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[scherrymouse]

EDIT: WTF. Replied to the wrong post. I... do not know what happened there. o.O

Anyway, I haven't tried any ClassicWho, but this episode does look awesome. Might check it out!

[kittenmommy]

I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

Then (for a serious case of Mood Whiplash) go watch Ghostlight. It's one of the best Classic Who serials ever, IMO. Oh, and Enlightenment. And City of Death... OK, I need to stop now. ;)

[scherrymouse]

Ooh, surprise recommendations! Thank you. :)

I always feel intimidated by the sheer number of episodes, so having specific ones to look for could be helpful in getting me started with the classic series. Do you have a favourite classic Doctor, by any chance?

[kittenmommy]

Ooh, surprise recommendations! Thank you. :)

You're very welcome! :D

I always feel intimidated by the sheer number of episodes, so having specific ones to look for could be helpful in getting me started with the classic series.

Oh! The Key to Time series of eps, and the last few eps of Tom Baker's run:

Key to Time:

The Ribos Operation
The Pirate Planet
The Stones Of Blood
The Androids of Tara
The Power of Kroll
The Armageddon Factor.

The last Tom Baker eps:

Warrior's Gate
The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis

Which leads into Castrovalva, the first Peter Davison ep. Phew! And yeah, I typed all that from memory. I may be a tad obsessed! ;)

Do you have a favourite classic Doctor, by any chance?

Four, Five, and Seven are my favorites. Six is my least favorite... he was a jackass (IMO, of course).

[scherrymouse]

^_^

Ooooh, a shiny list. That's even better. I'm impressed you did it all from memory - thank you, so much! I'll have to find those episodes and watch them. :D

*excited*

[kittenmommy]

I seriously hope you enjoy them!

Oh, and eps that feature Gallifrey (the home planet of the Time Lords) include The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, The Arc of Infinity, and The Five Doctors (which is Exactly What It Says On The Tin).

Have fun! :D

[scherrymouse]

Have fun! :D

I'm sure I will! Thank you very much, kittenmommy. :)

[kittenmommy]

You are very welcome! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding Key to Time and Tom Baker's last episodes. Also Deadly Assassin. You must watch Deadly Assassin. It has The Matrix, 30 years before The Matrix! It has Crispy!Master! It has political intrigue on Gallifrey! IT HAS IT ALL.

....ahem. I may be somewhat biased in that Deadly Assassin is my favourite Who serial. Ever. So. Take that FWIW.

[kittenmommy]

I did indeed rec Deadly Assassin below. :D

[(Anonymous)]

The story that scared me the most at the time, and I still feel a bit scared of to think of it now, is "The Pyramids of Mars". I think I was terrified at the idea of the end of everything. Sutek really frightened me. Yeah I was of the generation that watched Doctor Who from behind the sofa.

[kittenmommy]

LOL! I can see how Pyramids of Mars would terrify a child. That ep had some heavy-duty stuff going on!

[(Anonymous)]

Don't ask kittenmommy for recs. She's extremely shallow and unintelligent.

[scherrymouse]

The only thing I know about kittenmommy, so far, is that she knows stuff about Classic Who, has been very polite and generous with her time to me, seems eloquent enough, and is possibly an adorable black cat in disguise.

This may still mean she's shallow and unintelligent, I don't know, but why are you assuming I'm not, and so couldn't have similar taste?

You clearly don't know me very well at all, anon! ;)

(Anyway, my point is, thanks for the tip, but I don't really care. I'll try the episodes, and if they don't work for me, that won't necessarily prevent me from watching others, so it doesn't really matter.)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Well if I may, I will back up kittenmommy's recs, and advise you ignore trolls who say there's anything wrong with them.

All those serials kittenmommy recommended are good - I say this as a long-time classic Who fan.

[(Anonymous)]

*butts in obnoxiously* I have a favourite! It's Two!

Warning: many of his episodes were, in part or in whole, destroyed by the BBC. :( And of the ones that survived, they can be hard for modern watchers because of appalling SPX, slow 60s pacing, and black and white. If you don't mind that though, Troughton is an amazing actor, and his Doctor is the one lots of the later actors referenced as their starting point for the character. For the First Doctor, the show was still figuring out what it was and who he was, but Two was where the Doctor really started to find his feet.

I like "The Tomb of the Cybermen" and "The Mind Robber" ^^

[tenlittlebullets]

Can I jump on the recs bandwagon? Because Seven is my faaaaavorite, or at least his last two seasons--pretty much anything with Seven and Ace is gonna be fantastic. I'm especially fond of Remembrance of the Daleks, which has a certain scene with a baseball bat that originated the Crowning Moment of Awesome page on TVTropes, and The Curse of Fenric, which is maybe the most ambitious story Doctor Who has ever tried to tell. And Happiness Patrol of course, which is a gloriously demented candyfloss dystopia.

Seconding the recs for Keeper of Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva (haven't seen Warrior's Gate yet), which are fantastic occasionally-dark occasionally-cracky always bizarrely kinky idea-based sci-fi. And for the Ribos Operation and The Pirate Planet, which are incredibly solid witty fun. I'd also add Genesis of the Daleks, which is the story that got me hooked on classic Who. The thing about Four is that whether or not he's your favorite Doctor, there are so many really great serials in his era that he'll always end up taking up a disproportionate amount of room on recs lists. :)

I will also put in a giant plug for First Doctor era here, because there's something about it that's just magical for me. The format isn't fixed, the tropes haven't developed, they can do pure historicals like The Aztecs and weird experimental stuff like The Edge of Destruction and multi-setting quest stories like The Keys of Marinus and trippy sci-fi like The Sensorites (which btw is obliquely referenced a surprising amount in New Who). And there's never really need for a monster of the week, it's just about the joy and occasional terror of exploring. And... IDK, I think the thing that makes it magical for me is that everyone involved is trying so hard to sell it, and is putting their heart and soul into telling these incredibly creative stories and making you believe that their dinky low-budget studio is a petrified forest on an alien world. And you do believe it, because you want to.

Anyway. I've been watching One's first season in order, which is great for watching both the characters and the show develop, but really you could pick any of the serials listed above and watch it separately from the rest. People rag on the pacing of the '60s show, but TBH I've never been bored by a One serial and I have massive attention-span problems with Three era (early 70s).

(One, Four, and Seven are my Classic Who favorites. Sometimes I think the show does best when it's desperately trying to convince the Powers That Be not to axe it.)

[solarbird]

Ace is my favourite classic Who companion, tied with Zoe. But I've grown to love Sarah Jane, in part because of her work in newer Who. I mean, her bit with Davros in Ten's run? Chills.

[solarbird]

Not the person to whom you're replying, but to fill in a bit in the older school:

After you've seen a few Third Doctor episodes, watch Inferno. You want to get familiar with his era's character a little first, but then this one will be epic and awesome. I mean, you could just watch Spearhead from Space - which introduced the Autons, who are the first villains you meet in Nine's run.

Second doctor: The Invasion, now completed by having the two missing series' video animated in black and white, which works surprisingly well. I love this one so much, but I love Shemp Doctor the Space Tramp very much, so I'm biased. :D