{"id":286071,"date":"2025-11-27T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286071\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:02:11","slug":"first-four-episode-titles-and-synopses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286071\/","title":{"rendered":"first four episode titles and synopses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Titles and synopses are released for the first four episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/a>. The series, featuring a conflict between humans and an ancient ocean-dwelling race, stars Russell Tovey as Barclay Pierre-Dupont<\/a> and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Salt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"\"Episode 1: Homo Aqua \u2014 7 December 8:30pm
An ordinary man finds himself caught in the conflict between land and sea as the Thames reveals some terrifying secrets.<\/p>\n

\"\"Episode 2: Plastic Apocalypse \u2014 7 December 9:15pm
Barclay becomes humanity\u2019s ambassador when the mysterious Salt emerges from the Tank. But his family\u2019s life is torn apart when Salt wreaks revenge upon all mankind.<\/p>\n

\"\"Episode 3: The Deep \u2014 14 December 8:30pm
Barclay makes a terrifying descent into the world of Homo Aqua. Back on the land, Kate stands alone as Downing Street conspires with the army to change the course of the war.<\/p>\n

\"\"Episode 4: The Witch of the Waterfall \u2014 14 December 9:20pm
Barclay and Salt go on the run in a war-torn London, as UNIT reels from disaster. But when Tide threatens the land and Gunsberg advances his plans, the Severance plans demand blood.<\/p>\n

The title and synopsis for the fifth and final episode is not yet available. It will transmit on 21 December.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Lachelle Carl is credited for the first, second and fourth episodes. Might we see American newsreader Trinity Wells again?<\/p>\n

Written by Russell T Davies and Pete McTighe and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams, The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/a>\u00a0will begin transmission on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK on 7 December 2025. The spin-off series will transmit exclusively on Disney+ outside of the UK (where available) some time in <\/a>2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titles and synopses are released for the first four episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-286071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}