6. A Giant Green Wang In A Cape Turns Up On Two Non-Consecutive Occasions
I was loathe to actually include this one, primarily on the general principle that it's low hanging fruit. (must...resist...obvious...joke...) I think it's probably fair to say that most people making a list of the weirdest things in Doctor Who ever would include Alpha Centauri somewhere on it. Because - fair does - Alpha Centauri is a giant green wang wearing a set of living room curtains. And that's pretty weird. But I think that's overlooking the truly weird thing here. Alpha Centauri is a giant green wang wearing the living room curtains - and it totally
works. Hell, it's impossible not to love the guy (and by 'guy' here I mean Hermaphrodite Hexapod, obviously.) It's not just the lovely slightly pompous/slightly self effacing way that Ysanne Churchman spins the dialogue. It's not just the truly wonderful array of nervous little mannerisms that Stuart Fell puts into the physical performance. It's not even just the way that after 10 episodes in Alpha's company we feel like we know him, FAR more than we ever knew Dodo. or Ben, for that matter. It's all of those things put together that make it impossible to not kind of want to give him the biggest hug ever. And given the costume design, that's an accomplishment. I have a theory that the designer and the performers had a bet about whether the design team could make a costume so horrific that no performer could possibly make it loveable. If so, the design team lost.