The Doctor's Companion: Doctor Who the Long Way Round

We’re back to discuss Steven Moffat’s triumphant return to Doctor Who with BOOM, the third episode of Series 14!

How can the Doctor solve a problem when he can’t move? Does this episode feel like a Moffat’s Greatest Hits or something else? What comes after Mundy? We discuss these questions, plus theories about Susan Twist, the One Who Waits, and so much more on the latest episode of The Doctor’s Companion!

NEXT: 73 YARDS!

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Doctor Who is back with a brand new season of adventures beginning with the first two episodes of Series 14 (or Season One?): SPACE BABIES and THE DEVIL’S CHORD!

Where do babies come from? How do you define a musical genius? What exactly is “Tee-hee-hee energy” and why have we missed it so much? We discuss these questions and so much more on the latest episode of The Doctor’s Companion!

NEXT: BOOM!

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The Doctor finds himself wondering if people have ever been truly alone. Or is it possible that there could be a creature that has perfected hiding, lurking unseen next to us all? And what if that theoretical creature turned out to be the origin of the fear we feel when we’re alone? Meanwhile, Clara goes on a first date with her co-worker Danny Pink, which ends poorly and abruptly, but as she joins the Doctor to investigate his theory through the past and future, Clara learns that her future with Danny may already be written.

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As a legend spreads across time of a prison called the Pandorica, and the all-powerful being that it imprisons with it, the Doctor, Amy, and River Song arrive at Stonehenge to find it. But when they discover, too late, that the prison is a trap created by the Doctor’s enemies to imprison the Doctor, the world comes to an end.

Until it doesn’t.

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When the Doctor and Rose return to London to find the world enraptured by ghostly figures, they soon find themselves taken prisoner by the Torchwood Institute, a clandestine government organization that investigates supernatural occurrences, and who is ultimately responsible for the sudden appearance of ghosts. When these ghosts finally reveal themselves to be the Cybermen from the alternate universe invading this world, a mysterious sphere also at the institute suddenly opens to reveal that the Cybermen have competition for invasion: the Daleks.

As the Doctor struggles to find a workable solution to a double invasion from multiple universes, Rose finds that her plan to travel with the Doctor forever may be cut short.

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The Doctor and Rose are separated as they find themselves the unwilling contestants in a series of twisted reality television programs with deadly consequences if they lose. Soon, the Doctor realizes that the Game Station is the same broadcast network they visited a century in the past, now run by The Bad Wolf Corporation and that he wasn’t brought here by accident. The Daleks have returned from hiding after the Time War and are using the competition shows to harvest and convert human genetic material into a new army of fanatical and insane hybrids.

The Doctor knows he must do whatever it takes to stop them, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.

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The Doctor is surprised to learn that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare and decides to find out how this could be possible, only to discover that the Daleks are to blame in yet another scheme to conquer Earth.

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The TARDIS lands in a Victorian-era manor and the Doctor and Ace find themselves investigating the origin of its strange occupants, but Ace soon discovers that the mansion is the same one she burned down in her hometown. As she reckons with her guilt over this adolescent mistake, the pair’s investigation leads them to find an ancient spaceship in the basement full of evolutionary experiments and a powerful entity called Light.

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As the Doctor’s trial continues, he demands to use the Matrix of Time to present evidence in his defense, choosing an adventure from his future in which a distress call leads the Doctor and his (as-of-yet unmet) companion Melanie Bush to investigate a series of grisly murders onboard the Hyperion III space liner.

But as it becomes increasingly clear that someone has tampered with the evidence, the Master arrives as a witness to the defense and reveals a Time Lord High Council conspiracy to give the Valeyard the Doctor’s remaining regenerations if he successfully convicted him.

With his plan unraveled, the Valeyard flees into the Matrix of Time where the Doctor must follow to face him and prove his innocence once and for all.

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The Black Guardian, a cosmic being who once vowed revenge against the Doctor, contacts an alien schoolboy named Turlough and tasks him with killing the Doctor’s latest incarnation in return for sending him back to his home planet.

Meanwhile, a TARDIS malfunction leads to a run-in with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in two time periods (1977 & 1983) as well as a spaceship full of immortal mutants who want the Doctor to save them by giving up his remaining regenerations.

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