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Overview

Released

Monday, January 9, 2012

Runtime

175 minutes

Time Travel

Past, Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Ghosts

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Staffham, Devon, Earth, England

Synopsis

The Grange is haunted, so they say. This stately home in the depths of Devon has been the site of many an apparition. And now people are turning up dead. The ghosts are wild in the forest. But the Doctor doesn't believe in ghosts.

The TARDIS follows a twist in the vortex to the village of Staffham in 1977 and discovers something is very wrong with time. But spectral highwaymen and cavaliers are the least of the Doctor's worries.

For the Grange is owned by the sinister Jalnik, and Jalnik has a scheme two thousand years in the making. Only the Doctor and Leela stand between him and the destruction of history itself. It's the biggest adventure of their lives – but do they have the time?

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

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The lost stories is such an interesting range, there's usually a reason the stories are lost. Usually it's because of budgets but sometimes it's just because of the quality of the story. Luckily this is probably because of budgets and I think had this been a TV story it would not have been done justice.

It's a slow start, I'm getting a bit tired of the "strange things happening in a small english town" trope but this is atleast executed quite differently. The story doesn't stay in England for too long and we head off to the future where people are training to live in the past. This makes for some funny gags and made me reconsider how much we really know about our past.

There's grandfather paradoxes and general timey-wimeyness that makes this story hard to follow if you don't give it your full attention.

Next Story: The Valley of Death

 


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