10 Most British Doctor Who Moments

10. Quaint British Villages

With their natural character and old-fashioned charm, small British villages have offered escapism to television audiences for decades, most commonly in the cosy crime genre.

These are the types of places you can see for half a second and instantly know that they're located somewhere in the British countryside, and they've appeared quite a lot in Doctor Who over the decades – clearly, aliens love their old-fashioned sweet shops and pubs just as much as we do.

Perhaps most famously is the 1971 serial The Daemons, which involved strange goings-on in the picturesque village of Devil’s End, featuring scenes of Morris dancing on the green, the Doctor and Jo in the local pub, and the Master posing as a vicar.

The most iconic new series village would have to be Leadworth, as introduced in The Eleventh Hour. It’s another one that plays up to all the stereotypes, boasting a perfect village green, a duck pond, an ice cream van, red phone boxes, a quirky old resident played by Annette Crosbie, and the crushing realisation that you're at least 30 minutes away from any sort of modern civilisation.

In fact the only unrealistic thing about Leadworth is that Amy and the Doctor manage to get good phone signal... in reality trying to make a call from one of these places is the equivalent of being stuck on the Moon with a plastic cup and some string.