How great is this chance, this moment, to talk about Doctor Who episodes before they air. So much of the stuff we enjoy is talked about post transmission and the energy is so different, it just feels so grand to be able to do so. And I have such a great feeling about the next episode. Its that incredible alchemy Doctor Who displays as the travellers move through time and space, you just do not get it in any other television series, that which lies beyond the doors of The Tardis. You never know...
The Doctor and some of his companions have found themselves in similar dark straits before,
in America, in Salem, in a great book by steve Lyons. Its a first doctor tale and really well worth sourcing. The historicals were a source of palpable real world horrors and this episode looks set to explore that...
