Doctor Who: 10 Greatest Things The 50th Anniversary Year Gave Us

6. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

The BBC was packed full of Doctor Who-related programming on and around the week celebrating the show's fiftieth birthday including the interesting The Science of Doctor Who with Professor Brian Cox, welcome repeats of the first ever episode 'An Unearthly Child' and mega-clip show The Ultimate Guide on BBC Three. However, one of the best things on offer was hidden away on the Red Button service; a half-hour Doctor Who-related comedy written and directed by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison... Guest-starring a host of stars, not all of them from Doctor Who, the skit saw Peter Davison team up with other Doctors Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy in a bid to gatecrash the 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor.' The result was a hilarious Extras-style piece with celebrities knowingly sending themselves up. The Doctors as has-beens clinging to past successes (apart from McCoy who continually boasts about his role in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films), Steven Moffat as an overgrown fanboy and, in one of the show's funniest scenes, John Barrowman is revealed to be a closeted straight man. Serving as an alternative 50th anniversary special, this could easily act as a pilot for a new comedy series that would instantly have a large number of fans... Are you reading this, BBC?