10 Doctor Who Episodes We Were WAY Too Harsh On

While Series 9 is often heralded as one of the high points of revival Doctor Who, if there's an episode that's considered the series’ low-point, it's undoubtedly Sleep No More.

Its found-footage format (which was already overdone at the time) failed to strike a chord with the fandom at large, and in the years since it has been relegated to the status of a “failed experiment” that is the one black mark against an otherwise high-quality series.

However, being the worst episode of a good series isn’t necessarily the same thing as being bad, right? Sleep No More has suffered unfairly under the weight of comparison with such strong episodes like The Zygon Inversion and Heaven Sent, and it made a respectable attempt at bringing the found footage genre to Doctor Who. It also incorporated it into the episode’s narrative in a unique way, with the twist reveal that the episode has been created by its villain as a way of spreading the sleep virus proving genuinely quite shocking.

And sure the idea of monsters composed of the sleepy-dust found in the corner of peoples’ eyes might be a little ridiculous... but so are gigantic radioactive maggots, robotic Egyptian mummies, and shop-window dummies with hidden laser guns in their hands.