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- - doctorNum: 1
- seasons:
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Partial
- note: only episode 1
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: An Unearthly Child
- synopsis: Two schoolteachers, Barbara and Ian, follow one of their students
- (Susan) home, only to discover a strange policebox in a junkyard...
- review: The last 3 episodes of this story are dry and difficult to watch. They
- have several repeated scenes, and the plot is not very interesting
- number: 1
- majorPlotChanges: The Doctor, his grand-daughter Susan, Barbara, and Ian are
- all introduced in this story
- - numEpisodes: 7
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: this story is incredibly slow paced, so I can't recommend it, unless you
- really want to watch the origin of the daleks.
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Daleks
- synopsis: The Tardis crew land on the alien jungle planet Skaro, and are captured
- by a mutated race of people known as The Daleks
- review: The main cast is fleshed out a lot in this story, and there is a lot
- of tension. But the pace is excruciatingly slow.
- number: 2
- majorPlotChanges: The Daleks are introduced
- - numEpisodes: 2
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Edge of Destruction
- synopsis: Something is wrong with the Tardis, and it seems like one of the crew
- has sabotaged the ship...
- review: Very tense and mysterious episodes – however the second episode drags
- on a bit, and plot contrivances force everyone to act out of character
- number: 3
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 7
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: if you're ok with a reconstruction (Note – this story contains actors
- in yellowface)
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: Marco Polo
- synopsis: The travellers arive in China and meet Marco Polo. He coerces them
- into joining his caravan, and they end up embroiled in political intrigue
- in the far east...
- review: One of the first historical stories, and it works really well as a contrast
- to the stories around it. The villains are more complex and the problems they
- face are more personal. Not much action – which means the lack of video isn't
- a problem.
- number: 4
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: Highly
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Keys of Marinus
- synopsis: The Tardis crew must travel all across the planet of Marinus to find
- the keys to the AI that runs their society...
- review: This is a big story, divided into several little ones – a format that
- works very very well, and mitigates a lot of the pacing issues the early seasons
- had. However the script was rushed, and you can tell.
- number: 5
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Aztecs
- synopsis: Barbara is mistaken as an Aztec God, and attempts to use this mistake
- to end the human sacrifices of the Aztecs, despite the Doctor's warnings about
- changing history...
- review: The Aztecs is a "historical" story, but it's such an innacurate view
- of the situation that it can hardly be called that at all. However, it is
- a very interesting plot.
- number: 6
- majorPlotChanges: This story introduces the concept of fixed points in time
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: it is very interesting, but also very slow.
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Sensorites
- synopsis: The sensorites is an interesting idea..... but it's very slow. I remember
- enjoying it as a child, but now? I can't really recommend it to everyone
- review: The Tardis lands on a ship, trapped in orbit around a planet of Psychic
- aliens known as the Sensorites
- number: 7
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: but note there are missing episodes, which makes it harder to get through
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 4
- - 5
- name: The Reign of Terror
- synopsis: The Doctor decides to take Barbara and Ian home... but accidentally
- lands them all in the middle of the Reign of Terror, and they instead have
- to try not to lose their heads...
- review: Surprisingly accurate and interesting. The 2 episodes which are missing
- footage are a slog to get through – without the motion, the pacing is more
- obviously slow
- number: 8
- majorPlotChanges: null
- seasonNum: '1'
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 3
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Planet of Giants
- synopsis: The travellers find themselves on a planet much like Earth, but many
- times larger
- review: Entertaining and fun, and a good start to the second season – although
- some of the actors give rather stilted performances
- number: 9
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: it's good, just be warned of the usual slowness
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- synopsis: The tardis crew land in a mysteriously abandoned london… and discover
- that the daleks have invaded earth
- review: This story is very important and very good, but at the same time the
- pacing is still incredibly slow. Definitely more worth a watch than many of
- the other early stories, which is why it gets a Watch recommendation
- number: 10
- majorPlotChanges: Susan leaves the TARDIS to marry a man she met, and help humanity
- to rebuild. The Doctor says a very heartfelt fairwell, and that scene alone
- is definitely worth watching.
