This one starts extremely well, exploring how governments / companies can exploit their population with aggressive tax and extreme control. Annoyingly, as sometimes happens with Doctor Who, it descends into a runaround. The Doctor is trapped, Leela runs after him, then Leela is trapped, The Doctor runs after her. Much of this can be forgiven this time round as it’s a fun setting with creepy, interesting villains and our wonderful regulars.

What is harder to deal with is shootouts with absolutely no pace or drama. A lot of telling and not showing and tension-free cliff hangers. Enemy rebels, who treat the doctor and Leela very poorly become friends with them all too easily.

There is a thread of fun and cleverness though, and a great sense of victory when the regime is overturned in the end (I can’t believe they threw that man off the top of the building with such glee!)