DOCTOR WHO, 10.12 – ‘The Doctor Falls’
[usr 4.0] With a Christmas Special yet to close Steven Moffat’s tenure as Doctor Who’s showrunner, “The Doctor Falls” still has plenty of work...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.11 – ‘World Enough and Time’
[usr 5.0] After that startling opening showing an older, somewhat crumpled version of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) apparently regenerating, Steven Moffat clearly decided that,...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.10 – ‘The Eaters of Light’
[usr 3.5] Welcome back Rona Munro, writer of this week’s Doctor Who, “The Eaters of Light”. Munro, as many fans will recall, wrote what...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
[usr 4.0] If this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.8 – ‘The Lie of the Land’
[usr 4.0] There’s a line in this week’s Doctor Who, “The Lie of the Land”, that made me smile. It was a smile in...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.7 – ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’
[usr 3.5] Imagine, you’re a skilled researcher working in a top secret lab completing biochemical trials on crops, and you’ve been out on the...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.6 – ‘Extremis’
[usr 4.5] Steven Moffat returns to Doctor Who writing duties this week with “Extremis”, the first chapter of a three-part story. We’re also back...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.5 – ‘Oxygen’
[usr 4.5] If you’ve been paying attention over the last five episodes of Doctor Who you’ll have noticed certain themes cropping up. There have...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.4 – ‘Knock Knock’
[usr 4.0] “Well, you don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters,” claims Nardole (Matt Lucas) at the conclusion of Mike Bartlett’s...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.3 – ‘Thin Ice’
[usr 4.0] I was half expecting Stevie Wonder to show up in “Thin Ice”, writer Sarah Dollard’s contribution to this year’s series of Doctor...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.2 – ‘Smile’
[usr 3.5] If the theme of robots becoming sentient seems familiar in “Smile”, the second episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who, then...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.1 – ‘The Pilot’
[usr 4.0] There’s a marvellous composition right at the start of this week’s Doctor Who that speaks volumes. As “The Pilot” begins and Bill...