10 Dumbest Doctor Who Controversies

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by Mark Donaldson
August 31st, 2024

Doctor Who has attracted its fair share of controversies over the past six decades. Concerns about the levels of violence during both the Tom Baker and Colin Baker eras resulted in steps being taken to soften the show, from swapping out Philip Hinchcliffe with Graham Williams in the late 1970s, to putting the show on hiatus in the mid 1980s.

However, unlike the legitimate concerns about the excesses of The Deadly Assassin or Revelation of the Daleks, there are much smaller, dumber, and paradoxically louder controversies in the modern age.

Much of this is driven by the media's desperate need for stories to fill a never-ending 24-hour news cycle. As a result, newspapers, reactionary talk shows, and outraged YouTubers spin hours of content out of the news that a handful of viewers complained to Ofcom about some imagined scandal that they can spin as 'Doctor Woke.'

Some of those controversies have obvious homophobic, transphobic, and downright racist undercurrents, so this list isn't going to dignify them with inclusion here. But needless to say, the small-scale nature of these controversies provides a window into who the true 'snowflakes' are when it comes to Doctor Who discourse.