10 Most Cringeworthy Doctor Who Moments From The 60s

7. Troughton's Mexican Accent - The Enemy Of The World (1967)

Remember how we were saying that all those missing episodes could contain some cringeworthy moments we don't even know about yet? Turns out we didn't need to see the episodes in question to know about this one - the audio was more than enough to tell us we'd have trouble with it. In Enemy of the World, Patrick Troughton gets to play both the Doctor and the evil Mexican dictator Salamander. Mind you, Troughton is a brilliant character actor, and when he plays a villain, you really believe he's a villain. Salamander is no exception - you have no trouble believing this is a bad man. His accent, on the other hand... It probably makes it worse that the Doctor spends a few seconds in the first episode talking about the specifics of Salamander's accent, tracing it to a specific region of Mexico, making it sound like he knows what he's talking about - before opening his mouth and thereby proving that he doesn't. It's especially jarring to those who know what a real Mexican accent sounds like. Even Arture Villar in The War Games is more believable. That being said, Troughton's actual performance, as revealed in the episodes recovered a year ago, is very definitely not cringeworthy. It's just a shame it has to be coupled with that godawful accent.