7. Dinosaurs! On A Spaceship!
OK, I acknowledge that this one is kind of a gimme. But dammit, it scores pretty high on the weird meter. And let's be honest, who amongst us didn't have the ten year old boy inside start doing summersaults of joy when we first heard the title? "Dinosaurs on a spaceship." It's like you distilled awesome down to an awesome liquor and poured it over awesome flavored ice cream. Which wouldn't be enough to justify its existence if we didn't already have a really, really good reason to explain how the titular dinosaurs got on their spaceship in the first place. I may or may not be alone on this, but on first viewing I could not have been more pleasantly surprised to discover that it was a Silurian spaceship. Of course it was. We knew that there had been a technologically advanced species coexisting with the dinosaurs. How on Earth did we not piece together that they would have brought some dinosaurs into space - After all, we sent plenty enough chimps and dogs* The whole riding the stegosausus and the engine rooms being a beachside cliff (a revelation that was so pleasingly nuts that it was repeated to far lesser effect in "Journey to the Center of the TARDIS") were just icing on the cake at that point. The only thing more enjoyable than bats**t crazy is
justifiable bats**t crazy.
*Did you know that there was never any intention of bringing Laika, the first dog in space back. I bet they didn't mention that while prepping her with soviet era milkbones and belly rubs. I like to imagine that she got picked up by the Sycorax or someone and spent the rest of her life going for delightful alien walkies.