Doctor Who : Best Episode In Jon Pertwee's 1st Season

also Doctor Who : Best Episode In Tom Baker's 1st Season

lol landslides

Inferno for me btw

Inferno for everyone btw

The Ambassadors of Death will pick up a few though i should imagine

Now watch all the lurkers go for Spearhead In Space.

the RTD vote

See, this is the reason I tought about extending these out beyond seasons, because Inferno is just incredible and there's not much in Pertwee at all that would beat it. Daemons, maybe? Sea Devils could attract lurker votes?

I voted for "The Ambassadors of Death". "Inferno" has some neat ideas though.

both are awesome. The thing with the pertwee stuff is the stories are faster paced and dont drag like the 1st 2 doctors. It was pretty much the blueprint for the last 30 odd years

I've only seen Spearhead. And I don't think it deserves a vote.

"and then they all turned around, and everyone was wearing an eye-patch"

Ok if everyone's voting Inferno I'll go with Silurians. The whole virus-spreading part is creepy and cool, and it's probably the Brigadier's best episode.

like anything other than Inferno has a chance in hell

^ accidental pun

Inferno, of course. Ambassadors of Death actually pretty boring, I thought.

Inferno! Inferno!

Damn right!

monday morning bump

Pigbin Josh owns this thread.

Last year, me and my friend thought we saw John Pertwee walking up Tottenham Court Road. We were sure it was him! Found out he'd died years ago a few days later.

Lucky you didnt ask for an autograph

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bump for tom d

No chat I suppose because Inferno is gonna be the clear winner i suppose

argh I didn't mean that end bit

lol, you totally did

I wonder what ppl think the best story from TEH SEASON OF TEH MARSTER was?

Should i do a second season of pertwee poll next?

I think so! It will spark more funny haterz rants.

Yeah ok. I didn't think other polls were going to spring up in the wake of these 2. I was originally going to do baker and pertwee then davison after the pertwee ones were done.
I may as well continue with pertwee and baker and see what happens.

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wau

Dan you were wrong!

Ambassadors is my least favourite.

It's my 2nd favourite but dan put people off voting for inferno by saying it would walk it!

Finally rented a copy of Inferno. Look out, Doctor! Here come the Green Nazi Werewolves!

Haha, that's more like it; need to stop something? Just start beating the shit out of the computer with a wrench.

You should keep liveblogging this. 'Inferno' is some seriously odd wonderfullness.

Well that was enjoyable. Everything from an oilman with an ascot to green goo from the center of the earth to power struggles between the jackass professor and an impotent button-down public servant type with a bowler to V for Vendetta fascists to Caroline Jones in a dodgey brunette wig to an evil doppelganger with a scar & an eyepatch but NOT, noticeably, facial hair.

-Jones +John etc etc etc

Also, I like that fuckin' BORAT is Patient Zero

neat:

Christopher Benjamin, who played Sir Keith Gold, would also play the part of Henry Gordon Jago in the Fourth Doctor serial, The Talons of Weng-Chiang and also played the part of the colonel in "The Unicorn and the Wasp".

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1228/65388087wy6.jpg

http://drwhotht03.110mb.com/3d/d3-3d-024.jpg

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3352/d33d024xg9.jpg

He looks like Peter Sellars in that last one.

I like how Inferno has the cliffhanger of "oh no everyone's going to die!" and then everyone dies.

Yeah, Terrance Dicks mentions that in the extras on the DVD. They all apparently enjoyed putting the world at risk, and then finally saying fuggit and blowing it up, if only a parallel version.

well done ILE! I didn't vote here but would have gone for Ambassadors (only just over Inferno). Inferno is the weightier story, but undone slightly by repetition. while Ambassadors is made more eerie through its emptiness. plus haunting music and the scene with the alien (on the ship) is strangely moving.

the acting by Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier) and Caroline John (companion Liz Shaw) is terrific during the parallel world sequence of Inferno. I suspect it's Pertwee's best (certainly most serious) performance too.

this season, 7, is prob my fave after season 5. (with 4 long stories it's the double album era of Who seasons)

Just watched Inferno for the first time. Of all the old-Who episodes I've seen, it seems to wring the maximum intensity out of its craptastic budget. The sound work in this is insane. It's basically three hours of white noise.

This whole season was so incredible.

yeah, prob the most consistent outside of Smith/Moffatt's first. if only they'd had the money to do one or two more shorter ones, instead of three huge beasts.

(Silurians is padded, Inferno handles it okaaaaay with the mid-story twist [like Invasion, Invasion Of Time, and ENEMY OF THE WORLD :D :D ], Ambassadors I've not seen in full for decades but remember as AMAZING first few, slow later)

prob the most consistent outside of Smith/Moffatt's first

There's not a single Sylvester McCoy story I don't think is brilliant, but I realise I might be on my own with this.

Cartmel/McCoy is one of my favourite eras, but S24 has one of the very worst Who stories ever made, S25 has three amazing ones and one giant dud, and in S26 ...well, Battlefield doesn't quite fire, but every flaw of the other three is totally outshone by their ambition. Nu-S5 beats it on both ambition and execution though.

S24 has one of the very worst Who stories ever made

you might need to elaborate here

i mean i assume you mean 'time and the rani' but that year wasn't exactly breaking bad series 4

TATR -> Paradise Towers is the single biggest leap in quality in the show's history, just after Androzani -> Twin Dilemma, and shows what an accidental visionary Cartmel was. I remember Bannermen as a bit crap but haven't rewatched it*. Dragonfire only has two drastic flaws, and both are of direction. It has an ok story, some good characterisation, McCoy's acting (continuing to) becoming deeper & richer*, and one of the best SPFx the series ever did.

* & suspect I might be wrong, after rewatching most of the others this year
** eg him not talking in the "cantina" scene, the departure scene at the end

TATR is definitely the worst Who story I've ever seen or read or heard though, yeah.

ah cool

I just watched Time and the Rani part one for the first time in years, and the dialogue is so strange. Like, so strange it's hard to believe it wasn't a conscious choice.

TATR at least has The Rani's hilarious Mel imitation so it's not completely worthless. I'd watch it before Fear Her or The Idiot Lantern any day of the week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLXOO9PnnMQ#t=70

I stumbled across Spearhead From Space on some channel or other yesterday. I saw the Brigadier and thought it's obviously Doctor Who but it's shot on film and why does it look so (relatively) good? Were all the Pertwee episodes shot on film? Pertwee took a while to show up and then I realized this must be his first appearance.

Spearhead From Space is the only Pertwee story shot entirely on film, iirc there was a BBC industrial dispute that they circumvented by shooting the whole thing on location (where shooting on film was standard) rather than in the studio.

They should have carried on shooting on film ... but too expensive for the Beeb I assume.

The Doctor confronting the evil of Silcock Bakeries.

Love the montage soundtracked by Fleetwood Mac.

looking forward to the blu-ray coming out in R2