Your Favorite First Doctor Who Stories

[Mikey]

What's your favorite first stories ?

Here they are ....

1. An Unearthly Child
2. The Power of the Daleks
3. Spearhead From Space
4. Robot
5. Castrovalva
6. The Twin Dilemma
7. Time and the Rani
8. The American TV movie
9. Rose
10. The Christmas Invasion
11. The 11th Hour

My top fav pics are ......

1. Robot
2. Spearhead From Space
3. The Christmas Invasion

(note, i've never seen The Power of the Daleks)

[jwyblejr]

I just saw The Dalek Invasion of Earth yesterday for the first time,so that's at the top of my list for now.

[palitoy]

In terms of "First Doctor Appearance Stories" (confusing title Mike) I'd say

1. Robot
2. Spearhead From Space
3. TV movie

There really aren't many great origin stories are there? I mean as much as I love McCoy, Time and the Rani is really weak, Twin Dilemma looks really rushed and Castrovolva is zzzzzzzzzz.

I really love the last twenty minutes of the Christmas Invasion as it set Tennant up as a brilliant Doctor but I fast forward during the rest.

[Mikey]

Re-reading my title, yea it is confusing.
Sounds like i'm asking what's your favorite Hartnell story

I don't mind Castrovalva as far as the story goes, but the execusion of it is just plain crazy-boring.
Trek Next Gen kind of ripped off Castrovalva on a few occassions ... Even an episode of DS9 was similar.
Problem with Dr Who, during that time they can even take a good idea and turn it into a snoozefest.

[Surfsup]

I can only think of one that is head and shoulders above the rest imo...The 11th Hour. It was a lot more imaginative and special than all the rest for me. The way he met Amy was a stroke of genius!

[samurainoir]

Robot. IT'S GOT A GIANT FRIKKIN' ROBOT IN IT!

[Mikey]

Robot. IT'S GOT A GIANT FRIKKIN' ROBOT IN IT!

Best answer ever

[Thor]

My two eps are.


Invasion
Spearhead from Space
Genesis of the Daleks

[jwyblejr]

Re-reading my title, yea it is confusing.
Sounds like i'm asking what's your favorite Hartnell story

I don't mind Castrovalva as far as the story goes, but the execusion of it is just plain crazy-boring.
Trek Next Gen kind of ripped off Castrovalva on a few occassions ... Even an episode of DS9 was similar.
Problem with Dr Who, during that time they can even take a good idea and turn it into a snoozefest.

Not your fault. It's mine with my reply. I read the title wrong. I was in a hurry during my lunch break.

[jds1911a1]

Sadly Power of the Daleks is lost as in audio format it's pretty good I would love to have seen it's live action execution

in a weird turn of events both my "bests" are auton stories

Spearhead from Space and Rose

Robot is ok and I love Tom, but the part where the robot is CSO's up to giant scale with the action man in the claw and the AM scorpion tank is really poor (it's a fun toy but they should have at least got a model shop kit with better detail)

I like the TV movie at times but mostly it's the homage shots - stealing the clothes is a throwback to spearhead (much like in 11th hour same scene is used)