The Who You Love, The Who You Hate

[Andrew Curnow]

Simple thread to get the ball rolling - what (today!) is your favourite original series Who story, and which is your least favourite. Please feel free to give reasons!!

[Dirk Gently]

My favourite would be Talons of Weng-Chiang. Why? Well I just love the combination of Doctor Who & Sherlock Holmes, I wish they would do a detective story in the new series. I also like Robots of Death for similar reasons.


My least favourite would have to be The Twin Dilemma. Those bloody twins get on my nerves!

[Phillip Culley]

My favourite is The Underwater Menace for reasons I really can't explain - it's just fun, and I've found one of the stories I can watch/listen to again and again!

There's no story I actively dislike, however I'd much rather watch a clunker like The Twin Dilemma or Paradise Towers than cures for insomnia like Underworld and The Monster of Peladon

[Ralph]

My favourite is The Sea Devils - Pertwee & Delgado on top form, love the story from start to finish, don't mind the unusual experimental synthesiser background music and the monsters are some of my favourites with that fabulous rising from the water scene. Least favourite has got to be The Gunfighters - it grates on me from start to finish!

[SiHart]

City of Death is my favourite for being a Doctor Who story that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's silly, clever, funny and adorable... like me!

Planet of the Daleks is quite possibly my least favourite story, because coming to it after reading the Target book when i was young, I found it slow, tedious and badly made, which was such a great shame.

Si xx

[Dirk Gently]

because coming to it after reading the Target book when i was young, I found it slow, tedious and badly made, which was such a great shame.

I felt similar about The Space Museum, it was such a nice book.

[Logo Polish]

My favourite story is possibly Androids of Tara, because it's not pretending to be anything other than an enjoyable bit of fun.

Least favourite would probably be Timelash. Clunky and inept imo.

[Rob McCow]

Androids of Tara is an interesting one to choose. It's a perfectly good four-parter but I wouldn't list it as a classic myself.

Me, I prefer Day of The Daleks which has become a bit of a nostalgia favourite since I bought the video about fifteen years ago! It's a beautiful, sunshine story with wine and cheese. Yes, quite after my own taste in fact. It's either that or The Five Doctors.

I'm not too fond of The Tenth Planet. But out of all of Doctor Who it's about the only story that I don't really enjoy. It's not excruciatingly bad, but it is dull. Even Hartnell falls asleep by episode three and I can't get worked up about General Cutler's son trying to pull a lever in his little shuttle.

[Antony Cox]

Day of The Daleks - a beautiful sunshine story??

Loads of people get murdered and at the end someone commits suicide! Not the most up-beat story I can think of!

My fave is Ark In Space. It's the story I'm most able to suspend my disbelief over, and thus I can really enjoy and appreciate the magnitude of the situation. Plus it's very cosy - especially the first episode!

My least fave is probably The Twin Dilemma, too. It's not the twins which annoy me, it's everything else (bar Maurice Denham, natch).

[Anthony Williams]

My favourite has got to be Frontios - it's so fantastically dark and gloomy. They never managed another story like it! The other end-of-the-world stories that Who has come up with seem to have a somewhat cheerful attitude about them (The Ark/End of the World/New Earth). Frontios portrays the last of the human race as desperate and struggling for survival - brilliant!

My least favourite would have to be Colony in Space. dull, dull, dull!

Ant x

[Rob McCow]

Loads of people get murdered and at the end someone commits suicide!

Ah, but they do so against a gorgeous sunny backdrop and in a lovely field by a canal! The canal bridge is very similar to one in Croxley and for years I wondered if they actually filmed it there. Sadly not

Ooo - Frontios is lovely. It's certainly Davison's best outing as Doctor Who and he was pretty good normally!

[transvamp]

Favourite: Genesis of the Daleks (the story that first made me a fan, and even today I never tire of it)

Least Favourite: Mindwarp (pointless, nasty, manipulative Television. It was the 'death of Doctor Who' as far as I'm concerned)

[duncan]

In always find this such a difficult question to answer. I am a BIG big fan of Tom Baker's first three seasons and there are so many great stories there. The Ark in Space, Genesis, Revenge of the Cybermen, The Brain of Morbius, Pyramids of Mars and The Hand of Fear are real stand out episodes. But I think for me, I have to Pick The Deadly Assassin purely because its everything I feel Doctor Who should be. Gritty, dramatic, scarey and funny in rolled in to four excellent episodes.

As for the worst. Most 7th Doctor stories fall in to that category, but I think that Paradise Towers takes the biscuit.