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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 3 Under the Lake

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Doctor Who – Season 9, Episode 3

Under the Lake

Aired Oct 3, 2015

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The Doctor and Clara save the frightened crew from a threat in an underwater base, but the Doctor questions the haunting.

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Part one of two, "Under the Lake" scares up a good, old-fashioned ghost story, which may remind viewers of the original series -- for better or worse.

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Ross Ruediger

New York Magazine/Vulture

10/05/2015

3/5

It's not that "Under the Lake" is bad Doctor Who, just terribly average.

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Steven Cooper

Slant Magazine

10/05/2015

This episode is refreshingly reminiscent of earlier eras of the series.

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Michael Hogan

Daily Telegraph (UK)

10/05/2015

5/5

This rollicking, hair-raising romp demonstrated that the sci-fi franchise still has the power to thrill and chill in equal measure.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Reactor

01/09/2019

[Screenwriter Toby Whithouse] has that special knack for taking tried and true sci-fi plots and adding that special something to make them sing.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/19/2018

At any rate, it was a fun hour, an engaging mystery, a cast with presence and chemistry, and a cliffhanger for the ages. Loved it. More, please.

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Charlie Jane Anders

io9.com

05/19/2018

It's filled with a sense of foreboding-not just because of the scary ghosts, mysterious spaceship, and claustrophobic base at the bottom of a lake in Scotland, but because of the way the Doctor is acting.

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Synopsis

The Doctor and Clara save the frightened crew from a threat in an underwater base, but the Doctor questions the haunting.

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: Oct 3, 2015