3. Victory Of The Daleks
I love bacon, and I love fireworks. They're both amazing, but unfortunately, they must be taken as separate entities. Otherwise, we might get explosive breakfasts and illogical incendiary devices. In that same vein, I think that Victory Of The Daleks told us that while Winston Churchill and the Daleks are awesome, they don't seem to belong on screen together. And really, how gutting is that? The problem was in the set-up. The Beast Below gave us a tantalising in-episode look at what was going to happen in the next episode again, Winston Churchill and Daleks but much like most of the episodes on this list, couldn't follow through. Instead of a tightly-plotted episode surrounding the Daleks being used as a game-changing weapon in the Second World War something that sounds awesome we were instead given an episode that seemed to serve as a way to rebirth the Daleks (in multiple colours, no less) and provide the merchandising arm of Who with an opportunity to sell more toys. It was just so blatant that it was almost dumbfounding I don't know whether scriptwriter/Mycroft Holmes extraordinaire Mark Gatiss was leaden with the task of re-inventing the Daleks in an episode or whether it was something he chose of his own volition, but the rebirth angle was so heavy-handed that it was clear he was on a hiding to nothing. Combine this with some frankly bizarre outer-space dogfighting in World War II planes, and we had a head-scratcher on our hands, albeit for all the wrong reasons.