If you’re totally new to Who, a regular viewer who wants to learn more about episode one, or just In Case You Missed It, read on for some trivia about Deep Breath…
Grumpy, the Green One and the Not Green One
The Paternoster Gang are a crime-fighting organisation, headed up by a lizard-like Silurian called Madame Vastra, her human wife Jenny Flint, and their Sontaran butler, Strax (who, because all Sontarans are clones, doesn’t really understand gender).
Initially called together by the Doctor to fight for him at the Battle of Demons Run, the gang settled in Victorian London and have aided the Doctor on numerous occasions, including fighting the Great Intelligence twice, and entering the Doctor’s tomb on Trenzalore. See one of the many Claras scattered through the Doctor’s time-stream being interrogated by Vastra in The Snowmen - a scene echoed in Deep Breath: