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 (or 36 billion per year). Because as every Brit knows, the best way to stay calm in a crisis is to have a 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, the fans in Lux and Susan Triad in Empire of Death (who apparently makes it baldy, 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 the Ironside Daleks, plus the poisoned tea used to take out the truck driver in Revolution of the Daleks.
Naturally, the Doctor is a big fan of tea. Most memorably, it brings him out of his post-regenerative haze in The Christmas Invasion. The Thirteenth Doctor later craves a cuppa in similar circumstances, while the Twelfth Doctor manages to magic one out of nowhere on Skaro.
Meanwhile 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.
And a special shout out to Doctor Who’s biggest tea fan, Cherry Sunday, who won’t rest until she’s got a cuppa in The Church on Ruby Road and has rarely been seen without one since. Has the show ever represented Brits more accurately?