Doctor Who: All 40 Steven Moffat Episodes Ranked From Worst To Best

Co-written with Peter Harness.

Like in The Zygon Inversion, the Twelfth Doctor turns game show host at the precipice of a catastrophic event. Just imagine if he did this at the beginning, it certainly would have made for a more entertaining episode: "Three portentous, mummified-looking Monks, come on down!"

Whilst the Silence were actually scary during their human-history-manipulation run, the Monks are monsters you'd find in a standard B movie. They're slow (which is indicative of the episode), and their speech makes Mariah Carey's lip syncing look good.

The military standoff is devoid of any real tension and given the enormity of the grave situation, you'd have thought there would be more than a handful of people relying on Google in trying to resolve the crisis.

Ok, admittedly the Monks have diverted the attention away from where the actual danger is, at the lab. Aargh! They've managed to do it here and it's resulted in too much negativity being written.

Righto, to the lab! Where once again the Doctor teases the possibility of adventures in time and space with a three-dimensional companion in Erica - that look on her excited face is all of us. A Big Finish audio adventure would be welcome. In the meantime, all hail our beloved Monks.