Doctor Who: 10 WTF Moments From The Magician's Apprentice

10. Hand Mines

The cold open for the episode was absolutely brilliant, setting up everything that was to come over the next three-quarters-of-an-hour, but also thoroughly entertaining in its own right.

While it was the latter stages of this that had major ramifications on the episode as a whole, the way it started was every bit as chilling as you would want from an episode of Doctor Who. A solider tells a small boy to be careful of land mines, before disappearing into the earth.

Then, a hand shoots him from out of it, dirty and with an eye in the middle of the palm, and it’s quickly followed by countless others. The ‘hand mines’ are a super-creepy villain, one that really feel like a Who monster, even if their appearance here is fleeting. It was an excellent way to kick things off, and hopefully we’ll be seeing more of them in the future.