IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Thirteenth Doctor Favorite Stories

1) The Power of the Doctor
2) Ascension of the Cybermen
3) Fugitive of the Judoon
4) Spyfall
5) Rosa
6) Flux
7) The Haunting of Villa Diodati
8) Revolution of the Daleks
9) Demons of the Punjab
10) Resolution
11) It Takes You Away
12) The Witchfinders
13) Eve of the Daleks
14) Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
15) Kerblam!
16) The Woman Who Fell to Earth
17) Can You Hear Me?
18) The Tsuranga Conundrum
19) Legend of the Sea Devils
20) The Ghost Monument
21) Arachnids in the UK
22) Praxeus
23) Orphan 55
24) The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Doctor Who - Resolution

Here is my comparison list for eleventh stories:

1) The Ultimate Foe by Robert Holmes, Pip Baker and Jane Baker
2) Doomsday 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) Death in Heaven by Steven Moffat
9) Terminus by Stephen Gallagher
10) The Curse of Fenric by Ian Briggs
11) The Rescue by David Whitaker

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Doctor Who - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

This was a tough one. I really enjoyed this story but there are a lot of good ones in this position.

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

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


Sunday, December 2, 2018

Doctor Who - It Takes You Away

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

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Doctor Who - The Witchfinders


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

1) The Empty Child by Steven Moffat
2) The Satan Pit 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) The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson
7) The Reign of Terror by Dennis Spooner
8) The Mysterious Planet by Robert Holmes
9) Vincent and the Doctor by Richard Curtis
10) Arc of Infinity by Johnny Byrne
11) Colony in Space by Malcolm Hulke
12) The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Doctor Who - Kerblam!

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 by Chris Chibnall
6) The Claws of Axos by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
7) Kill the Moon by Peter Harness
8) Time-Flight by Peter Grimwade
9) Silver Nemesis by Kevin Clarke
10) Planet of Evil by Louis Marks
11) The Idiot's Lantern by Mark Gatiss
12) The Sensorites by Peter R. Newman

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Doctor Who - Demons of the Punjab

The rankings for all the sixth stories for each Doctor. Tough competition this time. I thought Demons of the Punjab was excellent but there were a lot of excellent stories in this slot.

1) Earthshock by Eric Saward
2) The Aztecs by John Lucarotti
3) Terror of the Zygons by Robert Banks Stewart
4) Rise of the Cybermen by Tom MacRae
5) Amy's Choice by Simon Nye
6) Demons of the Punjab by Vinay Patel
7) The Mind of Evil by Don Houghton
8) The Faceless Ones by David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke
9) The Caretaker by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat
10) The Long Game by Russell T. Davies
11) Timelash by Glen McCoy
12) The Happiness Patrol by Graeme Curry