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Doctor Who – The Idiot's Lantern 7pm BBC1

[WARNING - MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS]

Having not had chance to write my thoughts on the last two episodes (They were both great and brought back proper Doctor Who), I thought I'd skip straight to the latest one.

I loved this episode – it's my favourite of the series so far. It had everything; humour, excitement, scariness, adventure and a great chase up a transmitter (now where have we seen that before?). The Doctor and Rose are attempting to go and see Elvis in 1957 in New York, but end up in 1953, in London. This gives a great excuse for Billie to wear a fabulous 50s pink skirt and shoes, a real contrast to the drabness of post-war London. This episode gave us what is possibly the coolest Doctor Who moment ever – the Doctor finds a scooter in the TARDIS and rides out on it!

This week's scariness was a thing called the Wire, which lived in the televisions and fed off the brain activity of the people watching. This caused their faces to be sucked off, which had no reasonable explanation as to why, but made the faceless people very scary. Maureen Lipman gave a fantastic performance as the announcer/Wire and struck just the right balance between believable and over the top villain. There were some great comedy moments too, with Rose and the flags and the Doctor being interviewed by the detective (especially the policemen's elbow). All great fun.