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All of 'em Pertwee is my favourite Doctor The Worst: Paradise of Death Ghosts of N-Space |
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It was in my Bottom Five as well. The story isn't one of the better Dalek ones and Jon Pertwee's performance was as about as straightlaced and moralistic as it ever was. No eccentricity anywhere at all.
And toy Daleks as the Ice Army didn't help either...... Quote:
Does anyone else dislike "The Day Of The Daleks" or "Death To The Daleks", in any way?
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I like Day, I think the Ogrons were a great addition and would love to see them make a return. Plus, a story actually about time itself, which is pretty rare in Who.
I really liked Death when I first saw it, but I don't think it's aged that well. Considering how much I love Daleks, there's been a high number of misses from their appearances! ![]() Death hasn't aged well, the "root" things and just overall it is a tired runaround of a story for me ![]() ...and yes a lot of Dalek stories do seem to be misses! |
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Oh yeah the toy Daleks, fogotten that!!! But I guess if the story is good enough, shite visuals can be forgiven considering age etc...I love the Green Death but that fly!! And the maggots aren't that convincing in many scenes either...
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Agree about Planet of the Daleks, it's all a bit mundane, it only just managed to scrape out of my bottom 5.
They are both fairly morbid affairs, but I find them much cleverer and more intriguing than 'Planet', which really doesn't seem to go anywhere. Death To The Daleks I put in my bottom five as well. The first part of episode 1 was okay but after that, there's nothing else really to commend it and as with the Silurian story and the later Cyberman story of the following Season, there was that sodding awful incidental music again which I hate! ![]()
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With the Pertwee era, I think a lot of the stories drag on too long, lots of six and seven parters. Too much filler time running around disengages me, Colony in Space and Monster of Peladon would be examples of being better if they were shorter.
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With the Pertwee era, I think a lot of the stories drag on too long, lots of six and seven parters. Too much filler time running around disengages me, Colony in Space and Monster of Peladon would be examples of being better if they were shorter.
![]() That's mostly but not, all the reason I put The Silurians in my bottom 5. However, saying that Inferno worked as a 7 parter because it was done in a way that split up the story by introducing a parallel world mid-story so for that I can make an exception.
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Season 7 was the worst when most of them were 7 Parters!
![]() That's mostly but not, all the reason I put The Silurians in my bottom 5. However, saying that Inferno worked as a 7 parter because it was done in a way that split up the story by introducing a parallel world mid-story so for that I can make an exception. ![]() I don't have it as a favourite story, I think mainly because it had such a huge reputation I was a bit underwhelmed when I eventually saw it. |
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All of 'em Pertwee is my favourite Doctor The Worst: Paradise of Death Ghosts of N-Space
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Best - Planet of the Daleks ..... yes Planet of the Daleks. I loved it. Loved the last episode the best.
Worst story:- his very first one. Don't get me wrong I love the Autons, but that whole struggle with the regeneration saga seemed to last an age... |
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Worst story: "Spearhead From Space". Don't get me wrong. I love the Autons, but that whole struggle with the regeneration saga seemed to last an age...
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Longer than it did in later stories, such as Davison opener "Castrovalva"?
With Jon pertwee I'd say it was all done and dusted by the end of Part 2.
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Spearhead from Space Inferno The Dæmons The Three Doctors The Green Death Bottom 5: Invasion of the Dinosaurs Planet Of The Daleks Colony in Space Death to the Daleks Day of the Daleks Daleks were not well used in the Pertwee era, imho. |
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The Daleks were not well used in the Pertwee era, IMHO.
(OK, so he did that in "The Five Doctors" - but that was as a guest in an anniversary story, years after he regenerated!) |
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Then Pertwee should have made one fewer Dalek stories (if not two fewer) and battled the Cybermen at least once!
(OK, so he did that in "The Five Doctors" - but that was as a guest in an anniversary story, years after he regenerated!) It's a bit like The Brigadier not meeting the Sixth Doctor during his Era so Nick Courtney could have claimed that too!!!!
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It's a bit like The Brigadier not meeting the Sixth Doctor during his era, so Nick Courtney could have claimed that too!!!!
