10 Best Doctor Who Minisodes That You Need To See

Time Crash, A Children in Need special aired in 2007, is a love letter to fans of Classic Who. This delightful minisode sees David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor, moments after Martha Jones' underrated TARDIS exit, encounter an unexpected passenger in the form of Peter Davidson’s Fifth Doctor - the first, and for a long time, only appearance of a classic Doctor in NuWho.

After their time-streams collide, the two waste no time in beginning to bicker and poke some light-hearted fun at each other - as is customary for a multi-Doctor story. Five assumes Ten is a fan of his, and possibly part of LINDA, whilst Ten mocks Five for his cricketing garb and the iconic celery stick, but it’s all in good humour.

The stick of celery. Yeah. Brave choice, celery... But fair play to you. Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable.

Realising that their encounter could be doing some serious damage to the universe, the two quickly set about fixing the time fracture. Ten is able to save the day, though only because Five remembers watching him do it in the first place - a Bootstrap Paradox.

Five concedes that Ten must be the Doctor and the two part on good terms, with Ten recalling how much he loved being Five, listing all of Five’s traits that have endured through the years - the squeaky excited voice, the trainers, and even the pointless glasses that The Doctor only wears to feel clever. Ten confesses Five is ‘his Doctor’ and asks his predecessor to share his love with long ago, before the two part ways. Ten is then interrupted a second time by the arrival of the Titanic crashing into his TARDIS, neatly slotting the episode in between Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of the Damned.

This is a fun, meta minisode that simultaneously pays respect to and pokes fun at the long history of the show, and it is a treat to watch. With the hindsight that, just a few years later, Peter Davidson would become David Tennant’s father-in-law after David met Georgia Moffet on the set of The Doctor’s Daughter is the icing on the cake (as a Whovian, I’m contractually obliged to share that fact every once in a while despite the fact that we’ve all heard it a billion times - I’m sorry).