Series 9 Episode Title Revealed

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At the press screening of Last Christmas yesterday, Steven Moffat revealed the title of a Series 9 episode. He’s pleased to present…

The Magician’s Apprentice.

The episode, expected to be the first of the next run of episodes, begins filming in January, but aside from that, we know very little! It’s probably written by Moffat, and we’re yet to find out whether Jenna Coleman’s Clara Oswald is staying or not. We shall find out this Christmas.

Whovians may recall the Twelfth Doctor saying to the Teller in Time Heist: “What do you think of the new look? I was hoping for minimalism, but I think I came up with magician.”

Here’s hoping Series 9 sees the return of an inexplicable magic that typically follows in the wake of the TARDIS, yet seemed (to me at least) to be largely missing from Series 8 – bar the occasional bit of wonder in stories like Listen, Mummy on the Orient Express, and In The Forest of the Night.

So what do you make of this, dear readers? Good title? Bad title? Excited? Or haunted by memories of that Nicholas Cage film, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice…?

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