Okay, some lists, why not. Obviously, these are fairly arbitrary, as there's no such thing as a single best or worst:

Hartnell:

Best - An Unearthly Child / 100,000BC. Marco Polo would be pushing hard if it wasn't missing. Same with the Mythmakers.
Worst - The War Machines - All malignant computer stories are somewhat idiotic but this one especially so.

Troughton:

Best - The Web of Fear - always a contender, but with the recent rediscovery taking it's rightful place.
Worst - The Dominators (giving the benefit of the doubt to some of the crappier missing episodes)

Pertwee:

Best - Doctor Who & the Silurians. The ending just gives it the nod.
Worst - Monster of Peladon (very few outright bad ones during this era, so I'll go with this dull one)

Bakkersby:

Best - Talons of Weng Chiang (last week it would have been City of Death)
Worst - Robot

Celery:

Best - Caves of Androzani (probably the only one on this list I'm 100% certain about)
Worst - Jeez... so many... I'll say Snakedance - just because it's so overrated I'll put it to be reactionary.

J.J Chambers:

Best - Vengeance on Varos
Worst - The Twin Dilemma, even moreso for being so boring than for the dubious characterization of the Doctor.

McCoy:

Best - Ghost Light - one of the most sophisticated Doctor Who scripts.
Worst - The Happiness Patrol - yeah, it's 'political', congratulations. Now make it not crap too.

McGann:

Not going to go into the Big Finish stuff so obviously this one is void.

Ecclestone:

Best - The Empy Child / Doctor Dances.
Worst - I want to say Dalek because it offended me as a woman but it has to be Father's day for being totally nonsensical.

Tendon:

Best - Blink
Worst - The Waters of Mars. Having someone behave out of character for half an episode before reverting to type doesn't count as character progression and holds little currency as meaningful drama. One of the laziest Doctor Who episodes.

Putty:

Best - The Name of the Doctor (it took a lot to dislodge the Eleventh Hour)
Worst - A Town Called Mercy. More fake drama in the same mould as Waters of Mars.

William Hartnell
B: The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
W: The Web Planet

Patrick Troughton
B: The Mind Robber
W: The Krotons

Jon Pertwee
B: Inferno
W: The Monster of Peladon

Tom Baker
B: City of Death
W: Underworld

Peter Davison
B: The Five Doctors
W: Warriors of the Deep

Colin Baker
B: Vengeance On Varos
W: The Twin Dilemma

Sylvester McCoy
B: Survival
W: The Happiness Patrol

Paul McGann
B: Movie (for Eighth Doctor and Grace)
W: Movie (for the ridiculous motorbike)

Christopher Eccleston
B: Father's Day
W: The Long Game (still a good episode though IMO)

David Tennant
B: Human Nature/The Family of Blood
W: The Idiot's Lantern

Matt Smith
B: The Doctor's Wife
W: Victory of the Daleks

Changed my views slightly
William Hartnell
B: An Unearthly Child/The Daleks
W: The Chase

Patrick Troughton
B: The Invasion
W: The Seeds of Death

Jon Pertwee
B: Planet of the Daleks - all time favourite story
W: Frontier in Space

Tom Baker
B: Deadly Assassin/Terror of the Zygons/City of Death - so many good stories
W: The Invisible Enemy

Peter Davison
B: Earthshock
W: Time-Flight

Colin Baker
B: Vengeance On Varos
W: Twin Dilema

Sylvester McCoy
B: Remembrance of the Daleks
W: Time and the Rani

Paul McGann
B: The Silver Turk (audio)
W: Movie

Christopher Eccleston
B: Dalek
W: Boom Town

David Tennant
B: The Christmas Invasion/The End of Time
W: Love and Monsters

Matt Smith
B: The Doctor's Wife/Vincent and the Doctor
W: Rings of Akhaten/Asylum of the Daleks - both are complete s***

William Hartnell
B: The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
W: Planet of the Giants

Patrick Troughton
B: The War Games
W: The Krotons

Jon Pertwee
B: The Daemons
W: The Monster of Peladon

Tom Baker
B: Genesis Of The Daleks
W: Underworld

Peter Davison
B: The Visitation
W: Snakedance

Colin Baker
B: Mark of the Rani
W: The rest of them.

Sylvester McCoy
B: Genuinely do not have a favourite
W: All of them.

Paul McGann
B: Movie
W: Movie

Chris Eccleston
B: Bad Wolf/Parting Of The Ways
W: Don't have a worst one.

David Tennant
B: Midnight
W: Fear Her

Matt Smith
B: The Lodger
W: Let's Kill Hitler.

Peter Capaldi
B: All of them.....fingers crossed.

What I find interesting here is a lot of common ground with some of the Doctors, especially some of the classics best & worst, e.g.:

Patrick Troughton
W: The Krotons/ Dominators/ Krotons (agree with any/ all of these, what about The Underwater Menace too -?)

