10 Doctor Who Moments You Didn't Get As A Kid (But Do As An Adult)

10. Malcolm Tucker In Dark Water

When Peter Capaldi was cast as the Twelfth Doctor, there was a lot of discussion about whether he'd play the character like Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed and iconic character from the political satire show The Thick of It.

Would he be telling the Daleks to 'eff off? Could we have the first Doctor to call Davros the c-word? Well, of course not – despite a slightly later broadcast time, Doctor Who still had to toe the line of family entertainment!

However, there were still some nods to Capaldi's infamous political spin doctor in his first series. There's the bit in Time Heist when he tells everyone to "shutetty up up up," but more overt is when the Twelfth Doctor and Clara investigate 3W's headquarters in Dark Water.

Handing over his psychic paper to 3W employee Doctor Chang, the Doctor pretends to be a government inspector, there to oversee the institute's controversial work. However, as Doctor Chang looks at the Doctor's 'ID,' he notes that there's swearing written all over it.

The Doctor explains that he's got a lot of internalised anger, and quickly takes back the psychic paper.

Government advisor? Internalised anger? Swearing? Yep, that sounds like Malcolm Tucker, a character who, to a nation of kids in 2014, would be far more alien than a Time Lord!