Doctor Who: 10 Revived Series Episodes You'll Only Watch Once

4. Planet Of The Dead

From the Planet of the Ood to the Planet of the Dead now, though you'd be forgiven for not knowing which is which. Let's cast our minds back to 2009 and the first of Doctor Who's highly publicised 'specials' when fans were preparing to get a lot less timey-wimey action than they were used to. They probably hadn't expected that they'd end up getting this much less, though. You can't deny that Planet of the Dead looks brilliant but apart from the fact that the cast and crew went all the way over to Dubai to film it (well, some of it, anyway), there really isn't anything all that 'special' about it, is there? The plot is nothing more than lacklustre (the Tenth Doctor basically finds himself on a bus which ends up falling through a wormhole into another world, thank you and goodnight) and Lady Christina de Souza, as played by Michelle "You Ain't My Muvva!" Ryan, fails to leave any sort of lasting impression in her short-lived role as 'companion of the week'. In fact, the episode's only real saving grace is courtesy of Lee Evans' heartwarming performance as UNIT scientist Malcolm Taylor but unfortunately there just isn't enough of him to go around to justify sitting through the entire thing again. If you're harbouring a secret fly fetish, however, this one will be right up your street. For everybody else, though, it made the start of Doctor Who's formidable 'gap year' anticlimactic at best, and let us never speak of it again. Thank God 'The Waters of Mars' came along 7 months later to make up for it.