From: T.G.Nattress@newcastle.ac.uk (Graeme Nattress)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Opinions: best and worst
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:17:13 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:

>In <1992Dec5.143346.1972@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> paige@csri.toronto.edu (The Woodsman) writes:
>>   Best:

>>   Hartnell: The Daleks (top-notch stuff, just ahead of The Time Meddler
>>             and the Celestial Toymaker in my book)

>"The Daleks" was enough to dissuade me (so far) from seeing any other Hartnell
>episodes.  It was SOOOOOO poorly directed, I couldn't even sit through it!

Daleks is a little boring but viewed in context of when it was made and the
significant effect it made on british culture it was a landmark ep.
I rather like "the War Machines" though.

>>   Troughton: Tomb of the Cybermen (I'd say Evil of the Daleks but it's
>>              been so long ...)

>I've never seen a Troughton episode.

Invasion is rahter brilliant as well. Tomb is excellent though and I can't
really decide between tomb and Invasion.  I think Fury would be good though.

>>   Pertwee: The Daemons (Inferno? *Inferno*? Too goofy!)

The Daemons had probobly the worst ending of any Pertwee story.  Inferno is
good but the plot is somewhat unexplained.  I Much Prefer Ambassadors of Death.

>And "The Daemons" wasn't? :-)

>I think I'd probably pick "Planet Of Spiders" as my favorite Pertwee.

Good but the Metabelis 3 scenes are flawed.

>>   Baker: Too difficult: Ark in Space/Genesis of the Daleks/Pyramids of Mars.

>Yeah, this is a tough one.  The whole first season is great, for instance.
>But my favorites are probably "Genesis", "Pyramids", "The Deadly Assassin",
>"City Of Death", and "Logopolis".  Actually, there are a lot of great Leela
>ones, too: "Talons Of Weng-Chiang", "Horror Of Fang Rock", "Face Of Evil",
>etc. etc.

There were quite a few good Baker stories but that is only to be expected in
such a long run.

Robots of Death and Deadly assassin are very good.

>>   Davison: Caves of Androzani

>*Gack*  (Sorry, I've always hated that episode.)  Without question, my
>favorite Davison (and probably my favorite DW overall, but don't hold me to it
>under pressure :-) is "Mawdryn Undead".

I liked mawdryn when it was on but on later viewing the best bit is the clip
from Invasion (it just happens to be my fave bit from my fave story!)

Caves is very good though.

>>   C. Baker: Revelation of the Daleks

>There are no good Colin Baker stories. :-)  Actually, "Mark of The Rani" is
>decent.

The Mark of the rani is crap.  Just look at the plot holes, you could climb
through them!

Revelation is a good bit of TV Drama but it ain't really DW.  I prefer
Vengeance on Varos myself.

>>   McCoy: Rememberance of the Daleks.

    What a load of pretensious crap Rembers is.

>"Survival", for me.  No competition.  "Battlefield" a distant second.
Survival is very poor and Battlefield is worse.

The best bit of McCoy is the bit of balck that you get on the screen when the
credits finish.....:-) :-)


>>   Worst:

>>   Baker: Meglos.

>Aww, it wasn't *that* bad.  I guess I'd pick either "The Ribos Operation" or
>"The Creature In The Pit" (is that the title?  Wow, it's been a long time) as
>my least favorites.

Or a real clanger (sorry clangers ,I like the clangers :-) ) like Logopolis..

>>   Davison: Warriors of the Deep (sorry, Mr. Byrne!)

The plot was OK let down by poor visuals..

For bad plot I'd pick Earthshock... An over rated story if ever there was one.

>That's a pretty bad one, I agree.  I might pick "Androzani" as my least
>favoirite Davison, though.

What is Wrong with Androzani...... Answer:-  Not much!

Timeflight is pretty poor....

>>   C. Baker: Twin Dilemma

>But there are SOOOOO many to choose from!  "Twin Dilemma" is abysmal, true.
>Runner-up would be the final episode of "Trial Of A Time Lord".

That sounds about right!

>>   McCoy: Time and the Rani

>"The Happiness Patrol" gets the razz from me.  This just might be the worst DW
>episode I've ever seen.


I'd agree with both of them!

Graeme,

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