Doctor Who: Matt Smith's 10 Greatest Moments

By Davey Peppers /

10. Vincent And The Doctor - Museum Scene

Very possibly the most dramatic and emotional moment that Doctor Who has ever encountered, the season 5 episode €˜Vincent and the Doctor€™, which has Eleven and his companion Amelia Pond running around 19th Century Europe with the famous and troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh. The episode crescendos not with the monster of the episode being defeated, but after that, when the two bring Van Gogh with them to an art museum in the modern day, where, barely able to contain his excitement for his new friend, Eleven asks the curator (Bill Nighy) to explain what he thinks of Van Gogh€™s art. The next minute, as Van Gogh overhears the curator€™s explanation to the Doctor of how he believes this man to be the finest painter in history, is a flood of emotions that is hard to match. The entire time, the shots show snippets of the Doctor€™s face during this, and his joy and pride at making a sad man feel so unbearable happy is infectious if not a plague.