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It's such a shame *this* is the one Tom Baker decided to come back for rather than THE FIVE DOCTORS.

In the 1990s we called this Dementia In Time - a fan club in Australia decided to play it at the start of every club meeting as a kind of ironic punishment for people who turned up early

Taken seriously, Dimensions in Time is the bad. But viewing it as silly charity special, it's fine. I mean, it gave us Six and the Brig together, and seeing Pertwee in live action one last time was amazing. It's weird just how much older everybody looked. Some of them looked like they aged thirty years in only ten. Meanwhile Pertwee looked basically the same! Fun fact, there's a novel where the Doctor says he had a nightmare where the "Rani trapped him in East Enders," so canonically, this special exists as a bad dream.

If I had a nickel for every time a much-loved long running UK sci-fi TV series did an awkward and confusing crossover with EastEnders, I'd have two nickels.

We all know what the real Noel's House Party/Doctor Who crossover should have been; The Doctor and the Daleks unite to destroy Mr Blobby.

"I Watched The WORST EVER Doctor Who Episode". It was NEVER a Doctor Who episode, it was just a fun charity skit to raise money for Children in Need. It was never supposed to be taken seriously.

Doctor Who was not officially cancelled. It was put on indefinite hiatus. I know everyone's going to say I'm dealing semantics, but it was an open door for the show to come back at anytime.

Poor Jon Pertwee's last appearance as the doctor.

There is one even WORSE doctor who story.... the Jimmy Saville Doctor who crossover with the 6xth Doctor......

The Celestial Toymaker in an anniversary special? No would ever have that idea again... Also, Big Finish put out "Once and Future" for the anniversary this year which I'm just now realizing has a lot of similarities. Ok, maybe it's not that bad.

okay but seriously tho, *WHO WAS THAT TERRIBLE WOMAN?!*

I really loved your subversion of the "Girlfriend faking headache to avoid sex" joke, caught me off gaurd and got a genuine laugh from me- ive always hated the original joke (if you respected your girlfriend maybe she wouldnt have to pretend to be ill instead of just saying no, yk) and this was a pleasant change

to be fair, this was a charity special, and all participants were eagerly doing it because of the charity support. It was also great to see these doctors and companions on TV again. it was great to see the sixth doctor and Brigadier together.

Ah. Makes me want to listen to Doctor In Distress again.

I remember the hype around this when it was announced. This was when the BBC still repeated Classic Who, and when it looked like Who was never coming back, so Kid Me was very excited. And then I saw it and, well, I tried to enjoy it, I really did.

"...the very well-received 'Starbeast'..." ARE YOU INSANE?

Is everyone forgetting that Orphan 55 was the worst ep??

Yet another soul that does not understand the brilliance of the modern masterpiece that is Dimensions in Time.

I remember cringeing through it watching with non fan housemates. The thing is with so many elements to squeeze in to such a short run time, they should have gone for something fun and silly , but this takes itself so seriously while being utter drek.

Who else read the title and thought "These Star Beast reviews are getting *savage!"*

I already watched out of mild curiosity. Years ago. I can never get that time back.

Mike Reid as Frank Butcher breaking the fourth wall to say “Well, I’ve seen them drag them out of The Vic, but never drag them in before” was worth my TV license for that year

The concepts sound so much better than the actual thing. Great content as usual!

I can’t even rank DiT among DW episodes, as it’s not even official canon. I occasionally show it to other DW fans who haven’t seen it yet just to get their reactions. It’s usually hilarious.

Release the Big Ron cut!

