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Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) and the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) in The Devil's Chord (Image courtesy BBC / Disney+)

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“The Devil’s Chord” is an episode of the 14th season of the new “Doctor Who” series, also indicated as season 1, and follows “Space Babies”. It’s available in the UK and Ireland on BBC channels and in many other countries on the Disney+ platform.

Beware that in various adverts and marketing materials, this season is promoted as season 1, marking the start of production by Bad Wolf and distribution by Disney+, hence the double notation. On BBC’s website, “Space Babies” is indicated as episode 2 of 8 while Disney+ indicates it as episode 3.

Note. This article contains some spoilers about “The Devil’s Chord”.

The Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) in Space Babies (Image courtesy BBC / Disney+)

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“Space Babies” is an episode of the 14th season of the new “Doctor Who” series, also indicated as season 1, and follows “The Church on Ruby Road”. It’s available in the UK and Ireland on BBC channels and in many other countries on the Disney+ platform.

The Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) takes Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on a trip to the age of dinosaurs, with some unexpected side effects. After fine-tuning some Tardis settings, he takes her to the future, to a space station where they find a monster and children who were supposed to be part of a colony project but were abandoned.

I, Alastair by Robert Mammone

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The novel “I, Alastair” by Robert Mammone was published for the first time in 2020.

Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart faces attempts to overthrow the British Republic. The attacks by forces seeking to undermine the power of the Party and the Leader are becoming more violent and the response must be resolute.

Being the son of one of the Party’s big shots can be a privilege but it also brings burdens, such as the comparisons Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart has to endure with his older brother. He must prove himself worthy of his family, also contributing to his father’s power position, a crucial commitment at a time when the Leader’s health is declining.

Doctor Who - Shada (Blu-ray edition)

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“Shada” is an adventure originally conceived as the last of the seventeenth season of the classic “Doctor Who” series but never broadcast. It’s a six-part adventure written by Douglas Adams and directed by Pennant Roberts in the original parts and by Charles Norton in the ones filmed in 2017.

The story

Skagra is mentally connected to a group of people. He wakes up, breaks contact, and then abandons them on the space station, from which he departs. His goal is to find Salyavin, a Time Lord condemned to be locked up in the Shada Prison, whose location is top secret.

The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana II (Lalla Ward) go to Cambridge to see Chronotis, a Time Lord who took up residence at the university as a professor. Chronotis intends to return a book brought from Gallifrey that holds arcane powers connected to the ancient times of his civilization. He realizes that the book was borrowed by Chris Parsons, a student who realizes its oddities by examining it together with his friend Clare Keightle.

Snowglobe 7 by Mike Tucker

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The novel “Snowglobe 7” by Mike Tucker was published for the first time in 2008.

The Tenth Doctor takes Martha Jones to what is supposed to be a beach but the freezing wind that hits the travelers as they exit the Tardis indicates that the place isn’t what they were hoping for. This is Snowglobe 7, one of the domes built to maintain the remains of the polar ice caps, which don’t exist anymore in 2099.

The situation in Snowglobe 7 turns out immediately difficult because an unknown disease is spreading among the staff and there seems to be something very strange in the ice. Martha Jones tries to find some answers by examining the sick people while the Doctor tries to recover the memories of a damaged robot.