That is a chair with a panda on it: The best surviving William Hartnell Doctor Who POLL

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Because the colour years shouldn't have all the fun...

(note, all stories with more than 50% of episodes surviving are included as this is the threshhold for a formal release)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
The Daleks 3
The Ark 2
The Time Meddler 2
The Web Planet 1
The Keys of Marinus 1
The Aztecs 1
The Space Museum 0
The Chase 0
The Gunfighters 0
The War Machines 0
An Unearthly Child 0
The Romans 0
The Rescue 0
Dalek Invasion of Earth 0
Planet of Giants 0
The Reign of Terror 0
The Sensorites 0
The Edge of Destruction 0
The Tenth Planet0


aldo, Monday, 14 April 2008 09:40 (seventeen years ago)

Go Daleks!

I have seen so little Hartnell Doctor stuff.

The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 14 April 2008 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

I think The Daleks might well be the right answer here, although The Aztecs is kind of brilliant and The Time Meddler has maybe the best cliffhanger in any single episode of Who that I can think of.

Despite all that, the Gunfighters might be my favourite.

aldo, Monday, 14 April 2008 10:08 (seventeen years ago)

The Time Meddler has maybe the best cliffhanger in any single episode of Who that I can think of.

It's good, but the cliffhanger at the end of ep 2 of the Ark trumps it. Haven't decided what to vote for here.

chap, Monday, 14 April 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

The statue having the head of a Monoid? Yeah, that's a good one.

aldo, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

Dalek Invasion would win if it was a couple of episodes shorter.
Still haven't seen many of these.
Maybe Unearthly Child because it introduced the best, weirdest TV show theme music ever.

James Morrison, Monday, 14 April 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

There's a sequence in Dalek Invasion where the Doctor and co are running through a Dalek-infested London to jarring percussive music which is fucking phenomenally eeire.

chap, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 01:24 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

ILX System, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

watching The Chase and it might be my favourite yet.

the Hartnell stuff, there's so much of it, 44 episodes in one of the seasons, and the educational aspect of it sometimes grates - stop teaching me about the French Revolution.

koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:02 (one year ago)

i mean if it was any good as history i wouldn't mind it, but it's not.

anyway as of today i'd vote for "the rescue". i think it's been talked about elsewhere - it's a really effective portrayal of gaslighting, and at two episodes, it doesn't overstay its welcome!

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:28 (one year ago)

I looked at these and didn't feel anything but I would probably vote for The Edge of Destruction

Which isn't really as good as I want it to be, but that goes for most of this era

the optimum version of Hartnell Who is probably achieved by listening to the first Radiophonic Workshop LP and looking at some blurry telesnaps

Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:29 (one year ago)

I started watching Dalek Invasion Of Earth when the eps hit iPlayer last year, and the mood and menace is impressive. But oh my that's a lot of hours to invest in a shakey sci-fi story.

Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 28 March 2024 08:41 (one year ago)

i've skipped both the first Dalek story and Invasion because i am familiar with the films. later dalek things are either missing bits or have animated replacements and those are always lower done in the list.

i wonder what happened to the dalek time machine they had in The Chase? maybe it's explained in the last two episodes.

koogs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:11 (one year ago)

Which troll voted for The Web Planet, one of the most dull things I've ever seen?

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:28 (one year ago)

I love The Web Planet, it's too long, but I can't think of anything else even remotely like it. I first saw most of these when I was about 13 and UK Gold would show them on a Saturday night as omnibus editions, starting at about 11.45 pm and running into the early hours of Sunday morning, I'd stay up and watch them surreptitiously in my bedroom, sometime drifting off to sleep for some of the story, I think this was best way to watch some of these, enhanced the eerie atmosphere for me in a way that I probably couldn't recreate now.

soref, Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:43 (one year ago)

also, Martin Jarvis..

koogs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:34 (one year ago)

i'd go with the aztecs as best overall -- strong characterization, first doctor romance, plot progression, a bit of action, not terrible as a history lesson.

tenth planet for the sci fi stories. the daleks starts strong but then it goes in circles and ends with the daleks being defeated by rugs. the movie is much better.

formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:24 (one year ago)

soref otm - The Web Planet is so tripped out, tries hard and weirdly to achieve its premise and staging, and is so imaginative (in ways they mostly can’t pull off). I read Bill Strutton’s novelisation aged about 10 and didn’t see it on screen until my mid 40s so the story was already in place for me. But 3-4 fully different alien races, the sense of the TARDIS crew being caught up in an ongoing battle, the mind control stuff, the dance choreography for the Menoptera - it all looks goofy now but they went for it so sincerely. I’d vote for it.

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:20 (one year ago)

I haven’t rewatched it in years but I remember absolutely loving Planet of Giants when our PBS affiliate got their hands on the First Doctor stories

Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 29 March 2024 12:26 (one year ago)


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