- - numEpisodes: 2
- reccomendation: Highly
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Rescue
- synopsis: The two survivors of a spaceship crash are held in captivity by a
- mysterious alien
- review: Very short, and quite interesting. It introduces a new regular cast
- member, and does so quite well!
- number: 11
- majorPlotChanges: Vicki, a young crewmember of a crashed spaceship, joins the
- TARDIS crew.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Highly
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Romans
- synopsis: The TARDIS crashes in Ancient Rome, The Doctor impersonates a Lyre
- player, and Barbara and Ian are kidnapped and sold as slaves...
- review: Very, very good! And notable for using quite a lot of humour, which
- makes it stand out from the episodes around it
- number: 12
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Web Planet
- synopsis: The TARDIS is pulled down to the insect planet of Vortis, where they
- struggle to help it's former inhabitants reclaim the planet from the malignant
- Animus
- review: This story is incredibly dull, and full of obnoxious and annoying sounds.
- It's a shame – the concept is good, and they clearly put a lot of effort into
- making an alien planet with the sets and costumes.
- number: 13
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: despite the reconstructions
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 2
- - 4
- name: The Crusade
- synopsis: The Tardis Crew find themselves embroiled in a conflict between Richard
- the Third and Saladin
- review: Exceptional quality, with some incredibly good acting. The two reconstructed
- episodes are, of course, harder to watch, but the other episodes in this story
- make up for it in spades.
- number: 14
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Space Museum
- synopsis: The TARDIS is knocked slightly out of sync with time, and the crew
- have to fight against the clock to avoid a horrible fate
- review: An all-round decent story
- number: 15
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Chase
- synopsis: The TARDIS crew travel to a various locations as they are chased through
- time and space by the daleks
- review: An important story, that is told well
- number: 16
- majorPlotChanges: Barbara and Ian are sick of travelling with the Doctor, and
- want to go home. They take the dalek time machine and return back to Earth,
- to continue their lives. Steven, a human who had been imprisoned on the planet,
- manages to get into the TARDIS just before it dematerialises.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Time Meddler
- synopsis: The TARDIS lands in 1066, but Steven doesn't believe it, and several
- anachronistic artifacts abound...
- review: I like this story, even if it is a bit slow.
- number: 17
- majorPlotChanges: The Time Meddling Monk is introduced, as well as the idea
- that there are other people with TARDISes.
- seasonNum: '2'
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: this story is missing a lot of footage. The reconstruction is well done,
- but it can be hard to sit through. (Note – this story contains more sexism
- than is usual)
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 2
- - 4
- name: Galaxy 4
- synopsis: The TARDIS crew land on a planet on the brink of destruction, with
- two marooned species trying to escape it
- review: It's passable, nothing to really write home about. The Loose Cannons
- reconstruction works well, especially considering how little surviving footage
- they had to work with.
- number: 18
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 1
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: if you're willing to watch a reconstruction
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: Mission to the Impossible
- synopsis: A Space Security Agent Attempts to warn Earth of the dalek's latest
- plan
- review: This episode is very unique, because it does not feature the doctor
- or any companions at all. It's worth a watch, just for the sheer uniqueness
- of it.
- number: 19
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Myth Makers
- synopsis: The Doctor and companions find themselves in the battle for ancient
- troy... and accidentally make the myth of the trojan horse come true.
- review: A silly concept, with poor execution – the trojans are portrayed as
- unbelievably dense, and then Vicki falls for one and runs off with him. I
- had trouble suspending my disbelief for this one.
- number: 20
- majorPlotChanges: Vicki stays with a warrior from Troy, to help him rebuild.
- (As I mentioned above, I did not find this a particularly realistic or interesting
- way for the character to be written out). As she leaves, she sends Katarina,
- a handmaiden, into the TARDIS to help the Doctor.
