Best title/worst episode

[Shatnertage]

Are there any great titles on episodes that, when you actually watch them, disappoint you?

For me, Arc of Infinity fits the bill. The title sounds cool, and has the classic DW "X of X" style, but I really wouldn't want to sit through it again.

Your choices?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"Terror of the Vervoids" is much more fun to say than it is to watch.

 

[scnj]

I'd say Blink fits the bill, but the opposite way round.

 

[Cutter John]

It takes some real talent to take the 5th Doctor, the Time Lords, the return of Omega, AND have a guest appearance by Colin Baker and still manage to make a crappy story.

 

[Sci]

"Fear Her" is a bad episode with a great title.

"Last of the Time Lords" is an awesome title... though one I think should have been applied to "The End of Time, Part Two" rather than 3x13.

 

[Starkers]

World War III is pretty awful, though so is the episode. On the other hand Aliens of London sounds much better than the episode is.

Victory of the Daleks should have been so much better than it was!

 

[Shatnertage]

On the other hand Aliens of London sounds much better than the episode is.

You're right, it does. Makes me think of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London." I picture a small group of immaculately-dressed aliens suavely chatting you up before doing whatever nefarious stuff they do. Didn't we get the opposite of that?

 

[Silent_Bob]

'Love & Monsters'. Sounds like an interesting episode, a moral about accepting others despite their outward appearance perhaps. A sci-fi take on Beauty and the Beast.

Instead we get ELO, pavement blowjobs and Peter "look at me, i'm northern!" Kay painted green.

 

[garoo1980]

I would say the best title ever is "The Curse of Fatal Death" by a very young Steven Moffatt.

And the worst title has to be "The Deadly Assassin". What sort of assassin isn't deadly? The ineffective assassin? The failed assassin? I can see why they chose the adjective deadly over those, but its really unnecessary.

Oh and of course I'm not sure they should have named a story Seeds of Doom after a story called Seeds of Death had already been made. Either title is fine, but they're too close IMHO

 

[Bones2]

The Two Doctors sounds great. In practice, we get two of the best Doctors turning into cannibals, levels of violence that I found uneasy on a recent rewatch, and a man's stabbing played for laughs.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah, a waste of Troughton and Hines, a waste of Sontarans and Jacqui Pearce...yet curiously I quite like Colin in it...maybe cos he takes the jacket off for long stretches!

 

[The Sonic Mole]

The Horns Of Nimon always sounded cool - and then I watched it. One of the worst Tom Baker adventures, easily...

 

[Bones2]

To be honest, an awful lot of DW stories have cool names. It'd be easier to find one with a poor name and a good story, like The Deadly Assassin.

 

[Davros]

Delta And The Bannermen.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

42 - The episode is more mediocre than actually bad, but I was disappointed when it had nothing to do with Douglas Adams.

 

[The Badger]

And the worst title has to be "The Deadly Assassin". What sort of assassin isn't deadly? The ineffective assassin? The failed assassin? I can see why they chose the adjective deadly over those, but its really unnecessary.

Robert Holmes, writer of the story, was asked about this very point. He replied that, as the original order of assassins used drugs, specifically hashish (from which the name assassin is a corruption), there probably were a great deal of incompetent assassins.

 

[Marc]

And the worst title has to be "The Deadly Assassin". What sort of assassin isn't deadly? The ineffective assassin? The failed assassin? I can see why they chose the adjective deadly over those, but its really unnecessary.

Robert Holmes, writer of the story, was asked about this very point. He replied that, as the original order of assassins used drugs, specifically hashish (from which the name assassin is a corruption), there probably were a great deal of incompetent assassins.

I guess you could say they made a hash of it

 

[cardinal biggles]

The Horns Of Nimon always sounded cool - and then I watched it. One of the worst Tom Baker adventures, easily...

"The Horns of Nimon" was my first exposure to classic Who, and amazingly enough, I didn't run away screaming. The episode is so bad it's good. Lalla Ward turns in a real firebrand performance, and Graham Crowden is a riot as Soldeed.

 

[Bones2]

Has anyone mentioned Four to Doomsday? Fantastic title. If I'm honest, I've not seen it for hundreds of years, but it's not particularly well-regarded.