is a
Rose Tyler , and is a recurring character on the programme. He first appeared in the
2005 Series episode ''
Rose ''.
Mickey was a typical working-class young man, living on the same
Council Estate as Rose and working at the local garage. He was caught up in the events of an
Alien invasion when Rose met the mysterious
Doctor .
While Rose, investigating the Doctor, went to visit a
Conspiracy Theorist named Clive, Mickey was captured by the
Nestene Consciousness , which created a living plastic facsimile of him to gather intelligence about the Doctor. Kept a captive by the Nestenes to maintain the duplicate, he was overwhelmed by the revelation that alien life existed and was in a state of paralysed panic throughout most of the Doctor and Rose's final confrontation with the Nestenes.
Mickey's initial cowardice (and his panicky description of the Doctor as an "alien... a ''thing''") did not impress the Doctor, and when the Doctor offered to take on Rose as his newest companion, he pointedly said that Mickey was not invited. While mere days passed for Rose in the formerly run by Clive (see
Doctor Who Tie-in Websites ).
Although still dismissive of Mickey (deliberately calling him "Ricky" and terming him "Mickey the Idiot"), the Doctor had to rely on him when the Doctor and Rose were trapped inside
10 Downing Street during the events of ''
World War Three ''. Mickey's actions in that story, bravely defending Rose's mother
Jackie from the
Slitheen and helping end the alien threat, earned him a degree of the Doctor's respect. At the conclusion of the story, the Doctor offered Mickey a place aboard the TARDIS but he declined, asking the Doctor not to tell Rose that he had done so. The Doctor in turn gave Mickey a
Compact Disc containing a
Computer Virus that would wipe out all mention of him on the Internet, but according to his website, Mickey is undecided as to whether to use it.
A younger (around six years old) version of Mickey appeared in the episode ''
Father's Day '' played by Casey Dyer, where he met the time travelling Rose in 1987, although he was not made aware of the role she would play in his future. The present-day Mickey reappeared in ''
Boom Town '', where he told Rose that he had started dating Trisha Delaney, although whether this was true or merely to make Rose jealous and return to him is not certain. Although he bitterly walked away from Rose at the end of that episode, he was willing to help Rose get back to the Doctor in the 2005 series finale ''
The Parting Of The Ways ''.
Noel Clarke returned as Mickey in the 2005 Christmas special, ''
The Christmas Invasion '', and has signed up for the
2006 Season . He became a regular companion as of ''
School Reunion ''.
Mickey also appeared in the
Ninth Doctor Adventures novel ''Winner Takes All'' by
Jacqueline Rayner , in which he becames involved in an alien war being fought by remote control. The "soldiers" in the war were abducted humans controlled by other humans who thought they were playing a video game. Under the Doctor's instruction, Mickey organised the controllers to keep the abducted humans alive.
