Doctor Who is coming back to our screens this weekend with eager to see new companion Bill Potts – the first openly gay full-time companion and is set to be Peter Capaldi’s last as The Doctor. Since the show’s reveal in 2005, there have been 130 episodes (depending on how they are counted) over the course of nine seasons and specials. Like with any long running series it has produced some clunkers. And when Doctor Who is at its worst it can be incredibly bad with episodes ranging from being good ideas that are poorly executed, bad ideas that are somehow made into episodes, pointless filler episodes and episodes that ruined great set-ups. So let’s look at the five episodes that fans like to forget.
5. Let’s Kill Hitler
‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ was the seventh episode of the sixth season and it was the comeback episode after a mid-season break. Yet it was a case of wasted potential.
The episode picked up after the excellent ‘A Good Man Goes to War’ and shows River Song’s first encounter with The Doctor since her timeline and The Doctor’s are incredibly convoluted. What should have been a great moment for the two of them was a huge disappointment. It was revealed that before River Song took the form of Alex Kingsbury she was one of Amy and Rory’s school friends and ends up traveling back to Nazi Germany.
After the epic events of ‘A Good Man Goes to War’ great things were set to come – revealing River Song was really Amy and Rory’s daughter and an early form of a Time Lord. Instead ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ went for a lighter, comedic tone and shortcut what was set up before, River Song being abducted as a baby and raised to assassinate The Doctor.
It was River Song’s weakest episode.
