10 Times Doctor Who Made Obvious Mistakes

You have to admire Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss for trying something new with Victory of the Daleks. Introducing a whole new class of colour-coded pepper pots with foreboding-sounding roles feels like the perfect way to reinvigorate a decades-old scary monster for a new generation.

But then, these multi-coloured, Duplo-style Daleks come rolling out of the dry ice to face off against Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor.

Extermin-oh my god what is that.

The BBC admirably stuck by its big plasticky Daleks, giving them a Radio Times cover and promoting them as a new generation. However, it was very quickly agreed that a mistake had been made.

In a commentary with Dalek aficionados Nicholas Briggs and Barnaby Edwards, Mark Gatiss noted that he didn't like the new shape of the Daleks, particularly the strange hump on their backs. Moffat clearly agreed as he quickly reverted to the bronze RTD-era Daleks, stating that the Paradigm Daleks were the "officer class".

Which sounds like a wibbly, wobbly, writerly white lie to cover the fact that they'd spent a lot of money on a Dalek design that broke with the iconic silhouette. Next time, maybe don't design your Daleks with the sole purpose of making them look lickable?

Seriously, that was Moffat's note to the design department. He wanted kids to want to lick them. Madness.