory in 1911 that would one day become UNIT HQ