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EPISODE
SEASON
Doctor Who - Season 12 Episode 04: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
In an adventurous atmosphere, this television series follows the Doctor, an extraordinary and brilliant researcher, who traversed time, taking new and various characters while battling evils on the planet. Another season starts with the Doctor struggles against saving the intelligence agents across the world from being attacked.
1981, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK
1960, London, England, UK
4 September 1999, Oxford, England, UK
18 February 1980, Durham, England, UK
3 February 1964, Sierra Leone
4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
19 November 1924, Sunderland, England, UK
5 September 1949
6 June 1958, London, England, UK
16 February 1964, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
14 April 1983, Somerset, England, UK
28 June 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
8 December 1973, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
7 March 1974, London, England, UK
15 September 1972, Pensacola, Florida, USA
January 21, 2020
The fact that it does engage, if even for a moment-building on the arc established in the premiere, iterating on this darker, less-lenient path the 13th Doctor is being pushed down-elevates it from its otherwise average finery.
January 21, 2020
The upshot is an enjoyable enough knockabout, which reaches a frustratingly by-the-numbers resolution after a compelling setup... this does rather feel a touch straightforward. But, at the very least, it's an intriguing history lesson.
January 22, 2020
Tesla and Thirteen make a charming pair - which is good because they spent a lot of time together this week.
January 21, 2020
Although it's not as impactful as Rosa, this is another historical outing for the Thirteenth Doctor that shows us that the show can introduce us to some truly remarkable humans, even if it doesn't always know what to do with its aliens.
January 25, 2020
A fun story, with some great performances from the two inventors. The main villains weren't up to much, but it didn't damage the pseudo-historical that much in the long run.
January 21, 2020
It's perfectly lovely. Is it what die-hard Whovians want, though?
January 21, 2020
And I, for one, am extremely into it: Sure, I appreciate a good dramatic conflict with real-world stakes, but I'm also a sucker for insane interstellar scorpions who can shoot lasers from their tails and want to kidnap Nikola Tesla.
February 03, 2020
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror is one of the best five episodes of the Chibnall era - but that says more about Doctor Who of late than it does about this episode.
January 21, 2020
Is this Jodie Whittaker's own "Vincent and the Doctor"? It's not quite on par with the Richard Curtis-penned episode, but it's almost up there.
January 22, 2020
With so much educational information to crowbar in to 50 minutes, the aliens barely got a look-in. When they did, they were obliged to stand around gnashing their X-shaped teeth while Jodie's pupils asked, 'How will that device work, Doctor?'
January 23, 2020
This story is still too bogged down by the show's usual tropes to be anything more than another monster-of-the-week episode.
January 23, 2020
This episode is fun, smart, and everything we love about Doctor Who.