10 Most British Doctor Who Moments

6. The Weather Is Always Terrible

Anyone who lives in the UK knows that good weather is a rarity, even in the spring and summer months. Even when it's blue skies and cracking flags, there's always that little voice in the back of your mind going, "You'd better take a coat, just in case."

This is something Doctor Who has always acknowledged... sometimes by choice, sometimes not.

Bad weather is such a British normality that it's been featured as a plot point at times, like the Judoon’s H₂O scoop in Smith and Jones, the "same rain" in Blink, and the clouds of Cyber-pollen in Death in Heaven. On a similar theme, there’s the joke about Amy being “dressed for Rio” in The Hungry Earth… and therefore totally unprepared for rural Wales.

Bad weather has made it into the show unintentionally too, such is its inevitability – for instance the Doctor and Martha’s reunion at the end of The Family of Blood, when you can literally hear the rain falling. Torrential rain also forced Steven Moffat to relocate certain scenes in The Time of Angels from the Byzantium crash site to the warmth and dryness of the TARDIS console room.

Rule one: the weather forecast lies.

Basically, that image of the Tenth Doctor looking all sad in the rain is how the average Brit feels at most points during the year.