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Released

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Written by

Jonathan Morris

Runtime

76 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Ghosts

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Oxford, Earth, England

Synopsis

St Matilda’s College, Oxford is haunted. The building was formerly a convent and, so the story goes, three ghostly nuns wander its passages during the hours of darkness. The story goes on to say that anyone who sees the ‘three sisters’ will not be long for this world.

When one of the students mysteriously disappears, the Dean of the College, Dame Emily Shaw, has no option but to call in the police. Her call appears to be answered when a Police Box arrives in her study; the Doctor and Leela have come to investigate and uncover the dark secret that has lain buried beneath the college for almost a thousand years...

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This review contains spoilers!

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Suburban Hell

The return of Dame Emily Shaw, this was not a character I'd have been expecting to appear in any other stories, but it's not a bad thing.

Of course, this story is no 'The Last Post' but it's still quite good, probably my favourite of this series so far. The mystery of the "three sisters" is quite engaging and despite it being the generic "advanced space-ship crash landed in history causing strange things to happen" trope which is way too common in Doctor Who, it's still played entertainingly and overall this one is a fun little story.

Next Story: The Fate of Krelos


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