The pre-publicity for ‘Nightmare in Silver’ indicated that this episode was going to do for the Cybermen what 2005’s ‘Dalek’ had done for their metallic rivals: restore them to scary eminence after a period when they had lost their robo mojo.
The titular climb is unquestionably the centre-piece of this episode, but there’s plenty else going on in the world of Westeros.
We all love a bit of history, especially robot history, right? And there are few bits as fascinating as ‘The Turk’, an 18th century chess playing robot that amazed the folk of the time with its ability to beat a human at the game.
It was one of the first instances of man vs machine, and the concept of The Turk is something that writer Neil Gaiman clearly loves, for it’s embedded deep within ‘Nightmare in Silver’s’ programming.
Lawks a mercy! That was a camp confection and no mistake!
As a writer, Mark Gatiss doesn’t so much wear his influences on his sleeve as parade them like a popinjay. So it should come as no surprise that he is singularly suited to assembling such a preposterous patchwork of period pastiche.
The X-Files star Gillian Anderson returns to British TV, aided by Once Upon A Time‘s Jamie Dornan, in BBC Two’s brilliant new five-part investigative thriller, The Fall.
From writer Lucy Gannon (Soldier Soldier) comes Frankie, a new BBC One drama series set in the world of district nursing, starring Eve Myles (Torchwood) and Dean Lennox Kelly (Shameless).
A more sedate episode than last week’s barnstormer, ‘Kissed By Fire’ gives us a new insight into several characters, while the spectre of Ned haunts the Stark children.
We don’t know what’s more impressive: that Shakespearean stalwarts Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are finally working together, or that it’s in an ITV sitcom which is actually funny.
Mark Gatiss is a man who knows his Who and – as his past BBC documentaries attest – he’s also a scholar of horror. After the tension of ‘Cold War’ Gatiss blends his twin passions together into a frothing tankard of a script, ‘The Crimson Horror’; a bonkers draught of fun and scares. It’s ‘Whorror’. Oh, no… no, we’re never saying that again…
Ever since its title was first announced, this has been one of the most eagerly anticipated episodes of this run of Doctor Who.