8. The Unquiet Dead
The Doctor and Rose are back in Cardiff, but this time its during the Victorian era, and Charles Dickens is in town giving live readings of his Christmas stories. His performance of his Christmas Carol is interrupted though by the appearance of a real ghost - and it isn't Jacob Marley. Following the strange blue ghosts to a funeral home, the Doctor, Rose and Dickens end up trapped with the possibly threatening spirits. The question is what do they want? A very atmospheric episode in the style of a Victorian ghost story - but with more running and sonic waving. Simon Callow plays a fantastic Dickens, who is pulled into the ghostly mystery, and we get to see actress Eve Myles first role in the Whoinverse before she joined Torchwood as Gwen Cooper.