10 Huge Questions After Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils

10. Where And When Was The TARDIS Supposed To Land?

The Doctor, not for the first time, has piloted the TARDIS to the wrong place and time. At first it’s not clear where they were supposed to be going. Dan’s pirate costume suggests the Doctor expected to be at sea rather than on the beach, but his outfit is deliberately out of place. Yaz just wants to have a laugh at his expense.

When the Sea Devils start attacking the village, Yaz says, "We’re never going to get that beach holiday, are we?", but that wasn’t what they were supposed to be doing anyway. Her point is that even when they arrive accidentally on a beach, they still can’t have a break.

Meeting Madame Ching, who conveniently introduces herself with all three names she is known by, they find out that she is looking for the lost treasure of the Flor De La Mar. It later transpires that the Doctor’s original plan was to find out what happened to the ship when it disappeared off the coast of Sumatra 274 years earlier in 1511. Quite why the TARDIS didn’t land on the ship in the first place isn’t clear, but presumably it has used the keystone to trace its location.