Doctor Who: 10 Special Effects That Totally Sucked

7. The Space Walk

As if Peter Davison didn't have enough to worry about when cast as Doctor Who, what with being told to be as bland as possible, dressed like an idiot and given Matthew Waterhouse as a co-star, his first story had him trussed up on a wire to act out a space walk that is astonishing in its ineptness. It occurs in his first filmed tale, Four to Doomsday, which is the one where Adric seems to have far too much fun grappling with female android Enlightenment and poor old Stratford Johns is dressed up as a frog. The space walk is hysterical. Forget the dodgy science of the Doctor surviving in deep space without a pressure suit (who knew cricketing pyjamas could be so toasty warm?) and bask in the glory of Davison giving it his all as a cut out TARDIS looms in the fuzzy background while he flails about as if he's got stomach cramps. If only George Clooney had had a spare cricket ball on him in Gravity.