At this point I ought to say you should give them a chance, but I don't think they are better at all. They were the work of writers who hadn't really done much on TV (nothing at all in some cases) and didn't really know what they were doing, but hardly anyone else wanted to write for Doctor Who by that stage so there you go. If there's anything else you'd rather be watching, I'd opt for that.

I agree even though listed Terminus as worst Arc of Infinity and Time-Flight are almost as bad and. All three of them share the same incidental music I found out since I watched them recently. I nick-named Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity, Time-Shite and The Arse of Infinity but I dont know what to nickname Terminus. Any ideas?

I'm going to do another list and this time its going to be my Top 5 Stories for every Doctor apart from the three 80s Doctors since they don't have very many. Here goes...

Hartnell

BEST
1 The Daleks Master Plan
2 The Gunfighters
3 The Romans
4 The Daleks
5 Marco Polo

WORST
1 The Web Planet (Worst)
2 The Dalek Invasion of Earch ( controversial but it was cheap, it didn't have a strong guest cast and had rubbish Dalek voices.)
3 The Unearthly Child (Episodes 2-4)
4 The Reign of Terror
5 The Space Mueseum

Troughton

BEST

1 The War Games
2 Evil of the Daleks
3 Enemy of the World
4 The Invasion
5 Web of Fear ( havent seen the surviving version)/ Power of the Daleks

WORST

1 The Dominators
2 The Krotons
3 The Macra Terror
4 The Highlanders
5 The Space Pirates

Pertwee

BEST

1 The Silurians
2 The Mind of Evil
3 The Sea Devils
4 The Green Death
5 The Time Warrior

WORST

1 The Mutants
2 The Claws of Axos
3 Planet of the Spiders
4 Invasion of the Dinosaurs
5 Death to the Daleks

Tom Baker

BEST

1 The Talons of Weng Chiang
2 The Brain of Morbius
3 The Seeds of Doom
4 Pyramids of Mars
5 City of Death

WORST

1 Underworld
2 The Armageddon Factor
3 The Creature from the Pit
4 The Invasion of Time
5 The Leisure Hive

Davison

BEST

1 The Caves of Androzani
2 The Five Doctors
3 Enlightenment

WORST

1 Terminus
2 Time-Shite
3 The Arse of Infinity

Colin Baker

BEST

1 Revelation of the Daleks
2 Mindwarp
3 Terror of the Vervoids

Worst

1 The Twin Dilemma
2 Timelash
3 The Two Doctors

Sylvester Mccoy

BEST

1 Ghost Light
2 Remembrance of the Daleks
3 The Happiness Patrol

WORST

1 Survival
2 Time and the Rani
3 Silver Nemesis

Cant do New Who since I havent seen most of it since it was broadcast

Arc of Infinity is alright by me. Much better than Time-Flight.

Most stories are better than Time-Flight

I'll happily watch Arc Of Infinity - as long as the commentary is on!

William Harntell

Best: The Keys of Marinus
Worst: The Aztecs

Patrick Troughton

Best: The Invasion
Worst: The War Games (I really like this story however)

Jon Pertwee

Best: Inferno
Worst: The Mutants

Tom Baker

Best: The Talons of Weng Chiang
Worst: The Creature from the Pit (although I woudn't call this story bad)

Peter Davison

Best: The Five Doctors
Worst: Terminus

Colin Baker

Best: The Trail of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
Worst: The Twin Dilemma

Sylvester McCoy

Best: Remembrance of the Daleks
Worst: Time and The Rani

Christopher Eccleston

Best: Dalek
Worst: Boom Town

David Tennant

Best: Stolen Earth/ Journey's End
Worst: Fear Her (Still this story isn't Bad)

Matt Smith

Best: The Day of the Doctor
Worst: The Rings of Arkhaten

Peter Capaldi

Best: Dark Water/Death In Heaven
Worst: Kill the Moon

William Hartnell:

Best - The Aztecs
Worst - The Web Planet

Patrick Troughton:

Best - The War Games
Worst - The Dominators

Jon Pertwee:

Best - Inferno
Worst - Colony in Space

Tom Baker:

Best - Genesis of the Daleks
Worst - Meglos

Peter Davison:

Best - The Caves of Androzani
Worst - Time Flight

Colin Baker:

Best - Vengeance on Varos
Worst - The Twin Dilemma

Sylvester McCoy:

