You are both over and under qualified for the job’. We get bit of light relief in this second episode as the Doctor gets to wordplay and tease. That definitely isn’t going to happen but he might just save Toby’s life. As Jeeves doesn’t appear to be available it is down to the Ninth Doctor to iron those newspapers and provide the perfect boiled egg. Toby Entwhistle (Dave Hearn) slightly oblivious to the impending doom of the flower of male youth in London is simply trying to recruit a valet. It seems it’s all the rage for the young bloods to woo a little wallflower except these really are plants. This story that owes a lot to the Bertie Wooster adventures but this one has an added horticultural menace. That’s a deep voice you’ve got there Phil. The Fellows Club only admits gentlemen and ‘Phil’ (Milanka Brooks) is keen to keep it so. If the end of this episode doesn’t make you well up then who are you and are you human? The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) can help but he can’t stop the addition of several temporary helpers who want to get to the bottom of the mystery. Sahdna Chand (Dinita Gohil) is the owner of the cafe next door that has a mysterious epidemic of exploding sauce bottles. Mrs Bevell is played by Susan Penhaligon and Pete, the lonely pensioner, by Frank Skinner. Pete has lost his Kitty and now Cath (Laura Rollins) adds a lost fiancée to the list.Ī glorious cast of characters pitch up in this drama as the community bands together against the aliens.

There’s been a spate of missing animals and people in the last few weeks and the charity shop seems to be the focus. You may never feel the same about trying on a second-hand dress in a charity shop again. The colour red it appears really doesn’t suit her.

An insistent customer wants to try one on but disaster strikes. He’s on his own and the manager Mrs Bevell has specially told him not to touch the red dresses. Robbie (George Naylor) has a new job in a charity shop in West Morebry.

The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) returns in a series of three adventures.

Tales From New Earth by Roy Gill