10 Smartest Villain Plans In Doctor Who

Like Miss Foster, Professor Gagan Rassmussen came up with a solution to one of humanity’s biggest bugbears: sleep.

The average person spends one third of their life sleeping. Rassmussen sought to do something about this. And he succeeded.

His Morpheus pods – named after the god of dreams – were capable of concentrating a month of sleep into five minutes, enabling its users to spend more time awake. They were loved by some and hated by others. But you can't deny that, at least in principle, it's not a bad idea.

But there was a catch. When we sleep, dust builds up in the corner of our eyes. The more time we spend asleep, the more this dust builds up. And the electronic signal transmitted by the Morpheus pods had the unfortunate catch of giving this dust sentience, creating carnivorous Sandmen.

The Doctor managed to destroy the Morpheus pods which hadn’t yet been distributed, and sought to destroy all those that had. But Rassmussen, being a genius, had one more trick up his sleeve: a video recording into which the Morpheus signal was encoded, infecting anyone who watched it. And not just any video recording, but the very episode of Doctor Who we'd all just witnessed.

Now, what’s that in the corner of your eye?