Pertwee Survivor - The Final

[Paul Clement]

Round 18 was the semi-final. Another story leaves the game and we will be left with our final two. Which story is going to fall one step from reaching the final but collecting a respectable Third Place?

Eviction:
Mind of Evil 4
Day of the Daleks 2
Spearhead from Space 1

Save:
Day of the Daleks 5
Spearhead from Space 2

With 4 Eviction votes and no Save votes, Mind of Evil leaves the game in 3rd place.

Evicted:
The Time Monster
Planet of the Daleks
The Mutants
The Monster of Peladon
Colony In Space
The Ambassadors of Death
The Sea Devils
Frontier In Space
Carnival of Monsters
The Curse of Peladon
Terror of the Autons
The Daemons
The Claws of Axos
Planet of the Spiders
The Three Doctors
The Green Death
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Silurians
The Time Warrior
Inferno
Death to the Daleks
The Mind of Evil

Contenders:
Spearhead from Space
Day of the Daleks

Remember, Eviction votes only in the final.

[Paul Clement]

Evict: Day of the Daleks

[SiHart]

Evict: Day of the Daleks

[Wayne]

Evict: Day of the Daleks

[Andrew Curnow]

Although the nostalgia element plays really heavily in Day of the Daleks' favour, in fact it's no real contest is it. Spearhead from Space somehow does the unthinkable - Bob Holmes makes it look impossibly easy to reinvent the 'old guy ambles aimlessly through time and space and meets monsters on other planets' format into 'action hero based on Earth' and does it with style and wit and at the same time manages to keep the fundamental character of the Doctor the same. And it goes without saying that Pertwee gives a perfect debut, combining the same old intelligence (I love the way, for example, that he sniffs the plastic sphere) with the same glorious humour (the eyebrows....)

Sorry, damned predictive text, what I meant to type was:

Evict: Day of the Daleks

[Stuart Wallis]

Evict Spearhead

[Andrew Curnow]

I stand corrected. Curse you Wallis!

[Stuart Wallis]

Enjoy the boiling oil, next time I shall not be so lenient!

[MacNimon]

I agree with every word that Andrew says. Nostalgia plays a big part in my fondness of Day Of The Daleks, I can clearly remember watching it on a b&w tv at my grans house. My first viewing of Spearhead, on the other hand, is just a few barely-remembered scenes such as the Doctor on the wheelchair. Spearhead, though, is in all respects the superior story which remains to this day the best debut story for a new Doctor.

Which makes this a very difficult choice....it's very tempting to vote for a Dalek win just to keep things interesting with a few days to go and several votes still to come...but if I'm being honest with myself, there's really only one deserving winner.


Evict: Day Of The Daleks

[Nyder]

Evict: Day of the Daleks

[Dirk Gently]

Not one to follow the heard...Evict: Day of the Daleks.


Baaaa.


Sorry, not getting much sleep.