He's urging the production team to settle on "Night Terrors", but for now the unofficial title for Mark Gatiss' Series 6 story is "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", quite a mouthful among other long titles such as "The Curse of the Black Spot" and "A Good Man Goes to War". Shouldn't we have titles able to be said in one breath.

But no matter the inevitable choice, the scriptwriter of "Victory of the Daleks" and Sherlock's "Hound of the Baskervilles" spoke candidly at London's Kapow! Comic-Con; and onomatopoeia aside, Series 6 marks Gatiss' first contemporary Doctor Who script, though he played Professor Lazarus in 2007. At the convention he discussed "Night Terrors", if that indeed becomes the title.

Dolls grow to human size and come to life and lumber around a little boy's house. Scary enough. But will this be yet another standard scares and chills story or something deeper, more involved? Unfortunately the early excitement for this episode swiftly fizzled when fellow Sherlock scriptwriter Steven Thompson stepped in with his swashbuckling tale, pushing "Night Terrors" to the autumn. Bookended between a Nazi showdown and the return of "Age of Steel" writer Tom MacRae, the Gatiss script may have difficulty attracting an audience expecting more forward momentum from this series in particular.