10 Things Doctor Who REALLY Wants You To Forget

10. Doom's Day

No, not the Series 2 finale. Ten and Rose saying goodbye on Bad Wolf Bay was bloody Shakespeare compared to this.

Doom's Day was a special multi-platform story to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary. It cast the supremely talented comedian Sooz Kempner as Doom, and took place across books, comics, and audio dramas.

Seemed like a strong enough recipe, but the event itself did not go down well.

The signs were bad from the off, with Kempner being unveiled in front of a shoddy green screen background dressed in whatever random sci-fi accessories BBC Studios could get its hands on, in a not-so-convincing attempt to tell us that Doom was the "greatest assassin in the universe."

Fan reactions to Doom's Day ranged from bemused ambivalence to frothing outrage, but the whole story has now been largely forgotten.

In fact, Doom's Day seemed to lose interest in itself as it went on, with the 'big finale' taking the form of a short story on the Doctor Who website.

It's safe to say this is one character we won't be seeing in televised Doctor Who.