IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

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

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Doctor Who - Joy to the World

 Here's my list of favorite ninth stories for every Doctor:

1) Mindwarp by Philip Martin
2) The Daemons by Guy Leopold (Pseudonym for Barry Letts and Robert Sloman)
3) It Takes You Away by Ed Hime
4) The Abominable Snowmen by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
5) Battlefield by Ben Aaronovitch
6) Flatline by Jamie Mathieson
7) Joy to the World by Steven Moffat


8) Planet of Giants by Louis Marks
9) Boom Town by Russell T. Davies
10) The Android Invasion by Terry Nation
11) Love & Monsters by Russell T. Davies
12) The Lodger by Gareth Roberts
13) Snakedance by Christopher Bailey


Thursday, December 12, 2024

Whofest 2024

 In person at my house for the first time in years with Christa.


November 23rd & 24th, 2024

Theme: Timey-Whimey

1) The Space Museum

2) The Evil of the Daleks (episode 2 and animated eps. 1, 3-7)

3) Day of the Daleks (special edition)

4) Warriors' Gate

5) Mawdryn Undead (CGI version)

6) Terror of the Vervoids (trial-less version)

7) Battlefield (special edition)

8) Shada Part Six (McGann version)

9) Father's Day

10) The Fires of Pompeii

Let's Kill Hitler Tardisode

11) Let's Kill Hitler

12) Under the Lake (includes Before the Flood)

13) Eve of the Daleks

15) The Legend of Ruby Sunday (includes Empire of Death)


Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Doctor Who - The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death

 Here's my comparison of each Doctor's eighth stories:

1) The Empty Child (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
2) The Satan Pit (2-parter) by Matt Jones
3) The Tomb of the Cybermen by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
4) Pyramids of Mars by Stephen Harris (Pseudonym of Robert Holmes and Lewis Greifer)
5) Mummy on the Orient Express by Jamie Mathieson
6) Vincent and the Doctor by Richard Curtis
7) The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson
8) The Reign of Terror by Dennis Spooner
9) The Mysterious Planet by Robert Holmes 
10) The Legend of Ruby Sunday (2-parter) by Russell T. Davies


11) Arc of Infinity by Johnny Byrne
12) Colony in Space by Malcolm Hulke
13) The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Doctor Who - Rogue

 Ranking each Doctor's seventh story:


1) The Evil of the Daleks by David Whitaker
2) Revelation of the Daleks by Eric Saward
3) Father's Day by Paul Cornell
4) Kerblam! by Pete McTighe
5) Cold Blood (2-parter) by Chris Chibnall
6) The Claws of Axos by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
7) Rogue by Kate Herron and Briony Redman


8) Kill the Moon by Peter Harness
9) Time-Flight by Peter Grimwade
10) Silver Nemesis by Kevin Clarke
11) Planet of Evil by Louis Marks
12) The Idiot's Lantern by Mark Gatiss
13) The Sensorites by Peter R. Newman