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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Runtime

64 minutes

Time Travel

Past

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, Earth, England

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in the grounds of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, in 1850. Mistaken for a medic and his maid, the Doctor and Ann are brought to meet Ada Lovelace - the mother of computing and daughter of Lord Byron - who has recently fallen ill.

But the travellers are not here by chance. Something odd is happening on Earth, and they’ve determined that this place is the centre of it.

Strange figures are walking the land. Strange figures wearing bird-like masks. What do they want with Ada? And how will it change the future of humanity?

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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: Planet of the Drashigs

It's getting better, honestly this was quite good. The mystery of building disappearing was quite engaging and it worked well with a unique historical figure.

I like that Ann Kelso is getting to use her investigative skills. There was noticeably more chemistry between Jane Slavin and Tom Baker.

I think the ending is a bit deus ex machina with Ada Lovelace creating things out of thin air using "block-transfer computations", but this doesn't really detract from my enjoyment of this story.

Next Story: The False Guardian


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