9. Bizarreness
Apart from the whole idea of the Abzorbaloff in series two, series one played host to some of the most oddball scenes and ideas I have ever seen on NuWho. Its weird from the get-go, with the episode Rose featuring Autons - or living plastic - which animated everything from mannequins to rubbish bins. And if you thought a walking rubbish bin wasnt weird enough, we also saw Mickey become cloned by the living plastic - shortly followed by Roses inability to realise that her boyfriend was now a life-sized plastic doll which squeaked with every movement. Series one also brought us people with little doors in their foreheads which open at the click of a finger, and unusually flatulent politicians who could unzip their faces to reveal giant green monsters from Raxicoricofallapatorius. You just cant write this kind of stuff, folks! (Well, maybe unless youre Russell T Davies!).