Best - The Curse of Fenric
Worst - The Happiness Patrol

Paul McGann:

Best/Worst - The TV Movie
(but I love The Night of the Doctor)

Christopher Eccleston:

Best - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Worst - The Long Game

David Tennant:

Best - Midnight
Worst - Love & Monsters

Matt Smith:

Best - The Name of the Doctor
Worst - Victory of the Daleks

Haven't seen every episode of the classic doctors (unfortunately) so I'll just do from 2005 on-

9th Doctor

Best: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Worst: Aliens of London/World War Three

10th Doctor

Best: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (hard to decide between this and Midnight)
Worst: Fear Her

11th Doctor

Best: The God Complex
Worst: The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe

12th Doctor (so far)

Best: Mummy on the Orient Express
Worst: Kill the Moon

First doctor:
B- The Tenth planet
2. The Aztecs
W- the Romans
2. The Rescue

Second doctor:
B- the seeds of death
2. The tomb of the cybermen
W-the Krotons

Third doctor:
B-Death to the daleks
2. Spearhead from space
3. Inferno
4. The monster of peladon
5. The mind of evil
W- the daemons

Fourth doctor:
B- city of death
2. Pyramids of Mars
3. Destiny of the daleks
4. The invasion of time
5. The ark in space
6. The robots of death
7. The sontaran experiment
7. The leisure hive
8. The horns of nimon
9. Genesis of the daleks
10. Robot
W- warriors gate
2. The hand of fear
3. State of decay
4. Full circle
5. Revenge of the cybermen

Fifth doctor:
B- mawdryn undead
2. Black orchid
3. The five doctors
4. Earthshock
5. Warriors of the deep
6. Enlightenment
W- time flight
2. Terminus
3. The caves of androzani (yeah, really. I didn't like it AT ALL)

Sixth doctor:
B- the ultimate foe
2. The twin dilemma (yeah, really. I loved it!)
3. Terror of the vervoids
4. Revelation of the daleks
5. Timelash (yeah, really. I loved it!!)
W- the two doctors

Seventh doctor:
B- delta and the bannermen (loved it loads!)
2. Time and the Rani (this is real you know, my actual opinion. I thought this was gr8)
3. Survival
4. Remembrance of the daleks
W- Ghostlight
2. Dragon fire

Eighth doctor:
B- the movie
2. Night of the doctor
W- n/a

Ninth doctor:
B- bad wolf
W- Father's Day

Tenth doctor:
B- 42
2. The impossible planet/ the satan pit
3. The unicorn and wasp
4. The waters of Mars
5. New earth
W- midnight

Eleventh doctor:
B- time of the doctor
2. The rings of akhaten
W- hide

Twelfth doctor:
B-mummy of the orient express
W- listen
2. Into the dalek
3. Robot of sherwood

Disagree 100% with this

9th Doctor-
Best- Dalek
Worse- Boom Town/ Aliens of London/ World war 3

10th Doctor-
Best- The Waters of mars. Midnight. The girl in the fireplace. Blink. The impossible Planet/ The satan pit
Worse- Fear her/ Love and monsters

11th Doctor-
Best- The Doctor's Wife/ The girl who waited. The snowmen. The Name/ Day of the Doctor
Worse- Victory of the Daleks/ Night terrors. Yeah, both of Mark gatisss episodes

12th doctor-
Best- Listen. Last Christmas.
Worse- In the Forest of the night. The Caretaker (Cool robot thing but would rather drag on with Clara and Dannys love life)

Haven't seen enough of Classic who to make a judgement of the stories of those doctors but from 2005 to now

9th doctor

best - a three way tie between the the three two parters of the series, as i think they are all great but each is so different in tone and style that it is hard to judge them against each other.

worst - I honestly don't have a single story I dislike in that entire series. If I absolutely have to choose one that I could say was weaker than the others, then perhaps boom town. Thats not to say I dislike the story at all, just that out of such a strong run, it probably has the least going on.

10th doctor

Best - The stolen earth/Journeys end - A true masterpiece that has yet to be bettered as finales go, in my opinion. A wonderfully put together story representing a culmination of everything that came before it in 10's era. Lots of companions, davros, daleks, a big threat harsh destruction scenes, emotional scenes, funny scenes, sad scene's, the doctor getting challenged on the nature of his personality. It has everything a good story should have and binds it all together effortlessly and coherently.

Worst - Love and monsters

11th doctor

Best - Two way tie between A Christmas carol and day of the doctor. A Christmas carol was one of the few Moffat examples in his era of timey wimey done well. A new telling of a classic story which just worked perfectly. As for Day of the doctor, what can I say that hasn't already been said many times. Just epic, and a fitting celebration of 50 years. Would have been better with eccleston rather than a one episode doctor gimmick, but is still great as is.

Worst - NIght terrors - Just terrible.

12th doctor

Best - Last christmas - This episode had a good strong story which was clever with plenty of twists and turns, and more importantly frequently felt like it had real peril. Also Capaldi in this episode feels really like he has settled into the role more than any of the episodes that came before, and the usually overbearing Clara even is the co operative likeable Clara that is so rarely seen.

Worst - Forest of the night - seriously I wonder how this even made it past the scripting submission stage.

The caretaker is a close second though. A pointlessly boring episode where it became the Clara show like no other.

What would be an example of a purposely boring episode?

I haven't seen a lot of the classic series yet (although I've seen 19 serials in total) so I'll leave out the classic series Doctors but out of the new series ones:

Christopher Eccleston:

Best: Bad Wolf/Parting Of The Ways
Worst: The End Of The World

David Tennant:

Best: The End Of Time - Part 2
Worst: Love & Monsters

Matt Smith:

Best: Day of the Doctor
Worst: The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People

Peter Capaldi:

Best: Dark Water
Worst: The Caretaker

Right, so since I am a wee bit indecisive about specific, outright, singular favourites, Ill post my top 2 (sometimes maybe even join 3 best and worst for each doctor).

First Doctor; William Hartnell
Best: Dalek Invasion of Earth / The Daleks
Worst: The Rescue / The Romans

Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Best: The War Games / The Mind Robber (maybe an odd choice, I know, but ive always been extremely fond of this one!)
Worst: The Dominators (not BAD just a bit run of the mill) / The krotons (same deal)

Third Doctor: John Pertwee
Best: Inferno / Spearhead from Space
Worst: Both peladon stories bore me a bit.

Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker
Best: Horror of Fang Rock / Genesis of the Daleks / City of Death
Worst: Revenge of the Cybermen / Underworld

Fifth Doctor: Peter Davison
Best: Kinda / Caves of Androzani
Worst: Warriors of the Deep / Frontios

Sixth Doctor: THE Colin Baker
Best: The Mark of the Rani
Worst: Twin Dilemma / Timelash

Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy
Best: Survival / Ghost Light
Worst: Time and the Rani / Delta and the bannermen

Eighth Doctor: Paul Mcgann
Best: (Cheating here, but id say, my fave 8th doctor STORY is the novel "alien bodies")
Worst: (cheating again) War of the daleks novel

Ninth Doctor: Christopher Eccelstone
Best: Fathers Day / Parting of the ways
Worst: the long Game.

Tenth Doctor: David Tennant
Best: Gridlock / Turn Left / The Waters of Mars
Worst: Fear Her / Planet of the Dead

Eleventh Doctor: Matt Smith
Best: The Big Bang / The Girl Who Waited
Worst: Nifghtmare in Silver / Journey to the centre of the tardis (Dont think ive ever been so disappointed in an episode.

Twelfth Doctor: Peter Capaldi
Best: Listen (fast became an all time fave of mine)
Worst: Robot of sherwood was the only one I thought was particularly average this series (you can put me firmly in the yay season eight camp) - appreciated the tone of this one, just not the script.


Oh, an Just thought I would put this in here: the doctors ranked from my fave to least fave (though I genuinely like each and every single one of them):

1. Ninth Doctor - Eccleston
2. Tenth Doctor - Tennant
3. Eleventh Doctor - Smith
4. Fourth Doctor - T. Baker
5. Fifth Doctor - Davidson
6. Twelfth Doctor - Capaldi (get the feeling 12 may be further up by the end of his run)
7. Second Doctor - Troughton
8. First Doctor - Hartnell
9. Third Doctor - Pertwee
10. Eighth Doctor - McGann
11. Seventh Doctor - Mccoy
12. Sixth Doctor - C. Baker

I meant pointlessly boring in the sense that it was pointless to make a story that was so boring and Clara and Danny centric when that could have been used for an extra 'doctor having an adventure episode'. Just my opinion of course For reasons unbeknownst to me I've noticed that some on the forum like it, so obviously some people got something out of it, but not my kind of story at all.