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The new first series of British science fiction programme Doctor Who began on 26 March 2005 with the episode Rose which marked the end of the programme’s 16-year absence from episodic television following its cancellation in 1989 and the first new televised Doctor Who story since the broadcast of the TV movie starring Paul McGann in 1996. The finale episode The Parting of the Ways was broadcast on 18 June 2005.