Last Classic Who Story you watched

[diankra]

"Silver Nemesis" was mediocre. It always bugged me that it was treated as the official 25th-anniversary story instead of "Remembrance of the Daleks," which was not only a far better story but a more logical anniversary story. "Nemesis" seemed redundant, an afterthought and an anticlimax.

The back story is that Nemesis was commissioned before Remembrance. If one had been cancelled due to plot similarities, then Rem would probably have gone. Thankfully not.
30 years ago I wondered why the anniversary story had been assigned to someone who had seen very little Who, and had presumably made a point of avoiding it given his age.

 

[26138]

You know you've watched too much Doctor Who when you dream of a previously missing Davison 2 parter getting released that you haven't seen.

 

[Tomalak]

The back story is that Nemesis was commissioned before Remembrance. If one had been cancelled due to plot similarities, then Rem would probably have gone. Thankfully not.
30 years ago I wondered why the anniversary story had been assigned to someone who had seen very little Who, and had presumably made a point of avoiding it given his age.

Yeah, JNT was convinced that the official anniversary story had to go out on 23rd November 1988. But given the subject matter, Remembrance would have been a much better fit, given that it actually takes place on 23rd November 1963!

But I'm glad it went out the way it did. Remembrance is a pretty much perfect story, and it opens the season with a bang with the Daleks.

Maybe if they had been reversed, we would today be complaining that Remembrance was a rip-off of Nemesis!