Who episodes meme

[bagheera_san]

So yesterday I shocked certain people by admitting my somewhat spotty knowledge of (and disinterest in) Fourth Doctor episodes, and also by confusing Genesis of the Daleks with Destiny of the Daleks: a mistake of such grave proportions that only a Who geek could possibly understand.

So here it is, Bagheera's Big List of Sad Gaps:


bold = watched/listened to on audio
italic = partly watched


ONE

An Unearthly Child
The Daleks
The Edge of Destruction
Marco Polo
The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Sensorites
The Reign of Terror

Planet of Giants
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue
The Romans
The Web Planet
The Crusade
The Space Museum
The Chase
The Time Meddler

Galaxy 4
Mission to the Unknown
The Myth Makers
The Dalek’s Master Plan
The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve
The Ark
The Celestial Toymaker
The Gunfighters
The Savages
The War Machines

The Smugglers
The Tenth Planet

TWO

The Power of the Daleks
The Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
The Faceless Ones
The Evil of the Daleks

The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Abominable Snowmen
The Ice Warriors
The Enemy of the World
The Web of Fear
Fury from the Deep
The Wheel in Space

The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds of Death
The Space Pirates
The War Games

THREE

Spearhead from Space
The Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno

Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Daemons

Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Mutants
The Time Monster

The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death

The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders

FOUR

Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen

Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Seeds of Doom

The Masque of Mandragora
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Face of Evil
The Robots of Death
The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Horror of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image of the Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion of Time

The Ribos Operation
The Pirate Planet
The Stones of Blood
The Androids of Tara
The Power of Kroll
The Armageddon Factor

Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
Nightmare of Eden
The Horns of Nimon
Shada (The Eight webcast)

The Leisure Hive
Meglos
Full Circle
State of Decay
Warriors’ Gate
The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis

FIVE

Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight

Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightenment
The King’s Demons
The Five Doctors

Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
The Caves of Androzani

SIX

The Twin Dilemma
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks (Maybe? God, Daleks. There are too many Dalek episodes to remember.)

The Mysterious Planet
Mindwarp
Terror of the Vervoids
The Ultimate Foe

SEVEN

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannermen
Dragonfire

Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
Silver Nemesis
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
Survival

EIGHT

TVM
(And Eight is definitely my most complete audio Doctor)

NINE

S1

TEN

haven't seen Love & Monsters and Fear Her

ELEVEN

S5 & Christmas Special



So as you can see, my only complete Doctors are Eight, Nine and Eleven. The only reason I'm doing so well on Two is that I LOVE burninated episodes on audio, I find the long serials of Classic Who more more palatable in that format - as audios, or when watched with other people. And I'm very much not a completist: it doesn't bother me not to have watched those two Ten eps, or the few Three episodes I haven't seen, even though I love Three.

But of course I you see something I HAVE to see on this list, tell me!

Comments

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had repressed all of this to protect myself and now I'm shocked again! Freudian!fail.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Poor you :P

[x-los.livejournal.com]

WAIT WARRIORS OF THE DEEP?! THE HELL!!

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

What about it?!

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I think of it as not a fantastic ep, but a sort of poignant moment in Five characterization, and am surprised you haven't seen it because I think it's generally regarded as a Big Five Ep (and while the tenor of my interest in it strays from Fan Boy Orthodoxy, I don't disagree).

[semantics]

It's okay, I'm behind on Four too. Though. The Pirate Planet is Most Excellent. Think of the parrots!

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

I didn't think The Pirate Planet was literally a planet with pirates. I don't know why - Who titles are usually quite literal. Unless it's something or other of Evil, then it's just shameless exaggeration.

[semantics]

To be fair, the planet is not a planet of pirates as a planet where Piracy is its Hat. So in that sense it is slightly misleading but, I feel, still true, in its way.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Well we're doing a big Four community watchalong Saturday night to aid in the refformation of lost souls. Hopefully not JUST Nadja, but even if so, the intervention will have been worth it!!

[semantics]

It takes a real spirit of altruism to devote yourself to these sorts of good works.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I am shocked, SHOCKED at the lack of Four seen. CITY OF DEATH? Dude! But also, Ribos and Pirate Planet and if you watch just one maybe Androids of Tara.

Tots rec listening to Fury from the Deep and The Macra Terror, both I think are smashing.

Your missing Three is Perfectly Sensible.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Finally I have found something with which to shock people! My life was lacking scandal, but no more :D

My ignorance of City of Death and Androids of Tara will soon be remedied, at least.

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

City of Death is indeed lovely, but I am generally a bit disinterested in Four also. (I think it might have a lot to do with some early imprinting on Tom Baker as Puddleglum in the BBC Silver Chair, so he is very much not my Iconic Doctor because he's already being my Iconic Marshwiggle.) Not being a completist is probably the only sane way to go about Doctor Who, anyway.

Also: never, ever seen Love & Monsters. Seriously. Just don't.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had gathered that Love & Monsters was a bit dire, and since I don't particularly enjoy S2 anyway...

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Pyramids of Mars is a Four must-see. Sarah Jane totally rocks in that one -- uses a shotgun while wearing a Gibson Girl style dress. Action!SJ, rather than shrieking!SJ.

Who-trivia: the same actor did both Sutek in Pyramids and The Beast in The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit (Ten, nu-Who season 2.) I made a macro back in my macro-making period (clicky to embiggen):

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Ah, so that's the one where Sarah Jane in the dress with the gun is from! Known that screencap since forever...

[aralias.livejournal.com]

i see that it is not just me and erin who are shocked and surprised at this :p

[aralias.livejournal.com]

although erin's wrong, and if you can stay away from warriors of the deep you should, because it is one of the worst episodes of who there is. it's notable for that, but not anything else. just imagine davison saying 'there should have been another way' while strapped into the bondage chair from end of time and you will have watched the only memorable bit without having to have actually watched it.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Now that 'there should have been another way' is so easy to audio-visualize that I wonder whether I've actually seen the scene. Or maybe it's just a Five thing to say.

[neveralarch]

I am saddened that you haven't finished Carnival of Monsters, but only because I am a bit obsessed with it. And I liked Love and Monsters, but I realize that kind of marks me out as a person who shouldn't be giving Who recs.

(But seriously, Carnival of Monsters. The costumes alone!)

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen the first part of Carnival twice and still haven't made it through. And I couldn't even tell you why... anyway, I might just save it for a time when want to watch fresh Three - so I don't have to watch Death to the Daleks, which everyone seems to hate.

[roachpatrol.livejournal.com]

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is deeply, deeply cheesy and involves far too much mid-eighties softcore hip-hop, but it has an absolutely beautiful cast of one-off characters and Seven is a BAMF, and at the end he and Ace BLOW EVERYTHING UP. I really like it.

[roachpatrol.livejournal.com]

Also the Happiness Patrol is likewise very cheesy-- one of the villains is a robot covered in candy-- but the Doctor is really sweet and Ace has some great moments of ass-kickery. Also I think there is a moment where Seven steals a golf cart and goes smugly whizzing around corridors in it, though that might have been Paradise Towers. Which I also love. (Paradise Towers has zombies and cannibals and gangs of psycho cheerleaders and Mel not being incredibly obnoxious for once and everyone but me seems to hate it. I need more people on my side.)

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Now you make all of that sound very awesome - particularly mid-eighties soft-core hip-hop, because I always love Eighties Who music particularly when it's hilarious. Also, Mel not being incredibly obnoxious, I thought that was one possible in The One Doctor.