10 Worst Doctor Who Prosthetics Ever

3. The Voord - The Keys Of Marinus (1964)

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Certainly not the Daleks.

After the immense success of the Daleks, the showrunners wanted another villain to take the world by storm, a new villain that would be just as popular as the rolling pepper pots. They even had the man behind the Daleks on board, Terry Nation. What could possibly go wrong?

Well the Voord happened. Oh no.

It’s a first series story so nothing too complex here. The Doctor arrives on a planet called Marinus and is instructed to gather four of five keys to prevent them from falling into the hands of the evil Yartek, who has corrupted the planet's justice machine. Yartek sets his army of Voord out to stop the Doctor and his companions and that’s when we meet our supposed new favourite villains.

A scuba diving outfit complete with flippers, our new threat to the universe looks like they just came back from taking pictures of shipwrecks and coral. This is made all the worse coming off the back of the introduction to the Daleks and the fact we were now supposed to be in awe of what is essentially just some strong swimmers. This doesn’t seem like a Doctor level threat: maybe give Michael Phelps a call.

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