As my previous article demonstrated, and as is fairly obvious, Doctor Who is a show all about the magic of time travel and you just have to look at the TARDIS' milometer to see that this allows the show endless storytelling possibilities. One week it can be an historical adventure featuring the Doctor meeting a famous figure, the next the TARDIS could be flung into a distant galaxy to face a chilling alien menace. Yet, Doctor Who still gets itchy feet working within the tiny parameters of the entirety of time and space and occasionally casts the net even wider. Not content with just going back to the future or the past, the show sometimes goes a little off-the-wall (or out of the vortex) and takes the TARDIS sideways in time into parallel worlds, anti-matter dimensions and even dreams. Some of these 'sideways' episodes, those that go somewhere else other than the past, present and future, often make for some of the most intriguing and experimental Doctor Whos there have ever been. So fire up the Zeiton crystals, floor the helmic regulator and gently tap the down arrow on your keypad to read about the very best of these very different episodes of Doctor Who.
10. The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks
Marking the end of the Third Doctor's 'exile' years when he was trapped on Earth, after several seasons all in the present day, the tenth anniversary extravaganza The Three Doctors not only gives us the show's very first multi-Doctor story but also sends the Time Lord - all three of him - as far away as it can, to an all-new location; another universe made of anti-matter. Although routed in a scientific idea, the Three Doctors like the best of Doctor Who doesn't let that stop it from making up its own rules for the sake of a good story. Here we discover that when Time Lord hero Omega gave his people the gift of time travel it came with a cost. Upon creating the necessary supernova, Omega was thrown into a world of anti-matter, entered through a black hole. See what I mean? After millennia trapped there, Omega brought the Doctors into his universe to aid in his escape so he could wreak revenge on the Time Lords who inadvertently put him there. Naturally, this being Doctor Who, he failed. On the plus side, the anti-matter world allowed him to create anything from his will alone. I think we'd all like a visit, actually He should open up a theme park, but, y'know, without the murder.
