10 Dumb Doctor Who Moments You Can't Help But Love
8. Soldeed’s Speech (The Horns Of Nimon)
Classic Who should come with a warning for vegetarians, because some of the acting is so hammy that they might not be allowed to watch it.
The absolute ham-daddy is this brilliantly naff speech from the Fourth Doctor serial The Horns of Nimon. It's set on two planets (Skonnos and Crinoth), and features a minotaur-like species of aliens called Nimons.
It also features a character called Soldeed, and oh boy, he's a real hoot.
Just watch the clip of his final speech to Romana, and freed prisoner Seth. He speaks like William Shatner on meth, stretching every word out to the oddest extreme. If he were in a pantomime, the director would take him to one side and tell him to turn it down a bit.
Graham Crowden - the actor who played Soldeed - sadly passed away in 2010, at 87 years of age.
We should all take this moment to pay tribute to the man, and thank him for gifting us this wonderfully awful scene.