10 Times Doctor Who Said F**k You To The Fans

1. Revenge Of The Mole Man

Producing a show like Doctor Who can surely be a tricky balancing act. The head honchos are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Many of the things that make fans fume happen without intention. Yet one day, while preparing the series 25th anniversary season, script editor Andrew Cartmel and writer Stephen Wyatt opted to poke their heads above the parapet and blow a big raspberry at the loyal men and women whose hot air keeps the balloon aloft, while regularly threatening to burst it. Having delivered a poor anniversary special in Silver Nemesis, the team introduced Whizz Kid the following week during The Greatest Show In the Galaxy. A self-possessed nerdy type with no awareness of how tedious he is, he arrived on the planet Segonax for the Psychic Circus and ended up running into his idol, space explorer Captain Cook (played by T.P. McKenna). It wasn't long until he was boring the Captain and everyone else rigid, recounting how he'd collected various items from McKenna's career and generally rambling on in a fashion certain viewers found cuttingly familiar. The fact the character was played by one of British TV's definitive "specky" creations Adrian Mole (Gian Sammarco) only upped the ante-matter. Cartmel and producer Nathan-Turner had clearly had enough of the in-depth analysis they were being subjected to and retorted with surprising ferocity - Whizz Kid is burned out of existence by the Gods Of Ragnarok. If any one element took the form of a meaty-fingered "f**k you" to fandom, this was the offending digit. Have your heckles been raised by this list? Do you think anything has been left out? Go and have a lie down in a darkened room, then get up and take to the comments section to let us know your views!