10 Doctor Who Episodes That Had The Balls To GO THERE
1. Wild Blue Yonder
When Russell T Davies returned to Doctor Who to write the 60th anniversary, there was much talk about how he would best celebrate the show’s 60 years in an exciting new way.
He could have played it safe: bring back all the still-living Doctors and fill the episodes with cameos and fan service. However, given that the same year brought the BBC’s centenary anniversary with the return of the Fifth and Seventh Doctors and almost every surviving companion, there was a real risk of the show repeating itself with two cameo-fests back to back. So what was Mr Davies to do? Bring back the man who really did not want to go, David Tennant, alongside fan favourite Donna Noble for a trilogy of specials and lock them in the middle entry entirely by themselves at the edge of the universe.
Wild Blue Yonder abandons big anniversary fanfare for unsettling cosmic body horror. The Doctor and Donna face the 'Not-Things', shape-shifting entities at the edge of creation that copy their forms with grotesque, distorted limbs and warped psychological mind games.
It was a massive gamble for a multi-million-dollar anniversary, proving that even after six decades, the show’s greatest strength is trapping two brilliant actors to run up and down a corridor.