- - numEpisodes: 12
- reccomendation: Partial
- note: don't watch episode 7 ("The Feast of Steven"). (Note – this story contains
- an actor in yellowface)
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 3
- - 4
- - 6
- - 7
- - 8
- - 9
- - 11
- - 12
- name: The Daleks Master Plan
- synopsis: Mavic Chen, the guardian of the solar system, is hatching a plan with
- the daleks that will allow them to take over the universe with a device known
- as The Time Destructor
- review: One of the darkest and most violent stories in the early show, and it
- is incredibly engaging... with the exception of the 7th episode, which was
- scheduled to be broadcast on Christmas Day. It doesn't tie in to the actual
- plot, and is basically just a farcical interlude
- number: 21
- majorPlotChanges: Katarina is killed while saving the Doctor from an assailant
- (the first death of a companion in the series). Sara Kingdom, a former guard
- of Mavic Chen, joins the Doctor for a while, but she too meets her end. The
- story concludes with the Doctor and Steven lamenting their deaths.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
- synopsis: The Tardis lands in Paris, just as tensions between the Protestants
- and the Catholics have reached their peak
- review: Not an awful story, and would be a 'Maybe' if it weren't for the fact
- that it's a reconstruction, and very difficult to watch.
- number: 22
- majorPlotChanges: Dodo Chaplet, the descendent of one of the characters in Paris,
- joins the TARDIS while it makes a pit-stop in 1960s london.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Ark
- synopsis: The Doctor, Steven, and Dodo land on a ship carrying humanity to a
- new home... but accidentally bring the common cold, which turns out to be
- fatal...
- review: A very good story from the classic era
- number: 23
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 2
- - 3
- name: The Celestial Toymaker
- synopsis: The TARDIS crew land in te Celestial Toymaker's domain, and have to
- play his games to earn their freedom
- review: Really just garbage.
- number: 24
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Gunfighters
- synopsis: The Doctor is mistaken for Doc Holiday, a famous outlaw in the wild
- west
- review: Not much to say – a solid story, and fun to watch.
- number: 25
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Savages
- synopsis: The far future. Humanity has reached new levels of peace and prosperity...
- but a sinister secret lies behind their success.
- review: A very good story, that feels very well paced – one of the few reconstructions
- that I didn't have difficulty watching.
- number: 26
- majorPlotChanges: Steven stays behind to help humanity rebuild and repay the
- savages for what they had done.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Highly
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The War Machines
- synopsis: The computer WOTAN is a wonderful invention, and is set to improve
- humanity... until it decides that humanity is no longer needed
- review: One of the most engaging doctor who stories, and very well worth the
- watch
- number: 27
- majorPlotChanges: Dodo is hypnotised and sent to the country to recover, and
- decides to stay there. Polly and Ben, who are both major characters in this
- story, enter the TARDIS just before it dematerialises.
- seasonNum: '3'
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'No'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Smugglers
- synopsis: Polly and Ben do not believe that they can be travelling through time...
- and yet, they find themselves in Cornwall in the 17th century, right at the
- height of the smuggling era
- review: Boring and bland and racist, and even I had trouble watching through
- this one
- number: 28
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 4
- name: The Tenth Planet
- synopsis: Mondas, the Tenth Planet of the solar system, appears in the sky,
- bringing with it the cybermen, who are planning to drain the Earth's Energy...
- review: This is a good story, however the doctor is absent for half of it, and
- thus we don't really get to see much of what made William Hartnell great.
- number: 29
- majorPlotChanges: The Doctor collapses, and only just makes it back into the
- tardis in time before he regenerates into the second doctor...
- seasonNum: '4'
- - doctorNum: 2
- seasons:
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: I can't recommend the reconstruction, however the animated re-release
- is quite good!
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Power of the Daleks
- synopsis: The Doctor, in his new body, brings the TARDIS to Vulcan, where a
- dalek capsule has laid dormant for centuries...
