IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Doctor Who - The Reality War

Here's the comparison of the Doctors' sixteenth adventures from best to worst:

1) The Robots of Death by Chris Boucher

2) The Mind Robber by Peter Ling and Derrick Sherwin

3) A Good Man Goes to War by Steven Moffat

4) The Chase by Terry Nation

5) Carnival of Monsters by Robert Holmes

6) The Reality War (2-parter) by Russell T. Davies



7) The Woman Who Lived by Catherine Treganna

8) Praxeus by Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall

9) Evolution of the Daleks (2-parter) by Helen Raynor

10) The Awakening by Eric Pringle

Doctor Who - The Interstellar Song Contest

My list of favorite fifteenth stories in order from best to last:


1) The Three Doctors by Bob Baker and Dave Martin

2) Fugitive of the Judoon by Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall

3) Warriors of the Deep by Johnny Byrne

4) The Face of Evil by Chris Boucher

5) The Interstellar Song Contest by Juno Dawson



6) The Girl Who Died by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat

7) The Rebel Flesh (2-parter) by Matthew Graham

8) Gridlock by Russell T. Davies

9) The Dominators by Norman Ashby (pseudonym of Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln)

10) The Space Museum by Glyn Jones

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Doctor Who - The Story & the Engine

 My list of favorite fourteenth stories in order from best to last:


1) The Five Doctors by Terrance Dicks
2) The Doctor's Wife by Neil Gaiman
3) The Deadly Assassin by Robert Holmes
4) Under the Lake (2-parter) by Toby Whithouse
5) The Story & the Engine by Inua Ellams


6) The Crusade by David Whitaker
7) The Shakespeare Code by Gareth Roberts
8) Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror by Nina Metivier
9) The Time Monster by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts
10) The Wheel in Space by David Whitaker and Kit Pedler

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Doctor Who - Lucky Day

 List of thirteenth stories for each Doctor from my favorite to least favorite:


1) The Magician's Apprentice (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
2) The Hand of Fear by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
3) Smith and Jones by Russell T. Davies
4) The Mutants by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
5) Fury from the Deep by Victor Pemberton
6) Lucky Day by Pete McTighe



7) Orphan 55 by Ed Hime
8) The Curse of the Black Spot by Steve Thompson
9) The King's Demons by Terence Dudley
10) The Web Planet by Bill Strutton

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Doctor Who - The Well

Here's my list of comparing the Doctors' twelfth stories:

1) Spyfall by Chris Chibnall
2) The Impossible Astronaut (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
3) The Romans by Dennis Spooner
4) The Web of Fear by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
5) The Sea Devils by Malcolm Hulke
6) Last Christmas by Steven Moffat
7) The Runaway Bride by Russell T. Davies
8) Enlightenment by Barbara Clegg
9) The Well by Russell T. Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfell



10) Survival by Rona Munro
11) The Masque of Mandragora by Louis Marks

Doctor Who - Lux

 Here is my comparison list for eleventh stories:


1) The Ultimate Foe by Robert Holmes, Pip Baker and Jane Baker
2) Doomsday (2-parter) by Russell T. Davies
3) The Seeds of Doom by Robert Banks Stewart
4) The Enemy of the World by David Whitaker
5) Resolution by Chris Chibnall
6) A Christmas Carol by Steven Moffat
7) The Curse of Peladon by Brian Hayles
8) Lux by Russell T. Davies



9) Death in Heaven (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
10) Terminus by Stephen Gallagher
11) The Curse of Fenric by Ian Briggs
12) The Rescue by David Whitaker

Doctor Who - The Robot Revolution

Here's my list of 10th adventures for each Doctor.


1) The Pandorica Opens (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
2) Mawdryn Undead by Peter Grimwade
3) The Dalek Invasion of Earth by Terry Nation
4) Day of the Daleks by Louis Marks
5) The Parting of the Ways (2-parter) by Russell T. Davies
6) The Brain of Morbius by Robin Bland (Pseudonym of Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes)
7) The Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles
8) The Robot Revolution by Russell T. Davies



9) The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos by Chris Chibnall
10) Terror of the Vervoids by Pip Baker and Jane Baker
11) Ghost Light by Marc Platt
12) In the Forest of the Night by Frank Cottrell Boyce
13) Fear Her by Matthew Graham