10 Most British Doctor Who Moments
1. Tea Is The Most Important Drink In The Universe
It’s estimated that 100 million cups of tea are drunk in Britain per day. Because as every Brit knows, the best way to stay calm in a crisis – and honestly just the best way to react to almost any situation life throws at you – is to have a cuppa!
Feeling poorly? Cuppa. Football team just lost? Cuppa. Excuse to leave the front room when your in-laws visit? Cuppa.
Doctor Who has demonstrated this on countless occasions. Tea has been used as an ice-breaker by characters such as Jackie Tyler, Madame Vastra, and Susan Triad in Empire of Death (who apparently makes it badly, but that’s not the point).
It’s also been used by villains, to lull their victims into a false sense of security – see Missy in Into the Dalek, "Razor" in World Enough And Time and most famously of all, the Ironside Daleks.
Tea is so powerful that it even snaps the Doctor out of his post-regenerative haze in The Christmas Invasion, and in the classic series the UNIT tea lady was the only person other than the Brigadier who was permitted to enter the Third Doctor’s lab.
It may be hot brown water to some, but to Brits tea is a sweet golden nectar that's the answer to almost everything. No wonder Cherry Sunday wouldn't stop until she'd got some.