Doctor Who: 10 Controversial Moments From The Revived Series

9. Animated Adversaries

The Doctor has faced his fair share of menacing adversaries throughout his ongoing escapades as defender of the universe but in 2010 he came face to face with one of his most formidable foes to date. An animated Graham Norton. This wasn't some sort of weird celebrity cameo either, but the result of yet another behind the scenes blunder for the BBC to add to its ever growing list of billowing boo-boos. On Saturday 24th April 2010, Doctor Who was building up to climactic cliffhanger of The Time of Angels which just so happened to be one of the most hotly anticipated episodes of Matt Smith's debut series for marking the return of the Weeping Angels. It also proved to be one of the highest rated episodes of the year, too, which only made the whole escapade even more embarrassing when a cartoon version of the Irish presenter invaded far too much of the screen - and during Matt Smith's dramatic gun-habouring final speech, no less - to announce that the next episode of his all-singing all-dancing talent show Over the Rainbow was coming up next. Wow. Way to kill the mood, Aunt Beeb. What's more, one untimely appearance in the series can be somewhat overlooked (everyone makes mistakes, after all), but this was in fact Graham's second uninvited cameo in the Doctor's adventures to date. Back in 2005, an SFX slip up resulted in his voice being boomed over the opening moments of Doctor Who's grand comeback, Rose, which will probably go down in TV history as one of the worst timed technical difficulties to date. Seriously. Steven Moffat, if you're reading this, can you please just give this guy a guest part in the series so he'll leave it the hell alone? It's just getting silly now.