10 Awesome Doctor Who Episodes That You Can Only Watch Once

10. Mindwarp

Now I know what you're thinking - Mindwarp? Far from awesome. Some strong elements certainly, such as Nabil Shaban's Sil and Brian Blessed BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER AS KING YRCANOS!!! But overall Philip Martin's Trial Of A Time Lord segment plays like a bizarre Europudding version of Doctor Who.

What just about pushes the story into the realms of awesomeness is one particular episode, and an unexpected development. Nicola Bryant's problematic Peri had spent her travels squabbling with Colin Baker's sixth incarnation. There wasn't a huge amount of love out there for them at the time, yet at the end of the day they were the Doctor and his companion. We may not have held them in as high regard as Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, but we still cared what happened to them.

Many a childhood was traumatized by the conclusion of the story, when Bryant suffered a horrible fate at the hands of the Mentors, her body appropriated by Christopher Ryan's amphibious dictator Kiv. It all turned out to be a manipulation of the Matrix, though this revelation was arguably too late to repair the tots' shattered minds. 

It's a brave soul who ventures back to rewatch Part Four of the campy alien romp.