13 Earth-Shattering Doctor Who Moments From The Last 10 Years

You didn't see these coming.

OK, you probably did. 2015 marks the tenth anniversary of the revived series of Doctor Who and what a decade it has been. Since its return to our screens back in 2005 it has stayed at the top of British TV's highest rated programmes and now it's slowly but surely taking over the world with an international viewing audience of over 70 million. Not too shabby for something that all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard. But just what is about Doctor Who that has contributed to its far reaching longevity? There probably isn't one answer to that question but it's no doubt largely down to its ability to shock us, even after all these years. The writers definitely make the most of the show's capacity to go anywhere and any when and with a format that can quite literally be everything and anything (and sometimes all at once), it's not surprising that Doctor Who has given us some of the most memorable moments in television history. Every episode of Doctor Who is full of twists and turns but some manage to make more of an impact than others. To pay homage to these game changing developments, here's a list of twelve (no, sir - thirteen!) of NuWho's most Earth-shattering events from the last decade, celebrating the moments that were big, bad and just downright bananas...

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Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.