I haven't checked but I'm sure I set the video for 6.59 last night. It was taping Small Gods on BBC7 form 6.30 so I can't tell what time it started taping both. Anyway, at 7.25 when I'd cooked dinner and was ready to watch it, I started the file, had my finger ready over a skip button to skip forward to where it started and it had already started! I wasn't quite sure at first but I've watched enough Poirots to know what I was watching was either Doctor Who or something 1920s-like before it.

And now for the actual spoilers:

I love murder mysteries. They're a subset of cop shows, so you pretty much can't go wrong with them. Except for some reason I was never keen on Miss Marple, but there you go. So I know murder mysteries, I've seen a lot of them. When that woman with the long name found Professor Peach dead in the library she should have screamed there and then. Yes, with the running out shouting, but a woman on her own who finds a dead body in a room has to scream. It's a rule.

It was obvious that the child she talked about when she died was Felicity Kendall's. Just because that's always the way it goes. But what I still don't get, though, is why she kept the door of the bedroom locked for the past forty years? It makes no sense for her to have done that and it's not even central to the plot, because there were other things that told them about the baby and the wasp.

I did like the Doctor's poisoning, although I assume the Vicar poisoned all of their drinks - from his perspective there's certainly no point in bumping the Doctor off when Agatha Christie can solve the murder just as well as he can. And he wouldn't have known which drink was for which of them. But honestly, the Doctor asking for salt and complaining salt was too salty. I'd have slapped him at that point. When he asked for a shock and Donna got close I was convinced she was going to knee him in the privates. Okay, so kissing him's a shock too, but is less fun, less tasty and there's the chance Donna might end up getting some of the cyanide.

I was convinced that the ten missing days meant the Doctor and Donna were going to take Agatha Christie to some exciting places and she would just pretend to have lost her memory. So it was a bit disappointing that all they did was drop her ten days into her future.

I loved those old cars and the way they were completely backwards and upside down and just wrong! I knew from Top Gear that they didn't standardise where the pedals and gears were till later - see, Top Gear is useful for something.

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