From past Doctors returning to help save the day to villains ganging up, here’s our guide to some of Doctor Who’s most memorable team-up moments, both good and bad…

 

The Daleks and The Monk in ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’

Having been stranded by the Doctor in ‘The Time Meddler’, the Monk, a pesky member of the Doctor’s own race, returned for revenge during the epic twelve-parter ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’.

Brought to life by Carry On star Peter Butterworth, The Monk allies himself with the Daleks across the three episode run, but they soon turn on him when he fails to deliver the taranium core which the Doctor has stolen. Sadly, only Ep10 ‘Escape Switch’ remains in the BBC Archive.

 

The Doctor & Missy v Davros & the Daleks in ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’ and ‘The Witch’s Familiar’

Another meeting you would imagine had happened in the show’s long history was pitting the Master up against Davros. While the Master had worked for the Daleks before, it was in the Pertwee era before Davros’ appearance became ubiquitous (or at least contractually necessary) in Dalek stories.

Wonderfully, in this recent encounter we are asked who is really the Doctor’s arch enemy? The twisted, manipulative Dalek creator or the latest incarnation of his childhood friend turned megalomaniac frenemy?

 

The Master and the Rani in ‘The Mark of the Rani’

While the Master was a recurring foe in 1985, he was teamed with the Rani during her first appearance. Not that the amoral Time Lady scientist sought him out, but he came knocking seeking to use her sleep deprivation scheme for his own ends.

Of course, it did not end well with the pair of them foiled and trapped in her TARDIS as a dinosaur embryo began…

 

The Alliance in ‘The Pandorica Opens’

While Doctor Who monsters have teamed up on occasion, this has to be the mother of all gangs, featuring Daleks, Cybermen, Silurians, Sontarans, Judoon, Autons, the Sycorax, a Hoix, Torchwood’s Weevils and a Blowfish, the SJA’s Uvodni… plus anything else the production team could pack into shot. We are told that Steven Moffat wanted even more, but the budget precluded any CGI monsters such as the Pyroviles.

With other races name-checked in the script, like Dravhins, Draconians, Terileptils and Chelonians it is a shame that this Alliance were wiped from existence and everything was put back to rights by the Doctor’s universal reboot.

 

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