Review
Doctor Who: Hide
Clara Oswald turns Shaggy to Scooby Who himself as the pair investigate a haunting in a Scottish mansion in 1974.
Due to some accident with wibbly wobbly timey wimey I didn’t see an email from Wellington screenwriter Neil Cross, sent about 7.45pm about last night’s episode, until 9.28pm when I had just started watching the show an hour after it had started.
The message said: ””It’s 1974. You’re the ASSISTANT.”
Hide was the first of Wellington screenwriter Neil Cross’s Doctor Who scripts and show runner Steven Moffat liked it so much he ordered a second which saw Cross deliver The Rings of Akhaten which aired on Prime two weeks ago. No wonder Moffat asked for more.
As I got up to stop the episode to read it to my wife the Doctor uttered those very words. Spooky!
I don’t need to say I believe in ghosts as I’ve seen them in spades. I grew up on the Isle of Wight and spent every spare moment in the ruins of an 18th century mansion which replaced a Tudor priory house whose origins dated back to 1090. Between the ages of 10 and 30 I was a schoolboy guide, key keeper and custodian of
