This episode scared the living shit out of me as a child. I didn't sleep for weeks, and I was scared by gas masks for years.
@mikeyzmumu6 жыл бұрын
Wyvernblue Dude, same. My brother and I watched Doctor Who all the time when I was around, 6-9. This episode terrified me, and I had nightmares about my friends and family around me becoming like this. Still have the entire episode engraved in my mind to this day.
@Stetsonbryl6 жыл бұрын
I am still scared of gas masks...
@AlexTheOilersFan5 жыл бұрын
Mt first ever Doctor Who episode and I'm also scared of gas masks
@Eric-ek6mm5 жыл бұрын
I still am unnerved by this episode
@Harvey-iv7jq5 жыл бұрын
@@mikeyzmumu are you my mummy?
@datawolf397 жыл бұрын
That moment when you vividly remember this episode and realize that it's been over a decade since it aired. I feel old now.
@Ravager45616 жыл бұрын
Fucking hell you are right ! It has been 12 years ..oh God I am getting old
@angiet73803 жыл бұрын
Up until now, I thought this was a movie. I had no clue this was Doctor Who. I thought I've never seen Doctor Who
@colemacgrath20052 жыл бұрын
Angie T really? I mean, how could u possibly think this was a movie? They don’t explain where the main character comes from or how he can time travel lol
@nyx61782 жыл бұрын
This episode gave me nightmares as a kid, that's mainly why i remember this so vividly
@kokakola26182 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this as a little kid. I was 8.
@killyourself68717 жыл бұрын
That's what it looks like when a spy disguises himself as a pyro
@Nice_Boy_5555 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@creaidanthehedgehog75575 жыл бұрын
I fear no man... But that thing... Scares me...
@thatboredaroace16 күн бұрын
i just imagined a muffled "are you my mummy?"
@franklindelanoroosevelt74675 жыл бұрын
"Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather now I'm neither, but I'm still a doctor." Does anyone else want to see the Doctor's family one day.
@thefiregodzapp4 жыл бұрын
Well the original Doctor travelled with his granddaughter. But if the "I know the feeling" line is accurate she probably died off screen.
@matthewjones20953 жыл бұрын
@@thefiregodzapp the actress is still alive and has asked to come back
@alansmithee419 Жыл бұрын
"I shall return. Yes, one day I shall return." - The first doctor to Susan. It's been thousands of years, you'd think he'd have got round to it by now. Ten likely checked in on on her when he was dying, but he didn't talk to her.
@HungryThuli Жыл бұрын
We did see his daughter technically
@franklindelanoroosevelt7467 Жыл бұрын
@@thefiregodzapp As far as I know she's still alive.
@Oliver_JW14 жыл бұрын
The look on the Doctors face as he watches the poor man change and not being able to do anything about it, nearly chokes me up.
@gurglequeen4333 жыл бұрын
I like to think that man had a profound impact on Nine. "Before the war I was a rather and a grandfather, now I am neither, but I am still a doctor." Can you imagine how much impact that would leave on a man like the Doctor?
@SamuelBlack84 Жыл бұрын
@@gurglequeen433That makes him even more determined to fight
@plymouthwho5 жыл бұрын
The amount of mental trauma this caused me when I was a child is insane
@user-Noname3674 жыл бұрын
Mike Brumpton it gave me nightmares I had a nightmare were they were busted to my house and I will try and hide from them
@edmundprice527610 ай бұрын
Are you my mummy?
@Lucasfan3754 ай бұрын
@@edmundprice5276Hell naw! 😨
@mikediaz67837 жыл бұрын
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
@PussInHeels4206 жыл бұрын
IM LAUGHING SO HARD RN! >_
@azariahawthorne97606 жыл бұрын
💀
@asgardninja96745 жыл бұрын
You hear that? It's the winds of change.
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar5 жыл бұрын
Mike Diaz monster inc?
@izzfizz97215 жыл бұрын
*ITs A MUsIcAl!!!*
@SpaceTrucker916 жыл бұрын
That transformation... Nightmare fuel...
@alessiodelcastillo16135 жыл бұрын
@StormRevolutionGaming fr
@SpaceTrucker914 жыл бұрын
DroidTech There is nothing worse than what your own mind can concoct.
@HANKSANDY694202 жыл бұрын
Right outta his mouth
@billionaire55262 жыл бұрын
@Eurasian Lynx that’s crazy dude but absolutely nobody cares about your life
@edmundprice527610 ай бұрын
Are you my mummy?
