Much like the other Colin Baker season already featured on this list, this season was a collection highs and lows, though with far more lows than highs. While the series should be praised for its prediction of reality TV in its story "Vengeance on Varos," there were several irredeemable features. Storylines such as "Timelash" were dull and overly complicated, making the story more of a chore to watch than an actual entertaining activity.
Season 2 may be the most iconic season of Doctor Who to date. The season stars both the iconic Tenth Doctor and the incredibly popular Rose Tyler in what would ultimately become her final season.
While the season includes terrible episodes such as "Fear Her" and "Love and Monsters," the impact of this season on the Doctor stays with him throughout his Tenth incarnation, making it a vital watch. Furthermore, this season also introduces the Cybermen to the modern revival of Doctor Who , giving them a new backstory for a new generation and even having the Cybermen face off against the Daleks in the thrilling season finale.
This season would ultimately be the last in the classic era of Doctor Who , and it was a real shame that the show failed to make much of an impact with its final season, though this would be indicative of the eventual hiatus that Doctor Who would experience until While this season did build on the relationship between the Seventh Doctor and Ace, there was very little in terms of compelling story that makes this season worth watching, aside from the fact that it was the final season in the classic era.
Writer living in Adelaide, Australia. Long-suffering post-graduate student and lover of pop culture from Game of Thrones to DC. The episode introduces us to the Doctor through the eyes of Rose Tyler Billie Piper , a year-old London shopgirl bored with her mundane life. But one battle with reanimated mannequins and an exploded department store later, she's on her way to travel through all of time and space with Christopher Eccleston 's brusque Doctor, who in a bold twist for the new revival, is the last surviving member of his species, the Time Lords.
It's a radical introduction for the Doctor, who in the final days of the Classic era was more known for his tawdry quirks than having a personality. But "Rose" reimagines the Doctor as a sort of cynical Superman.
Granted, "Rose" is not a perfect episode. It ricochets so quickly between campy, serious and soapy tones that you get whiplash, and it seems to be torn between paying homage to the classic show while establishing Eccleston's Doctor as a damaged action hero.
And let's face it: walking mannequins is a little silly for sci-fi fans used to more serious foes. But it doesn't try to hide what kind of show the new Doctor Who will be, which I like to categorize as "camp and crying. All right, so walking mannequins aren't for you, and you don't get what the fuss is about this weirdly childish sci-fi show it is technically still viewed as a children's show in the UK, so that may explain it.
Well, like many now-beloved shows, Doctor Who had a rough first season. So I recommend starting with the episode that really kicks it into gear and remains a Doctor Who best today.
A remnant of the show's low-budget early years, the Dalek looks like a giant metal can with a plunger stuck onto it that feasibly could be defeated by stairs — and yet it captured the imaginations of thousands of children. But "Dalek" achieves the near-impossible: it makes the Daleks seem genuinely terrifying. The episode opens on the Doctor and Rose chasing a distress signal to a massive underground bunker in Utah filled with alien artifacts.
Captured by the bunker's billionaire owner, the Doctor and Rose must find out the source of that distress signal and the bunker's secret, and most dangerous, part of its collection. For maybe the only time in the show's history, "Dalek" treats a Dalek as a complex villain and as more than just a killing machine and thinly veiled Nazi metaphor.
And it also clues us in on the Doctor's fresh trauma surrounding his new backstory of the Time War that killed his people. On top of giving the season a much-needed jolt, "Dalek" is kind of the turning point for the season that heralds the darker Doctor Who of the revival. Like I said before, each new Doctor and showrunner signals a new era for the series that almost acts like a soft reboot.
But with the first episode of season 5, "The Eleventh Hour," Doctor Who almost completely wipes the slate clean. With a new Doctor at the helm, played by a fresh-faced Matt Smith, and then-new showrunner Steven Moffat, "The Eleventh Hour" feels like it comes from a completely different series than the one led by David Tennant. And to this day, "The Eleventh Hour" remains the best introductory story to a new Doctor yet, setting the stage for the fifth season's fairy tale stylings while closing the door on much of the mythology that the Russel T.
Davies era had built up until now. It was a smart move — Tennant's heroic, swashbuckling Doctor remains a fan-favorite, and Smith was given the arduous task of following that up as the youngest Doctor the show had seen. The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all of reality, is a little girl who still believes in stars. Start your 30 day free trial. The Eleventh Hour The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover.
Flesh and Stone Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner - but in the forest vault, Amy Pond finds herself under a yet more deadly attack. The Vampires of Venice Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal, and the sinister House of Calvierri - the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break!
The Hungry Earth It's and the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper beneath the Earth's crust than man has ever gone before - but now the ground itself is fighting back. Cold Blood It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony or the start of its final war. Vincent and the Doctor Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. The Lodger There's a house on Aickman road, and a staircase that people go up, but never down.
The Pandorica Opens The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening.
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