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1963 was the birth of Doctor Who, and the birth of the Beatles. Two cultural icons that survived all the way into the 21st Century, with histories that entwined and influenced and ultimately came together again when Russel T Davies took the Fifteenth Doctor right back to where it all started, one more time.

Welcome to the dying days of Doctor Who. Witness the death defying feats of writer Stephen Wyatt and new Script Editor Andrew Cartmel as they walk the high wire without a safety net, perform spectacular acts of sympathetic magic and - before your very eyes! - lay to rest all the malign spirits of 1980s Doctor Who one by one by one.

Just days after being announced as the next showrunner of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat’s final story of the first Russell T Davies era is broadcast. In a darkened empty library, the story introduces us to River Song, a mysterious adventurer who might just be telling us exactly what is going to happen to the Doctor over the next six series. But more than that, she might be telling us what Moffat himself thinks about men, women, writing, fear, and the nature of stories.

No other story has had more requests to consider it in its proper historical context, but perhaps equally important is how that context affects our relationship with the story today.

A caretaker discovers his grandchild has been living with the Yellow Kang and vows to save them. But does a Yellow Kang want to be saved by a caretaker, and can he do it without breaking any of the rules?