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So here goes: my mind may change in two mins so I'm choosing...

NOW:

1) Got to go with you on Caves of Androzani. Bleeeaak.
2) Tough call this: I want to go with The Seeds of Doom because its possibly the first Dr Who I vividly remember from when it was broadcast apart from the snippets of them bloody spiders from the damn "Planet of the Spiders" story. But I'm basing the choice on memory and I'm not sure it would hold up to, say, Genesis of the Ds.

Screw it. The Seeds of Doom it is. Even if I can't rewatch it to check whether it holds up.

3) ahem. I have several favourite pieces of fan fic. Unfortunately several of them have a pr0n element to them and so I can't really check them out at work to create the links. There was a great one about Rose becoming a vampire though, which was great. And not really smutty at all...

Scott: thanks for those - was wondering if you were nominating your own fan fiction as your favourite stories for a while there. Interesting choices indeed!

1. The Ark in Space: Tom Baker's second outing holds a special place in my heart for the simple fact it's the first Who I can recall scaring the bejeebers out of me. In fact, I was banned from watching the show for a couple of weeks because of the effect episode 3 had; didn't get to see the last part for another 13 years.
2. The Talons of Weng Chiang: Tom Baker, a budget, Bob Holmes and a homicidal midget. What more could anyone ask for? Seriously, it's one serial I can point to that evidences all of the strengths of Hinchcliffe's stewardship. Just a pity about the rat.
3. Earthshock: Trek got rid of its annoying boy genius by allowing him to transcend. Who sent Adric hurtling into a planet, to a fiery death. And if that ain't an evening's entertainment, I don't know what is.

2. Tomb of the Cybermen

3. The Girl in the Fireplace - I know it's 'new', but OMG what a beutiful and classic story - by far my favorite of the entire new series. Plus it had wonderful music.

Tomb of the Cybermen's a cracker too: particularly that bit where Pat Troughton's talking about his family.

Ah, I think everyone loves The Girl in the Fireplace. It is one of the genuine classics of New Who.

Good choices, too, Toby. I love the bit in The War Games where Philip Madoc says, "It's the Time Lords" as the eerie god-like powers of the Gallifreyans are expressed for the first (and possibly last) time.

As for why only three stories, well ten's either too easy and requires no discipline or it's too hard and people don't bother with it. Three forces you to find the really important things that are close to your heart.

I'm hoping that that's a meta-meme that all other memes will now follow.

I know it's a "common" choice, but City of Death. I love the score, the monster is still better than that thing from Love & Monsters, the banter/dialogue between characters is fantastic, the Doctor and Romana are just fantastic together, and really it's a very good story. And lots of the Doctor and Romana just running around Paris.

Logopolis. This may just have an iconic statis from my youth, but I still genuinely enjoy it every time i see it. Yes the falling scene is terrible and it ushers in a whole new era of whiny companions that i personally wish the Master'd had a go at with his doll gun, but the scope and scale of the story is moving to me. The cloister bell, the crumbling planet, the handshake... i feel like it reached very high, and irregardless of the cardboard cutout of the Master, it's a great episode.

and finally, Ghostlight. Watch it ten times, you won't fully get it! That should be the tagline. Again, it has an iconic feel to me. great sets, great characters, a weaving storyline, the Doctor and Ace at their best... and great anarchistic tendancies from the Doctor towards house burnings at the end.

You're right, 10 is too easy, i really had to think a while, but these three always pop out at me. It's not about the monsters in them, it's the little things. The art gallery scene, the doctor being forced to work with the Master, and the way the 'Professor' can sit down and talk with Ace at the end. Well played out.

Now, a Season Meme!! Hands downfor me, it's 6, 18 then 26... but that's not why we're here is it......

Hmm. 6, 18, 26? I would say 7, 18, 6 myself, but good overlap! Still, 6 has "The Dominators" and I can't take that seriously since I listened to Exile. Well, I couldn't before either, but less so since.

Anyone else want to add in some seasons as well, or have we started to enter a slightly scary place here?

And The Master... ;-)

The Green Death. The first story I remember clearly, and it absolutely terrified me. Watching it again recently, it's not all that good (I'd forgotten the pantomime aspects, and wiped Jo Grant's annoyingness from my brain) but it still stands up as an eco-thriller.

City of Death. Mad Uncle Tom at his finest. Strikes just the right notes between silly and scary, and Douglas Adams' dialogue is great. Plus, it's one of the few stories that actually depends on time travel. I'll forgive all those pointless 'Look! We're actually in Paris!' runaround scenes.

The Girl In The Fireplace. It was a toss-up between this and Empty Child/Doctor Dances, but GitF wins out through being genuinely eerie, genuinely emotional, and telling us things about the Doctor we didn't know before. And, again, it uses time travel.

And let us not forget "The Maggot Roundabout". Still, it was a good indicator of the shape of things to come: a Doctor Who world of Welshness.

rose

the parting of the ways

the xmas invaision

chris ecclston was cool n david tennant seems like he was born to have this role! and hes sooo sexy!

favorite doctors are:

tom baker

chris eccleston

love it!

david tennant