
Parts: 1 (45-minute)
Writer: Russell T Davies
Airdate: 11 May 2024
Production Code: n/a
Doctors: fifteenth
Companions: Ruby
Creature Feature: Bogeyman
Story: After a stop on prehistoric Earth, the Doctor escorts Ruby to the future of humankind. Arriving on a space station in orbit around the planet Pacifico del Rio, in the year 21,506, they find the systems - in the Doctor's words - "reaching overload". As they investigate further, they find a fanged creature prowling the lower levels, while on the upper levels, a parthenogenesis machine is being put to work farming... human babies.
These babies, the Doctor and Ruby soon discover, have been abandoned to fend for themselves onboard the station. In response, a group of six-year-old toddlers have banded together and learned to control the systems, with the help of their AI carer, NAN-E. But why were the babies left on their own? How did a monster - known to the babies as the Bogeyman - get onboard the station? In order to find out the answers, the Doctor will have to avert the station overload before everyone, babies and Bogeyman alike, is destroyed.