10 Worst Doctor Who Episodes According To YOU

10. Aliens Of London/World War Three

The first two-parter of the revived series could easily have dodged the bullet, and of all the episodes in this list, it probably has the most merit conceptually.

Intended as a commentary on the Iraq war, this story has a bit of bite to it, in a good way, even if it is a little on the nose with its political allegories at times.

But for every scathing criticism of false-flag operations, there’s a fart joke, and all notion of taking the message seriously wafts away into the wind like… well. Y'know.

The Slitheen Family is a really interesting villain in theory – intergalactic mobsters trying to commit insurance fraud at a planetary level. Great idea! But they're let down by some wonky effects, which leads to a huge discrepancy in their mobility, dependent on whether CGI or practical effects are being used from scene-to-scene. They also suffer from some baffling and childish writing which genuinely devotes half their screen time to fat jokes and flatulence.

It’s a shame, because with some minor tweaks, the Slitheen could've been the classic foes RTD clearly wanted them to be.

It's still a decent story overall, but with the Ninth Doctor having such a short run, it's easy to see why this would be regarded as one of his bottom two stories.