@@WhoCulture Nobody was ready for Chris Chibnall's era, I call for it all to be scrapped and replaced with my stuff, trust me, less people will be complaining.
@@WhoCulture In the American movie with Paul McGann, the master explained the Dr's obsession with Earth as the fact that his mother was human yet in the Timeless Children we find out the original Dr as a child came from another dimension and brought regeneration to the Timelords. Was the American story version completely thrown out except for the Dr # and where does Peter Cushing fit into the timeline?
I'm surprised Turn Left didn't make the list, an episode that hardly features the Doctor and shows what would happen without their actions (and many of their friends dying to try and save the day) still feels very impactful.
"Go into the city and find the most important person you can find. Tell them I'm here. And if they ask you who I am, tell them I took the long way round." That always sends chills down my spine.
I have a hypothesis that the being we know as The Doctor is from Gallifrey's future (from a strictly linear subjective viewpoint) and for reasons yet unknown was sent back to Gallifrey's past. It's a bootstrap paradox. The Gallefreyans learned to regenerate from the Timeless Child, who is a future Gallefreyean for whom that's a natural part of their biology, who was sent back in time, from whose biology Gallefreyans learned to regenerate....
I recognise compiling a top-ten list like this is always gonna be a toss-up but I CANNAE BELIEVE you didn't include Midnight (companionless, and the Doctor actually loses, helpless, only saved by the NPC stewardess's sacrifice) or Heaven Sent (easily the best episode the show has ever put out while being completely resistant to all pre-existing formulae for the its stories)
Thank you, I was just about to mention Midnight! It's so different with an invisible monster that we don't learn what it is, and the acting in that episode is INCREDIBLE! It's the first Doctor Who ep I watched and it's still a favourite.
While I didn't think the Weeping Angels were that scary, I do agree that this is the single best episode ever. And I've been watching since it first started. Amazing story telling, proper use of time travel, and brilliant acting. No wonder Carey Mulligan has gone on to such success as an actor.
The use of the Autons in Rose is even more significant really. It can't be a coincidence that the Autons were the monsters used for the very first colour episode of Who to start the Pertwee era. The Autons weren't just ANY "classic monster" ... they were the monster that launched the new colour Doctor Who ...
I loved Sleep No More mainly for how insanely different it was. It made the follow up episodes of Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent probably the best closer for a series so far and why series 9 my favorite series so far.
This list could of done with some classic who moments, like Adric's Death, the first Regeneration, The reveal of the Medding Monk being a member of the Doctor's people, the fact revealed in "Spearhead from Space" that the Doctor has two hearts and I'm sure there's more that I've left out.
The one thing that really threw me for a loop in Night of the Doctor was Eight namedropping his Big Finish companions and sneakily making them unimpeachably canonical. I never thought that'd happen!
A list should be compiled of those fleeting moments that give you chills. For my money, top of the list would be hearing a distinctive Scottish voice decry, "No sir. All thirteen," during the climactic moments of Day of the Doctor. Combined with the attack eyebrows, nothing could beat it. Thoughts?
I think the finale of series 10, and series 10 more generally, is underrated. The solution was a little rushed for sure, but the story about the monks was surprising and nuanced. Seeing Missy and the previous master on screen together in what i think is one of the most haunting season finales yet, was pretty epic too. Bill is my favourite new companion after Donna and her story arc is just fascinating / tragic!
I hate The Timeless Child, but the fugitive Doctor really made it into my heart, I believe that was because of Jo Martin, she delivered such a good Doctor.
I don’t care for the timeless child but I also hope they don’t just retcon it I feel that would be lazy what’s is done and I’m interested in seeing it in the future I’m interested in seeing what Davies does just please don’t retcon and say like it was actually the master
For me, Blink is the best of the modern shows. I say that because prior to it being out, I would borrow the DVDs from Netflix and watch them on my own. My wife and young children were curious of what I was watching so I explained it to them as best as I could and my wife asked, "Do you think it's appropriate for children?" to which I said, "Oh yeah! It started out as a kid's show back in the '60s and this modern one is fairly campy," so they all gathered around so we could watch it as a family, starting on the episode I currently had queued up for viewing. Which was Blink. (I'm still laughing whenever I think of that time!) After it was over, the kids were quiet, the wife was, "Okay, I don't think that's for us," despite me saying that was a *very* unusual episode. So we quit the show. And then five minutes later, I hear screaming from upstairs. I run up to find my wife clutching her chest. She then tells me she was using the restroom and when she went to leave, our two girls--maybe 5 and 8 at the time--were standing frozen in the doorway with scary faces and arms reaching for her! Imagine watching Blink as your first Dr. Who show and opening the door to see that! Needless to say, they were devout fans of the show after that.
You raised your daughters well. Beautiful, this story needs to be shared far and wide. You will remember that upon the first Dalek story being aired children everywhere were running around screaming "Exterminate!"
For me the best surprise was the appearance of Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor (who I grew up watching) as the curator. His voice even total has a gravitas that is unparalleled.
The girl who waited hit me so hard: it was the first time I ever cried watching television and that was the moment I realized Doctor Who was special. Now it's my favourite episode in all of Doctor Who, it was such a game changer for me and I'll never forget how I felt that day.
