Best & Worst of DOCTOR 7 (Who Retrospective)

[@MrTARDIS]

11:15 - "Find one iconic Cyberman moment in this story". 'Silver Nemesis' is a bit pants but...the Cybermen being confused by jazz is brilliant. "Is there any pattern?" "IT IS MEANINGLESS!"

[@JimThePerson]

It’s you!

[@bonzillesgames]

The most underrated doctor ever. With Sylvester you couldn't quite know whether to trust him or not he played the doctor with a certain amount of darkness to the character. Always loved Sophie as Ace the toughest companion of all time a portrayal way ahead of its time especially after the annoying bonnie Langford who's scream could literally shatter a Dalek

[@rainbeau88]

bonzilles games Agreed!!

[@Allronix]

Ace was one of the finest examples of how The Doctor can be both the best and worst things to happen to a Companion. On one hand, she was on a bad path and probably would have ended up dead or in jail, in some other self-destructive dead end. And the Doctor comes in and challenges her to be more than just a delinquent. She was his apprentice and the closet he got to parenting since leaving Susan behind. And she was also a prefect example of how the Doctor claims pacifism while fashioning his Companions into weapons. Seven was a ruthless chessmaster who didn't dirty his hands with direct violence while Ace? Yeah. Shoots one Dalek in the face with a rocket launcher, clubs another to death with a baseball bat, snipes Cybermen with gold coins, and carries homemade explosives. And while Seven clearly loves her, he also is psychologically brutal to her ("Curse of Fenrick")

[@RileyScarletSpiderGirl]

I personally believe the 6th Doctor is the most underrated but 7th is absolutely fantastic

[@user-jn1wm3tb8v]

As a Mel apologist she's better in audio.

[@Nikioko]

His biggest problem is that his first season isn't really good. The last of a streak of ten bad seasons. So most people didn't watch anymore and the number of episodes was cut to 14 per season. So his whole tenure had as many episode as one season of Hartnell or Troughton. And when he really was about to save the show, it was cancelled.

[@unclepatrick2]

the best moment in Silver Nemisis is when the spacecraft lands and the doctor ask Ace, "you didn't disobey me and bring any explosive?" "Of course not Professor , I am a good girl, I do as I am told". "Good, Go blow up that space ship".

[@d.s.bernard8907]

The moral of the story is that you could put ANY 7 story (from the show anyway) on either of these lists, and no one would really be able to argue about it all that much

[@SamyulDavis]

D.S. Bernard This was the major roadblock making this one.

[@katnerd-Glen]

I think the problem with McCoy's Doctor is that he's one of the very best portrayals of the character with, possibly, the worst stories. It's like the American movie, everybody was down on Paul McGann, then he did a five minute short and he was so good the only thing the American movie does now is let you feel bad he never got the chance to play the Doctor.

[@calumbishop7082]

Two Words: BIG FINISH - Yeah sure audio drama is not the same as TV drama, BUT it has allowed 7, Ace as well as newer companions Hex and Klien to have some great stories.

[@LCProductionCompany]

The 8th doctor is primarily a audio only doctor.

[@SpectrumStorms]

I've always felt that Davison had weaker stories than McCoy.

[@videogamesworld01]

I disagree completely season 25 and 26 are the most consistent doctor who seasons along with 18 and 1 and are some of the best examples of dr who

[@mayotango1317]

​@@calumbishop7082 No, most of the 7th Doctor audio stories are meh.

[@eli_r_q]

Rememberance was my first classic Doctor Who episode I saw. It's also one of my all time favourites. I also really like "The curse of Fenric"

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

No it wasn't. I watched Destiny of the Daleks as my first episode. Why are you lying to me??

[@alexbruckshaw1448]

Ellis Quinn same

[@cyberfox9713]

Same for me

[@cloudsombrero]

curse of fenric is happiness patrol levels of good. If happiness is pink noir. Fenric is a zombie vampire flick night of the living dead meets from dusk til dawn before dusk il dawn even existed

[@stevengarcia5720]

7 is probably my favorite, as his companion Ace, ever since I saw her beat down a Dalek with a baseball bat and then jump through a window, I've had much respect LOL.

