Favourite story?

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:34 am

As we've heard about favourite Doctor, it would be interesting to hear people's favourite (and least favourite) stories from either the old or new series (or both!)

My favourite from the old series is hard to choose, but I'd probably go for Pyramids of Mars as I love the mixture of science fiction and Egyptian mythology as well as the Doctor's sort of moody mysteriousness. As for least favourite, well, I've just seen Underworld a few weeks ago for the first time so it's tempting to say that but I'd have to go for Delta and the Bannermen, it's just awful.

I can't really say about the new series since I haven't yet seen enough since series 1 but I'll get back to you when I've caught up! I did see Blink though, and that was really good, very clever, particularly how it worked so well with the Doctor and Martha hardly in it.

Over to you...

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:33 pm

Of the old series, I'd say my favourite was the Curse of Fenric, of the new series, either Utopia or Blink.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:20 pm

I liked Blink.

Pi3Orionis · Post by **Pi3Orionis** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:22 pm

I'd have to say my favorite episode from the older series would be "The War Games." It's probably one of the longest of the old serial-style episodes. It starts off like you would imagine a typical episode, but keeps escalating as a mystery until you reach the end of the episode, where we first get to see what it was the Doctor left when he started wandering.

Of the new series, my favorite is (and will probably forever be) "The Girl in the Fireplace." If I had to pick one episode in the entirety of Doctor Who to show someone and say, "This is what Doctor Who is about," that episode would be it. It's like a gem; you look through one facet and the story's a conventional science fiction plot; look through another and it's very fanciful historical fiction; look at it from another angle and it's a beautiful fairy tale. The episode is one of the most well-written as well, with so many wonderful quotes to it. Also, I have a soft spot for bittersweet endings.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:59 pm

Was that the one with the clockwork robots?
That was a good one.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:00 pm

Ah , yes, the War Games. Not one of the very best but one of the ones that had an 'epic' feel to it. Probably the best of the regeneration serials.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:02 pm

I second The War Games. It was a very good episode.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:45 pm

New series, probably Dalek. They took a race that on the face of it are fairly absurd... and made them frightening again!

Old series... there was a story in which the stones in one of those stone circles were alive... and they used to come after people. As a kid, that just terrified me - to the extent that I still remember it some twenty five years later.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:18 pm

That must be The Stones of Blood, coincidentally in a few weeks I'll be watching that for the first time since it was on in the 70s as I'm progressing through the Tom Baker stories they released on VHS in later years. It really was a memorable story, one of the first I saw as a child. Actually it's out on DVD in September in the UK if I recall correctly as part of the Key to Time boxset (finally coming to region 2!)

Dalek was good too, it reminded me of 'I, Borg' in the way it did what seemed impossible and almost made you see things from their point of view.

As for The War Games, I'm ashamed to admit I gave up somewhere near the beginning and jumped to episode 10!

It wasn't that I didn't like it, it just seemed so long to sit through at the time when the video came out (I'd only borrowed it, not bought it). When it finally comes out on DVD I will watch it all though.