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

Re: Image of the Fendahl

[livii.livejournal.com]

This one was quite good! Very entertaining. Let's see:

Some fairly chilling horror, with a slightly warmed-over plot that nonetheless was populated by some good guest characters and played to both Four and Leela's strengths very well. The baby Fendahl snake-things were of course utterly, hilariously, ridiculous, but Thea turning into that woman-creature was very well done and rightly scary. Leela had some excellent scenes, and had, again, the most awesome chemistry with the Doctor. He noticed she'd changed her outfit! He noticed when she changed back! The Doctor doesn't notice that stuff, dude, and it was ADORABLE. (Plus, she looked really hot in her episode-outfit, rah). It was a bit disappointing to not get our first proper K-9 episode as he wasn't written in except at the beginning, but it wouldn't have suited the story anyway; spooky deaths in the woods, glowing skulls, and blowing up priories in the dark are much more human-based adventures, to be sure. (Oh, and I totes was counting on the skull being a companion the Doctor accidentally lost the 12 million years ago or whatnot. I have so much faith in him, yeah?)