Jon Pertwee
B: Inferno (a common pick as best but I think is overrated & would pick Green Death as my best, but that's just me)
W: Mutants/ Colony in Space/ Time Monster (agree on last 2 here, as I thought parts of the Mutants was good/ interesting, especially visually)

Tom Baker
W: Underworld (haven't seen yet so no view)

Peter Davison
B: The Caves of Androzani or EarthShock (agree, both good)

Colin Baker
B: Vengeance On Varos (hmm, left a bad taste in my mouth after watching recently, so unsure of a "best" here for Colin's Doctor -is there one?, need to see Trial of a Time Lord series (I had more or less given up watching as a kid before now -i.e. see below & The Twin Dilemma..)
W: The Twin Dilemma (totally agree, I still remember seeing this as a kid after The Caves of Androzani thinking this isn't happening, surely the story gets better by the next episode -?..)

Sylvester McCoy
B: Ghost Light/ Curse of Fendric -just bought Ghost Light finally, never seen it properly, looking forward to it, Curse of Fendric pretty good, although think overrated as one of the top classic stories, but when compared to those around it can understand high rating
W: Almost all others it would appear & tend to agree from what I've seen/ heard of other 7th Doc stories!


Others for me:

William Hartnell
B; The Ark (1 or 2 agree with me here, this is a real underrated story in my book)
W: The Gunfighters (musicals & bad American accents in Doctor Who -no thanks)

Patrick Troughton
B: The Invasion (this may change after I see Web of Fear)


Tom Baker
B: many, too hard to choose, State of Decay is right up there, and underrated & worth a mention

Peter Davison
W: Four to Doomsday

William Hartnell
B: The Aztecs
W: The Sensorites

Patrick Troughton
B: The Mind Robber
W: The Dominators

Jon Pertwee
B: Inferno
W: Colony in Space

Tom Baker
B: Genesis Of The Daleks
W: Underworld

Peter Davison
B: The Caves of Androzani
W: Four to Doomsday

Colin Baker
B: Vengeance on Varos
W: The rest of them.

Sylvester McCoy
B: Curse of Fenric
W: All of them.

Paul McGann
B: Movie
W: Movie

Chris Eccleston
B: Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
W: World War 3/Aliens of London

David Tennant
B: Blink
W: Fear Her

Matt Smith
B: The Name of the Doctor/The Doctors Wife
W: Victory of the Daleks

Peter Capaldi
B: All of them.....fingers crossed.(left that in as a quote from Camera as I so hope so,just love Capaldi)

ARE YOU MAD THOSE TWO ARE BRILLIANT STORIES each too there own though and The Stolen Earth/Journeys End was good but nothing special

Mark of the Rani wasn't that bad, Remembrance of the Daleks was amazing and the whole of the last season of the classic series was brilliant

William Hartnell

Best: Dalek Invasion Of Earth
Worst: The Web Planet.

Patrick Troughton

Best: The War Games
Worst:The Krotons

Jon Pertwee

Best: Inferno
Worst: Carnival Of Monsters

Tom Baker

Best: Genesis Of The Daleks
Worst: Warrior's Gate

Peter Davidson

Best: Caves Of Androzani
Worst: Timeflight

Colin Baker

Best: Attack Of The Cyberman
Worst: Timelash


Sylvester McCoy

Best: The Curse Of Fenric
Worst: The Happiness Patrol

Paul McGann

Best: The TV Movie
Worst: The decisions that meant he didn't get a fair crack at the role on TV, albeit he has been to extend the role via audio adventures that have been incorporated to some degree into the show's timeline.

Christopher Eccleston

Bad Wolf/Parting Of The Ways
Worst: Boom Town

David Tennant

Best: Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead
Worst: Midnight

Matt Smith

Best: The Name Of The Doctor
Worst: Night Terrors

Those are both great stories

Are you going to do this with everyone's list? I feel slighted that you haven't done mine yet. Please tell me which of my selections you agree and disagree with, and apply your fantastic level of critical reasoning ('but that's brilliant!' 'What? That one is terrible' etc). I find it very insightful and you're making me reappraise a lot of the episodes.

William Hartnell
Best - The Aztecs
Worst - The Sensorites

Patrick Troughton
Best - The Web of Fear
Worst - The Seeds of Death

Jon Pertwee
Best - Planet of the Spiders
Worst - The Monster of Peladon

Tom Baker
Best - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Worst - Underworld

Peter Davison
Best - The Five Doctors
Worst - Arc of Infinity

Colin Baker
Best - Revelation of the Daleks
Worst - The Mysterious Planet

Sylvester McCoy
Best - The Curse of Fenric
Worst - Dragonfire

Paul McGann
Best and worst - The TV Movie

Christopher Eccleston
Best - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Worst - Rose

David Tennant
Best - Human Nature/Family of Blood
Worst - The End of Time

Matt Smith
Best - The Doctor's Wife
Worst - The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People

Yeah well I'd agree with him over Carnival of Monsters -dodgy alien costumes aside, a great little yarn. As for Midnight, don't think I've seen that one (as for a flatmate banning all things Dr Who on the tv at the time of mid/ late 10th Doc)

I agree with most of your choices, but I think Waters of Mars is one of Tennant's best stories, not the best but it's up there.

