Doctor Who. Series 7, Episode 9: "Hide"

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This is the second Doctor Who episode in a row where the story is grounded in the real world. In the previous episode, it was a Cold War submarine. In this episode, it's a decade earlier in 1974, in some haunted house.

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Yup, looks like a ghost to me.

But of course, since this is the Doctor Who universe, there are no ghosts. There's only a spaceman-slash-time traveller named Hila Tacorien, stranded in a pocket universe. What's a pocket universe anyway, and what does it have to do with ghost stories? Well, like the Doctor says, "This isn't a ghost story. It's a love story."

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"So, shouldn't we have referenced Love Boat instead of Ghostbusters?"

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