My Top 111 Doctor Who Stories
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andrasteThis morning, I finished watching The Gunfighters. This means that I have now seen - or heard, in cases where the BBC burned the film - every Doctor Who story ever broadcast! There are a few individual episodes I've not caught up with, like the flaws in an Amish quilt, but I'm still boggled that I've managed this in just a few short years.
(For the record: not seen the animated bits of The Invasion, or the last episode of The Dominators. Also missed half an episode of Arc of Infinity somehow. Not planning to rectify the latter two oversights any time soon.)
To celebrate, a ridiculously long list! The obvious question is 'why?' Well, why not? If you're going to make a list of favourite stories, why not list them all?
As for 'why 111?', the answer is: because that's how many favourite Doctor Who stories I have today. Tomorrow it may have increased to 112, since there are many audios, books, comics and short stories I've yet to catch up with.
1. City of Death
2. The Caves of Androzani
3. The Empty Child
4. Inferno
5. Spare Parts
6. The War Games
7. The One Doctor
8. The Robots of Death
9. Loups-Garoux
10. Marco Polo
11. Ghost Light
12. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
13. Alien Bodies
14. The Holy Terror
15. Davros
16. The Power of the Daleks
17. The Curse of Fenric
18. Genesis of the Daleks
19. Punchline (I don't care if it's technically the Doctor or not. Too good to leave out.)
20. The Deadly Assassin
21. Deadline
22. Kinda
23. Continuity Errors
24. The Settling
25. A Storm of Angels
26. The Impossible Planet
27. The Natural History of Fear
28. Fury From the Deep
29. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
30. The Flood
31. Managra
32. The Harvest
33. Tomb of the Cybermen
34. Rags
35. Scherzo
36. Happy Deathday
37. The Algebra of Ice
38. Army of Ghosts
39. The English Way of Death
40. The Trials of Tara
41. The Seeds of Doom
42. Dalek
43. Venusian Lullaby
44. Human Resources
45. Goth Opera
46. Warrior's Gate
47. Vampire Science
48. Sympathy for the Devil
49. The Girl in the Fireplace
50. The Reaping
51. The Eleventh Tiger
52. The Glorious Dead
53. The Church and the Crown
54. The Duke of Dominoes
55. The Chimes of Midnight
56. Timewyrm: Revelation
57. Tooth and Claw (The Eighth Doctor comic strip, not the Tenth Doctor TV episode.)
58. Revelation of the Daleks
59. Spearhead From Space
60. Frontios
61. The Dalek Invasion of Earth
62. The Unquiet Dead
63. Oblivion
64. The Game
65. Auld Mortality
66. Doctor Who and the Pirates
67. The Mind Robber
68. Pyramids of Mars
69. Seasons of Fear
70. School Reunion
71. The Star Beast
72. Sword of Orion
73. The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
74. The Evil of the Daleks
75. The Gunfighters
76. Tooth and Claw (Now here's the one with the werewolf.)
77. The Time Warrior
78. Image of the Fendahl
79. The Romans
80. The Road to Hell
81. The Marian Conspiracy
82. The Romance of Crime
83. The Lodger
84. Only Human (The Gareth Roberts book, not the BBV audio play.)
85. Time and Relative
86. The Masque of Mandragora
87. Faith Stealer
88. Mawdryn Undead
89. The Mind of Evil
90. Junkyard Demon
91. The Wormery
92. Voyager
93. Black Orchid
94. The Massacre
95. Year of the Pig
96. Glass
97. The Cruel Sea
98. The Fires of Vulcan
99. Millennial Rites
100. The Time Meddler
101. Moon Graffiti
102. Caerdroia
103. Timeshare
104. The Man in the Velvet Mask
105. Deep Blue
106. Night Thoughts
107. The Gathering
108. Primeval
109. Paradise Towers
110. Invasion of the Dinosaurs
111. Death Comes to Time
(For the record: not seen the animated bits of The Invasion, or the last episode of The Dominators. Also missed half an episode of Arc of Infinity somehow. Not planning to rectify the latter two oversights any time soon.)
To celebrate, a ridiculously long list! The obvious question is 'why?' Well, why not? If you're going to make a list of favourite stories, why not list them all?
