Thirty Days of Doctor Who: Day Eleven

Day 11 – Your Favourite Season

This is a tough one - but in the end it has to be Season Fourteen. The closest thing it has to a weak serial is The Hand of Fear and even that has it charms, especially Sarah Jane's farewell scene. (The proposed Foreign Legion story in which she was meant to die might well have been better at the time, but I'm very glad they didn't make it now that Sarah has gone on to such greatness.)

Apart from that, it's all downright wonderful - Hinchliffe excels himself in his last year as producer, and while I know it caused problems later I just can't regret his decision to overspend wildly to make things look better. How could I not love a season that has The Masque of Mandragora, The Deadly Assassin, The Talons of Weng-Chiang AND The Robots of Death?

(The Robots of Death is my favourite Hinchcliffe era story, in case you hadn't guessed. It has Chris Boucher, David Collings and homicidal robots. Of death.)

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