[@adampoll4977]

Going back and re-watching the episodes it's pretty amazing to see how much the actors did their own stunts. McCoy and the explosion, Aldred jumping through the window in Remembrance (pretty sure it's her) and diving into that rather shallow looking rockpool at the end of Fenric...

[@ViolentVegan]

So I just stumbled across this video and it led me on a trail to discover the amazing world of WHO audio drama. Just checked back in to say thank you so much. McCoy was always my favourite doctor and I can't believe the huge body of audio work that he has made and is still making! For me this is a dream come true. Not only that but as you mentioned, his WHO has absolutely evolved and now had this dark and slightly fiendish edge. For me this is a realisation of a side to the character that was always there but never fully explored.

[@SamyulDavis]

I'm jealous of you! You have so much good stuff to come. The stories with Hex are some of my favourite Doctor Who material ever.

[@ViolentVegan]

@@SamyulDavis ahh I can't wait to get onto those. I have spent the last two days boring my wife to death with delirious enthusiasm.

[@SamyulDavis]

ViolentVegan which ones did you pick up out of interest?

[@danieljohnson6975]

personaly i adore battlefield its just a bit of fun

[@SamyulDavis]

The difference between Delta & The Bannermen cheesiness and Battlefield cheesiness is very confusing. Not quite sure where I even draw the line!

[@danieljohnson6975]

thats the think i love th cheesiness of battlefield but dont enjoy the cheesiness of delta. Obviously we like different varieties of cheese

[@ilgilg9394]

Yeah I loved battlefield too.

[@joelakat]

Yeah, not exactly sure why Battlefield works so well for me and I can't stand Delta & The Bannermen. Must just be the flavor of cheese.

[@Carmoth86730]

Battlefield is in my top episodes.

[@tinascousin]

It is *so* cool to see this kind of passionate and knowledgeable output from someone born years after the ‘classic’ series ended. I enjoy your vids so much, including your references to the ‘classic’ Doctors you grew up with - something many of us also did when these eps were brand new! And, yes, most of us knew the 80s were being unkind to the show as they were rolling out around us. The horrifying reality of the never-really-officially-announced cancellation is something ‘New Who’ fans couldn’t possibly imagine (although if they keep talking the show down like they have over the last 12-24 months I suspect they might find out fairly soon!). Thank you, sincerely, for these vids. Keep ‘em coming :)

[@Ben-vf5gk]

My best; Master- Need I say more? Survival- Bittersweet, great performances from McCoy, Aldred and Ainsley Fearmonger- A great, relevant, and refreshing small scale story that was designed for 7 and Ace Ghostlight- Batshit crazy, but incredibly atmospheric Curse of Fenric- One of the best one-off villains in classic who Haven't watched enough to make a worst list

[@SamyulDavis]

Nope, that list is pretty spot-on (and probably more conventional and agreeable than my weird ass) Not a bad story in that lot.

[@Ben-vf5gk]

You are definitely a Doctor Who fan with unconventional tastes. But that's partly what makes you fun to watch

[@SamyulDavis]

Ben Warburton Wouldn’t change a thing. Wish I could get into Season 12 as much as everyone else though. But then again. They don’t get to enjoy the Clara era.

[@Ben-vf5gk]

Me I don't enjoy the Clara era, but I'm glad you have. And Capaldi is also my favourite Doctor

[@gusarthur9088]

7 was my first classic doctor and my favourite

[@autumnmatthews3179]

Huge fan of Sylvester McCoy. A great Doctor who really started to bring the magic back to the show before the rug was pulled from under him. He was fantastic in Remembrance and Fenric

[@stephencoppins9467]

Didn’t Dimensions in Time come out after Search Out Science? K-9 was with the Doctor and Ace in both, so clearly Search Out Science and Dimensions in Time are the the Seventh Doctor’s drawn out replacement fourth series and the show’s unofficial Season 27.. :p

[@roguebritgravy1]

The dragon looks like a developmentally disabled xenomorph

[@Foebane72]

How can it be a xenomorph? It has visible eyes.

