Some of my friends have been posting their lists for this, so I thought I’d post mine.
It’s for Doctors numbers 1-12 plus War. And re that last one, he may just have had one TV episode (though he has audio and book adventures too), but that one TV episode is so superb it threatened to steal my favourite place for Doctor 11 too. So it’s going in the list.
All the episodes below are from TV, apart from Doctors 6 and 8. I think the TV Movie is poor, but Paul McGann has had a wonderful run of Doctor Who audio adventures thanks to Big Finish. And my choice for him from that, The Chimes of Midnight, is quite sublime. Likewise Colin Baker suffered from an often poor characterisation and scripts on the TV in the 1980s, but many of his Big Finish audio stories are superb. And my favourite, despite being by far the silliest, has to be The One Doctor.
It’s interesting to note that my choice from David Tennant’s stories is the Doctor-lite Blink, where he hardly appears. This is despite him being my favourite TV Doctor, and I am a huge fan of many of his TV stories. But Blink, well it’s one of my favourite Who TV stories ever, and has to go in this list.
This list could easily change if I do it again in a few years time. I might, for example, add more non-TV stories to my choices. Or if I get to see more Patrick Troughton or Jon Pertwee stories my favourites for those Doctors might change too. I also struggle in some cases to choose between two stories, hence other options given in brackets below. But I think this is a fair list of my favourites, at the moment anyway.
- 1 – The Time Meddler
- 2 – The Web of Fear
- 3 – The Sea Devils
- 4 – City of Death
- 5 – Mawdryn Undead
- 6 – The One Doctor
- 7 – The Curse of Fenric
- 8 – The Chimes of Midnight
- War – The Day of the Doctor
- 9 – The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
- 10 – Blink
- 11 – The Snowmen (or The Angels Take Manhattan)
- 12 – Listen (or Face the Raven)
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