I am quite a big fan of Dr Who, and having grown up watching the fifth doctor I naturally think he was the best, although the current one seems to be doing a pretty good job. One of the great things about the old Dr Who episodes is that the stories would be split across different episodes, with each one either leaving the doctor in mortal danger or some other cliff hanger which would leave you pining for the next episode.
Some of these stories are currently available on youtube, although I don’t know for how long considering how everyone and their dog now wants to sue google for copyright infringement. Anyway, I have put them into chronological order for your entertainment pleasure, so you can relive the bad acting and incidental music:
Season nineteen
Castrovalva – The doctor recovers from his regeneration
Four To Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation – The doctor starts the great fire of London
Black Orchid
Earthshock – Adric dies
Time-Flight – The doctor goes supersonic
The Five Doctors – The doctor celebrates his birthday by having some friends round
Season twenty
The Guardian Trilogy:
Mawdryn Undead – The doctor aquires a new assistant
Terminus – Nyssa leaves (I was gutted as I used to have a crush on her!)
Enlightenment – The doctor goes sailing
The King’s Demons – I couldn’t find this story
Season twenty-one
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios – The doctor loses his Tardis
Resurrection of the Daleks – Tegan decides to leave the doctor and stay on Earth
Planet of Fire – Turlough leaves and Peri joins the doctor as the new assistant
The Caves of Androzani – Time for another regeneration
Enjoy!
Given that The 5 Doctors follows straight on from The King’s Demons, I think your ordering is a little out.
An you call yourself a fan 😉
Comment by Base — August 15, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor) irritated me for some reason. Perhaps not as much as following doctors did, but still irritating.
I became a fan of Doctor Who, like most most people, when Tom Baker popularly took on the role of the Fourth Doctor. Great stuff.
Over the years I wound up watching almost every episode of them until the late 1980’s, and I think my favourite doctor is John Pertwee (Third Doctor).
This has nothing to do with Worzel Gummidge, but rather you can really see the guy loved the role and threw himself into it more than most of the other actors.
Besides, back then the cheese factor was high and the special effects budget was low! 🙂
I’d love to start getting this stuff on DVD, but with the prices BBC want for their DVDs they can go and get stuffed.
Comment by Simon — August 15, 2007 @ 1:39 pm