EPISODE
SEASON
Doctor Who - Season 9
The Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they’re relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet. Missy is back to plague the Doctor once more, the Zygons inspire fear as they shape-shift into human clones, and a new arrival moves in cosmic ways.
2 November 1964, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 September 1954, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
8 October 1980, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK
21 February 1980, Grahamstown, South Africa
7 November 1950, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16 November 1965, Guisborough, Cleveland, England, UK
11 May 1944, London, England, UK
14 December 1982, Manchester, England, UK
December 07, 2015
"Magician's Apprentice" is a confident hour of television... and it proves once again that Moffat is great at situating a bold new Doctor Who direction within the half-century mythology of Doctor Whos past.
December 07, 2015
Is the Doctor capable of killing a child, even if doing so could save millions of lives?...With Clara's very existence in peril, Peter Capaldi's Doctor tonight at least appears to have reached a decisive conclusion to the age-old debate: "Exterminate."
January 18, 2017
To make matters worse, the episode falls foul of the two most common stumbling blocks for Doctor Who writers: maintaining the balance between the Doctor and his companion, and making sure the stakes feel believably high.
September 20, 2015
Seemingly keen to re-energize itself after a topsy-turvy year in 2014, Doctor Who Season Nine has upped the stakes dramatically while still maintaining much of its grounded, loveable charm.
September 21, 2015
Rarely has a show been so dependent on the skills of a single actor - and Capaldi is a good one: able to bring just enough emotional depth to a comicbook caper to render it dramatic.
November 18, 2015
Mad, funny, creepy, original and dramatic, 'The Magician's Apprentice' is a bold, mostly successful attempt to be all of Doctor Who, all at once, in just 46 short minutes. Its execution isn't faultless, but you certainly can't fault its massive ambition.
September 18, 2015
The character this season appears less grumpy, imbued with a kind of joyful mania.
December 07, 2015
"The Magician's Apprentice" begins the second season for Peter Capaldi's Doctor with a swaggering production whose confidence is quite remarkable... The opening hook is one of the most impressive the series has ever produced.
October 04, 2016
This is big-ticket Doctor Who, done in such a beautifully delicate way that it manages both to startle and to endear.
September 22, 2015
The Magician's Apprentice was not perfect, but its strengths outweighed its weaknesses, and in leaving us with the image of our non-violent, absolutely moral protagonist pointing a Dalek exterminator at a small child, it made for compelling television.
