There are so many ideas in this one, if they were to have run with and truly exploited one or two of them I think we could have had a classic. It’s looking over the shoulder of Aliens of London and wondering how that same time jump would impact Peri’s family - which is not a bad idea in and of itself, but then it tries to be a big scary, twisted dark story… killing Peri’s mum at the end was completely needless - it was entirely tacked on, added nothing to the plot and we’d only just be introduced to the character.

I loved the Cyberman’s plot and how it was dealt with. The use of trickery and the dead from the graveyard was very smart. I really didn’t like the Cyberman dialogue which essentially amounted to the age old “you see Doctor, emotions can be used against you, they make you weak.” Which has to be amongst the most boring sci-fi tropes.

I’m making it sound worse than it is. Meeting Peri’s family, the 1980s setting and some of the more unique story ideas made this one a 6/10. But it had the potential to be so much more.