[@empressfrozentoes5285]

Yeah someone said it. That's what I got from that design.

[@TheKandyman]

It's like the knockoff toy version of a xenomorph

[@archiejohnson6711]

The Seventh Doctor went from goofy and quirky to dark and alien was because he had to combat Fenrics return.

[@alisonmulholland7221]

i think he becomes dark when he has a plan.

[@1amjapan]

Oh yeah, and Hex is a scouser!

[@Nikioko]

The best scene in Remembrance of the Daleks is the Doctor's ripples speech. Just genius. Ah, and Ace beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat was quite neat, too.

[@zakjaggs9761]

Before watching I'm making it clear, curse of fenric is fantastic and the best serial ever

[@Elementa2006]

I've watched some classic Who on Twitch and I have to say Dragonfire can be dark as f*****, you can see the 2000AD influence that Cartmel was a big fan of. I have to disagree about Battlefield I thought it was a serviceable

[@SamyulDavis]

Badre Bally Big time. The comics even have direct attempts at 2000 type characters. Abslom Daak I think? A burly Dredd type Dalek Hunter. They were desperate behind the scenes to introduce Who to some newer sci-fi emerging at the time I guess. Never properly stuck.

[@Liam-ok9lm]

I have never thought of it like that before, it makes so much sense.

[@cthulhuchan9587]

The story mentions “seamen” multiple times “There is an environment that keeps trying to come through...”

[@fazbearking87]

The Happiness Patrol is my favourite Doctor Who story and the Kandyman is my favourite villain. He looks unique, his eerie voice can fluctuate between emotions amazingly and his concept of making sweets so delicious that they’re deadly is really interesting. Shame about Bassetts, even though the Kandyman hardly resembles Bertie Bassett. Only the head, lower torso and maybe parts of the fingers are clearly liquorice allsorts, with the rest of the body being made of a wide variety of sweets.

[@nintendonut100]

The Happiness Patrol is bril. The Kandyman is ridiculous, but that's what makes him so great.

[@lawrencestalbow-best2317]

Your style is great! I will be watching all your stuff for sure :D I gotta say though, I don't get why "Silver Nemesis" is so hated. It's one of my favourites! The skinheads getting beaten up by Richard, the Cybermen listening to Ace's tape, Ace taking down the Cybermen with a slingshot, Peinforte and Richard talking to that American in the limo...these are all priceless moments!

[@tiredtropes8433]

Real glad this popped up on my home page. Cant wait to check out the rest of your vids!

[@TheBridgieShow]

Very late to this, but I have a very nostalgic fondness for the VNAs. I became a Doctor Who fan in the tail end of the Wilderness Years, and for some ungodly reason my hometown library in Wisconsin had pretty much all of them. So instead of trying to track down obscure VHS tapes or catching random mid-story episodes on PBS, I was able to get an ongoing story that varied wildly in setting, sci fi flavor, and tone from book to book. It was like being invited in to every corner of science fiction imaginable, which is why I'm still rather fond of them even though I can admit that they missed more than they hit. Imagine my delight when the guy who wrote Damaged Goods was the new Doctor Who showrunner tho XD

[@duvall5jd]

The Happiness Patrol, The Greatest Show of The Galaxy and The Paradise Towers are three of my favorite stories of all time! I love them. So campy, relatively creepy moments. And absolutely fun to watch.

[@anamaaes9218]

I would actually recommend giving the Virgin line of books another go. There is actually quite a lot of good stuff in those books that influenced a lot of New Who, more so than people give it credit for (+ Bernice Summerfield, who is always Excellent). A few of them also got adapted into Big Finish stories, which work as a good starting point.

