I won a "contest" at work. As a result, one of my co-workers now has to buy me a dvd. I'm being nice and going with one of the cheaper Doctor Who dvds, but I can't decide what to get. I've listed them below by Doctor then story number.
Which should I get?
1 - 1 – The Web Planet - The TARDIS is seized by a mysterious force and dragged down to its latest resting place - Vortis, a craggy, forbidding world where the dangers include pools of lethal acid. Here, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki get involved in the struggles of the moth-like Menoptra (Roslyn de Winter, Arne Gordon, Arthur Blake, Jolyon Booth, Jocelyn Birdsall, Martin Jarvis) to reclaim the planet - originally their home - from an alien parasite. The Animus (voiced by Catherine Fleming) has invaded Vortis and taken control of the once-docile, ant-like Zarbi (Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor, John Scott Martin, Kevin Manser), turning them into its vicious drones who use organic Venom Guns (Jack Pitt, Hugh Lund) to enforce the Animus' will.
2 – 45 – The Mind Robber - To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Doctor uses an emergency unit which moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void, where they are menaced by White Robots (Jon Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener, Terry Wright). Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped until the ship suddenly explodes apart. They then find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel (Christine Pirie) and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver (Bernard Horsfall), and Jamie's face is changed and replaced with the visage of another man (Hamish Wilson).
3 – 57 – The Claws of Axos - The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) is suffering a visit by Chinn (Peter Bathurst), head of a committee of inquiry, who is concerned that there seem to be no files or records on the Doctor. Bill Filer (Paul Grist) from Washington is also in England to help UNIT track down the Master. While the Brigadier, the Doctor and Jo are meeting with Chinn and Filer, two UNIT radar operators (Michael Walker, David G. March) detect a spacecraft of variable mass approaching the Earth. Chinn assumes command and orders a missile strike on it, but the object vanishes. The missiles are aborted and the object lands on the South East coast of Britain, close to the Nuton Power Complex which supplies Britain with power. Filer is dismissed by Chinn and UNIT mobilises to go to the landing site.
3 – 66 The Carnival of Monsters - The TARDIS arrives in the hold of a ship. The Doctor is puzzled as he was heading for Metebelis 3, the blue planet of the Acteon galaxy. The Doctor and Jo explore the ship and hide when Major Daly (Tenniel Evans), his daughter Clare (Jenny McCraken) and Lieutenant John Andrews (Ian Marter), a seaman, enter the saloon. Clare and Andrews leave to walk around the deck and Daly falls asleep. Jo sees a copy of the Illustrated London News on the table. It is dated 3 April 1926. Suddenly a plesiosaur rises from the sea. In the confusion, the Doctor and Jo try to leave but are seen by Daly. Andrews says they are stowaways and locks them in a cabin. There, the Doctor discovers that the ship is the SS Bernice and the date is the 4 June 1926 - the day that, according to history, the ship vanished. Jo notices that when they entered the clock read 7:35 and now it reads 6:40 and it is also daylight outside when it should be night. Just outside the cabin door is a hexagonal metallic hatch in the floor that Andrews cannot see and, having used Jo's skeleton keys to escape from the cabin, Jo and the Doctor examine it.
3 – 69 – The Green Death - In the Welsh village of Llanfairfach, the local colliery is closed, and the out of work miners are protesting outside the factory complex of Global Chemicals. Nothing Stevens (Jerome Willis), the chief of Global Chemicals, can say will calm them. A miner, Ted Hughes (John Scott Martin), returns from the disused mine and sounds the alarm. When he is found, he is dead, and glowing bright green. UNIT are called in to investigate and to provide protection for Global Chemicals. Jo decides to join Professor Clifford Jones (Stewart Bevan), a Nobel prize winning ecologist, and his group at The Wholeweal Community - known locally as 'the Nuthutch'. They are concerned at the pollution resultant from Global Chemicals' processes. The Doctor, however, makes a trip to Metebelis 3.
4 – 82 – Pyramids of Mars - Sarah, investigating the TARDIS's wardrobe, has found a dress previously worn by the second Doctor's companion Victoria. She is showing it off to the Doctor when the TARDIS is buffeted by an external force and a hideous jackal-like face appears in the console room, terrifying Sarah. The TARDIS arrives on Earth, but the alien contact has pushed the ship off course slightly, and instead of arriving at UNIT HQ in the present day, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves in an old priory in the year 1911. The priory stands on the same site that UNIT HQ will occupy in the future.
