Listened to The Chimes of Midnight over the last couple of days. The Eighth Doctor and Charley arrive in the "downstairs" of an Edwardian mansion in 1906, yet appear to have slipped into some strange of netherworld where they are unable to make contact with or have any effect on their environment (shades of the first episode of The Space Museum). But when they do finally "arrive", that's when the first murder takes place... This bizarre story from Rob Shearman is well up to the standards of The Holy Terror (if, perhaps, a little too similar in some of its conceits) and builds a creepy, claustrophobic atmosphere liberally mixed with very dark humour. The regulars and guest cast alike are superb, and the dialogue as cracking and listenable as it was in Terror. Very good indeed.
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