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The Suffering

The Suffering

Series Episode Number: 14

First Broadcast: Sun 28 Feb 2010 - ~9:00pm UTC (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 120 minutes


Recorded on Fri 02 Oct 2009 in The Moat Studios



The TARDIS materializes in England in the year 1912, a time of great social change. The Suffragette movement is lobbying for votes for women, and the skull of the so-called ‘missing link’ has been discovered in Piltdown.

While Vicki falls victim to a strange influence, the Doctor and Steven investigate the fossilized remains. The Suffering has been unleashed. Can the travellers survive its rage?