[@lavenderlavender3952]

I'd say 10 could give 7 a run for his money in the "darkest doctor" category, but it's definitely close

[@rhinorodgernorrell2863]

After seeing curse of Fenric, seven is definitely the darkest doctor. 10 never put his companions on the line like that.

[@RopeDrink]

Let's see. 7th placing companions close to sexual predators, allowing Ace's fiancee to die, manipulating his future regenerations to do things they don't want, manipulating companions into leaving him so that he can take others for his galactic 4-D chess games against literal evil, destroyed (at least) two timelines because he doesn't like them, celebrating a near-total genocide by making a Dalek commit suicide (and then playing with its ashes), getting the majority of villains to kill each other so he doesn't have to, using his defunct titles for "F*CK WITH ME AT YOUR OWN PERIL" speeches, and that's just 1.8% into his run. That speech 10 delivered to Wilfred was pretty much aimed at the 7th Doctor. "I've taken lives, but I got worse, I got clever - manipulated people into taking their own". Even though the TV show was made with children in mind, 7th talks most of his villains to death rather than compromise. To compete, 10 would have needed to be TIMELORD VICTORIOUS for a long, long time. Honestly, it's hard to say which Doctor is the closest thing to competition. 10 is up there for sure, but when I think of 10, I don't think 'dark'. I think 'most human doctor' and 'occasionally very angry'.

[@shaunhouse8634]

Jo Grant didn't mysteriously fall in love off screen - we saw it, we didn't really get it but we did see it.

[@imsquiddly6836]

Daleks of the Daleks

[@MatthewsStopMotions]

Lol

[@Charon.1]

The Crushing Inevitability of the Daleks

[@dalekbumps]

Remembrance of the Daleks is easily one of the best Doctor Who episodes of all time

[@sebastianfitzptraick7395]

excellent video, McCoy is my personal favourite Doctor, he is just so dark and menacing yet is also intelligent and fun.

[@doctorwhonewsandviews878]

According to the Virgin New Adventures, Ace lost her v-card to Glitz. I’ll just leave that here...

[@resiseven7407]

thanks, paul cornell!

[@LCProductionCompany]

7:57 I recently re watched dragonfire and Mell doesn't fall in love.

[@jeffmoo9235]

Doesn't she marry Glitz? Or was that an addition added by later eu works

[@dirtywashedupsparkle]

Ace nearly drowned in Battlefield, right? Dragonfire's random cliffhanger is infamous. They have to bring back the Kandyman somehow. I never look at liquorice allsorts the same way again.

[@LukSter18998]

Eighth doctor

[@metalgamer873]

Lungbarrow definitely sounds better then The Timeless Children tbh

[@alexzander4426]

3 episodes released in order called "Project" series. DAVIS: "ThErE iS nO iNdIcAtIoN oF tHaT!" Also, I've never been a fan of Sylvestor McCoy's acting, or his complete irrationality when the writers decide to make him the dark one instead of the funny one (listen to "Worlds Apart" for the best example of this). He literally had like 2 personalities that switched from story to story. He is constantly manipulative and was the first one to truly put his companions in danger for selfish and contradictory reasons.

[@Ecusu]

I think it's clear DAVIS just really doesn't like continuity in general, at least when Doctor Who is concerned. :p

[@Misadventures_85]

the best: Short Trips: Forever Fallen (4:53) The Happiness Patrol (5:56) Dragonfire (6:55) The Enemy of the Daleks (8:05) Remembrance of the Daleks (9:03) the worst: Silver Nemesis (10:20) Paradise Towers (11:20) Battlefield (11:48) Transit (14:41) (part of the Virgin New Adventures book series) Search Out Space (15:57) (educational special. a crossover between Doctor Who and Search Out Science)

[@rrsaga]

These are awesome! Retrospective the second doctor! He’s my favorite

[@WormsWeGot]

I see a lot of people saying that the nu-Doctor's having the darkest moments, but personally, I feel that none of all the other doctor's move even close to the dark moments the seventh has. Best example would be Remembrance of the Daleks, as he tricks Davros into actually killing his own race, planet, everything, and stands there and gloats. Or his entire Fenric storyline, using Ace as a chess-piece in his game against Fenric, he was a pure strategist, morally grey across the board.

