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Post by librarylover on May 21, 2009 0:33:47 GMT
If you were on the proverbial deserted island and could only have one episode starring Jon Pertwee, which would you choose, and why?
Again, I haven't seen any of his regular episodes, so I'd appreciate advice on priority.
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Post by Stripes on May 21, 2009 0:56:26 GMT
The Green Death one. Lots of Benton, Benton going "here kitty kitty kityy" and green blobs!
I haven't seen much of Three and to be honest I forget most of what happens in the episodes I watch. (Nu who and Old Who)
Green Blob just stands out to me.
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Post by clocketpatch on May 21, 2009 1:46:13 GMT
It's utter cheese from start to finish, but I love the Time Monster.
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Post by librarylover on May 21, 2009 3:15:26 GMT
It's utter cheese from start to finish, but I love the Time Monster. Ah yes, that is the "daisiest daisy" episode, isn't it? |
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Post by jjpor on May 21, 2009 20:23:04 GMT
Inferno. I really like Inferno; not just because of the Eevviill! Nazi mirror-universe counterparts of the Brig, Benton, Liz etc. (although Eyepatch!Brig and Liz's amazing fascist hairdo are a big part of the appeal), but also because of the green werewolves and Three's battle of the egos with Professor Stahlman and all of the rest of it. I really like the Season 7 stories, actually; I consider Liz Shaw to be one of the more underappreciated companions, all in all.
Having said that...Delgado!Master is great, easily worth the price of admission alone in the stories he's in. I guess his crowning moment of evil awesomeness may well be the Sea Devils. The swordfight is pretty fantastic too.
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Post by magnusgreel on May 22, 2009 2:49:45 GMT
Whatever story has the best Pertwee-Master interplay, not sure which that is. Frontier in Space I usually say. Time Warrior is a pretty special one.
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Post by lynda on May 22, 2009 16:41:01 GMT
Second Doctor...I'm going to avoid stating the obvious and saying Mind Robber, since it's already been said. Um...I'd really, really like to see one of the burned episodes. I've read the wikipedia articles for all of them, but it'd be nice to actually see one. I remember in The Moonbase Jamie dreams about a demon unicorn and wakes up screaming, and the Evil of the Daleks is Daleks in Manhattan actually done right, and in the Highlanders the Doctor dresses as a woman....so many good moments, missing.
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Post by lynda on May 22, 2009 16:44:58 GMT
Three has a lot of good ones. I'm going to have to pick The Mind of Evil, though, because of the awesome Doctor/Master stuff. And that doesn't necesarily mean shipping; it's just Pertwee and Delgado were so brilliant together. And the Master's plans always went wrong and he had to be saved by the Doctor. And in this one we learn that the Master's worst fear is the Doctor laughing at him; it explains a lot about his future actions.
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Post by jjpor on May 25, 2009 20:15:53 GMT
Hmm, yeah, if you're scoring stories on Delgado-value, Mind of Evil and Frontier in Space are two very good ones (Frontier in Space is actually pretty good in general - at least they were trying to do something a bit different, and I like the Draconians). As is the Daemons, in a sub-Hammer Horror sort of way. I love it when he gets caught at the end - the expression on his face when he puts his hands up for the UNIT troops, like "Ah well, well-played, chaps; can't win 'em all..."
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Post by magnusgreel on May 27, 2009 1:40:21 GMT
DW could not seem less like a children's program to me than when these veteran middle-aged cosmic power brokers (I'm not really sure what I'm talking about at the moment) have all this rich and subtle interaction (Pertwee, Delgado). Someday I may have some thoughts on the points of view and relationship to the world of men of that age (and generation) that we're seeing depicted here, and obviously I'm now talking about the actors more than the characters. Since I've got nothing to offer on that yet though, I'll just say that there's something very interesting in the interaction that would be very different with younger actors.
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Post by primsong on Jul 22, 2009 0:19:16 GMT
Wow, so hard to pick...only one? Dang. I'm caught between Mind of Evil, Sea Devils and The Daemons - though there is plenty to love in so many of the others, I think these land the 'cream of the crop' slots for me. All of them excel at Doctor-Master interactions, have wonderful Three-Jo moments and lots of good UNIT action.
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