10 Times Doctor Who Got Way Too Dark For A Family Drama

6. The Weeping Angels

From his very first script for the show, Steven Moffat has delighted in terrifying his audience. The Empty Child is the scariest thing from Series 1 by a mile and since then he has continued to put a child's worst fears up on the screen. Now this article is not suggesting that Doctor Who can't be scary. We'd not have a show if it stopped doing that and, as producers have argued since the start, a little fear can be beneficial to a child in the comfort of their home, especially, as Tom Baker says, nestled in their grandma's bosom for the pleasure of both. There are times, however, when Moffat's desire to scare goes too far and becomes gratuitous. The Silence have already made this list at number ten and we can now add the Weeping Angels, probably the most memorable new monsters introduced since 2005. Blink is regularly judged as one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever and it is a brilliant 45 minutes of cleverly structured drama. However, younger viewers are once again given a concept that is inherently terrifying - that any statue could be about to pounce on them. That in itself would be acceptable if it were only the angels, as they aren't ubiquitous, but a coda added to the end of the episode seems to delight in scaring the kids half to death and is just too dark for a family audience.