You killed me with the LockPicking Lawyer insert xD

I’ve actually watched Dimensions In Time several times over…and yes, it IS every bit as bad as advertised. Oddly enough though, it’s that very fact that made it a curiosity for me in the first place and why I actually do rather enjoy it. It’s one of those “so extremely horribly bad that it makes its way all the way around to good” kind of things, sort of like watching a train wreck happen right in front of your eyes…horrifying, yet you can’t keep your eyes off it…😅 Last I checked, it was available for free on KZfaq and whilst I wouldn’t recommend it for the weak, for the extremely die-hard fan it can be seen as an interesting example of a moment where the show just really didn’t get it right on any account…a moment which can be looked back on, learned from and ultimately smiled upon since the desire for more Doctor Who wasn’t killed off completely by it…a fact which the 1996 TV movie, Big Finish and now both NuWho eras are a testament to. True, Dimensions In Time IS awful…but I had fun watching it just to see how extremely bad it was. We can be thankful that this wasn’t the last we would ever see of Doctor Who and even admire what good things it DID bring about in its wake as well…to this day, the Doctor Who Children In Need sketch is a much-beloved event, with both of David Tennant’s Doctors being introduced using such skits. Dimensions In Time was the very first time Doctor Who was included in the fundraiser, so just sit on that one for a bit…something which is now a cherished tradition starting off with a such a horrific flop, obviously someone learned something from that. And I will also state that the special does, at the very least, deliver some fun moments. One of my all-time favorite Fifth Doctor lines comes from it…”and the companions came in, two by two…” 😅 All in all, yeah…it’s a very bad special…however, it’s still managed to find itself a special place within Doctor Who’s history, even if that happens to be a place of infamy. I personally recommend watching it with extreme care yet backing that with watch it anyway…it is a fun, if rather poorly done, part of series history and an interesting example of how the flame somehow managed to be kept alive during the “wilderness years” of Doctor Who…😅😁

I like how you go from reviewing Heaven Sent to this lol

5:05 - I honestly laughed my butt off at this gag - Thank you for that one, HW!

Please please cover exhausted supplies it's my favorite multi doctor story and the way they handled 9 and 12 is done in a really nice way

I did enjoy Jon Pertwee's appearance on Noel Edmonds' show, even if the costume looks terrible on him. The Doctor's gag about seeing Noel in the year 2015 is probably the best moment of the special. 😋 But it did allow the Sixth Doctor to at last meet the Brigadier, allowing the Brig to encounter ALL of the classic Doctors. And I have to admit there are some fun moments, even if none of them follow any logic (or sense) whatsoever. If they had extended the special a little, like maybe two half hour episodes rather than twenty minutes total, and had time for a couple of rewrites, it might have worked. In the end, it really didn't. It was clear that they just went with whomever agreed to appear and THEN wrote the script to incorporate them. That failed. I'm convinced that's also how The Five Doctors was written, but at least Terrence Dicks knew how to write a Doctor Who episode. Brigadier: "Splended fellow. All of them." Aide: "Them, sir?"

5:11 please make more of these sketches!😂😂

What the hell was wrong with the BBC during Classic Who? First they junk a bunch of the 60's episodes then they junk an entire Tardis interior

I remember watching this on Noel’s House Party when it was originally aired, the phone in had another reason than to raise money, either Mandy or Big Ron was going to get written out of Eastenders, Mandy was the more popular from the results of the phone in and Big Ron had to go

How can you say this is the worst episode when what we had on the weekend came out?!

i remember hearing a few more facts about Dimensions in Time JNT wanted the intro to be The Tardis appearing over the Eastenders intro but the BBC vetoed it and insisted on the Doctor Who intro being used A Dalek was in it but it was removed due to rights disputes with Terry Nation The cast hated working on it Jon Pertwee called the script trash in front of David Roden without even realising who he was All the other Doctors gave their technobabble lines to Sylvester McCoy because they couldn't be bothered to learn them, and McCoy was drunk while filming the final scene Tom Baker had a question mark scar for some reason Sylvester McCoy went on a rant on the Eastenders set saying "I don't understand why those BBC Enterprises people can't get us all together for nor money, but when JNT makes a few calls, we're all here with our boots blacked - doing it for nothing! There must be something wrong!"

I wouldn't say it's as bad as the Star Wars Holiday Special, as this is only 13 minutes and actually keeps things moving, if just in a completely senseless way -- The Star Wars Holiday Special was almost 100 minutes of nothing happening. -- Having said that, however, I'd kill to hear commentaries or interviews of people who worked behind the scenes of both, as both are amazing train-wrecks, and the stories of how they got made, likely by aspiring Film/Video graduates who were disillusioned by the world of entertainment (at least slightly) simply by working in it. If anything, I'd compare this to the awfulness of something like We Wish You A Turtle Christmas.

Somehow you've managed to make it sound better than it was! Needless to say, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously (which is the root of the problem). On a couple of positive notes, (1) it did help support Children in Need that year, and (2) it brought Doctor Who back to the attention of the general public (any attention is better than no attention... sort of). But it was utter tosh. Side note: Now that Doctor Who is made in Cardiff, perhaps we might get a Doctor Who/Pobol y Cwm crossover (with hilarious consequences - something we didn't get with EastEnders).

