Old School Doctor Who Episodes Love Meme

[doyle]

I've run memes like this before for companions and for ships (and I'm trying to dig up links to those) and decided it might be fun to try one for all the episodes of old school Doctor Who. In the comments are threads for every story from An Unearthly Child to The TV Movie (actually, The Curse of Fatal Death, because I couldn't leave Lumley Doc out); reply to these comments with what you loved about the episode, whether it's favourite lines, moments, squee for the rubbish dinosaurs, character love, shippiness, screencap picspam, or just 'best episode ever'. No harshing others' squee, please - there are 160 serials linked, there must be some you loved... Loving on stories generally derided by fandom is positively encouraged.

For some help navigating, this wiki page has the serials in order.

If any have been missed, feel free to stick them on at the end - I've just realised The Myth Makers isn't there...

Comments

The Tenth Planet

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

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Re: The Tenth Planet

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

A historic episode; pity so many of the interesting bits were burninated.

The early Cybermen are still genuinely chilling, and the regeneration scene still has the power to shock.

Re: The Tenth Planet

[livii.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the recon of the fourth episode? For a serial that suffered burnination, this one is still remarkably intact, as they even have some-quality video of the regen. :D

Re: The Tenth Planet

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

That fourth episode recon is the best I've ever seen.

Re: The Tenth Planet

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

"What did you say, my boy? "It's all over." "It's all over." That's what you said. No.... but it isn't all over. It's far from being all over..."

Re: The Tenth Planet

[livii.livejournal.com]

This is a genuinely awesome serial, with loads of great action and emotion by Polly and Ben (really, they save they day!) and the early Cybermen are AWESOME and we get all the backstory. There's some terrible accents which mar the proceedings somewhat but on the whole it's awfully good, and the regeneration happens to be one of the best things EVER, like EVER EVER. And even though that's a burninated episode (though 3 of 4 are intact!) there's low-quality video of the regen at least in the recon I watched, so it's still awesome. :D