![]() ![]() However, the opening historical adventure here was set in ancient Pompeii, a long way from the fun running around adventures that audiences expected in the season’s first historical. Normally in a Davies season, these episodes tend to be situated in the first three episodes of the season – The Unquiet Dead, Tooth and Claw, The Shakespeare Code. The Unicorn and the Wasp sort of fills the “celebrity historical” niche in the fourth season. In spite of Christie’s stern admonishings, it’s hard not to seize on the story with same glee as the Doctor does. ![]() Despite some of the darkness creeping in at the edge of the frame, especially towards the final scenes, it’s an astonishingly light-hearted and playful episode. It’s an episode that really benefits from the lighter tone of the fourth season. It’s a high-concept high-energy run-around that has a great deal of fun playing with a genre mash-up, as the Doctor intrudes on an Agatha Christie mystery ( starring Agatha Christie!) to create curious horror/sci-fi/mystery/class drama hybrid of an episode. The Unicorn and the Wasp is the most fun episode of the fourth season, by a significant margin. – Professor Peach discovers the point of crossover between Agatha Christie and Doctor Who Oh, it’s you… I was just doing a little research… I say, what are you doing with that lead piping? But that’s impossible. The Unicorn and the Wasp originally aired in 2008. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, I’ll be taking weekly looks at some of my own personal favourite stories and arcs, from the old and new series, with a view to encapsulating the sublime, the clever and the fiendishly odd of the BBC’s Doctor Who. ![]()
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