January 30, 2020

YOUR Verdict on “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” – Just Okay

It’s time to reveal DWTV’s poll results for the fourth episode of Series 12, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”, as voted for by you over the last week or so.

“Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”: Score Breakdown

As always, we asked you to rate the episode on a scale from 1 to 10. We then took an average.

A few thousand of you voted, and the average score was 6.71. According to the Doctor Who TV score guide, this indicates the episode was generally considered to be in the “Above Average” to “Good” range.
This score leaves “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror” as the 110^th highest rated episode of the revival (according to the DWTV ranking polls taken from 2018). More specifically, it is situated between “Let’s Kill Hitler” (6.74) and “Cold War” (6.70).
“Tesla” joins four other episodes in the Chibnall era (so far) that sit between scores of 6-7. They are: “Demons of the Punjab” (6.85), “The Ghost Monument” (6.84), “The Witchfinders” (6.65), and “Resolution” (6.54).
The standard deviation – which is our measure for how divisive an episode is – was 2.52. A polarising result once again, but less so than last week’s.
Overall, coming after the all-time lows of “Orphan 55” this is obviously an improvement and an okay result, though it could also be far better.

Series 12 Episode Ranking

So far, the Series 12 episode ranking looks like this:

1. Spyfall, Part 1 – 7.43
2. Spyfall, Part 2 – 7.01
3. Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror – 6.71
4. Orphan 55 – 4.97
5. Fugitive of the Judoon – TBC
6. Praxeus – TBC
7. Can You Hear Me? – TBC
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The better performance of “Tesla” has increased the series average slightly to 6.53. We’ll need a much stronger episode than this though to get the score into a healthier region again. Will “Fugitive of the Judoon” answer the call…?

Conclusion

Join us next week when we examine the results of “Fugitive of the Judoon”, the fifth episode of Series 12. It’s going to be another interesting one… Until then, keep voting!