I’m old enough to remember watching it go out live, it was bad then but I never saw it as anything more than a children in need skit

LOVED some of the live action bits in this! You should do more in line of the theme song sketch

7:45 Oh yeah, because that’s happened to all of us

I look past the awful story and eastenders parts and see it as a beautiful opportunity to see these amazing characters again doctors and companions this was the last time a lot of them played the characters. Just grateful to have it tbh

@03:06 "A warning from the year 2010. You;'re still on TV'. The year Noel presented 'Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old?', only two years after 'Noel's HQ'. Anyone remember that stinker featured on Charlie Brooker's show?

With a video titled "I Watched The WORST EVER Doctor Who Episode", I expected you meant Kill the Moon.

it’s not even a true episode, it’s a charity special: these aren’t supposed to be great, just raise money

Still better than The Timeless Child.

Hey, in 1993 we had The Paradise of Death on the radio and Thirty Years in the TARDIS - AND a Radio 2 documentary presented by Nicholas Courtney. AND The Power of the Daleks was released on audio tape. And the novelisations of Evil and Power came out. AND loads of old TV repeats, including Planet of the Daleks in the run-up to Christmas (with six specially-filmed shorts to go with them). It really wasn't that bad. Yes, Dimensions in Time was atrocious... but as anniversary years go, 30 was arguably better than 40...

The only way this is salvageable is if you imagine it as a nightmare the 7th Doctor had mid-regeneration

omg, too funny you mentioned Time Lash. I knew the guy who wrote that! He also wrote a couple of episodes of EastEnders, too. 😀

Sad this is Victoria's only return and the Rani's last.BTW SJS's costume is one she wore in last story of her time on show (plus a Beret)🎩

Bless you for not only sitting through this abomination but making a 12 minute video about it that’s far more entertaining.

“…BBC Enterprises elected to make a Direct-To-Trashcan episode…”

I prefer to not even regard this as an episode of Doctor Who. It's just some weird nightmare Ace had after eating pizza too close to bedtime.

The 3d craze started in the 1950's originally. Television was new and movie companies were threatened so created a gimic, 3D!

I say the title and thought this was the Hell Bent review for a second 💀

Also glad the BEEB were continuing the tradition of throwing out priceless Doctor Who props and memorabilia even a good two decades after they stopped erasing/trashing every existing copy of the black and white era episodes, that, likewise, needed to literally be picked up from junkyards and saved by fans. Some things never change.

yep, it was cack, and i do have it on tape, as i recorded both parts at the time,, well at least we did get all the surviving doctors together (well almost, Tom not doing it properly, again!)

Hahaha, the dancing, the kneeling, the torturing ,the ears bleeding, the finale of death!! That's the theme music for this monster lol!! 3rd-when they said he was thick,I thought they were referring to his waist line!! Prolly the BEST damn line outta the whole damn thing!!🤣🤦‍♂️✌️🍻🤘

0:50 "I suffered Dimensions in Time so you don't have to." Too late. I saw it when it was first shown....

Dimensions in Time wasn't an anniversary special, it's not even canon. It was just an overlong charity skit.

We need to someone get Big Ron into the tardis because he is nice

This script was written by a lunatic, a barely literate lunatic, over the course of 30 minutes. That's the only explanation for the steaming pile of crap we were given as a "celebration" of 30 years. It was by FAR the worst thing ever put out under the Doctor Who name. The Timeless Children was a masterpiece of story telling, a compelling thrill ride by comparison. That's how terrible it was. I remember watching it on TV, I was gutted.

The story of DARK DIMENSION's cancellation is even worse than you might think, since it was never actually officially commissioned...and nobody knew who would actually produce it. That being said, there's an animated version here on KZfaq, and it's...slightly better. I look forward to your video on it!

The worst ever Doctor Who episode is 'Hell Bent' by Steven Moffat. So there are barns on Gallifrey, eh?

You end this with a warning - but I've seen about 3 different Who fans doing a reaction to this one now, and it's been a good time! I don't think it's something I'd choose to watch, but you doing a bit where blood comes out of your ears because of the remixed 90s dance style theme makes it all fun.

LOL HS2 is good value compared to motorways of the same length - and is mostly money on building stations, which no other countries include in the calculation of cost per mile

When you tell me it's bad and not to watch it, I'm reminded of a shiny red button that I've been told not to push. 😅

Is there a reason why the lady at 1.18 is wearing a sticker showing Tintin's faithful friend Snowy?

i was thinking... can anything be worse than the absorbalov episode. then you said it was part of noel's house party. and i realised it would be likely to be worse than anything i can imagine.

