Doctor Who Series 8 Titles Confirmed

Peter Capaldi's incarnation of the Doctor hits our screens this Saturday - and the BBC has just confirmed the titles of every episode in his first run of adventures. Take a look...

Into The Dalek
Writers: Phil Ford and Steven Moffat
Director: Ben Wheatley

Robot Of Sherwood
Writer: Mark Gatiss
Director: Paul Murphy

Listen
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Douglas Mackinnon

Time Heist
Writers: Stephen Thompson and Steven Moffat
Director: Douglas Mackinnon

The Caretaker
Writers: Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat
Director: Paul Murphy

Kill The Moon
Writer: Peter Harness
Director: Paul Wilmshurst

Mummy On The Orient Express
Writer: Jamie Mathieson
Director: Paul Wilmshurst

Flatline
Writer: Jamie Mathieson
Director: Douglas Mackinnon

In The Forest Of The Night
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Director: Sheree Folkson

Dark Water/Death In Heaven
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Rachel Talalay

Some intriguing titles there (and a hugely shameless pun in "Robot Of Sherwood"). We're particularly liking the evocative "Kill The Moon" - inspired by a line in Romeo's balcony speech in Romeo And Juliet, perhaps? - and the equally compelling pairing of "Dark Water" and "Death In Heaven", fittingly ominous choices for the series finale. "The Caretaker" seems to riff on another of Gareth Roberts episodes, 2010's hugely popular "The Lodger", while "Time Heist" is in the tradition of "Time-Flight", "Timelash" and "Time Crash". "Mummy On The Orient Express", meanwhile, leaves us in no doubt which dangling plot thread from Matt Smith's first season is about to be pulled...

Nick Setchfield is the Editor-at-Large for SFX Magazine, writing features, reviews, interviews, and more for the monthly issues. However, he is also a freelance journalist and author with Titan Books. His original novels are called The War in the Dark, and The Spider Dance. He's also written a book on James Bond called Mission Statements.