20 Worst Moments In Modern Doctor Who

20. Lazarus’ Transformation (The Lazarus Experiment)

Criticising mid-2000s CGI from a 2025 perspective can often seem a little unfair and so, for the most part, I can ignore and accept it, but the transformation of Professor Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment was perhaps a little too ambitious for the resources available at the time.

The intention was to create a terrifying hybrid scorpion-human monster but instead the creature is laughable in the fact that the head looks completely out of place on top of the skeletal scorpion body. Poor Mark Gatiss, what did they do to you!

The sad part is that the actual concept of this episode in Lazarus desiring youth and longevity is a very interesting one, but the moment the monster is revealed, all credibility is lost, and it struggles to regain it for the rest of the runtime. Let’s hope for a special edition remaster one day.