danowen79This wasn't a series premiere, really -- which is maybe why it fell flat for you. "Idiot's Lantern" was the one with Maureen Lipman (who's also quite similar to Celia Imrie, come to think of it...)
lpf20I was talking about this episode with my brother-in-law and we concluded that it was a story that ticked all the boxes - catchphrase, monsters lurking in ordinary places, running about - but somehow didn't excite. Maybe we've been spoiled by series openers like Impossible astronaut.
I'd forgotten about the Idiots Lantern. Was that the one with Maureen Lipman?