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5) The Stolen Earth: Tardis at the Medusa Cascade

Let me start by saying that this two parter was fantastically ambitious storytelling with some wonderful moments. Remember the fake regeneration? And Bernard Cribbins and the paint gun? But the special effects when Earth phones the Doctor and he flies into the Medusa Cascade are so poor, they would have been rejected by Ed Wood for not being realistic enough.

Really the Mill? The best you could come up with was giant rings? And then the Tardis looking as if it has been drawn with crayons and wobbling like someone is moving it by hand after a all-night session on the ale? It totally took me out of the moment and nearly ruined the rest of the programme. It starts about two minutes in.

4) Planet of the Dead - the flying bus.

Oh Russell. Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell. Considering this was a special, it should have been called a lame. PotD smacked of pulling several old ideas together and the flying bus was the worst of them all. It was sub Harry Potter nonsence which deserves to be forgotten as quickly as possible - exactly the opposite of how a Doctor Who special should make you feel.

3) Utopia - the Futurekind

At the end of time and space itself, the Futurekind were meant to be a Mad Max style race of cannibals who were just waiting to eat the last human survivors before they escaped in their giant rocket. However, they were about as threatening as a group of sixth form drama students who had been told to act like savages with the help of their mum's make up.

A good idea, but fatally undermined by lack of clarity in just what they were there for and very low budget to end up as amusing, not scary, and a waste of screen time. I should give an honourable mention to the pig men in Daleks in Manhatten. Pig men in the sewers for christ's sake. They could at least have made them crocodile men, but again, I suspect the budget stopped them in their tracks.

2 & 1) Love & Monsters and Fear Her

I couldn't bring myself to watch them again, but these two cannot be seperated for sheer awfulness. Amazingly, they were shown on back to back weeks in the same series as School Reunion, Tooth and Claw and The Girl in the Fireplace. Thank god they had already been broadcast otherwise this pair of stinkers could have sunk new Who without trace.

Love and Monsters is a Doctor lite episode about a group of people who have had their lives affected by the Doctor and band together, only for Peter Kay as the Abzorbaloff from Klom to start killing them by absorbing them into his body. Not a terrible idea, but the episode was so uneven and the site of Kay in a fat suit wearing a thong will haunt me until my dying day. It ends with the Doctor bringing back one of Kay's victims to live their life as a paving stone. Yes, it is that bad and an example of what happens when no-one says no to Russell T Davies leading to him throwing in every idea he has ever had, ever, and before Steven Moffat showed everyone how good Doctor Lite episodes can be with Blink.

Fear Her has the Doctor and Rose battling a girl possessed by an alien whose drawings come true, and who at one point conjours up a ball of squiggly lead to try to attack Rose. The big bad is a drawing of the girl's dad in the wardrobe. Considering the number of gay references RTD worked in at every opportunity, it is no surprise the dad ends up coming out of the closet (see what I did there?), only to be defeated by the power of love or something. Not so much a budget saving episode (the whole thing must have cost 50p, tops) as an actual fundraiser with Who fans from around the world paying the Beeb so they would never make anything this eye-wateringly bad again.