Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

http://doctorwhopenguin.tumblr.com/

They're fantastic!

enjoying the Horror Channel's all-over-the-place run at old-Who. I've always felt a bit paralysed by choice when wanting to watch it, so I enjoy opening the tivo every few days and having the decision made for me. Logopolis, Kinda, Tomb of the Cybermen, Masque of Mandragora, Androids of Tara, Keeper of Traken. Ambient background for cooking or late-evening kitchen tidying.

Nearly all of the commentaries for the classic Who DVDs were recorded at my old workplace. It was so cool to walk into the reception and see Phillip Hinchcliffe, William Russell or Terrance Dicks.

Hey guys, maybe one of you would be able to help me identify what I think was a Doctor Who episode I saw when I was a child. I don't have much to go on. All I remember is some people in an underground cave or mine. They get shot with some kind of ray gun and we are left looking at their melted remains, basically a pile of molten, bubbling, nacho cheese mess on the floor. I could be wrong about the cave, but if there weren't people reduced to a melted puddle on the floor, then I must be thinking about a different tv show. Just watched Caves of Androzani. Had the mines. Didn't have melting.

I watched it in the early 1980s, so it's likely that it would have been Peter Davison but who knows, it could have been a rerun of an earlier episode.

I'm pretty sure that is part one of 'Earthshock'

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24fk0d_doctor-who-earthshock-1-4_shortfilms

if I remember right the following three parts don't feature people being melted with ray guns but do feature Beryl Reid playing an ass-kicking gun-toting starship captain

That's it! Thank you.

That story rules once you resign yourself to the fact that someone thought endless shots of six Cybermen marching down a corridor would be menacing

All I remember is some people in an underground cave or mine.

It's a good thing you added other details because this applies to virtually every serial ever.

are there enough people on ilx who would vote in a original series (ie 1963-89) doctor who story ballot poll to make such a thing worthwhile? tbh I'm guessing probably not, and you would most likely get about 7 or 8 ballots, which I don't think would be enough, but I wanted to see what level of interest there is.

doubt it, would vote obv

I would vote but my ballot would probably have like 4 stories on it.

obv I would do this

And me.

+1

As long as you call it Marco Pol(l)o

LogoPOLLis or gtfo

or maybe The Krower of Poll

I would do this.

The Greatest Poll in the Galaxy? obv you would need to record yourself doing the opening rap.

I would vote BUT so many stories would lead to a very split vote

I've made an executive decision, if I actually do this roll out thread will be titled 'reverse the POLLarity of the neutron flow', pls bear in mind if you are committing yourself xp

I heard it was Davros + the Master.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:37 PM

IN BED

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guys, no

― HI DERE, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:49 PM

I would vote BUT so many stories would lead to a very split vote

yeah I agree, which is why I was thinking it would only be worth doing if a fair number of ppl would send ballots, otherwise most of the top 40 (or whatever) would be stories that got one vote each. there does seem to be more interest than I'd thought though, and there are a few more posters who might vote as well (cosmic slop? aldo? snoball? chap?)

don't want it to seem like I'm pestering people to commit to taking part btw, just wanted to get a sense if it was worth asking for ballots

Let's start arguing now.

Shada: Y/N?

Trial Of A Timelord: one story or four? (Or five?)

An Unearthly Child is a ONE EPISODE STORY. But are the next three "The Tribe Of Gum" or "100,000 BC"?

come on, no one's voting for the next three.

I like the idea of a ballot made up entirely of, say, Shada, A Fix with Sontarans, Dimensions in Time, Search Out Space, those adverts for Life Insurance Tom Baker did 'in character' etc

The Elite ad
Those 90s VHS-only things featuring Sontarans and actors from Who, but nobody mentions Dr Who
THE MOVIE
The unused stories commissioned by Andrew Cartmel from well known sci-fi authors
Doctor Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(video_series)

this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMy5Fc2ZII

(that's The Curse Of Fenric being reenacted by some 14 years old in 1993, for anyone who hasn't already seen it)

parts 2 + 4 are also on youtube, but part 1 has apparently been blocked on the instruction of BBC Worldwide? spoilsports

(since you asked, yes, I'll vote.)

Prime Computer ads ftw.

I'd vote!

Cartmel is talking at my local library in a couple weeks. About comics.

Yeah I'd be keen for this, would give me a good excuse to catch up with some of the classics I've never seen.

come on, no one's voting for the next three.

this is exactly why you separate them! but which title do you give them?

ok, I think I'm going to give this a go, but maybe put the deadline for ballots quite a way in the future to try and get as many as possible? (but please, no one feel obligated to vote just because they've expressed an interest on this thread, I don't want it to seem like I'm pressuring people)

I was thinking asking people to vote for between 1 and 20 stories each, with their first place story getting 20 points, second placed story getting 19 etc, and no unweighted ballots.

does this all seem to make sense? I've never run a poll before so please tell me if I have made any rookie errors

If you count 'An Unearthly Child' and the following three episodes about cavemen as two different stories, count 'Trial of a Timelord' as four separate stories and include 'Shada' that leaves you with 160 stories in total, I think? are there any others where there is a dispute about how to count them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials

Are you doing Nu Who as well? The story boundaries can be a bit hazier there - eg is Utopia distinct from sound of drums/last of the time lords?

I was thinking of just doing the 1963-89 series, idk how people feel about that?

I'm cool with that, was just wondering really. Might be fairer as they're such different beasts.

I've seen hardly any Nu-Who, so I'd prefer just the 1963-89 series, thanks.

yeah, prefer classic-only, and a la music polls with best album votes, might be fun to do best doctor.

I was thinking of favourite doctor, favourite companion and worst story as optional side polls?

Best villain?

^^^

hahaha, worst story would be very fun

probably worth doing in 2016 while we've got a year or so of no new Who to discuss