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Doctor Who – The Sontaran Stratagem

[SPOILER WARNING AS USUAL]

The Sontarans are back – not that you could have guessed (the episode title did kind of give that one away). But so is Martha Jones, and UNIT too! A whole heap of old things in a brand new episode.

The Doctor has been called back to Earth by Martha, who’s now working for UNIT. They’re investigating Atmos, a system which removes all CO2 emisions from car exhausts, and comes with a handy free sat-nav (Although I’ll never trust my sat-nav again after this). It’s been masterminded by a child genius, Rattigan, who turns out to be working for the Sontarans.

As well as the child genius, there were some other good sci-fi staples in there – cloning, mind control, and the evil double of Martha. I think there’s some good stuff to come in part two next week. And there was a great cliffhanger – Bernard Cribbins trapped in a car choking on fumes. Will he escape, and will the Doctor save the world?

There was also some fun stuff. I did enjoy the Doctor’s comments on having worked for UNIT “sometime during the 1970s, or was it the 1980s?”. I love how no one’s ever quite worked out that story dating mystery. And Donna being ‘Supertemp’ and checking the company files while everyone else is busy looking for aliens under the bed.

No mention of the bees this week. Maybe they’re not signficant? Or maybe they are …