Robot is also a great story and one of Tom's best.

I also kinda like A Town Called Mercy but I can see why others don't.

Not sure what your getting at with Dalek and saying Davison has so many bad stories also confuses me as he has more good than bad, I could understand if you said that about Colin, but Davison each too there own I guess, but still find it weird.

As I said, I agreed with the rest of your choices though (but not with the childish nicknames)

your flatmate sounds like he might be a jealous Trekkie

I must admit Rose isn't a great episode, but I have a soft spot for it as it was my first ever episode, I won't say it was the worst of Eccleston's era though, not when said era has such stinkers as Boom Town and the Long Game.

As for the End of Time, I understand why people don't like it, but it's one of my favourites (sort of a guilty pleasure) but again I wouldn't say it was the worst of Tennant's era not when that era includes such stickers as Love and Monsters, Fear Her and Daleks in Manhattern/Evolution of the Daleks.

I agree with the rest of your list though, good choices.

Yes, I see your point but I mean the only stories in my opinion that beat the Seeds of Doom in that era are The Brain of Morbius and The Talons of Weng Chiang and I mean the whole of the Baker era. Oh yea and I haven't listened to any of Bakers Big Finish audios so which ones would you recomend. Energy of the Daleks,Phantoms of the Deep and Destination Nerva all seem quite interesting or maybe even Auntie Matter.

OK, I don't claim to have seen all the classics but based on a mixture of historical recollection/DVDs/TV.

Hartnell- I have only seen two:
B: An Unearthly Child
W: The Aztecs which I saw on the telly last week and seemed really quite dull.

Troughton
B: Tomb of the Cybermen- the definition of a classic.
W: The Mind Robber- a load of hippy tosh.

Pertwee
B: Carnival of Monsters- In objective terms this probably is not as good as some of the earlier Pertween eps but I remember this one so vividly from childhood.
W: The Mind of Evil- Almost cant bring myself to choose one but as I recall this is almost incomprehensible.

T. Baker
B: Genesis of the Daleks- Again almost impossible to pick but early exposure to Davros triumphs.
W: The Invasion of Time- I love the Sontarans and don't give a fig for the Time Lords' reputation but this really is a mess.

Davison
B- Caves of Androzani- Same as everybody else but even at this stage I was still missing Tom.
W: Castrovalva- And I was really missing Tom when this was on. Yawn.

C. Baker
B- Attack of the Cybermen- Actually quite lively in my recollection.
W- Trial of a Time Lord- Makes it quite difficult to defend CB's doctor and the beginning of the end which still did not prepare us for the horrors of...

McCoy
B- There was nothing good about it, I still haven't seen the purportedly better and darker laters ones and don't care to...
W- Every single minute, of every episode that he was in before I gave up on the Happiness Patrol which elicited in me the awful feeling that actually Doctor Who was just completely rubbish and my happiest childhood TV memories were nothing but an illusion...

McGann
W- That thing he was in that was complete rubbish and very, very boring.

Eccleston
B- Empty Child/Doctor Dances- Triumph, I was right all along and Doctor Who is a great show. Thanks, Chris.
W- Dalek- The era of angst is upon us.

Tennant
B- Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead- That were really quite intriguing.
W- Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords- I half expected the show to be cancelled after this extremely unpleasant travesty. And Utopia had seemed promising.

Smith
B- Pandorica Opens/Big Bang- The best conclusion to any New Who season.
W- Nightmare in Silver- Although the Doctor's Wife was surprisingly great, this did confirm my instinct that actually Neil Gaiman is not nearly as smart as he seems to think he is.

You should really give McCoy another chance, I recommend Remembrance of the Daleks and Curse of Fenric

Anyone going to recommend?

My recollection was Top Gear was on another channel here when series 4 (I think) screened & as it was his telly & I didn't mind Top Gear, that was that.
From what I hear though this was one of the best period's of the new Who, so might have to watch a few of them, (even if Donna isn't really my cup of tea).

Hartnell:
B - The Daleks ( Dead Planet)
W - The Space Museum

Troughton:
B - The Invasion
W - The Dominators

Pertwee:
B - The Sea Devils
W - Colony in Space

Baker T.:
B - The Ark in Space
W - Destiny of the Daleks

Davison:
B - The Caves of Androzani (Just pipping 'Earthshock')
W - Time-Flight (But to be fair - 'Arc of Infinity' is shite too)

Baker C.:
B - Revelation of the Daleks
W - The Trial of a Timelord (Not one story in it which I can watch with a muggle...not one. How very dare they!!!)

McCoy:
B - Ghost Light
W - Paradise Towers

McGann:
B - The Chimes of Midnight
W - Caerdroia

Eccleston:
B - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
W - World War Three

Tennant:
B - Utopia
W - Fear Her

Smith:
B - A Christmas Carol
W - Closing Time

You missed the first episode of that story

How?

I was wonder the same thing, I can't tell if it's a joke or not