Tbh I think it’s one of the top 50 television episodes ever made. Like, all shows, any time period! And yet, when I need a good cry, I inevitably go back to Amy and Rory’s wedding. lol
I agree honestly Peter Kay should've played a companion's dad and should definitely play Ruby Sunday's dad and maybe have a scene where the doctor asks if he's met him before
Loved Blink and would love to see more episodes set in the 60s and 70s for sure. The Girl who waited broke my heart; and the 1st New Series episode hooked me to the series instantly. Name of the Doctor and the succeeding episode/special.
I don't remember the name, but the one where Rose has to pull a lever to close the hole in time. What made it significant is after the door was closed, she bawled like she meant it. Not many actors and actresses can give a perfect realistic bawling-her-eyes-out.
I would even go so far as to say that The War Games or The Deadly Assassin deserve to be on the list as well, you know it's not just the modern series that needs a light shined on it
Be honest; EVERY episode is one we're not ready for as they are all different & we don't know what the episodes are going to be like until we've seen them 😂😂😂
I have never heard anyone complain about sleep no more, aside from to say that we needed more. That episode was one of the best of that series, fantastic writer that really brought back that dark Russel energy that started off the new series. You had chill, adrenaline, fear coursing through your veins
I wasn't ready for Vincent and the Doctor. I don't remember the Doctor ever taking someone to personally see how the future will remember or feel about them. Not afraid to admit I cried at this one.
0:20 "We're not talking about plottwists and cliffhangers here" 8:11 "Nobody expected the gamechanging plottwist that featured in the timeless children"
There's no way people see Sleep No More in the same light as Love and Monsters! Sleep No More was incredibly well executed and a really clever concept imo. I remember being about 12 or 13 when that episode aired, but I was a 13 year old who was scared of everything lol. So my dad and I had devised a plan for that series where he would watch each episode live, then we'd decide if it was too scary for me. Fast forward to now and I'm watching through the whole of new who in order (because I've never done that before and there's a lot of episodes I've missed) and I reach Capaldi's era and I don't remember _any_ of the episodes... apart from Sleep No More - an episode that scared me so much just from a summary from my dad that it stuck in my brain for ~8 years when all the others faded
I would rather rewatch Love & Monsters than Sleep No More. Love & Monsters is largely harmless, even where it is quite bad. Sleep No More is uncomfortable and unpleasant to watch, even when it is doing everything well.
@@davidharshman7645 that honestly makes a lot of sense, Sleep No More is terrifying. I guess my question for you would be, what's different about Sleep No More that makes it too uncomfortable to watch compared to other creepy episodes? A lot of DW episodes are written to be deliberately uncomfortable/scary (waters of mars, silence in the library, blink, midnight are all classic ones I can think of off the top of my head) but most of them are highly acclaimed, so what is it about Sleep No More that makes it different? Is it _too_ creepy?
@@TheManInBlueFlames yeah, that was the whole point of it. It's like the ending scene of Blink, where you see all of the statues across the world and 10 is doing his "don't blink" speech - it's a deliberately open ending to make you scared of everything
I do think folk are a little hard on “Love and Monsters” the floor was opened for young fans to come up with an enemy that hadn’t been seen before that scared them, and their classmates. The writers then had the job or working around this totally new creature that had no established backstory, a very little way of involving other story threads. It was quite literally a young fan design, that had the brief of being “unique” and that was it. So with that as the brief, I don’t think they actually did as a bad as many think.
Good list but how tf was midnight not on this list?!?! The doctor, someone who is that powerful and God like in a way was rendered completely powerless and survived by pure luck basically. One of my favourite episodes of new who definitely. Such a simple episode in a way but brilliantly done though.
"The girl who waited' ... terrible, terrible - she waited 40 years and became bitter and twisted ... Rory faithfully and lovingly waited thousands - without question. This episode exposed Amy in way that few have really considered - whilst demonstrating the wholesomeness of Rory. Now, it is true that Amy did 'sacrifice' herself at the end to be with Rory (via "The Angels Take Manhattan") - but, that it was even considered a 'sacrifice' had my head swiveling in directions it does not normally rotate...
That is my biggest issue with the episode and with Amy overall. I feel like she is a bit selfish especially toward Rory. I like that they ended up together alone in the end but it would have been nice if she had been nicer to him before he died a few times.
There's difference between Amy's and Rory's situation. Sure the lone Centurion waited 2000 years, but he knew, he'd get Amy in the end, he was assured, that she'll exit the Pandorica and be alright. Rory had a clear goal. Just wait for ages and move the box, if needed. Quite simple. I mean, yes, it's a remarkable feat, even the Doctor praised him for that, but compared to Amy, he had the easier path. Now Amy on the other hand was promised, that they'll rescue her. She waited almost 40 years with mortal danger lurking there wia the handbots, if they got her, she'd die. So she had to hide and hope, that Rory and the Doctor would come for her. First couple of days she'd wait patiently, but when days became months, months became years, years went for a 4th decade, she lost all hope. All she had to focus on was survival. So don't bullshit me with comparing Amy's situation to Rory's. All he had to do was waiting. She had to hope and survive. And after few decades lost the hope and focused on survival alone. Like sure, it's not the Doctor's or Rory's fault, but that's the general situation. They gave her assurance, that she'll be rescued, while from her viewpoint, no rescue came, she survived on her own almost 40 years.
@@Croftice1 Amy always knew the that Rory (and the Doctor) was coming to save her ... at this point she knew that Rory had already sacrificed millennia for her and was never, ever going to abandon her. Latter on she repaid Rory by fully abandoning him - over her 'inability to have children', because 'she loved him just so much', as she swanned about the glamour catwalks and celebrity photo-shoots. For her 'the girl who waited' was just about her lost youth and nothing more...
Sleep no more is a fantastic episode. It leaves you with a rare feeling that the even though the Doctor felt he won, he really didn't. It made such a fresh change.
“Sleep No More” was going to be a two-parter. Gatiss decided to make it a found footage show, and felt that they could only sustain that for one episode. They figured that the Doctor could take a loss occasionally. Gatiss did leave crumbs for a follow up, but they decided against it.
"The War Machines" and "Inferno" had a custom title sequences and there have been a few episodes/serials with cliffhangars which didn't get resolved -- "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" for example.
Serious omission of two absolutely cracking two-part episodes that sealed David Tennant's Legacy as the best Doctor ever: "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" and "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood". Sensational Doctor Who.
Blink is an epic episode! Not only within Doctor Who, but generally in movies. Sadly, the later angel episodes lost much of that, as they were not constructed very well.
I appreciate any list will differ from person to person and I find it difficult to disagree with most of the episodes listed. I was however surprised The Waters of Mars didn’t make an appearance. Not only is it in my opinion one of the best Who episodes, but the fact we got to see a side to The Doctor that none of us had seen before - certainly since the reboot - in that he finally went over the edge, ultimately going against his own rules, deciding to change a fixed point in time. I remember sitting there after the episode digesting what I’d just seen
In hindsight, it kind of explains why the Master was on his last regeneration during Tom Baker's era of Doctor Who. Essentially timelords have 12 regeneration cycles and with the Doctor being of unknown origin being able to regenerate more than 12 times kind of gives you a reason to question why the Doctor essentially regenerated every 2 or 3 seasons or series while the Master technically cheated at the end of Keeper of Traken to get another life before being resurrected for the time war and eventually hiding at the end of the universe as professor Yana.
Extremis should be on the list for me. A blind doctor, the simulation storyline, and elements such as the pope appearing all made it unique. And very complex!
Love the sweater, Ellie. By the time I had decided I wanted to watch Doctor Who, the show was already in the Matt Smith era. So I researched about where I should start. One of the highest rated episodes on IMDB was Blink, so that's where I started. I was immediately hooked. The perfect standalone episode to get a sense of the show. At that point, I went back to the beginning of the Eccleston season and started binging there. So far, the only disappointing season I've seen is the first season of Jodie Whitaker (whom I love) and that was mostly due to the writing IMO. I still also occasionally binge high rated episodes/stories from the classic era.
I wasn’t ready for finding out that in Time of the doctor Matt Smith says that 10 Th doctor David Tennent regenerated 2 times. It is probably a joke but it’s funny that he predicted he predasessors future
Jenna Coleman - Clara Oswald - the Impossible Girl. A great character in DW. Equalled only by The Ponds, Rory and Amy, and Matt Smith, the best doctor of all space and time.
My head canon is the the Master lies, the Master is the timeless child. That would make a lot of things make more sense, especially classic era Master with how many times he dies
plus the master doesn’t just regenerate all the time, he tends to straight up die in ways that ought to be fatal even for a time lord. like the death of missy, or that time the TARDIS ate him
@@supermariovideogamer yup. also the general contempt for women displayed by the jacobi and simm masters could quite plausibly be attributed to the repressed trauma of being a helpless little girl and being taken in by an older woman who then tortured them to force them to regenerate repeatedly
I remember watching Fugitive of the Judoon and thinking it was the point that Chibnall/13 had got their footing. Whatever happened afterwards, I recall it being enjoyable
Fugitive of the Judoon is the first episode I rewatched the next day in years! That was a regular thing during the Moffat era, mostly so I could actually understand the storyline!
I was about to say the same thing yes it was in the Radio Times so people knew but people knew the show was coming back and Rose was number 2 but the first regeneration especially for those who didn't know about the upcoming change would of blown people's minds. That and Susan leaving, the death of Adric and a few others should of made the list.
In my opinion, The Timeless Children is objectively a good story and an interesting concept. The problems in my opinion were that it was first, of course, The Doctor was the timeless child but also it was done in 2020. A time when it would’ve been impossible to give more or walk back the parts people didn’t like (more on that below). However, ignore the timeless child being the Doctor and it’s a good story in my opinion. But just think about it. Imagine if it had turned out that The Master was The Timeless Child and he knew it but lied to hurt The Doctor, then the Doctor we met in Fugitive is a future version of herself that lied because she already knew how the conversation unfolded. Or if it turned out The Timeless Child was one of the founders of Galifrey and either Rassilon (which my phone always insists on changing to “Randolph”), Omega, or The Other had lied about being the timeless child- or all 3 lied and the other 2 knew the secret. Then it’s revealed The Master destroyed Gallifrey the way he did because he was mad about The Founders of Gallifrey lying about their origin. Heck, if they made The Timeless Child a future version of Jack that had evolved to live entire lives like that. Basically, pick any possibility on who it is instead of the Doctor, rewatch the episode and you might find yourself thinking “that’s a weird decision, I still don’t like it, but fine whatever”.
