10 Doctor Who Futures That Are Now In The Past

In the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet, Doctor Who confidently predicted that in 1986, we would discover a tenth planet in our solar system.

In the real 1986, the Voyager space probe had only made it to Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. The progress of human space exploration hadn't been nearly as quick as writers Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis predicted.

William Hartnell's final Doctor Who serial also predicted that, at the height of the space race, humanity would have abandoned national borders to embrace an international approach to space exploration. Sadly, this wasn't true either, and the Chernobyl disaster and ensuing Soviet cover-up was a particularly bleak example of the lack of trust between nations in 1986.

The only saving grace of The Tenth Planet's vision of the future is that 1986 didn't see a race of cybernetically augmented humanoids and a Z-Bomb nearly destroy the Earth.