Doctor who stories, by definition have to be tense, bazaar and fascinating and Ghost Light certainly hit the nail on the head. This episode is from the 26 season of Doctor who and aired as three equal parts in the October of 1989. The story is set in 1883 centres around the peculiar happenings at an old mansion house at Gabriel Chase in Perivale England, Ace’s hometown. When the Tardis arrives Ace reveals that she has been here before back in 1983 and had felt a strange presence in the house, it is this revelation that convinces the Doctor that he simply must know more.
Cue the introduction of the peculiar residents of Gabriel
Chase, a Neanderthal butler, a brainwashed house keeper, an insane explorer and
a spokesperson for the theory of evolution and the man of the house Josiah Samuel
Smith. With a full household of brainwashed staff things get pretty strange but
the strangest thing of all is the presence if a strange creature named ‘The
light’ which has been trapped in the basement of the house (which is actually a
stranded space ship)
