Last Classic Who Story you watched

[Mr Awe]

Black Orchid is a pure historical, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't count?

I'm not a fan of most of the ones I saw. The Aztecs being the exception.

 

[VDCNI]

It's not written to explore and illuminate an era of history, it's just a crap detective script the writer couldn't sell to anyone else.

 

[Christopher]

It's not written to explore and illuminate an era of history, it's just a crap detective script the writer couldn't sell to anyone else.

Even if that's so, "Black Orchid" is the only Doctor Who story since "The Gunfighters" to have no science fiction or fantasy elements other than the main cast and the TARDIS, so it counts as a historical, at least technically.

I'd actually be happy if they'd do the occasional straight historical story again from time to time. I get tired of the contrivance of the Doctor's every visit to Earth history involving an alien invasion or time traveler or supernatural force or whatever.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Rewatching the Three Doctors...for reasons.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I do love Pertwee's Science Doctor. He's the most sciencey Doctor.

 

[diankra]

Black Orchid is a pure historical, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't count?

I'm not a fan of most of the ones I saw. The Aztecs being the exception.

It's a monster story, but the monster doesn't have an alien origin.

 

[diankra]

Even if that's so, "Black Orchid" is the only Doctor Who story since "The Gunfighters" to have no science fiction or fantasy elements other than the main cast and the TARDIS, so it counts as a historical, at least technically.

I'd actually be happy if they'd do the occasional straight historical story again from time to time. I get tired of the contrivance of the Doctor's every visit to Earth history involving an alien invasion or time traveler or supernatural force or whatever.

"I didn't get you where you wanted to go, but always got you where you needed to go."

 

[26138]

Of that list, I just have to "watch" The Myth Makers, The Massacre, and The Smugglers. I'll probably go with the audio plus linking narration versions of those stories. I can generally tolerate recons, especially when they're in an only partially missing story, but for these historicals the recons just feel worse to me (which is why I switched from recon to audio after the first episode of The Highlanders).

I watched The Myth Makers recon years ago. I don't remember much about it. I haven't tried to tackle The Massacre, The Smugglers, or The Highlanders. I have tried to tackle Marco Polo and quickly quit.

 

[26138]

I do love Pertwee's Science Doctor. He's the most sciencey Doctor.

Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!

 

[jaime]

It's not written to explore and illuminate an era of history, it's just a crap detective script the writer couldn't sell to anyone else.

It’s a pastiche, I suppose it contains no actual historical figure. But it was terribly on trend at the time. This was about when all those romance dramas were kicking off in the same era, remains of the day, chariots of fire, and it hung around a long time — you rang m’lotd and house of Eliot within a decade of Black Orchid.