Doctor Who: Best Episode In Peter Davison's 1st Season

Time Flight ftw

how many votes for Earthshock just because Adric dies?

Black Orchid is maybe the best Wet Vet apart from Caves, so it's that really.

er, Kinda > Caves (Caves overrated on a weirdly massive scale)

Honestly I can't reemmber a single one of these episodes (which admittedly I last saw 20+ years ago.)

Castrovalva: Loopy Doctor almost gets trapped in a recursive trap set by The Master powered by Adric's brain
Four To Doomsday: The crew encounters a ship of seemingly nice aliens who are actually evil
Kinda: Tegan gets posessed by a psychic snake that wants to eat the universe
The Visitation: The team encounters aliens that started a plague in London, leading to the Great Fire
Black Orchid: Pure historical about a Phantom of the Opera-esque dude on a lavish English estate
Earthshock: Adric kills himself and the dinosaurs attempting to save the Earth from Cybermen
Time Flight: The Master kidnaps a plane from Heathrow in another attempt to destroy the Doctor, leading to Tegan's inadvertent abandonment at her old job

black orchid was good. I always liked castrovalva but I always like 'first' stories of any of them

Black Orchid and Kinda are head and shoulders above the others.

"Castrovalva" has the best plot I think. In general the Davison stories make much more sense. "Black Orchid" is pretty good as well, even though it it's a lot like Davison's performance as Campion.

Black Orchid is the only story I remember actually being really scared by as a kid. I had a general dalek fear too, but there were no specific dalek scenes which stayed with me right though to adulthood. Lots of Black Orchid did though, and as a result it's probably my favourite old-who story, full stop.

Davison was a very good doctor

castrovalva is REALLY saggy between the actually good ideas. kinda is by far the more interesting, even if it is also kind of over-rated.

It really sags when Davison is being hauled around in that box. Particularly as Nyssa and Tegan's dialogue is so clunky.

(xxpost) The difference is that Davison can really act. Look at how he plays Tristram (sp?) compared to the Doctor, when the only real visual difference is the clothes the two characters wear. Both series were broadcast in the UK at the same time, and as a kid it took me a while to realise that it was the same guy. Sometimes scenes fall apart when Davison isn't on screen, but generally the supporting cast were also pretty good, much more competent at acting then during the shouty overacting Colin years.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s41r9ZUE3uw

Black Orchid. Even 'er indoors enjoyed that one.

This is too hard

sod it Castrovalva it is

Hello old people, I have decided to download and watch the winner of each of these polls, so please pick something good.

EVERYONE VOTE FOUR TO DOOMSDAY

which one was doomsday, the one with the fat gay alien who took a shine to sweet, young, hairless boy flesh?

I think that was your prom.

it still doesn't answer the question

Hello old people

loliatrics

Loliatric Britpop Crew?

it's funny how everyone bitches about Adric, when Tegan is plainly THE MOST ANNOYING ASSISTANT EVER.

^ this

Her accent used to shit the fuck out of me, but then I discovered she's actually Australian and she sounds exactly that bad in real life. Now it shits the fuck out of me.

Janet Fielding's great claim to fame is that she appears as herself in one of Seymour Hersh's books, spilling the beans on her shady ex-husband. For this we must salute her.

I don't really mind Tegan's accent, just her characted, which is I think more the fault of the people who made Dr Who then rather than JF.

Yeah, but her accent is still like a cheese grater.

tegan was great!

Her accent used to shit the fuck out of me, but then I discovered she's actually Australian and she sounds exactly that bad in real life. Now it shits the fuck out of me.

Actually, she doesn't sound quite that bad in real life, but she's meant to be a Queenslander, and they often do have stronger Australian accents, so it was fair enough. But still annoying sometimes. And I'm Australian.

So am I.

She's on a commentary (Earthshock?) and she sounds horrible. True about her sounding like a Queenslander.

Least listened to commentary ever? Unlike the ones on Blake's 7 DVDs, which just feature Jacqueline Pearce purring "darling!" every couple of seconds.

Dude, Tegan is one of my girlfriends, step off.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

hmmm im not sure what will win this as there's some really good episodes but I'm gonna have a guess at Time Flight

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I got that wrong! Damn you lurkers! *shakes fist*

Glad they all got a vote though

Holy shit, Burt Kwouk was in this one! What in God's name is Burt Kwouk doing on this show?! Did Blake Edwards loan him out or something?

Goddamn but all the companions remind me of no one so much as regulars from the early years of You Can't Do That on Television

What, like Alanis Morrissette?

No, like pre-dating her by 5 years. As I said in the other thread:

Good lord, the haircuts really do get worse, don't they? The one chick looks like Lisa Ruddy and the cross-eyed doofus kid looks like Alistair. Only the sorta ginger one in the crushed velvet get-ups has anything going on.

Dude, wait until you get to "Arc of Infinity" and Tegan becomes bangin' smokin' hot.

(Well okay, maybe not totally bangin' smokin' hot until the last season when her hair frows back out some, but still more ROWR than the purple stewardess outfit.)

Tegan is smokin' hot... until she starts talking.

aw

wait, less competition ^_^

Haha, one of the cybermen actually said "Exxxx-cellent!"

Well okay, maybe not totally bangin' smokin' hot until the last season when her hair frows back out some, but still more ROWR than the purple stewardess outfit.

wot, like this?

http://web.ncf.ca/at850/fieldj12.jpg

Hey, this is novel; this show is only one I've ever seen with old ladies commanding starships(see also the Gridlock ep). You don't see many trucker grandma-types in science fiction, unfortunately.

yeah like that

So painful to listen to, that one. The accent, eurghh.

Okay, almost done with Time Flight. God, I don't like Tegan.

Or at least, not this version of her.