Doctor Who: 10 One Off Monsters Who Should Return (And The Stories They Need)

9. The Sensorites

The Ood are one of the most successful of the new Who aliens mainly due to their flexibility. Despite also being designed and voiced brilliantly, their strength is being able to be plugged into a variety of stories. We€™ve seen them possessed by the Beast, liberated from slavery, warn the Doctor about the future and a lone Ood possessed by a sentient asteroid outside of the universe. That€™s what I call range. A particular intriguing detail about them is that they come from the Ood Sphere, their planet which is not too far away from the Sense Sphere, where the titular aliens of the William Hartnell adventure, The Sensorites, live.

The Ood are a bit more cuddly now. They€™ve been used a more comedic capacity, which is perfectly fine for a Who alien so long as it isn€™t meant to be an over-bearing threat (see: Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels) but they certainly are seen as a race that like being servants. What do the Sensorites make of this? They must know that the Ood are practically the galaxy€™s butlers, bordering on slavery. The Sensorities, bringing all of the telepathic abilities of the Ood but with a bit more free will and emotion, can be brought back in a number of ways. They can launch an attack to try and liberate their neighbours, teaching the pathetic humans a lesson in looking after themselves, or perhaps they€™ve the reason the Ood were enslaved to begin with?