10 Times Doctor Who Knew EXACTLY What You Were Thinking

For the longest time, television was not the juggernaut that it is today. It was seen as a much lesser form of entertainment - something to keep the masses engaged on a Saturday night, rather than to push the boundaries of the art.

This meant that there was a lot less money in TV compared to the movies, and so cost-cutting measures were often more apparent.

One amusing way this reared its head in Doctor Who was when characters would constantly run up and down the exact same corridors.

This has been a running joke in the show for decades (and was parodied beautifully in The Curse of Fatal Death) for a reason, and it got the point where even the characters started pointing it out.

On two separate occasions - once in Vengeance on Varos, and once in Timelash - Sixth Doctor companion Peri laments "All these corridors look the same to me," clearly having trudged up and down too many plain, nondescript hallways.

Viewers at home were likely thinking the exact same thing, and if they looked the same, that's probably because they were!

The God Complex would later use this trope to its advantage, making it a feature of the trippy '80s hotel our characters were trapped in. We saw what you did there! Very cheeky.