isn’t that an exciting cover? Shame the story it is attached to is not overly compelling! This is a nice setting in theory for the 9th Doctor, an Upstairs/Downstairs situation in the 1930s where he will of course side with the staff over the snooty gentry, and there is a nightly visit from a pack of alien creatures on horseback shouting about “flesh.” The things that happen in the story are quite predictable, and not played with enough fun or wit for that not to matter; also the class stuff, which is very promising 9 material, doesn’t really marry to the sci-fi stuff in a way that illuminates either. There are opportunities to get into 9’s post-Time War psychology, but they are firmly not taken, plus some really awful characters get away with no real comeuppance. Annette Badland is in this, and her voice is so great, her scenes with Eccleston are why I still rate Boom Town very highly as an RTD script, but she is not given much of a character here, nobody is really, even the villain reveal is too late to really get into what they are about. Some good Doctory bits though, of course, he’s very sarcastic. Disappointing one. 3/5