10 Biggest WTF Doctor Who Moments

8. Cardboard Companion (The Mind Robber)

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The entirety of 1968's The Mind Robber is a peculiar affair, consisting of the Second Doctor wandering around the Land of Fiction, a realm where nothing is as it seems.

Here, the Doctor and his companions encounter all kinds of weirdness, from creaky clockwork soldiers shambling about the place, to a 17th century Englishman seemingly pulled out of time. Totally normal stuff.

Possibly the strangest moment in the serial is a sequence where Jamie is inexplicably turned into a cardboard cutout, with his face going missing.

The Doctor is then forced to re-assemble Jamie's face using a nearby selection of eyes, noses, and mouths, but unfortunately, he gets it wrong, and when Jamie returns to his fleshy form, he has a completely different appearance.

This plot point came about via a last-minute rewrite after actor Frazer Hines contracted chicken pox, forcing the role to be temporarily recast. The Doctor's baffled response to this discount Jamie is pure gold, resulting in one of the most delightfully odd Doctor Who moments ever.

 
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