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The Magic Mousetrap

The Magic Mousetrap

Series Episode Number: 120

First Broadcast: Thu 30 Apr 2009 - ~8:00pm UTC (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 120 minutes


Recorded in The Moat Studios



Switzerland, 1926: the Doctor finds himself halfway up an Alpine mountainside, on his way to an exclusive sanatorium for the rich and famous run by the Viennese alienist Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Comfort. In between bouts of electric shock therapy, Ludo’s patients – including faded music hall turn Harry Randall, chess grandmaster Swapnil Khan and Lola Luna, darling of the Weimar cabaret scene – fill their time with endless rounds of Snap!, among other diversions.

But the Doctor soon suspects that someone’s playing an altogether more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle…