The new season of Doctor Who just started on Disney+. Episode 1 , The Church on Ruby Road, aired at Christmas time, so today’s episode, Space Babies, is Episode 2. For some reason the powers that be decided that we need Episode 3 at the same time- in the UK the BBC showed them one after the other.

For some people, this episode is probably the first proper episode of Doctor Who that they will have seen, so the writers deftly wove a quick introduction into the story- the police box, the meaning of TARDIS, the Doctor being the last of his race.

The Doctor and Ruby find themselves on an orbiting space station which turns out to be a baby farm. For some reason, the babies are running the station. It turns out that some years before, the adults had left the station in protest over government policy. One adult remains who acts as Nanny, and of course there is the compulsory bogey monster.

Thanks to the intervention of our heroes, it all works out and everyone is saved.

This show is a lot of fun and is probably there to compensate for some scary and dark stories to come. No doubt some people will complain about it being too silly, but I thought it was quite good.

For some reason the Disney+ app on my TV seems to get the sound and vision out of sync, which makes it a bit harder to follow the dialogue. That’s about the only complaint I have.