'Doctor Who' Season 12, Episode 1 Recap: "Spyfall, Part 1"

It's big-budget time for the Doctor Who. The cold open of the Season 12 premiere spanned South Africa to Moscow, but the most important place in the world is Sheffield, where Ryan, Yaz, and Graham are all home for the moment, trying to play off their long absences. But it won't be long before they're off again, just not the way they planned. Men in suits and unmarked black cars show up to take all three of them away. They're not from the Doctor though, as she's being picked up as well, by a car that is soon taken over by mysterious murderous forces. Worst uber ever, indeed.

C: Anesthetic darts, laser shoe gun, infrared ID duplicator, camembert hacker, lock breakers, rocket launcher cufflinks, retinal id decoder, and tongue immobilizer chewing gum. What more do you want?

For those who didn't pick up on the block lettering, the locations, or the title, this is Doctor Who does James Bond. They've been picked up and brought to London by "C" (Stephen Fry). A fitting year for it, as this April will see the 25th Bond film in the franchise, No Time To Die, hits theaters. It's not the first time the franchise had gone the way of Bond. One could argue the entire Third Doctor period when the Doctor was stuck working for UNIT with fancy cars and outrageous gadgets, was an attempt by Doctor Who to jump on the Secret Agent Man bandwagon.