Since Doctor Who’s 2005 revival, love and relationships have become part of the drama like never before.

CultBox runs down our top couplings…

 

The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler (2005 – 2010)

While they got on well and enjoyed a certain level of affection, it was not until after regeneration into a certain David Tennant that his relationship with Rose truly blossomed. Keen to travel with him for ever, Rose clearly had long term plans but they were parted when she ended up trapped in an alternative universe.

Even that wasn’t enough for Ms Tyler, who crossed dimensions to come back for more and ended up taking charge of the Doctor’s half-human meta-crisis duplicate, a version of the Time Lord more in touch with his emotions and presumably willing to respond to her affections.

 

Jackie and Pete Tyler (2005 – 2006)

A tempestuous marriage between the feisty Jackie and dodgy-dealing Pete gave our world one Rose Tyler. Despite Pete’s untimely demise, and her succession of second rate replacements, they were reunited (sort of) when the successful and recently widowed Pete Tyler from an alternate universe came to assist the Doctor against the Cybermen.

Pete and Jackie started afresh and even had a son together… although they did not name him “Doctor”.

 

Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint (2011 – 2014)

Initially presenting as Mistress and servant, Vastra and Jenny are the programme’s ultimate odd couple with their interspecies lesbian marriage transcending pretty much every taboo of the age they live in.

Notwithstanding Vastra’s roving eye and unusual dietary requirements, the pair appear utterly devoted to each other as they work together fending off alien incursions from Victorian London (with a little help from Strax, of course).

 

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