Top/Bottom 10 stories from DWM's 50th Anniversary poll

[Sindatur]

Delta and the Bannerman is one of the only 7th Doctor stories I liked. I don't know why it has such a bad reputation. I mean, ok, Mel is in it, and I can see getting annoyed with the tourists. Still, I liked it.

Well, apart from a lot of silly running around and not particularly threatening villains, My biggest problem is that the episode is from an era when the show didn't want to explain anything. We were supposed to feel threatened by the Devome...err...I mean Bannermen, but they never bothered to explain just who they were. Belligerent alien race? Galactic gangsters? Hired mercenaries?

Needlessly killing off a bus full of innocent aliens didn't really sit right with me either.

To be perfectly honest, I could have done without McCoys entire first season. Dragonfire was just about the only story that I thought was halfway decent.

TBH... I love Paradise Towers, mostly, as well as Dragonfire.

I think Time and the Rani could be an interesting story, without her imitating Mel, and Delata and The Bannermen is my absolute bottom Serial (Followed closely by Four To Doomsday, Then probably Gunfighters third), even over and above Nuwho Bombs.

I also like Timelash

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Interesting thing about Blink and Human Nature, both are adapted-by the same writers-from Who "expanded" fiction. Blink was based on a short story in the first Nuwho annual (With Eccleston's Doctor), while Human Nature was a Seventh Doctor novel (Although the novel version is quite different the basic story-the Doctor becomes human and falls in love-is the same).

Regarding Turn Left, I think the Doctor mentions the alien on Donna's back being part of the Trickster's brigade. The Trickster is a recurring bad guy who tries to erase people from existence in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and even faced the Doctor in the episode The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.