
Doctor Who 2 Series 8 Episodes 1-5

A new series with a new Doctor and new open credits. Only 12 episodes this series which aired August 23 to November 8 2014.

Deep Breath August 23 2014 Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Ben Wheatley.

The Tardis gets swallowed by a T-Rex off screen and carries the poor beast to Victorian London. It coughs up the Tardis and that coughs up the 12th Doctor.

Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax are investigating the T-Rex when that happens.

Clara gets their help in dealing with the new Doctor's regeneration. He settles down after it seems there's a mystery afoot.

A robot man has been killing people, and the poor T-Rex, for their body parts. It's become tired of replacing it's body over and over again. The Doctor tries to help him.

Clara gets a call from the 11th Doctor and the robot man winds up in Heaven with a lady called Missy.

Into The Dalek August 30 2014 Written by Phil Ford and Steven Moffat and directed by Ben Wheatley.

The Doctor picks Clara up from work and takes her for a ride inside a Dalek. It's a Dalek with issues, it's seen beauty and it wants to destroy the Daleks for being evil. The Doctor finds a radiation leak and fixes it. The Dalek is back to hating everything.

It calls the Dalek mothership. Clara and the Doctor try to change the Dalek's mind and it works. He now wants to destroy the Daleks again. It had seen the hatred of the Dalek's in the Doctor's mind and focused on that. It least it sends the mothership away.

Robot Of Sherwood September 6 2014 Written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Paul Murphy.

Clara wants to meet Robin Hood and the Doctor fights the jovial young man on a log over a stream. Both of them get wet.

Robin enters the Sheriff of Nottingham's archery contest. The Sheriff is a right baddie and we find out he's got robot soldiers. A spaceship had landed there ages ago and the robots are trying to rebuild the engines. They need a lot of gold.

Listen September 13 2014 Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon.

The Doctor picks up Clara after her rather uncomfortable date. They investigate the belief that there's something under the bed and rescue a guy at the end of the universe.

Time Heist September 13 2014 Written by Stephen Thompson and Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon.

The Doctor and Clara break into the universe's most secure bank.

It turns out to be a rescue mission to help the last two of an alien race. He puts them down on a nice empty planet.

I'm quickly getting used to the new Doctor. Peter Capaldi is entertaining and noisy. There were a couple of commentaries, a couple of long making offs and few shorter bits and pieces.