[@stevenkranowski5141]

Fascinating stuff! Hope you'll be doing a Who Retrospective on the first three Doctors of the classic era as well.

[@TheKandyman]

I just listened to Forever Fallen and wow, just wow, it was incredible

[@PandanaJim]

7 is great doctor. He was comedic, but he was also very cunning. He was basically a mix between a dark chess master and a live comedian. Personally, I love the Doctors who seems like a idiotic goofball, but is actually very clever and very dark. Ace is also one of my favorite companions.

[@vilmundurgunnarsson3904]

I’ve always been attracted to cunning trickster characters, which explains why 7 is one of my top incarnations.

[@desiv1170]

Great vid... McCoy was my doctor, along with Tom Baker. On American public television they showed the current doctor (McCoy when I was watching) and reruns, which were almost always Tom Baker episodes. But the new ones were McCoy... And I was a huge fan of Ace... So I'm partial to the 7th Doctor... Bad writing and all... ;-)

[@Carmoth86730]

The Happiness Patrol is one of my most favourite episodes.

[@sciencefirst5363]

Curse of Fenric extremely notable by its absence here. Not quite sure how you can put either Happiness Patrol or Dragonfire ahead of Fenric, which is for my money, top ten classic Who easily.

[@SamyulDavis]

I just had already spoken about it extensively in another video is all. And even then, there's always going to be one story I get side-eyed for not including.

[@paddypowerhughes]

@@SamyulDavis I think it’s mad you’ve put happiness Patrol and Dragonfire there? Like have you watched all of 7s stories and that comment about not caring about the “political” themes of paradise towers is RICH coming from you

[@dougieprat1137]

OK... I've only just found this channel. I love big finish but never really listened or watched any of 7,I really disliked him. I'm a much bigger 6th doctor fan. But you've convinced me! I'll give 7 another go!

[@paularthur3793]

You are not wrong about Transit. Just seeing the word fuck written in a Doctor Who book just felt very wrong. And I use that word daily.

[@prince_sylex]

DAVIS: There is no iconic Cyberman moment in this story Me: "Is this the human condition of madness?" Leader: "Indeed"

[@Spartan155]

Well the intended answer for who is the doctor was a reincarnation of the Other. One of the 3 primodial demi-god like figures of Gallifrey besides Rassilon and Omega. A secret founder of timelord society that was reborn into the doctor via the looms.

[@SamyulDavis]

Spartan155 I literally talk about The Cartmel Plan and Lungbarrow IN this video.

[@Hawkeye26]

6:40 Awww, I HAD hoped I wouldn't have to comment on this one...but comparing Happiness Patrol to Vengeance on Varos is like comparing Carnival of Monsters to Caves of Androzani! 7:57 I've seen Dragonfire a dozen times and NEVER assumed Mel's reason for leaving was because she fell in love. Glitz has better taste than that! Also, Romana II is shown here..she didn't fall in love, she wanted to help and avoid returning to Gallifrey and a boring life. WTF IS WITH THIS ATTEMPTED COMPARISON??? You loved Happiness Patrol and found issue with Paradise Towers...that might be the crux of our conflict.

[@Lumibear.]

6:40 THANKYOU!! Glad someone else is pointing out to all the ‘political agenda’ grumblers the difference between having just noticed something, and it having just begun.

[@Spartan155]

Well the actual points people have is how on the nose the agenda is. The people saying none whatsoever are dumb, the ones saying there's a difference between analogy and directly addressing a social issue is a good argument. It's the difference between a good fiction story and a lecture.

