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The Silver Turk is nice stuff all around, a collision of ideas and plot and visuals in the way the best Doctor Who always should. It's a new fresh start for the eighth Doctor, but even apart from that, it's just a solid Doctor Who adventure.
You can read a longer version of this review at Unreality SF.