Doctor Who: The Doctor's Regeneration Episodes Ranked Worst To Best

14. Doctor Who (Seventh Doctor)

Although Sylvester McCoy says that he went out in "spectacular fashion... I think I got the best exit of all the Doctors", his incarnation - from a narrative viewpoint - isn't afforded a decent send off in the TV film by playing a mere sedentary role.

The Doctor's downtime in the opulent surroundings of the TARDIS - talk about bigger on the inside - is rudely interrupted by the escape of the Master's oozy remains, which sort of resembles an infant Prisoner Zero that proceeds to cause all manner of timey-wimey havoc with the console.

This skulduggery results in the TARDIS having to "instigate automatic emergency landing" on Earth - blimey, what are the chances? Unfortunately, for the Doctor, he chances upon a gun-toting gang who unceremoniously shoot him down.

So, in only a few moments, the Doctor goes from enjoying an on the nose science fiction novel and a cocktail of jelly babies, to lying down on an operating table and eccentrically babbling like one of McCoy's other memorable characters he portrays, Radagast the Brown.

Eventually, Dr Grace Holloway fails to live up to her "Amazing Grace" moniker by inadvertently killing the Doctor. Now that's what you call a companion in the making.

Goodbye enigmatic Doctor. Hello potential (on-screen) great: the parallel sequence of a morgue orderly watching Frankenstein whilst McCoy gurns into Paul McGann, with Terminator time travel lightning added for dramatic effect, makes this the creepiest of all the regenerations.