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Directed by | Sheree Folkson | ||
Written by | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | ||
Script editor | David P Davis | ||
Produced by | Paul Frift | ||
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Music by | Murray Gold | ||
Series | Series 8 | ||
Running time | 45 minutes | ||
First broadcast | 25 October 2014 | ||
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"In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 October 2014. The episode was written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by Sheree Folkson.
In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion, schoolteacher Clara (Jenna Coleman), go looking for Maebh (Abigail Eames), a missing student of Clara's who is able to hear the voices of a large forest that covered all of Earth the previous night.
The episode was watched by 6.92 million viewers and received mixed reviews from critics.