Our latest Best Of Who Awards feature investigates the finest future-set stories that Doctor Who has ever given us!"Spoilers." For the Doctor Who universe, dealing with the future of the human race and indeed the world can be a tricky situation. Nevertheless, the show constantly dares to be different and give us its all, and that's something that defines it throughout its fifty-year history and beyond. Here's our guide to the Top 5 Best Future Stories we've seen from Who...
5. CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS (1973)- This is certainly one of the most bizarre stories in the Whoniverse around. Nevertheless, Carnival provides a fascinating insight into the development of humanity's worst assets into something corrupt and intangible which distorts our view of reality. There are some marvellous cameo appearances from old friends and foes here too in this Jon Pertwee adventure.
4. UTOPIA (2007)- Perhaps the most exciting conceptual future-set story yet in the show's fifty-year history was the premise of travelling to the destruction of the universe. Here, we witnessed human tribes on the brink of chaos, a startling revelation for the Doctor of his friend Captain Jack's survival and worst of all, the rebirth of the Master in what proved to be a dark and thrilling blockbuster adventure.
3. MIDNIGHT (2008)- One of two fantastic Season Four future tales that have made it into the Top 5, Midnight is a gothic and intense horror-esque romp which fans can't fail to remember. Seeing the Tenth Doctor on the hinges of his psyche as an inherently human yet alien threat posed to him was a unique and often terrifying experience for the viewer, in another of Russell T Davies' finest moments.
2. THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH (1964)- This story is notable in its own right for marking the second full appearance of the Daleks. Nevertheless, what gave it perhaps its biggest edge was the glimpse it provided into a pseudo-future alternate reality where the titular Invasion was a foreboding future for the human race. It's an iconic tale for so many reasons, but the futuristic setting helps do wonders.
1. SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY/FOREST OF THE DEAD (2008)- It's the first (and last) adventure for River Song! We've since seen this elusive archaeologist character and indeed the Doctor's wife in The Time Of Angels, Flesh & Stone, The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut, Day Of The Moon, A Good Man Goes To War, Let's Kill Hitler, Closing Time, The Wedding Of River Song and The Angels Take Manhattan, yet it was in the Library that the scale of futuristic Who adventures could be realised with stunning CGI, glorious narrative concepts from Steven Moffat and a brilliant cast including Alex Kingston that made this another iconic adventure to remember. This is one future we wouldn't mind going back to soon, although for the Doctor, knowing that River's death is coming could be the worst secret of them all in the anniversary season...
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