User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20130507223708/@comment-7302713-20130508182602

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20130507223708/@comment-7302713-20130508182602 This episode is clearly not an episode about the Doctor and Clara running off to Victorian times and getting in and out of a pickle. This episode is a story about an escapade of the Paternoster gang in which they rescue the Doctor and Clara and save the people from the virulent red leech.

I don't know if this was done for the purposes of double banking but this is a story in which both the Doctor and the current travelling companion are "deliberately de-emphasised in the narrative" so it definitely fits. A story can be Doctor or companion lite for purposes other than double banking. While the article makes this clear for non-televisual material, we should make it clear that lite episodes being structured as such for dramatic purposes is a possibility for all formats.

If this was double-banked then we need to properly source that and we need to say what it was double-banked with. It's also perfectly possible that the story was not told this way for the purposes of double banking but that the production crew took advantage of the lite nature of this episode.