What's the SADDEST episode ever?

[Anthony Williams]

Out of all of the show, I'd say the end of Family of Blood where they visit Tim at the War Memorial. I found that scene quite moving.

Agreed - that scene ALWAYS has me in tears!

Ant x

[cyberchris35]

Out of the episodes listed I would say Earthshock for Doctor Who because of the death of Adric, for Torchwood I would say Exit Wounds only for the death of Tosh, won't say Owen because he was already dead.
Of the new series of Doctor Who I would say the episode that gets me every time I watch it is Doomsday, the very end where Rose is talking to the Doctor's image on the beach and the Doctor not quite getting out that he loves Rose.

[Lord President]

The end of School Reunion - 'My Sarah-Jane' gets me every time!

[Larry]

The end of School Reunion - 'My Sarah-Jane' gets me every time!

same with me to - I also found Silence in the Library, where Miss Evangelista, died and her "ghost" was talking after her death quite a sad moment.

[Si Hunt]

I think it went on a bit too long to be a "moment". More like a "sad ten minutes".

Si.

[shada pavlova]

well this is about sad episodes in general, but even then Silence in the Library is a pretty sad episode anyway.

[Dirk Gently]

Well by all accounts it would have been a sad 'moment' had the episode not been under-running. But they had to stretch it out a bit.

[Andrew Curnow]

Of those listed, I'd say Logopolis for sure. Not so much the regeneration itself, as all the brooding stuff with the Doctor and the Watcher, mainly in episode 2. And also that sense of "things will never be the same again" that I felt in 1981, and which still kinda lingers when I watch it.

But, agreed, Father's Day is a very emotional and moving episode. Mind you, I find the scene where Faroon discovers Sarn's skeleton in Time and the Rani very moving too, so what do I know?

[Dirk Gently]

...still kinda lingers...

Yeah, Kinda lingers in most peoples mind. But what are you going to do?

[Larry]

not quite sure you'd call it sad but the way/circumstances in which Tegan, left at the end of Reserection of the Daleks, was quite a powerful and emotional moment.

[Kaybee Bailey]

Yeah... considering that I can generally take or leave Tegan as a character, I do find that scene disproportionally emotional. Also, having thought about it, I reckon Adric's appearance in the regeneration sequence in Caves of Androzani is more moving than his actual death. It's because the doctor has had to explain that he can't go back and save people, then gradually lost all his long-term companions, and then you get this regeneration. It's quite sad when you look at the Fifth Doctor's relationship with his friends as a whole. It's no Dodo being happy to stay wherever she's gone to, is it?

[Andrew Curnow]

I think part of the reason that Tegan's departure is so powerful, is that as well as the music, and Tegan being sad, we also see the Doctor quite bitter, and very critical of himself. When she goes he looks winded, and Davison is superb when he says, "It appears I must... mend my ways" before storming into the TARDIS. Heartbreaking, and a really rare bit of 'character development' for the Doctor.

[Pip Madeley]

Poor Dodo - according to the books, she lost her virginity, contracted a sexually transmitted disease* and then had a nervous breakdown and spent the rest of her life in various psychiatric institutions.

*or so some people say

[Kaybee Bailey]

Yes, in this case a rare and mostly unwanted bit of 'character development'...

[Captain Tancredi]

Poor Dodo - according to the books, she lost her virginity, contracted a sexually transmitted disease* and then had a nervous breakdown and spent the rest of her life in various psychiatric institutions.

*or so some people say

Before being shot in 'Who Killed Kennedy'- don't forget that bit.

[Pip Madeley]

Thank God they're not canon, eh!

[Pip Madeley]

Thank God they're not canon, eh!

[shada pavlova]

And why not?

[Si Hunt]

Some might say her STD was not completely in the spirit of the Hartnell years.

Si.

[SiHart]

Being shot in the head with a single bullet was pretty Non-Whoish too!

Si xx

[Lord President]

Being shot in the head with a single bullet was pretty Non-Whoish too!

Si xx

How many bullets would count as Who-ish then?

[Larry]

Poor Dodo - according to the books, she lost her virginity, contracted a sexually transmitted disease* and then had a nervous breakdown and spent the rest of her life in various psychiatric institutions.

*

sounds like an episode of Eastenders..

[Larry]

How many bullets would count as Who-ish then?

well you'd need at teast a dozen bullets if it was an episode of Torchwood.

[Jeff]

How many bullets would count as Who-ish then?

Five. Rapid.

[Antony Cox]

Five. Rapid.

And what shape would they be?