I wanted to see Romana II (Lalla Ward) and the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) interact, since they got married and divorced in real life. Imagine the fun lines that could have been written... ;-P
I LOVED Sleep No More, people resistant to change didn't spoil this one at all, for me it was a welcome change and really dialled up tension being found footage (Not to mention, SPOILERS..... the twist, part way through)
Technically "The Power of the Doctor" wasn't a multi-Doctor story. Those other Doctors only appeared in the Doctor's mind, and in holographic form where the hologram chose to use those Doctor's appearances.
maybe slightly controversially I really enjoyed sleep no more - I think what makes doctor who so special is that it has so few limits on what type of story we can expect - obviously the bulk of the episodes need to be a certain form factor to maintain story/character arcs and keep the general vibe of the show but some of the best episodes in my opinion have been a few in each series that do something new (although admittedly I was not a fan of love and monsters so there's a limit to this)
Ellie how you go through a whole episode without mentioning River it’s you I mean I’d say the very idea for river’s character could have been considered unexpected you really need to get mentioning River in your contract
The Timeless children could be lie told by the Master, he could be the timesless child and that's what sent him crazy coz of all the experimention??????
Not "everyone" wanted to see more Paul McGann. Definitely not me. The FoxTV movie was crap. I put the John Hurt War Doctor as Doctor 8.5, as I put Peter Cushing's Doctor as Doctor 1.5 (the movies came out while the 1st Doctor (William Hartnell) was still on the air, and before the 2nd Doctor (Patrick Troughton). EDIT: OK, I re-watched the Cushing movies, and they are absolutely NOT part of the Whoverse, no matter what they say that they are "based on". But, does that put the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin) as Doctor 0? Doctor 0.5? Doctor -1? My head hurts...
I liked the two parter with Doc as John Smith in the school, Family of Blood I think one was called, showed how much anguish he had not wanting to go back to the life then when he was forced into it, why you never poke a bear and especially when that bear is the cleverest thing on the planet who has no chill for people who threaten his friends.
I have a question: Where does the Fugitive Doctor fit in the timeline? The Fugitive Doctor has a TARDIS, blue box style. Was the blue box TARDIS not introduced by Susan's Grandfather Doctor? Or is it all timey whymy wibbely wobbely?
"How could Jenna Coleman be playing a future companion if the companion ... had just died?" We saw Freema Agyeman and Karen Gillan's characters die and then later those actors become companions. We even saw Peter Capaldi k**l himself and then become the Doctor. [self censorship just to avoid the UA-cam censors.]
We just included Heaven Sent in 10 Most Rewatchable Doctor Who Episodes, and it's in another list that's coming up soon. Wanted to give some other eps the spotlight!
The girl who waited is absolutely brutal. I still don't know how I feel about it. But props to Moffat and Co for having the guts to tell that story.
Coming from the guy who wrote Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel (a solid story, but nothing spectacular) it was such a pleasant surprise
I think Matt Smith’s doctor really had some of the best stories. Just great actual, almost completely stand alone story writing.
@@WhoCulture Nobody was ready for Chris Chibnall's era, I call for it all to be scrapped and replaced with my stuff, trust me, less people will be complaining.
Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel is one of my favourite 2 parters and introduced the Cybermen again with a parallel world!
@@WhoCulture In the American movie with Paul McGann, the master explained the Dr's obsession with Earth as the fact that his mother was human yet in the Timeless Children we find out the original Dr as a child came from another dimension and brought regeneration to the Timelords. Was the American story version completely thrown out except for the Dr # and where does Peter Cushing fit into the timeline?
I'm surprised Turn Left didn't make the list, an episode that hardly features the Doctor and shows what would happen without their actions (and many of their friends dying to try and save the day) still feels very impactful.
That one, and the one were Amy’s baby get sludgified. That scene marked me, in a strange way
Turn Left is one of my favourite episodes.
Turn Left is one of my favorite episodes
Same here
And Rose coming back!!
How about Heaven Sent - completely unlike anything we'd ever seen before yet a perfect encapsulation of everything the show has ever been.
Actually, I think it was based on The Holy Terror (a dark audio adventure featuring the 6th Doctor in case you didn't know).
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It’s one of my favorites
"Go into the city and find the most important person you can find. Tell them I'm here. And if they ask you who I am, tell them I took the long way round." That always sends chills down my spine.
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Love that line
That's the one I immediately thought of when I saw the title of the video, it's so great!
I have a hypothesis that the being we know as The Doctor is from Gallifrey's future (from a strictly linear subjective viewpoint) and for reasons yet unknown was sent back to Gallifrey's past. It's a bootstrap paradox. The Gallefreyans learned to regenerate from the Timeless Child, who is a future Gallefreyean for whom that's a natural part of their biology, who was sent back in time, from whose biology Gallefreyans learned to regenerate....
I recognise compiling a top-ten list like this is always gonna be a toss-up but I CANNAE BELIEVE you didn't include Midnight (companionless, and the Doctor actually loses, helpless, only saved by the NPC stewardess's sacrifice) or Heaven Sent (easily the best episode the show has ever put out while being completely resistant to all pre-existing formulae for the its stories)
Midnight is sooooo scary. Lesley Sharp in any other role is giving me chills since I've watched it...
Thank you, I was just about to mention Midnight! It's so different with an invisible monster that we don't learn what it is, and the acting in that episode is INCREDIBLE! It's the first Doctor Who ep I watched and it's still a favourite.
BLINK. Best episode EVER. The first time a TV show or Film actually scared me. Truly magnificent.
I agree with you. Even after having watched several times and knowing what's going to happen I still get chills from the Angels.
While I didn't think the Weeping Angels were that scary, I do agree that this is the single best episode ever. And I've been watching since it first started. Amazing story telling, proper use of time travel, and brilliant acting. No wonder Carey Mulligan has gone on to such success as an actor.
Blink is also my favourite.
I'll want to add The Girl in the Fireplace. The end of that episode was totally unexpected and quite shocking.
This video made me realize how much I miss 11 with The Ponds. Happy to have lived through some of that era in real life!
The use of the Autons in Rose is even more significant really. It can't be a coincidence that the Autons were the monsters used for the very first colour episode of Who to start the Pertwee era. The Autons weren't just ANY "classic monster" ... they were the monster that launched the new colour Doctor Who ...
I loved Sleep No More mainly for how insanely different it was. It made the follow up episodes of Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent probably the best closer for a series so far and why series 9 my favorite series so far.
This list could of done with some classic who moments, like Adric's Death, the first Regeneration, The reveal of the Medding Monk being a member of the Doctor's people, the fact revealed in "Spearhead from Space" that the Doctor has two hearts and I'm sure there's more that I've left out.
The one thing that really threw me for a loop in Night of the Doctor was Eight namedropping his Big Finish companions and sneakily making them unimpeachably canonical. I never thought that'd happen!
Yep that was a really nice touch!
I would have rather that he had acknowledged his book companions like Sam and Fitz
A list should be compiled of those fleeting moments that give you chills. For my money, top of the list would be hearing a distinctive Scottish voice decry, "No sir. All thirteen," during the climactic moments of Day of the Doctor. Combined with the attack eyebrows, nothing could beat it. Thoughts?
I still have the urge to jump up & down with excitement every time I think of that moment!
@@darthgorbage, too! I saw it jn the theatre, surrounded by applauding people in costume and holding sonic screwdrivers. It was the best!
I think the finale of series 10, and series 10 more generally, is underrated. The solution was a little rushed for sure, but the story about the monks was surprising and nuanced. Seeing Missy and the previous master on screen together in what i think is one of the most haunting season finales yet, was pretty epic too. Bill is my favourite new companion after Donna and her story arc is just fascinating / tragic!
Series 10 is very underrated, agreed!
I hate The Timeless Child, but the fugitive Doctor really made it into my heart, I believe that was because of Jo Martin, she delivered such a good Doctor.
Jo had that classic Doctor feel to her that made me want to see her as a future incarnation in the series.
@@ChrisMentzer Well, they've now established the precedent that the Doctor can regenerate into an earlier incarnation, so... 16th Doctor?
Jo was a brilliant Doctor.
@@themm5752And, in the real world, none of that is actually true. Cope.
I don’t care for the timeless child but I also hope they don’t just retcon it I feel that would be lazy what’s is done and I’m interested in seeing it in the future I’m interested in seeing what Davies does just please don’t retcon and say like it was actually the master
For me, Blink is the best of the modern shows. I say that because prior to it being out, I would borrow the DVDs from Netflix and watch them on my own. My wife and young children were curious of what I was watching so I explained it to them as best as I could and my wife asked, "Do you think it's appropriate for children?" to which I said, "Oh yeah! It started out as a kid's show back in the '60s and this modern one is fairly campy," so they all gathered around so we could watch it as a family, starting on the episode I currently had queued up for viewing.
Which was Blink. (I'm still laughing whenever I think of that time!)
After it was over, the kids were quiet, the wife was, "Okay, I don't think that's for us," despite me saying that was a *very* unusual episode. So we quit the show. And then five minutes later, I hear screaming from upstairs. I run up to find my wife clutching her chest. She then tells me she was using the restroom and when she went to leave, our two girls--maybe 5 and 8 at the time--were standing frozen in the doorway with scary faces and arms reaching for her! Imagine watching Blink as your first Dr. Who show and opening the door to see that!
Needless to say, they were devout fans of the show after that.
You raised your daughters well. Beautiful, this story needs to be shared far and wide. You will remember that upon the first Dalek story being aired children everywhere were running around screaming "Exterminate!"
Awesome!! Parenting done right.
This is the first episode I showed my husband lol
It didn't have a time stamp so I thought it wasn't in it
For me the best surprise was the appearance of Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor (who I grew up watching) as the curator. His voice even total has a gravitas that is unparalleled.
The girl who waited hit me so hard: it was the first time I ever cried watching television and that was the moment I realized Doctor Who was special.
Now it's my favourite episode in all of Doctor Who, it was such a game changer for me and I'll never forget how I felt that day.
It's a brilliant episode we don't talk about enough!
@@WhoCulture It was the first episode of Doctor Who I ever watched, and made me a believer!
Jo Martin STOLE the screen in Series 12 Episode 5. Boy was she awesome
She was. Her stance was powerful. She showed no fear.
Jo martin is a force so great she just felt like the doctor no questions no hang ups she was the doctor
You do realise that Amy waited for Dr who twice in her life time. I saw the war dr coming,because 9,10 and eleven kept forgetting about him.👋💕🇦🇺
Just here to say that The Girl Who Waited is one of the best stories in the show. That is all.
Tbh I think it’s one of the top 50 television episodes ever made. Like, all shows, any time period! And yet, when I need a good cry, I inevitably go back to Amy and Rory’s wedding. lol
The way Amy and Rory departed the series was epic.
I agree honestly Peter Kay should've played a companion's dad and should definitely play Ruby Sunday's dad and maybe have a scene where the doctor asks if he's met him before
I sooooooooo wanted Sally Sparrow to be a companion.
Loved Blink and would love to see more episodes set in the 60s and 70s for sure. The Girl who waited broke my heart; and the 1st New Series episode hooked me to the series instantly. Name of the Doctor and the succeeding episode/special.
As long as there’s no disco god please let disco die already
*I for one absolutely loved "Sleep no more".*
I don't remember the name, but the one where Rose has to pull a lever to close the hole in time. What made it significant is after the door was closed, she bawled like she meant it. Not many actors and actresses can give a perfect realistic bawling-her-eyes-out.
doomsday
I would even go so far as to say that The War Games or The Deadly Assassin deserve to be on the list as well, you know it's not just the modern series that needs a light shined on it
Just recently watched the Deadly Assassin, it's great. The War Games is very interesting too.
Be honest; EVERY episode is one we're not ready for as they are all different & we don't know what the episodes are going to be like until we've seen them 😂😂😂
I have never heard anyone complain about sleep no more, aside from to say that we needed more. That episode was one of the best of that series, fantastic writer that really brought back that dark Russel energy that started off the new series.
You had chill, adrenaline, fear coursing through your veins
I wasn't ready for Vincent and the Doctor. I don't remember the Doctor ever taking someone to personally see how the future will remember or feel about them. Not afraid to admit I cried at this one.
0:20 "We're not talking about plottwists and cliffhangers here"
8:11 "Nobody expected the gamechanging plottwist that featured in the timeless children"
Rule #1: The Doctor lies. - So why not her as well?
There's no way people see Sleep No More in the same light as Love and Monsters! Sleep No More was incredibly well executed and a really clever concept imo.
I remember being about 12 or 13 when that episode aired, but I was a 13 year old who was scared of everything lol. So my dad and I had devised a plan for that series where he would watch each episode live, then we'd decide if it was too scary for me.
Fast forward to now and I'm watching through the whole of new who in order (because I've never done that before and there's a lot of episodes I've missed) and I reach Capaldi's era and I don't remember _any_ of the episodes... apart from Sleep No More - an episode that scared me so much just from a summary from my dad that it stuck in my brain for ~8 years when all the others faded
I would rather rewatch Love & Monsters than Sleep No More. Love & Monsters is largely harmless, even where it is quite bad. Sleep No More is uncomfortable and unpleasant to watch, even when it is doing everything well.
@@davidharshman7645 that honestly makes a lot of sense, Sleep No More is terrifying. I guess my question for you would be, what's different about Sleep No More that makes it too uncomfortable to watch compared to other creepy episodes?
A lot of DW episodes are written to be deliberately uncomfortable/scary (waters of mars, silence in the library, blink, midnight are all classic ones I can think of off the top of my head) but most of them are highly acclaimed, so what is it about Sleep No More that makes it different? Is it _too_ creepy?
Sleep No More didn't even have an ending!
@@TheManInBlueFlames yeah, that was the whole point of it. It's like the ending scene of Blink, where you see all of the statues across the world and 10 is doing his "don't blink" speech - it's a deliberately open ending to make you scared of everything
I was so excited that John Hurt was going to play the Doctor. I was disappointed that he wasn't in more, but I really enjoyed what he did.
I do think folk are a little hard on “Love and Monsters” the floor was opened for young fans to come up with an enemy that hadn’t been seen before that scared them, and their classmates.
The writers then had the job or working around this totally new creature that had no established backstory, a very little way of involving other story threads. It was quite literally a young fan design, that had the brief of being “unique” and that was it.
So with that as the brief, I don’t think they actually did as a bad as many think.
Good list but how tf was midnight not on this list?!?! The doctor, someone who is that powerful and God like in a way was rendered completely powerless and survived by pure luck basically. One of my favourite episodes of new who definitely. Such a simple episode in a way but brilliantly done though.
"The girl who waited' ... terrible, terrible - she waited 40 years and became bitter and twisted ... Rory faithfully and lovingly waited thousands - without question.
This episode exposed Amy in way that few have really considered - whilst demonstrating the wholesomeness of Rory.
Now, it is true that Amy did 'sacrifice' herself at the end to be with Rory (via "The Angels Take Manhattan") - but, that it was even considered a 'sacrifice' had my head swiveling in directions it does not normally rotate...
That is my biggest issue with the episode and with Amy overall. I feel like she is a bit selfish especially toward Rory. I like that they ended up together alone in the end but it would have been nice if she had been nicer to him before he died a few times.
There's difference between Amy's and Rory's situation. Sure the lone Centurion waited 2000 years, but he knew, he'd get Amy in the end, he was assured, that she'll exit the Pandorica and be alright. Rory had a clear goal. Just wait for ages and move the box, if needed. Quite simple. I mean, yes, it's a remarkable feat, even the Doctor praised him for that, but compared to Amy, he had the easier path.
Now Amy on the other hand was promised, that they'll rescue her. She waited almost 40 years with mortal danger lurking there wia the handbots, if they got her, she'd die. So she had to hide and hope, that Rory and the Doctor would come for her. First couple of days she'd wait patiently, but when days became months, months became years, years went for a 4th decade, she lost all hope. All she had to focus on was survival. So don't bullshit me with comparing Amy's situation to Rory's. All he had to do was waiting. She had to hope and survive. And after few decades lost the hope and focused on survival alone. Like sure, it's not the Doctor's or Rory's fault, but that's the general situation. They gave her assurance, that she'll be rescued, while from her viewpoint, no rescue came, she survived on her own almost 40 years.
@@Croftice1 Amy always knew the that Rory (and the Doctor) was coming to save her ... at this point she knew that Rory had already sacrificed millennia for her and was never, ever going to abandon her.
Latter on she repaid Rory by fully abandoning him - over her 'inability to have children', because 'she loved him just so much', as she swanned about the glamour catwalks and celebrity photo-shoots.
For her 'the girl who waited' was just about her lost youth and nothing more...
Sleep no more is a fantastic episode. It leaves you with a rare feeling that the even though the Doctor felt he won, he really didn't. It made such a fresh change.
I almost chocked on water when I saw Captain Jack Harkness in fugitive of the judoon
Well that's not good
The girl who waited is a really good episode and the effects to make Karen look older look seamless also I really like the sweater u wore in the video
Hot Take: Love and Monsters isn't as bad as episodes in the Moffat/Chibnall era and Elton Pope should return as a companion.
When most people say ‘Hot Take’ it’s not really that hot. But you weren’t kidding were you? 😂
“Sleep No More” was going to be a two-parter. Gatiss decided to make it a found footage show, and felt that they could only sustain that for one episode. They figured that the Doctor could take a loss occasionally.
Gatiss did leave crumbs for a follow up, but they decided against it.
The biggest Wow moment no one saw coming was Amy Ponds daughter "Melody Pond" being translated to River Song (mind blowing)
"The War Machines" and "Inferno" had a custom title sequences and there have been a few episodes/serials with cliffhangars which didn't get resolved -- "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" for example.
Honestly I would’ve for that thought that Turn left would have been on your list.
Serious omission of two absolutely cracking two-part episodes that sealed David Tennant's Legacy as the best Doctor ever:
"The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" and "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".
Sensational Doctor Who.
Blink is an epic episode! Not only within Doctor Who, but generally in movies. Sadly, the later angel episodes lost much of that, as they were not constructed very well.
I appreciate any list will differ from person to person and I find it difficult to disagree with most of the episodes listed. I was however surprised The Waters of Mars didn’t make an appearance. Not only is it in my opinion one of the best Who episodes, but the fact we got to see a side to The Doctor that none of us had seen before - certainly since the reboot - in that he finally went over the edge, ultimately going against his own rules, deciding to change a fixed point in time. I remember sitting there after the episode digesting what I’d just seen
In hindsight, it kind of explains why the Master was on his last regeneration during Tom Baker's era of Doctor Who. Essentially timelords have 12 regeneration cycles and with the Doctor being of unknown origin being able to regenerate more than 12 times kind of gives you a reason to question why the Doctor essentially regenerated every 2 or 3 seasons or series while the Master technically cheated at the end of Keeper of Traken to get another life before being resurrected for the time war and eventually hiding at the end of the universe as professor Yana.
Extremis should be on the list for me. A blind doctor, the simulation storyline, and elements such as the pope appearing all made it unique. And very complex!
Love the sweater, Ellie.
By the time I had decided I wanted to watch Doctor Who, the show was already in the Matt Smith era. So I researched about where I should start. One of the highest rated episodes on IMDB was Blink, so that's where I started. I was immediately hooked. The perfect standalone episode to get a sense of the show. At that point, I went back to the beginning of the Eccleston season and started binging there. So far, the only disappointing season I've seen is the first season of Jodie Whitaker (whom I love) and that was mostly due to the writing IMO. I still also occasionally binge high rated episodes/stories from the classic era.
In the power of the doctor you should have mentioned Graham’s group at the end with some of the passes companions
If anyone wearing sunglasses in well lit places where the Weeping Angels were ,blinked ,would the Weeping Angels know ??I lover these episodes.
I love the Night of the Doctor. I would kill for more Night of the Doctor.
I wasn’t ready for finding out that in Time of the doctor Matt Smith says that 10 Th doctor David Tennent regenerated 2 times. It is probably a joke but it’s funny that he predicted he predasessors future
That's not what he said. He was referencing the metacrisis event in Journey's End.
Sleep No More is a masterpiece.
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I think an excellent episode was Midnight, cracking episode
Not ready for them but bloody loved them all
Jenna Coleman - Clara Oswald - the Impossible Girl. A great character in DW. Equalled only by The Ponds, Rory and Amy, and Matt Smith, the best doctor of all space and time.
Earthshock ... When Adric died, that was completely out of left field.
My head canon is the the Master lies, the Master is the timeless child. That would make a lot of things make more sense, especially classic era Master with how many times he dies
that’s what i’m saying, it even has a fun twist on their name: they’re the Master, the time lords are just copies
plus the master doesn’t just regenerate all the time, he tends to straight up die in ways that ought to be fatal even for a time lord. like the death of missy, or that time the TARDIS ate him
@@chexfan2000 plus if you think more about it, Missy and The Lumiat would make more sense if he was the timeless child
@@supermariovideogamer yup. also the general contempt for women displayed by the jacobi and simm masters could quite plausibly be attributed to the repressed trauma of being a helpless little girl and being taken in by an older woman who then tortured them to force them to regenerate repeatedly
You are awesome, your explanation of Doctor Who episodes was so insightful.
I remember watching Fugitive of the Judoon and thinking it was the point that Chibnall/13 had got their footing. Whatever happened afterwards, I recall it being enjoyable
Fugitive of the Judoon is the first episode I rewatched the next day in years! That was a regular thing during the Moffat era, mostly so I could actually understand the storyline!
How 'bout the time William Hartnell transformed into Patrick Troughton...?
