Doctor Who Club of Australia

Greg · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: Season 14 favourite story poll

What's your favourite story from the 1976 series?

Greg · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

And here's a great year in Who - even the weaker stories are still pretty good1

I picked The Talons of Weng-Chaing, probably the obvious choice.

dave · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject:

Although I wanted to vote for an SJS story - she's my favourite companion - the two this season weren't good enough. I've gone for Robots of Death, which I prefer to Talons mostly because I lean towards the sci-fi elements rather than the historical. Which is not to say the historical stories aren't good, just that I prefer sci-fi.

Robots is a very chilling story, and beautifully designed. The robots look great and are quite sinister. The plot is a little convoluted, but all works out well in the end. Leela is quite entertaining too, though that often applies to this 'noble savage' in a civilised world. She's really good value in Talons as well.

John Lucantonio · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 58

All great stories, but Talons is in a class of its own

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

And I thought the Season 13 poll was tough! My vote could easily go to any of these stories, but in the end it has to be Talons. Brilliant stuff.

Dazza · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 106

Tried hard to vote for Robots and Talons......didn't let me.........Talons........just.

This is classic Who.

meglos · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 668 Location: Perth

Very very difficult. Talons just!

Kerr Avon · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 478

I'm going with The Hand Of Fear because Sarah gets some nice character moments. but "best" might be praising it too highly...

not my favourite period of Doctor Who

SharazJek · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 898 Location: Hobart, Tasmania

How strange that my least favourite incarnation of the Doctor stars in my personal all-time favourite story.

Love the period. Explains why Unquiet Dead is my fav from the new series.

Bob Holmes at his very best! (and most rushed)

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

My instincts were screaming at me "The Deadly Assassin", but I thought about it some, and realised that I remember The Face of Evil very fondly - strange that it's the story that introduced one of my least favourite companions.

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

Despite the Rat I went for Talons

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 4254

Robots of Death. I first saw this in the omnibus version and remembered that how I fell in love with Pam Salem (which I still am). It happened to be the first DVD I bought back in 2002 after I had a very unpleasant year in 2001. When Robots of Death was shown on the ABC I was thinking how Megan Gale would be perfect for Pam's part if the serial was ever remade.

Also quite enjoyed Deadly Assassin as well as certain moments of Talons.

Sulp Niar · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

Uh yeah, I voted and forgot to post. I was getting around to it...

I actually voted the Face of Evil. This is Leela in her prime here (not that I have anything against her, I just prefer her here) and I like the split personality computer concept over the more obvious plots of Talons and Robots (but I love all these stories). And from memory this is the first time we see the Doctor's actions take a terrible turn. Not as terrible as some of his future actions but... it was a start.

Also when I first watched this I didn't know anything about Leela, and thus her new (at the time) angle for a companion fascinated me, although this was dissipating towards the end of Talons and died completely during the next season...