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What are your top ten fav Doctor Who eps, in no particular order, and counting two, three etc parters as one.

Mine:

1.) The Doctor Dances/The Empty Child.
2.) Blink
3.) The Girl in the Fireplace
4.) Doomsday
5.) Human Nature/Family of Blood
6.) The Christmas Invation
7.) Rose
8.) Utopia/Sound of Drums/ The Last of the Time Lord
9.) The Runaway Bride
10.) School Reunion

Ooof! Are we talking classic or new series? Or both?!

Anyway...

Classic Series

1. Remembrance Of The Daleks - 7th Doctor, 5/10/1988 - 26/10/1988 (First I ever saw, so it's got the nostalgia factor and I thought Ace was really cool. The story scared me!)
2. The Caves Of Androzani - 5th Doctor, 8/3/1984 - 16/3/1984 (Highly quotable and shows what some people will stoop to to get what they want - Morgus and the spectrox.)
3. The TV Movie - 8th Doctor, 25/6/1996 (I honestly thought that the series was back properly. Loved Paul McGann as the Doctor, but wasn't so sure about Eric Roberts as the Master.)
4. The Daleks - 1st Doctor, 21/12/1963 - 1/2/1964 (An icon is born.)
5. The Mind Robber - 2nd Doctor, 14/9/1968 - 12/10/1968 (Lovely tale that combatted a lot of production problems, not least Frazer Hines who played Jamie falling ill during the shoot. Ingenious!)
6. The Talons Of Weng Chiang - 4th Doctor, 26/2/1977 - 2/4/1977 (I'm terrified of human looking puppets after this! I loved Professor Litefoot trying to teach Leela etiqutte though!)
7. Trial Of A Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe - 6th Doctor, 29/11/1986 - 6/12/1986 (Final story before the 18 month hiatus. I was very hard pushed to decide which section to use, but this one won for me because of the final confrontation.)
8. Spearhead From Space - 3rd Doctor, 3/1/1970 - 24/1/1970 (The dawn of the Pertwee era, first use of the Autons, first story to be shown in colour... loads of firsts really!)
9. Castrovalva - 5th Doctor, 4/1/1982 - 12/1/1982 (Dawn of the Davison era. Lovely story about trying to find your identity even when it's obvious to everyone except yourself.)
10. The Pyramids Of Mars - 4th Doctor, 25/10/1975 - 15/1/1975 (I love Ancient Egypt, even though the story isn't set there, and you can try your hand at solving the puzzles. Sarah looked amazing in her costume.)

New Series

1. The Girl In The Fireplace (Beautiful. I'm fascinated by that time period, and this story makes me cry. The perfect Doctor Who story.)
2. The Lazarus Experiment (Be careful what you wish for. Lazarus wasn't.)
3. Bad Wolf/The Parting Of The Ways (Goodbye to the Ninth Doctor, hello to the Tenth and a brilliantly witty look at TV game shows. Bitingly satirical.)
4. Human Nature/The Family Of Blood (Heartbreaking. I cried loads at this.)
5. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (What do you really believe in? The Doctor has his beliefs tested to the max. An amazing exploration of religion.)
6. Blink (The scariest concept yet!)
7. The Christmas Invasion (The dawn of the Tennant era. He's not rude, or ginger, but he is a fan.. fanta... brilliant Doctor!)
8. Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday (Goodbye Rose. That's all that needs to be said.)
9. Rose (Dawn of the Eccleston era, and a highly important episode. This had to introduce the concept of the show to a more or less entirely new audience and did so with a flourish!)
10. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (Hi Jack! He might be flexible when it comes to dancing, he might be able to win you over with his smile, but when it comes to the Empty Children, he forgot to set his alarm for Volcano Day!!)

I didn't forget it. It's in my Top 20, but I was only asked for my Top Ten!

I'd have to watch every episode of Doctor who from the 1st Doctor till the tenth till I decided this will take months!!! gonk I'll report to you when I'm done neutral seriously

I seen about all the 1st Doctor episodes

rofl rofl
Seriously, w-o-w.
I feel like such a newbie to the series now. rolleyes mrgreen

Ah, but all fandoms need new blood if they are to survive.
I think it's great so many new fans are getting interested in the Classic Series. I was afraid there would end up being a schizm, like there often is in Trek fandom.

I second that!! Aaaaaand my list. A drum roll please... I'm still waiting...okay scrap that:


1.The Empty Child/Doctor Dances {9} (never laughed so much my sides hurt before)
2.The Two Doctors {6&2} (It has my two favourite Doctors in it.)
3.Pyramids of Mars {4} (Awesome. The Doctor dressed up as a mummy haha)
4.Planet of the Spiders {3} (Most Awesome Car/Boat/flying dohicky chases ever!)
5.Snakedance {5} (I now laugh eveytime I see Martin Clunes - he looked so daft)
6.Vengence on Varos {6} (Sil freaked me out... He reminded me of my cousen Terri who is also small... and scary)
7.Time and The Rani {7} (She was the most Awesome Female mastermind ever. BRING HER BACK RTD!!!)
8. New Earth {10} (Loved the Cat Nuns. And Boe. Shows the new series doctors aren't above the "spray-'im-in-the-face-with-yer-knockout-perfume-then-bung-'im-in-the-scary-green-pod-thing")
9.Trial of A Time Lord {6} erm... all of it (Most Excellent, Colin rules, The Scrapyard was pretty evil, The Master had a funky background on that screen thing)
10.The TV Movie {8} (Okay, very fond of 8, read loads of books with him in, Dear BBC, do not let the Americans do Doctor Who again. ever. No offence to Americans I met some very nice ones down the beach who wanted to pet my dog, and heck, John Barrowman turned out fine [you must be doung something right xd ] Grace Holloway must die. Or maybe just have an embarassing accident involving lots of custard and screaming.)

*pants* Okay... all done. I wish i could mention all the others I adore (Mostly Tom Baker, Pirate Planet, City of Death, Genesis of the Daleks etc)


On a further note I would also mention Castrovalva. It made me feel quite sorry for poor Adric. Then I watched some other episodes and realised just how much of an annoying... twerp he really was.