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This is a little difficult because Doctor Who is so long and can change so much from Doctor to Doctor that it's a bit like asking "what's the best episode of all star treks". But if I had to pick a story for each Doctor:
1st: The Dalek Invasion of Earth - a dark story of resistance under fascism in a setting inspired by the idea of Nazi-occupied London
2nd: Power of the Daleks - the second Doctor's very first story and a bleak tale of Daleks destroying a colony by taking advantage of human greed and ambition
3rd: Inferno - What starts as a "science is uncovering evil beneath the earth" tale takes a surprising turn into a Mirror Universe AU, but bleak instead of goofy
4th: The Seeds of Doom - The first two episodes are a sojourn through very effective "The Thing" inspired horror involving killer aliens in antarctica. After that it takes a turn into a pulpy adventure where an eccentric, plant-collecting, James Bond villain-ass millionaire tries to control said plant aliens. It's so much fun
5th: The Caves of Androzani - Oft-cited as the show's best story, it's a macabre gothic tragedy with shades of Phantom of the Opera, where the real villain is capitalistic greed
6th: Colin Baker's run is disqualified because it is mostly dreadful. There's one or two decent stories but I would in no way qualify them as some of the show's best
7th: The Curse of Fenric - The Seventh Doctor's run is ambitious (and much stronger than the 5th and 6th Doctor's tenures) but it's usually failed by its execution. This story is the one time all that ambition comes together into a compelling whole in a WWII-era story that plays with vampire tropes, has a leftist streak and leans into the characterization of the Seventh Doctor as a master planner executing mysterious, complicated and long-running schemes that he staunchly refuses to tell anyone about
For best runs of episodes, I'd say that the best seasons are:
Season 5: This is my favorite Doctor (the Second Doctor) at his very best and features my all-time favorite Tardis crew (himbo scottish highlander Jamie and Victorian-lady-plucked-out-of-time Victoria). The stories this season are famously formulaic (they're almost exclusively some variation of a "base under siege" scenario) but the writers are strong enough to keep using that formula in interesting and varied ways, and the restrictions of it force them to lean into human drama. There are a lot of bangers here
Season 7: The Third Doctor's first season brings the show into color for the first time ever. There's only 4 stories this season and one is veeeeeery boring (The Ambassadors of Death), but the other 3 are incredible, with Inferno and The Silurians in particular standing with some of the show's very best. And with cool scientist Liz Shaw at the helm as companion and the re-introduction of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as a recurring cast member, the cast dynamics are wonderful
Season 13: The Fourth Doctor's first three seasons, where Philip Hinchcliffe as producer and Robert Holmes as story editor steered the show into the realm of gothic horror, are oft-considered the show's creative peak, and Season 13 is their finest. It features the show's most iconic Doctor-Companion pairing and a stacked line-up of some of its most-loved stories, including the aforementioned Seeds of Doom, the pulpy Mummy-inspired Pyramids of Mars, and the macabre Frankenstein riff Brain of Morbius
Do you feel doomed or blessed to forever see connections in everything trace inevitably back to Doctor Who? Are your eyeballs okay?
I definitely feel in the cursed camp, I love this show much of the time but I have more Doctor Who knowledge than I ever needed floating around in my head now. My eyeballs are strained from the last 3.5 years of this but they will recover
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