Whovians were still grumbling about Sylvester McCoy's debut series when the powerhouse that is Remembrance Of The Daleks blasted onto our screens. Season 24 had been characterized by a mish-mash of graphic novel grit and camp silliness. The twenty-fifth year of the show however opened with a different kettle of Kaled altogether. The crumbling brickwork of Shoreditch and the classic location of Coal Hill School provided the London'y goodness in Ben Aaronovitch's witty and action-packed script. Long before Clara Oswald rocked up to teach English, Ace was getting kneed in the unmentionables by a zombified Headmaster, in addition to de-ocularizing Daleks with her electric baseball bat! It was also the first story to start depicting the capital properly, as a multicultural landscape away from the spick and span outlook of the BBC. A great example of this is the Seventh Doctor's exchange about the nature of sugar with cafe worker John, played by The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air's Joseph Marcell: "If this sugar thing had never started, my great grandfather wouldn't have been kidnapped, chained up and sold in Kingston in the first place. I'd be an African!"