Doctor-less episodes of Doctor Who are nothing new. ‘Blink’, most famously, took the safety net of David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor away for an unnerving encounter with the now-iconic Weeping Angels. Weeks earlier in that series, the two-hander of ‘Human Nature/Family of Blood’ was a similarly unsettling affair as the persona of the Doctor was broken down and rebuilt as John Smith.
17 years on, ‘73 Yards’, the rural-set horror confidently led by Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday, plays a similar trick and approaches all-time classic territory – all without Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor.
