Story: Knock Knock
Written By: Mike Bartlett
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2017
Bill joins in with a group of fellow students/young people in renting an old big house with fairly cheap rent, the catch obviously being that the house wants to eat them. Typical! The Doctor suspects something is up from the moment he helps her move, and quickly determines that there is something more to the house than just creakiness. An alien pressence is there (of course) one that is basically a swarm of bugs which eats the inhabitants every 20 or so years in order to keep a woman acquainted with the Landlord alive, but preserved as a wooden lady.
It is nice and creepy and gothic, felt like a 70s Who story, like a Pertwee or a Baker in which we end up in this stately manor and have to fight off aliens. The aliens in this are essentially a swarm that eat the kids alive and make them into the wood within the house. Classic goofy Who stuff. And David Suchet (Poirot himself) is quite good as the main human antagonist.
It also did a solid job of solidifying the relationship between Bill and the Doctor, as well as adding a little something in the tag about the Vault, apparently the Doctor can open it and knows what is inside, and he is somewhat friendly with an entity that would enjoy a good tale about kids getting eaten by a house. My bet is the obvious: it is the Master, either in Missy form or in the John Simm Saxon form...since we already know he is also making a return this year. Time will tell, but that is my guess!
NEXT TIME: Space Zombies
Written By: Mike Bartlett
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2017
Bill joins in with a group of fellow students/young people in renting an old big house with fairly cheap rent, the catch obviously being that the house wants to eat them. Typical! The Doctor suspects something is up from the moment he helps her move, and quickly determines that there is something more to the house than just creakiness. An alien pressence is there (of course) one that is basically a swarm of bugs which eats the inhabitants every 20 or so years in order to keep a woman acquainted with the Landlord alive, but preserved as a wooden lady.
It also did a solid job of solidifying the relationship between Bill and the Doctor, as well as adding a little something in the tag about the Vault, apparently the Doctor can open it and knows what is inside, and he is somewhat friendly with an entity that would enjoy a good tale about kids getting eaten by a house. My bet is the obvious: it is the Master, either in Missy form or in the John Simm Saxon form...since we already know he is also making a return this year. Time will tell, but that is my guess!
NEXT TIME: Space Zombies
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