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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 2 The Witch's Familiar

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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 2

The Witch's Familiar

Aired Sep 26, 2015

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The Doctor finds himself trapped and companionless in a Dalek city without his sonic screwdriver or his TARDIS.

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"The Witch's Familiar" is proof that Doctor Who is back on target, ending the two-part season opener with a revealing, meaningful, and twist-driven conclusion.

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Jon Cooper

Independent (UK)

09/28/2015

It's gratifying to see some of the themes explored in The Witch's Familiar are firmly grounded in Doctor Who's humanist and ultimately optimistic worldview.

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Noam Cohen

Observer

09/28/2015

Through all of its twists and turns and set-pieces... the heart of the episode turns out to be a meditation on the nature of friendship and enmity.

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Kelly Connolly

Entertainment Weekly

09/28/2015

The Doctor rarely gets so complete a victory; you can't tell a story about time travel without consequences.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Reactor

01/09/2019

If there's anything that this episode (...) suffers from, it's that there are one too many "gotcha!" double-backs, and not all of them are that smart.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/19/2018

But as whole, it didn't feel like this episode felt fully resolved - or even that this story needed two full hours to tell.

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Charlie Jane Anders

io9.com

05/19/2018

That this storyline works as well as it does is pretty much entirely down to Peter Capaldi, who is in rare form this time around.

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Synopsis

The Doctor finds himself trapped and companionless in a Dalek city without his sonic screwdriver or his TARDIS.

Executive Producer: Steven Moffat
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis, Chris Chibnall, Toby Whithouse, Mark Gatiss, Simon Nye, Steven Moffat
Network: BBC
Rating: TV-PG
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Sep 26, 2015