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Overview

Released

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Written by

Julian Richards

Cover Art by

Sean Longmore

Directed by

Samuel Clemens

Runtime

65 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Base Under Siege, Human Colony, Misunderstood Monster

Synopsis

The Doctor and Mrs Clarke find themselves on a forest world where human settlers shelter from the night in a village built from wrecked spaceships, living in fear of the Birnamen, creatures who raid their settlement leaving death in their wake.

But are the Birnamen really to blame? Or does the truth lie with the villagers' 'Story Demon', the hollow travel casing of a very familiar alien creature which they use to entertain their children...

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3 reviews

Admittedly bummed the villain is just a Dalek, but the worldbuilding here is interesting.


EBP

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This review contains spoilers!

A Dalek telling kids stories? For only being two parts, this story still packs in the memorable moments from a hyper-cruel Dalek to Constance dressing down the Doctor for his hypocrisy always running off. The idea of mystical forest creatures protecting humans is interesting too. Ultimately nothing special, but a good character story for all involved.


Guardax

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Loved how interesting this story was it’s a mix concepts which the show as done before but this merges them and makes them so much better


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DALEK: ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? GOOD. THEN I’LL BEGIN. ONCE UPON A TIME...

— Sixth Doctor, The Story Demon

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