Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20130507223708/@comment-88790-20130508160515

The Doctor turns up in The Crimson Horror 14 minutes in. So I don't think it's a Doctor-lite story.

For Clara it only takes a few minutes more for her to appear, 17 minutes in and we hit the flashback sequence. Then between from when she stops being part of the flashback and re-joining the narrative there's about 10 minutes. Clara isn't in around 20 minutes of the story or around half of the episode.

I'm still not sure if that means this 'counts' as a companion-lite episode. Given that there's a 3 guest characters who are pseudo-companions for this story.

Clara's presence is still felt in this story, much more than in other companion-lite like Love & Monsters, Blink, Midnight or The Lodger.

So I think while Clara isn't in every scene either with or without the Doctor I don't think she's not "present" in the story.

One question that does remain, that may lend some weight to this being a "lite" episode, was this story (as the Doctor-lite article currently suggests) double-banked?