5) Time Crash
“Time Crash” was a 2007 Children in Need special that brought David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor face to face with Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor. It might only be seven minutes long, but it doesn’t waste a second of that short runtime and the whole thing is a blast that demands to watched over and over again.
For one, it’s the first time that the modern series had attempted a multi-Doctor story and it blew fans’ minds at the time to see the show’s past and present collide like this. Tennant and Davison are both fantastic, too – the former is clearly having the time of his life acting opposite his childhood hero, while Davison – who was the youngest Doctor ever back in the 1980s – gets to spin his performance in a different way here, getting to act as the older, curmudgeonly one.
The poignant final speech the Tenth Doctor gives the Fifth about him being “my Doctor” is so emotional as well as you know it’s Tennant – and writer Steven Moffat – speaking from the heart. Things get even weirder, though, when you remember that Tennant later married Peter Davison’s daughter, making his childhood hero – and his fictional former self – his father-in-law.
Wibbyly wobbly, timey wimey!