The BEST episodes written by Eric Pringle
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#1 - The Awakening (2)
Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 6
The Malus, an alien that's purely evil, needs the civil war re-enactments to become authentic so it can feed off the psychic energy of dying and embattled men and fully revive. Not if the Doctor can derail things, of course.
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#2 - The Awakening (1)
Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 5
The sleepy English village of Little Hodcombe, 1984. The village re-enactment of the English Civil War is in full swing, but a malign alien presence intends the mock-battles to be rather more realistic than planned...