Jodie Whittaker: “We were absolutely battered by the weather. I’ve never been on a job that saw such extreme forecasts in such a short amount of time.”
What traditional Doctor Who: summoning up freak weather conditions, when there’s something tentacular buried in the ground…!

“Do you know why ducking was invented, Doctor? To silence women who talk too much.”
“Yeah, I did know that. Which is daft, cos talking’s brilliant. Like, if you talk to me now, I can help. You’ve ducked 36 people already – and whatever it is has only got worse, hasn’t it?”

“Together we shall save the souls of my people from Satan—even if it means killing them *all*!”

“‘Evil be to him that evil thinks’… Even though you’re killing and scapegoating and stirring up hate. And you wonder why the darkness comes back at you.”

No, but close (one of the same authors and earlier the same year). The one you’re after is The Armageddon Factor. Both are free to watch on iPlayer if you’re in the UK.

Delightfully entertaining, dappled with Summer and glittering with Ruritanian hats, set to sprightly music, a scintillating, swashbuckling (with a dash of sex) script by the quintessential mid-Tom writer
One of my absolute favourite Doctor Who stories.
“Next time, I shall not be so lenient!”

The most magnificent villain
A triumph for Peter Jeffrey and David Fisher
with additional material by Shakespeare*
“I think I shall reject the crown—once. Rejecting it twice might be misconstrued. Besides, I’m not sure I can trust the Archimandrite to offer it to me a third time.”

*(& Anthony Hope)

“Castle Gracht, my dear… Ancient home of the Grendels of Gracht. And it’s quite, quite escape-proof!”

“You see before you the complete killing machine – as beautiful as you and as deadly as the plague. If only she were real, I’d marry her.”
“You deserve each other.”

Gloriously camp.

Happy birthday!
Champion of the… as you were.
(Looks up from London to see those huge splashes of rain are big, rusty tears)

Yes. There’s an animated fluttering moth that looks significantly more like a living thing. Though, as it has to cover the original video blob, it’s a moth the size of a bird!

And always has been, for me!

In a few episodes’ time, we’ll again hit the best since The Way Back.
Then at the climax of this Series, it’ll be the best Blake’s 7 episode *so far*.
And there’s only a single episode still to come to Blu-ray afterwards that will overtake that One for me…

Even by Chris Chibnall’s time
Flux opens with the Doctor in an impossible-to-survive situation at multiple-guns-point from which they plummet from a great height into the TARDIS which, doors open, is ready to absorb their impact inside…

But even after all these, Alien Bodies remains outstanding.

Showrunners Russell T Davies (First of His Name) and Steven Moffat often seemed to be competing to see who could cram the most conceptual entities from this one book into their story arcs