According to figures from BARB (via DoctorWhoTV<\/a>) the episode was watched during its BBC One transmission by 2.62m viewers<\/strong>, up on the current most-watched episode, the season premiere, Space Babies<\/a>.<\/p>\n That episode was watched by 2.6m live, while 2.4m watched The Devil\u2019s Chord<\/a> and 2.04m watched Boom<\/a>. Of course, it should be noted that all of these figures are only representative of the BBC One overnight audience.<\/p>\n This means they are unrepresentative of the overall viewing figures, particularly now that the show has switched to BBC iPlayer first release strategy. The full figures including iPlayer viewers over 7 days will be released in due course.<\/p>\n 73 Yards was one of the show\u2019s most mysterious episodes yet, with little revealed about its plot prior to transmission. Influenced by Welsh folk horror, it saw Ruby being followed by a woman who always stayed 73 yards away, after the Doctor disappeared.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The season\u2019s next episode, Dot and Bubble<\/a>, has been described by showrunner Russell T Davies as \u201cour clearest step into Black Mirror territory\u201d<\/a>, although he said \u201cthere\u2019s a little bit more freedom and Doctor Who madness\u201d in it.<\/p>\n He also explained that he previously pitched the episode to Steven Moffat for his era of the show, but that it was too expensive to make at the time.<\/p> Davies said: \u201cI thought of it way back when, around 2009, when I was still working on Doctor Who,\u00a0<\/em>because I pitched it to Steven Moffat in a restaurant in Los Angeles. He was saying, \u2018Would you come back and write for the programme?\u2019 Every year, he\u2019d ask me. How lovely.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I pitched this episode [in April 2010], in a restaurant called Hal\u2019s on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Karen Gillan [who played Amy Pond] was there. They were in LA to launch their first series, and I remember pitching \u2013 I used to call this \u2013 \u2018visible Twitter\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t go very far with the conversation, because the idea was literally too expensive. But you wait 15 years and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n Doctor Who continues on Saturday 1st June on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/strong>\u00a0Previous seasons are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>\u00a0with episodes of the classic series also available on BritBox \u2013 you can sign up for a\u00a07-day free trial here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight. <\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The episode saw the biggest overnight ratings of the season so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52143,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/doctor-who-overnight-ratings-confirmed-for-mysterious-episode-73-yards-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The episode saw the biggest overnight ratings of the season so far.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/52142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Aneurin](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/05\/478092-36649c8-e1716204101720.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Aneurin")
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