I was about to say the same thing yes it was in the Radio Times so people knew but people knew the show was coming back and Rose was number 2 but the first regeneration especially for those who didn't know about the upcoming change would of blown people's minds. That and Susan leaving, the death of Adric and a few others should of made the list.
In my opinion, The Timeless Children is objectively a good story and an interesting concept. The problems in my opinion were that it was first, of course, The Doctor was the timeless child but also it was done in 2020. A time when it would’ve been impossible to give more or walk back the parts people didn’t like (more on that below). However, ignore the timeless child being the Doctor and it’s a good story in my opinion.
But just think about it. Imagine if it had turned out that The Master was The Timeless Child and he knew it but lied to hurt The Doctor, then the Doctor we met in Fugitive is a future version of herself that lied because she already knew how the conversation unfolded. Or if it turned out The Timeless Child was one of the founders of Galifrey and either Rassilon (which my phone always insists on changing to “Randolph”), Omega, or The Other had lied about being the timeless child- or all 3 lied and the other 2 knew the secret. Then it’s revealed The Master destroyed Gallifrey the way he did because he was mad about The Founders of Gallifrey lying about their origin. Heck, if they made The Timeless Child a future version of Jack that had evolved to live entire lives like that.
Basically, pick any possibility on who it is instead of the Doctor, rewatch the episode and you might find yourself thinking “that’s a weird decision, I still don’t like it, but fine whatever”.
at the beginning of the video: we're not talking about plot twists!
number 3: a plot twist
I wanted to see Romana II (Lalla Ward) and the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) interact, since they got married and divorced in real life. Imagine the fun lines that could have been written... ;-P
I LOVED Sleep No More, people resistant to change didn't spoil this one at all, for me it was a welcome change and really dialled up tension being found footage (Not to mention, SPOILERS.....
the twist, part way through)
Blink's one of my favorite DW episodes. :)
Imagine another Doctor Who movie being created.
Idc if it's a hot take but I like "sleep no more"
I see 2 priests shouting, "The power of the Doctor compels you! The power of the Doctor compels you!" ;-)
Technically "The Power of the Doctor" wasn't a multi-Doctor story. Those other Doctors only appeared in the Doctor's mind, and in holographic form where the hologram chose to use those Doctor's appearances.
Father’s Day I think should have been number one it was so shocking and brilliant and it was what really put doctor who on the market
"They watch _Doctor Who_ for what it is" Speak for yourself. I like a we-can-go-anywhere premise because it can do something new.
yeah I think the weirder episodes are some of the most fun
maybe slightly controversially I really enjoyed sleep no more - I think what makes doctor who so special is that it has so few limits on what type of story we can expect - obviously the bulk of the episodes need to be a certain form factor to maintain story/character arcs and keep the general vibe of the show but some of the best episodes in my opinion have been a few in each series that do something new (although admittedly I was not a fan of love and monsters so there's a limit to this)
I absolutely love sleep no more, in’s so so good and I love the doctors fear in it
Ellie how you go through a whole episode without mentioning River it’s you I mean I’d say the very idea for river’s character could have been considered unexpected you really need to get mentioning River in your contract
Heaven Sent - not ready for that one ever...
The Timeless children could be lie told by the Master, he could be the timesless child and that's what sent him crazy coz of all the experimention??????
This lady knows her stuff. She needs to be the 16th Doctor.
I’m in love with Jenna Coleman.
You'll have to get in line. 😊
@@mikespangler98 Me first!!!
Anything can happen when dealing with time travel....
Not "everyone" wanted to see more Paul McGann. Definitely not me. The FoxTV movie was crap.
I put the John Hurt War Doctor as Doctor 8.5, as I put Peter Cushing's Doctor as Doctor 1.5 (the movies came out while the 1st Doctor (William Hartnell) was still on the air, and before the 2nd Doctor (Patrick Troughton).
EDIT: OK, I re-watched the Cushing movies, and they are absolutely NOT part of the Whoverse, no matter what they say that they are "based on".
But, does that put the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin) as Doctor 0? Doctor 0.5? Doctor -1? My head hurts...
That is a good list.
I liked the two parter with Doc as John Smith in the school, Family of Blood I think one was called, showed how much anguish he had not wanting to go back to the life then when he was forced into it, why you never poke a bear and especially when that bear is the cleverest thing on the planet who has no chill for people who threaten his friends.
I have a question:
Where does the Fugitive Doctor fit in the timeline? The Fugitive Doctor has a TARDIS, blue box style. Was the blue box TARDIS not introduced by Susan's Grandfather Doctor? Or is it all timey whymy wibbely wobbely?
i loved sally sparrow x
Blink is my favorite episode
Heaven Sent and Midnight probably could've gone on here.
Sleep no more was great, fight me.
"How could Jenna Coleman be playing a future companion if the companion ... had just died?"
We saw Freema Agyeman and Karen Gillan's characters die and then later those actors become companions. We even saw Peter Capaldi k**l himself and then become the Doctor. [self censorship just to avoid the UA-cam censors.]
I lived The Night of the Doctor!
Do you record all of your videos like this, then decide later if you're going to be seen as much? Or do you decide on a video-by-video basis?
Good work!
I really liked love and monsters, don't know why people are so down on it.
Not Heaven Sent? Naughty step for you.
We just included Heaven Sent in 10 Most Rewatchable Doctor Who Episodes, and it's in another list that's coming up soon. Wanted to give some other eps the spotlight!
right after ellie said "blink" I blinked what the fu-