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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Lodger
Broadcast: Saturday 12th January 2013
7:55pm-8:40pm GMT < > « »
(actually broadcast at 19:57:00)
BBC Three
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Featuring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, James Corden, Daisy Haggard

A staircase, which people go up but never come down, provides the Time Lord with the challenge of passing himself off as a human being.
Synopsis Source: Radio Times
Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Consolidated figures: 0.498m viewers (+7 days), 2.0% audience share, AI 86

Notes


DRAMA Doctor Who can be many things: this episode, screened during the last football World Cup in June 2010, shows just how deliciously funny it can be.

Poor Amy (Karen Gillan) and an athritic-sounding Tardis have been flung into deep space. While he works out what's happened, out bow-tied boffin (Matt Smith) masquerades as a human being and shares a flat with a lovelorn couch potato called Craig (James Corden - a superb and surprising foil to the funnyman in Smith).

There's a creepy man-at-the-top-of-the-stairs subplot, but Gareth Robert's sweet romcom of a story is rooted firmly in the everyday.

Credit: Radio Times, p44