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

Underworld

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Re: Underworld

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Yes, it has interminably long scenes of people walking through incredibly dodgy CSO caves. But if you can look past that, it's actually quite good.

The Time Lords' mistake with Minyos is fascinating, the spaceship being the core of the planet is great, and then the "quest is the quest" (I got a sore chest from repeatedly banging it, hard, along with the Minyans because it was too fucking funny) was well done. It's an old plot, trying to save the future of a planet with race banks / people in stasis / miniaturized people / etc, etc but a good one, and the guest characters played well. And Leeeeeelllllla.