With his eighth Doctor Who episode currently filming, CultBox presents a rundown of Mark Gatiss’s best stories so far…

4. ‘Cold War’ (2013)

A Russian submarine provided the setting for the first of Gatiss’s Season 7 episodes, which successfully breathed life back into a classic monster when the Doctor arrived accidentally in 1983, expecting to materialise in Las Vegas.

Reinventing the Ice Warrior and showing us what lay beneath that clunky armour, the story was a tale of honour that had the potential to spark a nuclear war and showed that Clara had the chops to go face to face with the fearsome Skaldak.

3. ‘The Crimson Horror’ (2013)

Netting the mother/sister paring of Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling though his acting connections, this tale of Victorian progress and probity was a bonkers highlight of Season 7.

Leaning heavily on the Paternoster Road gang, with the Doctor and Clara taking a back seat for the early part of a tale which provided a fine mix of humour and gothic horror, we encountered a fiendish plan to turn back the clock with a little Moonraker-style social engineering.

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