Team TARDIS confronts spectres, spirits and sandwiches in a high-class Haunted House.

Spoilers after the squirrel

This review contains spoilers after the squirrel.

12.8 The Haunting Of Villa Diodati

Its the spooky one!

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Happily, this weeks script is easily deft enough to support such a famously witty cast of guest characters.

(Also, Graham in a top hat.)

With that in mind, lets talk spoilers….

The most effective moments tend to be the slow, lingering realisations that theres something in the room.

Instead, the episode handles its literary allusions with a light touch.

Hes a soldier, a fanatic, and a very different take on a normally stoic species.

Since its revival,Doctor Whohas had a difficult relationship with theCybermen.

The problem is,no-ones really figured out how.

As a result, weve had a 500ft tall Cyberking mech stomping around in Victorian London.

Weve even watched them hijack the dead.

Read Chrisreview of the previous episode, Can You Hear Me?