[@lewisfraser3312]

Spartan155 The Happiness Patrol was a direct send-up of Maggie Thatcher, even down to the ineffectual husband; to me, it seems more like people are picking and choosing which issues they want to listen to, and by extension suppress the ones they don’t care about

[@codyw1]

@@Spartan155 That's the problem - NPCs genuinely don't see the difference.

[@benwelsh5265]

Good stuff, gotta love a doctor who went from being a bumbling inept dumbass to a Machiavellian genius and pretty dark character who only got killed by plot induced stupidity. Seriously, how could he not hear the obvious gunfire outside his Tardis?

[@SamyulDavis]

Ben Welsh I feel like the scanner is a very important tool for random time / space travel? The doctor should probably remember it exists more. It’s really INSANE that a 7 style random oblivious death didn’t happen sooner in this strange man’s life.

[@EditedAF987]

@@SamyulDavis I mean, 6’s death is kinda random from his perspective as he had no idea that his future self sent him there to prevent the Valeyard’s plans so it sort of counts

[@morningcoffeecat2271]

1:30 into the video and I just want to say that Time and The Rani is his only bad serial. Everything else is super fun and 10/10 😂

[@zigzag4491]

I loved Forever Fallen, it was 30 mins of incredible writing and commentary.

[@TheKandyman]

I just listened to it and loved it.

[@Nige031077]

Mel didn't love Glitz, but she was looking to get him to 'go straight'.

[@SamyulDavis]

I'm aware. Still fits her into that category of companion leaving to depend on a sudden male side-character.

[@peterthompson1989]

I agree with delta but also feel paradise towers is similar a over the top episode but with dark elements and just a fun watch

[@nzrockboi]

Not really iconic, but my favourite Cybermen bit in Nemesis is when they hear jazz and they're like ?????? which is also how I react to jazz.

[@cyberfox9713]

McCoys doctor was my first jumping on point to the classic era

[@ElodieElbertson]

For the love of God, what website was that at the start? I need a timeline to figure out the viewing order so badly.

[@KrzysiuNet]

I'm not fond of Paradise Towers that much, but I loved its idea/background. Blocks of flats have its own climate, challenges, mysteries, hierarchies, slang etc. The story tries to extrapolate such micro-societies. If we would remove the sci-fi part, then such society is surprisingly real. The part with different Kangs which are both fighting and supporting each other with people who just keep the division without questioning it or remembering origins? Brilliant and so real! I'm living in block of flats and I used to visit other places like that. I know the position of simple inhabitant, guest, visitor, even persona non grata and after years - somebody who no longer plays the role in place but who is the place - possibly eaten by it, together with the will of getting out of this hell. And by living and visiting I mean mostly outsides, staircases, corridors and cellars. Notice how these corridors and the flat of old ladies is shown - like the opposite sides with some funnel both connecting these worlds and dividing it. Such neighborhoods all look the same, but each block seems to be a different world, different set of rules, own mysteries, even own legends. And I feel somehow that such blocks are so cruel to people, one need to make some unnatural connection with that place or you'd hate your own home. The Paradise Towers by its extrapolation allowed me to see more about my place and other places like that. The grotesque, even psychedelic vision of reality.

[@sbi168]

Curse of fenric is my fave doctor who classic series episode. Season 26 is probably my fave old school series too. I think mat Smith beats him In The end but slyvester was my fave for a long time. Worst all of his first season. Dragonfire being the best. And silver nemesis. Best Fenric Ghostlight Rememberance of the daleks Survival Batlefield.

[@ishaandw]

I love Battlefield

[@Bagster321]

I felt quite sad when I saw 7 die, and I only recently watched the film as I’m trying to get more into Dr Who again. But I do feel like it was an ironically appropriate death. It was a random incident that got him killed in a really dark way that does fit 7’s character. But then again, you could argue the Master outplanned him for once and finally got the better of 7.

