Doctor Who Club of Australia

Greg · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: Season 13 favourite story poll

Unlucky for some, but not for your favourite story!

Greg · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:

Pyramids of Mars gets my vote as best story over all, but there's plenty of good'uns in this season...

dave · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

Terror of the Zygons takes this one for me, but Pyramids is a very close second. So many good stories to choose from, nearly all of them are classics, IMO.

Except for the Skarasen, which is not the best, everything is really well realised. The explosion of the Zygon craft at the end is one of the best model shots ever in Classic Who. The zygons look great, having them whisper is cool, and it's always fun to have dopplegangers around. Nice to see UNIT in this one, too.

EDIT: Looking at that list again, it's hard not to go with Seeds of Doom. Still, I can't change my vote, so I'll stick with the zygons.

I think this season might be my favourite from the whole series. I'm not a big fan of Planet, but love all the others. A fantastic year for Who, yet both preceeded and followed by seasons nearly as good. I think this is the glory days of Who, but must admit I grew up on Tom Baker's Who.

John Lucantonio · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 58

The Seeds of Doom is my favourite Tom Baker story.
It terrified me so much it took me literally months to summon the courage to watch the last episode when I got the video aged 9

Tom N. · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 144 Location: Sydney, NSW

Definitely the hardest choice yet! After much deliberation, I gave it to The Brain of Morbius. Dark, atmospheric and very, very spooky. Morbius is one chap I know I never, ever want to meet in a dark alley.

Dazza · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 106

This is like picking your favourite child. Seeds of Doom for me......just.

meglos · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 670 Location: Perth

Kerr Avon · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 478

my opinion of Planet Of Evil is higher since reading Simon Messingham's Zeta Major, but I can't bring myself to award a "best" vote to anything here.

not my favourite period of Doctor Who.

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 902 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

Oh dear Kerr Avon. I just read Zeta Major last week and I thought it was an awful sequal. It could and should have been so much better.

My favourite for this season is Zygons. It has to be one of the scariest and most atmospheric stories in the history of the show.

Kerr Avon · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 478

and that's one thing that makes Doctor Who so great - it caters to many different tastes.

I like the Zygons in The Bodysnatchers a lot more than I do in their TV appearance.

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 902 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

I haven't read that one K A. Looks cool.

Beatly · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 375 Location: London

Not a great deal of this season remains in my memory - I know I watched all of them when UK Gold repeated the whole series in the 90s, but the only one that I can remember from then is The Brain of Morbius - so I guess I'll vote for that one. Smile

Wester · Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 610 Location: Brisbane

From the first scene I loved this one - Pyramids of Mars.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 4428

Pyramids of Mars. Years I constantly watch this story recorded on UKTV over and over again simply because this was before I started to buy Doctor Who on video and now DVD.

Also like Planet of Evil & Seeds of Doom as well.

Sulp Niar · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

I actually think that Pyramids of Mars is better then The Seeds of Doom, but I voted for the latter. Anyway, it was the first six parter that I didn't ever get really bored in (even Genesis was too long).

StitchInTime · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 34

For there is only one possibility--Brain of Morbius.