Tuesday, December 24, 2013

100 Whos, 100 Reviews



Before The Time of The Doctor premieres (and once reviewed, I would be up to 101 Doctor Who stories), I thought I'd have my rankings of all the Doctor Who stories I have reviewed.  Again, to set the ground rules: this is for all Classic Doctor Who released on DVD in the United States from the First Doctor story An Unearthly Child to the Third Doctor story Terror of the Autons except for the First Doctor story The Tenth Planet.  Also included in the rankings are the Fourth Doctor story The Sun Makers and all NuWho stories from the Ninth Doctor story Rose up to the Tenth Doctor story The Idiot's Lantern, and all Eleventh Doctor stories from The Eleventh Hour to The Day of The Doctor.

How I arrived at this list is as follows.  Every story earned a score between 1 and 10, 10 being a masterpiece, 1 being an absolute disaster.  Once they were scored, they were compared to other stories with similar scores and then determined which was 'better'.  This determination came from such things as overall story, acting, cinematography, etc.  There was also the Would I Rather Rule, as in "Would I rather watch Story A or Story B?"  If I preferred watching one over the other, it went higher. 

The listing includes both the score and the Doctor the stories featured.  Example: The Tomb of the Cybermen (10/2), means the story got a score of 10 and it was a Second Doctor story.

With that, let us move on.  In order from 1 to 100...

Num. 1: Simply the Best So Far

  1. The Tomb of the Cybemen (10/2)
  2. Spearhead From Space (10/3)
  3. The Aztecs (10/1)
  4. Inferno (10/3)
  5. The Time Meddler (10/1)
  6. Doctor Who & The Silurians (10/3)
  7. The Seeds of Death (10/2)
  8. The Mind Robber (10/2)
  9. The Evil of the Daleks (10/2)
  10. The Unquiet Dead (10/9)
  11. The Ice Warriors (10/2)
  12. Inside the Spaceship (aka The Edge of Destruction) (9/1)
  13. The Ambassadors of Death (9/3)
  14. The Romans (9/1)
  15. The Dalek Invasion of Earth (9/1)
  16. The End of the World (9/9)
  17. The Invasion (9/2)
  18. Terror of the Autons (9/3)
  19. The War Games (9/2)
  20. The Daleks (8/1)
  21. The Sun Makers (8/4)
  22. The Celestial Toymaker (8/1)
  23. The Web of Fear (8/2)
  24. Dalek (8/9)
  25. Father's Day (8/9)
  26. The Rescue (8/1)
    Num. 27: The Highest-Ranked
    Eleventh Doctor Story
  27. Cold Blood Parts I & II (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) (8/11) 
  28. Amy's Choice (8/11)
  29. New Earth (8/10)
  30. Rose (8/9)
  31. Night Terrors (8/11)
  32. The Krotons (8/2)
  33. The Eleventh Hour (8/11)
  34. An Unearthly Child (7/1)
  35. The Daleks' Master Plan (7/1)
  36. The Enemy of the World (7/2)
  37. The Doctor's Wife (7/11)
  38. The Underwater Menace (7/2)
  39. School Reunion (7/10)
  40. Marco Polo (7/1)
  41. The Idiot's Lantern (7/10)
  42. The Girl Who Waited (7/11)
  43. The Sensorites (7/1)
  44. Galaxy 4 (7/1)
  45. The Wheel in Space (7/2)
  46. The Empty Child Parts I & II (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) (6/9)
  47. The Crusade (6/1)
  48. The Christmas Invasion (6/10)
  49. The Reign of Terror (6/1) 
  50. Bad Wolf Parts I & II (Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways) (6/9) 
    Num. 50: Stuck in the Middle
  51. Planet of Giants (6/1)
  52. The Keys of Marinus (6/1)
  53. The Faceless Ones (6/2)
  54. The Chase (6/1)
  55. Vincent & The Doctor (6/11)
  56. The Abominable Snowmen (6/2)
  57. Victory of the Daleks (6/11)
  58. Aliens of London Parts I & II (Aliens of London/World War III) (6/9)
  59. Day of the Moon Parts I & II (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon) (6/11)
  60. The Big Bang Parts I & II (The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang) (6/11)
  61. Tooth & Claw (5/10)
  62. The War Machines (5/1)
  63. Rise of the Cybermen Parts I & II (Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) (5/10)
  64. The Time of Angels Parts I & II (The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone) (5/11)
  65. A Christmas Carol (5/11)
  66. The Moonbase (4/2)
  67. The Rings of Akhaten (4/11)
  68. The Space Museum (4/1)
    Num. 69: The Most Wildly
    Overrated Doctor Who Story
  69. The Girl in the Fireplace (4/10)
  70. The Gangers Parts I & II (The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People) (4/11)
  71. The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe (4/11)
  72. The Beast Below (4/11)
  73. Boom Town (4/9)
  74. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (4/11)
  75. The Long Game (4/9)
  76. The Ark (3/1)
  77. Hide (3/11)
  78. The Crimson Horror (3/11)
  79. The Day of The Doctor (3/10-11)
  80. The Space Pirates (3/2)
  81. The Power of Three (3/11)
  82. The Name of The Doctor (3/11)
  83. The Angels Take Manhattan (3/11)
  84. The Wedding of River Song (3/11)
  85. A Town Called Mercy (3/11)
  86. The Lodger (3/11)
  87. The Gunfighters (2/1)
  88. The Bells of Saint John (2/11)
  89. Asylum of the Daleks (2/11)
  90. The Vampires of Venice (2/11)
  91. The Web Planet (2/1)
  92. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (2/11)
  93. The Dominators (2/2)
  94. The Snowmen (2/11)
  95. River's Secret Parts I & II (A Good Man Goes to War/Let's Kill Hitler) (2/11)
  96. Cold War (2/11)
  97. The God Complex (1/11)
  98. The Curse of the Black Spot (1/11)
  99. Nightmare in Silver (1/11)
  100. Closing Time (1/11)
Num. 100: Grotesque in Every Way

Too low?  Too high?  Did I make a mistake in ranking one story over another?  Let me know.  We have so many more stories to go, from the Third Doctor story The Mind of Evil to the Tenth Doctor story The Impossible Planet Parts I & II (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit) to the Eleventh Doctor story The Time of The Doctor.  I know there will be duds in the future, but there are also good stories too. 

Let us begin...

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