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Best & Worst Troughton Stories
Started this one because I think we might have a bit more general consensus on the best stories but we'll see......
Best: 1) The Web Of Fear 2) The Abominable Snowmen 3) The Tomb Of The Cybermen 4) The Power Of The Daleks 5) The Evil Of The Daleks (An honourable mention to The War Games which is just outside!) Worst: 1) The Underwater Menace 2) The Space Pirates 3) The Macra Terror 4) The Dominators 5) The Krotons |
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This is a tough one - will have to think about this one a bit more!
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Bit harder with certain episodes missing but....
Best: 1. The Abominable Snowmen 2. The Invasion 3. Tomb of the Cybermen 4. The Web of Fear 5. Evil of the Daleks Worst: 1. The Space Pirates (least fave story ever) 2. Underwater Menace 3. The Dominators 4. Enemy of the World 5. The Krotons |
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Worst was easy, best was a lot tougher
Best - Power Of The Daleks The Highlanders Web Of Fear The Mind Robber The War Games Worst - The Underwater Menace The Wheel In Space The Dominators The Krotons The Space Pirates |
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*sees the forum being cluttered with "Best & Worst" threads*
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It's a bit late now and anyway it's not like the forum is a hive of activity at the moment.
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This is very difficult, having to rely on the soudnstrack CDs ... most of which I have only heard once!
In no spaffic order: WORST: Evil of the Daleks The Highlanders The Dominators The Abominable Snowmen The Space Pirates I hated Evil. It's like a virgin's knickers: on and on and on. It never ends. Jamie and a Mute Ethnic wander round some corridors for bloody hours, with blades falling from ceilings and trapdoors opening beneath them. Rubbish. It's "capture/escape/capture/escape" for episode after episode. I am sure people are only excited about it because they've never seen it. The 1960s stuff is fun, but a lot of the Victorian stuff drags terribly. The Abominable Snowmen is also overlong, with lots of capture/escape stuff. When it's good, it's great, but when it's bad it just drags. The Highlanders would be utterly forgotten if it wasn't for Jamie's first appearabnce. BEST: Power of the Daleks The Faceless Ones The War Games Fury from the Deep The Wheel in Space The Daleks are dead scary in Power. The Faceless Ones is fascinating, and feels so nice and modern. The story's a bit far fetched (one Scouse teenager is the only person to have noticed planeloads of people disappearing), but it's got energy, unusual locations and a nice range of characters. Just bubbling under are The Web of Fear and The Invasion. Invasion doesn't make top five because it's a smidge long. |
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*sees the forum being cluttered with "Best & Worst" threads*
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*Can't we have ONE best & Worst thread for ALL Doctors???!!!
At least in this thread people aren't likely to cause a punch up about the relative merits of Peter Bryant vs Innes Lloyd ...
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Oh my giddy aunt, another tricky one! Here goes:
Best: 1) The Mind Robber (best who story ever!) 2) The Web of Fear (tense and gripping) 3) The War Games (a real epic) 4) The Moonbase (incredibly creepy in places) 5) Evil of the Daleks (the Daleks at their manipulative best) Worst: 1) The Dominators (deeply, deeply dull) 2) The Space Pirates (deeply, deeply dull and daft) 3) The Wheel in Space (not bad, but not particularly good) 4) The Ice Warriors (not bad, bit slow) Again, as with Hartnell, I simply don't have a fifth 'worst'. I was pushing it at four. I love sixties Who... |
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When I put The Highlanders in my best I almost added - and yes Chuff I know you won't agree here! Your Highlanders dislike is well known!! I really like it though, a nice fun story, and I'm not a big fan of Jamie's at all.
Faceless Ones was considered for my favourites list but I can't forgive it for getting rid of Ben & Polly!!! |
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That would just descend into "X Producer is crap, X Doctor is rubbish" arguements, surely?
At least in this thread people aren't likely to cause a punch up about the relative merits of Peter Bryant vs Innes Lloyd ... ![]() |
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I suspect the majority of people on this forum haven't seen most of these (like myself) so it might be a little more nostalgia and hearsay-driven, but here goes...
Best (in no particular order) The Mind Robber The Invasion The Abominable Snowmen The Tomb of the Cybermen The Evil of the Daleks Worst (in no particular order) The Krotons The Dominators The Highlanders The Space Pirates The Faceless Ones |
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Ah. Would this be a bad time to mention Peter Cushing, then?
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I suspect the majority of people on this forum haven't seen most of these (like myself) so it might be a little more nostalgia and hear-say-driven, but here goes...
Best (in no particular order) The Mind Robber The Invasion The Abominable Snowmen The Tomb Of The Cybermen The Evil of the Daleks Worst (in no particular order) The Krotons The Dominators The Highlanders The Space Pirates The Faceless Ones especially the brief re-casting of Jamie, and how The Doctor reacts to it! ![]() As for "The Space Pirates" - imagine if ALL of its episodes had survived!
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The Best:
The Invasion Tomb of the Cybermen The Web of Fear Evil of the Daleks Power of the Daleks The Mind Robber |
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"The Mind Robbers" is IMHO the best Troughton story to survive in its entirety -
especially the brief re-casting of Jamie, and how The Doctor reacts to it! ![]() As for "The Space Pirates" - imagine if ALL of its episodes had survived! :eek: However, Milo Clancey gives the story some redemption if nothing else.
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Best is anything with Wendy Padbury in it, worst is anything without her.
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Best is anything with Wendy Padbury in it, worst is anything without her.
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*sees the forum being cluttered with "Best & Worst" threads*
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Top 5:
The Invasion The Mind Robber The War Games The Web of Fear The Seeds of Death Bottom 5: The Space Pirates The Wheel in Space The Moonbase The Dominators The Krotons Breaks my heart a little that so many episodes of the Troughton era are forever lost...
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