Doctor Who: All 40 Steven Moffat Episodes Ranked From Worst To Best

We come full circle as Moffat’s very first story enters at #1. This two-parter bears all the hallmarks of Doctor Who's infinite imagination and enduring possibilities.

Its imagination can be seen when Rose - wearing a Union Jack T-shirt - gets swept off her feet by a barrage balloon during the Blitz, before being rescued by a handsome and dandy 51st century Time Agent whose spaceship is casually tethered to Big Ben.

It's Moffat's imagination, specifically, which gives us the child in the gas mask. There isn't anything perturbing about the child when we first see him; in fact he seems rather sweet when he exclaims "mummy, balloon!" But thereafter things take a spooky turn as the child transmits his cries for mummy in sync with a cymbal-banging toy monkey, via the TARDIS phone, a radio, and a typewriter that matches Jack Torrance's creepy masterpiece from The Shining.

The imagination even had to be scaled back. When Doctor Constantine's face agonisingly morphs into a gas mask, it included a sound effect of his skull cracking in the original cut but was edited out in the broadcast episode as producer Phil Collinson deemed it "a bit too horrible”.

Its possibilities can be seen when the Doctor, just this once, gets to see everybody live.

Moreover, it reminds us that Florence Hoath's brilliant portrayal of Nancy rivals Carey Mulligan's as a one-off tour de force, and how fantastic Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper were together.

So what's your favourite Steven Moffat Doctor Who story? Share your opinions below, but beware the Weeping Angel...