10 Amazing Doctor Who Moments You've Probably Never Seen

2. The Fourth Doctor And K9 Getting Drunk

Doctor Who A Ghost Story For Christmas mini-episode
BBC Studios

Now, here's a moment that's so random, quite possibly the only way to find it is by accidentally stumbling across it while diving down one of those late-night YouTube rabbit holes. Or, in this case, by reading WhatCulture. Hello!

This is a short scene that kicks off in an unusual fashion, and gets even more strange from there. We see Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor and Mary Tamm's Romana sharing a kiss while hiding behind K9, before the Doctor gives his robo-pooch a few hefty swigs of gin - which the dog rather seems to enjoy!

Possibly a little intoxicated, K9 then breaks out into a chorus of We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and after another cheeky glance between the Doctor and Romana, the entire cast and crew bursts out laughing.

So... what exactly is this? A really baffling deleted scene or blooper? A charity special? A peek behind the curtain of what goes on between takes? Well, no. It's actually a sketch produced by the Doctor Who team during Christmas 1978, one that was included on the DVD release of The Armageddon Factor.

One can only imagine the crazy adventure that the Doctor and K9 embarked on after this...

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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.