@0hvist6 жыл бұрын
2:33 "Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither. But I am still a Doctor." "Yeah... I know the feeling..." Some people might have forgotten that the Doctor back when the series first began 54 years ago, that the Doctor traveled with his Granddaughter "Susan Foreman" and her two schoolteachers.
@paladinboyd12285 жыл бұрын
Ohvist Small, He lost them in the time war.
@bythebreach5 жыл бұрын
@@paladinboyd1228 Nah...Susan ain't dead.
@franklindelanoroosevelt74675 жыл бұрын
@@paladinboyd1228 He lost the rest of his family in the Time War. Family we haven't seen on screen at all.
@Bluesit324 жыл бұрын
@@bythebreach Oh, I think she is...if the Eighth Doctor audio books are canon. His last words in "Night of the Doctor" before becoming the War Doctor suggest they are as he says a farewell to his companions. Since he only appeared in the Doctor Who movie, the Eighth Doctor didn't have any...outside the audio books. He was there when Susan died. She was glad he kept his promise. "One day I shall come back."
@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan3 жыл бұрын
@@bythebreach Susan has simply been abandoned in a future that never happened.
@observer49166 жыл бұрын
Imagine being 7 years old and watching this. Fucked me up real good.
@paladinboyd12284 жыл бұрын
Chad Myron Gaines-Normington, Imagine being 25 and and rewatching this. Stilled fucked up to this day and seeing it again did not help.
@HungryThuli5 ай бұрын
I was five lol. I still can't watch this episode when my mum is in the room because she hates it so much.
@elliesarah24145 жыл бұрын
This episode absolutely horrified me as a kid. I’m 22 and still find gas masks way too creepy.
@notgray88 Жыл бұрын
Same here. 22 and still remember having nightmares about this scene. I think I was like 8 or 9
@SamuelBlack84 Жыл бұрын
Gas masks are very uncomfortable to wear and very hot
@edmundprice527610 ай бұрын
Are you my mummy?
@Arfarf696 ай бұрын
@@SamuelBlack84imagine the actors had to wear these in the episode especially laying on the bed, must have been uncomfortable for them
@dalleneldredge69233 жыл бұрын
Let me just say that the old guy, though short lived in the show, is one of the best characters in all of doctor who.
@Arfarf696 ай бұрын
He definitely had a presence in the episode for sure
@theorangeoof9263 ай бұрын
If you wanna see more of him, watch the other show that he was in “Merlin”
@AlexTheOilersFan5 жыл бұрын
A scary as these episodes are, I completely forgot that this is the Doctor Who equivalent of the Zombie Apocalypse
@jameslucy53114 жыл бұрын
waters of mars
@ck44117 жыл бұрын
" Are you my mummy?" Me: HELL NO AM I THE PARENT OF A GAS MASKED CHILD LIKE YA
@RobotPlayz7 жыл бұрын
who else had nightmares from this one episode
@smurfjones6757 жыл бұрын
Robot Playz my twin
@deadmantenshii95426 жыл бұрын
I did when I was nine and now I’m watching it years later and it creeps the crap out of me
@ReddieQueens6 жыл бұрын
MEH I’m 12 and I still have nightmares it’s so stupid
@necrobiome65275 жыл бұрын
ME I saw this when I was nine and I’m 16 now but still have the crawly feeling ya know?
@PexoGames3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, I couldn't sleep the first time I watched this when I was like 7. I'm 16 now xD
@SumofluffyVIDS4 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, I could never bring myself to watch this scene. Always covered my eyes during the transformations.
@notgray88 Жыл бұрын
You're very lucky. The rest of us just got nightmares XD
@alansmithee4193 жыл бұрын
Everyone here talking about how terrifying this scene is. Can we just take some time out from that to appreciate how terrific it is?
@omgthisissoawesome11 жыл бұрын
Gaius, you're the court physician. Surely you can do something.
@theboogeyman25904 жыл бұрын
YES YOU NOTICED IT TOO. And I hope you’ve noticed Uther and Percival in the later episodes...?
@elliottnoad12703 жыл бұрын
And Merlin chilling on his way to see sapphire waterfalls one time
@bellascoles1912 жыл бұрын
that's where i know him from! Thank you so much, that was seriously bothering me!
@LaggardlySort2 жыл бұрын
"You're very sick" "Dying, I should think - I just haven't been able to find the time" The writing used to be so damn good
@bonnie2.0525 ай бұрын
Miss the old writers 😭
@sarahnoe42011 жыл бұрын
Nine is my fav doctor. I just think he was such a bad ass.
@rickcurley93578 жыл бұрын
Sarah Noe may just be the biggest BAD-ASS to date!
