I never thought Richard E Grant’s alternate universe 9th Doctor would be this good. He delivers the funny lines with a lightness of touch but has a complex weight to the darker side of his performance. It’s a difficult balance to get right but he nails it.

I hadn’t contemplated how exciting it is that a lesser known slice of Paul Cornell TV Doctor Who exists. Much like the Virgin novelisations and RTD’s take on the show, it is more routed in our reality and has a greater focus on personal relationships than the classic series. It feels throughly modern.

We can’t ignore the leaps and bounds that have been made in the animation - now by the talents at Cosgrove Hall who I knew from the Invasion animation. My word I wish the last three animations had been rendered in this fashion - Death Comes to Time could have been delivered on a whole different level.

The story keeps you fully engaged for the first two thirds, then does start to slip slightly, which I blame on the Shalka themselves. A menace that mostly just screams works well for a build up and reveal, but is less interesting when it comes to the meat or the battle and finale.

My favourite moment is when The Doctor manages to avoid being sucked into the void by using only his wits. Cornell is a natural at adjusting his writing to this epic scale that is not seen in his 2005 and 2007 stories. My least favourite moments are also when monsters just get sucked into voids with little emotional payoff.

Out of all of the material from the wilderness (/theme park) years, this is the most exciting prospect and the only story I could see being the starting point for a new continuing drama. I’m looking forward to finding out more about the behind the scenes and whether anything further was planned before RTD’s return made the enterprise an impossibility.