Television Review
Doctor Who: ‘Space Babies’ & ‘The Devil’s Chord’ — camp silliness launches Disney-backed season
The Doctor and Ruby Sunday encounter a space station manned by talking babies, and a music-stealing entity in the 1960s…
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10 min readMay 14, 2024
Following last year’s frothy Christmas adventure, “The Church on Ruby Road”, the fourteenth series of the revived gets properly underway. (Or Season 1 if you prefer the Disney-dictated term, for fear of scaring away newcomers.) We’ve already had four episodes to acclimate to Doctor Who under Russell T. Davies’ second tenure as showrunner, of course, but it’s fair to say this is where it starts to matter.
Will a whole new generation of people be charmed by this soft reboot, enough to ensure it survives another 60 years on our screens? “Space Babies” follows the RTD formula of establishing the long-running show’s characters and premise for newcomers, by wrapping everything around a rather silly and lightweight premise.