- review: An interesting take on a Dalek story, where humans cause more issues
- than the daleks do.
- number: 30
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: if you can stand a reconstruction. (Note – this story uses the "man crossdresses
- for laughs" trope.)
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Highlanders
- synopsis: The travellers arrive just after the Battle of Culloden, in Scotland,
- and gain the trust of some desperate Jacobites
- review: One of the better historical stories (and the last). I'm glad that Doctor
- Who moved away from this format, but this was a good story regardless.
- number: 31
- majorPlotChanges: Jamie, a Scotsman they befriended, is invited to join the
- travellers in the TARDIS.
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 4
- name: The Underwater Menace
- synopsis: The travellers find themselves in the underwater city of Atlantas,
- where a scientist has hatched a plan to raise Atlantas up... but at what
- cost?
- review: A decent story, and still watchable - half of the episodes have been
- recovered. The costumes for the fish people are.... not amazing, however.
- number: 32
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 3
- name: The Moonbase
- synopsis: The Earth's weather is controlled with a device called a gravitron
- on the moon. The crew up there have been using it to control rain over crops,
- and to provide sunny beaches. But something is going wrong, and if they don't
- fix it, then the Earth's weather will become disastrously chaotic... the perfect
- time for the cybermen to show up.
- review: A really good sci-fi story, and a really good cybermen story.
- number: 33
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Maybe
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: All
- name: The Macra Terror
- synopsis: The Travellers arrive in a colony of humans, living a happy and idyllic
- life... but one man claims to have seen terrible crab-like creatures roaming
- the colony at night.
- review: A fairly good story, and the reconstruction works quite well. Would
- be a "Watch" recommendation, if the full episodes still existed. This story
- also develops both Ben and Jamie as characters, and gives them an interesting
- dynamic.
- number: 34
- majorPlotChanges: null
- - numEpisodes: 6
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: this story is incredibly good
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 2
- - 4
- - 5
- - 6
- name: The Faceless Ones
- synopsis: The TARDIS lands in Gatwick Airport, right in the middle of a runway.
- While the travellers are evading the airport police, they discover that something
- sinister is happenning in the Chameleon Tours hanger...
- review: This story is incredibly creepy and incredibly tense – possibly one
- of the creepiest stories. It is definitely worth watching, despite the reconstruction
- – if it wasn't missing episodes, it would have a <span class="highly"> ✨Highly
- Recommended✨</span> rating.
- number: 35
- majorPlotChanges: Ben and Polly, upon realising that they are back in London
- on the same day that they left, decide to return to their normal lives.
- - numEpisodes: 7
- reccomendation: 'Yes'
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: Some
- contents:
- - 1
- - 3
- - 4
- - 5
- - 6
- - 7
- name: The Evil of the Daleks
- synopsis: The Doctor and Jamie search for the TARDIS, and are lured into a trap
- – the Daleks want the Doctor to enhance them with the human factor, to make
- them undefeatable...
- review: This is a really interesting dalek story – it's slow burn, but also
- the stakes are high and it manages to keep you on the edge of your seat for
- quite a lot of it. The reconstruction team went to a lot of effort to recreate
- this one, with several CGI sets and animated sections, making it one of the
- highest quality reconstructions.
- number: 36
- majorPlotChanges: Victoria Waterfield joins the TARDIS.
- seasonNum: 4 (continued)
- - stories:
- - numEpisodes: 4
- reccomendation: Highly
- note: null
- missing:
- tag: None
- name: The Tomb of the Cybermen
- synopsis: The travellers arrive on Telos, where they discover an expedition
- who are trying to uncover the Tomb of the Cybermen
- review: A very good story – it's a lot more action focused than previous cybermen
- stories, but it also has a lot more intrigue, and is well paced. The cinematography
- in this story is also much more impactful than usual.
- number: 37
- majorPlotChanges: null
- seasonNum: '5'
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