200 Golden Moments

[Emissary of the Prophets]

In the absense of the annual Season review magazine, Doctor Who magazine has published a magazine featuring a Golden moment from each of the 200 Doctor stories (not episodes) since the show began.
What is your Golden Moment?

 

[The Badger]

Very difficult choice this. But one thing springs to mind.
The sequence in 'Rose' where the Doctor and Rose are looking for the Nestene transmitter. The Doctor describes what it must look like, with the London Eye behind him.
Rose nods her head towards it. He turns around, looks for a moment, then turns back, having missed it entirely.
She gestures again.
He looks again, and finally sees it.
They dash across the bridge, hand in hand, with that wonderful up tempo tune.


Not the greatest scene in Who history. But that is what convinced me, back in 2005, that this new iteration was still the same daft, brilliant, glorious old nonsense I'd loved as a child.

 

[captcalhoun]

when Donna comes out of the TARDIS in TU&TW and asks 'Flapper or Slapper' and the Doctor is quite clearly taken aback at how good she looks and swallows before saying 'Flapper, definitely.'

it, to me, proved he was falling for her, even if she didn't fancy him.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The Second Doctor facing his trial in The War Games and explaining how he was doing the greater good.

 

[Emissary of the Prophets]

I love the scene in The Sound of Drums where the Doctor tries to explain why the Master turned bad, the music is beautiful.

I also love that final scene in Gridlock, where Martha gets the Doctor to expain about Gallifrey. DT's chin tremble is heartbreaking.

The 7th Doctor's final words in Survival...need I say more.

Not to forget Song of Freedom...'We're going to fly planet Earth back home.'

& a dozen more.

 

[The]

• "Everybody lives!!!" - 9th Doctor scene from The Doctor Dances

• The Caves of Androzani The 5th Doctor struggling to carry Peri's body back to the TARDIS, while all around him the planet erupts into fountains of volcanic mud. He refuses to give up, refuses to let her die, even though the Spectrox Toxemia poison eating his nervous system brings him closer to his final moments with every step.

• "I watched it happen. I made it happen!" 9th Doctor in Dalek

• The Five Doctors. The 1st Doctor's quiet giggle as he solves Rassilon's Riddle before the rest of them, sentencing Borusa to his choice. Even though it was Richard Hurdnall, it still worked for me. It's something I could totally see old Billy doing.

• The Ten Million Years of Absolute Power roaring rant The 6th Doctor gives in Trial of a Time Lord.

• From The TVMovie/Enemy Within. The 7th Doctor's final words being an unexpected scream. Awesome.

• Human Nature/Family of Blood. The 10th Doctor's punishments for the Family of Blood. Tennant's finest moments.

• The 3rd Doctor's reminescence of his friendship with The Master in The Sea Devils.

• "Do I have the right?" - 4th Doctor scene from Genesis of the Daleks

 

[Tomalak]

• "Everybody lives!!!" - 9th Doctor scene from The Doctor Dances

Yeah, this. It's just so wonderfully life-affirming. Normally in Doctor Who everybody dies, so it was a great moment. It was also the point at which I totally bought Eccleston as the Doctor, and was gutted to realise he only had a handful of episodes left. Tennant is great, I'm sure Matt Smith will be too, but Eccleston made the new series work.

Classic-wise, my earliest memory is McCoy covering a Dalek's eyestalk with his hat, so that's always going to be special. The final scene of Doctor Who and the Silurians still gives me shivers. It's one of my favourite stories, and I think the whole ending is superb the way it undermines the Doctor's, and the audience's, expectations of the happy ending.

 

[jamestyler]

From the new are I'd have to go with Tennant's description of Gallifrey in Gridlock and his reaction to himself in Family of Blood in his final moments as John Smith. And I quite liked his moment with the Master dying.

As for the classics, my memory is quite fuzzy on this. But I do love some of the interactions in the Two Doctors, Bakers speeches in Genesis on genocide and Ark in Space on humanity.

I'd probably think of more as time went on. And that might give me an excuse to rewatch more Two & Seven

 

[The Nth Doctor]

From the new are I'd have to go with Tennant's description of Gallifrey in Gridlock

It should be noted that The Doctor's description comes directly from Susan in The Sensorites. That being said, it's still a great moment.

 

[captcalhoun]

the whole of Time Crash

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

9's Regeneration: Every time I see his regeneration at the end of "Parting of the Ways" it just pierces me like a blow from a spear. Nine was my first Doctor and I didn't want to have to let go so soon. His final speech was perfect.