@jessicabiggs58087 жыл бұрын
Sarah Noe I think the 11th doctor is the best
@jeanmichellelaurent7 жыл бұрын
9th is my first doctor and he's one of the best
@Crewecabking6 жыл бұрын
I prefer Matt Smith
@circeciernova17123 жыл бұрын
It helps being played by Christopher Eccleston, who's solid as can be
@the_gonzo_wanderer4 жыл бұрын
Never forget, the sound team considered having audible bone sounds such as cracking and breaking as the face changed to the mask. This is now tame by comparison to that thought alone.
@ColorRobo12 жыл бұрын
The score for Constantine's transformation is incredible
@stayalive6413 жыл бұрын
This Halloween I dressed up as the Empty Child and just went around asking people "Are you my mummy?" Scared the shit out of everyone who knew Doctor Who, but even creeped people out who didn't know what it was. Just goes to show what a great job the writers did to make this as disturbing as it was. I still have nightmares.
@Samantha-jb7dz8 жыл бұрын
This used to creep the heck out of me when I was like 7😂
@elilin72457 жыл бұрын
Ms.Queen105 _ Same for me 😝 my mom said I looked like this when I watched 😲😲
@getthecoolshoeshinelol79227 жыл бұрын
It still creeps me out
@minnamendoza57907 жыл бұрын
CrustyCucumbers _ bruh it still does!!
@requiem88417 жыл бұрын
CrustyCucumbers _ creeped me out at age eleven when I first saw it
@reecevince21667 жыл бұрын
Same my dad bought an air soft gas mask sat in the dark waited till i went to sleep a said mummy over and over i was 6 or7
@Oliver_JW13 жыл бұрын
That look at 3:58 , knowing he can't do a damn thing to save this kind old man, still haunts me. Oh 9th doctor, we hardly knew thee.
@GoGoTwice4 жыл бұрын
Richard Wilson’s acting is amazing - especially if you’re used to seeing him do comedy!
@User-jk8wq Жыл бұрын
I don’t believe it!
@AngelofIego12 жыл бұрын
"I know the feeling" and now I'm sad.
@cacam096 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this right before I go to sleep... ... I'm not sleeping tonight
@lemongrass30915 жыл бұрын
I have a crippling phobia of gas masks and I swear this is what first caused it
@rodrikforrester69895 жыл бұрын
Nanomachines, son! They turn you into a gas mask monster in response to physical contact.
@Bluesit324 жыл бұрын
The Doctor has to respect this guy. War going on outside, impossible plague inside...but the man is a doctor. Even when his patients are clinically dead and he's on the way to join them. A doctor above all else.
@zjjohnson3827 Жыл бұрын
Ye he seems (the actor as well!) as if he’d be a very kindly old man and a wonderful grandfather
@sophiemason84444 жыл бұрын
Nice to see this scene skills fucks me up 15 years later
@bentn1312 жыл бұрын
The transformation starting 3:35 is amazing. Christopher Eccleston was a really great doctor.
@theboogeyman25904 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice this is Gaius from Merlin? Three actors from Merlin were in the Doctor Who series, shocker eh? There’s Gaius, then there’s Uther Pendragon in season two episode 4 or something, and then theres Jeff played by Tom Hopper, who also plays Percival of the Round Table Knights. DANG!! The connection!
@aestheticcherryblossoms82744 жыл бұрын
This episode scared the ever loving crap out of me when I was younger. I couldn’t finish it for years. I remember trying to watch this episode and just pushing my face into a pillow and waiting for this scene to be over. Even now years later it still gives me chills.
@ewfahgehajigeamiefma5 жыл бұрын
This scene gives me anxiety. Wtf why are you so close while examining?? sdkjkdnsmxksskmx
@josemanuelchavesbussi10985 жыл бұрын
Those vfx are really well made
@z3r07000011 жыл бұрын
to be honest i expected the comments to full of people saying, are you my mumy?
@ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm6 жыл бұрын
Nah, you should expect the comments to be full of unoriginal tf2 pyro jokes
@Jekanadar Жыл бұрын
The first episode I ever saw. No other episode had such an impact on me.
@SkilledYetTalentless Жыл бұрын
Took until I was 27 to sit down and watch this scene again and wrestle with the trauma. It was hard, really hard; the dread hanging over the scene. Constantine's delivery carries very similar weight to the Doctor speaking to Sally in Blink, a grim determination to deliver critical information that reveals the situation is dire and ends in a moment of true horror.
@hughcaldwell10342 ай бұрын
Oh absolutely, the atmosphere is amazing. It's been nearly two decades since I first saw it and I still vividly remember silently screaming at the Doctor to just get the hell out of there.
