By: Anton Massopust III

“You don’t decide when it stops. Either the Doctor leaves you, or you leave her. My advice: enjoy the ride!” – Captain Jack Harkness

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) returns to television in this New Year’s Special. After being captured by the Judoons, the Doctor is in a space prison. Just trying to live day to day while the earth is in trouble. Meanwhile, on earth a ruthless businessman Jack Robertson (Chris North) has been given the remains of the Dalek by the British Government. He turns them into powerful drones (without the Kaled Mutant inside them). A scientist clones one of the remains of one of the mutants and it takes control of him. It’s up to the Doctor’s Companions who have seen Daleks before to stop him. 

Without the Doctor’s aid, they do not know what to do next. Time Traveler Captain Jack (John Barrowman) rescues the Doctor from the space prison and returns her to the Tardis, but it’s too late, the Kaled Mutants have transported themselves into the drone shells and have now wreaked havoc all over London, exterminating anyone in their sights.

The Doctor finds out the only way to stop them is to contact the real Daleks who hate impurities of their own race. So, now it’s up to the Doctor and her companions from stopping the real Daleks and the Drone Daleks from taking over earth. 

There are so many funny lines in this episode, I don’t even know where to start such as, “I didn’t come all this way to get exterminated,” and, “This is a PR nightmare.” Too funny. 

This reminds me of the old-fashioned Doctor Who from the ‘70’s and ‘80’s that I remember. My only criticism is that people are always forgetting that the earth has been invaded by the Daleks for the umpteenth time. Despite this, there are really great special effects there’s a really good story. And there is the departure of two companions. I was entertained from the beginning to the end. It didn’t drag at any point. 

The sign of a good TV show or movie is: “Would you watch it again?” The answer is, “Yes.” Sadly, however we will not see more Doctor Who until the end of this year (2021) due to problems with Covid. Give it a watch. It’s a lot of fun. It’s available on Demand (BBC America).