As for 'why 111?', the answer is: because that's how many favourite Doctor Who stories I have today. Tomorrow it may have increased to 112, since there are many audios, books, comics and short stories I've yet to catch up with.
1. City of Death
2. The Caves of Androzani
3. The Empty Child
4. Inferno
5. Spare Parts
6. The War Games
7. The One Doctor
8. The Robots of Death
9. Loups-Garoux
10. Marco Polo
11. Ghost Light
12. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
13. Alien Bodies
14. The Holy Terror
15. Davros
16. The Power of the Daleks
17. The Curse of Fenric
18. Genesis of the Daleks
19. Punchline (I don't care if it's technically the Doctor or not. Too good to leave out.)
20. The Deadly Assassin
21. Deadline
22. Kinda
23. Continuity Errors
24. The Settling
25. A Storm of Angels
26. The Impossible Planet
27. The Natural History of Fear
28. Fury From the Deep
29. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
30. The Flood
31. Managra
32. The Harvest
33. Tomb of the Cybermen
34. Rags
35. Scherzo
36. Happy Deathday
37. The Algebra of Ice
38. Army of Ghosts
39. The English Way of Death
40. The Trials of Tara
41. The Seeds of Doom
42. Dalek
43. Venusian Lullaby
44. Human Resources
45. Goth Opera
46. Warrior's Gate
47. Vampire Science
48. Sympathy for the Devil
49. The Girl in the Fireplace
50. The Reaping
51. The Eleventh Tiger
52. The Glorious Dead
53. The Church and the Crown
54. The Duke of Dominoes
55. The Chimes of Midnight
56. Timewyrm: Revelation
57. Tooth and Claw (The Eighth Doctor comic strip, not the Tenth Doctor TV episode.)
58. Revelation of the Daleks
59. Spearhead From Space
60. Frontios
61. The Dalek Invasion of Earth
62. The Unquiet Dead
63. Oblivion
64. The Game
65. Auld Mortality
66. Doctor Who and the Pirates
67. The Mind Robber
68. Pyramids of Mars
69. Seasons of Fear
70. School Reunion
71. The Star Beast
72. Sword of Orion
73. The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
74. The Evil of the Daleks
75. The Gunfighters
76. Tooth and Claw (Now here's the one with the werewolf.)
77. The Time Warrior
78. Image of the Fendahl
79. The Romans
80. The Road to Hell
81. The Marian Conspiracy
82. The Romance of Crime
83. The Lodger
84. Only Human (The Gareth Roberts book, not the BBV audio play.)
85. Time and Relative
86. The Masque of Mandragora
87. Faith Stealer
88. Mawdryn Undead
89. The Mind of Evil
90. Junkyard Demon
91. The Wormery
92. Voyager
93. Black Orchid
94. The Massacre
95. Year of the Pig
96. Glass
97. The Cruel Sea
98. The Fires of Vulcan
99. Millennial Rites
100. The Time Meddler
101. Moon Graffiti
102. Caerdroia
103. Timeshare
104. The Man in the Velvet Mask
105. Deep Blue
106. Night Thoughts
107. The Gathering
108. Primeval
109. Paradise Towers
110. Invasion of the Dinosaurs
111. Death Comes to Time
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Date: 2007-04-02 03:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-02 05:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-02 06:31 pm (UTC)I've seen all the TV series when they were first broadcast, with the exception of part of one Jon Pertwee season when I got fed up with the monotony of the Doctor, stuck on Earth, helping UNIT to destroy a succession of invading monsters. I may also have missed the odd episode here and there when I was away on holiday. But I've rewatched comparatively few stories.
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Date: 2007-04-03 01:27 am (UTC)Great list! I've not seen/read/heard half of it, but I can tell it's a great list.
Soooo... "Deep Blue" is on your list, but I see no sign of "The Crystal Bucephalus"-- definitely my favorite Five novel :)
Compleatly Unrelated (again)
Date: 2007-04-04 01:01 am (UTC)Thanks for the Yami sound track. Could you please send me (or post for the world to see) the list of songs and the reasons behind them, please. I have made my own assumptions but would like to know what you were thinking.
Thanking you