4 – 87 – The Hand of Fear - The Doctor and Sarah return to present-day Earth when the TARDIS arrives in a deserted quarry, silent except for the howl of a warning klaxon. Too late they realise that the quarry has been set with explosives. Sarah is buried under rubble from a massive explosion. As the miners and the Doctor frantically search for her she regains consciousness to find herself entombed. Seeing a hand reaching for her she grasps it only to find that it is a fossil. Some sort of energy moves from the hand into her mind, knocking her unconscious once more.
4 – 92 – The Horror of Fang Rock - The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast. It is the first decade of the 20th Century and the island's only inhabitants are a trio of lighthouse keepers who operate the recently-installed electric light to warn ships off the treacherous rocks close by.
4 – 110 – The Leisure Hive - After an abortive holiday in Brighton, Romana persuades the Doctor to take another on the planet Argolis which in the year 2290 is the location of a giant pleasure dome, the leisure hive.
5 – 120 – The Visitation - Strange lights in the sky are witnessed by a young girl called Elizabeth (Valerie Fyfer) from the window of a 17th-century manor house. She tells Squire John (John Savident), Charles (Anthony Calf) and their servant Ralph (John Baker) what she has seen. Subsequently all the house’s occupants are killed by a mysterious alien intruder.
5 – 122 – Earthshock – Adric dies :-(
5 – 134 – Resurrection of the Daleks - In London, 1984, a group of humanoids are gunned down by two policemen (Mike Braben, Michael Jeffries) using machine pistols. Two of the humanoids, Galloway (William Sleigh) and Quartermaster Sergeant Stien (Rodney Bewes), escape and return to a warehouse where a time corridor is situated. Galloway is killed, leaving the cowardly Stien alone. Commander Lytton (Maurice Colbourne), who led the attack on Earth, transports back to his battle cruiser and prepares to attack a space station. On the station, the crew are demoralised and the equipment is malfunctioning. It is a prison station with just one prisoner.
7 – 157 – Ghost Light - The TARDIS arrives in a laboratory-cum-playroom in a mysterious old house. The Doctor tells Ace that their location is a surprise. Ace hopes that the house isn’t haunted as she hates haunted houses – she’s been in one already.
Which should I get?
1 - 1 – The Web Planet - The TARDIS is seized by a mysterious force and dragged down to its latest resting place - Vortis, a craggy, forbidding world where the dangers include pools of lethal acid. Here, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki get involved in the struggles of the moth-like Menoptra (Roslyn de Winter, Arne Gordon, Arthur Blake, Jolyon Booth, Jocelyn Birdsall, Martin Jarvis) to reclaim the planet - originally their home - from an alien parasite. The Animus (voiced by Catherine Fleming) has invaded Vortis and taken control of the once-docile, ant-like Zarbi (Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor, John Scott Martin, Kevin Manser), turning them into its vicious drones who use organic Venom Guns (Jack Pitt, Hugh Lund) to enforce the Animus' will.
2 – 45 – The Mind Robber - To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Doctor uses an emergency unit which moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void, where they are menaced by White Robots (Jon Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener, Terry Wright). Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped until the ship suddenly explodes apart. They then find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel (Christine Pirie) and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver (Bernard Horsfall), and Jamie's face is changed and replaced with the visage of another man (Hamish Wilson).
3 – 57 – The Claws of Axos - The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) is suffering a visit by Chinn (Peter Bathurst), head of a committee of inquiry, who is concerned that there seem to be no files or records on the Doctor. Bill Filer (Paul Grist) from Washington is also in England to help UNIT track down the Master. While the Brigadier, the Doctor and Jo are meeting with Chinn and Filer, two UNIT radar operators (Michael Walker, David G. March) detect a spacecraft of variable mass approaching the Earth. Chinn assumes command and orders a missile strike on it, but the object vanishes. The missiles are aborted and the object lands on the South East coast of Britain, close to the Nuton Power Complex which supplies Britain with power. Filer is dismissed by Chinn and UNIT mobilises to go to the landing site.
