If you were hoping for Frost/Nixon, youd be disappointed.
RTDs earliestWhomemory was the regeneration of William Hartnells First Doctor into Patrick Troughtons Second.
That fear, it turns out, would become a driving force for Davies.
Davies answer comes quickly.
You feel it more than you would feel anything else, he tells Tennant.
Its just on that size of things.
Its big, and when its frightening its terrifying.
From the start, the show has straddled the line between the genuinely terrifying and the terrifyingly hilarious.
Monsters to Make You Scream… with Laughter?
But just as often theDoctor Whobaddies are just plain laughable.
Im more upset about than I care to admit).
Even supposedly top-tier (lets be honest, secondary-tier) villains like the Sontarans are basically potatoes on parade.
You might have noticed that weve not mentioned thetopbaddies so far.
You know the ones.
Yet they are still the biggest bad in a universe of big bads.
You know the stakes have just got higher.
Whos scared of shop window mannequins?
Or a monster that cant move when youre looking at it?
How rubbish is that?
There is a reason whyDoctor Whos most memorable, and most memorablyterrifyingvillains are also sort of ridiculous.
WhatDoctor Whodoes well is show us the thin line between comedy and horror.
Hyenas laughwhen they feel threatened or under attack.
It does it very well though.
Doctor Who returns to BBC One, BBC iPlayer and Disney+ on Saturday April 12.
