6. The Chimes Of Midnight
"Edith was a very stupid girl. She may not have known it was impossible when she did it." A chilling story of The Doctor and Charley trapped in a house where Christmas Eve 1906 never ends. The Tardis won't take The Doctor and his companion to Singapore so he decides to let her take him where she wants to go. Timey wimey, wibbley wobbley is the order of the day when the Tardis lands in somewhere that is pitch dark and where their scanners are unable to give them information about their location. Emerging from the Tardis, the duo discover that the Tardis has somehow landed in the pantry of an Edwardian manor. The house reminds Charley of the home she ran away from and they soon discover fireplace flames frozen in time, and that Christmas crackers that are pulled apart will reassemble themselves. The Doctor becomes so unnerved that he tells his companion that they should leave and let this mystery remain a mystery, when the bell tolls midnight and there is someone screaming bloody murder... Part one is reminiscent of the first episode of "The Space Museum," with its air of forboding, sense of growing danger and the mystery of possibly jumping a time track. Where the "Sapce Museum" almost immediatley goes off the rails in its second episode, The Chimes of Midnight only gets better after the first episode's cliffhanger. McGann and Fisher display their sparkling chemistry with McGann's charisma as The Doctor continuing to take the material he is given to greater heights. McGann sells the Doctor's fear of the mysterious house and captures The Doctor's unchanging commitment to protecting his companions