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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Crimson Horror
Broadcast: Friday 21st February 2014
7:25pm-8:15pm GMT < > « »
(actually broadcast at 19:27:00)
BBC Three
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Featuring: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Neve McIntosh, Diana Rigg, Rachael Stirling

The Time Lord and Clara are in Victorian Yorkshire where bodies are washing up from a river with their skin a waxy, glowing red.
Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Consolidated figures: 0.245m viewers (+7 days), 1.1% audience share, AI 86

Notes


DRAMA "A dark and queer business" is the key line at the start of The Crimson Horror - and a perfect summation of what follows. It was a pearl among 2013's patchy offerings, and episode described to me with glee by its writer Mark Gatiss as "a lurid, Victorian penny-dreadful with 'orrible murder. A properly northern Who - underexplored in the show. It's very me!"

He devised it as a vehicle for Dame Diana Rigg an her daughter Rachael Stirling - their first time on screen together and Rigg's first role calling for her native Doncaster accent.

At 8:15pm, Nightmare in Silver, Neil Gaiman's abysmal Cyberman outing - a waste of everyone's time and talent.

Credit: Radio Times (p120)