[@bobo577]

Afterlife is a really good Big Finish story. Performance wise, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred knocked it out of the park.

[@Nikioko]

Why can anyone love The Happiness Patrol and dislike Paradise Towers? Both are dystopian comedy with a lot to laugh about.

[@draugr7693]

Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy are all my absloutely favourite Doctors.

[@klisher]

i used to buy the new adventures books every month in the 90s but agree with you Transit (havent read that in over 25 years) around that time started getting to be hard work. there are some good ones. love and war, blood heat. conundrum, theatre of war. human nature, left handed hummingbird etc. what is missing from this review in particular. (it isnt any fault on your behalf) is the context of the episodes and the books. with davison and Colin Baker its easy to pigeon hole them into the time they were made, they look and feel like they years they were made in but not so with Mccoy. they are not representative of 1987- 89 at all. they are more like early 1990s. you can only know that by being there at the time. being into dr who in those years at school was pretty tough. wasnt teased (they wouldnt dare!!) but slightly oddball to everyone else. As where 5 years earlier chance of anyone else in your class reading a target book was quite high bordering on inevitable. one exception to that. Survival. i love it. it feels so exact in its portrayal of a sunday afternoon in 1989. mutlidimensional cats were par for the course for a late 80s sunday afternoon.. hahah. no i mean the atmosphere.. so quiet. boring, nowhere open, 4 tv channels, no internet, no mobile phones, just hang around the streets and fields. watching it takes you right back there. virgin books it was early 90s. you had those, dr who magazine, the vhs releases. and that was it. big finshed started 1999 and even then would only be able to find them if i went to london. with only the paul mxgann tv move in 1996 as new who. and every angle of those classic episodes being scructinised in the magazine the entire 90s. believe me those virgin books were the only thinng keeping it alive. i 100& agree that the tone of those vigin books is askew (certainly by todays standard) but what can you do. it was of the time. early 90s cyberpunk. better than nothing at all. .. up to a point. 1998 was pretty bad. nearly gave up on it myself then. the bbc books were around but both those and the virgin books before them were not that easy to find in shops. they were not popular. the memory of the mcgann movie fading and you think. well cant see where this is going. some of the books the themes are not nice at all ( amorality tale. 3rd pda. and cant remember what its called fox type aliens. 5th dr and peri pda. in particular those 2 i dont like, just nasty.) thank god for big finish. once they started you had that sense that something was going to happen.

[@christophercantrell2821]

I love your content, do you think you would ever do the best, and worst, but with just television stories?

[@paulflint6254]

7 is my favourite, due to the NA Books mostly. great video

[@nedstark1353]

Best 5.human nature 4.remembrance of the daleks 3.curse of fenric 2.enemy of the daleks 1.survival Worst 5.search out space 4.silver nemesis 3.ghost light 2.paradise towers 1.Time and the rani

[@samleaburn9346]

Live 34 is a nice Big Finish story. Kinda standard who.

[@matthewduncan8523]

7 is a great doctor but I struggle to deal with the 80s music in the back ground quite badly. I know it can’t be helped because that’s what was popular in the era, but watching stories like nemesis I just laughed at it when ace was fighting cybermen with an 80s jingle over the top. Ace was so cool doing it but it was made so cheesy by the theme over the top

[@fyraltari1889]

11:10 "Is this the human condition of madness, leader? It is!"

[@DrPeppergay]

I think 7th doctor is a bit underrated but I love the 7th doctor

[@alexbruckshaw1448]

1:09 to literally had an add saying "sometimes pain is worth it, and sometimes it is not"

[@fan-workentertainment5503]

I just laugh knowing that the bat ace used was the wrong bat and the eyestalk and that weren't meant to break off like that. It was hilarious.

