What are places in the Doctor Who universe where you would never want to visit or find yourself stranded and what makes them so terrify and so nasty? And what would you do if you found yourself in these places ?

Earth.

Have you seen how many times aliens invade the place? No wonder humans formed the great and bountiful empire, they were trying to get away from that deathtrap.

;-)

Or we got tired of getting our butts kicked and decided to do some kicking ourselves for a change.

What are places in the Doctor Who universe where you would never want to visit or find yourself stranded: Skaro

What makes them so terrifying and so nasty: Daleks (I believe the appropriate phrase is "Well, duh!")

What would you do if you found yourself in these places: Try to run as far away as possible, but wind up getting exterminated anyway.

There's never been a planet I've seen on Who that I didn't YEARN to be on. The DOCTOR'S there.

Being stranded on my own would be another matter, of course. For some reason, Sam Jones getting stuck on Ha'olam in Seeing I has always scared me more than practically anything else in Who.

What are places in the Doctor Who universe where you would never want to visit or find yourself stranded: Skaro

What makes them so terrifying and so nasty: Daleks (I believe the appropriate phrase is "Well, duh!")

Though to be honest I wouldn't particularly want to be stuck with a bunch of Thals either.

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There's never been a planet I've seen on Who that I didn't YEARN to be on. The DOCTOR'S there.
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Even the ones with the 6th Doctor on them at the time? ;)

of course. She'd kill him and get McCoy.

(Although the very early 7th Doctor stories are as bad as anything the 6th produced, and Emily's not known for her patience.)

Earth during Miracle Day. Imagine having to live through that atrocity?

Ugg, yes. Though of course it would be a picnic compared to living on the Simm-Master's Earth. Though I have a horrible suspicion I'd be SO THRILLED at having A TIME LORD! A REAL LIVE TIME LORD! I KNEW THEY WERE REAL! running my planet, all that slave-labouring would be almost bearable...

The Fendahl home world must have been no fun, to say the least.

What about Inferno Earth?

Oh, I don't know Inferno Earth was fine for 600 million years it was just it's last couple of days that gave it's bad reputation. ;-)

The Fendahl home world must have been no fun, to say the least.

You're so prejudiced! SOME of us think that painting your eyelids gold and killing people by pointing at 'em would be fun, fun, fun!

Oh, I don't know Inferno Earth was fine for 600 million years it was just it's last couple of days that gave it's bad reputation. ;-)

And maybe all the non-British countries were shining examples of multi-party democracy...until the unfortunate lava-and-earthquakes incident. (Plus, say what you like about our fascist dictatorship, at least they were EQUAL OPPORTUNITY torturers.)

How about the parallel Earth in Inferno, before and during the time it was destroyed.

Whoops, sorry Judi, you beat me to this idea!

Honestly, I'm just not GETTING all the hatred towards alt-Earth. Sure, it's a doomed-to-perish-in-molten-lava fascist dictatorship, but...THE BRIG! THE BRIG IN AN EYEPATCH!

The Inferno Earth has been fleshed out a bit in the spinoff novels (I know not all of you consider those canon), and the parallel Earth is not nightmarish, necessarily. The British government is harsh, but its nothing like as vicious or vindictive as our world's Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany, keep your head down, don't discuss politics and you'll be alright (before the little mishap at Eastchester that is, but then again our world would have been just as doomed if Keith Gold had died in the car accident that killed his counterpart)

As for what I'd regard as the most nightmarish location in the Doctor Who universe, I'd say the Nut Hutch. Those hippies will take my bacon from my cold dead hands!

keep your head down, don't discuss politics and you'll be alright

Well, providing you're not a member of the royal family, of course...

As for what I'd regard as the most nightmarish location in the Doctor Who universe, I'd say the Nut Hutch. Those hippies will take my bacon from my cold dead hands!

You don't mean it! The Nutch Hutch is the happiest place in the Whoniverse, give or take the odd giant maggot! And their fungus tastes so good it even convinced the Brig that it was meat!

I can only assume the Brig likes his steak burned to a crisp so you can barely taste anything anyway.

Nonsense, he's a Scotsman, he probably likes raw sheep's lungs or whatever haggis is...

Surely the most nightmarish places are the ones where the Doctor has scarpered sharpish, leaving the hapless good guys to rebuild without help (the humans in the Sun Makers, Hugo in Twin Dilemma).

Especially when the 'hapless good guys' are brutal torturers (Sun Makers).

The weird thing about the warp II world in 'Inferno' is that all the military have ranks - 'Brigade Leader', 'Platoon Under Leader' - that sound vaguely like they've been directly translated from a language other than English, but there's nothing to suggest that the regime is anything other than home grown.

This is actually an interesting one, Don Houghton clearly did his research, the rank titles are based on the ones used by the real world British Union of Fascists. The BUF was also surprisingly keen on women's equality.