3 – 66 The Carnival of Monsters - The TARDIS arrives in the hold of a ship. The Doctor is puzzled as he was heading for Metebelis 3, the blue planet of the Acteon galaxy. The Doctor and Jo explore the ship and hide when Major Daly (Tenniel Evans), his daughter Clare (Jenny McCraken) and Lieutenant John Andrews (Ian Marter), a seaman, enter the saloon. Clare and Andrews leave to walk around the deck and Daly falls asleep. Jo sees a copy of the Illustrated London News on the table. It is dated 3 April 1926. Suddenly a plesiosaur rises from the sea. In the confusion, the Doctor and Jo try to leave but are seen by Daly. Andrews says they are stowaways and locks them in a cabin. There, the Doctor discovers that the ship is the SS Bernice and the date is the 4 June 1926 - the day that, according to history, the ship vanished. Jo notices that when they entered the clock read 7:35 and now it reads 6:40 and it is also daylight outside when it should be night. Just outside the cabin door is a hexagonal metallic hatch in the floor that Andrews cannot see and, having used Jo's skeleton keys to escape from the cabin, Jo and the Doctor examine it.
3 – 69 – The Green Death - In the Welsh village of Llanfairfach, the local colliery is closed, and the out of work miners are protesting outside the factory complex of Global Chemicals. Nothing Stevens (Jerome Willis), the chief of Global Chemicals, can say will calm them. A miner, Ted Hughes (John Scott Martin), returns from the disused mine and sounds the alarm. When he is found, he is dead, and glowing bright green. UNIT are called in to investigate and to provide protection for Global Chemicals. Jo decides to join Professor Clifford Jones (Stewart Bevan), a Nobel prize winning ecologist, and his group at The Wholeweal Community - known locally as 'the Nuthutch'. They are concerned at the pollution resultant from Global Chemicals' processes. The Doctor, however, makes a trip to Metebelis 3.
4 – 82 – Pyramids of Mars - Sarah, investigating the TARDIS's wardrobe, has found a dress previously worn by the second Doctor's companion Victoria. She is showing it off to the Doctor when the TARDIS is buffeted by an external force and a hideous jackal-like face appears in the console room, terrifying Sarah. The TARDIS arrives on Earth, but the alien contact has pushed the ship off course slightly, and instead of arriving at UNIT HQ in the present day, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves in an old priory in the year 1911. The priory stands on the same site that UNIT HQ will occupy in the future.
4 – 87 – The Hand of Fear - The Doctor and Sarah return to present-day Earth when the TARDIS arrives in a deserted quarry, silent except for the howl of a warning klaxon. Too late they realise that the quarry has been set with explosives. Sarah is buried under rubble from a massive explosion. As the miners and the Doctor frantically search for her she regains consciousness to find herself entombed. Seeing a hand reaching for her she grasps it only to find that it is a fossil. Some sort of energy moves from the hand into her mind, knocking her unconscious once more.
4 – 92 – The Horror of Fang Rock - The TARDIS arrives on Fang Rock, a small island off the English coast. It is the first decade of the 20th Century and the island's only inhabitants are a trio of lighthouse keepers who operate the recently-installed electric light to warn ships off the treacherous rocks close by.
4 – 110 – The Leisure Hive - After an abortive holiday in Brighton, Romana persuades the Doctor to take another on the planet Argolis which in the year 2290 is the location of a giant pleasure dome, the leisure hive.
5 – 120 – The Visitation - Strange lights in the sky are witnessed by a young girl called Elizabeth (Valerie Fyfer) from the window of a 17th-century manor house. She tells Squire John (John Savident), Charles (Anthony Calf) and their servant Ralph (John Baker) what she has seen. Subsequently all the house’s occupants are killed by a mysterious alien intruder.
5 – 122 – Earthshock – Adric dies :-(
5 – 134 – Resurrection of the Daleks - In London, 1984, a group of humanoids are gunned down by two policemen (Mike Braben, Michael Jeffries) using machine pistols. Two of the humanoids, Galloway (William Sleigh) and Quartermaster Sergeant Stien (Rodney Bewes), escape and return to a warehouse where a time corridor is situated. Galloway is killed, leaving the cowardly Stien alone. Commander Lytton (Maurice Colbourne), who led the attack on Earth, transports back to his battle cruiser and prepares to attack a space station. On the station, the crew are demoralised and the equipment is malfunctioning. It is a prison station with just one prisoner.
7 – 157 – Ghost Light - The TARDIS arrives in a laboratory-cum-playroom in a mysterious old house. The Doctor tells Ace that their location is a surprise. Ace hopes that the house isn’t haunted as she hates haunted houses – she’s been in one already.
