5 Most Cringeworthy Doctor Who Moments From '90s

1. Dimensions in Time

Until the TV Movie, the only official bit of new Doctor Who that fans had to enjoy (though that's stretching it a bit) was the Children In Need special from 1993, Dimensions in Time, marking the 30th anniversary of the show. As much as it's been said the other proposed special, The Dark Dimension, would also have been awful, it's hard to imagine anything being worse than this. Yes, it was done for charity, and this should excuse any flaws in it because it was done for a good cause. But there are so many flaws in it, so many things to make both Doctor Who and Eastenders fans want to hide their faces in shame, that that justification simply doesn't hold water. Where to start? Let's kick off with the very beginning, in which we see the Rani and her hot companion Cyrian in her TARDIS, being buzzed by ohmygodwhatthebloodyhellarethose?! Because William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton were both long gone by this point, the production team opted to use floating sculpted heads of the two to suggest that they had been trapped in time "like gherkins in a jar" (yes, that's the actual line - John Nathan-Turner may have been able to produce the pants off a show, but that didn't mean he knew how to write it). The heads are...not successfully rendered, let's say. Then we cut to the Fourth Doctor, sending out an S.O.S. to all of his other selves (which, apparently, they never got), explaining that the Rani is gunning for them and that the Rani "even hates children!" Well, who doesn't? He then tells them "Good luck, my dears" - and that's it. After waiting ten years for Baker to finally take part in an anniversary special, that's what fans got - and all those geometric shapes floating around him in 3-D don't help, either. Then the true dementia in time begins, when the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive near the setting of Eastenders, before the Doctor transmogrifies for no apparent reason into the Sixth Doctor, then he and Ace become Mel and the Third Doctor...and it goes on and on and on... Most of these performances are OK, with Peter Davison and Colin Baker having particular fun, but then we get people like Caroline John, who seems like she could use a jolt of caffeine, and Deborah Watling, who's had a little too much. And to top it all off, there's the phone-in portion... The special was shown in two parts, and in between the two parts, viewers could phone in and decide whether Big Ron or Mandy would help the Rani. Such a major plot point, left to the whims of the British public? Surely not! And that only scratches the surface. The special can be seen in its entirety here, though you should be warned it takes a particularly strong set of shoulders (and a firm stomach) to sit through all of its cringey glory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWYOdlXzJM Was there anything from the '90s we left out - and what particularly would you like to see in the upcoming Cringeworthy Moments from the 2000's list? Let us know in the comments below!