Have You Shared Your Top Doctor Who Stories With Us?

[Si Hunt]

My view is that you should give the stories you like least 1, the ones you like most 10, and then rate everything else relative to that - as Si has done in fact. There's no point ranking everything out of 10, then not using both ends of the scale.

Si.

[Rob McCow]

Quite right. Besides, you know there are going to be some 'people' out there who will rate your favourite story with a 1 or a 2. It's all about ensuring your vote has maximum effect, rather than say giving every story an 8. As they're working on averages, that won't change the result at all!

[Wayne]

What i don't like about the way Si (& Paul) have done it is (for example) that if you look at it in terms of rankings, there are 4 stories that tie for first place with 10, & then 44 stories that tie for second place, & so on......
We don't know if Si likes 'Marco Polo' better than 'Turn Left', or 'The Stones of Blood' better than 'Partners in Crime', or whatever.

[SiHart]

I'll leave you to ponder that Wayne.

I didn't do it mostly because it's very, very difficult to put stories in order of preference. But you can reats assured that my absolute favouritest story is City of Death and my absolutely stinkiest story is Blink. (or maybe when I'm calmer, Planet of Evil)

Si xx

[Simon R]

So have we all filled in our DWM 200 poll forms?

The closing date is next thursday, we could not, would not want to wait.

[Andrew Curnow]

I know what Wayne means when he says "What i don't like about the way Si (& Paul) have done it is (for example) that if you look at it in terms of rankings, there are 4 stories that tie for first place with 10, & then 44 stories that tie for second place, & so on...... " but I have found it just impossible to rank every story in order. It's taken me a lot of dithering to group them in 1-10!!

I haven't applied much science to this, it's simply down to which stories I enjoy watching, which I don't. So whatever its objective merits, or perceived quality, or whatever, I've based this simply on my personal tastes. So if I'm going to sit down and watch a story, I'd prefer a 10 over a 9, a 7 over a 6, and a 2 over a 1. There are also some which, although I'm happy to waffle on about in a general sort of way, I don't know nearly well enough to vote on. I was actually surprised to see quite a few stories under this heading, so I may well start searching out some of these - it's actually quite nice to think there's so much Who that would be 'as new' to me!

So without further ado...

[Andrew Curnow]

(The four stories scoring 10 are actually ranked in my order of preference, but that's the only group where this is the case!)

10
Castrovalva (all-time fave rave)
Logopolis
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Robots of Death

9
The Rescue
Genesis of the Daleks
City of Death
Full Circle
Mawdryn Undead
Remembrance of the Daleks
Aliens of London/World War Three
Gridlock

8
An Unearthly Child
The Aztecs
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Massacre
The War Machines
Power of the Daleks
The War Games
Inferno
The Daemons
The Day of the Daleks
The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
The Ribos Operation
The Pirate Planet
The Androids of Tara
Destiny of the Daleks
Nightmare of Eden
Kinda
Frontios
Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
The Happiness Patrol
The Curse of Fenric
Survival
The Movie
Rose
Father's Day
The Christmas Invasion
Smith & Jones
The Lazarus Experiment
Human Nature/Family of Blood
Blink
Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Timelords
The Fires of Pompeii
Midnight

7
The Daleks
The Web Planet
The Time Meddler
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Dominators
The Invasion
The Krotons
Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Mutants
The Three Doctors
Planet of the Spiders
The Ark in Space
Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Face of Evil
Horror of Fang Rock
Image of the Fendahl
The Stones of Blood
The Creature from the Pit
The Keeper of Traken
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
The Five Doctors
The Awakening
Planet of Fire
Revelation of the Daleks
The Trial of a Timelord
Delta and the Bannermen
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
The End of the World
The Unquiet Dead
Boomtown
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
Tooth & Claw
School Reunion
Fear Her
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
The Shakespeare Code
Turn Left
Planet of the Dead

6
The Crusade
The Ark
The Gunfighters
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
The Evil of the Daleks
The Mind Robber
The Seeds of Death
The Ambassadors of Death
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Frontier in Space
The Green Death
The Sontaran Experiment
Revenge of the Cybermen
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Horns of Nimon
The Leisure Hive
Arc of Infinity
Warriors of the Deep
Resurrection of the Daleks
The Caves of Androzani
The Twin Dilemma
The Two Doctors
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
The Girl in the Fireplace
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
The Runaway Bride
42
Partners in Crime
The Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
Love & Monsters
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

5
The Edge of Destructin
The Reign of Terror
The Enemy of the World
The Wheel in Space
Terror of the Autons
Planet of the Daleks
Death to the Daleks
Robot
The Brain of Morbius
The Masque of Mandragora
Meglos
State of Decay
Four To Doomsday
Snakedance
Enlightenment
The King's Demons
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Long Game
The Idiot's Lantern
Voyage of the Damned
Planet of the Ood
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
The Next Doctor

4
Planet of Giants
The Space Museum
Colony in Space
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Time Monster
Carnival of Monsters
The Invasion of Time
Warriors Gate
Terminus
Timelash
Dalek
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
The Unicorn and the Wasp

3
The Romans
The Armageddon Factor
The Mark of the Rani
Silver Nemesis

2
The Romans
The Android Invasion
The Seeds of Doom
The Power of Kroll

1
The Chase
The Celestial Toymaker
The Monster of Peladon
Time-flight
Dragonfire
New Earth
The Doctor's Daughter


UNPLACED
Marco Polo
The Keys of Marinus
The Sensorites
Galaxy 4
Mission to the Unknown
The Myth Makers
The Daleks' Masterplan
The Savages
The Smugglers
The Tenth Planet
The Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Faceless Ones
The Abominable Snowmen
The Ice Warriors
The Web of Fear
Fury from the Deep
The Space Pirates
The Invisible Enemy
The Sunmakers
Underworld

[Rob McCow]

Wow, you really didn't like 'The Doctors Daughter' did you?

Yay for Logop and Castro!

[Jonno]

So, was the Romans a 2 or a 3, eh? And given that the Rescue warrants a 9, will you be buying the box-set (if you haven't already!).

[Andrew Curnow]

So, was the Romans a 2 or a 3, eh?

Ah, well done Jonno, wondered who'd spot my deliberate mistake first... It should be a 2.

And no I haven't - it's a dilemma...

[Rob McCow]

I think you should jolly well give the Romans another go, before you get a jolly good smacked bottom!