12 Moments That Have Defined The Last Decade Of Doctor Who

2. An Old Enemy Returns (Dalek)

"Doc...tor...". The Daleks are Doctor Who's most iconic and formidable adversaries and, having first appeared on screen on a cold winter's night back in December 1963, there's almost just as old as the series, too. It's only fair, then, that they returned to our screens alongside the Time Lord himself in 2005, but an ongoing licensing dispute meant that the persistent pepperpots almost never came back at all. Yikes! Thank God they did, though, because otherwise viewers wouldn't have been able to enjoy this momentous moment in Series 1 which saw the Ninth Doctor realise that he wasn't the soul survivor of the Time War after all. It's sure to be a showdown that will go down in televisual history as the Daleks made their 21st century debut and Christopher Eccleston proved just what sort of a kick ass Time Lord he can be. Remember those 'Doctor moments' that were mentioned earlier? This is one of them. A defining scene for the Ninth Doctor and a defining scene for NuWho, too, as it established the Doctor's relationship with the Daleks on a much more personal level which sets them aside from the rest of his adversaries. This is probably the greatest Dalek story of the last decade, too, which is an almighty compliment seeing as there's been about a billion of them. You can fill an entire asylum with them and flood the skies with Dalek ships this is when it gets real. Maybe the Daleks are all they're cracked up to be, after all.