Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Being There Made It Worse

2. Utopia

Another case of the Doctor going and accidentally setting off an old foe. Dematerialising in a hurry upon seeing Captain Jack, the TARDIS ends up at the end of the universe in the year 100 trillion after Jack hitches a lift through the vortex. There we find the kindly elderly Professor Yana. He seems like an alright guy doesn’t he? So he can hear drums in his head, what’s the big deal?

Oh. He’s got a fob watch like the Doctor’s.

Oh, Martha’s drawn his attention to it.

Oh, he can hear voices inside!

Oh dear. It’s the Master.

So if Martha hadn’t drawn attention to it, the Master may never have come back, or if he had he wouldn’t have been able to get very far, being at the end of the universe and all. Instead we got the TARDIS being shipnapped, the Master’s reign of terror as Harold Saxon, cannibalised and the resulting Year That Never Was.

OK, it turned out alright for most of the human race, save for the odd journalist and the President of the USA, but if you were a member of the Jones family? That’s going to stick with you forever, and it’s not something you recover from anytime soon.