10 Doctor Who Characters More Important Than You Realised

Cast your minds back to 2005. Doctor Who was about to relaunch on BBC One starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper. Earlier that year, Doctor Who Magazine had a radical redesign to celebrate, and to better reflect the flashy new era of the show.

With only 23 days left to go until Doctor Who's highly-anticipated return – and with fan expectations at a fever pitch – who did Doctor Who Magazine choose as a cover star for their 3 March 2005 issue? Only the Moxx of Balhoon of course, under the headline "Blue Meanie!"

Moxx was the very first new Doctor Who monster to grace the cover of Doctor Who Magazine, and is therefore a hugely important figure in the history of the show.

It was a bold choice, but it was also kind of perfect. Nobody had a clue what the Moxx of Balhoon was, or how they would factor into the new series. Would they be a big-bad? A new alien friend of the Ninth Doctor? Or would they be a delegate who gets a few lines of dialogue and is never seen again?

Fans of a certain age will always have a fondness for the Moxx of Balhoon, because, in a way, he encapsulates that breathless excitement of March 2005, and the moment that Doctor Who changed forever.