10 Times Doctor Who Was More Like Fifty Shades Of Grey

2. Peri Brown And The Morlox

To be honest, the whole Doctor Who is like 50 Shades of Grey argument could be proven with Peri Brown alone. Let's just consider the evidence. A young, impressionable girl meets a mysterious older man and is convinced to go away with him. He seems sweet at first until one day he changes and shows her a totally different type of person. If you're prepared for your partner to strangle you and still stick around then surely that's an invitation for further bondage exploits?

Peri is the ultimate submissive, from being leered after by every alien she meets to getting almost turned into a bird by the nasty sadist Quillan in Vengeance on Varos. Poor old Peri just cannot seem to give up her obsession with loud, controlling men. What other reason is there to run off with Brian Blessed?

Peri's most 50 Shades moment of bondage glory, though, surely has to be when she is tied up in the catacombs in Timelash and menaced by what looks like a giant brown penis. Freud would have had a field day with this one. It's pretty obvious that the callous Sixth Doctor never gave Peri a safe word or else she'd have been hollering it every week.