Enlightenment -- The scene where they get to the top of the boat and witness the sailing ships flying through space. They really tickled my imagination, and the explanation of it being a battle between two deities just made it more poetic for me.

The UnEarthly Child: When the characters are back in the cave-man past they come across a cave-man who has been injured. There's a scene where the camera shifts from right to left showing how Ian, Barbara, Susan, and the Cave-girl are all helping the wounded guy...Then as it finishes the pan, it shows Hartnell just standing there, looking indignant. Ian says something like "You know, you can help us out any time here," and the Doctor just blows him off.

 

[Worf2DS9]

Forgot to mention this a while back, but one of my favorite moments from "Rose" was seeing and hearing the marvellous new opening title sequence/theme -- Doctor Who was back, and it was "fantastic"!

 

[Peacemaker]

Barbara's scream at the end of Part 1 of the Daleks

Doc 7's monologue at the conclusion of Survival.

"Leave the girl, it's the man I want."...(Cheesy, yes, but unforgettably so).

The opening sequence of Part 1 of TOATL...still holds up today.

The revelation of the Zygon at the end of Part 1 of Terror of the Zygons

The Doctor and Morbius mindbending.

The closing of The Hand of Fear. I still get choked up saying goodbye to Sarah Jane.

The 3rd Doctor seeing himself for the first time in Spearhead from Space.

The 3rd Doctor driving off alone at the conclusion of The Green Death.

"It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for."

The sequence in which the creature latches onto the Doctor's mind in Midnight. Heck, that whole episode still gives me the willies.

"Look at me." Tegan talking to herself in Snakedance. "Just who do you think you are?"

 

[wamdue]

Not to forget Song of Freedom...'We're going to fly planet Earth back home.'

I would not call that a golden moment

 

[OmahaStar]

Not to forget Song of Freedom...'We're going to fly planet Earth back home.'

I would not call that a golden moment

And isn't it wonderful that there are so many golden moments, we can have differing opinions on what is and isn't golden, and still have tons left over? I love that.

 

[wamdue]

Not to forget Song of Freedom...'We're going to fly planet Earth back home.'

I would not call that a golden moment

And isn't it wonderful that there are so many golden moments, we can have differing opinions on what is and isn't golden, and still have tons left over? I love that.

quite true

 

[bok2384]

So many favorite moments, here are just a few.

• "Rose, I'm coming to get you" scene from the cliffhanger of Bad Wolf.
• Hartnell reminiscing about his former companions and being alone again towards the end of The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve.
• Hartnell's final scene, The Tenth Planet.
• The Doctor and Jamie bidding farewell to Victoria at the end of Fury from the Deep.
• The final scene of The War Games episode 9, as the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe struggle to reach the TARDIS before the Time Lords arrive.
• The 2nd Doctor bidding farewell to his companions and his regeneration in The War Games episode 10.
• The Third Doctor retaking the Lunar module from thieves, using magnetism to attach them to Bessie in The Ambassadors of Death.
• The Third Doctor and the Master's sword fight in The Sea Devils.
• "Do I have the right?" moment and the 4th Doctor's scientist-to-scientist scene with Davros, both from Genesis of the Daleks.
• Davison's final scenes in The Caves of Androzani.
• The Seventh Doctor taking time out to visit a cafe in 1963, in Remembrance of the Daleks.
• "The turn of the Earth" speech from Rose.
• "Doc-tor? THE DOCTOR!!!" - A Dalek catches site of the 9th Doctor in Dalek.
• Sarah Jane discovering the TARDIS and seeing the 10th Doctor in School Reunion.
• "Her name was Rose" from The Runaway Bride.
• "Save someone" scene from The Fires of Pompeii.
• Donna shares the Ood's pain in Planet of the Ood.

 

[Chaos Descending]

The opening sequence of Part 1 of TOATL...still holds up today.

I have been a rabid fan of Doctor Who for 26 years, yet this has me stumped and makes me feel like a total noob.

What the heck is "TOATL"?!?!?!

EDIT: Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr "Trial of a Time Lord".

 

[ChristopherPike]

Well, because somebody had to...

The TV Movie, the scene in the park with Grace, as the Doctor starts to remember... "I'm lying back in the grass with my father... it's a warm Gallifreyan night... the sky above us was dancing with lights... blue, purple, orange, yellow.... Yes! These shoes fit perfectly!"

 

[Worf2DS9]

^ That was a good one. Some of Daphne Ashbrook's facial expressions as she reacts to his various ramblings are priceless.