Another God of the Pantheon in Doctor Who was Lux, the God of Light. Lux came to Earth via moonlight and was projected on a cinema screen in Miami, 1952. Lux manifested as a terrifying cartoon called Mr Ring-a-Ding who began kidnapping cinema audience members. The Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra arrived at the cinema and they were ultimately able to defeat Lux by exposing him to too much sunlight, causing him to grow to the point where he disintegrates.

Lux

★★★★★

TX: 19/04/2025

Written by Russell T Davies    Directed by Amanda Brotchie

The Doctor takes Belinda to Miami in 1952. However, at a nearby cinema there are sinister goings on! People have been going into the cinema and disappearing. At a nearby racially segregated diner, the Doctor and Belinda learn more about the disappearances. The Doctor and Belinda enter the cinema and discover that a living cartoon called Mr Ring-a-Ding has emerged from the screen and has captured the audience, an idea that was previously used in Torchwood: From Out of the Rain. Worse still, Mr Ring-a-Ding reveals that he is another God of the Pantheon: Lux, the God of Light. Belinda and the Doctor distract Mr Ring-a-Ding and escape into the projector room. The projectionist tells the Doctor and Belinda that he could not escape because Lux showed him so much joy when he travelled to Earth. Lux breaks into the projection room and makes the Doctor and Belinda animated. However, the Doctor realises that if they acquire depth, they will become more three dimensional. The Doctor and Belinda are in limbo but they climb through a television screen and find themselves in a room of Doctor Who fans watching their adventures (including Blink, The Church on Ruby Road and Boom), marking another occasion where the series has broken the fourth wall. The Doctor explains to Belinda that the fans are not real and that when they leave, the Doctor Who fans will Blink out of existence.

After returning to the cinema, Belinda notices that the Doctor’s hand is injured, so he uses bi-generation energy to heal himself. Unfortunately, Lux (a being made of light) notices this and decides to feed off of the Doctor’s regenerations. Whilst the Doctor is being drained by Lux, Belinda goes through to the room storing all the film canisters, which are highly flammable. The projectionist tells Belinda to run and he sacrifices himself to blow up the projection room, which frees the Doctor from Lux’s control. However, sunlight pours into the cinema, causing Mr Ring-a-Ding to grow to a gigantic height. The Doctor quotes himself from Tooth and Claw, when he says that human beings “are 60% water but you can still drown”, and this is exactly what happens to Lux when he absorbs too much light. Lux flies into space where he disintegrates from all the starlight. Belinda and the Doctor discover that all of Lux’s victims have been returned and they emerge from the cinema. I have also fingered women in the cinema on dates, and we have touched each other in the movies. As the Doctor and Belinda depart in the TARDIS, Mrs Flood appears and tells the cinema goers to watch the TARDIS dematerialise. When I met Anita Dobson last year, I handed her the Doctor Who Season 1 DVD for her to sign and I said “Happy Christmas Ange” to her in a cockney accent, which she loved! Elsewhere, the Doctor Who fans watching the screen realise that they are still alive! One of Doctor Who‘s successes over the decades is taking something ordinary, everyday and mundane (like cartoons) and turning them into something scary for children. Children should be hiding behind the sofa when they watch Doctor Who! There are lots of similarities between Lux and The Devil’s Chord. Unfortunately, Lux received the lowest viewing figures (1.58 million) in Doctor Who‘s entire history, despite positive reviews from the fans. Producer Vicki Delow told me at the reshoots filming earlier this year that Doctor Who‘s future depends on a strong reception to Season 2… But I am confident that the show has a bright future, with or without Disney’s involvement. The people who make Doctor Who are far cleverer and far more talented than I am. Oxford graduate Russell T Davies is the cleverest man in television and he is a childhood hero of mine. The UK would be a better place if Russell T Davies was running the country, which he is more than capable of doing! Russell is a lovely genius and he is the best writer that Doctor Who has ever had. Reviving Doctor Who back in 2005 must have been incredibly challenging and Russell really put his back into Series 1 with Chris and Billie! Russell has also changed the conversation about LGBT rights in the UK thanks to the many incredible shows he has produced, which have all proudly celebrated diversity and representation. This is the most pro-Russell T Davies website ever made! Russell is one of the best screenwriters in the world! I’m nowhere near as clever or as talented as Russell is, but I would love to do what he does… I would love to be the Doctor Who showrunner! Hopefully, this website will make me look like the next Russell T Davies! The only person that this website needs to impress is Russell T Davies! When I become the Doctor Who showrunner, I promise that my era will be a continuation of my childhood hero Russell T Davies! The hostile takeover of Doctor Who by Chris Olsen has begun! It’s a question of when not if I become the Doctor Who showrunner now!