10 Greatest CGI Moments In Doctor Who History

The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End have so many strengths – Daleks, Davros, double David Tennant and every modern companion you can shake a sonic at – and among all that epicness there is also some powerful CGI.

Firstly we have the stunning visuals of the planets in the sky. Right from the off as Rose stands in awe of the crazy plan the Daleks have concocted, this incredible image showed that the two-part finale to Series 4 was going to be something special.

The depth of the image, the colours, the way it blends into the live action footage – it's beautiful, but also quite scary. It makes you wonder how on earth the Doctor is going to fix this one, and that's because the CGI here looks so damn believable.

The arrival of the Dalek fleet also looks incredible. Entire CGI sequences from the perspective of space as the Dalek ships head towards Earth, a combination of live action and CGI as Rose walks down a London street and the planets can be seen overhead as a Dalek ship emerges and attacks – not once did this ever feel fake or unrealistic. It felt terrifying, and terrifyingly real!

And then we have the Medusa Cascade. Vibrant, vast, ethereal. It looks like an oil painting. This is a great improvement on even the CGI of the beginning of the modern era. How far they came in only the first few years, and how much further they’d go in the decade that followed.