1) Ghost Light - The classic eras last gasp is one of its
best
2) The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Fantastic production
value, gloriously entertaining
3) Remembrance of the Daleks - Proof that late 80s Who could
still surprise
4) Delta and the Bannermen - No I'm not insane
5) Time and the Rani - It's atrocious but I can't help but
LOVE it because of it
6) The Curse of Fenric - Very good, but the plotting is
horrendous
7) Survival - Sensual and attention grabbing
characterisation
8) Paradise Towers - An innovative script realised as a
pantomime
9) The Happiness Patrol - Excellent moments rubbing
shoulders with humiliating ones
10) Dragonfire - More dreadful panto with some fine
performances
11) Battlefield - Exactly what the show needed to be doing,
realised in just about the worst possible way
12) Silver Nemesis - Practically the nadir of classic Who,
it's just the pits
7 comments:
So happy to see someone who likes Delta and the Bannermen as much as I do. I'll never understand all the vitriol directed at that story.
"…what has happened to these once menacing creations? I DON’T BELIEVE IT!"
victormeldrew.wav
As far as my investigations have taken me, no one associated with the New Series ever mentions this era, which is bizarre because all you have to do is compare them side-by-side. The influence is obvious (Tennant especially).
Maybe it's the eighties nostalgia talking, but I've always been a fan of seven and his Poirot schtick. I don't even mind Mel or the Kent's awful music...I quite like them actually, but the whole thing looks shot-on-video (or "shot on shitto" to quote another web critic) which pretty much wrecks any semblance of class this show still had!
Come to think of it, the classic series never did location shoots well, apart from the UNIT years. (And "City of Death", but what's the point of a Paris shoot if the Doctor's just running past cars instead of corridors...?)
"Paradise Towers" and "Happiness Patrol" confined themselves to the indoors, to their benefit I think.
Oh wow, I'm not the only person out there who likes Delta!
I prefer the impish, Troughtonesque and lovable seventh Doctor from season 24 than the master manipulator, gloom and doom of later seasons, and the NA (except when he was written by Gareth Roberts) Doctor I consider a travesti of the lovable character we had on TV
Season 24
1. Dragonfire
2. Paradise Towers
3. Delta n the Bannermen
4. Time n the Rani
Worst season by miles
Season 25
1. Greatest Show in the Galaxy
2. Rememberance of the Daleks
3. Happiness Patrol
4. Silver Nemesis
Massive improvement x 3 stories
Season 26
1. Ghost Light
2. Curse of Fenric
3. Battlefield
4. Survival
2 classics, great effort to end the series, it just about clicked having taken 3 years.
All 12.
1. Ghost Light
2. Curse of Fenric
3. Greatest Show in the Galaxy
4. Rememberance of the Daleks
5. Happiness Patrol
6. Battlefield
7. Dragonfire
8. Survival
9. Paradise Towers
10 Silver Nemesis
11 Delta and the Bannermen
12 Time and the Rani
Post a Comment