Doctor Who: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020) - Review
After last week's disastrous ' Orphan 55 ', Doctor Who returns to form this week with ' Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror ', and with a name like that, you can expect some historically inaccurate pulpy sci-fi fun, which the episode provides in spades. In fact, the word "fun" is the best adjective for this episode, as it manages to tackle a rather by-the-numbers alien story with a lovely history lesson on Nikola Tesla ( Goran Visnijic ), courtesy of the Doctor ( Jodie Whittaker ) fan-girling out throughout the episode. ' Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror ' put me in mind of stories like ' The Unquiet Dead ' or ' The Unicorn and the Wasp ', in which the Doctor meets a prominent historical figure, gushes about them for ages and then teams up with them to fight a surprisingly appropriate alien menace. I didn't realise how much I'd missed these kinds of episodes, and whilst I appreciated the more mature ' Rosa ' and