10 Best Doctor Who Characters In One Scene Only

Remembrance Of The Daleks is full of awesome Dalek action from start to end, but one of the strongest moments in the serial is a quiet conversation between the Seventh Doctor, and a man called John.

Entering the café where John works, the Doctor sits down, deep in thought. He asks for a mug of tea, but what he gets in return is so much more than a delicious, comforting beverage: he and John end up embarking on a brief philosophical discussion about the gravity of our decisions, both big ones and small ones.

John - a Jamaican man - tells the Doctor about how his great-grandfather was kidnapped and sold into the cane-cutting business, a moment in time that created ripple effects with unforeseen consequences. He concludes by telling the Doctor "life's like that... best thing is just to get on with it": in other words, we can't control what's going to happen - we can only make the best of the hand we're dealt.

It's a surprisingly profound moment, especially considering that it occurs slap-bang in the middle of a story about Daleks blowing each other to scrap metal.