Doctor Who:
The Idiot’s
Lantern
By Mark
Gatiss
“I’m The Wire
and I am Hungry.”
It is 1953
and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is almost here. But there are some strange going ons in
Mushwell Hill, London. It appears that
people have been having their faces removed.
One moment sitting in front of the TV and the next their face gets
sucked into it. It appears that whatever
is causing it is centered on Magpies Electrical shop. It all seems to have all started after a red
bolt hit his shop.
The Doctor
and Rose arrive hoping to have landed in New York to catch The Ed Sullivan show
but with the TARDIS well it didn’t happen.
They are soon embroiled with the investigation with why people are
losing their face. Rose goes on ahead
and does some snooping around and goes to Magpies and ends up losing her face. The Doctor soon finds out that it is the TV’s
that Magpie is selling that is the cause of the problem and goes there to
confront him. The Doctor discovers that
an alien is living inside the TV’s and wants to feed on all the humans when the
tune in for the Coronation. The Doctor
must stop The Wire from doing this and save Rose in the process.
