Doctor Who: 12 Big Moments When Moffat Delivered The Chills

3. The Silence In The Orphanage - Day Of The Moon

If you're going for all out horror, there's nothing like walking through a creepy abandoned oprhanage in the middle of a stormy night to set the tone. And with Day Of The Moon, the second half of Moffat's dark dramatic season six opener, horror is the key word as he builds on the terror of the Silence to deliver a truly frightening piece of television. The sequence with Amy walking through the orphanage, discovering a picture of herself and her child while the storm rages outside is incredibly tense. We were waiting for of the Silence to appear - behind a door or outside the window - but what Moffat creates is far worse. A nest of sleeping Silence hanging like bats above Amy's head only makes them creepier and when we discover that she is suddenly covered in tally marks, we realise that they know she is there. The following two entries top the list in terms of terror but even they cannot match the chilling image of the Silence nesting above your head.