@steerpike6614 жыл бұрын
The old doctor is Richard Wilson, who has had a long and distinguished career on British TV playing misanthropic old gits. His Victor Meldrew (One Foot in the Grave) is as famous in the UK as Archie Bunker is in the USA. He is also a director in the National Theatre and has played Vanya, Malvolio and Vladimir on stage.
@agoldfishwithinternet238210 ай бұрын
He also played gaius in Merlin.
@Smokeboats Жыл бұрын
3:44 So called “medic mains” when the enemy team has 3 spies
@jphugin9 ай бұрын
This medic is a pyro
@SkinManJim2 жыл бұрын
When you switch from medic to pyro
@izzyomdahl92765 жыл бұрын
I remember after seeing this I was trying to call asleep and I swear outside my door I hear "mommy, are you my mommy?" Freaked me out for years. I can now watch this and not get freaked out. However the masks still scare me.
@PKBitchGirl Жыл бұрын
Its MUMMY not mommy, the episode takes place in england not seppoland
@YazzyPazzyJazzy11 жыл бұрын
Its Gaius!
@cazbutcher66607 жыл бұрын
This is impossible - Doctor Who
@dominicmm67 ай бұрын
“She knows more than she’s saying, she won’t tell me but she … mummy” nice foreshadowing
@whereami24772 ай бұрын
Oh my god Moffat you genius
@shyrebel88133 жыл бұрын
Revisiting childhood nightmares is weird.
@KayleighNatasha13 жыл бұрын
I loved the way that the team behind Doctor Who fixed the gas masks to the actors and actresses faces and how the gas masks were made
@redcowcat87055 жыл бұрын
Back when dw was actually good
@connornorfleet83725 жыл бұрын
It still is.
@just-in35705 жыл бұрын
@@connornorfleet8372 series 11... Complete trash
@gurglequeen4335 жыл бұрын
David Temnent was and still is the best Doctor to ever grace the screen
@Charlie-sf5cm5 жыл бұрын
Its been getting worse since Moffat
@aliceisafan12 жыл бұрын
This was the scariest episode of Doctor Who I ever saw. I was about 10 at the time and it scared me for over a year! What was amazing though, was when I met Christopher Eccleston by chance in London, and he told me that he was scared of them too :)
@notsuretbh72152 жыл бұрын
Well that just rekindled some trauma I didn't know I had, honestly these, the Silence and the Gangers terrified me and that's why I love this show so much
@jojibot91935 жыл бұрын
When you switch from Medic to Pyro
@ricochet7529 Жыл бұрын
I wasn’t scared because I watched it fir the first time sitting on my dads lap and he raised a pillow to my face every time a scary scene happened 😂
@MrBrown36706 Жыл бұрын
I think the same way we as fans hold a special place in our hearts for our first Doctor, we need to keep a special place for the first monster that scared the crap out of us! To this day, I don’t think anything on Doctor Who has scared me more than the Empty Child, I’m not even being hyperbolic when I say I didn’t sleep properly for ages after it!
@Lazyguy2213 жыл бұрын
"I'm a time lord" "I don't beliieeve it!"
@Clodsire_lover3 жыл бұрын
This Episode actually scared my friend *so* bad when she accidently saw it as a child, that she is now terrified by gas masks, to this day, whenever she sees one, she'll get fucking unsettled, she might even have Vietnam flashbacks to the episode... ;-;
@nicktroisi63472 жыл бұрын
This 2 part story is one of the most scariest Doctor Who episodes in the shows history, even The Doctor himself was genuinely horrified
@mushroom_man_jpg2 жыл бұрын
Honestly the best episodes of doctor who are the ones where the doctor has no idea what's going on
@JamerG6 жыл бұрын
Its ok! I wasnt planning to sleep tonight!
@arllag57326 жыл бұрын
Oh great, so the 2 brothers had this happen to random person and they turn into a pyro?
@Yaapo Жыл бұрын
WHY AM I WATCHING THIS AT MIDNIGHT IMA GET NIGHTMARES
@MrDvalinor12 жыл бұрын
this episode, and blink (the first of the angle saga) had me scared shitless, but honestly, the new series does have some excellent episodes, I especially loved the first one, a traumatized girl who has dreamt up a reality to repress the unbareable truth, now thats a dr. who episode! Also, the silence in the library episodes, watching them after you know all of river songs story, is truly heartwrenching.
@joshuapalma4086 жыл бұрын
A r e Y o u M y M u m m y ?
