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EPISODE
SEASON
Doctor Who - Season 12 Episode 04: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Following the adventures and struggles of a scientist, who can control time, as he travels across time and changes everything about himself. In this new season, the Doctor goes in a long adventure, in order to save the intelligence agents around the world from the horrible attack.
3 January 1958, UK
26 September 1944, Crosby, Liverpool, England, UK
1973, Pretoria, South Africa
15 September 1961, Clapton, London, England, UK
1948, Bristol, England, UK
28 May 1935, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
3 June 1949
15 June 1927, Tooting, London, England, UK
28 May 1962, Hackney, London, England, UK
29 October 1959, London, England, UK
1 April 1978, Iasi, Romania
1948, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
10 April 1989
9 November 1974, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
January 21, 2020
The fact that it does engage, if even for a moment-building on the arc established in the premiere, iterating on this darker, less-lenient path the 13th Doctor is being pushed down-elevates it from its otherwise average finery.
January 21, 2020
Is this Jodie Whittaker's own "Vincent and the Doctor"? It's not quite on par with the Richard Curtis-penned episode, but it's almost up there.
January 23, 2020
This story is still too bogged down by the show's usual tropes to be anything more than another monster-of-the-week episode.
January 25, 2020
A fun story, with some great performances from the two inventors. The main villains weren't up to much, but it didn't damage the pseudo-historical that much in the long run.
January 21, 2020
Although it's not as impactful as Rosa, this is another historical outing for the Thirteenth Doctor that shows us that the show can introduce us to some truly remarkable humans, even if it doesn't always know what to do with its aliens.
January 23, 2020
This episode is fun, smart, and everything we love about Doctor Who.
February 03, 2020
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror is one of the best five episodes of the Chibnall era - but that says more about Doctor Who of late than it does about this episode.
January 21, 2020
It's perfectly lovely. Is it what die-hard Whovians want, though?
January 22, 2020
With so much educational information to crowbar in to 50 minutes, the aliens barely got a look-in. When they did, they were obliged to stand around gnashing their X-shaped teeth while Jodie's pupils asked, 'How will that device work, Doctor?'
January 22, 2020
Tesla and Thirteen make a charming pair - which is good because they spent a lot of time together this week.
January 21, 2020
And I, for one, am extremely into it: Sure, I appreciate a good dramatic conflict with real-world stakes, but I'm also a sucker for insane interstellar scorpions who can shoot lasers from their tails and want to kidnap Nikola Tesla.
January 21, 2020
The upshot is an enjoyable enough knockabout, which reaches a frustratingly by-the-numbers resolution after a compelling setup... this does rather feel a touch straightforward. But, at the very least, it's an intriguing history lesson.