Doctor Who: Ranking Every Spin-Off From Worst To Best

And now we come to the original, and most curious, Doctor Who animation. Back in 2003, the TV show seemed dead and buried for good so the BBC's online arm decided to bring back the series in their own way - via a series of flash-animated 15 minute episodes.

The voice cast was to die for - with Richard E Grant as a new incarnation of the Doctor, Sophie Okenedo as his companion Alison and Derek Jacobi as the Master (a role he would later play on TV). It also had future TV writer Paul Cornell at the helm. After one serial of six episodes was produced, however, it was announced that Doctor Who was returning to TV proper and this animated series was put out to pasture before it had ever really begun.

As it stands, Scream of the Shalka gives us a fascinating AU Doctor Who. It's not perfect but it features several interesting ideas that we would have liked to have seen explored further. Not that it's a bad thing the show came back on air, of course.