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EPISODE
SEASON
Doctor Who - Season 12 Episode 03: Orphan 55
Returning to the adventures and excitement that follows the daily activity of The Doctor, a great scientist that can control time, as he travels across time, entering different personalities and fights evils. In this new season, Doctor Who struggles against saving intelligence agents around the world from being attacked.
1948, Bristol, England, UK
26 August 1950, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
7 August 1974, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
12 March 1986, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
16 November 1965, Guisborough, Cleveland, England, UK
19 May 1931, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
24 February 1966, London, England, UK
21 June 1977, UK
20 March 1967, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
January 12, 2020
It smacks of Benidorm meets Aliens with perhaps a tiny touch of The Truman Show.
January 12, 2020
[Ed] Hime and director Lee Haven Jones go overboard with ambition, packing in about a season's worth of ideas and only five minutes apiece to execute them all.
January 12, 2020
Doctor Who has always had a tendency towards corridor chases and the Doctor spouting exposition, but here it reached preposterous proportions due to a plot which was so overcomplicated when it should have been straightforward.
January 12, 2020
"Orphan 55" has all the components of a solid Doctor Who episode... Unfortunately, those pieces never come together into something greater than the sum of their parts. At best, [it] feels like the outline for a better, more nuanced episode.
January 12, 2020
Sometimes it's okay to strip the show back and watch the Doctor and her friends try to outrun - and outsmart - some monsters.
January 12, 2020
That's "Orphan 55" in a nutshell: a workmanlike episode that's big on action but struggles to make us really care about the people who are in danger.
January 12, 2020
There are fantastically wobbly sets, a pitched-battle clearly filmed in a quarry outside Who's Cardiff HQ and, best of all, people in rubber monster suits menacing the Doctor and her trio of sidekicks, Yaz, Ryan and Graham.
January 12, 2020
"Orphan 55" surely won't go down as the weakest episode of season 12, but neither will it be one of the best. The cast is too big and some flawed editing limits its impact, but at least it has its heart very much in the right place.
January 12, 2020
This week might just raise the bar to its highest. Orphan 55 is not exactly subtle about its climate crisis message, but writer Ed Hime has a blast getting there.