10 Doctor Who Stories With WORSE Endings Than Flux

The Master has won, and rules over the Earth. The Doctor is aged and incapacitated. All is lost, unless Martha can save the day.

Last of the Timelords starts off so well, that perverse song and dance with the Master and the aged Doctor to the Scissor Sisters. The fact Earth has been living under the rule of the Master for a whole year. At this stage in Doctor Who, the stakes had never really been higher. And then the wheels start to come off.

The Doctor being turned into a little goblin is bad enough, but the resolution is even more laughable. Martha has spent the year travelling the world, telling great stories about this man who's saved the planet so many times and who has asked nothing in return. Turning the Master's hypnotic network against him, the peoples of Earth take part in a massive phone vote to restore the slimy little goblin back into handsome David Tennant, in full flying Christ pose with glowing lights around him. Restored, the Doctor quickly sets about demolishing the Master's plan as if the only barrier to his brilliant Timelord mind was senile dementia. Smashing the paradox machine, everything is put back to normal. Quite frankly, it's a load of old nonsense.

Those who eagerly anticipate Russell T Davies flying back, glowing with godly light to save the show, may want to curb their enthusiasm.