Time Heist
- Episode aired Sep 20, 2014
- TV-PG
- 45m
The Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Univer... Read allThe Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.The Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.
- Guard
- (as Mark Ebulue)
- Danny Pink
- (uncredited)
- Bank Computer
- (uncredited)
- Teller Guard
- (uncredited)
- Male Brain Drained Customer
- (uncredited)
- Female Banker
- (uncredited)
- Guard
- (uncredited)
- Karabraxos Bank Client
- (uncredited)
- Bank Comuter
- (uncredited)
Featured reviews
As is usual by this point, the Doctor and Clara were incredibly entertaining and fun to watch. Their banter never fails to make me smile.
The episode's supporting cast were very good too. Psi, Saibra, and Ms. Delphox all proved to be very interesting characters with enough depth to keep me invested in their respective dilemmas.
The Teller, for me anyway, will go down as one of the best monsters introduced in Series 8. Its introduction scene is easily the best monster introduction in recent years.
The production design was excellent and the world of the Bank of Karabraxos was wonderfully vibrant. For the most part, the episode is well paced but it's definitely an episode that could have used a few more extra minutes at the end.
Overall, "Time Heist" was a highly enjoyable episode with good supporting characters and a few interesting twists.
More positively Jonathan Bailey is awesome as Psi, please producers bring the guy back!! Also, Pippa Bennett-Warner is excellent as Saibra, I'd be interested to learn more of her story too. I liked the pace of the story too, it moves along very quickly.
It's different in some ways, and in others it feels a little repetitive, use of Androids, the Monster at the end (more then a little reminiscent of the end of Hide,) but all in all for me the pros outweigh the cons more so it gets a 7/10.
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Psi tries to lure the Teller away from Clara by visualising some of the galaxy's most notorious criminals, the mugshots he is seen accessing include a Sensorite ("The Sensorites"), a Terileptil ("The Visitation"), a Slitheen, an Ice Warrior, the Gunslinger (A Town Called Mercy (2012)), Captain John Hart from Torchwood (2006), Androvax and the Trickster from The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007), and Abslom Daak from Doctor Who Magazine.
- GoofsIf the Doctor was still able to use the sonic screwdriver then Psi wasn't needed at all.
- Quotes
The Doctor: Big scarf, bowtie. A bit embarrassing. What do you think of the new look? I was hoping for minimalism, but I think I came out with magician.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Doctor Who Extra: Time Heist (2014)
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- Filming locations
- Kimball Electronics, Western Avenue, Bridgend, Wales, UK(Corridors and basement of the bank)
- Production company
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- Runtime
- 45m
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