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Season 10

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Season 10 sees Peter Capaldi's eccentric era-hopping Time Lord return for his final series. The Doctor meets a girl with a star in her eye and visits a seemingly perfect human colony.

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Episode 12: The Doctor Falls

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Part two of two. The Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with two incarnations of the Master as the Cybermen go on the warpath. As Bill wrestles with the consequences of her horrific experience in the Cyberman base, the Doctor mounts a desperate last stand to protect a small group of human colonists, and Missy must decide what she wants to be after coming face to face with her own villainous past. Starring Peter Capaldi, Peal Mackie, Michelle Gomez and John Simm

Review

Patrick Mulkern

The clock on the wall shows half past midnight, marking the end of days for the 12th Doctor. Stuck on a vast spaceship alongside a black hole, he’s trapped on the roof of a hospital from hell, while the two incarnations of his best “frenemy”, Missy and the Master, dance in delight at his plight. “We’ve been debating the best way to kill you,” says the latter. What a dark joy it is to see John Simm, Michelle Gomez and Peter Capaldi sparking off one another as series ten shudders to a close.

The Doctor may have a cunning plan, but what can be done for poor Bill (the departing Pearl Mackie), who is struggling to accept her complete cyber-conversion? “I don’t want to live if I can’t be me any more,” she tells her friend. For once, he has no answer.

Steven Moffat’s hour-long finale The Doctor Falls has epic ambition, moments of revelation and even pockets of romance as the Doctor struggles to hold the Cybermen – and his regeneration – at bay.

And watch out for a very original cliffhanger (more of an icebreaker) teeing up the Christmas special.

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2017-07-01

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rolenameThe DoctorPeter CapaldiBill PottsPearl MackieNardoleMatt LucasMissyMichelle GomezThe MasterJohn SimmAlitBriana ShannGazronRosie BooreHazranSamantha SpiroRexhillSimon Coombs

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rolenameDirectorRachel TalalayProducerPeter BennettExecutive producerBrian MinchinExecutive producerSteven MoffatWriterSteven Moffat

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9.0/10

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