Dead to the World

Main Range #207

Released: 16 September 2015

Listened: 1/17/21

The final story has kind of a thread of humor running through it, or at least the Doctor doesn’t take it too seriously, even though there’s a threat to the whole world involved. It’s one of those stories where the Doctor spends quite a bit of time trying to figure out what’s going on, only to discover that it’s a historical event he already knows about. Ace suspects the Doctor of manipulating her again, and name-checks Hex, but she believes him that he’s not doing it intentionally. In the end, it turns out that Ace isn’t really responsible for all the wrong destinations in this story; the TARDIS is looking for someone. Someone who they’ll find shortly…