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It's a shame because the Cybermen could have appeared in every era of Classic Who had they appeared in a fully fledged Pertwee adventure(Yes, I know about Carnival Of Monsters).
It's a bit like The Brigadier not meeting the Sixth Doctor during his Era so Nick Courtney could have claimed that too!!!! ![]() Quote:
Didn't they work together at least once, through "Dimensions In Time"?
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1. The Sea Devils 2. The Daemons 3. The Silurians 4. The Time Monster 5. The Time Warrior Worst: 1. Spearhead from Space 2. Terror of the Autons 3. The Ambassadors of Death 4. Inferno 5. The Green Death |
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I agree, both Davison and Colin Baker's debut story took forever for eithe rof them to stabilise. I think with Davison it was pretty much the last episode of Castrovalva before he normalised, with the odd wobble here and there. With Colin Baker it was practically until the last Scene before he declared he had stabilised.
With Jon pertwee I'd say it was all done and dusted by the end of Part 2. ![]() ![]() I agree about the 3rd Doctor shaking off the regeneration rather quicker than others. It's not really his fault he was dragged away to a hospital, when the coast was clear he managed to think 'sod it', then just got out of the bed, found some clothes and got to work. |
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Re "Planet of the Daleks" I think this was a very good example of where the novelisation worked far better than the telly version did. The invisible spiridons, "liquid ice", a vast army of daleks and a jungle full of nasties all worked great in the imagination of the reader, and all failed pretty poorly with a BBC '70s budget
Back OT - I cant really say after 40 years what would really be the best but those that really stick out would be Spearhead from space Terror of the Autons The green death The Daemons Inferno. With Terror the stand out due to introducing the Master, the Devil doll, Death by armchair, killer daffodils and the only thing scarier than autons - autons dressed as clowns
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"Shoes!"
![]() I agree about the 3rd Doctor shaking off the regeneration rather quicker than others. It's not really his fault he was dragged away to a hospital, when the coast was clear he managed to think 'sod it', then just got out of the bed, found some clothes and got to work.
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Perhaps getting shot helped him "snap out of it"
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I'm doing Pertwee at the moment, so this will have to be updated.
Unfortunately, he is still my least favourite Doctor out of One, Two, Three, Nine, Ten and Eleven. Anyway from what I've seen so far: Top 3 Spearhead from Space Inferno The Ambassadors of Death Bottom 3 The Claws of Axos Okay just the one. I haven't seen anything else yet that I haven't liked. But I've only seen season 7 and 8. |
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Season Seven
01) Inferno 02) Spearhead From Space 03) The Silurians 04) The Ambassadors Of Death Season Eight 01) The Daemons 02) Terror Of The Autons 03) The Mind Of Evil 04) The Claws of Axos 05) Colony In Space Season Nine 01) Day Of The Daleks 02) The Sea Devils 03) The Curse of Peladon 04) The Mutants 05) The Time Monster Season Ten 01) Carnival Of Monsters 02) The Green Death 03) Planet Of The Daleks 04) The Three Doctors 05) Frontier In Space Season Eleven 01) The Time Warrior 02) Invasion Of The Dinosaurs 03) Planet Of The Spiders 04) Death To The Daleks 05) The Monster Of Peladon Best: 01) Inferno 02) Spearhead From Space 03) Day Of The Daleks 04) The Daemons 05) Carnival Of Monsters Worst 01) The Time Monster 02) The Monster Of Peladon 03) The Mutants 04) Colony In Space 05) The Ambassadors Of Death |
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01) Inferno 02) Spearhead From Space 03) Day Of The Daleks 04) The Daemons 05) Carnival Of Monsters Worst 01) The Time Monster 02) The Monster Of Peladon 03) The Mutants 04) Colony In Space 05) The Ambassadors Of Death Quote:
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1. The Daemons 2. Curse of Peladon 3. Inferno 4. Spearhead from Space 5. The Sea Devils Worst: 1. Colony in Space 2. The Time Monster 3. The Mutants 4. Monster of Peladon 5. Ambassadors of Death ![]() 3 of the same stories in top 5, and the exact same 5 stories in worst 5. |
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Longer than it did in later stories, such as Davison opener "Castrovalva"?
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