...which, of course, had the turret battle thing (A New Hope). Then we had "The Eleventh Hour" which wasn't much of a Star Wars ripoff only because Star Wars never did anything with its one shapeshifting character other than make it the first casualty of hand-choppery in the series, and then shoot it to death with a poison dart, thus raising the question of why anyone would have elected to clone an army from a man who cannot aim, because killing his partner in that situation was stupid compared to, say, killing her captors. Or shooting her with a laser that couldn't be traced. Or not outsourcing the job anyway. Enough about horrible horrible movies, the point is, "The Eleventh Hour" was fairly (aaack, erm, cough) original as far as Doctor Who goes.
After that, though, was "The Beast Below," which featured the trash compactor from A New Hope cleverly disguised as a giant space whale's tongue. It also had an action girl Queen who ran around in a disguise and finally broke down at the end (sound familiar)? And "Victory of the Daleks" had well, a Death Star run.
(PS- how did it take the show 47 years to do Daleks in WWII, since the Daleks were originally based on the Nazis? Seriously.)
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