Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv Subject: Re: Doctor Who "The Sun Makers" November and December 1977 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 15:45:46 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:45:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="14d318b524fd65ebf3266322eaaa4e92"; logging-data="903777"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w7uiZedahIOHo+TZiYElz/7WORQmecdc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3dkwd8+dpFpGSvUNUevsEOr/yeY= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3705 The Last Doctor wrote on 5/06/2024 1:45 pm: > The Last Doctor wrote: >> Blueshirt wrote: >>> The Doctor wrote: >>>> In article , Blueshirt >>>> wrote: >>>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I obtained DVDs from the library, starting with one of my >>>>>> favorite episodes, "The Sun Makers". This episode made >>>>>> quite the impression on me as a child. >>>>>> >>>>>> [Snip] >>>>>> >>>>>> The Fourth Doctor just works best in social satire; >>>>>> Baker's performance is a delight. >>>>> >>>>> A good episode, but it wouldn't be in my 4th Doctor top ten! >>>> >>>> Touch to say what is 4thDoctor Top 10. >>>> >>>> 1) Warrior's Gate >>>> >>>> 2) Genesis of the Daleks. >>>> >>>> 3 ... >>> >>> I assume you meant 'tough to say'... and yes, it is. >>> >>> But "Warriors Gate" wouldn't be in my top ten! >>> >>> Off the top of my head... >>> >>> City/Genesis/Pyramids/Talons/Fang/Assassin/Seeds/ >>> Ark/Morbius/Face/Robots/Zygons (etc.) >>> >> >> 1. Genesis of the Daleks. 2. City of Death. 3. Talons of Weng >> Chiang. 4. Pyramids of Mars. 5. City of Death. 6. Terror of the >> Zygons. 7. Horror of Fang Rock. 8. The Seeds of Doom. 9. The Brain >> of Morbius. 10. The Ribos Operation. >> >> 11. The Robots of Death. 12. The Ark in Space. 13. The Androids of >> Tara. 14. The Hand of Fear. 15. The Masque of Mandragora. 16. The >> Stones of Blood. 17. The Keeper of Traken. 18. The Deadly >> Assassin. 19. The Android Invasion. 20. The Sontaran Experiment. >> >> 21. Full Circle. 22. The Invasion of Time. 23. The Face of Evil. >> >> After that we move into the mid and even lower reaches of the 4th >> Doctor era. >> >> Those could easily move about a bit on rewatching. But I’m pretty >> sure that neither Warriors Gate nor The Sun Makers would ever break >> into my Top 20 Tom stories, let alone my Top 10. > > It seems I like City of Death so much it placed twice. Ah well, not > going to redo it - the principle stands. Probably easier to state the > ten worst Toms … I don’t think the two stories above would make that > list either. So they’re both mid twenties for me. > Yes, it seems you liked lot a lot, but at least you re-ranked them close together ..... it would have been really embarrassing for you if you'd ranked them 3rd and 25th or some such!! ;-P -- Daniel