[@crotasonoforyx5330]

Was anyone else expecting Time and the Rani to be on here? Personally I love it but a lot of people hate it

[@thedoctor1263]

I love it too

[@jcrossan1351]

Dragonfire and the happiness patrol were my first classic who stories so I’m glad o see them on the list

[@FinlayFosterReviews]

7th doctors era is by far my favourite of the classic series and curse of fenric is my favourite story. Fantastic video as always man!

[@SamyulDavis]

Finlay Foster I saved that story for my Historical Episodes video! :)

[@HashbrownMashup]

What are the sites at 0:27 and 1:05?

[@thomasblack8253]

Hex is from Liverpool not Newcastle, I agree I love Big finish 7th Doctor range is excellent

[@Foebane72]

I would think that Sophie Aldred despises Battlefield, as that was the serial she nearly died on, when the glass water tank she was "drowning in" cracked and they had to haul her out before she was cut to shreds.

[@julieeverett7442]

I liked battle field as it was the last time we saw the brig, and for those of us who are classic who fans this was very very special the general story was a bit meh, but that was special!

[@lewisconroy6225]

Do you have a link to that reading order you mentioned

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

The DARKEST incarnation?! Are we forgetting about the War Doctor?

[@DaniBowie]

What is the link to the website on 0:27 of the video ?

[@Dim4323]

He my favourite incantation

[@Dray1]

I like Silver Nemesis, an iconic Cyberman moment is either David Banks EXCELLENT or the Slingshot scene where Ace tricks one Cyberman into killing another and kills the other one

[@parrot998]

What about the part where the Doctor completely confuses the Cybermen with jazz? That is my favorite moment of that serial.

[@wcheungmusic]

I've seen all of Sylvester McCoy's era, and find it underrated. There's actually a lot of good going on that outweighs the bad. My top 5: Time and the Rani, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Happiness Patrol, Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric My worst 5: Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Survival

[@tarponpet]

I adore Happiness Patrol.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

How can you even make a list like this - one way or the other - and not mention The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!? :o !!! Like it or don't, but it's hard to say it's just run-of-the-mill Who...!

[@michaelpuglisi6767]

This story gets overlooked a lot. I personally love it to bits

[@badexampleshow6744]

I think the doctor, ace and hex play off each other brilliantly

[@Joey15811]

Ace is the best companion of all time. Season 24 is a extremely underrated fun season. I don’t get the JNT hate and I don’t see why fun stories get so much hate

[@graphic-no_avail534]

Sylvester is likely the most unrated Doctor. He never really got to finish his time and was reduced to a throw away death at the beginning of a poorly received movie. (No hate for eight from me.)

[@colinp2238]

You didn't mention the obvious connection of the name Delta and the Bannermen to Echo and the Bunnymen, a band popular at the time. Time and the Rani was brilliant in parts, mostly to see Kate O'Mara imitating Bonnie Langford.

[@SamyulDavis]

colin Paterson a new piece of information for me! And the Rani isn’t for me, though I get why people like the character

[@colinp2238]

@@SamyulDavis I always thought that the Rani could have made a comeback in new Who, regenerated of course as Kate O'Mara is dead now. It would have been better than Missy as a villain, there was already a female Time Lord in the Universe so why feminise the Master? She had appeared in an earlier Dr Who against number 2 I think.

[@jedisalsohere]

My main New Adventures recommendation is Conundrum. It's the Land of Fiction, baby.

[@revspikejonez]

Ah, it's funny that you gave up on the New Adventure novels right before they started getting decent. However, I could see why Transit stopped you from wanting to pick up another one, lol

[@adampoll4977]

Paradise Towers is a guilty pleasure - only to be watched alone ;). It is hilarious fun tho.

[@SirMeowsAlot89]

Adam Poll hahaha agreed! I love it! But anyone else I try to get to watch it with me won’t even finish it... idk why!

[@adampoll4977]

@@SirMeowsAlot89 Almost makes me want to start wall-scrawling "Pex Lives!" ;)

[@fan-workentertainment5503]

I listened to the whole klein storyline and I loved it but also my head hurt during the end of her storyline.