10 Amazing Doctor Who Moments You've Probably Never Seen

9. The Eleventh Doctor Is Space Gandalf!

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Some of the most entertaining scenes in Doctor Who are the ones where our characters just hang around in the TARDIS discussing random stuff, like that bit in Series 5's The Time Of Angels where River Song flexes her TARDIS-flying skills in front of the Doctor and Amy - culminating in the Doctor doing his rather hilarious impression of his time machine's landing noise.

Steven Moffat clearly had a blast writing this sequence, so he went ahead and created even more of them, exclusively for the Series 5 Blu-Ray/DVD boxset.

Dubbed Meanwhile In The TARDIS #1 and #2, these extra scenes both fit neatly into Series 5: the first one follows The Eleventh Hour and precedes The Beast Below, while the second fills in the gap between Flesh And Stone and Vampires Of Venice.

They're both quirky and amusing, full of that self-referential Moffat wit that made his episodes so entertaining to watch. Meanwhile In The TARDIS #2 is the best one though, with the Eleventh Doctor likening himself to Yoda, dubbing himself "space Gandalf", and, in a touching moment, revealing to Amy why he needs his human companions - without them, he's unable to see the wonder in the universe.

This scene is also important because it provides a bit more context for Flesh And Stone's controversial bedroom ending. Amy rightfully points out that the huge amount of attractive female companions the Doctor has travelled with is a tad suspicious - so it wasn't really wrong of her to assume that he was a romantic type!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.