Top Three Stories from Each Doctor

[The Borgified Corpse]

It's been about a decade since I've seen "The Pirate Planet" but it still left a pretty big impression on me since that was the 4th ever Doctor Who story that I ever saw. I think I owe a lot to "The Pirate Planet," "The Ribos Operation," & "The Androids of Tara" as far as getting me hooked on the show.

I'd agree that "The Tomb of the Cybermen" is overrated. It's not bad but it's kinda slow and lacks a lot of the spark that animates most of the later Patrick Troughton stories. Maybe, back when it was a missing story, it was more effective as audio-only. I can see it being a very creepy, atmospheric audio adventure. But with the visuals, it just feels very average. And I do think it's pretty slow, particularly when you compare it to some of the surviving 6, 8, & even 10 part stories that still exist from the Troughton years.

My picks for the Twelfth Doctor, as of 2014:

Time Heist
Mummy on the Orient Express
Flatline

I really wanted to put Listen here, but I still bloody hate the frickin's barn scene with the First Doctor-as-a-child scene.

For me, the barn scene is what makes the episode. It's still a solid episode without it. But, I think, without the barn scene, it drops from #1 on my list to #4 or #5.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

For me, the barn scene is what makes the episode. It's still a solid episode without it. But, I think, without the barn scene, it drops from #1 on my list to #4 or #5.

Fanwank at its worst. Not to mention, it features the ludicrous introduction of the "psychic link" of the TARDIS.

Hate the scene, and ruins the episode for me.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I would be lying, to rank William Hartnell & Patrick Troughton- PBS never aired their shows, and "Tomb of the Cybermen I fell asleep watching on Netflix!

Wow. I consider "Tomb" to be one of the best serials from ANY Doctor, by a long shot and a half.

 

[DWF]

Our PBS station aired the Hartnell and Troughton stories, but since they stopped showing the show after it was cancelled they didn't show Tomb Of The Cybermen. I saw it on tape first in 1992 after it was completed and I thought it was an amazing story.

 

[Volpone]

Funny thing: I can't pick top 3 for each Doctor, but I CAN pick my favorite of all: "Pyramids of Mars."

I guess for top 3 Baker I'd say "Mars," "The Talons of Weng Chiang" and...yeah, I can't do it. Either "The Deadly Assassin" or "Horror of Fang Rock". And I can't even guess on any of the others. 8th Doctor is easy because he only got the one "movie". And I may have actually gotten a boner when I say a TARDIS on the cover of TV Guide in the Cub Foods checkout in Plymouth MN in 1996. But I digress. The only other Who that leaps to mind is "The 11th Hour," because I was not a huge Tennant fan and, when the local PBS station was showing nuWho and had the last Tennant episode (where he mopes around pre-regeneration after some silly gobbldeygook about white point diamonds, the sound of drums, and Gallifrey materializing over Earth) I almost gave up. But then I watched the "raggedy Doctor" save the world and was back.

 

[starsuperion]

Oooo... I don't know.. the library story with Donna Noble was good, but honestly, I loved the Impossible planet and satan pit.. it was a great story. I understand the River song implications of the Library story, but still.. I am torn between the two. The End of Time was a definite contender too.. it isn't a multiple Doc story, technically.. since at the end it was only a regeneration.. not a combined effort.