Doctor Who: Every Dalek Story In The New Series Ranked WORST To BEST

12. Into The Dalek (2014)

Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor got off to a rocky start to say the least. While Series 8 is not without its highlights it definitely has a lot of moments where it stumbles, and the first real disappointment comes in only the second episode with Into The Dalek.

First of all, the concept of being shrunken down to go inside someone else’s body has been done to death, chiefly by animated programmes. The Doctor, Clara Oswald and a few guest characters running around inside a Dalek isn’t necessarily an awful idea, but it ultimately leads to little more than dashing down corridors away from ‘Dalek antibodies’.

Secondly, the thematic execution here really leaves something to be desired. The question of whether there can be such a thing as a good Dalek and, by way of metaphor, whether the Doctor himself can still be good after doing bad things is old hat for the new series.

It’s so old hat, in fact, that the very first Dalek appearance in New Who did the exact same thing to far greater effect almost ten years prior to this episode.

Time to get some new ideas.