@nutscratcher79734 жыл бұрын
No
@MINI-jr3sj4 жыл бұрын
No
@Angel-xn1cm4 жыл бұрын
No
@vincentrennings43674 жыл бұрын
No I'm t h e m a n b e h i n d t h e s l a u g h t e r
@zambience64 жыл бұрын
@@vincentrennings4367 no no no no
@wayverleesoulsong7 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite episodes of 9th
@AGirlCanDream12312 жыл бұрын
I cried over the transformation bit, my mate's been coming up to me all week asking if I'm her mummy. NO. DON'T YOU COME NEAR ME. I REFUSE TO BECOME ONE OF THOSE.
@chocobolvr13 жыл бұрын
This is the only Doctor Who episode that has ever scared me. And I've seen ALL of them.
@driveover32905 жыл бұрын
Gaius transform very scary xd
@valerian_insomniac5 жыл бұрын
I knew if I looked someone would have mention this!
@ぞーうぃ-z1k2 жыл бұрын
小学校低学年くらいにこれ見て 軽くトラウマった
@kathrynlanford64655 жыл бұрын
the first time I watched this, it was like 1:30 in the morning when I was 13, lets just say that I did not sleep that night.
@squidwardtentacles15874 жыл бұрын
I fear no man but that thing......it scares me
@snipeu44t11 жыл бұрын
This episode nearly made me cry
@coolchicism2 жыл бұрын
Victor Meldrew ❤️
@Kyranyoutubevids2 ай бұрын
When you switch from Medic To Pyro In TF2: 3:42
@Shredder07688 Жыл бұрын
Horror memories unlocked
@marcieday849111 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this episode for the first time and getting so freaked out when they sat up
@TheUltimateEbil13 жыл бұрын
Christopher Eccpleson was an extremley underated Doctor
@LCBK4 ай бұрын
I tried to binge doctor who on Netflix when I was young i stoped, one guess where I stopped
@ObzTicle2 жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one that got traumatised by this ep as a child
@D4K44R112 жыл бұрын
no face, the constant calling out to you, the sound of an innocent child.
@JohnCena-ew1mf3 жыл бұрын
"Before this war I was a father and grandfather, now i'm neither." 😢
@Vanderyn2 жыл бұрын
This is the best scene Dr who ever produced.
@nickhipsh85508 ай бұрын
13 years since I’ve seen this and it’s still terrifying
@DullEyes10011 ай бұрын
Yeah. 10 years later, still freaks the hell out of me. It's the eyes
@Kameruner4 жыл бұрын
When I first saw this episode I thought he was having a stroke, but then that gas mask came out of his mouth and then I realized what happened.
@cortexius1814 жыл бұрын
When that one sneaky spy keeps destroying your sentry nest and the entire team decides on using that one specific class:
@gracebastable42144 жыл бұрын
I could never watch this scene so here I am, trying to watch it again three years later-
@gracebastable42144 жыл бұрын
Yeah I did it-
@Greendoor1234 жыл бұрын
I find this scarier as an adult than I did as a child. I was such a super fan in those days I only ever felt joy whilst watching!
@happyeagle923 жыл бұрын
This episode still scares me to this day
@emily68573 жыл бұрын
The traumer this caused me as child
@ryleysherrod95145 жыл бұрын
this used to scare the shit out of me but i’m watching it againb
@herbivorethecarnivore844711 жыл бұрын
It's like the first SCP
@Echiio4 жыл бұрын
As in 173 or 001?
@obedsalgado84023 жыл бұрын
Wholy isht I just found scps like two months ago, otherwise I would'nt have known what you were talking about.
@meatballg86552 жыл бұрын
I see Gaius made the trip to present day along with merlin at the ned of the series and adopted modern medicine over potions
@sebmalik9911 жыл бұрын
its a child that died,but he somehow got back to life and he is searching for he's mom,the cells he has makes every human into the empty child
@goo_903 жыл бұрын
Just casually growing a can of asbestos on his head.
@LifeOfRy4 жыл бұрын
Arguably Moffat’s defining work.
@CaptainSmilster12 жыл бұрын
When his eyes started to turn into the mask I was like OMG THATS SO ADORABLE and then they got bigger so I was like WTF HOW DID I THINK THAT WAS ADORABLE.
@j.dpost-mortem91154 жыл бұрын
For once someone dying actually says something useful.
@littleshit250714 жыл бұрын
He's such a great actor :) If Gaius had died in Merlin, I think the show would go down and fast :(
@stop49592 жыл бұрын
Imagine how many people they had to get for this SINGLE EPISODE