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: The Mind of Evil

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of action in this story, not that that is untypical for a Pertwee era story. The Havoc stunt team obviously had fun with the raid on the prison!

We find ourselves in suspense just waiting for the Master to show up, and he doesn't disappoint. The show is interesting in that it shows that the Master is willing to work with the Doctor to defeat/control a greater evil, but turns on the Doctor as soon as things are done. The Doctor, on the other hand, although not trusting the Master, is hopeful in outlook, but is probably never really surprised that he is betrayed by the Master in the end. The gloating phone call at the end could be seen as an influence on the Doctor and Master phone convo during The Sound of Drums.