Doctor Who: 5 Great Uses For A Cyber-Head

Attack of the Cybermen left viewers of Colin Baker's first season under no illusions as to what was going to happen - an all out assault at the marauding mitts of the Doctor's shiny adversaries. Machine vs Man and vice versa, and nothing sums up the latter part of that description better than the activities of Bates and Stratton, two unlucky goons who were toiling away under a steel fist on the villains' adopted home planet of Telos.

These two desperate men, who seemingly spent their days hollering ferociously at each other over the rubble (all that grinding graft must have damaged their eardrums), dreamed of escape. And it wasn't long before Bates had lost his rag and - yes, you've guessed it - whacked a Cyberman's head off.

This sort of thing was par for the course in 80s Who. Perhaps less predictable was Bates' suggestion to an alarmed Stratton concerning how they might make it out of their rocky prison alive... by dusting off the helmet and plonking it on his accomplice's noggin as a disguise. It didn't end well for the toxic twerps, though they do get points for sheer gumption in the face of an implacable evil.