10 Worst Doctor Who Episodes According To YOU
3. The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe
It's not Victory of the Daleks or The Curse of the Black Spot that DWM readers think is the worst Eleventh Doctor episode – it's The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, which is easily the weakest Christmas special of them all, and might be the weakest script Moffat ever wrote.
This story sees the Doctor hired as a nanny for two children with a father who is MIA. He does this as a favour to Madge, who once helped him out of a bind involving a wardrobe malfunction in a spacesuit. He returns this favour by putting her children in serious danger of being melted to death. Repeat, the only danger in this episode is created by the Doctor himself, and gift-wrapped for two young kids.
He tries to give them the Narnia treatment, but instead of friendly Fauns and Liam Neeson Lions, the Doctor’s Narnia has acid rain, giant mechs, and Bill Bailey. At no point is he appropriately chastised for this rather major faux pas.
Elsewhere, the trio of harvest rangers are painfully unfunny, the plot meanders along, and to add insult to injury, the Doctor mutters the phrase "humany-wumany", a line that viewers across the country simultaneously rolled their eyes at.