I have started a new blog here: https://andrewblair.co.uk/blog
It's mostly Doctor Who but also covers other subjects.
I have started a new blog here: https://andrewblair.co.uk/blog
It's mostly Doctor Who but also covers other subjects.
There's probably a longer article to be written about Earthshock - which I like, just not enough to include it in this top 10 - and its largely negative influence on Doctor Who in contrast with Paradise Towers which feels like a necessary relaunch of the series in the wake of Earthshock and the wrong lessons learned from its popularity. Maybe I'll write that after I get round to an essay on the Chibnall era which arrives months too late to be of interest to anyone.
Anyway, here's my ten favourite stories from Eighties Doctor Who, a decade which contains the best stories in the show's history alongside the worst stories in the show's history.
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'Don't make me choose' |
I asked to do Top 10s rather than Top 20s for these articles because the plan is to do six of them by the Sixtieth anniversary, so sixty stories listed in total. However I could easily have done a top 20 here.
Den of Geek have asked me to write summaries of different eras or decades of Doctor Who with top tens for each one. So here's the one for the first run of Russell T. Davies.