20 Best Deaths In Doctor Who History

"Everybody lives!" cried Christopher Eccleston at the end of The Doctor Dances. And Whovians across the globe understood the significance, for usually the world's favourite Time Lord is up to his thousand year old neck in death. Barely a week goes by on Doctor Who without an extermination by a Dalek, a deletion by a Cyberman, or a... erm, hug from a Magma Creature. But the morbid truth is that the show wouldn't be half as entertaining if people didn't get gobbled up by monsters or burnt to a crisp by robots all the time. Producers have frequently tended towards the macabre and the more elaborate deaths, the better! Saturday teatimes on BBC One play host to the most violent acts, chilling in their execution or simply hilarious due to the series' legendary budgetary constraints. It's not unknown for the TARDIS' benevolent pilot to take perverse pleasure in a demise, though thankfully such occurrences are few and far between. So in the grim but amusing fashion of Sylvester McCoy performing rubbish magic tricks in front of The Gods of Ragnarok, here is a definitive a rundown possible of the very best of these unfortunate exits. It's a tricky ask, since there have been hundreds. But here are 20 stone cold cases of extreme farewells from 50 years of danger through the vortex...