Doctor Who: 10 Most Underrated Eleventh Doctor Episodes

Another Gatiss episode, Night Terrors feels a little odd when viewed in a rewatch. Coming directly after the major events of The Almost People, A Good Man Goes To War and Let's Kill Hitler, it seems a little disconnected considering its placement in the series, almost like the characters have forgotten the insanity they've just been through.

But that simply isn't an issue if you watch it as a one-off, and knowing that the episode was originally intended to air earlier in the season, it's easy to forgive the creative team for not giving this one more oomph in terms of the overarching narrative of Series 6.

All that aside, what we do get is frightening, heartwarming and highly entertaining. The villainous peg dolls - with their childish laughter and dead, emotionless faces - are genuinely freaky, and the juxtaposition of the bland council estate with the darkness of the haunted house was a clever way to make the latter seem even more nightmarish.

Young Jamie Oram is surprisingly great here too, all cutesy and adorable when he needs to be, but creepy and alien when the moment calls for it.

In the end, Night Terrors isn't going to blow you away, but one benefit of it being a pure standalone is that it has zero heavy lifting to do. It feels good to watch a story where the Doctor just helps out a kid and has a simple adventure. That's an underrated upside to episodes like this.