As a low-budget charity special… it’s acceptable. As THE 30th anniversary special… yeah it’s bad…

That Dr Who theme as bad as it was, is better than Sylvester McCoys one.

Oh I don't agree. "Star Wars Holiday Special" is a masterpiece next to this.

This was the final nail in the coffin for classic who in my opinion if only we got the dark dimension as the 30th anniversary special

“Worst piece of Doctor Who media ever” Idk, at least it’s only 15 minutes with both parts combined. ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ is a 10 hour top to bottom disaster 🤮

Well, that makes me glad I never saw the Star Wars special, or rewatched my off air VHS copy of Dimentions in Time!!!

It's such a shame that this was my first glimpse of Doctor Who too! I was 8 and excitedly waited with my 3D specs for it! this was before we got Sky and UK gold reruns! 😂

12:23 "BANG and the Dimension's gone!" 😄

This is so cringe. OMG, it's like JNT taking something I love and doing everything he could to make sure it would never come back to TV. I have never been able to sit through this whole story, even watching a review of it now is hard for me not to click away from. I live and breathe Doctor WHO, I've seen all the worst it could be before... Nightmare of Eden or The Web Planet, comes to mind... but yeah, nothing compares to just how bad this was. Why couldn't THIS be in the lost episodes? Ughh...

The 3D effect worked by having a dark lens on one eye which made the brain see that image later. Which means things moving the right appeared to be in front of things moving to the left. Which explains the camera constantly moving to the left and the constant spinning. It did work quite well though.

It is a charity episode. They are all supposed to be cringe. Certainly in the 90s. They are nice call backs but never a propper episode. The BBC spent the previous few years sabotaging Who and it shows here. But the actors were good sports. Also Peter Davidson rubbing his head frantically and shaking his elbows trying to convey mental power use is the funniest part to me.

Your reference to Timelash made me laugh...

You had to BE there. For a 14 year old, this was brilliant viewing

There should be a fan film recreation with eight through fifteen

I know it's not an anniversary special but you should review The Two Doctors as well

Great review. I was only thinking about the Children in Need Eastenders Dr Who the other day & how come I'd never seen it? Then I remembered - Cos it looked awful. I'll defo not bother now. Thanks for the warning. ☢️☣️

Good review of Dimensions in Time! Thank goodness this was not broadcasted in the states! The story does not make any sense and when did the story get so complicated? It is so complicated like Thomas and the Magic Railroad. I would have gone with the original 30th Anniversary special Lost in the Dark Dimension and someone adapted into an animation on KZfaq.

When I read “Worst Ever Doctor Who episode” I immediately thought of “Dimensions in Time”. It could have been interesting with all the Doctors and companions, but it was too ambitious for the budget and length of the special and ended up feeling like a bunch of randomness. I’d still say this is better than the Star Wars Christmas Special, by far. This is at least pretty short and doesn’t drag on forever.

I remember watching this, and being so disappointed :p Made all the weirder years later when Eastenders showed up as a tv show within the world of Doctor Who :p Not to mention Leela and Mel turning up in Albert Square themselves :p

Soooo next week is Zagreus right?

Would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for this episode. I mean, Dr Who meets Eastenders for the 30th anniversary really? Know it's a Children In Need sketch, but still

i emailed the bbc about it and they linked me to a web blog about it lol, guess they are sick of people asking

Dimensions in time is hated by many but it's ironic that NuWho is more Eastenders now than Dr Who - it was predicted 😂

Dimensions in Time is brilliant. Dimensions in Time is canon.

11:40 That’s almost an insult to the Holiday Special. At least it gave us Boba Fett and a few other blink-and-you’ll miss it gems.

Baker continues his role of being the only one to not participate in crossovers like everyone else. I mean at least he filmed something.

Based on that title, if it isn't "The moon is an egg, I won't be able to trust..." Oh, worst holiday special.... Never mind..

Yeah this isn’t a very good special, but it is kind of fun how they managed to get all the (at the time) living Docs. So far only The Three Doctors has done that.

omg I remember this from when I was a kid lol. I had forgotten it and I think that may have been mental self preservation

Jacqueline Hill died too young...but at least she,narrowly,missed being drawn into this...🎩