Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv Subject: Re: Best Doctor Who Episodes ever Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:13:48 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="765e1c3df619ea87e80a4f6213dcf9bf"; logging-data="3400682"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wkIee/mA6lORCNuKEjpWVuz+3S/Exp5g=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2whL5hBWA8SNlqjTRXGIkVqOh5o= Bytes: 2114 On 2024-04-18 13:37:17 +0000, Blueshirt said: > The Doctor wrote: > >> For Me Inferno Ports 1 to 7 > > Best Doctor Who episodes ever? Off the top of my head I'd have > to go with "City of Death"... of course, when I say ever I don't > mean post-2005. > > For a show made on a limited budget, the 1970's excel for how > the producers of Doctor Who managed to cope and still churn out > exciting television with enjoyable stories. The 1980's are a > good example of how they didn't cope with the limited budget and > churned out less enjoyable stories.... but that's another > discussion. > > Inferno, like a lot of Jon Pertwee's era of the show is a very > strong story, but there's nothing to match Tom Baker at his very > best... and "City of Death" is pretty much as good as the show > got back then. The best episode *ever* will be the one where all the Political Correctness idiocy gets negated in an instant ... maybe David Tennant's Doctor will wake up in the shower and the last few seasons from the Mistress nonsense onwards will all have been just a bad dream. :-p