10 Times Doctor Who Became The Weirdest Drama On TV

3. The Sound Of Drums

Series Three of the revived series reimagined the Doctor's mortal enemy the Master as a mischevious child, played to precocious perfection by John Simm. Bursting with energy, having been stuck in the rather sedate form of Derek Jacobi for the past few decades, he relished the opportunity to escape to Earth and seize the Prime Ministership of Great Britain. A scene of him gassing his Cabinet for insubordination was pretty out there, as was the actor's reaction to a journalist's dissection at the pincers of a pack of flying eight balls. Simm went the full Jim Carrey, with various facial contortions marking him out as an adversary like no other. He further demonstrated a sense of humour by turning David Tennant's Time Lord into Dobby the house elf from Harry Potter. For some reason! However things turned truly mental when he decided to push Tennant's dramatically-aged time hunk around his cloudbase in a wheelchair to the strains of the Scissor Sisters' hit I Can't Decide. Perhaps inspired by what writer Russell T Davies had on his iPod as he sat at his computer hammering out scripts at 3am, the sequence was further bizarrified by the Master's deranged and funky lip-synching!